CN109214751A

CN109214751A - A kind of intelligent inventory management system based on inventory locations variation

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Publication number: CN109214751A
Application number: CN201810967161.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 贺桂和
Original assignee: 贺桂和
Current assignee: Hunan University of Humanities Science and Technology
Priority date: 2018-02-01
Filing date: 2018-08-23
Publication date: 2019-01-15
Anticipated expiration: 2038-08-23
Also published as: CN108846621A; CN111950967A; CN114819797A; CN109146380A; CN108846621B; CN111626681B; CN114548882A; CN111626681A; CN109214751B; CN109089082A; CN109089082B; CN109146380B

Abstract

The present invention relates to a kind of intelligent inventory management systems based on inventory locations variation, include at least: access mechanism, for storing and/or taking out commodity；Information acquisition system, for acquiring the action message and/or location information of the access mechanism；Computing system, for analyzing the action message and/or the location information；The computing system is connect with the information acquisition system by communication system；The information acquisition system can obtain the action message and/or location information of the access mechanism when the access mechanism triggers storage and/or takes out the movement of commodity；The computing system determines that the access mechanism holds the state of commodity based on the action message, hold the state of the commodity in response to the access mechanism and identifies the location information of the access mechanism, and thus judge the corresponding relationship between the commodity and the variation of the inventory locations, thus generate the inventory information of the commodity.

Description

A kind of intelligent inventory management system based on inventory locations variation

Technical field

The present invention relates to inventory management techniques field, more particularly to one kind of a kind of man-machine hybrid warehouse or supermarket is based on The intelligent inventory management system of inventory locations variation.

Background technique

When e-commerce is gradually risen, how to synchronize to be accurately realized inventory and update just becomes a hot spot and asks Topic.Especially for unwatched warehouse, artificial count of stock is nearly all not achievable task.Currently, most enterprise The level of IT application in terms of stock control is relatively low, and still by the way of more traditional " artificial+bar code ", which is deposited Working efficiency it is low, need human cost information transmit not smooth, many deficiencies such as information timeliness difference.In fact, inventory has There is real time and dynamic, i.e., change whenever and wherever possible, therefore, stock control should also be dynamic in real time and manage.Therefore, stock control needs It wants a kind of to be dynamically monitored inventory with real-time management system.

A kind of stock control and real-time display system disclosed in Publication No. 107180325A, including for storing product Warehouse module, product delivery center module, data cloud end module and mobile device APP module, data cloud end module is for storing User warehouse module consumer behavior and consumption data information, data cloud end module storage warehouse module information in movement Equipment APP module shows that warehouse module has different types of product library storage, storehouse in different time sections and different places position The product library storage of library module is shown by mobile device APP module, and carries out inventory's preparation by product delivery center module Prediction.The system time tracks the product information of warehouse module according to the data shown in mobile device APP module, And expected inventory can be carried out to warehouse module to prepare, effectively prevent it is out of stock less or phenomena such as.The technical solution only has In process of exchange, inventory is updated, timeliness is insufficient and shopping in, commodity are possibly off shelf area but not It trades, which cannot monitor the monitoring of such commodity.

A kind of method and inventory system of inventory's real-time management disclosed in Publication No. CN108154322A, can reduce because Economic loss brought by the system failure and electron business web site.The method of inventory's real-time management includes: platform inventory system (GAIA) order messages that inventory information service system (CIS) is sent are received, the order messages include at least: commodity code and Commodity amount information；In the inventory that the platform inventory system is managed, the corresponding quantity of order messages described in temporary locking Commodity；According to the payment message associated with the order messages received, detect whether to complete payment, if then by institute The temporary locking for stating the commodity of the corresponding quantity of order messages, is converted to formal locking.The present invention is suitable for stock control.The skill There are identical technical problems with Publication No. 107180325A for art scheme, i.e., cannot be to do not trade in inventory but generation inventory The commodity of change in location are monitored.

CN107077659A provides a kind of intelligent inventory management system, server, method, terminal and program product, uses In the complexity for reducing stock control；Comprising: which intelligence machine terminal shoots commodity, and intelligence is sent by the image taken It can inventory management server；The intelligent inventory management server is true according to the image recognition that the intelligence machine terminal takes Determine the commodity and storage in described image；And commodity and the inventory information storage for identifying the object identification module.Though its Object recognition technique is so utilized, the workload of manual entry is reduced, the accuracy of merchandise news storage is improved, reduces library Deposit the complexity of management；But it cannot accurate evaluation inventory change in real time.It counts and makes an inventory unless there are manpower intervention, otherwise Stockpile number is still in utter disorder.

CN104361039A provides a kind of householder method of embedded intelligence refrigerator based on Qt exploitation comprising following Step: step 1, the expired prompting preview of display and message information；Step 2, food materials stock control, using data and user's operation as base Plinth checks all food materials details in current inventory, and the unified management that food materials information is edited and deleted；And Classification Management is carried out to all food materials, is ranked up according to date of manufacture, remaining shelf-life and expiration date, to check each food Material information；Step 3, expired prompting were counted by the remaining shelf-life to the food materials information on inventory, to the remaining shelf-life Food materials less than 5 days give intuitive information preview, are particularly shown food materials expiration date and remaining shelf-life, and real-time display and It updates；Step 4, the inquiry of recipe and recipe recommendation, provide magnanimity receipe data, and provide the production of various delicious food Method, and scanned for according to existing food materials or customized food materials, obtain specific recipe；According to inventory's food materials or it is current when Season and health-nutrition information are enabled, the recipe of different taste and effect is recommended；Step 5, shopping list by existing food materials or are incited somebody to action Customized food materials information is added to shopping list, to statistics and management that the food materials in the shopping list carry out, and in data Prompting list out of stock is provided on the basis of excavation, the selection of shopping is provided；Step 6, food materials identification and access, know food materials Not and store.The technical solution is unable to real-time statistics inventory consumption, cannot in the kitchen and kitchen storehouse for frequently taking food Play the effect of effectively management inventory.

In addition, in order to accurately manage kitchen inventory, there is special messenger in large hotel and dining room generally to manage inventory's (i.e. inventory's pipe Reason person), only when dining room provides order (being equivalent to present invention feeding information described below), stock clerk just can basis Order (feeding information) provides relevant food to related personnel.Hereafter, order and food are checked in a manual manner by stock clerk Corresponding relationship between product.This mode not only inefficiency, but also since food variety is extremely numerous and jumbled, often occur largely losing Lose situation.

The Chinese patent literature of Publication No. CN105531715A discloses a kind of inventory update side based on image detection Method, wherein by the update and the shopping list that determine inventory before comparing kinds of goods of taking with the image after kinds of goods of taking.It should Method has problems in that, once user removes commodity, but when sending back to inappropriate position, then shopping list with It is inaccurate that inventory, which updates,.In addition, when user same type like and the similar region in placement position do when comparing repeatedly, Can to taking pictures and calculating brings challenges, if user is taken commodity simultaneously with both hands, and when putting back to commodity a to errors present, Shopping list and inventory, which update, often can all go wrong.Which omits clearing links, but have thus also caused other problems.Cause This, there are rooms for improvement for this automatic shopping mode.

