US Patent Issued to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions on July 8 for "Retail computer vision system for sensory impaired" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,296, issued on July 8, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc..

"Retail computer vision system for sensory impaired" was invented by David J. Steiner (Durham, N.C.), Suzanne M. Bleakley (Cary, N.C.), Andrei Khaitas (Durham, N.C.) and Evgeny Shevtsov (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of providing navigation information associated with a retail space are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method comprises, a network node operationally coupled to a set of optical sensor devices positioned throughout a retail space, the network node receiving a sequence of images from each optical sensor...