380 results about "Product Label" patented technology

A digital point-of-sale system for determining key performance indicators (KPIs) at a point-of-sale includes a product identification unit and a realogram creation unit. The product identification unit is configured to receive a captured image of a product display and to identify products in the captured image by comparing features determined from the captured image to features determined from products templates. The realogram creation unit is configured to create a realogram from the identified products and product templates. A product price KPI unit is configured to identify a product label proximally located to each identified product, and to recognize the product price on each product label. Each product price is compared to a predetermined range of prices to determine whether the product label proximally located to the identified product is a correct product label for the identified product.

A method and system for updating and verifying the accuracy of a retailer's planogram, while using a portable shopper device having a location sensing means and an RFID reader in conjunction with RFID shelf labels, is provided for. In part, the method provides a system and steps associated with collecting RFID product label information and comparing collected information with product information in relation to an initial planogram, via a software means. Once differences are identified, an updated planogram may be created for the retailer's use using the system and method of the present invention.

A method and system for updating and verifying the accuracy of a retailer's planogram, while using a portable shopper device having a location sensing means and an RFID reader in conjunction with RFID shelf labels, is provided for. In part, the method provides a system and steps associated with collecting RFID product label information and comparing collected information with product information in relation to an initial planogram, via a software means. Once differences are identified, an updated planogram may be created for the retailer's use using the system and method of the present invention.

A store profile generation system includes a mobile base and an image capture assembly mounted on the base. The assembly includes at least one image capture device for acquiring images of product display units in a product facility, product labels being associated with the product display units which include product-related data. A control unit acquires the images captured by the at least one image capture device at a sequence of locations of the mobile base in the product facility. The control unit extracts the product-related data from the acquired images and constructs a store profile indicating locations of the product labels throughout the product facility, based on the extracted product-related data. The store profile can be used for generating new product labels for a sale in an appropriate order for a person to match to the appropriate locations in a single pass through the store.

A store profile generation system includes a mobile base and an image capture assembly mounted on the base. The assembly includes at least one image capture device for acquiring images of product display units in a retail environment. A control unit acquires the images captured by the at least one image capture device at a sequence of locations of the mobile base in the retail environment. The control unit extracts product-related data from the acquired images and generates a store profile indicating locations of products and their associated tags throughout the retail environment, based on the extracted product-related data. The store profile can be used for generating new product labels for a sale in an appropriate order for a person to match to the appropriate locations in a single pass through the store.

Effective virtual reality environments including in-store virtual reality environments such as supermarket aisles, store shelves, cooler displays, etc. are generated using frameworks and customer layout information. Marketing materials are integrated with the virtual reality environment while introducing imperfections and / or other cues of realism to create a virtual reality environment representation. Imperfections may include misaligned marketing materials, product label blemishes, packages placed slightly askew, etc. Sensory experiences output to the user via the virtual reality environment representation elicit interactivity with a user and user movements, motions, and responses are used to evaluate the effectiveness of the marketing materials and / or the virtual reality environment representations.

This disclosure provides an image processing method and system for recognizing barcodes and / or product labels. According to an exemplary embodiment, the method uses a multifaceted detection process that includes both image enhancement of a candidate barcode region and other product label information associated with a candidate barcode region to identify a product label, where the candidate barcode region includes a nonreadable barcode. According to one exemplary application, a store profile is generated based on the identifications of the product labels which are associated with a location of a product within a store.

The invention discloses a product traceability verification method based on a block chain technique, which comprises a traceability step and a verification step. The traceability step comprises the following sub steps: 1) plan and production process information data are used for building blocks, and the blocks are stored in a private block chain; 2) three pieces of basic information are used for building verifiable label information; and 3) a distribution node adds the product consumption information and the label information to a public block chain. The verification step comprises the following sub steps: a, a product label is acquired; b, the product label is queried in the public block chain; and according to related records for the product label and the public block chain, the authenticity and the uniqueness of the product are determined. By adopting the method of the invention, the authenticity and the reliability of the traceability information can be ensured, technical problems that products are copied and over distributed and a responsibility person can not be bound can be solved, and besides, high-efficiency operation and the control cost of the traceability system can be ensured.

Cells can be labeled with products which they secrete and release in an efficient manner by coupling the cells at their surface to a specific binding partner for the product and allowing the product to be captured by the specific binding partner as it is secreted and released. The product-labeled cells can then be further coupled to suitable labels, if desired, and separated according to the presence, absence, or amount of product.

