INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20140063566A1
• Filed: 08/16/2013
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Naito, Hidehiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,944,325 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/474
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/203 Simultaneous scanning of two or more separate pictures , e.g. two sides of the same sheet refeeding a sheet for double-sided scanning H04N1/00572

Abstract

In accordance with one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an acquirement unit configured to acquire a captured image obtained by capturing a commodity by an image capturing unit in sequence; a plurality of reading units configured to read the information relating to the commodity respectively from the captured image acquired by the acquirement unit; a control unit configured to enable each reading unit to act according to a specified order based on setting information in which the operation timing of the reading unit is set; and an output unit configured to output the information read by the reading unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

an acquirement unit configured to acquire a captured image obtained by capturing a commodity by an image capturing unit in sequence;

a plurality of reading units configured to read the information relating to the commodity respectively from the captured image acquired by the acquirement unit;

a control unit configured to enable each reading unit to act according to a specified order based on setting information in which the operation timing of the reading unit is set; and

an output unit configured to output the information read by the reading unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the operation timing of the reading unit is set in a manner that the reading units of which the sum of the operation time period needed by a reading operation is less than a specified cycle time are divided into one group.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the cycle time is an interval that the acquirement unit acquires the captured image.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a setting unit configured to set the operation timing of the reading unit in the setting information based on the operation record of the reading unit.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the setting unit sets the operation frequency of the reading unit in the setting information according to the actual reading result of the reading unit.

6. An information processing method, comprising:

acquiring a captured image obtained by capturing a commodity by an image capturing unit in sequence;

reading the information relating to the commodity respectively from the captured image acquired by the acquirement unit;

enabling each reading unit to act according to a specified order based on setting information in which the operation timing of the reading unit is set; and

outputting the information read by the reading unit.