According to the invention, there is provided a product registration apparatus including an information acquisition unit that determines a placement position of a product having a placing table surface side to which product information is attached and acquires the product information attached to the product, and an output unit that outputs information indicating at least one of the placement position of the product from which the product information can be acquired and the placement position of the product from which the product information cannot be acquired.

Unique physical unclonable function objects are created by molding pre-magnetized or post-magnetized particles into a resin. The particles form a unique physical “fingerprint” based on the random particle size, position, polar rotation, magnetization level, particle density, etc. This invention addresses devices for accurately measuring the physical fingerprint of a PUF, specifically including the X, Y, & Z components of the magnetic field at enough discrete points on the PUF to allow a confident recognition of the identification. A handheld wand is described for measuring the magnetic field along an arbitrary path.

Systems and methods for securely pairing a transmitting device with a receiving device are described. The systems and methods may communicate with a first device via a first communication method over a wireless communication network. The systems and methods may transmit, to the first device via a second communication method, a first sensory pattern representing a first key. In addition, the system and methods may communicate with the first device via the first communication method using the first key.

A badge of the type comprising a substrate with a top side and a bottom side, an adhesive disposed on the bottom side for adhering the badge to a person, and a visually discernible material disposed on the top side for providing information, has a wireless device carrying first information secured directly or indirectly to said substrate. The visually discernible material comprises a first portion of visually discernible material and a second portion of visually discernible material. The first portion of visually discernible material is positioned, configured and dimensioned to communicate humanly perceptible and humanly readable second information. The second portion of visually discernible material carries third information encoded within the second portion of the visually discernible material and is positioned, configured and dimensioned to be scanned by an optical device in order to the read said third information encoded within the second portion of the visually discernible material. The substrate and/or said wireless device is frangible.

A package scanning conveyance system that integrates a first two-dimensional image with at least a second two-dimensional image or a three-dimensional point clouds to calculate or estimate a package's physical properties, and/or determine if there are two or more packages in a pile. The captured imaging data is transformed by the inventive system to provide real-time feedback to a human operator to enable the operator to maintain an understanding of the system's performance. The imaging data may also be used to perform quality-checks on other parts of the package delivery and conveyance systems and document the condition of packages that have passed through the system.

A code reader includes an imager configured to capture an image, and a processor operably coupled to the imager. The processor performs an object detection operation having a configurable triggering threshold that may be set, at least in part, based on an amount of changes needed to be detected in order to trigger a positive result for object detection. The processor also initiates a scanning phase for the code reader to read and decode an indicia responsive to the positive result being achieved by the object detection operation.

This disclosure relates to a method (S0) for communicating information between a vehicle (20) and a remote terminal (10), the method comprising the steps of: providing (S1) at least one image frame (11) representing at least a portion of the vehicle's surrounding; wherein an encoded pattern (ENP1) representing predetermined information to be transmitted to the remote terminal (10) is visible on the at least one image frame (11); transmitting (S2) the at least one image frame from the vehicle (20) to the remote terminal (10); reading (S3), at the remote terminal (10), the encoded pattern (ENP2) visible on the at least one image frame (11); decoding (S4) the predetermined information from the encoded pattern (ENP2) read at the remote terminal. A system for carrying out the method is provided also.

Feedback information is an important aspect in all machine learning systems. In robot systems that are picking objects from a plurality of objects this has been arranged by acquiring images of objects that have been picked. When images are acquired after picking they can be imaged accurately and the information about picking and also dropping success can be improved by using acquired images as a feedback in the machine learning arrangement being used for controlling the picking and dropping of objects.

According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a device connection unit to allow a plurality of devices to be detachably connected thereto, a processor, and a network communication interface to communicate with a server apparatus. The processor receives from, the device connection unit, an input of first identification information from a first device connected to the device connection unit. The first identification information identifies a particular mobile terminal connected to the network. The processor notifies the server apparatus, via the network communication interface, of an association between the first identification information and second identification information of the information processing apparatus to cause the server apparatus to relay information between the mobile terminal and the information processing apparatus. The processor also executes an accounting processing, using one or more devices connected to the device connection unit, for receiving payments for items registered by the mobile terminal.

A checkout apparatus includes a memory that stores first information about one or more commodities registered in a registration process, a first interface configured to acquire an image of a predetermined region where registered commodities are to be placed, and a processor configured to identify commodities in the image acquired via the first interface by object recognition, determine whether each of the identified commodities is in the first information stored in the memory, and if one of the identified commodities is not in the first information, output an error signal.