Patent Document ID: 8488881
Application ID: 12844340
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for segmenting an object at a self-checkout, wherein the method comprises: capturing an image of an object at a self-checkout, said capturing carried out by a distinct module executing on a hardware processor; dividing the image into one or more blocks, said dividing carried out by a distinct module executing on a hardware processor; computing one or more features of the image, said computing carried out by a distinct module executing on a hardware processor; computing a confidence value for each of the one or more blocks, wherein computing a confidence value for each of the one or more blocks comprises using a minimum feature distance from one or more reference background blocks, said computing carried out by a distinct module executing on a hardware processor; and eliminating one or more blocks from consideration via use of an adaptive threshold computed on the confidence value for each of the one or more blocks, wherein the one or more blocks remaining map to a region of the image containing the object, said eliminating carried out by a distinct module executing on a hardware processor.