US Patent Issued to WALGREEN on June 10 for "Automatic initialization of customer assistance based on computer vision analysis" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,274, issued on June 10, was assigned to WALGREEN Co. (Deerfield, Ill.).

"Automatic initialization of customer assistance based on computer vision analysis" was invented by Oliver Derza (Willowbrook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for automatically initializing customer assistance in a retail store based on video analysis are provided. An exemplary method includes retrieving video data from a database and extracting one or more features from the video data. The method also includes identifying a product is missing on a store shelf based on the one or more features. The method includes training an artificial intelligenc...