Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120294479 | IMAGE IDENTIFICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image identification apparatus comprises an image pickup unit, an illumination unit, an illumination control unit and an identification unit. The image pickup unit configured to pickup an image of an identified object. The illumination unit configured to irradiate light towards the image pickup area of the image pickup unit. The illumination control unit configured to change the irradiation condition of the illumination unit in accordance with the image pickup timing of the image pickup unit. The identification unit configured to identify the identified object according to the image picked-up by the image pickup unit. | 11-22-2012 |
20130006787 | SELF-CHECKOUT TERMINAL - An article code reading device optically reads a code symbol on an article, and decodes and outputs an article code. An image pickup image part picks up an image of an area of an article, the code symbol of which is read by the article code reading device, and outputs pickup image data. An article registration is executed by searching an article data file for a corresponding price for the article, and an extraction process extracts an exterior characteristic of an article from the pickup image data outputted by the pickup image part. A consistency is determined between a first data obtained based on the extraction process and a second data obtained based on an output from the article code reading device, and an alarm is generated when it there is not a consistency between the first data and the second data. | 01-03-2013 |
20130054344 | CODE READING APPARATUS, SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SALES DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A code reading apparatus comprises a photographing section configured to image an image, a commodity information reading section configured to read commodity information from a code symbol, an image detection section configured to detect an image suitable for the pattern image from the photographs photographed by the photographing section through pattern recognition by referring to a storage section in which the service information relevant to the service to be provided to a customer is stored in association with a pattern image for pattern recognition on a service display displaying the service, a service information reading section configured to read the service information corresponding to the pattern image suitable for the image detected by the image detection section from the storage section and an information output section configured to output the commodity information read by the commodity information reading section and the service information read by the service information reading section. | 02-28-2013 |
20130101168 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an acquirement unit and a reporting unit. The acquirement unit is configured to acquire an image captured by a image capturing section. In a situation that a similarity representing a degree with which the image of an object captured by the image capturing section is similar to the reference image of each commodity meets a condition of determining a captured commodity as one commodity in the commodities corresponding to the reference image, the reporting unit is configured to report a situation that the captured commodity is determined as the commodity meeting the condition and corresponding to the reference image. | 04-25-2013 |
20130182122 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an acquirement unit configured to acquire a color image captured by an image capturing unit, an image conversion unit configured to convert the acquired color image into a monochrome image, a first recognition unit configured to specify an commodity included in the image captured by the image capturing unit based on the monochrome image, a second recognition unit configured to specify the commodity included in the image captured by the image capturing unit based on the acquired color image if the commodity cannot be specified by the first recognition unit and an output unit configured to output information showing the commodity specified by the first recognition unit or the second recognition unit. | 07-18-2013 |
20130182899 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, STORE SYSTEM AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus comprises a similarity calculation unit calculates a similarity showing the degree of similarity between the image of an object captured and the reference image of each registered commodity, which is registered together with a superior category showing information relevant with each registered commodity registered in a dictionary, a determination unit compares the degree of similarity between the reference image and each image acquired by an acquisition unit and determines whether or not the degree of similarity of the superior category acquired by adding the similarities of a plurality of varieties belonging to the same superior category meets a specified condition and a reporting unit reports the information relevant with a commodity corresponding to the plurality of varieties meeting the specified condition as a candidate of a captured commodity in the situation that the determination unit determines that the specified condition is met. | 07-18-2013 |
20130193210 | COMMODITY RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND COMMODITY RECOGNITION METHOD - A commodity recognition apparatus comprises a function of recognizing a commodity in an image from the image captured by an image capturing unit, and a function of recognizing a data code attached to the commodity in the image from the image, and can switch these functions by a switching unit. The commodity recognition apparatus outputs the information of the commodity recognized by commodity recognition processing or the information of the data code recognized by data code recognition processing to a POS terminal. | 08-01-2013 |
