Smart Glasses Retail Checkout via Computer Vision

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Solution Overview

Problem

Physical retail stores face challenges in providing a streamlined and personalized shopping experience due to the difficulty and cost of implementing new technology, especially in retrofitting existing stores, and existing solutions are not suitable for larger stores or efficient in offering automated checkout.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that enables users to view and purchase products using smart glasses or visual augmentation technology, leveraging computer vision and machine learning to recognize products, and utilizing a blockchain for secure transactions, allowing for easy retrofitting of existing stores and efficient checkout processes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If automated checkout technology is implemented in physical retail stores, then checkout efficiency is improved, but implementation difficulty and cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecheckout efficiencyVSAvoidimplementation difficulty

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables customers to perform automated checkout themselves by scanning products with their smartphones and completing purchases through a mobile interface, eliminating the need for complex automated checkout infrastructure at store level

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces physical automated checkout machinery with a software-based solution running on customers' existing smartphones, substituting mechanical/physical infrastructure with digital technology that leverages already-deployed devices

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Adaptability or versatility

If new technology is added to existing physical stores, then shopping experience is personalized, but retrofitting cost and difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoidretrofitting ease

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses a universally accessible smartphone application that works across all major mobile platforms (iOS and Android), allowing the personalization technology to be deployed without store-specific hardware modifications

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a mobile application as an intermediary between the customer and the retail system, allowing personalization features to be delivered through the customer's existing device rather than requiring direct integration into store infrastructure

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20250014090A1System and method for personalized retail with smart glasses

Publication Date: 2025.01.09 VEROFAX LTD

AI summary

A system and method which enables a buyer to view information about a product and/or to purchase the product through smart glasses or other visual augmentation technology, for an augmented and/or automated retail experience. The user views at least a portion of the container with a camera. Upon scanning that portion of the container, for example to scan a QR code, a web page or other user interface appears on a communication device that is in communication with the camera, such as the previously described smartphone or other mobile communication device, and/or smart glasses or other visual augmentation technology. If the user wishes to purchase the product, such a purchase may be performed through the previously described smartphone or other mobile communication device, and/or smart glasses or other visual augmentation technology.