US 11,922,389 B2
Payment terminal
Kyohei Kida, Kanagawa (JP); Yasuyuki Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP); Yasuji Wakiyama, Kanagawa (JP); Takeyuki Sasaki, Kanagawa (JP); and Kohei Takada, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Sep. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/466,423.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-149879 (JP), filed on Sep. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0076224 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 20/204 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/208 (2013.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A payment terminal comprising:
a camera configured to capture an image, the camera including a lens;
a card slot for inserting a contact type IC card; and
a panel arrangement surface on which a touch panel is arranged,
wherein the card slot and the panel arrangement surface are arranged in order in a height direction from a placement surface of the payment terminal;
wherein the panel arrangement surface is oriented obliquely upward toward a user positioned in front of the card slot;
wherein an optical axis direction of the lens is obliquely upward toward the user,
the lens is provided closer to the placement surface of the payment terminal than the card slot in the height direction, and closer to the user than the card slot in a depth direction,
the lens is provided below the panel arrangement surface and below a lower end of the card slot in the height direction, and
the lens is provided in front of a front end of the card slot in the depth direction.