ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,236, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).
"Overlap detection for an item recognition system" was invented by Shiyuan Yang (Jersey City, N.J.) and Shray Chandra (Jersey City, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An item recognition system uses a top camera and one or more peripheral cameras to identify items. The item recognition system may use image embeddings generated based on images captured by the cameras to generate a concatenated embedding that describes an item depicted in the image. The item recognition system may compare the concatenated embedding to reference embeddings to identify the item. Furth...