The Chinese patent literature of Publication No. CN104637198A discloses a kind of intelligence knot with autonomous following function Shopping cart system is calculated, by MCU microcontroller, controllable direct current generator, pressure and weighting transducers, RFID reader, camera, wirelessly Transceiver, touch display screen, barcode scanner, Unionpay's card reader constitutes autonomous tracking and the big subsystem of self-help settlement two, special Sign is: MCU microcontroller 1 is big by the driving force that the car body weight that pressure and weighting transducers incude controls controllable direct current generator It is small, with the mobile shopping cart of appropriate speed；Pass through barcode scanner voluntarily items scanning, touch display screen real-time display merchandise news With current purchased commodity total price, wireless transceiver realizes MCU microcontroller and reality of supermarket's background server about merchandise news When interaction, consumer voluntarily swiped the card clearing by Unionpay's card reader.Within the system, RFID radio-frequency card is tracked as shopping cart Signal source establishes the single-line link of point-to-point with shopping cart；Camera shoots shopping cart ambient enviroment, passage path identification at any time The autonomous avoiding barrier of algorithm selects track path；It can be known with deflection according to path by the driving wheel that driving motor drives The routing information that other algorithm provides, by the steering of MCU microcontroller control driving wheel.The technical solution only can solve commodity clearing The technical issues of.

Notification number provides a kind of self-service intelligent shopping trolley in market, including vehicle for the Chinese patent literature of CN202904765U Frame, the wheel being mounted below vehicle frame, bicycle basket, the push rod being mounted on above vehicle frame, push rod lower end connect the outside of bicycle basket bottom Face, between angle be 40-60 degree, touch display screen is installed, installation on the left of touch display screen between bicycle basket upper end and push rod Scanner, right side install card-brushing groove, and automatic open-close induction door is installed in bicycle basket upper end.The beneficial effect is that the installation of bicycle basket upper end is certainly Dynamic to open and close induction door, installation inductance gauge can sense be put into commodity in automatic open-close induction door, avoid in shopping process Middle mistake is bought or the trouble of over-bought.What the technical solution still monitored is the settling problems of commodity in shopping process.

By studying above technical scheme, even if those skilled in the art are incorporated into, being also unable to get one kind can be moved State and real-time monitor inventory area occurred to move the inventory management system of the commodity in library.

Summary of the invention

In view of the intrinsic problem of aforementioned conventional bulk supermarket and the other problems of unmanned supermarket, the present invention is caused Power is in providing a kind of inventory management system and method, the present invention can be used for a kind of unmanned supermarket of inventory.It is not in the present invention It is absolutely avoided using RFID tag, it is contemplated that the cost problem of RFID tag, the present invention more takes pervasive figure As means of identification.But the present invention does not repel RFID, for using intelligent haulage equipment as the access mechanism of representative, RFID and figure Two dimensional code is all the preferred embodiment of access arrangement identification.This is also in that overwhelming majority stockroom-style supermarket is already equipped at present Video surveillance management system, and the precision of monitoring system is become better and better, can reach grade other precision of images, and this The inexpensive image recognition solution of kind is still in high speed development.

A kind of intelligent inventory management system based on inventory locations variation disclosed by the invention, includes at least: access mechanism, For storing and/or taking out commodity；Information acquisition system, for acquiring the action message and/or position letter of the access mechanism Breath；Computing system, for analyzing the action message and/or the location information；The computing system and the information collection System is connected by communication system；The information acquisition system can trigger storage in the access mechanism and/or take out commodity Movement when, obtain the action message and/or location information of the access mechanism；The computing system is believed based on the movement Breath and/or location information determine that the access mechanism holds the state of commodity, hold the commodity in response to the access mechanism State and identify the location information of the access mechanism, and thus judge between the commodity and the variation of the inventory locations Corresponding relationship, thus generate the inventory information of the commodity.

According to a kind of preferred embodiment, the information acquisition system can the access mechanism trigger storage and/ Or when taking out the first movement of commodity, acquisition obtains the first action message and/or first location information of the access mechanism, And the computing system is transmitted to by communication unit；The computing system in the form of associated by first action message and/ Or the first location information forms the first information of the commodity；The information acquisition system can be touched in the access mechanism When hair storage and/or the second movement closest to first movement of taking-up commodity, the second of the access mechanism is acquired Action message and/or second location information, and the computing system is transmitted to by communication unit；The computing system is with associated Second action message and/or the second location information are formed the second information of the commodity by form；The calculating system System will determine that corresponding access mechanism holds the state of commodity based on the first information and the second information, and thus judge the quotient Corresponding relationship between product and the variation of the inventory locations thus generates the inventory information of the commodity.

According to a kind of preferred embodiment, first action message and/or second action message are by the letter At least one image collecting device ceased in acquisition system obtains；The first location information and/or second location information are by institute At least one the station acquisition device stated in information acquisition system obtains.

According to a kind of preferred embodiment, at least one described image collecting device is configured in: monitoring the commodity Monitor find access mechanism triggering storage and/or take out the commodity when, obtain first action message and/ Or second action message；At least one described station acquisition device is configured in: monitoring the monitor monitoring of the commodity When the monitor of the commodity finds the access mechanism triggering storage and/or takes out the commodity, described first is obtained Confidence breath and/or second location information.

According to a kind of preferred embodiment, first action message includes the first image and the second image, wherein institute State the second image be by least one image collecting device the access mechanism enter shelf at least one inventory locations it Preceding shooting；The third image be by least one described image collecting device the access mechanism from the shelf at least What one inventory locations was shot after removing；The computing system is based on the first image and second image to determine The state that access mechanism holds commodity is stated, holds the state of the commodity in response to the access mechanism and identifies the access machine The location information of structure, and thus judge the corresponding relationship between the commodity and the variation of the inventory locations, thus generate institute State the inventory information of commodity.

According to a kind of preferred embodiment, the system comprises Information revision module, the correction module is configured in: Accomplish the action message and/or location information based on displacement curve and time information, wherein the displacement curve is by institute's rheme At least one of acquisition device is set to obtain in the form of tracking the access mechanism；The time information is by the information collection At least one time collector in system obtains when the access mechanism triggers storage and/or takes out commodity；

According to a kind of preferred embodiment, the system also includes at least one images for being set to cargo temporary storage location Acquisition device and at least one station acquisition device enter the movement of the cargo temporary storage location for detecting commodity, generate third Action message and the third place information, wherein the computing system is believed based on the third that commodity enter the cargo temporary storage location Breath movement and the third place information, confirmation enter between the commodity of the cargo temporary storage location and the variation of the inventory locations Corresponding relationship；The third action message is obtained before first action message and the second action message；Described Three location informations are obtained before the first location information and second location information.

According to a kind of preferred embodiment, it is set in the access mechanism access way the system also includes described At least one image collecting device generate the original letter of commodity to acquire the identification marking for paying and/or registering Breath, the acquisition of the raw information is obtained before the action message and the location information.

According to a kind of preferred embodiment, since the initial time point for determining absolute position based on the first image, institute It states cargo temporary storage location to hold the state of commodity in response to the access mechanism and set and introduce timing cycle, specific by this Introduce timing cycle after, if to fail to collect commodity temporary single into the cargo at least one described image acquisition device The movement of member, then issue mentioning for related item property to the access mechanism for holding commodity by the cargo temporary storage location Show, wherein the prompt can be in the form of electronic signal, voice, image or video.

According to a kind of preferred embodiment, at least one of described image acquisition device is used to pass through goods in the system Cue mark on frame indicates current commodity being put back into the correct position on shelf, only is located to pick up in the cue mark and work as The cue mark is just shown in the case where in the visual range of the access mechanism of preceding commodity.

In the present invention, absolute position refers to the coordinate system established for the supermarket or warehouse using the inventory management system Interior position, coordinate origin for example can be a corner such as southeast corner of supermarket or warehouse land occupation face, be also possible to certain Settle accounts the position where sales counter.Relative position refers to the position relative to each other between super incity shelf, is also possible to access machine Relative position between structure or personnel and shelf.

