125 results about "Electronic shelf label" patented technology

One variation of a method includes: accessing an image of an inventory structure captured by a robotic system while navigating through a store; detecting a slot in the inventory structure in the image; based on features extracted from the image, identifying a set of product units of a first product type occupying the slot; accessing a target product type assigned to the slot by a store representation; based on features extracted from the image, identifying an electronic shelf label depicted in the image, corresponding to the slot, and advertising the target product type; and, in response to the first product type differing from the target product type assigned to the slot, accessing a set of product data corresponding to the first product type from a product database, and, transmitting the set of product data to the electronic shelf label for rendering within an electronic display of the electronic shelf label.

This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) systems that support secure ESL position determination. In a first aspect, a device for wireless communication includes at least one processor and a memory coupled to the at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to cause the device to: obtain configuration information for position determination; receive, from an electronic shelf label (ESL) access point (AP), a beacon start transmission including address generation information; generate, using encryption information, encrypted address information based on stored device specific information, the configuration information, and the address generation information; and transmit the encrypted address information, the encrypted address information corresponding to a dynamic encrypted address, the encrypted address information configured to enable secure position determination. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

In an aspect, a method of operating a processing device includes obtaining location information of a target device, transmission time information of first one or more beacons transmitted by the target device, or transmission channel information of the first one or more beacons; and configuring a first set of electronic shelf label (ESL) devices to perform a targeted scanning operation based on the location information, the transmission time information, or the transmission channel information. The method of operating the processing device further includes receiving one or more targeted scanning reports from the first set of ESL devices based on the targeted scanning operation, and engaging in a positioning procedure for determining an estimated location of the target device based on the one or more targeted scanning reports.

An attachment system includes a first wall including an upper side and a lower side, and a second wall extending from the lower side of the first wall and including a front side and a rear side formed on an opposite side from the front side and including one or more retainers. The attachment system also includes a third wall including a first side and a second side formed on an opposite side of the first side, and a first end removably coupled to the second wall in a first configuration and a second end spaced from the first end and configured to be selectively engaged with the one or more retainers in a second configuration.

An electronic shelf label assembly, a display accessory, and an electronic shelf label control system. The electronic shelf label assembly comprises an electronic shelf label (110) and a display accessory (120). The electronic shelf label (110) is connected to the display accessory (120). The display accessory (120) comprises a display unit (121). The electronic shelf label (110) is configured to send, to the display accessory (120), a first display control instruction or a second display control instruction corresponding to product promotion. The display accessory (120) is configured to execute the first display control instruction or the second display control instruction to control the display unit (120) to display display information corresponding to a product.

This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) systems that support beaconing rate adaptation, such as for target device positioning in an ESL network environment. Beaconing rate adaptation may provide for increasing, decreasing, or otherwise adapting the transmission rate of one or more beacons transmitted by one or more devices operating within a wireless communication coverage area of a wireless network. Adapting a beaconing rate may utilize one or more beaconing rate criteria, such as may be determined based on, as a function of, or otherwise using various information regarding a target device. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support enhanced ESL position determination and ESL position based notifications. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes obtaining first position information for an asset of one or more assets associated with an electronic shelf label system based on first wireless information, and the first position information is associated with a first time. The method also includes obtaining second position information for the asset based on second wireless information, and the second position information is associated with a second time. The method further includes determining a notification for the asset based on the first position information, the second position information, the first time, and the second time. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

An electronic shelf label (1) is arranged to be attached to a shelf (16), preferably to a shelf rail located at the front edge of a shelf layer, more preferably to form the shelf rail itself and be attached directly to the shelf layer, the electronic shelf label comprising: a display screen (5) arranged on or as the front wall of the electronic shelf label, displaying content in the form of static or video images, the display screen comprising a light source (24) providing backlight for the display screen; and a lighting device (12) which is controllable independently of the light source and is arranged to emit light from the electronic shelf label from a wall different from its front wall.

This invention discloses an electronic shelf label positioning system and method, electronic shelf labels, and guide rails. The electronic shelf label positioning system includes electronic shelf labels, guide rails, a PDA, and a backend server. Each electronic shelf label includes a main control SoC, a card reader IC, a screen, and a power supply. The main control SoC controls the screen display and performs communication with the access point (AP). The card reader IC reads the wireless tags. The power supply provides power to the electronic shelf labels. The guide rail includes a guide rail marking area and a label area. The label area contains multiple wireless tags, each with a unique ID number. The guide rail marking area contains an identification device, which includes a guide rail ID, formed by sequentially arranging and summarizing the wireless tag ID numbers. This invention, through the proposed electronic shelf label and guide rail, achieves accurate positioning of electronic price tags and goods, with stable and reliable performance unaffected by the wireless environment.

