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Patent No.:

US 11983725 B1

Date of Patent:

May. 14, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 20, 2020

retrieval method, and program

Applicant:

Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Rui Ishiyama, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Sughrue Mion, PLLC

Primary Examiner:

Oneal R Mistry

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

G06V 20/80 (2022.01); G06Q 30/018 (2023.01); G06Q 30/02 (2023.01); G06V 10/22 (2022.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

G06Q 30/0185 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0278 (2013.01); G06V 10/225 (2022.01); G06V 20/80 (2022.01);

Abstract

The present invention is a collation/retrieval system collating a product manufactured by or delivered from a producer or a distributor with a product to be collated comprising: a storage unit that stores an image feature of a predetermined collation area of the product determined in advance at a position relative to a reference section common in every product; a to-be-collated product feature extraction unit that receives an image of the product to be collated and detecting the reference section of the product from the received image to extract an image feature of the collation area determined by reference to the reference section; and a collation unit that collates the stored image feature with the image feature of the collation area of the product to be collated.

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