System and methods for estimating storage capacity and identifying actions based on sound detection

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10656266
APP PUB NO 20180074194A1
SERIAL NO

15698055

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Described in detail herein are methods and systems for estimating storage capacity of a storage unit disposed in a facility based on echoes detected by microphones. The microphones can detect sounds generated in the warehouse and reflected off the storage unit structures. The microphones detect the intensity of the sounds. The microphones can encode the sounds and the intensity of the sounds in time-varying electrical signals and transmit the time-varying electrical signals to a computing system. The computing system can decode the sounds and the intensity of the sounds from the time-varying electrical signals and estimate storage capacity of a storage unit from which the sounds reflected off of based on the intensity of the sounds.

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  • WALMART APOLLO, LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Jones, Matthew Allen Bentonville, US 104 341
Jones, Nicholaus Adam Fayetteville, US 126 527
Taylor, Robert James Rogers, US 111 778
Vasgaard, Aaron James Fayetteville, US 43 106

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