ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,310, issued on March 4, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Article determination using image processing" was invented by Yu Nabeto (Tokyo), Katsumi Kikuchi (Tokyo), Soma Shiraishi (Tokyo) and Takami Sato (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article determination apparatus (10) is used with two image capture units (20). One image capture unit (20), an article shelf (40), and the other image capture unit (20) are arranged in this order. The acquisition unit (110) acquires images generated by the two image capture units (20). The image processing unit (120) generates first size data and second size data by processing the images acq...