US Patent Issued to NEC on Aug. 11 for "Product detection device, product detection system, product detection method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,852, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Product detection device, product detection system, product detection method, and recording medium" was invented by Rina Tomita (Tokyo) and Yuji Tahara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product detection device is provided with: an image acquisition unit; a binarization unit; and a detection unit. The image acquisition unit acquires an image of shelves for displaying products. The binarization unit binarizes a region in the image into a product region where products are imaged and a non-product region where things other than the products are imaged. The detection unit ...