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US 10,706,658 B2Granted
Vending machine recognition apparatus, vending machine recognition method, and recording medium
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorsKota Iwamoto, Kyota Higa, Ruihan Bao, Takami Sato
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Abstract
A vending machine recognition apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a vending machine; and a recognition unit configured to recognize merchandise from the captured image and recognize a price of the merchandise from a peripheral image region of an image region of the recognized merchandise.
Claims12
A merchandise shelf recognition apparatus comprising:
- a memory storing instructions;
- and
- a processor configured to execute instructions to:
- receive a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a merchandise shelf;
- recognize merchandise from the captured image;
- recognize a price of the merchandise from a peripheral image region of the recognized merchandise;
- recognize different prices for a plurality of same pieces of merchandise;
- and
- repeat recognizing the price of the merchandise while changing a recognition parameter until the plurality of same pieces of merchandise have the same price.
6 more elements
A merchandise shelf recognition method comprising:
- receiving a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a merchandise shelf;
- recognizing merchandise from the captured image;
- recognizing a price of the merchandise from a peripheral image region of the recognized merchandise;
- and
- recognizing different prices for a plurality of same pieces of merchandise;
- and
- repeat recognizing the price of the merchandise while changing a recognition parameter until the plurality of same pieces of merchandise have the same price.
4 more elements
A computer-readable non-transitory recording medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute:
- processing for receiving a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a merchandise shelf;
- processing for recognizing merchandise from the captured image and recognizing a price of the merchandise from a peripheral image region the recognized merchandise;
- processing for recognizing different prices for a plurality of same pieces of merchandise;
- and
- processing for repeating recognizing the price of the merchandise while changing a recognition parameter until the plurality of same pieces of merchandise have the same price.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.