US Patent Application 18220038. IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM simplified abstract
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IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
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Inventor(s)
Takaaki Iwabuchi of Tokyo (JP)
IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A simplified explanation of the abstract
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18220038 titled 'IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
Simplified Explanation
The patent application describes a method for processing images of products placed on a shelf to determine the name and identification information of each product.
- The image processing unit analyzes the image and identifies the name of each product captured in the image.
- The determination of the product name also includes identifying the associated identification information.
- If the image processing unit cannot determine the name of a specific product, an article inference unit infers the name of the product to be the name of a neighboring product.
- This method helps in accurately identifying products even when their names are not clearly visible in the image.
Original Abstract Submitted
By processing an image in which a plurality of articles (such as products) placed on a shelf are captured, an image processing unit () determines the article name (such as the product name) of each of the plurality of articles captured in the image. Determining an article name also includes determining identification information tied to the article name. When a specific condition is satisfied for an article the article name of which is indeterminable by the image processing unit () (hereinafter described as an undetermined article), an article inference unit () infers the article name of the undetermined article to be the article name of an article positioned adjacent to the undetermined article.
