Scanning device and method therefor
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHidehiro Naito
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Abstract
An aspect is to provide a scanning device, a system, and a method in which an available communication band is not used up even if a plurality of scanning devices are connected to one unit of dedicated hardware. According to one embodiment, a scanning device includes: a camera configured to pick up an image; a reduction unit configured to reduce a data volume of an image corresponding to a merchandise to be outputted to an image recognition device from the image picked up by the camera; and an output unit configured to output the image with the reduced data volume to the image recognition device.
Claims20
A scanning device, comprising:
- a camera configured to pick up an image;
- a reduction component configured to reduce a data volume of an image corresponding to a merchandise to be outputted to an image recognition device from the image picked up by the camera,
- wherein the reduction component comprises a selection component configured to select the image corresponding to the merchandise to be outputted to the image recognition device from the image picked up by the camera, or
- wherein the reduction component comprises a compression component configured to compress the image corresponding to the merchandise to be outputted to the image recognition device from the image picked up by the camera, resulting in a reduced data volume of the image;
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- an output component configured to output the image with the reduced data volume to the image recognition device.
A method for a scanning device comprising a camera for picking up an image, the method comprising:
- reducing a data volume of an image to be outputted to an image recognition device from the image picked up by the camera,
- wherein the reducing the data volume of the image comprises selecting the image corresponding to a merchandise to be outputted to the image recognition device from the image picked up by the camera, or
- wherein the reducing the data volume of the image comprises compressing the image corresponding to the merchandise to be outputted to the image recognition device from the image picked up by the camera, resulting in a reduced data volume of the image;
- and
- outputting the image with the reduced data volume to the image recognition device.
A settlement system, comprising:
- a POS terminal;
- and
- scanning device, comprising:
- a camera configured to pick up an image;
- a reduction component configured to reduce a data volume of an image corresponding to a merchandise to be outputted to an image recognition device from the image picked up by the camera,
- wherein the reduction component comprises a selection component configured to select the image corresponding to the merchandise to be outputted to the image recognition device from the image picked up by the camera, or
- wherein the reduction component comprises a compression component configured to compress the image corresponding to the merchandise to be outputted to the image recognition device from the image picked up by the camera, resulting in a reduced data volume of the image;
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- an output component configured to output the image with the reduced data volume to the image recognition device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.