Computing systems and methods for electronically indicating the acceptability of a product. An image capture and communication device may analyze a product label that includes one or more monitors, authentication elements, and identification elements. The image capture and communication device may determine the type and features of the monitors, authentication elements, and identification elements and, based on the type of the monitors, authentication elements, and identification elements. The image capture and communication device may transmit data based on the type and features to a host server, which may transmit data associated with the host product to the image capture and communication device in, inter alia, the form of an acceptability report.

A digital point-of-sale system for determining key performance indicators (KPIs) at a point-of-sale includes a product identification unit and a realogram creation unit. The product identification unit is configured to receive a captured image of a product display and to identify products in the captured image by comparing features determined from the captured image to features determined from products templates. The realogram creation unit is configured to create a realogram from the identified products and product templates. A product price KPI unit is configured to identify a product label proximally located to each identified product, and to recognize the product price on each product label. Each product price is compared to a predetermined range of prices to determine whether the product label proximally located to the identified product is a correct product label for the identified product.

A system and method for calculating and communicating personalized product environmental information to users at the point of purchase, for accounting for pollution resulting from raw material production, manufacture, use disposal and packaging of the purchased product and for accounting for price surcharges paid by the purchaser. In a preferred embodiment, the user can scan a Universal Product Code on a product label using a handheld computer with a bar code reader and view personalized product information and ratings on the handheld computer. In another preferred embodiment, the information can be viewed on a desktop computer when purchasing online over a network. Preferably, individual pollution and price surcharge accounts are maintained for each user based on purchases, allowing for price surcharges and non-profit donations to be collected based on product lifecycle pollution quantities.

A store profile generation system includes a mobile base and an image capture assembly mounted on the base. The assembly includes at least one image capture device for acquiring images of product display units in a retail environment. A control unit acquires the images captured by the at least one image capture device at a sequence of locations of the mobile base in the retail environment. The control unit extracts product-related data from the acquired images and generates a store profile indicating locations of products and their associated tags throughout the retail environment, based on the extracted product-related data. The store profile can be used for generating new product labels for a sale in an appropriate order for a person to match to the appropriate locations in a single pass through the store.

Systems and methods for filling a customer order. An automated label and verification machine is used to print and apply patient labels to products containing medical items and then verify the product label and patient label on each of the products. In order to supply the automated label and verification machine with a batch of different products making up the customer order, a user is sent to a storage carousel and prompted to pick the products from storage locations rotated into location adjacent to a door in the cage surrounding the storage carousel. The use of the storage carousels maximizes the number of distinct products and amount of those products that may be stored in close relation to the automated label and verification machine, thereby making the process more space and time efficient.

The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for creating a Definable Blockchain in a Chip along with other components that can receive process and communicate information to enable locating, identifying, and tracking physical Assets and data contained within the Assets. More specifically, the present disclosure presents a Definable Blockchain in a Chip that can be inserted into product labels or packaging which can communicate via Bluetooth with a Smartphone or other Authenticated Radio Source to update the Definable Blockchain with a validated transaction and then optionally provide that information to a Cloud.

A store profile generation system includes a mobile base and an image capture assembly mounted on the base. The assembly includes at least one image capture device for acquiring images of product display units in a retail environment. A control unit acquires the images captured by the at least one image capture device at a sequence of locations of the mobile base in the retail environment. The control unit extracts product-related data from the acquired images and generates a store profile indicating locations of products and their associated tags throughout the retail environment, based on the extracted product-related data. The store profile can be used for generating new product labels for a sale in an appropriate order for a person to match to the appropriate locations in a single pass through the store.

The invention discloses a label printing system which comprises a printing server, a printing client server, printers, a data management system server module, a data management system client module, a label template editing module, a first label template unit, a second label template unit, a label template filling module and a printing command control module, wherein the data management system client module can communicate with the data management system server module; the label template editing module is used for editing and generating a label template; the first label template unit is used for storing the generated label template and relevant data; the second label template unit is used for storing a label template downloaded from the printing server; the label template filling module is used for filling the label template stored in the second label template unit to generate a product label to be printed; and the printing command control module is used for controlling the product label to be printed on a corresponding printer. The label printing system can realize efficient and quick product label printing on a production line and uniformly manage and synchronously update the product label templates automatically.

