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

Claim 8:
9. An image recognition POS system comprising:
a commodity imaging apparatus; and
a POS terminal apparatus connected to the commodity imaging apparatus through a wire or wirelessly so as to be able to communicate with the commodity imaging apparatus, the POS terminal apparatus being configured to perform a process for a settlement of a commodity purchased by a customer, wherein
the commodity imaging apparatus comprises:
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; and
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.