Re:The patent on SIFT expired yesterday
by derivagral on Monday March 09, 2020 @09:05AM
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A more charitable reading is that the cameras are at ground level and stay aimed at ground level. I got the impression he's not talking about the main basket of the shopping cart, but the storage right above the wheels where you might forget pet food or bulk paper goods.
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Re:The patent on SIFT expired yesterday
by black_puppydog on Monday March 09, 2020 @11:49AM
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okay, that might be my non-native English comprehension. I parsed "bottom of the basket" as the flat underside of the main part of the cart. And you'd have to point the cameras upwards to see that.
If it's horizontal, that's a different topic.
Re:The patent on SIFT expired yesterday
by dr_zoidberg on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:17AM
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I had the same impression upon first read. And from a programmers perspective of what the ideal conditions for such a software would be, I also thought of a ground placed camera, pointing upwards in a way in which id could see the basket an find items that were "forgotten" in it.