US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on Dec. 16 for "Commodity registration system and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,463, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Commodity registration system and information processing method" was invented by Shintaro Harada (Izunokuni Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments, a commodity registration system comprises a processor configured to: acquire an image from a camera; attempt to detect in the acquired image, a commodity region showing a commodity, a hand region showing a purchaser's hand, and a seal region showing a discount seal attached to the commodity; when a detected commodity region is in contact with a detected hand region in the image, attempt to ...