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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2015
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G07F 9/00 (2006.01); G07F 9/02 (2006.01); G06K 9/50 (2006.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07F 9/00 (2013.01); G06K 9/00624 (2013.01); G06K 9/00671 (2013.01); G06K 9/50 (2013.01); G06Q 20/201 (2013.01); G06Q 20/208 (2013.01); G07F 9/006 (2013.01); G07F 9/026 (2013.01); G06K 2209/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vending machine recognition apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a vending machine; and a recognition unit configured to recognize merchandise from the captured image and recognize a price of the merchandise from a peripheral image region of an image region of the recognized merchandise.