US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY on Jan. 27 for "System and method for detecting, reading and matching in a retail scene" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,780, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"System and method for detecting, reading and matching in a retail scene" was invented by Marios Savvides (Pittsburgh), Fangyi Chen (Pittsburgh), Han Zhang (Pittsburgh) and ChenChen Zhu (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are designs for two baselines to detect products in a retail setting. A novel detector, referred to herein as RetailDet, detects quadrilateral products. To match products using visual texts on 2D space, text features are encoded with spatial positional encoding and the Hungarian Algorithm that calculates optimal ...