Commodity recognition apparatus and commodity recognition method
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHitoshi Iizaka, Hidehiro Naito, Hiroshi Sugasawa
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Abstract
A commodity recognition apparatus comprises a function of recognizing a commodity in an image from the image captured by an image capturing unit, and a function of recognizing a data code attached to the commodity in the image from the image, and can switch these functions by a switching unit. The commodity recognition apparatus outputs the information of the commodity recognized by commodity recognition processing or the information of the data code recognized by data code recognition processing to a POS terminal.
Claims9
A commodity recognition apparatus, comprising:
- an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a commodity;
- a commodity recognition unit configured to recognize the commodity in the image;
- a data code recognition unit configured to recognize a data code attached to the commodity in the image from the image;
- a switching unit configured to set data code recognition processing executed by the data code recognition unit as a default processing, set commodity recognition processing executed by the commodity recognition unit as a non-default processing, and switch from a first state in which the default processing is valid to an second state in which the non-default processing is valid;
- a display controller configured to display, on a display unit, an image captured by the image capturing unit in response to determining that the non-default processing is switched to a valid status by the switching unit;
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- an output unit configured to output first information of the commodity recognized by the commodity recognition unit or second information of the data code recognized by the data code recognition unit.
A commodity recognition method, comprising:
- capturing a first image of a commodity;
- recognizing a commodity in the first image;
- recognizing a data code attached to the commodity in the first image;
- setting data code recognition processing as a default processing;
- setting commodity recognition processing as a non-default processing;
- switching from a first state in which the default processing is valid to a second state in which the non-default processing is valid;
- displaying, on a display unit, a second image captured by the image capturing unit in response to the non-default processing being switched to a valid status;
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- outputting first information of the recognized commodity or second information of the data code.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.