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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2016
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Dai Kinno, Tokyo, JP;
Kota Iwamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Matsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiro Itou, Tokyo, JP;
Shinya Yamasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Kanako Taga, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A checkout apparatus () includes an image data acquisition unit () that acquires data of an image; an image analysis unit () that recognizes a plurality of products in the image using a feature value of an exterior of each of the products registered in a feature value storage unit () and the data of the image; a reading necessity or non-necessity check unit () that extracts the product for which it is necessary to read a product code from among the recognized products, using an object-to-be-read storage unit () in which the product for which it is necessary to read the product code is registered in advance; and a reading unit () that reads the product code of the product extracted by the reading necessity or non-necessity check unit ().