In view of personnel or access mechanism be all only capable of operating in most cases its it is accessible be near goods Frame (being the shelf in 2 meters or so ranges in typical case).In the present invention, while taking relative position and absolute position to library It deposits change in location and personnel/access mechanism carries out classification analysis, so that supermarket carrys out dynamic according to " variation spot " whenever and wherever possible The region analyzed and calculated, can accurately by shelf and the personnel or access mechanism that currently interact therewith that This associates, and solves difficulty when a large amount of dynamic staffs carry out shopping or inventory's arrangement with dynamic access mechanism simultaneously.Change and Yan Zhi, elder generation carries out inventory change with personnel or access mechanism according to position corresponding through the invention, this is to large supermarket inventory The real-time of management has conclusive effect.For possessing the supermarket of thousands of inventory locations, due to " inventory becomes Change " it takes the lead in being associated with " absolute position " and " relative position ", the operand of image recognition is thus greatly reduced, thus Real-time inventory analysis can be completed in the case where not adding a large amount of computing systems.Also inventory is thus largely avoided According to it is confusing.

By this way, the increase and decrease situation that not only can analyze the commodity at inventory locations, can also analyze corresponding commodity The correct inventory locations whether being put back on shelf.Herein, access mechanism can be people, be also possible to machinery equipment.It is right For people, the object of image recognition is the arm of people；For machinery equipment, the object of image recognition is manipulator or class Like object；So that supermarket's environment that the present invention can flexibly cope with machine and people and deposit.

The present invention provides in the stockroom-style supermarket coexisted for personnel and intelligent haulage equipment inventory management system and Method at least has the advantage that

(1) present invention not only can analyze the increase and decrease situation of the commodity at inventory locations, and can also analyze corresponding commodity is The no correct inventory locations being put back on shelf；

(2) present invention can confirm after commodity are put into cargo temporary storage location and enter the described of the cargo temporary storage location Corresponding relationship between commodity and the variation of the inventory locations, so that it is more accurate to the statistics of the variation of inventory locations, it mentions The high practicability of system；

(3) present invention can analyze the process again when the removal commodity from cargo temporary storage location may cause Inventory locations variation, enable inventory locations more comprehensively, be accurately updated.

Detailed description of the invention

Fig. 1 is a logic module schematic diagram of system of the invention；With

Fig. 2 is the module diagram of a preferred embodiment of system of the invention.

Reference signs list

10: 17: the seven image collecting device of image collecting device

11: the first image collecting devices 18: the eight acquire image device

12: the second image collecting devices 20: station acquisition device

13: third image collecting device 21: correct mark

14: the four image collecting devices 22: positional fault label

15: the five image collecting devices 30: computing system

16: the six image collecting devices 40: cargo temporary storage location

Specific embodiment

It is described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawing.

In order to make it easy to understand, in the conceived case, indicate common similar in each attached drawing using same reference numerals Element.

Embodiment 1

The invention discloses a kind of inventory management systems, in the case where not causing conflict or contradictory situation, other embodiments Preferred embodiment can be used as the supplement of the present embodiment.

System includes access mechanism 10, for storing and/or taking out commodity.Information acquisition system 20, for acquiring access The action message and/or location information of mechanism.Computing system 30, for analyzing action message and/or location information.Computing system It is connect with information acquisition system by communication system.Information acquisition system 20 can trigger storage in access mechanism 10 and/or take Out when the movement of commodity, the action message and/or location information of access mechanism 10 are obtained.Computing system 30 is based on action message And/or location information determines that access mechanism 10 holds the state of commodity, holds the state of commodity in response to access mechanism 10 and knows The location information of other access mechanism, and thus judge the corresponding relationship between commodity and the variation of inventory locations, thus generate quotient The inventory information of product.The present invention not only can analyze the increase and decrease situation of the commodity at inventory locations, can be corresponding with association analysis Whether commodity are put back into the correct inventory locations on shelf or the specific location variation after commodity removal, are convenient for inventory's pipe Reason.

For example, action message be access mechanism 10 triggering storage and/or when taking out commodity for a period of time in (such as 3s) Video information and/or triggering storage and/or take out commodity when at the time of image information.Location information is that access mechanism 10 exists Position coordinates when triggering storage and/or taking-up commodity.Position coordinates can be global absolute coordinate (relative to coordinate origin, Coordinate origin is located at the certain point in entire warehouse, such as the position of management system terminal), it is (opposite to be also possible to local absolute coordinate In coordinate origin, coordinate origin is the certain point of warehouse unit, such as first warehouse compartment of first shelf), it is also possible to two Relative coordinate between warehouse compartment.Preferably, position coordinates are three-dimensional coordinates, i.e., length, width and height are measured.

Preferably, information acquisition system 20 can trigger storage in access mechanism 10 and/or take out the first movement of commodity When, acquisition obtains the first action message and/or first location information of access mechanism 10, and is transmitted to calculating by communication unit System 30.First action message and/or first location information are formed the first letter of commodity by computing system 30 in the form of associated Breath.Information acquisition system 20 can trigger storage in access mechanism 10 and/or take out second acted closest to first of commodity When movement, the second action message and/or second location information of access mechanism 10 are acquired, and calculating is transmitted to by communication unit System 30.Second action message and/or second location information are formed the second letter of commodity by computing system 30 in the form of associated Breath.Computing system 30 will determine that corresponding access mechanism holds the state of commodity based on the first information and the second information, and thus sentence Corresponding relationship between disconnected commodity and the variation of inventory locations, thus generates the inventory information of commodity.Information acquisition system 20 exists Action message is just obtained when the triggering of access mechanism 10 storage and/or taking-up commodity, is beneficial to obtain to analysis inventory information Action message without monitor in real time access mechanism reduce information acquisition system 20 arrangement amount, rationally utilize resource, drop Low cost.

Preferably, the first action message and/or the second action message are by least one image in information acquisition system 20 Acquisition device obtains.First location information and/or second location information are adopted by least one position in information acquisition system 20 Acquisition means obtain.

Preferably, at least one image collecting device is configured in: the monitor discovery access mechanism 10 for monitoring commodity touches When hair storage and/or taking-up commodity, the first action message and/or the second action message are obtained.At least one station acquisition dress It sets and is configured in: monitoring the monitor discovery triggering of access mechanism 10 storage of the monitor monitoring commodity of commodity and/or take out quotient When product, first location information and/or second location information are obtained.For example, monitor can be echelette and light sensor Device.Storage is triggered for access mechanism 10 and/or takes out commodity and is monitored by the echelette and photosensitive sensor being arranged, is kept away Exempt from duplicate shooting and accidentally claps and influence the correctness of inventory information.

Preferably, the first action message includes the first image and the second image, wherein the first image is by least one figure It is shot before at least one inventory locations that access mechanism 10 enters shelf as acquisition device.Second image is by least one A image collecting device is shot after the removal of at least one inventory locations of the shelf in access mechanism 10.Computing system 30 It determines that access mechanism holds the state of commodity based on the first image and the second image, holds commodity in response to access mechanism 10 State and the location information for identifying access mechanism, and thus judge the corresponding relationship between commodity and the variation of inventory locations, by This generates the inventory information of commodity.

Preferably, system includes Information revision module, and correction module is configured in: being repaired based on displacement curve and time information At action message and/or location information, wherein displacement curve is by least one of station acquisition device to track access mechanism Form obtain.Time information by least one time collector in information acquisition system access mechanism triggering storage and/ Or it is obtained when taking out commodity.Displacement curve has recorded the motion profile, time collector and Image Acquisition of access mechanism The information that device is adopted is matched, and inventory information can be further corrected, and excludes the inventory information of some interference.For example, Access mechanism may be in zero load, the progress of mistake storage and/or the movement for taking out commodity.