20130208122 | COMMODITY READING APPARATUS AND COMMODITY READING METHOD - A commodity reading apparatus comprises a display section, an image capturing unit configured to photograph a commodity in a photographing area to output an image of the photographing area, a recognition unit configured to recognize the commodity included in the image outputted by the image capturing unit, an area display unit configured to display an image display area smaller in size than the photographing area photographed by the image capturing unit on the screen of the display section, and an image display unit configured to display the image photographed by the image capturing unit on the screen in a manner that the center of the image is located at the center of the image display area. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208946 | INFORMATION DETECTION APPARATUS AND INFORMATION DETECTION METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information detection apparatus includes an image input unit, a symbol detection unit, a service information detection unit and an output unit. The image input unit inputs an image captured by an image capturing apparatus. The symbol detection unit configured to detect a first symbol and a second symbol, which are predetermined, according to the image input by the image input unit. The service information detection unit configured to detect a service information existing at a relative position predetermined for the first symbol and the second symbol in the image when the first symbol and the second symbol are detected by the symbol detection unit according to the image input by the image input unit. The output unit configured to output the service information detected by the service information detection unit. | 08-15-2013 |
20130231992 | COMMODITY RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND COMMODITY RECOGNITION METHOD - An apparatus recognizes an object from an image picked-up by an image pickup unit. The apparatus recognizes whether the object recognized by the image recognition unit is a commodity or a coupon. The apparatus outputs, if a commodity recognized by the object recognition unit is the object to which a coupon recognized by the object recognition unit, the information relative to the commodity and the information relative to the coupon applied to the commodity. | 09-05-2013 |
20130322700 | COMMODITY RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND COMMODITY RECOGNITION METHOD - According to one embodiment, a commodity recognition apparatus includes a feature amount extraction module, a commodity recognition module and an output module. The feature amount extraction module extracts appearance feature amount of a commodity contained in an image photographed. The commodity recognition module compares data of the appearance feature amount extracted by the feature amount extraction module with the feature amount data of each part of the commodity, representing surface information of each part of the commodity subject to the recognition, that is previously stored in a recognition dictionary file, to recognize the commodity as a candidate of registration commodity contained in the image photographed. The output module outputs the recognition result of the commodity recognition module. | 12-05-2013 |
20140040186 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UPDATING DATA - An information processing system comprises a plurality of information processing apparatus and a dictionary server (server). Each of the scanners includes a local storage device, a determination module and a local update module. The server includes a master storage device, a master update module and a master transmitting module. The determination module determines the commodity category to which a commodity belongs by comparing the feature amount extracted from the image showing the appearance of the commodity with the feature amount described in a local dictionary data stored in the local storage device. The master update module updates a master dictionary data stored in the master storage device. The master transmitting module transmits the master dictionary data updated by the master update module to the scanners. The local update module updates the local dictionary data according to the master dictionary data transmitted by the transmitting module. | 02-06-2014 |
20140133704 | COMMODITY RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND COMMODITY RECOGNITION METHOD - A commodity recognition apparatus acquires an image including a commodity captured by an image capturing module and displays the acquired image on a display module. The commodity recognition apparatus displays a frame border surrounding the commodity on at least a portion of the image displayed on the display module. Moreover, the commodity recognition apparatus recognizes the commodity existing in the frame border according to a feature amount of the image in the area surrounded by the frame border. The commodity recognition apparatus outputs information of the commodity recognized. | 05-15-2014 |
20140219512 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus comprises a storage module configured to store feature amounts of standard commodities; an image capturing module configured to photograph a commodity to capture an image of the commodity; an extraction module configured to extract feature amount of the commodity from the image captured by the image capturing module; a calculation module configured to calculate a similarity degree by comparing the feature amount of a standard commodity which is determined as a recognition target in setting information in which a standard commodity serving as a recognition target is set within the standard commodities stored in the storage module with the feature amount of the commodity extracted by the extraction module; and a recognition module configured to recognize a standard commodity of which the similarity degree calculated by the calculation module is greater than a threshold value as a candidate of the commodity. | 08-07-2014 |
20140246487 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - In accordance with an embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a commodity; a specification unit configured to specify a commodity from the information contained in the image captured by the image capturing unit; a first detection unit configured to detect flag information from the captured image; and a second detection unit configured to detect service information from the captured image in a case where the flag information is detected by the first detection unit, wherein the first detection unit switches a flag information detection according to the commodity specified by the specification unit. | 09-04-2014 |