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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2011
Hiroyuki Ueda, Shizuoka, JP;
Masahito Sano, Shizuoka, JP;
Nobuo Watanabe, Shizuoka, JP;
Hiroyuki Koyama, Shizuoka, JP;
Hiroyuki Ueda, Shizuoka, JP;
Masahito Sano, Shizuoka, JP;
Nobuo Watanabe, Shizuoka, JP;
Hiroyuki Koyama, Shizuoka, JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a store system includes: an image output section configured to output an image picked up by an image pickup section; an object recognizing section configured to recognize a specific object by reading a feature value of the output image; a similarity determining section configured to calculate similarity indicating to which degree the recognized object is similar to a reference image of the object determined in advance and determine whether the calculated similarity exceeds a threshold set in advance; and a defective informing section configured to inform, if the similarity determining section determines that the calculated similarity does not exceed the threshold set in advance, that the object is not recognized as a regular commodity.