COMMODITY REGISTRATION DEVICE AND COMMODITY REGISTRATION METHOD

• US 20160180174A1
• Filed: 11/09/2015
• Published: 06/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: ENOMOTO, Shigeki, SATO, Yoshihiro
• Application Number:
  US14/936,454
• Publication Number:
  US 20160180174A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/68 Food, e.g. fruit or vegetables
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0036 Checkout procedures
• 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: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue

Abstract

A commodity registration device according to the present invention includes: a photographing unit that photographs an object as an image; a voice input unit that receives a voice; and a control unit that recognizes a commodity by using, as auxiliary information to recognize the object as a commodity, the voice received from the voice input unit during a predetermined period before and after timing including the timing of detecting that the object is photographed by the photographing unit as the image.

Claims

1. A commodity registration device, comprising:

a photographing unit configured to photograph an object as an image;

a voice input unit configured to receive a voice; and

a control unit configured to recognize a commodity by using, as auxiliary information to recognize the object as a commodity, the voice received from the voice input unit during a predetermined period before and after timing including the timing of detecting that the object is photographed by the photographing unit as the image.

2. The commodity registration device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit uses the voice received from the voice input unit as auxiliary information at the time of recognizing a commodity based on the image.

3. The commodity registration device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit uses the auxiliary information as number information of the object at the time of recognizing the object as the commodity.

4. The commodity registration device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit uses the auxiliary information as production area information of the object at the time of recognizing the object as the commodity.

5. The commodity registration device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit uses the auxiliary information as cancel information of registering the object as a commodity at the time of recognizing the object as the commodity.

6. The commodity registration device according to claim 1, including a display unit on which predetermined information is displayed,

wherein the control unit displays the recognized auxiliary information on the display unit every time the auxiliary information is recognized.

7. The commodity registration device according to claim 6, wherein the control unit display the auxiliary information and the image on the display unit such that the auxiliary information is displayed on an upper side of the image.

8. The commodity registration device according to claim 1, wherein the voice input unit is disposed at a position higher than the photographing unit.

9. The commodity registration device according to claim 1, including a display on which predetermined information is displayed,

wherein the voice input unit is disposed between the photographing unit and the display.

10. A commodity registration device, comprising:

a camera configured to photograph an object as an image;

a microphone configured to receive a voice; and

a processor configured to recognize a commodity by using, as auxiliary information to recognize the object as a commodity, the voice received from the microphone during a predetermined period before and after timing including the timing of detecting that the object is photographed by the camera as the image.

11. The commodity registration device according to claim 10, wherein the processor uses the voice received from the microphone as auxiliary information at the time of recognizing a commodity based on the image.

12. The commodity registration device according to claim 10, wherein the processor uses the auxiliary information as number information of the object at the time of recognizing the object as the commodity.

13. The commodity registration device according to claim 10, wherein the processor uses the auxiliary information as production area information of the object at the time of recognizing the object as the commodity.

14. The commodity registration device according to claim 10, wherein the processor uses the auxiliary information as cancel information of registering the object as a commodity at the time of recognizing the object as the commodity.

15. The commodity registration device according to claim 10, including a display on which predetermined information is displayed,

wherein the processor displays the recognized auxiliary information on the display every time the auxiliary information is recognized.

16. The commodity registration device according to claim 15, wherein the auxiliary information and the image are displayed on the display such that the auxiliary information is displayed on an upper side of the image.

17. A commodity registration method, comprising steps of:

photographing an object as an image;

receiving a voice; and

performing control to recognize a commodity by using, as auxiliary information to recognize the object as a commodity, the voice received in the step of receiving a voice during a predetermined period before and after timing including the timing of detecting that the object is photographed in the step of photographing as the image.

18. The commodity registration method according to claim 17, wherein the step of performing control uses the voice received in the step of receiving a voice as auxiliary information at the time of recognizing a commodity based on the image.

19. The commodity registration method according to claim 17, wherein the step of performing control uses the auxiliary information as number information of the object at the time of recognizing the object as the commodity.

20. The commodity registration method according to claim 17, wherein the step of performing control uses the auxiliary information as production area information of the object at the time of recognizing the object as the commodity.