In the statement setting out the grounds of appeal, the appellant advanced arguments to the effect that the claimed invention was novel and inventive over D1. The fourth auxiliary request is a combination of the first and third auxiliary requests. " wherein the differences include horizontal or vertical deviations of locations of products from their desired locations, or the addition of unexpected products relative to the target planogram".
#Planogram images full
Claim 1 of the third auxiliary request differs from the second auxiliary request by the addition of the following feature at the end of claim 1, immediately before the full stop:
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The second auxiliary request differs from the main request by the addition of the following features at the end of claim 1, immediately before the full stop:Ĭomparing, by the planogram server (126), the extracted planogram (400) to a target planogram to identify differences between the centres of the locations of the at least one product and differences between their orientations in the compared planograms". "providing, by the planogram server, an extracted planogram, based on the product recognition data, indicating a current state visually representing actual locations of the at least one product within the inventory environment including gaps between actual locations or misalignments by mapping the actual locations of the at least one product within the inventory environment to corresponding locations within the extracted planogram". In the first auxiliary request, it reads (emphasis added): The first auxiliary request differs from the main request by the last feature in claim 1. Providing, by the planogram server, an extracted planogram, based on the product recognition data, indicating a current state visually representing actual locations of the at least one product within the inventory environment by mapping the actual locations of the at least one product within the inventory environment to corresponding locations within the extracted planogram. Performing, by the image analysis server, object recognition analysis on the image based on stored product images corresponding to the at least one candidate product to provide product recognition data and Identifying, by a planogram server (126) in communication with the image analysis server, at least one candidate product based on a configuration profile Receiving, by an image analysis server (124), an image of at least one product within an inventory environment (102) The main request, filed with the grounds of appeal, is identical to the auxiliary request before the Examining Division. The appellant requested that the decision of the Examining Division be set aside and that a patent be granted on the basis of a main request or one of four auxiliary requests, all filed with the statement of grounds of appeal. The Examining Division refused the application inter alia because the subject-matters of the independent claims of the main and auxiliary requests were not novel in view of the disclosure of D1 (US 2003/0154141).
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The appeal is against the decision of the Examining Division to refuse the European patent application 08828590.3, published as WO 2009/027839. Inventive step - presentation of information) Inventive step - planogram representing the current state of an inventory environment
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PLANOGRAM EXTRACTION BASED ON IMAGE PROCESSING Documentation of the appeal procedure can be found in the Registerīibliographic information is available in: