Patent ID: 11972624
Assignee: REHRIG PACIFIC COMPANY
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A pallet wrapper system including:
a turntable having a support surface for supporting a pallet having a stack of a plurality of packages supported thereon;
at least one camera directed toward an area above the support surface of the turntable;
a stretch wrap dispenser adjacent the turntable;
at least one computer including:
at least one processor; and
at least one non-transitory computer-readable media storing:
at least one machine learning model that has been trained with a plurality of images of packages; and
instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computing system to:

a) receive a plurality of stack images of the stack of the plurality of packages, wherein each of the plurality of stack images is of a different face of the stack of the plurality of packages, the plurality of stack images including a first stack image of a first face of the stack of the plurality of packages and a second stack image of a second face of the stack of the plurality of packages, wherein the first face of the stack of the plurality of packages abuts the second face of the stack of the plurality of packages at a first second corner;
b) segment the first stack image into a plurality of first package faces, the plurality of first package faces including a plurality of right first package faces along the first second corner;
c) segment the second stack image into a plurality of second package faces, the plurality of second package faces including a plurality of left second package faces along the first second corner;
d) link each of the plurality of right first package faces along the first second corner to a different one of the plurality of left second package faces along the first second corner as different faces of the same ones of the plurality of packages;
e) using the at least one machine learning model, infer at least one package type or brand based upon each of the first package faces and infer at least one package type or brand based upon each of the second package faces independently of the inference based upon the linked one of the first package faces.