Abstract: According to one embodiment, a commodity code reading apparatus includes: an image capturing section configured to capture an image picked up by an image pickup section; a code detecting section configured to detect a code symbol from an image of a commodity captured by the image capturing section; a label detecting section configured to detect a label affixed to the commodity from the image of the commodity captured by the image capturing section; a determining section configured to determine whether a relative positional relation between a detection position of the code symbol and a detection position of the label in the image coincides with a positional relation set in advance; and a transmitting section configured to transmit, if the determining section determines that the positional relations coincide with each other, code information stored in the code symbol to an external apparatus together with label information corresponding to the label.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a commodity code reading apparatus includes: an image capturing section configured to capture an image picked up by an image pickup section; a code detecting section configured to detect a code symbol from an image of a commodity captured by the image capturing section; a label detecting section configured to detect a label affixed to the commodity from the image of the commodity captured by the image capturing section; a determining section configured to determine whether a relative positional relation between a detection position of the code symbol and a detection position of the label in the image coincides with a positional relation set in advance; and a transmitting section configured to transmit, if the determining section determines that the positional relations coincide with each other, code information stored in the code symbol to an external apparatus together with label information corresponding to the label.

Abstract: A product information processing apparatus includes: an image importing section which imports an image imaged by an imaging section; a service label detecting section which detects a service label in which incentive content obtained from purchasing of the product is expressed in a visually unrecognizable form, from a product image imported by the image importing section; and a notifying section which notifies the incentive content of the service label detected by the service label detecting section.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing rod-shaped smoking articles which includes a forming section (10) for forming a material layer (K) made up of particles of smoking material and delivering the formed material layer (K); a wrapping section (20) disposed downstream of the forming section (10), for forming a rod (KR) by wrapping the material layer (K) in a web (W); a pair of guide blocks (54) disposed in the terminal end portion of the forming section (10), for guiding the material layer (K); a web shield (56) disposed downstream of the guide blocks (54) as viewed in the direction of delivering the material layer (K), for separating the material layer (K) and the web (W) from each other; a tongue (40) disposed in the start end portion of the wrapping section (20); and injection openings (64, 70, 76) provided to the guide blocks (54), the web shield (56) and the tongue (40), for injecting a liquid flavor additive into the material layer (K).

Abstract: A manufacturing machine manufactures a heat-source rod having a rod-like extrusion-molded article made from a combustible material with axial grooves in the cylindrical surface thereof and a heat-insulating web enveloping the article, and is provided with a apparatus 10 for spouting water to the web W in the process of the web W being fed to a wrapping section 4. The spout apparatus 10 includes an air vibrator 12 with a vibrating rod 34, and a flexible nozzle 36 attached to the rod 34 to extend across the rod 34 and supplied with water from a rate regulating pump 42. While the web W is being fed, the end of the nozzle 36 spouts water to the web W, reciprocating widthways relative to the web W due to vibration of the rod 34, and the water spouted dissolves a binder used in the web W to bind heat-insulating fiber, thereby forming a wet band H, where the wet band H has a waveform continuing along the longitudinal direction of the web W and provides a adhesive region for bonding the article.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing rod-shaped smoking articles has a forming section (10) for forming a material layer (K) made up of particles of smoking material and delivering the formed material layer (K); a wrapping section (20) disposed downstream of the forming section (10), for forming a rod (KR) by wrapping the material layer (K) in a web (W); a pair of guide blocks (54) disposed in the terminal end portion of the forming section (10), for guiding the material layer (K); a web shield (56) disposed downstream of the guide blocks (54) as viewed in the direction of delivering the material layer (K), for separating the material layer (K) and the web (W) from each other; a tongue (40) disposed in the start end portion of the wrapping section (20); and injection openings (64, 70, 76) provided to the guide blocks (54), the web shield (56) and the tongue (40), for injecting a liquid flavor additive into the material layer (K).

Abstract: A manufacturing machine manufactures a heat-source rod having a rod-like extrusion-molded article made from a combustible material with axial grooves in the cylindrical surface thereof and a heat-insulating web enveloping the article, and is provided with a apparatus 10 for spouting water to the web W in the process of the web W being fed to a wrapping section 4. The spout apparatus 10 includes an air vibrator 12 with a vibrating rod 34, and a flexible nozzle 36 attached to the rod 34 to extend across the rod 34 and supplied with water from a rate regulating pump 42. While the web W is being fed, the end of the nozzle 36 spouts water to the web W, reciprocating widthways relative to the web W due to vibration of the rod 34, and the water spouted dissolves a binder used in the web W to bind heat-insulating fiber, thereby forming a wet band H, where the wet band H has a waveform continuing along the longitudinal direction of the web W and provides a adhesive region for bonding the article.

Abstract: In a lens holding device, a plurality of protrusions of equal height are provided oppositely at the front and rear of the periphery of a plastic photographic lens. The plurality of protrusions are substantially equidistant. Three sets of stairs, each having a plurality of steps with a predetermined difference in height between adjacent steps, are provided at positions corresponding to the protrusions in a lens receiving member and a lens pressing member, between which the lens is sandwiched. The position of the lens can be adjusted from a most advanced position to a most retreated position along the optical axis by selecting a preferred step of each of the stairs.