Information processing apparatus and information processing method

• US 9,042,660 B2
• Filed: 10/19/2012
• Issued: 05/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Naito, Hidehiro, Sugasawa, Hiroshi, Iizaka, Hitoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lefkowitz, Sumati
• Assistant Examiner(s): JAMES, THOMAS AIDEN
• Application Number:
  US13/655,606
• Publication Number:
  US 20130101168A1
• Time in Patent Office: 949 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 382/209
• 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 1/145 PLU-management

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an acquirement unit and a reporting unit. The acquirement unit is configured to acquire an image captured by a image capturing section. In a situation that a similarity representing a degree with which the image of an object captured by the image capturing section is similar to the reference image of each commodity meets a condition of determining a captured commodity as one commodity in the commodities corresponding to the reference image, the reporting unit is configured to report a situation that the captured commodity is determined as the commodity meeting the condition and corresponding to the reference image.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a first display control unit executed by a processor, configured to display an image captured by an image capturing section;

a first output unit executed by the processor, configured to, when a similarity indicating a degree of similarity between an image of a commodity captured by the image capturing section and a reference image of each commodity is more than or equal to a first threshold value, determine a commodity of the reference image whose similarity is more than or equal to the first threshold value as the captured commodity without causing an operator to select one commodity from a candidate of the captured commodity and output commodity recognition information corresponding to the commodity of the reference image;

a second display control unit executed by the processor, configured to, when the similarity is less than the first threshold value, display the commodity of the reference image whose similarity is less than the first threshold value as a candidate of the captured commodity;

a selection acceptance unit executed by the processor, configured to accept a selection of one commodity from the candidate; and

a second output unit executed by the processor, configured to determine, in response to the selection acceptance unit accepting the selection, the selected commodity as the captured commodity and output the commodity recognition information of the selected commodity, wherein

when the captured commodity is determined, the first display control unit displays an image representing the determined commodity in place of the image captured by the image capturing section.

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

a reporting unit executed by the processor, configured to carry out sound notification on information in associate with the commodity in the situation that the captured commodity is determined.

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

a confirmation acceptance unit executed by the processor, configured to accept the confirmation whether or not the commodity of the reference image is the captured commodity for the commodity of the reference image whose the value is more than or equal to a second threshold value less than the first threshold value.

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

the second display control unit displays the commodity of the reference image whose value is less than the first threshold value but more than or equal to a third threshold value less than the second threshold value as the candidate of the captured commodity.

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

the first output unit determines the commodity of the reference image whose the number of determinations that the value is determined to be more than or equal to the first threshold value is more than a predetermined time as the captured commodity and outputs the commodity recognition information corresponding to the commodity of the reference image.

6. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a first display control unit executed by a processor, configured to display an image captured by a image capturing section;

a first output unit executed by the processor, configured to, when a similarity indicating a degree of similarity between an image of a commodity captured by the image capturing section and a reference image of each commodity is more than or equal to a first threshold value, determine a commodity of the reference image whose similarity is more than or equal to the first threshold value as the captured commodity without causing an operator to select one commodity from a candidate of the captured commodity and output commodity recognition information corresponding to the commodity of the reference image;

a second display control unit executed by the processor, configured to, when the similarity is less than the first threshold value, display the commodity of the reference image whose similarity is less than the first threshold value and is further more than or equal to a second threshold value less than the first threshold value as a first candidate of the captured commodity;

a confirmation acceptance unit executed by the processor, configured to accept the determination of whether or not the first candidate is the commodity;

a second output unit executed by the processor, configured to determine, in response to the confirmation acceptance unit confirming the determination, the commodity as the captured commodity and output the commodity recognition information of the commodity;

a third display control unit executed by the processor, configured to display the commodity of the reference image whose value is less than the second threshold value and is further more than or equal to a third threshold value less than the second threshold value as a candidate of the captured commodity;

a selection acceptance unit executed by the processor, configured to accept a selection of one commodity from the candidate; and

a third output unit executed by the processor, configured to, in response to the selection acceptance unit accepting the selection, determine the selected commodity as the captured commodity and output the commodity recognition information of the selected commodity, wherein

when the captured commodity is determined, the first display control unit displays an image representing the determined commodity in place of the image captured by the image capturing section.

7. An information processing method, comprising:

displaying an image captured by an image capturing section;

when a similarity indicating a degree of similarity between an image of a commodity captured by the image capturing section and a reference image of each commodity is more than or equal to a first threshold value, determining a commodity of the reference image whose similarity is more than or equal to the first threshold value as the captured commodity without causing an operator to select one commodity from a candidate of the captured commodity and outputting commodity recognition information corresponding to the commodity of the reference image;

when the similarity is less than the first threshold value, displaying the commodity of the reference image whose similarity is less than the first threshold value as a candidate of the captured commodity;

accepting a selection of one commodity from the candidate; and

in response to the accepting, determining the selected commodity as the captured commodity and outputting the commodity recognition information of the selected commodity, wherein

when the captured commodity is determined, displaying an image representing the determined commodity in place of the image captured.