US 11,915,565 B2
Commodity imaging apparatus, commodity imaging method, and image recognition POS system
Reo Masuda, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to NEC Platforms, Ltd., Kanagawa (JP)
Appl. No. 17/288,123
Filed by NEC Platforms, Ltd, Kawasaki (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 3, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/039144
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 23, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/095587, PCT Pub. Date May 14, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-207915 (JP), filed on Nov. 5, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0382378 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. G07G 1/12 (2006.01); G03B 15/02 (2021.01); G03B 17/56 (2021.01); G03B 29/00 (2021.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); G06V 10/147 (2022.01)
CPC G07G 1/12 (2013.01) [G03B 15/02 (2013.01); G03B 17/561 (2013.01); G03B 29/00 (2013.01); G06Q 20/208 (2013.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); G06V 10/147 (2022.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A commodity imaging apparatus comprising:
a commodity placement table comprising a roughly square placement surface;
a support pillar disposed at one corner of the placement surface;
an imaging unit disposed in the support pillar so as to take an image of a commodity placed on the placement surface from obliquely above the commodity;
a first light source is provided in a wall-like part,
wherein the commodity placement table comprises the wall-like part;
the wall-like part extends so as to vertically extend upward from two sides forming the one corner, and blocks external light,
the first light source provides light through the wall-like part, the wall-like part includes a light guiding plate, and the light guiding plate is composed of a plate that uniformly surface-emits light using light that is emitted from the first light source and enters the light guiding plate from the end face thereof.