Patent ID: 11922092
Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An electronic shelf label (ESL) system comprising:
a display screen affixed to a shelf facing on a first shelf in a facility, the first shelf holding one or more products;
an input mechanism to receive input from one or more users;
a camera disposed in the facility to acquire images of the first shelf and the one or more products on the first shelf in the field of view of the camera;
one or more databases storing current product position information associated with a current position of the one or more products on the first shelf and storing destination product position information associated with a destination position of the one or more products on the first shelf;
a computing device communicatively coupled to the display screen, the input mechanism, the camera and the one or more databases, the computing device including one or more processors and a memory storing computer-executable instructions including a optimization module, wherein the optimization module when executed:
identifies current position of the one or more products on the first shelf in the facility;
generates for display on the display screen instructions for moving the one or more products on the first shelf from the current position to the destination position or generates for display on the display screen a graphical representation of at least one of the one or more products in the current position on a graphical representation of the first shelf and visual cues corresponding to the instructions for moving the one or more products from the current position to the destination position, or both;
detects that the one or more products is moved from the current position using an image acquired by the camera or input from a user of the one or more users received via the input mechanism; and
determines that the one or more products is in the correct destination position by comparing the detected destination position to the stored destination position associated with the one or more products that is stored in the one or more databases.