US 12,406,246 B2
Information processing device and method
Hidehiro Naito, Shizuoka (JP); Takuya Takasu, Shizuoka (JP); Tomonori Sugiyama, Kanagawa (JP); Ichiro Fukuzawa, Tokyo (JP); and Hiroki Takeda, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/727,229.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-122361 (JP), filed on Jul. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0034362 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 20/208 (2013.01) [G06K 7/10722 (2013.01); G06K 7/1417 (2013.01); G06K 7/1434 (2013.01); G06Q 20/202 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing device comprising:
a camera configured to read a symbol attached to a commodity and capture an image containing discount information attached to the commodity, and read invisible information printed on one or more surfaces of the commodity, wherein the invisible information is invisible to a human eye;
a storage storing information regarding the commodity acquired by reading the symbol attached to the commodity; and
one or more processors configured to:
decode the invisible information;
determine whether prior commodity information stored in the storage includes information related to the invisible information, in response to reading discount information attached to the commodity;
determine whether commodity identification information included in the discount information is identical to commodity identification information included in the information related to the invisible information, in response to determining that the prior commodity information stored in the storage includes the information related to the invisible information; and
output information related to the discount information, in response to determining that the commodity identification information included in the discount information is identical to the commodity identification information included in the information related to the invisible information.