Article storage system with closely-coupled, article-specific display
US8604908B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 15, 2008 |
| Grant date | Dec 10, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 15, 2028 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05B19/00
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Logic is included in a piece of active storage furniture such that the active storage furniture integrates articles stored thereby into a representation of information about those articles. The logic includes (i) sensors to identify individual articles stored by the furniture and respective locations of the articles and (ii) display elements capable of incorporating selected individual ones of the articles as separate and individual components of a collective representation of information about the selected articles. In response to queries about the articles, the articles themselves are integrated into a representation of information about the articles. For example, a wine rack includes RFID and LEDs in each of a number of storage cells or cubbies and illuminates each cubby according to information about the wine stored in the cubby in response to a query for such information (e.g., show me all wine color-coded by region).
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