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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2020
Viscovery Inc., Taipei, TW;
Shao-Hang Hsieh, Taipei, TW;
Po-Hsiang Chen, Taipei, TW;
Chia-Tsen Sun, Taipei, TW;
Yu-Tai Hung, Taipei, TW;
Peng-Cheng Chen, Taipei, TW;
VISCOVERY INC., Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A checkout apparatus for barcodeless merchandise, the checkout apparatus includes an image camera module and a control module coupled to the image camera module. The image camera module obtains a merchandise image includes the barcodeless merchandise. The control module receives the merchandise image and generates an output datum according to a result of a merchandise identification program after the control module performs the merchandise identification program on the merchandise image. At least one of the image camera module and the control module is coupled to the point of sales (POS) management system or is embedded in the POS management system, the output datum is readable for the POS management system.