WO2023160773A1 - Verfahren und system zur inventurunterstützung - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a method and a system for inventory support.
- the invention has set itself the task of providing a method and a system with which a more efficient inventory process is made possible.
- the subject of the invention is therefore a method that has the method steps listed below, namely automatic detection of a product location using a camera and generation of a digital product location image of the product location using the camera, the product location being used to place at least one product , automatic recognition that the product slot is empty by computerized evaluation of the product slot image, and digital documentation of the absence of the product in the product slot.
- the subject of the invention is therefore a system, in particular an electronic product and/or price display system, which has: Cameras, the cameras being provided for detecting product locations, each product location serving to place at least one product, and the cameras being provided for generating product location images for the detected product locations, the system being provided by computerized evaluation of the product location image is designed to automatically recognize that at least one of the product locations is empty, and wherein the system is designed to digitally document the absence of the product at the product location that was recognized as empty.
- the method and the system thus allow the automatic detection and documentation of reaching a zero quantity in the inventory of the product at the relevant product location, i.e. automatic detection and documentation that the inventory of the product at the relevant product location is zero at a point in time.
- the product for which the zero quantity was determined during the year i.e. at a different point in time than the point in time at which the total inventory is carried out
- the technical measures of the method as well as the system also make the overall or main inventory significantly easier because this product, for which a zero quantity has been determined, no longer has to be recorded manually.
- the measures according to the invention therefore have the advantage that the time required to carry out a total or main inventory can be drastically reduced because product locations recognized as empty in the past are automatically identified and documented for the total or main inventory. This also significantly increases the security of the inventory process, because an empty product location is automatically recognized and the corresponding information is automatically documented. Potential man-made errors are thus completely excluded and the necessary error-free documentation is guaranteed.
- the inventive method as well as the system can be excellent and especially with little additional effort in goods warehouses or implement application in business premises in order to make the inventory process run more efficiently and consequently to simplify it.
- display units are usually attached to the shelves, with the display units displaying product and/or price information.
- the display units can be conventional paper-based display units.
- electronic display units which are usually referred to in technical jargon as "Electronic Shelf Labels", ESL for short, are often used. These are run from a server or a cloud-based software application, usually with the help of a network Access points controlled and e.g. supplied with product and/or price information.
- the camera used for automatic detection has a lens and an image sensor, with objects located in a detection area of the camera being projected or imaged through the lens onto the image sensor. Based on this projection, the image sensor creates a digital image of the object or scene in the camera's detection range. This can, for example, be a shelf that can contain one product slot or several product slots. The digital image then contains at least one digital product space image, which represents the respective product space.
- the camera can be freely movable. It can be a freely movable camera, which can be used as a stand-alone unit or attached to or integrated into a camera carrying device, for example glasses, a shopping cart, or a hand-held device such as a mobile phone or tablet computer, by the person to be inventoried Space, such as the business premises or the warehouse, is moved.
- a freely movable camera allows the acquisition of several product positions at different points of the room in chronological order. In this way, over time, even large spatial areas can be completely captured with as few cameras as possible, but not simultaneously. It has therefore proven to be particularly advantageous for the automatic detection to take place with the aid of a permanently installed camera, the detection area of which is aligned, in particular permanently, to at least one product location.
- the lens used or the zoom function of the camera there can be a scene with several product locations or just a single product location in the camera's detection range.
- the camera can also be operated in such a way that it successively focuses or zooms on different areas of its maximum detection range and thus provides sections of its detection range for further image processing.
- the permanently installed camera can be positioned, for example, on the ceiling of the room, on the shelf, in shelf dividers or in the electronic display unit, and from there automatically capture one or more product locations.
- suitable positioning and alignment can ensure that all product locations in a warehouse or a shop are automatically recorded, in particular at the same time. Changes in the product stock at a product location can be easily recognized due to the permanent alignment of the cameras, which means that the missing of a product at the respective product location can be reliably determined.
- the aspect that the point in time at which the zero quantity occurs at the respective product location can be clearly defined is particularly advantageous, i.e. a time-synchronous detection is essentially ensured for all product locations.
- the automatic recognition that the product space is empty involves obtaining product information. By obtaining the product information, it is determined which product is missing from the product location identified as empty, i.e. which product should be there.
- the product information can be obtained directly on the server.
- the camera is wireless or wired (with the help of a communication unit of the camera) with the server.