Preferably, system further include be set to cargo temporary storage location 40 at least one image collecting device and at least one Station acquisition device enters the movement of the cargo temporary storage location 40 for detecting commodity, generates third action message and third position Confidence breath.Preferably, after verification step, the item identifier for representing commodity is added to bill of lading, is picked up goods Inventory is associated at least one access mechanism.By the way that item identifier is added to bill of lading, the mistake of supermarket is strolled in user It is calculated with carrying out bill of lading in real time in journey according to the commodity being put into cargo temporary storage location 40, it finally can direct basis Bill of lading carry out expense clearing, avoid again by commodity successively removes scanning bar code carry out settle accounts cause what time-consuming to ask Topic.Preferably, in cargo the temporary storage location 40 e.g. dedicated stock frame of access mechanism, shopping cart, Shopping Basket and shopping bag extremely Few one kind.Wherein, computing system 30 enters the third information action and the third place information of cargo temporary storage location 40 based on commodity, Confirmation enters the corresponding relationship between the commodity of the cargo temporary storage location 40 and the variation of inventory locations.Third action message be It is obtained before first action message and the second action message.The third place information is in first location information and second location information It obtains before.For example, location information can be obtained by position sensor.

Preferably, system further includes at least one image collecting device being set in access mechanism access way, to The identification marking for paying and/or registering is acquired, generates the raw information of commodity, the acquisition of raw information is in action message It is obtained with before location information.For example, raw information includes kind, quantity, identification code and the storage location of commodity.For example, should Commodity are fans, and brand XX, quantity is 5, and identification code 000000 is stored in the second commodity area of household electrical appliances area third Row.This is conducive to record raw information, in addition to the maintenance to daily commodity, is also beneficial to information acquisition system 20 for original letter Breath carries out making an inventory for cargo, conducive to the update of inventory information.

Preferably, since the initial time point for determining absolute position based on the first image, cargo temporary storage location 40 is responded Hold the state of commodity in access mechanism and sets and introduce timing cycle, after specifically introducing timing cycle by this, if At least one image collecting device fails to collect the movement that commodity enter cargo temporary storage location 40, then passes through cargo temporary storage location 40 issue the prompt in relation to item property to the access mechanism for holding commodity, wherein prompt can be in electronic signal, voice, figure The form of picture or video.Access mechanism of its holder for personnel rather than in haulage equipment form is judged in the cargo temporary storage location When, which can prompt the access mechanism to remove from shelf but be not loaded into the quotient of the cargo temporary storage location 40 Product price is 20 yuan, and according to its deadline shelf-life, there are also ten months.Preferably, the cargo temporary storage location 40 is fixed in response to introducing When the period setting, also setting remind timing cycle (such as 30 seconds), have passed through remind timing cycle after, if the 4th image Acquisition device 14 fails to collect the movement that commodity enter the cargo temporary storage location 40, then by the cargo temporary storage location 40 to holding There is the access mechanism of commodity to issue the prompt that current commodity is correctly packed into the cargo temporary storage location 40 by prompt, wherein this is mentioned Graphics mode as the arrow for being directed toward utensil receiving opening can be taken by showing.

Preferably, at least one of image collecting device is used to indicate in the system by the cue mark 21 on shelf Current commodity is put back into the correct position on shelf, only cue mark 21 be located at pick up current commodity access mechanism can Depending on just showing cue mark 21 in the case where in range.The case where moving library there are commodity due to warehouse, is such as detained the inventory of inventory Management indicates for current commodity to be put back on shelf when this kind of commodity need to move library by the cue mark 21 on shelf Correct position, this is conducive to the correctness for moving the inventory information after depositary management reason of commodity.

Preferably, after it have passed through the prompting timing cycle, fail to collect commodity in the 4th image collecting device 14 Into the cargo temporary storage location 40 movement in the case where, then the system also pass through cue mark 21 instruction current commodity is put back to Correct position on to shelf.Wherein, which can take the similar commodity region for being directed toward current commodity Graphics mode as arrow.More specifically, for example, cue mark 21 is green fluorescence arrow and can dodge according to predeterminated frequency It is bright.Judge its holder for the personnel in the access mechanism of haulage equipment form rather than as natural person in the cargo temporary storage location When, dependent merchandise recommended information is sent to the access mechanism in a manner of electronic signal by the cargo temporary storage location 40, from its to Remote user issues prompt, is determined with completing buying as early as possible.

Embodiment 2

According to a preferred embodiment, referring to fig. 2, which may include: the first image collecting device 11, be used for The first image is acquired, and determines at least one access mechanism in shelf region based on the first image by the system Absolute position and the access mechanism relative positions of the shelf of at least one commodity is loaded with relative at least one.It is preferred that Ground can be equipped with corresponding datum mark and/or reference line auxiliary system for identification on ground and determine absolute position and opposite Position.

According to a preferred embodiment, which can also include: the second image collecting device 12, be used to detect extremely Second image of the hand of a few access mechanism, second image are to enter at least the one of shelf in the hand of the access mechanism It is shot before a inventory locations.Preferably for a shelf, at least one inventory locations can have.One shelf Multilayer can be divided into.Every layer can be an inventory locations.Alternatively, one layer can be divided into multiple regions in the horizontal direction, often A region can be an inventory locations.It should be noted that can be can image recognition for separator bar between these regions Separating device and/or can not image recognition virtual partition line.Separating device is, for example, the reference line of partition and/or spraying.No Can the virtual dividing line of image recognition can be in shelf, the second image collecting device 12 corresponding with the shelf and/or third After image collecting device 13 fixes, put corresponding commodity, then by the image information of the system acquisition shelf to shelf into Row segmentation, to obtain at least one inventory locations including at least class I goods.

According to a preferred embodiment, which can also include: third image collecting device 13, be used to detect extremely The third image of the hand of a few access mechanism, the third image are the hands in the access mechanism from least the one of the shelf What a inventory locations were shot after removing.

According to a preferred embodiment, which can be determined compared with third image accordingly based on the second image Access mechanism holds the state of commodity, holds the state of commodity in response to access mechanism and identifies in the absolute position of the access mechanism The variation of at least one inventory locations that set surrounding, shelf in predetermined relative location, and thus judge the commodity with Corresponding relationship between the variation of the inventory locations.Then take relative position and absolute position to inventory locations variation and people Member/access mechanism carries out classification analysis, personnel or access mechanism associated with each other accurately interacted therewith by shelf and currently Come, makes it possible to be analyzed and counted dynamically to divide according to the commodity and the variation of the inventory locations whenever and wherever possible The region of calculation.Since " inventory change " is taken the lead in being associated with " absolute position " and " relative position ", to substantially reduce The operand of image recognition, thus, it is possible to Real-time inventory analysis is completed in the case where not adding a large amount of computing systems.

