Patent ID: 11915565
Assignee: NEC PLATFORMS, LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A commodity imaging apparatus comprising:
a commodity placement table comprising a roughly square placement surface;
a support pillar disposed at one corner of the placement surface;
an imaging unit disposed in the support pillar so as to take an image of a commodity placed on the placement surface from obliquely above the commodity;
a first light source is provided in a wall-like part,
wherein the commodity placement table comprises the wall-like part;
the wall-like part extends so as to vertically extend upward from two sides forming the one corner, and blocks external light,
the first light source provides light through the wall-like part, the wall-like part includes a light guiding plate, and the light guiding plate is composed of a plate that uniformly surface-emits light using light that is emitted from the first light source and enters the light guiding plate from the end face thereof.