Product information registration system, information processing device, product image recognition device, and product image recognition program

Abstract

To prevent the same commodity from being registered redundantly even when code recognition and image recognition are used simultaneously.SOLUTION: A commodity information registration system includes a decoding unit, a recognition unit, and a registration unit. The decoding unit decodes a code symbol from an image of the code symbol included in an image of a commodity to be registered, to obtain a code value represented by the code symbol. The recognition unit recognizes the appearances of the commodity from an appearance image of the commodity included in the image of the commodity to be registered, to obtain a code value. The registration unit registers information on a commodity identified by a commodity code corresponding to the code value, based on the code value acquired by at least one of the decoding unit and the recognition unit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 15

Claims

1. A decoding unit obtains the code value represented by a code symbol by decoding the code symbol from an image of a code symbol contained in an image of a product to be registered. A matching dictionary that associates the appearance features and code values ​​of each of the multiple products to be registered, A recognition unit that recognizes the appearance of the product from the appearance image of the product included in the image of the product taken of the product to be registered, and obtains a code value associated with the appearance features of the product by comparing the appearance features of the product with the matching dictionary, An additional unit adds flag information to the code value obtained by the recognition unit to distinguish it from the code value obtained by the decoding unit, A registration unit registers information about the product identified by the product code corresponding to the code value, based on the code value obtained by at least one of the decoding unit and the recognition unit. A product information registration system equipped with the following features.

2. The system further comprises a creation unit that creates an output code to be output to the registration unit from the code value obtained by the decoding unit, the code value obtained by the recognition unit, and the flag information added by the addition unit, The registration unit registers information about the product identified by the product code corresponding to the code value, based on the output code created by the creation unit. The product information registration system according to claim 1.

3. The creation unit creates the output code based on the setting of whether or not to include the flag information in the output code. The product information registration system according to claim 2.

4. The aforementioned product information registration system is A scanner comprising an image acquisition unit and a decoding unit that photographs the product to be registered and acquires an image of it, A product image recognition device comprising the recognition unit, the matching dictionary, and the additional unit, A registration device comprising the aforementioned registration unit, It has, The aforementioned scanner, A shooting unit that photographs the product to be registered, and outputs the captured image to the decoding unit as well as to the product image recognition device, A code value receiving unit that receives the code value output from the product image recognition device, A code value transmission unit transmits at least one of the code value acquired by the decoding unit and the code value received by the code value receiving unit to the registration device. It also has, The product information registration system according to claim 1.

5. A scanner comprising an image acquisition unit that photographs and acquires an image of a product to be registered, and which decodes the code symbol from the image of the code symbol contained in the image acquired by the image acquisition unit to obtain the code value represented by the code symbol, and outputs the image acquired by the image acquisition unit, An image recognition device comprising: a matching dictionary that associates appearance features with code values ​​for each of several products to be registered; an image recognition device that acquires an image of the product to be registered output by the scanner; recognizes the appearance of the product from the appearance image of the product contained in the image; obtains a code value associated with the appearance features of the product by matching the appearance features of the product with the matching dictionary; and adds flag information to the obtained code value to distinguish it from the code value obtained by the scanner; An information processing device equipped with the following.

6. A matching dictionary that associates the appearance of each of the multiple products to be registered with the code value represented by the code symbol placed on the appearance of each product, A receiving unit that receives images of the registered product transmitted from a higher-level device, An acquisition unit obtains the code value of the photographed product by comparing the appearance image of the product included in the image with the matching dictionary. An additional unit adds flag information to the code value acquired by the acquisition unit to distinguish it from the code value acquired by the higher-level device, A transmission unit that transmits the code value to which the aforementioned flag information has been added to the higher-level device, A product image recognition device equipped with the following features.

7. Processor and A memory that stores a matching dictionary that associates the appearance of each of the multiple products to be registered with the code value represented by the code symbol placed on the appearance of each product, A computer equipped with, A receiving unit that receives images of the registered product transmitted from a higher-level device. An acquisition unit obtains the code value of the photographed product by comparing the appearance image of the product included in the aforementioned image with the aforementioned matching dictionary. An additional unit adds flag information to the code value acquired by the acquisition unit to distinguish it from the code value acquired by the higher-level device. A transmission unit that transmits the code value to the higher-level device to which the aforementioned flag information has been added. A product image recognition program designed to function as such.

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