Patent ID: 11907802
Assignee: SOCIETE DES PRODUITS NESTLE S.A.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a package containing a product; and
an apparatus using the product, the apparatus being refilled by the product contained in the package,
wherein a code related to the product is associated to the package, the code being a two dimension code and the code presenting a predetermined surface Scode, and
wherein the apparatus comprises:
a code reader configured to read the code associated to the package, the code reader being an image capturing device, the image capturing device being defined by:
a predetermined focal range,
a horizontal angle of view, and
a vertical angle of view,

a housing structure; and
a cavity inside the housing structure, the cavity extending from a back side in the housing structure to a front side at an external surface of the housing structure, the cavity comprising at least one lateral wall extending between the back side and the front side of the cavity,

wherein the image capturing device is positioned at the back side of the cavity, and an optical axis of the image capturing device extends in a direction of a middle of the front side of the cavity,
wherein the front side of the cavity consists of a hole in the external surface of the housing structure, the hole presenting a surface Shole such that:

1.2 Scode≤Shole≤6 Scode 

wherein a distance extending between the back side of the cavity and the front side of the cavity is comprised in the predetermined focal range of the image capturing device, and
wherein the at least one lateral wall of the cavity is configured to surround the horizontal angle of view and the vertical angle of view of the image capturing device.