| 摘要 |
A system for the identification of products in a shopping cart in a retail environment comprises: a computer comprising a database with product specific data related to products from an assortment of products in a retail environment; an optical camera connected to the computer, for monitoring the shopping cart; a software stored in a memory of the computer, for identifying products in the shopping cart, which comprises an image recognition software adapted for discerning between different products in the shopping cart, and to determine a product and image areas attributed to it, and to calculate product specific information from the optical data of the image areas; an optional barcode scanner, which may be integrated in the software; wherein the product specific data in the data base comprises signature data derived from previously obtained optical images of the assortment of products, and wherein the software is adapted to identify products in the shopping cart by comparing obtained product specific information of a product in the shopping cart, and wherein the software is adapted to use at least one auxiliary information from at least one further sensing device, in order to improve the accuracy and/or speed of identification of products in the data base. Further, a respective method and computer program product is provided. |
