Method for the computer-aided recognition of a transport container being empty, control device and checkout terminal
AssigneeWincor Nixdorf International GmbH
InventorsMartin Sommer, Alexander Knobloch, Sebastian Engelnkemper
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Abstract
A method for the computer-aided recognition of a transport container being empty can comprise: determining one or more than one segment of image data of the transport container using depth information assigned to the image data; assigning the image data to one from a plurality of classes, of which a first class represents the transport container being empty, and a second class represents the transport container being non-empty, wherein the one or more than one segment is not taken into account in the assigning; outputting a signal which represents the filtered image data being assigned to the second class.
Claims12
A method for the computer-aided recognition of a transport container being empty comprising:
- determining one or more segments of an image data of the transport container using depth information that is assigned to the image data but is provided by a 3D camera separately from the image data itself and wherein the determined one or more segments do not belong to the transport container but rather to a background of the transport container;
- filtering out and discarding the one or more segments from the image data determined during said determining before the image data is processed further whereby leaner processing algorithms during further processing;
- assigning, after said filtering, the image data to one of a plurality of classes of which a first class represents the transport container being empty and a second class represents the transport container being non-empty, wherein the one or more segments is not taken into account during said assigning;
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- outputting a signal which represents the image data being assigned to the second class.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.