Systems and methods for operating an Electronic Smart Tag (“EST”). The methods involve: operating the EST in a first operational state in which first item related information is output from an electronic output device of the EST that is powered by an energy storage device storing energy harvested from an external energy source; detecting when a charge level of the energy storage device reaches or falls below a first threshold level; and transitioning an operational state of the EST from the first operational state to a second operation state in which a message is output from EST requesting that a mobile device be placed in proximity to the EST for purposes of obtaining at least a first portion of the first item related information, in response to the detection that the charge level of the energy storage device has reached or fallen below the first threshold level.

Systems and methods of automatically switching measurement information processing modes related to a self-checkout kiosk. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by an electronic device that includes processing circuitry. The method may include detecting, using object recognition, at least one object present in real-time captured imagery. The method may further include, responsive to detecting the at least one object present in the real-time captured imagery, switching measurement information processing modes from a first measurement information processing mode to a second measurement information processing mode.

In one embodiment, a recognition system has an imaging device, a storage device, and a first processor. The first processor extracts a feature amount of an article contained in image data outputted by the imaging device. The first processor recognizes a commodity to which the detected article corresponds, based on similarities between feature amounts for collation of a first commodity and a second commodity stored in the storage device and the extracted feature amount, and selects the recognized commodity from the storage device, as the commodity to which the detected article corresponds, provided that the recognized corresponding commodity is not the first commodity.

An information processing apparatus comprises a detection module, an extraction module, a display control module and an operation control module. The detection module detects an object contained in an image data captured by an image capturing section. The extraction module extracts candidates corresponding to the object photographed by the image capturing section based on a similarity degree between a feature amount of the object extracted from the image data and a feature amount of each object for comparison in the detected object. The display control module displays the image data captured by the image capturing section and the extracted candidates. The operation control module receives an operation for selecting the displayed candidate. The display control module displays another image data from which the detection module detects the object, instead of the image data displayed if no object is detected while the operation for selecting the candidate is not received.

In accordance with an embodiment, an image processing apparatus comprises a designation module, a registration module and a display control module. The designation module designates an object. The registration module registers information of the object designated by the designation module. The display control module enables a display section to display an operation section for instructing the registration module based on the information registered by the registration module.

A method implemented on a client device for displaying pricing information is described, for example, in a restaurant system having “bundle” pricing when purchasing predetermined groups of items. The client device can determine and display pricing information, even when a communication connection to a server is unavailable. A graphical user interface configured for sales transactions is generated. First order information for a first sales transaction is received via the graphical user interface and first pricing information for the first sales transaction is obtained from, and generated by, a remotely located server device using server pricing information. Second order information for a second sales transaction is received. Second pricing information for the second sales transaction is determined by the client device, including generating the second pricing information based on client pricing information located locally to the client device. Pricing information is displayed by the client device via the graphical user interface.

In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to recognize retail products, comprising: a model training system configured to: identify a customer; access an associated customer profile; access and apply a set of filtering rules to a product database based on customer data; generate a listing of products specific to the customer; access and apply a model training set of rules to train a machine learning model based on the listing of products and corresponding image data for each of the products in the listing of products; and communicate the trained model to the portable user device associated with first customer.

An embodiment of an information processing system includes a user terminal carried by a user; and a server being capable of communicating with the user terminal. The user terminal is comprised of: an obtaining unit configured to obtain product information and expiration information related to an expiration date of a product from the product; and a display controller configured to cause a display to show information containing an offered price of the product, which is acquired from the server. The server is comprised of: a price determination unit configured to determine the offered price of the product based on the product information and the expiration information acquired from the user terminal; and a price information providing unit configured to provide information that contains the offered price of the product determined by the price determination unit, to the user terminal.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for determining electric pulses to provide to an unattended machine based on remotely-configured options. An example method includes: detecting presence of the unattended machine in proximity to the mobile device. After detecting the presence, the method includes: receiving, from a server, information about a first set of remotely-configured options. In response to receiving the information about the first set of remotely-configured options, the method includes: displaying user interface objects that allow for selection of respective options in the first set of remotely-configured options. After detecting a selection of a first user interface object, receiving, from the server, specifications regarding electric pulses to be provided to the unattended machine by a pulse-providing device. After sending an authorization grant and the specifications to the pulse-providing device, the method includes: receiving an indication that the electric pulses were provided to the unattended machine according to the specifications.

A vending machine recognition apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a vending machine; and a recognition unit configured to recognize merchandise from the captured image and recognize a price of the merchandise from a peripheral image region of an image region of the recognized merchandise.