- the camera transmits the scene in its detection area, in which one or more product spaces can be found, as a captured product space image to the server, where it is determined automatically, software-based, on the one hand, whether a product space is empty, and on the other hand automatically, software-based it is determined which product location is involved.
- the latter can be done, for example, by image recognition, with neighboring product spaces that are not recognized as empty, or also the relevant display unit(s), in particular that of the product space recognized as empty, being/are also taken into account in order to empty the identify the product belonging to the product place.
- the image or the objects identified therein or digitally analyzable information content is analyzed by software.
- the functionality of the server discussed in the previous paragraph is provided directly by the camera or the camera's computer.
- the data volume to be transmitted to the server can be significantly reduced because image data does not have to be continuously transmitted to the server and the computing power of the camera's computer is fully utilized, i.e. decentralized image processing is used directly in the camera.
- obtaining the product information includes receiving product information data at the camera, in particular provided by a server, with the aforementioned communication unit of the camera being used, with the aid of which the product information data is sent from the server to the (Respective) camera are transmitted.
- Obtaining the product information from the server now allows a fully automatic—decentralized—identification of the product provided at the product location recognized as empty, because the product information indicates which product is at the relevant empty product location.
- the server knows the respective detection area of the camera, i.e. the product locations contained therein, what was determined and stored in advance, and the occupancy of the shelves, i.e. the identity of the Products are known at the product locations assigned to them according to plan, with this allocation being stored in an allocation data structure. For the product positions located in the respective detection area of the camera, the server therefore transmits the applicable product information and possibly also the expected, because previously stored, arrangement of the products.
- each product space can be defined by its three spatial coordinates (or by a coordinate area that describes the respective product slot) and a product identification number (e.g. a digital representation of an EAN code or the like) which identifies the product which is assigned to the product slot.
- 3D floor plan for example, each product space can be defined by its three spatial coordinates (or by a coordinate area that describes the respective product slot) and a product identification number (e.g. a digital representation of an EAN code or the like) which identifies the product which is assigned to the product slot.
- the camera By obtaining the product information from the camera, which is basically only necessary if the product configuration on the shelf changes, i.e. usually only after a long period of operation, the camera (ultimately your computer) is given the identity of the product location intended for the product in question product announced. As soon as the camera automatically detects an empty product slot in its detection area, it can transmit this to the server together with the correct information about the missing product.
- the product information is obtained autonomously in the camera with the aid of the camera's computer, in particular using "computer vision”.
- the camera is designed to autonomously and automatically detect whether a product location in its detection area is empty, and also to autonomously and automatically determine which product is affected at this product location identified as empty.
- “computer vision” is to be understood as software that allows digital images to be analyzed in order to extract information content of the real scene, which is represented by the digital image. This is also consistent with the scientific field also referred to as "computer vision”.
- This software can preferably also be self-learning in the sense of artificial intelligence.
- other software- and/or hardware-based solutions can also be used to implement the autonomous operation of the camera.
- the software of the camera makes it possible to first determine on the camera side (decentrally) by means of automated image evaluation which product is at the relevant product location, as far as obtaining the product information is concerned, and over time also to determine whether the product is missing at the relevant product location, what the automatic detection that the product slot is empty.
- the software can be trained in advance with corresponding data sets, for example with the appearance of the product or the products that are usually located at the product location or in the recorded product locations.
- An empty product space can, for example, be based on the recognition of the full product space on the one hand and on the other hand on the basis of the absence of the product that was in this product space at an earlier point in time when the product space was recorded.
- a particularly reliable identification of the product location, as far as obtaining the product information is concerned, for example, if there is at least one product or product location code (hereinafter referred to as code) in the detection range of the camera, which can be used to draw conclusions about the product that relates to should be located in the product space, and/or allows the product space itself.
- code can be used, for example, in the form of a bar code, a QR code, a symbol or a symbol combination, a text or a pattern. This code can be found and interpreted, ie in particular decoded, by the camera's computer in the product location image.
- the code can be attached to the shelf of the shelf so that it can be captured by the camera as soon as the shelf space is empty.
- the camera's computer therefore recognizes the code, checks whether there are actually no more products in the remaining product space, i.e. that the shelf space is empty, and interprets the code around the corresponding product information because this relationship has been stored in advance in a table available in the camera, for example.
