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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2008
Jim Ostrowski, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Mario Munich, Sierra Madre, CA (US);
John Wiseman, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Jim Ostrowski, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Mario Munich, Sierra Madre, CA (US);
John Wiseman, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Datalogic ADC, Inc., Eugene, OR (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for automatically checking out items located on a moving conveyor belt for the purpose of increasing the efficiency of a checkout process and revenue at a point-of-sale. The system includes a conveyor subsystem for moving the items, a housing that enclosed a portion of the conveyor subsystem, a lighting subsystem that illuminates an area within the housing, visual sensors that can take images of the items including UPCs, and a checkout system that receives the images from the visual sensors and automatically identifies the items. The system may include a scale subsystem located under the conveyor subsystem to measure the weights of the items, where the weight of each item is used to check if the corresponding item is identified correctly. The system relies on matching visual features from images stored in a database to match against features extracted from images taken by the visual sensors.