ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,652, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Method, system and apparatus for detecting product facings" was invented by Joseph Lam (North York, Canada), Yuanhao Yu (Mississauga, Canada) and Abhishek Rawat (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting product facings from captured depth and image data includes: obtaining, at an imaging controller, (i) depth measurements representing a support structure supporting a plurality of product facings, (ii) image data representing the support structure, and (iii) a set of region of interest (ROI) indicators each indicating a position...