- the code can also be applied, for example, to the free end of the shelf, for example to a display unit (such as a shelf label) attached thereto.
- This shelf label which is located in the immediate vicinity of the product location, is also captured by the camera and appears as part of the digital product location image.
- the camera's computer checks the product slot image on the one hand for the code to determine which product should be in the product slot.
- the computer carries out object recognition, which checks whether the corresponding product is in the product space or whether the product space is empty.
- the method can be used particularly advantageously if the electronic display units are used to display the code.
- the code can be in the form of text, for example the product name, a bar code or the like.
- the code can correspond to the identification code of the electronic display unit or of the product logically linked to it.
- the code ie the product information, can therefore simply be displayed here on a screen of the electronic display unit.
- Such a code is usually transmitted to the display unit by radio or by wire after the electronic display unit has been attached to the shelf.
- the plain text describing the product can also be used as the code that is displayed.
- the identity of the product that is assigned to the product location can be determined with the aid of the camera's computer by automatically evaluating product information positioned corresponding to the product location.
- the product location image is preferably stored, in particular as an image file or as a video file. Furthermore, in such a documentation data structure in which the product location image is documented, the time, the date and/or the location of the recording and/or a camera ID as well as the product identity etc. must be stored in order to ensure clear documentation and traceability.
- the digital documentation offers a trustworthy basis for the inventory including the zero quantity at a certain product location, where those products can safely be ignored for which the missing product at the product location has already been digitally documented in the past.
- the digital documentation it has proven to be particularly advantageous for the digital documentation to include unchangeable storage for a predefined period of time.
- the digital documentation is preferably kept or stored at least for a period of time until the actual inventory.
- the predefined period of time particularly preferably extends beyond this.
- the predefined period of time can be based on the applicable regulations and laws of a country, so that it is ensured that the zero quantity is stored or digitally documented in a traceable manner for at least as long as is required for proper, legally binding documentation of the inventory.
- a status display is visualized using at least one electronic display unit, in particular using all electronic display units, which makes the product location recognized as empty in the past identifiable.
- the system has electronic display units, each of these display units being intended to display product and/or price information for a product and being positioned corresponding to a product location, the system, in particular the electronic display units, being designed in such a way that with the help of at least one electronic display unit, in particular with the help of all electronic display units, the status display can be visualized, which makes the product space recognized as empty in the past identifiable.
- the status display can be visualized, for example, by a text, a pattern or a color on the screen of the electronic display unit or by the lighting or flashing of an LED of the electronic display unit.
- those electronic display units can visualize a status display for whose associated product location a zero quantity was determined, ie those electronic display units whose associated products are no longer to be taken into account for the inventory.
- those electronic display units can also visualize a status display for whose associated product location no zero quantity was determined, ie those electronic display units whose associated products are still to be taken into account for the inventory.
- Those electronic display units whose associated products are no longer to be considered for inventory can visualize a status display, for example a text with "OK” on the screen, while those electronic display units whose associated products are still to be considered for inventory have a different status display , such as a text with "TO-DO" on the screen and/or a flashing LED or no special status display, just the product information that is typically present.
- the server thus decides which electronic display units are to display a status display or are not to display a status display.
- the information about the detection of the zero quantity is transmitted from the camera to the electronic display unit.
- This transmission can be radio-based directly from the camera to the electronic display device. It has however, it has proven to be particularly advantageous that the information is transmitted via the server to the electronic display unit, because the entire inventory process is handled via the server.
- Control information is therefore transmitted to the electronic display unit, so that the electronic display unit visualizes the status display, so that an employee involved in the inventory can see whether a product location or a product is to be taken into account for the inventory or is not to be taken into account.
- the employee therefore only has to inventory part of the product locations.
- an inventory status for a specific product location it has proven to be advantageous for an inventory status for a specific product location to be provided by an electronic display unit or by a portable user device.
- the portable user device may be a device that allows the inventory worker to document the inventory or the inventory progress.
- the portable user device can therefore be, for example, a tablet computer or a mobile phone with appropriate software or an application.
- the inventory status describes the number of products in the product location or the counted products (quantity).
- the inventory status can contain additional information such as the time and place the inventory status was created.
- the employee can therefore enter the counted (or otherwise determined, for example weighed) quantity (or other corresponding quantity) of the respective product into the portable user device.
