ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,283, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).
"Merchandise recognition systems" was invented by Yuki Suzuki (Izunokuni Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a merchandise recognition system includes a processor and storage device to store an item upper limit value. The processor is configured to receive images of a shopping cart basket area via an interface, recognize merchandise items being moved into the shopping cart basket area in a received image, compare the item upper limit value to the number of merchandise items recognized as being moved into the shopping cart basket ...