A shelf label base station. The shelf label base station comprises a housing (13) and a shelf label communication module (11), wherein the shelf label communication module (11) is configured to communicate with an electronic shelf label, and the shelf label communication module (11) comprises a first radio frequency module, the first radio frequency module being arranged inside the housing (13). The shelf label base station further comprises an NFC module (12), the NFC module (12) being arranged inside the housing (13).

A method and apparatus for partially refreshing an arbitrary position on an electronic shelf label. The method includes dividing pixel position areas of a target picture on the electronic shelf label so that pixels not requiring refreshing are located in the same position area and pixels with the same pixel change request are located in the same position area; determining codes for each position area and driving waveforms corresponding to the codes; and refreshing the pixels of the target picture in accordance with the driving waveforms. This allows for partial refreshing of an arbitrary position on an electronic shelf label.

This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) systems that support enhanced downlink and uplink positioning determination coexistence techniques. In a first aspect, a device for wireless communication includes at least one processor and a memory coupled to the at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to cause the device to transmit schedule information for ESL devices. The at least one processor is also configured to cause the device to determine eTag transmission probability based on an eTag charging time and determine schedule change information based on the eTag transmission probability and the schedule information. The at least one processor is further configured to transmit the schedule change information to one or more ESL devices, one or more non-ESL devices, or both. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Purpose of the design product: The intended use of the electronic shelf label is for displaying information such as product name and price.

Techniques for dynamically controlled electronic shelf label (ESL) beacons for localization are disclosed. In an aspect, a network node configures one or more first sets of ESL beacons within a first radius of at least one mobile device to transmit first beacon signals at a first beacon rate, one or more second sets of ESL beacons outside the first radius and within the second radius of the at least one mobile device are configured to transmit second beacon signals at a second beacon rate, wherein the first beacon rate is higher than the second beacon rate.

This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for Electronic Shelf Label (ESL) systems that support positioning of ESL devices. In a first aspect, a method includes: transmitting, to each ESL device in a group of ESL devices deployed within an environment via a wireless network associated with the environment, a command to emit one or more flashes of light over a flash interval associated with the group; receiving, from a mobile device via the wireless network, visual data collected for the group by a camera during the flash interval; detecting, within the visual data, the one or more flashes emitted by each ESL device in the group over the flash interval; and determining a location within the environment of each ESL device in the group based on the one or more flashes emitted by each ESL device in the visual data. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Electronic shelf tag system that has: at least one battery-operated shelf tag client that has an energy-saving sleep mode without radio communication standby according to a radio standard and an active mode with radio communication standby according to the radio standard and that has a radio wake-up receiver designed so as, on receiving a wake-up signal, to leave the sleep mode and prompt the active mode to be adopted, and an access point that is designed for radio communication with the at least one shelf tag client according to the radio standard and that has a radio wake-up transmitter for transmitting the wake-up signal, wherein the radio wake-up transmitter is designed to be controllable in terms of the time at which the wake-up signal is transmitted by the access point, and the access point defines the time as the initiation of a radio connection setup to the at least one shelf tag client according to the radio standard, in particular with a lead time for changing from the sleep mode to the active mode.

The utility model relates to the technical field of crystal boat box storage, and discloses an electronic shelf for crystal boat boxes, which comprises a left support and a right support, and four groups of identical cross beam supports are arranged between the left support and the right support at equal intervals. A first goods shelf platform, a second goods shelf platform, a third goods shelf platform and a fourth goods shelf platform are sequentially arranged between the left support and the right support from top to bottom through four sets of cross beam supports. According to the electronic shelf for the wafer boat box, the label body is recognized through the label recognition sensor, the controller controls the electronic displayer to display different numbers, warehouse management and efficient management are facilitated, the order picking error rate is effectively reduced, and the order picking speed is increased; the wafer box body and the arched clamping strips located on the inner sides of the left limiting plate and the right limiting plate extrude each other, the arched clamping strips deform, then clamping of the wafer box body is achieved, and even if the wafer box body is impacted by external force, the situation that the wafer box body falls off does not occur.

The present invention relates to a method and system for positioning a device using a signal direction. The method includes the following steps: (1) a target device transmits an angle-measurable signal to a base station, the angle-measurable signal including heartbeat data with a target device ID and a sine wave or a modulated wave with a known digital sequence having a predetermined time length; (2) a base station including a signal arrival angle (AOA) calculation module and an antenna array required for AOA measurement calculates the signal arrival angle based on the angle-measurable signal and transmits the signal arrival angle to a positioning server; and (203) the positioning server calculates the position of the target device based on the signal arrival angle. This improves the accuracy of positioning for electronic shelf labels and reduces the complexity of the electronic shelf label positioning system.