- a link can be established between the portable user device and the electronic display unit, so that the entered size (amount) can be assigned to the electronic display unit immediately.
- the link can also come about by using a portable user device to capture an optical code, for example a bar code or a QR code of the electronic display unit.
- This optical code can also be the status indicator that informs the employee that the product belonging to this electronic display unit has yet to be inventoried. A manual selection of the appropriate product or product place can also be made.
- the inventory status can thus be provided by the portable user device and/or by the electronic display unit, ie sent out and received and processed by the server.
- the inventory status of the individual products is preferably stored digitally on the server in an inventory status data structure. After the inventory has been completed, the inventory status data structure with its individual entries thus represents, for example, the quantity or the mass of the individual products.
- the electronic display unit either refuses communication with the portable user device or transmits an information data record to it if the associated product space was recognized as empty in the past.
- the notification data record causes the portable user device to display information that informs the employee that a zero quantity has already been determined automatically in the past for the associated product.
- the electronic display unit itself can also display this information.
- the digitally documented absence of the product in the product slot is stored as the inventory status for the product in question.
- the documentation data structure which contains the product location image and the product identity and possibly further information such as time and place, is therefore stored in the inventory data structure as the inventory status for the product concerned.
- the inventory status data structure is thus designed in such a way that the digital product location image (as such or via a link) is stored for those products for which there was a zero quantity in the past, from which the actual achievement of the zero quantity can be seen and is therefore verifiable.
- the product status for example the quantity, mass, etc. determined during manual inventory, is saved.
- the electronics can be constructed discretely or by means of integrated electronics or a combination of both.
- Microcomputers, microcontrollers, application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), possibly in combination with analog or digital electronic peripheral components, can also be used.
- ASICs application-specific integrated circuits
- Many of the functionalities of the devices mentioned are implemented - possibly in conjunction with hardware components - with the help of software that runs on a processor in the electronics.
- Devices designed for radio communication usually have, as part of a transceiver module, an antenna configuration for transmitting and receiving radio signals, as well as a modulator and/or a demodulator.
- the electronic devices can also have an internal electrical power supply, which can be implemented with a replaceable or chargeable battery, for example.
- the devices can also be wired, supplied either by an external power pack or also by means of "Power over LAN”. Likewise, a radio-based power supply can be provided by means of "Power over WiFi”. Battery-powered electronic display units are preferably equipped with energy-saving electrophoretic screens.
- FIG. 1 shows a camera that captures a shelf for inventory support.
- FIG. 1 shows a section of a shop with a single shelf 3, which has three shelf levels 3A, 3B and 3C.
- a system 1 for carrying out an inventory support method is also installed in the shop.
- the system 1 has a camera 2 with an integrated computer, which captures the shelf 3 in its detection area.
- Each shelf level 3A, 3B and 3C has three electronic display units, hereinafter referred to as ESL 4A to 41 for short, on its front side, ie its side facing the camera.
- Each ESL 4A-41 has a screen 11 for displaying information (such as product and/or price information) and an LED 12 (representative of all ESLs 4A-41 displayed on only one ESL 4A) for signaling.
- Each ESL 4A to 41 is attached to correspond to a product location 5A to 51 located above it in the respective shelf level 3A-3C.
- the middle product place 5E of the middle shelf level 3B at the position of each product place 5A to 51 there is at least one product 6 assigned to the relevant ESL 4A - 41, i.e. the product place 5A to 51.
- the product 6 assigned to the middle product place 4E is missing i.e. so that the product place 4E is unoccupied, i.e. empty.
- the system 1 has a server 7, which is coupled to an access point 8, via which the server 7 is wirelessly connected to the camera 2 and the ESLs 4A to 41, which is structurally indicated by two antenna configurations A1 and A2.
- the system 1 also has a portable user device designed as a tablet computer, tablet 9 for short, which can be operated by an employee (not shown).
- the tablet 9 is also wirelessly connected to the server 7 via the access point 8 .
- the tablet 9 has already been used to create a logical link of the ESLs 4A to 41 with the products 6 positioned corresponding to them.
- all product locations 5A-51 were of course occupied by products 6, such as after the products had been placed for the first time.
- a barcode of the respective product 6 and a barcode displayed on the screen 11 of the associated ESL 4A to 41 were scanned with a camera on the tablet 9 and both barcodes were transmitted to the server 7, where the logical link was generated and stored.
