Patent ID: 11948374
Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system for training a machine learning algorithm to detect text of interest, the system comprising:
a first data set comprising a plurality of captured digital images each depicting an object of interest;
a second data set comprising a plurality of augmented digital images each depicting a captured digital image augmented with a synthetic text image comprising randomly generated text on a randomly selected background image;
a first control circuit configured to:
execute a machine learning algorithm stored in a memory;
cause the machine learning algorithm to be executed with the first data set as a first input;
cause the machine learning algorithm to be executed with the second data set as a second input; and
cause the machine learning algorithm to output a machine learning model trained to automatically detect occurrences of vertically oriented text of interest depicted in captured digital images based on the first data set and the second data set;

at least one camera configured to capture one or more digital images of a scene; and
a second control circuit coupled to the at least one camera and configured to execute the machine learning model to automatically detect vertically oriented text of interest on the object of interest depicted in the captured one or more digital images of the scene.