US Patent Issued to Wincor Nixdorf International on Nov. 4 for "Method for the computer-aided recognition of a transport container being empty, control device and checkout terminal" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,156, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH (Paderborn, Germany).

"Method for the computer-aided recognition of a transport container being empty, control device and checkout terminal" was invented by Martin Sommer (Berlin), Alexander Knobloch (Paderborn, Germany) and Sebastian Engelnkemper (Langenberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the computer-aided recognition of a transport container being empty can comprise: determining one or more than one segment of image data of the transport container using depth information assigned to the image data; assigning the image data to one from a p...