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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2008
John D. Landers, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
David J. Steiner, Raleigh, NC (US);
Paul M. Wilson, Cary, NC (US);
Kimberly A. Wood, Raleigh, NC (US);
John D. Landers, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
David J. Steiner, Raleigh, NC (US);
Paul M. Wilson, Cary, NC (US);
Kimberly A. Wood, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Graphical retail item identification including receiving, from a digital camera, an image of a retail item to be identified; decoding, by an image decoding module, the image into one or more image processing tasks; assigning, by a task assignment engine, the one or more image processing tasks to one or more of the POS terminals, the one or more POS terminals characterized as image processing terminals; executing the image processing tasks by the image processing terminals, including reporting results of the image processing tasks to an item identification engine; and identifying, by the item identification engine upon completion of the image processing tasks by the image processing terminals, the retail item.