Retail sales opportunity loss cause analysis based on image analysis of shelf display

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10387897-B2
Application number	US-201515515741-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 23, 2015
Priority date	Nov 5, 2014
Publication date	Aug 20, 2019
Grant date	Aug 20, 2019

Abstract

A commodity monitoring device includes a visitor number acquirer that acquires the number of visitors, a purchasing customer number acquirer that acquires the number of purchasing customers who purchase a commodity, a statistical information generator that generates statistical information, based on the number of visitors and the number of purchasing customers, a commodity detector that detects commodity, based on a captured image of a display area, a sales opportunity loss analyzer that analyzes a cause of the sales opportunity loss from a commodity detection result, and a display screen generator that generates a monitoring screen in which a display image representing the cause of the sales opportunity loss is superimposed on the image of the display area.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A commodity monitoring device which includes a processor, wherein the processor
acquires a number of customers who visit a store, based at least on one or more images captured by at least one camera installed in the store;
acquires a number of customers who purchase a commodity, from a sales information management device that manages sales information of the store;
generates statistical information, based on a number of visitors and the number of purchasing customers;
detects occurrence of a sales opportunity loss, based on the statistical information;
detects a display amount of commodities when the occurrence of a sales opportunity loss is detected, based on a captured image of a display area in the store, the display amount of commodities determined by detecting a presence or absence of commodities in a front row and a rear row in the captured image of the display area, wherein rows in a front horizontal direction of a display shelf are set as horizontal rows, rows in a front vertical direction of the display shelf are set as vertical rows, a row on a front side of the display shelf, of the horizontal rows is set, as the front row, and a row on a rear side of the display shelf is set as the rear row;
and analyzes a cause of the sales opportunity loss as a display amount shortage when the detected display amount of a commodity is less than or equal to an average value of a commodity occupancy rate; and
generates and displays, a monitoring screen that communicates with the commodity monitoring device, in which a display image representing the cause of the sales opportunity loss is superimposed on the image of the display area, including at least one indicator representing a degree of severity of the sales opportunity loss.

2. The commodity monitoring device of claim 1 ,
wherein the displayed commodities are detected, from images of an interior of a state monitoring area which is set as an area including displayed commodities, in captured images of the display area.

3. The commodity monitoring device of claim 1 ,
wherein the displayed commodities are detected by detecting a commodity that matches a pre-stored commodity image, of the captured images, and when there is a commodity that matches the commodity image, counts the number of types of commodities as a single type.

4. The commodity monitoring device of claim 1 , wherein
the displayed commodities are detected based on an occupancy rate of a commodity that matches the pre-stored commodity image, of the captured image.

5. The commodity monitoring device of claim 1 ,
wherein the commodity occupancy rate is based upon an area which is set as a front row of the display shelf, in the captured image.

6. The commodity monitoring device of claim 1 ,
wherein the detected sales opportunity loss is based on an analysis of the cause of the sales opportunity loss as a face-up shortage when a face-up shortage rate is a predetermined value or more than the predetermined value, the face-up shortage rate being obtained from the number of vertical rows in which commodities are in the rear rows and the number of vertical rows in which there is no commodity in front rows and commodities are in rear rows, based on the detection result.

7. The commodity monitoring device of claim 1 ,
wherein the detected sales opportunity loss, is detected is based upon an analysis of the cause of the sales opportunity loss as a type number shortage, when the number of types of displayed commodities is the predetermined number or less than the predetermined number, based on the detection result.

8. The commodity monitoring device of claim 1 ,
wherein the detected sales opportunity loss is based upon an analysis of the cause of the sales opportunity loss as a face-up shortage, when the display amount of commodities displayed in the front row of the display shelf is the predetermined amount or less than the predetermined amount, based on the detection result.

9. The commodity monitoring device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor:
further generates the monitoring screen in which mark images that are color-coded for each cause of the sales opportunity loss are superimposed on the image of the display area and displayed in a vicinity of an edge of each image included in the display area.

10. The commodity monitoring device of claim 1 ,
wherein the processor further generates a monitoring screen in which a display image representing the cause of the sales opportunity loss is superimposed on the image of a display area such that a degree is able to be determined from mild to severe.

11. The commodity monitoring device of claim 1 , wherein the processor further displays statistical information along a time axis, and
generates a monitoring screen in which a display image representing the cause of the sales opportunity loss in the corresponding time is superimposed on the image of the display area corresponding to the selected time on the time axis.

12. A commodity monitoring system which monitors a sales opportunity loss based on a number of visitors to a store, a number of purchasing customers in the store, and captured images of a display area of a commodity, the system comprising:
a camera that captures an image of the display area; and an
information processing device,
wherein the information processing device includes a processor, wherein the processor
acquires the number of customers who visit a store based upon the captured image;
acquires the number of customers who purchase a commodity, from a sales information management device that manages sales information of the store;
generates statistical information based on the number of visitors and the number of purchasing customers;
detects occurrence of a sales opportunity loss based on the statistical information; when
the occurrence of a sales opportunity loss is detected, detects displayed commodities based on the captured image of the display area in the store, the displayed amount of commodities determined by detecting a presence or absence of commodities in a front row and a rear row in the captured image of the display area, wherein rows in a front horizontal direction of a display shelf are set as horizontal rows, rows in a front vertical direction of the display shelf are set as vertical rows, a row on a front side of the display shelf, of the horizontal rows is set, as the front row, and a row on a rear side of the display shelf is set as the rear row;
analyzes a cause of the sales opportunity loss as a display amount shortage when the detected displayed amount of a commodity is less than or equal to an average value of a commodity occupancy rate;
generates and displays a monitoring screen that communicates with a commodity monitoring device in which a display image representing the cause of the sales opportunity loss is superimposed on the image of the display area, including at least one indicator representing a degree of severity of the sales opportunity loss.

13. A commodity monitoring method comprising:
causing an information processing device, which includes a processor, to
monitor a sales opportunity loss based on a number of visitors to a store, based at least on one or more images captured by at least one camera installed in the store, a number of purchasing customers in the store, and captured images of a display area of a commodity,
acquire the number of visitors to a store,
acquire the number of purchasing customers who purchase a commodity, from a sales information management device that manages sales information of the store;
generate statistical information based on the number of visitors and

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sakata Yoshifumi
• Iwai Kazuhiko
• Takemoto Yuichiro

Classifications

• G06F18/22

  Matching criteria, e.g. proximity measures · CPC title

• H04N5/44504

  Circuit details of the additional information generator, e.g. details of the character or graphics signal generator, overlay mixing circuits · CPC title

• G06Q10/087

  Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders · CPC title

• H04N7/181

  for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources · CPC title

• G06Q20/20

  Point-of-sale [POS] network systems · CPC title