Patent ID: 8453932
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: G07G

Abstract:
1. A commodity information reading apparatus that performs reading of commodity information from a commodity affixed with a code symbol and a character string representing the commodity information, the apparatus comprising: an image capturing section configured to capture an image picked up by an image pickup section; a first reading section configured to detect the code symbol from the image of the commodity captured by the image capturing section and read the commodity information represented by the code symbol; a second reading section configured to detect, if the reading by the first reading section is not realized because a benefit label which is affixed to a position on the code symbol where reading of the code symbol is impossible and which represents content of a benefit applied to the commodity, the benefit label from the image captured by the image capturing section and read benefit information corresponding to the benefit label; and a third reading section configured to detect, if the reading by the second reading section is realized, the character string from the image captured by the image capturing section and read the commodity information represented by the character string.