US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA TEC on April 7 for "Article registration device, cart POS system equipped with article registration device, and article registration method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,008, issued on April 7, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Article registration device, cart POS system equipped with article registration device, and article registration method" was invented by Suguru Kato (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article registration device detects an area where a merchandise item is put, performs image capture corresponding to the brightness of the area, and registers the article within the captured image, a cart POS system equipped with an article registration device, and an article registration method. The article registration device includes an image pickup device, an il...