US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 17 for "Product identification apparatus, product identification method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,259, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Product identification apparatus, product identification method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Yaeko Yonezawa (Tokyo), Katsumi Kikuchi (Tokyo), Soma Shiraishi (Tokyo) and Yu Nabeto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product identification apparatus includes an acquisition unit, an image processing unit, and a storage processing unit. The acquisition unit acquires an image generated by an image capturing apparatus 10. The image includes a product shelf and a product. The image processing unit determines a position where continuity of the pr...