- the bar code of the product 6 contains or allows for identification of the product identity or product information identifying the product.
- the respective ESL 4A to 41 can also identify itself by means of near field communication (NFC) 10. From these related pairs of information (on the one hand the information relating to the identity of the respective ESL and on the other hand the information relating to the identity of the respective product), the server 7 creates a link data structure which represents which ESL 4A to 41 is linked to which product 6, i.e the logical connection.
- NFC near field communication
- the location of the product locations 5A to 51 of the products 6 was determined with the aid of the camera 2 and an image evaluation of the digitally captured image of the scene.
- the image evaluation can take place directly in the camera 2 or the raw data (essentially) generated by the camera can be transmitted to the server 7, where the image evaluation then takes place.
- the product locations 5A-51 can also be determined manually, e.g. using the tablet 9 .
- an occupancy data structure is generated, which enriches the linking data structure with location information that indicates where the relevant product locations 5A - 51 are located for the respective products 6 and, derived from this, also the Location of the respective ESLs 4A - 41 is located.
- the camera 2 now captures the shelf 3 and the product spaces 5A to 51 located therein (e.g. essentially continuously in order to be able to determine changes in the occupancy of the respective product space) and generates product space images.
- the product location images are evaluated by the computer of camera 2 using "computer vision".
- the computer of the camera 2 determines when evaluating the product space images that the middle product space 5E of the middle shelf level 3B is empty. This is then documented by storing the or a sequence of the product location images in question, which show the vacancy, in an unchangeable manner.
- the product space images are transmitted to the server 7 and stored there in an unchangeable memory 7A together with the product identification (possibly also the ESL identification), the time and date of generation of the product space images and a camera ID, which which uniquely identifies the camera 2 generating the product space image, stored in a documentation data structure.
- the employee starts a corresponding program via the tablet 9, whereupon the tablet 9 informs the server 7 about the start of the inventory process and whereupon the server 7 informs the ESLs 4A to 41 into an inventory mode.
- the ESL 4A - 41 visualize their status, which was previously transmitted to them by the server 7, in a status display using their screens 11.
- the server causes the screen of the associated ESL 4A - 41 to display a large "X" as the status display. In the present case, this applies to the ESL 4E whose associated product slot 5E has already been identified as empty in the past.
- the server 7 causes them to display the relevant product information on their screens 11 and for their LED 12 to flash. In the present case, this applies to ESL 4A to 4D and 4F to 41, for which no empty product location 5A - 5D and 5F - 51 has been identified in the past.
- the information represented by the documentation data structure is transferred by the server 7 to an inventory status data structure. In principle, the quantities of the respective products 6 manually recorded by employees and the identification of the products 6 are documented, ie stored, in this inventory data structure.
- the inventory data structure generated in this way contains, after the inventory has been completed, in addition to the inventory status of the manually entered products 6, the automatically created inventory status for those products 6 for which an empty product location has already been determined at least once in the past, which is related to the relevant product location Image has been documented and is now referred to from the inventory data structure by the link mentioned.
- the employee holds the tablet 9 to the ESL 4G to manually inventory the products 6 located there.
- the ESL 4G and the tablet 9 start a near-field communication 10 in which the identity of the ESL 4G is transmitted to the tablet 9 .
- the employee then enters the number of products that are located at the product location 5G assigned to the ESL 4G on the tablet 9 . In this case there are two products 6 on this product space 5G.
- the tablet 9 transmits the data to the server 7, where it is imported into the inventory status data structure.
- the server 7 then instructs the ESL 4G to display an adjusted status, with the LED 12 of the ESL 4G now lighting up continuously, so that the employee knows that this ESL 4G or the associated product location 5G has already been inventoried.
- the relevant ESL 4G is also deactivated for a further inventory of the product 6 assigned to it that is potentially incorrect because it is duplicated.
- the automatically generated documentation data structure can also be supplemented with the results of the manual inventory and the inventory status data structure can thus be created, in particular also immediately in the unchangeable memory.
- the LED 12 can also be used to visualize the status of the products that are already automatically recorded in the documentation data structure with the help of the associated ESLs 4A - 41, whereas the LEDs 12 for those products that are still in the manual inventory are to be taken into account are switched off.
- the use of the LEDs 12 can be dispensed with and the entire status display can be performed using the screens. It is therefore also possible to use ESL 4A -41 which have no LEDs 12 .
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