US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on Sept. 16 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,680, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Tsuyoshi Gotanda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment for point-of-sale systems includes a communication interface for connecting to a communication network and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire an image of an inside of a shopping basket via the communication interface, detect a commodity in the shopping basket in the acquired image, receive a commodity identification for a registered commodity in a sal...