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System and method for produce detection and classification

US11393082B2 · kind B2 · utility

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20Claims

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Assignee

Walmart Apollo, LLC · US

Inventors

Issac Mathew · Kanchinakote, IN
Pushkar Pushp · Kanchinakote, IN
Viraj C. Patel · Kanchinakote, IN
Emily Xavier · Bentonville, US
Gaurav Savlani · Kanchinakote, IN
Venkataraja Nellore · Rogers, US
Rahul Agarwal · Livermore, US
Girish Thiruvenkadam · Kanchinakote, IN
Shivani S. Naik · Seattle, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 25, 2019
Grant date	Jul 19, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 25, 2039

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06V20/68
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for object detection and classification, and particularly produce detection and classification. A system configured according to this disclosure can receiving, at a processor, an image of an item. The system can then perform, across multiple pre-trained neural networks, feature detection on the image, resulting in feature maps of the image. These feature maps can be concatenated and combined, then input into an additional neural network for feature detection on the combined feature map, resulting in tiered neural network features. The system then classifies, via the processor, the item based on the tiered neural network features.

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