The present invention relates to a method and system for personalized recommendation based on label information. The method comprises: generating a three-dimensional table according to the state of marking the identification of each product according to the information of each label corresponding to the identification of each user, establishing a user product interaction matrix model and a product label relation matrix model according to the three-dimensional table; constructing a joint decomposition model corresponding to the user identification, the production identification and the label information according to the user product interaction matrix model and the product label relation matrix model; employing a Bayes personalized ranking method to solve the joint decomposition model to obtain a plurality of parameter values; obtaining the preference degrees of the user identification to the identification of each product according to the parameter values; and selecting the recommendation identifications from the identifications of the products according to the preference degrees, and recommending the information of the products corresponding to the recommendation identifications to terminals whether the corresponding user identifications are located. Therefore, the method and system for personalized recommendation based on the label information can solve the limitation of the data sparsity in the label information to improve the precision of the personalized ranking so as to improve the accuracy of the recommendation.

The invention brings forward an identification method for an information carrier comprising multi-type identifications. The information carrier can be a product label. By use of auxiliary positioning identification and a corresponding positioning identification detection identification algorithm, auxiliary positioning identifications on the information carrier are automatically identified, such that automatic positioning of multi-type data is realized. By use of an image identification algorithm, such information as characters, bar codes, display contents of display screens, two-dimensional codes, images and the like can be simultaneously identified, and the electronic display screens can display such contents as the characters, the bar codes, the two-dimensional codes, the images and the like, such that the information carrier has abundant information, and the identification results are accurate and reliable. Compared to bar code identification, two-dimensional code identification and image identification, character identification is smaller in characters and high in character segmentation and character identification difficulty. In order to ensure the accuracy of the character identification, the identification results are verified for the character identification by use of already known character lengths.

The invention discloses a product production control system which comprises a server. The server is connected with an order entry device for inputting product type information and quantity information, a label generator for generating corresponding product labels according to the product type information and quantity information, a product label scanner for scanning label information and reading the product process of the server according to the label information, a plurality of process flow displayers arranged at each process and used for displaying the corresponding process production, a plurality of process quality detection devices arranged at each process and used for detecting the quality of each process product, a warehousing scanner used for reading quality statistics information of each process of the server after all processes are finished so as to judge whether the finished products are qualified to be boxed, and a camera device for recording the appearance of the finished products and integrity of accessories before boxing. The steps of order placing, production processes in a workshop and cargo shooting and recording before boxing and the like are combined through the server, and thus informationized production management of the products is realized.

The invention relates to a system integrated to product labels in order to allow checking authenticity of products. The system of the present application comprises a near field communication (NFC) chip and a near field communication (NFC) chip antenna. The system is basically an integrated solution allowing checking whether a product with a label or barcode is original or not, by means of assigning parameters formed by novel encryption algorithms running on servers to NFC or RFID chips and then providing their online inquiry for preventing imitation of labels and barcodes.

This invention discloses one safety anti-false method and its system, which comprises steps of registering, label producing; anti-false inquiring process and product calling back; the system comprises anti-false label module, index terminal module, inquire identification module and identification center, wherein, the anti-false identification module is to produce anti-false product and the inquire terminal module is to read product label and consumer receiver terminal information; the inquire identification module is to process service require; the identification center is to store product credit information to supply inquire information.

An inventory management system and method which wirelessly interrogate product labels to determine inventory. The system includes an electronic price label system including electronic displays which display price information and interrogators which wirelessly obtain identification information from product labels, and a computer which receives first identification information from first product labels affixed to first instances of a product adjacent one of the electronic displays and one of the interrogators, determines a first amount of the product from the first identification information, receives second identification information from second product labels affixed to second instances of the product which have been sold, determines a second amount of the product from the second identification information, receives third identification information from third product labels affixed to third instances of the product adjacent the electronic price label, and determines a third amount of the product from the third identification information representing a current inventory amount.

A method of labeling a container is provided that includes providing a label having a release liner sheet secured to a label stock sheet; defining a cut line through the release liner sheet but not through the label stock sheet to separate the release liner sheet into a removable portion and a remaining portion; defining a weakened line through the label stock sheet to separate the label stock sheet into a remaining portion and a removable portion; removing the removable portion of the release liner sheet from the label stock sheet so that the remaining portion of the release liner sheet remains secured to the removable portion of the label stock sheet and so that adhesive on the remaining portion of the label stock sheet is exposed; and placing the label on the container so that the exposed adhesive secures the remaining portion of the label stock sheet to the container and so that the remaining portion of the release liner sheet prevents adhesion of the removable portion of the label stock sheet to the container.