US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on June 24 for "Registration device, method carried out by registration device, and non-transitory computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,344, issued on June 24, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Registration device, method carried out by registration device, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Noriyoshi Hara (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A registration device includes a shelf including a sensor and on which a commodity is placed, a camera configured to capture an image of a first area and a second area outside the first area, and a processor configured to start tracking of a customer who has entered the second area from outside based on the image captured by the camera, determine whether the commodity is take...