INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20140246487A1
• Filed: 02/28/2014
• Published: 09/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Mihara, Hidemi, Iizaka, Hitoshi, Sasaki, Yuta
• Application Number:
  US14/193,105
• Publication Number:
  US 20140246487A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10722 Photodetector array or CCD scanning
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1413 1D bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/208 Input by product or record sensing, e.g. weighing or scanner processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0063 with means for detecting the geometric dimensions of the article of which the code is read, such as its size or height, for the verification of the registration
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/12 electronically operated digital data processing aspects G06Q20/00

Abstract

In accordance with an embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a commodity; a specification unit configured to specify a commodity from the information contained in the image captured by the image capturing unit; a first detection unit configured to detect flag information from the captured image; and a second detection unit configured to detect service information from the captured image in a case where the flag information is detected by the first detection unit, wherein the first detection unit switches a flag information detection according to the commodity specified by the specification unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a commodity;

a specification unit configured to specify the commodity from the information contained in the image captured by the image capturing unit;

a first detection unit configured to detect flag information from the captured image; and

a second detection unit configured to detect service information from the captured image if the flag information is detected by the first detection unit;

wherein

the first detection unit switches flag information detection according to the commodity specified by the specification unit.

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

a determination unit configured to determine, based on a list of commodities having a pattern similar to the flag information, whether or not the commodity specified by the specification unit is contained in the list;

wherein

the second detection unit switches flag information detection according to the determination result of the specification unit.

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

if the determination unit determines that the commodity code is registered in the list, the second detection unit detects the flag information using a detection which is stricter, in conditions of detecting the flag information, than the detection for detecting the commodities not registered in the list.

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

the specification unit detects a code symbol from the captured image and specifies the commodity based on the code symbol.

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

the specification unit extracts the feature amount of the commodity contained in the captured image and specifies the commodity based on the feature amount.

6. An information processing method, including:

specifying a commodity from the information contained in an image captured by an image capturing unit;

detecting flag information from the captured image; and

detecting service information from the captured image if the flag information is detected;

wherein

the flag information detection method are switched according to the specified commodity.

7. The information processing method according to claim 6, further including:

determining, based on a list of commodities having a pattern similar to the flag information, whether or not the specified commodity is registered in the list, wherein

the flag information detection method are switched according to the determination result.

8. The information processing method according to claim 7, wherein

if it is determined that the commodity code is registered in the list, the flag information is detected using a detection method which is stricter, in conditions of detecting the flag information, than the detection method for detecting the commodities not registered in the list.

9. The information processing method according to claim 6, wherein

a code symbol is detected from the captured image, and the commodity is specified based on the code symbol.

10. The information processing method according to claim 6, wherein

the feature amount of the commodity contained in the captured image is extracted, and the commodity is specified based on the feature amount.