Patent ID: 7501950

Claim:
An RFID tag recognizing apparatus which recognizes storage information of RFID tags attached to respective articles, comprising: an antenna which performs radio-communication with the RFID tags, a reading portion which reads storage information of RFID tags lying in a communication area of the antenna, a tag counting portion which counts the number of RFID tags from which storage information is read by the reading portion, an article number acquiring portion which acquires the number of articles lying in the communication area of the antenna, a comparing portion which compares the number of articles acquired by the article number acquiring portion with the number of RFID tags counted by the tag counting portion, and a processing portion which determines the storage information of the RFID tags read by the reading portion when the number of articles acquired by the article number acquiring portion coincides with the number of RFID tags counted by the tag counting portion as a result of the comparison by the comparing portion.