Patent ID: 9600829
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06Q,G06T

Claim:
1. A system for generating a marketplace status report, comprising: a mobile device having an image sensor adapted to capture an image sequence of at least shelf space in a marketplace; a database locally stored on said mobile device and adapted to store at least one planogram; a processing unit integrated in said mobile device and adapted to perform an image processing analysis during which a visual representation of said at least shelf space is extracted from said image sequence, said visual representation is matched against said at least one planogram based on a visual similarity, and at least one storage management data is automatically identified based on said at least one planogram, said processing unit is further adapted to perform an analysis of said at least one identified storage management data to identify buying patterns of at least one product presented on said at least shelf space; and a presentation unit integrated in said mobile device and adapted to present, as an outcome of said image processing analysis, an indication of said at least one storage management data and of said identified buying patterns; wherein said image processing analysis is performed by a GPU comprising a plurality of cores using an algorithm executed in a piece at a time on a plurality of different cores in parallel and put back together at the end, providing the outcome in real time; and wherein said visual similarity denotes a measure of resemblance between said visual representation and said at least one planogram.