Product code reader and product code reading method
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorJun Miyazaki
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Abstract
There is disclosed a product code reader including: an image importing section which imports an image imaged by an imaging section; a code symbol detecting section which detects a code symbol affixed to a product, from a product image imported by the image importing section; a code reading section which reads code information retained in the code symbol, from the code symbol detected by the code symbol detecting section; and a specific item detecting section which detects a predetermined article attached to the product as a specific item, from the product image imported by the image importing section.
Claims10
A product code reader comprising:
- an image importing section which imports an image imaged by an imaging section;
- a code symbol detecting section which detects a code symbol affixed to a product, from a product image imported by the image importing section;
- a code reading section which reads code information retained in the code symbol, from the code symbol detected by the code symbol detecting section;
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- a specific item detecting section which detects a predetermined article attached to the product as a specific item, from the product image imported by the image importing section.
A product code reading method, comprising:
- importing an image imaged by an imaging section;
- detecting a code symbol affixed to a product, from a product image imported in the importing of the image;
- reading code information retained in the code symbol, from the code symbol detected in the detecting of the code symbol;
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- detecting a predetermined article attached to the product as a specific item, from the product image imported in the importing of the image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.