# US 10,318,945 B2 · POS-terminal device

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- Number: US 10,318,945 B2
- Document ID: US10318945B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/129,758
- Filed: 2015-03-25
- Published: 2017-06-22
- Granted: 2019-06-11
- Earliest claimed: 2014-03-28
- Assignees: NEC Corporation
- Applicants: NEC Corporation
- Inventors: Kazuki Tsuchimochi; Kota Iwamoto; Tetsuo Inoshita; Soma Shiraishi; Hiroshi Yamada; Jun Kobayashi; Eiji Muramatsu; Michio Nagai; Hideo Yokoi
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10318945B2

## CPC

- G06Q 20/208: {Input by product or record sensing, e.g. weighing or scanner processing}
- G06V 10/145: Illumination specially adapted for pattern recognition, e.g. using gratings
- G06V 40/67: {by interactive indications to the user}
- G07G 1/0045: {with a code reader for reading of an identifying code of the article to be registered, e.g. barcode reader or radio-frequency identity [RFID] reader}
- G07G 1/01: Details for indicating
- G06Q 20/20: Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING
- G07G: REGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS

## Abstract

A POS-terminal device includes: a housing that is provided with a product-reading device including an imaging unit configured to capture a product to generate an image; a product-input unit configured to input the product, the product-input unit including a product-reading frame configured to define an outer edge of an imaging area of the imaging unit; and a reflector configured to reflect a subject image of the product passed over the imaging area, outside the housing.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A POS-terminal device comprising:
a housing that is provided with a product-reading device including an imaging unit configured to capture a product to generate an image;
a product-input unit configured to input the product, the product-input unit including a product-reading frame configured to define an outer edge of an imaging area of the imaging unit on one surface of the housing, which is opposed to the imaging unit provided in the housing; and
a reflector having transmissivity, which is attached to the housing opposed to the imaging unit and can reflect a subject image of the product passed over the imaging area of the imaging unit,
wherein the reflector is a half mirror and is located at a position to reflect a region in which whether or not the product is included in the imaging area within a range of the product-reading frame can be visually confirmed, and
wherein a transmissive part provided on one surface of the housing in a region opposed to the imaging unit transmits natural light which is provided from at least one part of an outer periphery or a central part of the half mirror.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The POS-terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the product-input unit is made of a light-transmissive material provided in the product-input unit, and the reflector is held by either an upper end part or a lower end part of the housing, and is provided at a position where the subject image of the product passed over the imaging area can be reflected.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The POS-terminal device according to claim 2, wherein a reflecting surface of the reflector provided to be held by the upper end part of the housing above the product-input unit is configured to tilt to the product.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The POS-terminal device according to claim 3, wherein the POS-terminal device includes a monitor unit configured to display information regarding the captured product, the monitor unit includes a displaying-operating unit for a store clerk by which the store clerk can confirm the information regarding the captured product and a displaying unit for a customer configured to display information of a purchased product, and the reflector configured to be provided at a position adjacent to the displaying-operating unit for the store clerk.

### Claim 5 (depends on 2)

The POS-terminal device according to claim 2, wherein one side of the reflector is held by the lower end part of the housing below the product-input unit, and the other side of the reflecting object, which is not held by the lower end part of the housing below the product-input unit, extends toward the outside of the product-input unit.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The POS-terminal device according to claim 5, wherein a reflecting surface of the reflector is oriented to a side of the product.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The POS-terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the transmissive part transmitting natural light is glass.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The POS-terminal device according to claim 1, wherein a displaying-operating unit for a store clerk is provided to a side of the reflector having transmissivity.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The POS-terminal device according to claim 1, wherein a marking of the product-reading frame is formed on one surface of the product-input unit.