Patent ID: 11880879
Assignee: GHOST HOUSE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. An apparatus allowing a user to check out at a store, the apparatus comprising:
a processor;
a kiosk in wireless communication with the processor, the processor in communication with a database of learned images, the kiosk having at least one camera, the at least one camera in communication with the database, the at least one camera configured to take a checkout image, said database continuously being updated based on prior transactions within by storing the checkout image to improve accuracy of the processor of the apparatus;
the processor comparing items physically present with said database of images to authenticate products during the checkout process, storing the checkout image in said database so as to improve accuracy and precision by way of machine learning, wherein the processor continues to collect images to continuously improve the accuracy of the apparatus;
wherein the at least one camera is a depth sensing camera, wherein at least one depth sensing camera is configured to find a focal point within a frame, a processor configured to retrieve depth data from the corresponding area in the frame where the focal point is located, the processor configured to use said depth data to determine a background contained within the frame, and the processor then placing a binary mask over said background so as to block out unnecessary imagery in the camera's field of view and data is taken only from the focal point thereby improving accuracy wherein the kiosk is in communication with cameras physically spaced apart from the kiosk itself,
wherein the kiosk is in communication with cameras physically spaced apart from the kiosk itself.