Patent ID: 11928987
Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A commodity sales data processing apparatus comprising:
an image processor configured to capture an image including a symbol, the symbol including discount information relating to a discount on a price of a commodity; and
a controller configured to:
acquire commodity information that uniquely specifies the commodity from a code symbol captured by the image processor;
determine whether the image processor detects a flag label on the commodity, the flag label indicating that the symbol is present on the commodity;
extract a region from the image captured by the image processor in response to a determination that the image processor detects the flag label on the commodity, the region including a first section and a second section, and the first section including the symbol;
modify a pixel of the second section to have a predetermined pixel value:
resize, to a predetermined size, an image of the region extracted by the controller and including the modified pixel;
transmit, to a server, the image of the region that has been resized;
acquire, from the server, the discount information based on the image transmitted to the server; and
register (a) the commodity information acquired by the controller and (b) a discounted price of the commodity based on the discount information acquired by the controller in association with each other.