Commodity information reading apparatus and method

Abstract

The invention discloses a commodity information reading apparatus and a control method, a readable storage medium, and electronic equipment, which can read commodity information without any trouble regardless of the form of the commodity. The commodity information reading device includes: a camera unit, a first reading unit, a second reading unit, a product identification unit, and a product designation unit. The code symbol reading unit as the first reading unit reads the barcode attached to the product as a code symbol from the image of the product captured by the first camera, the second camera, and the third camera from the imaging control unit as the imaging unit. The digital watermark reading unit as the second reading unit reads the digital watermark attached to the product from theimage. The object recognition unit as the product recognition unit recognizes the product from the image. Furthermore, the product designation unit as a product designation means designates the product reflected in the image based on at least one result of the reading result of the code symbol reading unit, the reading result of the electronic watermark reading unit, and the recognition result ofthe object recognition unit.

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[0001] This application claims the priority of the Japanese application with the filing date of February 20, 2019 and the application number JP2019-028119, and cites the content of the above-mentioned application, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. technical field [0002] Embodiments of the present invention relate to a commodity information reading device and control method, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and electronic equipment. Background technique [0003] At present, in stores such as supermarkets and convenience stores, when registering a product to be purchased by a customer, the JAN (Japanese Article Number: Japanese Article Number) registered on the barcode is read by reading the barcode pasted or printed on the package of the product. ) code to identify and specify the product. In addition, recently, a technology of so-called object recognition that captures the appearance of a product with a camera and specifies the pr...

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Problems solved by technology

[0005] However, in such an existing system, the operator is required to separate the commodities with code information from the commodities without code information in advance after judging whether code information such as a barcode is attached to the commodity, which is very troublesome.

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