Comments on: Toshiba’s supermarket POS scanner recognizes objects, makes barcodes obsolete http://en.akihabaranews.com/110063/scanner/toshibas-supermarket-pos-scanner-recognizes-objects-makes-barcodes-obsolete?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toshibas-supermarket-pos-scanner-recognizes-objects-makes-barcodes-obsolete Live from Japan ! Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: CyborgSix http://en.akihabaranews.com/110063/scanner/toshibas-supermarket-pos-scanner-recognizes-objects-makes-barcodes-obsolete#comment-93033 CyborgSix Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:54:00 +0000 http://www.akihabaranews.com/?p=110063#comment-93033 Hrm…I see barcodes on small printed stickers on a lot of produce in the store, on just about anything they don’t “shower” to keep fresh.  Also I don’t see them being weighed…Will that be part of the end product?
Still, the image recognition tech is pretty cool.

]]> By: gc9 http://en.akihabaranews.com/110063/scanner/toshibas-supermarket-pos-scanner-recognizes-objects-makes-barcodes-obsolete#comment-93019 gc9 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:46:00 +0000 http://www.akihabaranews.com/?p=110063#comment-93019 Omoshiroi!  I wonder how it distinguishes different quality produce, such as organic vs. non-organic.  Probably the operator has to make sure the organic tag is visible.

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