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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:
Nov. 26, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2022
Applicant:
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hidehiro Naito, Mishima Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 10/10 (2022.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06V 10/147 (2022.01); H04N 3/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06V 10/19 (2022.01); G06K 7/10861 (2013.01); G06K 7/1092 (2013.01); G06V 10/147 (2022.01); H04N 3/1562 (2013.01);
Abstract
An aspect is to provide a scanning device, a system, and a method in which an available communication band is not used up even if a plurality of scanning devices are connected to one unit of dedicated hardware. According to one embodiment, a scanning device includes: a camera configured to pick up an image; a reduction unit configured to reduce a data volume of an image corresponding to a merchandise to be outputted to an image recognition device from the image picked up by the camera; and an output unit configured to output the image with the reduced data volume to the image recognition device.