Amazon has announced its first grocery store in Seattle's private beta test known as "Amazon He" and is expected to open to the public early next year high-tech city.
The biggest advantage: no output line.
The company did not provide the shadow of the media or answered questions about how it worked. However, Amazon has posted online video and frequently asked questions, and the company does promptly put his hand on the last year in which the lecture focused on where the patent was originally re-encoded by new technology.
When the buyer needs to locate the location on the shelves and then synchronizing the data with the mobile device,the RFID technology in these applications includes describing a system
[Update, January 13, 2017, Although the above patent application relates to RFID technology, Amazon said RFID is not implemented in Amazon to store him. ]
The system records the elements and the buyer continues to move forward without having to go with the traditional exit route. When the customer leaves the store with the "transition zone", the system detects the transition, adds the project and manages your Amazon account.
At the new Amazon store to Seattle, the consumer in 2017 used a smartphone to enter and leave the phone at the store. (Photo of Amazon YouTube)
At the new Amazon store to Seattle, the consumer in 2017 used a smartphone to enter and leave the phone at the store. (Photo of Amazon YouTube)
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For example, if the storage is not stopped from the ATM, the ATM or the automatic checkpoint is "withdrawn" from the storage, the selected element is known and it is determined that the user who purchased the list of items associated with the user Item, the user can only leave the socket position. The product detected by the output member and when the user passes through the opening (flow path area) without the need to stop or otherwise delay the use of the product automatically charged).
The patent application indicates that the system can use past historical records to determine when the buyer acquires the item when it collects.
For example, The inventory management system may consider the history of other storage locations that have been selected recently and/or the object if the management system can not determine whether the selected item is a bottle of tomato sauce or a mustard bottle. For example, if you still only collect/buy tomato sauce, this information can be used to confirm that you may choose the stock position of the tomato sauce.
When the customer needs a project and adds a virtual shopping cart to Amazon's automatic detection. (Photo of Amazon YouTube)
When the customer needs a project and adds a virtual shopping cart to Amazon's automatic detection. (Photo of Amazon YouTube)
Amazon in its online FAQ and video, they use the technology, such as sensor fusion, which collects data from various sensors in order to improve the reliability and accuracy of the results. The following is a demonstration of how the patent data describes the intersection of the sensor data.
In some implementations, data from other input devices may be used to identify items that are collected and/or placed in storage locations. For example, if it is determined that the item is placed in the position of the list, in addition to the image analysis to determine that the component is based on a weight of a wide pressure sensor, load, etc., set the data received at a location. Image analysis can reduce the list of elements that correspond to a small list of potential elements. The counterweight element may be correctly inserted with the stored weight for each identification element to potentially match the weight placed in the stock location. By combining multiple inputs, a higher score of confidence can be generated, which increases the likelihood that the identification element is actually stocked by the selected location and/or placed in the inventory.
