Store system and sales registration method

• US 8,856,035 B2
• Filed: 08/22/2011
• Issued: 10/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Sano, Masahito, Ueda, Hiroyuki, Watanabe, Nobuo, Koyama, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Iwarere, Seye
• Application Number:
  US13/214,395
• Publication Number:
  US 20120047039A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,142 Days
• Field of Search: 705/23
• US Class Current: 705/23
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/208 Input by product or record sensing, e.g. weighing or scanner processing
• 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 1/01 Details for indicating displaying information in general G09F, G09G
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 3/003 Anti-theft control theft alarms G08B13/00

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 check-image display section configured to display, on a display section, at least an image concerning the recognized object; and a problem solving section configured to receive, when there is a problem in the recognition of the object, an instruction indicating the problem and solve the problem according to content of the received instruction.

Claims

1. A store system comprising:

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 as a specific commodity registered in advance by reading a feature value of the output image;

a check-image display section configured to display, on a display section, at least an image concerning the recognized object, wherein when a first object of a plurality of objects included in the output image is recognized as a first specific commodity by the object recognizing section, the display section displays an image of the first object, first information indicating the first object is recognized, and commodity information of the first specific commodity, and when a second object of the plurality of objects included in the output image is not recognized as a specific commodity by the object recognizing section, the display section displays an image of the second object without displaying second information indicating the second object is recognized; and

a problem solving section configured to receive, through the display section, when the display section displays the image of the second object without displaying the second information indicating the second object is recognized, an instruction indicating a position of the second object on the display section of the image of the second object displayed on the display section and cause the object recognizing section to recognize, based on the feature value of the image of the second object, the second object of the position on the display section indicated by the receiving instruction again.

3. The store system according to claim 1, wherein, in response to an unrecognized object being present, the problem solving section receives an instruction for designating an area where the unrecognized object is present and causes the object recognizing section to execute object recognition concerning the area.

4. The store system according to claim 1, wherein, in response to objects originally separated from each other being recognized as one object, the problem solving section receives an instruction for dividing an area where objects originally separate from each other are recognized as one object and causes the object recognizing section to execute object recognition concerning divided areas.

5. The store system according to claim 1, wherein, in response to plural same objects being recognized as one object because the objects overlap one another, the problem solving section receives a number of the overlapping objects.

6. The store system according to claim 1, further comprising an input section configured to receive an input from a user, wherein

the problem solving section receives, in response to there being a problem in recognition of the object, an instruction indicating the problem via the input section and solves the problem

according to content of an instruction received via the input section concerning the image displayed on the display section.

7. The store system according to claim 6, wherein the input section is a touch panel laminated on the display section, and

the problem solving section receives, in response to there being a problem in recognition of the object, an instruction indicating the problem via the touch panel and solves the problem according to content of an instruction via the touch panel concerning the image displayed on the display section.

8. The store system according to claim 6, wherein

the input section is a keyboard including various keys, and

the problem solving section receives, in response to there being a problem in recognition of the object, an instruction indicating the problem via operation of the keys of the keyboard corresponding to various kinds of processing for solving the problem and solves the problem according to content of an instruction corresponding to key operation of the keyboard concerning the image displayed on the display section.

9. The store system according to claim 6, wherein, in response to the instruction concerning the image displayed on the display section being area designation, the problem solving section receives the instruction concerning the image displayed on the display section according to anyone of designation of a center of the area, designation with opposite angles of the area, and designation by surrounding of the area with a spline.

10. The store system according to claim 1, wherein the problem solving section displays the recognized object with a first line attached to the object and, in response to there being a problem in recognition of the object, as processing for solving the problem, displays, in a form different from the first line, a second line for instructing area designation concerning the image displayed on the display section.

2. A store system comprising:

an image pickup section;

a display section;

an image output section configured to output an image picked up by the image pickup section;

an object recognizing section configured to recognize a specific object as a specific commodity registered in advance by reading a feature value of the output image;

a check-image display section configured to display, on the display section, at least an image concerning the recognized object, wherein when a first object of a plurality of objects included in the output image is recognized as a first specific commodity by the object recognizing section, the display section displays an image of the first object, first information indicating the first object is recognized, and commodity information of the first specific commodity, and when a second object of the plurality of objects included in the output image is not recognized as a specific commodity by the object recognizing section, the display section displays an image of the second object without displaying second information indicating the second object is recognized; and

a problem solving section configured to receive, through the display section, when the display section displays the image of the second object without displaying the second information indicating the second object is recognized, an instruction indicating a position of the second object on the display section of the image of the second object displayed on the display section and cause the object recognizing section to recognize, based on the feature value of the image of the second object, the second object of the position on the display section indicated by the receiving instruction again.

11. A sales registration method comprising:

recognizing a specific object as a specific commodity registered in advance by reading a feature value of an output image picked up by an image pickup section;

displaying, on a display section, at least an image concerning the recognized object wherein when a first object of a plurality of objects included in the output image is recognized as a first specific commodity, displaying an image of the first object, first information indicating the first object is recognized, and commodity information of the first specific commodity, and when a second object of the plurality of objects included in the output image is not recognized as a specific commodity by the object recognizing section, displaying an image of the second object without displaying second information indicating the second object is recognized; and

receiving, through the display section, when displaying the image of the second object without displaying the second information indicating the second object is recognized, an instruction indicating a position of the second object on the display section of the image of the second object displayed on the display section and recognizing, based on the feature value of the image of the second object, the second object of the position on the display section indicated by the receiving instruction again.