System and Method of Detecting a Potential Cashier Fraud

Abstract

The present group of inventions relates to the area of computer vision, in particular to the processing systems and methods for video data obtained from surveillance cameras located in the cashier's barcode scanning area, as well as to the area of automatic detection of possible cashier fraud. A fraud-detecting computer-based system includes a barcode scanner; image capture device configured to receive video data from the cashier barcode scanning area; memory configured to store the data; a data processing module configured to receive and to process the video data signals from an image capture device and to receive and process the signals from the barcode scanner. During the video data processing, a data processing module detects the timing of placing an item against the barcode scanner and automatically compares it with the timing of receiving a signal from the barcode scanner. If no correlation is found between these events, then the data processing module detects a fraud by the cashier. The accuracy of detecting the cashier fraud is improved.

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