US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on Dec. 2 for "Monitoring apparatus, settlement apparatus, and programs" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,349, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Monitoring apparatus, settlement apparatus, and programs" was invented by Tsuyoshi Gotanda (Tokyo), Yusuke Mimura (Tokyo), Daisuke Takeuchi (Izunokuni Shizuoka, Japan), Yoshio Tanaka (Tokyo) and Anna Tsuboi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring apparatus includes a camera interface, a terminal interface, a communication interface, and a processor. The processor is configured to recognize actions of a settler at a point-of-sale terminal based on images from a camera, recognize input operations performed at the point-of-sale terminal by the settler based on i...