ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,334, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Gatekeeper Systems Inc. (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).
"Shopping basket monitoring using computer vision" was invented by Scott J. Carter (Seal Beach, Calif.), Narayanan V. Ramanathan (Lake Forest, Calif.), Stephen E. Hannah (Placentia, Calif.) and Jesse M. James (Santa Ana, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring shopping carts uses cameras to generate images of the carts moving in a store. In some implementations, cameras may additionally or alternatively be mounted to the shopping carts and configured to image cart contents. The system may use the collected image data, and/o...