An embodiment can provide a power rail for an electronic shelf label, comprising: a rail body part having a front surface to which an electronic display device is fastened, and having a rear surface fastened to a shelf; a first accommodation groove which is formed in the longitudinal direction of the rail body part and in which an additional device is accommodated; a second accommodation groove positioned below the first accommodation groove, and formed in the longitudinal direction of the rail body part; an electrode part provided in the second accommodation groove so as to supply power or data to the electronic display device; an array part provided in the second accommodation groove so as to fix the electronic display device; a first fastening-latch part formed on the rear surface of the rail body part and fastened to the shelf; and a second fastening-latch part formed on the front surface of the rail body part so that the electronic display device is provided thereon, wherein a portion of the electronic display device is inserted into the second accommodation groove so as to be electrically connected to the electrode part, and is fixed by means of the array part.

The present application discloses an early-warning display system, method and apparatus for an electronic shelf label. In the system, a background server is used for: when the current number of retransmissions of the background server does not reach the maximum number of retransmissions of the background server, issuing an update task to the electronic shelf label by means of a base station on the basis of commodity data until an update success message sent by the base station is received. The base station is used for: when the update task is received and the current number of retransmissions of the base station does not reach the maximum number of retransmissions of the base station, issuing the update task to the electronic shelf label until an update success message sent by the electronic shelf label is received. The electronic shelf label is used for: upon receiving the update task, obtaining the commodity data in the update task; when any step of processing the commodity data fails, enabling a corresponding type of timeout protection; and when a timing duration of each type of timeout protection expires, displaying, on a screen, an early-warning icon indicating a display anomaly of the electronic shelf label.

Various embodiments include methods performed by an access point (AP) and an electronic shelf label (ESL) for scheduling access point and electronic shelf label communication. In some embodiments, an AP may broadcast to one or more ESLs a periodic advertisement including scheduling information for an advertisement message (ADV) from the one or more ESLs, and receive the ADV from one or more of the ESLs according to the scheduling information. In some embodiments, an ESL may receive from an AP a periodic advertisement including scheduling information for an ADV from the ESL and transmit the ADV to the AP according to the scheduling information.

An embodiment provides a management method for at least one electronic shelf label, the management method comprising the steps of: acquiring related information of a first product; acquiring identification information of a first electronic shelf label; on the basis of a wireless communication method, acquiring information about a first location of an electronic device adjacent to the first electronic shelf label; determining a location of the first electronic shelf label on the basis of the information about the first location of the electronic device; and allocating the first product to the first electronic shelf label by matching at least one of information about the determined first location of the first electronic shelf label and the identification information of the first electronic shelf label with the related information of the first product.

An electronic shelf label, which comprises:a display unit, which is designed for displaying image content, anda communication module, which is designed for wireless communication for the purpose of receiving image data, which represent the image content, and for transferring the image data to the display unit, whereina detector unit is provided, which is designed for detecting an incorrect positioning, which differs from a desired positioning, of the electronic shelf label, and for outputting an action signal when the incorrect positioning is detected, wherein the detector unit comprises a photodiode, and whereinthe electronic shelf label is designed to change the image content when the action signal is present.

Systems, methods, and techniques for wireless communication are disclosed. In one exemplary example, a method of wireless communication performed at a first network entity may include asserting, by the first network entity, a line in a communication interface at an assertion time point to indicate to a second network entity a time at which the first network entity is active. The method of wireless communication performed at the first network entity may further include performing, by the first network entity, the activity at the time.

The present disclosure provides a communication method of an electronic shelf label system, a system, and a computer device. The method includes: repeatedly sending, by each of the plurality of base stations, a synchronization frame, wherein the synchronization frame comprises packet sequence number, and each of the synchronization frames includes a different packet sequence number; receiving, by the electronic shelf label, the synchronization frame at a receiving time point scheduled to wake up; determining whether the packet sequence number of the synchronization frame is the same as a packet sequence number corresponding to the receiving time point; and adjusting, if both are the same, by the electronic shelf label, duration of the next sleep to compensate for the time difference, so as to receive in the next reception a synchronization frame comprising a packet sequence number corresponding to the receiving time point.

An electronic shelf label (ESL) system is discussed. An ESL affixed to a shelf facing assists stock associates in managing products on the shelf. More particularly, the ESL may receive and display step-by-step instructions and / or graphical depictions on a display screen of the ESL that are received from a computing device-executed optimization module. The instructions may be generated to minimize the number of required actions by the stock associate and guide the associate in arranging products on the shelf. The displayed instructions may be determined based on a planogram. The planogram may be generated from a range of criteria including historical profit and loss data, inventory data, supply and demand data and / or labor cost data.