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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2018
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Kenya Hiramatsu, Kita Tokyo, JP;
Akiko Susaki, Ota Tokyo, JP;
Tsuyoshi Gotanda, Ota Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Nakajima, Ota Tokyo, JP;
TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A portable computing device is installed in or mountable to a shopping cart and linked for communication with a hand-held commodity registration apparatus. The portable computing device includes a wireless interface, a camera configured to capture an image, and a processor configured to establish a communication link with the hand-held commodity registration apparatus through the wireless interface, to perform object recognition on objects in the image captured by the camera, and to confirm that the objects recognized in the image correspond to commodities identified in registered commodity data received from the hand-held commodity registration apparatus through the wireless interface.