For example, there is multiple shelf around absolute position, but it cannot be accurately determined by absolute position and actually occur change Inventory locations of change, and relative position can be related to distance between the two, only corresponding access mechanism with a goods When the distance of frame is less than or equal to pre-determined distance, be possible to the access mechanism and the shelf generation quotient in relative position occur The case where product transfer relationship.In the case where the access mechanism is close with the corresponding inventory locations distance for storing the commodity, this is deposited When taking mechanism that the commodity are put back into corresponding inventory locations, then the variation of the inventory locations only includes the increase of quantity, without Increase including category.In the case where the access mechanism is remote with the corresponding inventory locations distance for storing the commodity, the access Mechanism is possible to that commodity are not put back into the corresponding inventory locations of the commodity because of its own operating mistake.Therefore, it is inciting somebody to action In the case that commodity are put back on shelf and are not put back into its corresponding inventory locations, then the shelf of predetermined relative location are in The variation of at least one inventory locations may include: that the category of inventory locations storage commodity increases and store the quantity increasing of commodity Add.Preferably, the state for holding commodity may include the type and/or quantity of commodity.Preferably, judging the commodity and institute Before stating the corresponding relationship between the variation of inventory locations, can be identified based on the data received from various input units from The inventory locations removal of shelf and/or the identity for the commodity being put into the inventory locations of shelf.For example, passing through image collecting device It the hand channel in corresponding access mechanism can be acquired crosses plane and enter in inventory locations the sequence of images of foregoing description hand and also Acquire the sequence of images of the hand after the hand leaves inventory locations.Comparison based on described image can determine corresponding access Whether mechanism from inventory locations removing objects or places an object into inventory locations.For example, based on the analysis to image, it can be true Fixed corresponding access mechanism does not hold object when hand enters inventory locations, but holds object when hand is removed from inventory locations (corresponding access mechanism from inventory locations removing objects).Likewise it is possible to identify whether to enter library in hand using image analysis Deposit the holding object on hand but do not hold object when hand is removed from inventory locations at them of corresponding access mechanism before position (corresponding access mechanism places an object into inventory locations).That is, the present invention is used for the second image and third figure compared As being not only merely to include the case where single image, it is also possible to a series of second image and a series of third image it is comprehensive Composition and division in a proportion pair.

Preferably, management system of the invention also discloses the 4th image collecting device 14, and it is temporary single to be arranged in cargo Member 40 enters the movement of the cargo temporary storage location 40 for detecting commodity, wherein enters the cargo temporary storage location in response to commodity 40 movement is thereby confirmed that into corresponding between the commodity and the variation of the inventory locations of the cargo temporary storage location 40 Relationship.Preferably, after the verification step, it is clear that the item identifier for representing the commodity is added to delivery of cargo Single, the bill of lading is associated at least one access mechanism.By the way that item identifier is added to bill of lading, in user It is calculated with carrying out bill of lading in real time during strolling supermarket according to the commodity being put into cargo temporary storage location 40, finally may be used With directly according to bill of lading carry out expense clearing, avoid again by commodity successively removes scanning bar code carry out settle accounts cause The problem of time-consuming.Preferably, cargo temporary storage location 40 is, for example, the dedicated stock frame of access mechanism, shopping cart, Shopping Basket and purchase At least one of object bag.

Preferably, the 4th image collecting device 14 may be further configured for: in response to access mechanism hand into Enter the movement of the cargo temporary storage location 40 and shoot the 4th image and the 5th image of hand, wherein the 4th image be The hand of the access mechanism enter the cargo temporary storage location 40 before shoot, the 5th image be the access mechanism hand from What the cargo temporary storage location 40 was shot after removing, wherein determined compared with the 5th image based on the 4th image and accordingly deposited It takes mechanism to remove the state of commodity, holds the state of commodity in response to access mechanism and identify in the absolute position of the access mechanism Around, the variations of at least one inventory locations of shelf in predetermined relative location, and thus judge the shifting of the commodity Corresponding relationship between the variation of the inventory locations out.Here, passing through the removal of commodity and the variation two of inventory locations Person determines that certain commodity is back to inventory locations from cargo temporary storage location.Thus it can be primarily based on determined by the first image absolutely Position and relative position confirm changed inventory locations, while based on the second image, third image, the 4th and the 5th figure As determining returned commodity to analyze.Inventory locations or starting cargo liquidation procedures can be accordingly updated at this time, such as are summoned Manpower intervention removes the commodity for not meeting shelf cargo, or the commodity of mistake are sent into recovery approach in a manner of auto-feed. For example, shelf goods will do not met by installing moveable mechanical arm or automatic cleaning vehicle with mechanical arm in ceiling The commodity of object or the commodity of mistake carry out playback arrangement or are put into recovery approach.Preferably, when based on second, third, the After four and the 5th image determines the commodity returned, the item identifier for representing the commodity is removed from bill of lading, it is described Bill of lading is associated at least one access mechanism.Preferably, the 4th image is that the hand of the access mechanism is not holding commodity In the case where the hand enter the cargo temporary storage location 40 before shoot.5th image is the hand in the access mechanism from the cargo What temporary storage location 40 was shot after removing commodity.

According to a preferred embodiment, the 4th image collecting device 14 be may be further configured for: in response to depositing Mechanism is taken to arrive at clearing region and start, the space for acquiring the commodity occupancy cargo temporary storage location 40 in cargo temporary storage location 40 is big It is small, indicate that the offer equipment in clearing region provides the bag of matched size for the access mechanism according to space size by the system.It is logical Which is crossed, the bag of suitable size can be provided for the access mechanism, is avoided in clearing region because judging the big of required bag It is small and waste the excessive time, improve settlement efficiency.

According to a preferred embodiment, the invention also discloses the 5th image collecting devices 15, are arranged in access machine In structure access way, to acquire the identification marking for paying and/or registering.Preferably, the identification marking can be At least one of RFID, two dimensional code, fingerprint, human body contour outline, facial contour, iris image and typical thermal characteristics image.Than Such as, after an access mechanism is detected and holds a cargo temporary storage location 40, then system by the cargo temporary storage location 40 with Access mechanism association.It, then can be in clearing in the case where the access mechanism is non-registered users when disbursement and sattlement When or remind before the access mechanism owning side register or payment is done directly with remote mode.In possessing for access mechanism When side or the user's registration as natural person, owning side or user can be required to select a kind of distinguishing mark as later expense Voucher when clearing, and the corresponding information of identification marking requirement user's typing selected according to user.Assuming that user's selection is logical It crosses iris image, figure two dimensional code or RFID to be paid, then the access mechanism is when disbursement and sattlement, by figure two dimensional code The pickup area of (posting up access mechanism) or the 5th image collecting device 15 of corresponding eye direction, in the verifying by system Later, disbursement and sattlement is completed using the payment accounts of binding；Or make RFID or its figure two dimensional code typing of access mechanism System is to settle accounts.

According to a preferred embodiment, the 5th image collecting device 15 is provided only in response to the 4th image collecting device 14 The event of image and start.Preferably, in response to the 4th image collecting device 14 provide image event and according to be equipped with this Position of the cargo temporary storage location 40 of four image collecting devices 14 relative to access way, the 5th image collecting device 15 adjust it Optically detecting direction and focal length.

According to a preferred embodiment, the first image is to take this in second image collecting device 12 to deposit The second image of the hand of mechanism is taken just to be shot later by the first image acquisition device 11, wherein second image It is to be shot before the hand of the access mechanism enters at least one inventory locations of shelf.As a result, unmanned supermarket can be with The scene that more people purchase into shop is coped with simultaneously, only when carrying out commodity access again there are the access mechanism of the first image or put back to When, system just will start a series of responsible image analysis operations.In other words, system starts from it for the tracking of access mechanism When attempting the commodity touched on shelf.

