Patent Document ID: 9258534
Application ID: 14668793
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An inventory control system for determining an inventory condition of objects stored in the system, the system comprising: a plurality of storage compartments, each storage compartment including a plurality of storage locations for storing objects; an image sensing device comprising a plurality of cameras configured to capture images of the storage compartments; a data storage device storing imaging parameters corresponding to each storage compartment, the stored imaging parameters comprising known reference data identifying regions of each storage compartment within a field of view of each of the plurality of cameras; and a data processor configured to: identify a storage compartment, access the imaging parameters corresponding to the identified storage compartment and including the known reference data identifying regions of the identified storage compartment within the field of view of each of the plurality of cameras, capture images of the identified storage compartment using the plurality of cameras, determine relative positional relationships between the images captured by each camera of the plurality of cameras using the known reference data identifying regions of the identified storage compartment within the field of view of each of the plurality of cameras and stitch together the images captured by the plurality of cameras based on the determined relative positional relationships between the images, and determine an inventory condition of the objects stored in the identified storage compartment according to the-stitched together image.