A printing apparatus includes a printing head provided with a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row arranged shifted from the first nozzle row in a nozzle alignment direction, and a control unit configured to control ejection of ink from nozzles included in the printing head onto a medium based on print data. The control unit is configured to set an image to be complemented as a partial region of an image to be printed on the medium in accordance with a boundary portion between the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row, assign print data for printing the image to be completed to at least one of a first adjacent nozzle that is a nozzle in the first nozzle row and adjacent to the boundary portion and a second adjacent nozzle that is a nozzle in the second nozzle row and adjacent to the boundary portion, and complement the image to be complemented by ink ejection from at least one of the first adjacent nozzle and the second adjacent nozzle.

A printing apparatus includes a printing head provided with a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row arranged shifted from the first nozzle row in a nozzle alignment direction, and a control unit configured to control ejection of ink from nozzles included in the printing head onto a medium based on print data. The control unit is configured to set an image to be complemented as a partial region of an image to be printed on the medium in accordance with a boundary portion between the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row, assign print data for printing the image to be completed to at least one of a first adjacent nozzle that is a nozzle in the first nozzle row and adjacent to the boundary portion and a second adjacent nozzle that is a nozzle in the second nozzle row and adjacent to the boundary portion, and complement the image to be complemented by ink ejection from at least one of the first adjacent nozzle and the second adjacent nozzle.

An intelligent item receptacle, system, and method for providing supplemental media content in response to depositing an item having media indicia disposed thereon. An intelligent item receptacle includes an item receptacle securely enclosing an interior volume, an item sensor configured to detect an inserted item, a camera within the interior volume configured to capture an image of the item, and an output configured to play audio or visual content to bystanders outside the item receptacle. Processing circuitry within the item receptacle analyzes the image to determine if the media indicia are present on the item and, if present, causes the output to play the audio or visual content associated with the media indicia.

An intelligent item receptacle, system, and method for providing supplemental media content in response to depositing an item having media indicia disposed thereon. An intelligent item receptacle includes an item receptacle securely enclosing an interior volume, an item sensor configured to detect an inserted item, a camera within the interior volume configured to capture an image of the item, and an output configured to play audio or visual content to bystanders outside the item receptacle. Processing circuitry within the item receptacle analyzes the image to determine if the media indicia are present on the item and, if present, causes the output to play the audio or visual content associated with the media indicia.

An information processing system includes a specification apparatus that specifies a person at a predetermined position as a specific person; at least one recognition apparatus that recognizes a person in a geographic range as an unspecific person; and an information processing apparatus that acquires a movement history indicating a temporal change in a position of a first unspecific person by analyzing a result of recognition by the at least one recognition apparatus, determines whether the specific person and the first unspecific person are identical based on a time and the predetermined position at which the specification apparatus has specified the specific person and the movement history of the first unspecific person, and controls a memory apparatus to store the movement history of the first unspecific person in association with the specific person, in a case in which the specific person and the first unspecific person are determined to be identical.

An information processing system includes a specification apparatus that specifies a person at a predetermined position as a specific person; at least one recognition apparatus that recognizes a person in a geographic range as an unspecific person; and an information processing apparatus that acquires a movement history indicating a temporal change in a position of a first unspecific person by analyzing a result of recognition by the at least one recognition apparatus, determines whether the specific person and the first unspecific person are identical based on a time and the predetermined position at which the specification apparatus has specified the specific person and the movement history of the first unspecific person, and controls a memory apparatus to store the movement history of the first unspecific person in association with the specific person, in a case in which the specific person and the first unspecific person are determined to be identical.

The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires a plurality of images, captured by a plurality of cameras, of a product held by a customer with a hand; a detection unit (12) that detects an object from each of the plurality of images; a positional information generation unit (13) that generates positional information indicating a position in the image, for the each detected object; a product kind-related information generation unit (14) that generates product kind-related information that determines a product kind, for the each detected object; an extraction unit (15) that extracts a group of a plurality of objects which satisfies conditions with each other, the conditions being related to the positional information and the product kind-related information; and a product recognition result output unit (16) that outputs a product recognition result for the each extracted group.

The present invention provides a processing apparatus (10) including: an acquisition unit (11) that acquires a plurality of images, captured by a plurality of cameras, of a product held by a customer with a hand; a detection unit (12) that detects an object from each of the plurality of images; a positional information generation unit (13) that generates positional information indicating a position in the image, for the each detected object; a product kind-related information generation unit (14) that generates product kind-related information that determines a product kind, for the each detected object; an extraction unit (15) that extracts a group of a plurality of objects which satisfies conditions with each other, the conditions being related to the positional information and the product kind-related information; and a product recognition result output unit (16) that outputs a product recognition result for the each extracted group.

An electronic device mounted on a vehicle and an operating method of the electronic device are provided. The electronic device monitor the number of occupants riding in the vehicle, obtain communication access information includes information about the number of connectors accessing a communication module from among the occupants and information about an amount of data use through the communication module, recognize an operation pattern of the occupants, by using an occupant monitoring system (OMS), predict a data throughput to be transmitted and received through the communication module, by using the number of occupants, the obtained communication access information, and the operation pattern of the occupants, and determine, based on the predicted data throughout, whether to change a first communication scheme in use to a second communication scheme, which is fifth generation (5G) millimeter wave (mmWave) communication.

An electronic device mounted on a vehicle and an operating method of the electronic device are provided. The electronic device monitor the number of occupants riding in the vehicle, obtain communication access information includes information about the number of connectors accessing a communication module from among the occupants and information about an amount of data use through the communication module, recognize an operation pattern of the occupants, by using an occupant monitoring system (OMS), predict a data throughput to be transmitted and received through the communication module, by using the number of occupants, the obtained communication access information, and the operation pattern of the occupants, and determine, based on the predicted data throughout, whether to change a first communication scheme in use to a second communication scheme, which is fifth generation (5G) millimeter wave (mmWave) communication.