Preferably, since the initial time point for determining absolute position based on the first image, 40 sound of cargo temporary storage location The state of commodity should be held in access mechanism and set and introduce timing cycle (such as 5 seconds), pass through the specific timing cycle Later, if the 4th image collecting device 14 fails to collect the movement that commodity enter the cargo temporary storage location 40, pass through the goods Object temporary storage location 40 issues the prompt in relation to item property to the access mechanism for holding commodity, wherein the prompt can be in electricity The form of subsignal, voice, image or video.Judge its holder for personnel rather than in haulage equipment in the cargo temporary storage location When the access mechanism of form, which can prompt the access mechanism to remove from shelf but be not loaded into the cargo The commodity price of temporary storage location 40 is 20 yuan, and according to its deadline shelf-life, there are also ten months.Preferably, the cargo temporary storage location 40 in response to introducing the setting of timing cycle, and also timing cycle (such as 30 seconds) are reminded in setting, have passed through prompting timing cycle Later, if the 4th image collecting device 14 fails to collect the movement that commodity enter the cargo temporary storage location 40, pass through the goods Object temporary storage location 40 issues prompt to the access mechanism for holding commodity and current commodity is correctly packed into the cargo temporary storage location 40 Prompt, wherein the prompt can take be directed toward utensil receiving opening arrow as graphics mode.Preferably to have passed through the prompting fixed When the period after in the 4th image collecting device 14 fail to collect the case where commodity enter the movement of the cargo temporary storage location 40 Under, then the system also passes through the correct position that current commodity is put back on shelf by the instruction of cue mark 21.Wherein, the indicateing arm Note 21 can take graphics mode as the arrow for being directed toward the similar commodity region of current commodity.More specifically, for example, Cue mark 21 is green fluorescence arrow and can flash according to predeterminated frequency.The cargo temporary storage location judge its holder in The access mechanism of haulage equipment form rather than when personnel as natural person, dependent merchandise is introduced by the cargo temporary storage location 40 Information is sent to the access mechanism in a manner of electronic signal, issues and prompts from it to remote user, is determined with completing buying as early as possible.

Preferably, which further includes the 6th image collecting device 16, and the 6th image collecting device 16 is mentioned have passed through this It wakes up after timing cycle, fails to collect the movement of commodity into the cargo temporary storage location 40 in the 4th image collecting device 14 In the case of start, for acquire with the 6th image of the shelf of commodity association and the 7th image of shelf, wherein the 6th figure It seem to be shot before the hand for holding commodity in the access mechanism enters shelf, the 7th image is held in the access mechanism What the hand of commodity was shot after removing from shelf, based on the 6th image and the 7th image relatively come the secondary judgement commodity and institute State the corresponding relationship between the variation of inventory locations.6th image collecting device 16 only have passed through the prompting timing cycle it Afterwards, fail to collect in the case that commodity enter the movement of the cargo temporary storage location 40 in the 4th image collecting device 14 and start, It is that environmental information required on shelf is more and analysis difficulty is bigger compared to commodity are taken out from shelf because commodity are played back to.It is excellent Selection of land also secondary is sentenced by the 6th with the progress of the 7th image in the case where once judge by the progress of second, third image Disconnected, the corresponding relationship between the variation of the obtained commodity and the inventory locations is more accurate and reliable.Preferably, twice When the result of judgement is inconsistent, artificial nucleus can be arranged to check to or by intelligent robot scene.Preferably, the 6th image It is with the main distinction of the 7th image and the second image and third image, the object of the 6th image and the 7th image is shelf. And the object of the second image and third image is hand.The meaning that the 6th image collecting device 16 is arranged is to identify corresponding access machine It also can correspondingly be tracked when structure is placed on other shelf again after taking out from the commodity on shelf.For example, an access Mechanism is taken in an inventory locations after corresponding commodity, sees another commodity of same type in another inventory locations, It is more attractive, and then, user then wishes to remove corresponding commodity, replaces another commodity, still, the access at this time Mechanism is likely to not near the correspondence shelf for corresponding commodity of taking, and causes it that commodity are returned corresponding inventory locations Wish it is low, directly corresponding commodity may be placed on the shelf of current location, this will lead to corresponding commodity may The non-corresponding inventory locations being placed on the shelf of non-corresponding.It is thus preferable that in the access mechanism for holding commodity not according to finger When the commodity are put back into the correct position on shelf by indicating note 21, the system plays advice to it by voice mode and mentions It wakes up.For example, distinguished client, certain commodity is not put back into its correct position by you, in order to safeguard good shopping environment, avoid to Other people cause to mislead, and would you please that certain commodity is put back into correct position, the cooperation of thank you according to cue mark 21.Preferably, exist It plays after advice is reminded and in the case that corresponding commodity are not taken back to correct position yet, under the errors present of the commodity Display position error flag 22, wherein positional fault label 22 can be taken in exclamation mark, cross or written form at least It is a kind of.Preferably, after the commodity for not being taken back to correct position are removed from the shelf of display position error flag 22, lead to Cross voice and/or graphics mode indicate the commodity correct position and/or correct price.For example, passing through the indicateing arm in flashing Note 21 and voice: distinguished customer, you are good, you have been placed on the position of mistake commodity on hand, and correct position is 21 position of cue mark of flashing, the correspondence price tag for please referring to proper position are bought, be thanks！By this way, Employee can be allowed to be quickly found out misplaced commodity, and be quickly placed back into correct position, working efficiency is improved.Meanwhile also Can to avoid not corresponded to shopper because of price tag and actuals caused by mistake shopping guiding, improve user experience.Moreover, logical Which is crossed, due to can quickly know the correct position of commodity, walks to the distance of the required movement of correct position in user In the case where not far, even if having seen that the commodity, some user's meetings are not bought in user's selection after practical price tag and/or correct price The commodity are auxiliarily put back into its correct position, reduce the workload of employee.Preferably, which can also include instruction Display, indication display can be used for the correct position in misplaced commodity not when on its misplaced shelf, pass through instruction Display is to pick up the access mechanisms of misplaced commodity to play its correct price.

According to a preferred embodiment, positional fault label 22 can be by least two different visual states to divide The extent of deviation of grade display mode error differentiating.Extent of deviation be, for example, in range deviation, price deviation and effectiveness deviation extremely Few one kind.It is intuitively prompted to employee or shopper with this.For example, can be shown by being classified in position error flag 22 When the mode of showing distinguishes range deviation, by the first color, different from the first color the second color and be different from first and the The third color of second colors distinguishes the extent of deviation of range deviation in a manner of point third gear.By the commodity from current errors present The required distance of its correct position is put back into less than or equal to when the first distance threshold value, configures first for positional fault label 22 The commodity are being greater than the first distance threshold value and small from the required distance that current errors present is put back into its correct position by color When being equal to the second distance threshold value, configure the second color for positional fault label 22, by the commodity from current mistake When the required distance that position is put back into its correct position is greater than third distance threshold value, third is configured by positional fault label 22 Color.Preferably, the first color, the second color and third color can be respectively blue, yellow and red.First distance threshold value E.g. 5 meters.Second distance threshold value is, for example, 20 meters.Third distance threshold value is, for example, 40 meters.Preferably, effectiveness deviation is, for example, The deviation of getting fat and weight-reducing, defaecation and antidiarrheal one kind.It should be noted that the present invention can also be by other means or a variety of The combination of mode realizes different visual states, rather than can only be realized with different colors.For example, the present invention is also It can be realized by the combination of number and color.Specifically, here or by taking range deviation as an example, by the commodity from current Errors present be put back into its correct position required distance be less than or equal to the first distance threshold value when, by positional fault label 22 It is configured to the first color and shows the first number, needed for the commodity are put back into its correct position from current errors present When distance is greater than the first distance threshold value and is less than or equal to the second distance threshold value, the second color is configured by positional fault label 22 And show the second number, which is being greater than third road from the required distance that current errors present is put back into its correct position When journey threshold value, third color is configured by positional fault label 22 and shows third number.First number is, for example, 1, second Number is, for example, 2, and third number is, for example, 3.

