US Patent Issued to Maplebear on April 14 for "Image-based user pose detection for user action prediction" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,676, issued on April 14, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Image-based user pose detection for user action prediction" was invented by Ganglu Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may access a first set of images captured by cameras coupled to a shopping cart, wherein each image depicts a user associated with the shopping cart. A system may apply a pose detection model to each of the images to predict a user's pose. A system may apply an action prediction model to the set of images and the predicted poses to predict whether the user performed an action to change the contents of a storage area of the sho...