Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Keita Yamazaki

Masaaki Yasunaga

Yuishi Takeno

Hiroyuki Ishikawa

Norimasa Ariga

Takuya Kamitani

Thandar Mya

A control device includes a behavior recognition unit, a determination unit, a subsequent behavior annunciation unit, a correct behavior annunciation unit, and a warning unit. The behavior recognition unit recognizes a behavior executed by a shopper. The determination unit determines a subsequent behavior as the behavior for the shopper to subsequently perform based on the behavior recognized by the behavior recognition unit. The subsequent behavior annunciation unit makes an annunciation member disposed so as to correspond to a behavior area where the subsequent behavior is to be executed operate in a first annunciation configuration based on the subsequent behavior determined by the determination unit. The correct behavior annunciation unit makes the annunciation member operate in a second annunciation configuration when the behavior recognition unit recognizes that the shopper executes the subsequent behavior. The warning unit which makes the annunciation member disposed so as to correspond to the behavior area where a different behavior from the subsequent behavior is executed operate in a warning configuration when the behavior recognition unit recognizes that the shopper executes the different behavior.

Control device, behavior guide system, and method for controlling same

According to one embodiment, an information processing device for a gesture-based ordering taking system or the like includes a processor. The processor is configured to detect a person making a particular gesture in image data from a camera, identify each person making the particular gesture in the image data as a first type person, then identify each first type person meeting a candidate condition in the image data as a candidate. The processor then designates a candidate as a subject according to a subject selection condition, and then detects gestured-based input from the subject in additional image data from the camera after the subject has been designated.

Information processing device and information processing program

A wireless tag that is not guaranteed to be located within a predetermined area is prevented from being read as a valid wireless tag. A communication device includes: an antenna; a reference tag; a reception unit; and a determination unit. The reception unit uses the antenna to sequentially receive signals wirelessly transmitted from a reference tag whose relative position to the antenna is known and a reading target tag different from the reference tag. The determination unit determines that the signal transmitted from the reading target tag and received by the reception unit is invalid based on a phase of the signal transmitted from the reference tag and received by the reception unit.

Communication device

A monitoring device for monitoring a customer operating a checkout terminal in a store, includes a network interface configured to communicate with the checkout terminal configured to perform checkout processing and an attendant terminal, a camera interface through which an image captured by a camera is received, the camera being installed so as to image the customer operating the checkout terminal, and a processor configured to, upon receipt of a first command indicating that the checkout processing has been started from the checkout terminal, begin monitoring of the image captured by the camera, upon detection of presence of the customer in the image, acquire feature information representing features of the customer from the image, and upon detection of absence of the customer in the image after the feature information is acquired, control the network interface to output to the attendant terminal an alert signal with the acquired feature information.

Monitoring device and monitoring method

According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes an input interface, a memory, and a processor. The input interface obtains a captured image obtained by imaging an imaging area including the shelf on which the article is arranged. The memory stores an article list showing the article arranged on the shelf. The processor detects the article for which the person in charge has done the checking work from the captured image obtained by the input interface. The processor outputs information indicating the article for which the person in charge has not done the checking work on the basis of the article list and a checked-article list showing the article for which the person in charge has done the checking work.

Image processing apparatus that manages checking work performed on articles and image processing method thereof

A flying drone for shelf label checking includes a flying mechanism, a camera, and a camera interface configured to transmit and receive data to and from the camera. A flight control interface is configured to transmit and receive data to and from the flying mechanism. A processor is configured to acquire a first image of an object from a first distance with the camera, then extract an object region for the object from the first image. The processor then sets a flight path based on the object region and controls the flying mechanism to fly the camera along the flight path to a second distance that is closer to the object than the first distance. A second image of the object is then acquired from the second distance with the camera.

Photographing device and method

A photographing apparatus includes a carriage, a light source, and a camera. The carriage moves in a travel direction. The light source is mounted on the carriage. The camera is attached to the carriage and configured to perform photography. A normal direction is defined orthogonal to the travel direction and a vertical axis. The camera faces a camera direction that is rotated about the vertical axis with respect to the normal direction.

Photographing apparatus with mobile carriage and photographing method therefor

According to at least one embodiment, a photographing device includes a camera interface and a processor. The camera interface supplies a control signal to a camera and acquires a photographed image photographed by the camera. The processor causes the camera to photograph a wide area image in a detection region of target objects set as a photographing range, detects the target objects present in the wide area image photographed by the camera, determines a photographing order of the target objects detected from the wide area image, and causes the camera to photograph a narrow area image of one target object selected according to the photographing order.

Photographing device and photographing method

An information processing apparatus includes a camera interface configured to connect to a camera, and a processor configured to control the camera via the camera interface to capture an image of a plurality of articles and a shelf displaying the articles, determine a plurality of article IDs for the articles shown in the captured image using a feature value of each of the articles, and based on shelf allocation plan information that associates a shelf ID of each of a plurality of shelves with a plurality of article IDs for articles displayed on the shelf, determine a shelf ID of the shelf shown in the captured image. The determined shelf ID is associated with one or more of the determined article IDs.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system

A control device controls electronic labels in an electronic label system. The control device includes a first interface that acquires a captured image in which a commodity is included. A second interface transmits display information to an electronic label. A processor identifies, based on a captured image received via the first interface, the commodity and the position of the commodity. The processor determines a display position on an electronic label for displaying commodity information relating to the commodity based on the position of the commodity, and generates display information including the display position and a display content based on the identified commodity and the display position. The processor transmits the generated display information to the electronic label via the second interface.

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Mishima Shizuoka, Japan

Keita Yamazaki