According to a preferred embodiment, which further includes the 7th image collecting device 17, the 7th image collecting device 17 for before the system indicates the correct position that current commodity is put back on shelf by the cue mark 21 on shelf Acquire the 8th image, by the system according to the corresponding cue mark 21 in the 8th image analysis correct position can optionally, only The cue mark is just shown in the case where in the visual range that the cue mark 21 is located at the access mechanism for picking up current commodity 21.Preferably, in the visual range that the cue mark 21 is not located at the access mechanism for picking up current commodity in the case where, or Say there are the feelings for the fixed obstacle for hindering sight between the access mechanism for picking up current commodity cue mark 21 corresponding with this Under condition, by voice mode indicate the commodity correct position and/or correct price.By this way, can commodity just True position not in the visible range in the case where do not cause to mislead to other people.Preferably, the system is also according to the 8th image analysis The identity situation of the access mechanism of current commodity is picked up, only in the cue mark 21 positioned at the access mechanism for picking up current commodity In visual range and the identity of the access mechanism is just to show the cue mark 21 in the case where arranging access mechanism.For example, point The identity situation of analysis personnel can by recognition of face, at least one of wear specific work dress and carry electronic tag.

According to a preferred embodiment, before showing the cue mark 21, the system is also according to the 8th image analysis The first display number for picking up the cue mark 21 for needing to show simultaneously in the visual range of the access mechanism of current commodity, One display number be more than or equal to two when, by corresponding positional fault label 22 and cue mark 21 in a manner of grouping It is associated, and is adopted between same group of positional fault label 22 and cue mark 21 using between visually association and different groups It is configured with ground mode is visually distinguished.For example, in same group, positional fault label 22 at least partly with cue mark 21 Same color label is issued, the color mark between different groups is different.For another example, in same group, positional fault label 22 and finger 21 display same numbers of indicating note mark, and the numeral mark between different groups is different.For another example, in same group, positional fault mark Note 22 shows identical pictorial symbolization with cue mark 21, and the pictorial symbolization between different groups is different.Pictorial symbolization be, for example, circle, Triangle or quadrangle.

According to a preferred embodiment, which can also include: the 8th image collecting device 18, be used to acquire goods The 9th image in at least partly region of seated position error flag 22 is set up, and actual according to the 9th image analysis by the system The match condition of the setting of positional fault label 22 in the display of positional fault label 22 and the system, wherein the two not When matching, positions the shelf at unmatched 22 place of positional fault label and notify maintenance personnel.It by this way, can be quick Ground identifies and positions the shelf to break down to position error flag 22, and is rapidly safeguarded, spill tag or wrong mark are reduced The case where.

Preferably, the second image collecting device 12 is when detecting the second image of the hand of an access mechanism, Can also analyze both following: " based on the second image compared with third image and the access mechanism of determination holds quotient The case where product " and " commodity that the 4th image collecting device 14 of cargo temporary storage location 40 entrained by the access mechanism detects Into the movement of the cargo temporary storage location 40 ", when analysis the result shows that the access mechanism does not hold commodity or only holds one When commodity, it is near the absolute position of the access mechanism, opposite in making a reservation for which just grants access mechanism access Commodity at least one inventory locations of the shelf of position.

According to a preferred embodiment, any kind of phase is can be used in each image collecting device mentioned in the present invention Machine and other alternative imaging devices.For example, magazine one or more can be RGB camera.Magazine one Person or more persons can be depth sense camera.

Preferably, in order to collect required image, each image collecting device can be one or more, in certain image When acquisition device is multiple, can dispersedly it be set in multiple positions.For example, some image collecting devices can be located at head On top, such as on the ceiling to acquire the image of corresponding position in access mechanism and/or place.For another example, some images are adopted Acquisition means can be located in inventory locations or internal.For example, can be located on the exterior section of inventory locations and be oriented Acquire the image of the position around access mechanism and/or inventory locations.For another example, some image collecting devices can be set in valence Region is signed, the image information on the shelf of opposite side is acquired towards opposite side shelf.

According to a preferred embodiment, system of the invention further includes computing system 30.Computing system 30 can be Locally, remotely or any combination thereof.Similarly, computing system 30 can be configured to through network and input module, output group Part and/or directly temporary with first, second, third, fourth, the five, the six, the seven, the 8th image collecting devices and cargo The communication of at least one of unit 40.Those skilled in the art are it is envisioned that communication can be by wired and/or wireless Mode.Preferably, computing system 30 is, for example, one or more server.It may include processor and storage in server Device.The system may include or provide image procossing (for example, for user identification, Expression Recognition and/or commodity identification), inventory Tracking and/or position determine.

Embodiment 3

The present embodiment is the further improvement to embodiment 1, and duplicate content repeats no more.Do not causing conflict or lance In the case where shield, the preferred embodiment of other embodiments can be used as the supplement of the present embodiment.

The invention also discloses a kind of inventory management method, this method can be by system of the invention and other are alternative Realization.For example, realizing method of the invention by using each components in system.

According to a preferred embodiment, this method may include: using at least one the first image collecting device 11, Determine at least one access mechanism in shelf institute based on the first image for acquiring the first image, and by the management system Absolute position and the access mechanism in region are loaded with the opposite position of the shelf of at least one commodity relative at least one It sets；Using at least one the second image collecting device 12, it is used to detect the second image of the hand of at least one access mechanism, Second image is shot before the hand of the access mechanism enters at least one inventory locations of shelf；Use at least one A third image collecting device 13 is used to detect the third image of the hand of at least one access mechanism, the third image It is to be shot after the hand of the access mechanism is removed from least one inventory locations of the shelf；Wherein, it is based on the second image It determines that corresponding access mechanism holds the state of commodity compared with third image, the state of commodity is held in response to access mechanism And identify at least one inventory locations of shelf around the absolute position of the access mechanism, in predetermined relative location Variation, and thus judge the corresponding relationship between the commodity and the variation of the inventory locations.

According to a preferred embodiment, the method can also include: using at least one the 4th image collecting device 14, it is arranged in cargo temporary storage location 40, the movement of the cargo temporary storage location 40 is entered for detecting commodity, wherein in response to Commodity enter the movement of the cargo temporary storage location 40, thereby confirm that the commodity into the cargo temporary storage location 40 and the library Deposit the corresponding relationship between the variation of position.

Embodiment 4

The present embodiment is repeated no more to embodiment 1,2,3 or its further improvement combined, duplicate content.Not It causes in conflict or contradictory situation, the preferred embodiment of other embodiments can be used as the supplement of the present embodiment.

According to a preferred embodiment, before barcode scanner, one of shield door should be installed, shield door is used with personnel The personal all kinds of two dimensional codes for payment be switch, once only enter for a people, after barcode scanning, door is closed immediately.The personnel With the mobile shopping cart of appropriate speed, by barcode scanner, voluntarily items scanning, touch display screen show pending payment merchandise news With current purchased commodity total price, after personnel confirmation is errorless, system is settled accounts in the two dimensional code account scanned before automatically.Confirmation Settle accounts it is errorless after, shield door after barcode scanner is opened, meanwhile, the shield door before barcode scanner starts to scan next personnel Two dimensional code.By this way, personnel are avoided to appropriate public property for personal use commodity or settle accounts wrong problem, the amount of loss of supermarket can be reduced.

Embodiment 5

The present embodiment is repeated no more to embodiment 1,2,3,4 or its further improvement combined, duplicate content.? It does not cause in conflict or contradictory situation, the preferred embodiment of other embodiments can be used as the supplement of the present embodiment.

According to a preferred embodiment, shelf are equipped at least one Weight acquisition device, for acquiring corresponding personnel Hand enter shelf at least one inventory locations before and after the hand removes from least one inventory locations of the shelf Weight difference, and the system based on the second image determined compared with third image corresponding personnel hold commodity state it Afterwards, the state of commodity is checked by the weight of the commodity of the determination recorded in system and the weight difference.

