US 12,488,349 B2
Monitoring apparatus, settlement apparatus, and programs
Tsuyoshi Gotanda, Tokyo (JP); Yusuke Mimura, Tokyo (JP); Daisuke Takeuchi, Izunokuni Shizuoka (JP); Yoshio Tanaka, Tokyo (JP); and Anna Tsuboi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/085,423.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-020710 (JP), filed on Feb. 14, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0259944 A1, Aug. 17, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/00 (2012.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06Q 20/40 (2012.01)
CPC G06Q 20/4016 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/208 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A monitoring apparatus, comprising:
a camera interface for connecting to a camera;
a terminal interface for connecting to a point-of-sale terminal;
a communication interface for connecting to an attendant terminal; and
a processor configured to:
recognize actions of a settler at the point-of-sale terminal based on images from the camera;
recognize input operations performed at the point-of-sale terminal by the settler based on information from the point-of-sale terminal;
detect fraudulent acts of the settler based on a recognized action of the settler at the point-of-sale terminal and a recognized input operation of the settler at the point-of-sale terminal; and
output a fraud detection image corresponding to a detected fraudulent act to the point-of-sale terminal, wherein
the fraud detection image is output to a display device of the point-of-sale terminal.