It is also possible to be collected by being mounted directly Weight acquisition device on shelf by acquisition device Weight difference tentatively to judge the states of commodity.Those skilled in the art are it is envisioned that in this case, on a shelf The weight of multiple commodity should have certain difference, so as to realize identification commodity state purpose.

Embodiment 6

The present embodiment can be to embodiment 1,2,3,4,5 or its further improvement and/or supplement for combining, duplicate Content repeats no more.Do not cause conflict or contradictory situation under, the entirety of the preferred embodiment of other embodiments and/or Partial content can be used as the supplement of the present embodiment.

The present embodiment also discloses a kind of unmanned supermarket system, and the technical characteristic of the system and a kind of inventory management system are complete Portion or part are identical, to reach corresponding technical effect.

The present embodiment also discloses a kind of inventory management system of unmanned supermarket, the technical characteristic of the system and a kind of inventory Management system is identical in whole or in part, to reach corresponding technical effect.

The present embodiment also discloses a kind of inventory management method of unmanned supermarket, the technical characteristic of this method and a kind of inventory Management method is identical in whole or in part, to reach corresponding technical effect.

Although the present invention is described in detail, modification within the spirit and scope of the present invention is for this field skill Art personnel will be apparent.Such modification is also considered as a part of this disclosure.Discussion, this field in view of front Relevant knowledge and reference or information (being both incorporated herein by reference) above in conjunction with Background Discussion, further description quilt It is considered unnecessary.Moreover, it should be understood that each section of various aspects of the invention and each embodiment can it is whole or Partially combined or exchange.Moreover, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the description of front and its attached drawing are only to make For example, it is not intended to the limitation present invention.

The purpose for example and description gives the discussed above of the disclosure.This is not intended to limit the disclosure In form disclosed here.In specific embodiment above-mentioned, for example, in order to simplify the purpose of the disclosure, the disclosure it is each Kind feature is grouped together in one or more embodiments, configuration or aspect.The feature of embodiment, configuration or aspect can be with With alternate embodiment, configuration or the aspect combination in addition to discussed above.This method of the disclosure is not necessarily to be construed as The reflection disclosure needs the intention of the more features than being expressly recited in each claim.On the contrary, such as following following claims institute Reflection, creative aspect is all features less than single aforementioned disclosed embodiment, configuration or aspect.Therefore, below Claim is hereby incorporated into present embodiment, wherein independent implementation of each claim own as the disclosure Example.

Claims

1. a kind of intelligent inventory management system based on inventory locations variation, includes at least:

Access mechanism (10), for storing and/or taking out commodity；

Information acquisition system (20), for acquiring the action message and/or location information of the access mechanism (10)；

Computing system (30), for analyzing the action message and/or the location information；The computing system (30) with it is described Information acquisition system (20) is connected by communication system；

It is characterized in that, the information acquisition system (20) can trigger storage in the access mechanism (10) and/or take out quotient When the movement of product, the action message and/or location information of the access mechanism (10) are obtained；

The computing system (30) determines that the access mechanism (10) holds the state of commodity based on the action message, in response to The access mechanism (10) holds the state of the commodity and identifies the location information of the access mechanism (10), and thus judges Corresponding relationship between the commodity and the variation of the inventory locations thus generates the inventory information of the commodity.

2. the system as claimed in claim 1, which is characterized in that the information acquisition system (20) can be in the access mechanism (10) when triggering storage and/or the first movement of taking-up commodity, the first movement of the acquisition acquisition access mechanism (10) is believed Breath and/or first location information, and the computing system (30) are transmitted to by communication unit；The computing system (30) is to be associated with Form first action message and/or the first location information are formed to the first information of the commodity；

The information acquisition system (20) can the access mechanism (10) trigger storage and/or take out commodity closest to institute When the second movement for stating the first movement, the second action message and/or second location information of the access mechanism (10) are acquired, And the computing system (30) are transmitted to by communication unit；The computing system (30) is acted in the form of associated by described second Information and/or the second location information form the second information of the commodity；

The computing system (30) will determine that corresponding access mechanism (10) holds commodity based on the first information and the second information State, and thus judge the corresponding relationship between the commodity and the variation of the inventory locations, thus generate the commodity Inventory information.

3. system as claimed in claim 1 or 2, which is characterized in that first action message and/or the second movement letter Breath is obtained by least one image collecting device in the information acquisition system (20)；

The first location information and/or second location information are adopted by least one position in the information acquisition system (20) Acquisition means obtain.

4. the system as described in one of claim 1-3, which is characterized in that at least one described image collecting device is configured In: when monitoring monitor discovery access mechanism (10) the triggering storage of the commodity and/or taking out the commodity, obtain First action message and/or second action message；

At least one described station acquisition device is configured in: the monitor for monitoring the commodity monitors the prison of the commodity When control device finds the access mechanism (10) triggering storage and/or takes out the commodity, obtain the first location information and/ Or the second location information.

5. the system as described in one of claim 1-4, which is characterized in that first action message includes the first image and the Two images,

Wherein, the first image is to enter shelf at least in the access mechanism (10) by least one image collecting device It is shot before one inventory locations；

Second image be by least one described image collecting device the access mechanism (10) from the shelf at least What one inventory locations was shot after removing；

The computing system (30) determines that the access mechanism (10) is held based on the first image and second image The state of commodity holds the state of the commodity in response to the access mechanism (10) and identifies the position of the access mechanism (10) Confidence breath, and thus judge the corresponding relationship between the commodity and the variation of the inventory locations, thus generate the commodity Inventory information.

6. the system as described in one of claim 1-5, which is characterized in that described to repair the system comprises Information revision module Positive module is configured in: accomplishing the action message and/or location information based on displacement curve and time information, wherein

The form that the displacement curve is tracked the access mechanism (10) by least one of described station acquisition device obtains It takes；

The time information is by least one time collector in the information acquisition system (20) in the access mechanism (10) it is obtained when triggering stores and/or takes out commodity.

7. the system as described in one of claim 1-6, which is characterized in that the system also includes be set to cargo temporary storage location (40) at least one image collecting device and at least one station acquisition device, it is temporary single into the cargo for detecting commodity The movement of first (40) generates third action message and the third place information,

Wherein, the computing system (30) is based on the third information action and third that commodity enter the cargo temporary storage location (40) Location information, confirmation enter the corresponding pass between the commodity and the variation of the inventory locations of the cargo temporary storage location (40) System；

The third action message is obtained before first action message and the second action message；The third place letter Breath is obtained before the first location information and second location information.

8. the system as described in one of claim 1-7, which is characterized in that be set to the access the system also includes described At least one image collecting device in mechanism (10) access way, to acquire the identification marking for paying and/or registering, The raw information of commodity is generated,

The acquisition of the raw information is obtained before the action message and the location information.

9. system as described in one of claim 1-8, which is characterized in that determine the initial of absolute position from based on the first image Time point, the cargo temporary storage location (40) hold the state of commodity in response to the access mechanism (10) and set introduction Timing cycle, after specifically introducing timing cycle by this, if at least one described image acquisition device fails to collect Commodity enter the movement of the cargo temporary storage location (40), then by the cargo temporary storage location (40) to holding described in commodity Access mechanism (10) issues the prompt in relation to item property, wherein the prompt can be in electronic signal, voice, image or view The form of frequency.

10. system as claimed in one of claims 1 to 9, which is characterized in that at least one of described image acquisition device is used In current commodity is put back into the correct position on shelf by cue mark (21) instruction on shelf in the system, only exist Described in the cue mark (21) just shows in the case where being located in the visual range for picking up the access mechanism (10) of current commodity Cue mark (21).