Abstract: Techniques for generating an alert based on absence of a given person in a transaction are provided. The techniques include monitoring, via video, a transaction, wherein the transaction includes presence of a given person in the transaction, relating the video of the transaction to a corresponding portion of a transaction log (TLOG), using the video and corresponding portion of the TLOG to detect if the given person in the transaction is present, and generating an alert if the given person is not present at the transaction.

Abstract: Techniques for automatically calibrating one or more regions of interest for video surveillance are provided. The techniques include at a user-defined frequency, determining if one or more regions of interest (ROIs) are present within a field of view of a camera, if one or more ROIs are present within the field of view of the camera, automatically calibrating the one or more ROIs within the field of view of the camera, and if one or more ROIs are not present within the field of view of the camera, sending an alert to a user.

Abstract: An approach that detects potentially fraudulent transactions is provided. In one embodiment, there is a fraud detection tool including, an identification component configured to identify a first person present within a zone of interest at a point of sale (POS) device using a set of sensor devices; a transaction component configured to determine whether the POS device has performed a first transaction and a second transaction while the first person is present within the zone of interest at the POS device; an analysis component configured to: analyze a transaction type of the first transaction and the second transaction; and detect whether the second transaction is potentially fraudulent based on a determination of whether the POS device has performed a first transaction and a second transaction while the first person is within the zone of interest at the POS device, and an analysis of the transaction type of the second transaction.

Abstract: An approach that automatically distinguishes between in-store customers and in-store employees is provided. In one embodiment, there is a learning tool configured to construct a model for an in-store employee; and a classifying tool, further comprising matching tool configured to: match attributes between a particular person and the constructed models for an in-store employee, the classifying tool configured to: classify persons into categories of employees and customers based on amount of matching attributes between a particular person and the model for an in-store employee.

Abstract: Techniques for using transactional and visual event information to facilitate loss prevention are provided. The techniques include obtaining video of one or more visual events at a point of sale environment and one or more transaction log entries that correspond to the video, wherein the one or more transaction log entries comprise one or more transactional events, categorizing each event as one of one or more model events, using each categorized event to create a revised transaction log, wherein the revised transaction log comprises a sequence of categorized events, wherein each categorized event is a combination of the one or more transactional events and the one or more visual events, examining the revised transaction log to correct one or more mis-categorizations, if any, and revise one or more model event categories with the one or more corrected mis-categorizations, if any, and using the revised transaction log to facilitate loss prevention.

Abstract: An approach that dynamically learns a set of attributes of an operator of a point of sale (POS) is provided. In one embodiment, there is an attribute tool, including an extraction component configured to receive sensor data of a set of moving objects, and extract a set of attributes from each of the set of moving objects captured within the scan area at the POS; an identification component configured to update an appearance model with the set of attributes from each of the set of moving objects; and an analysis component configured to analyze the appearance model to identify at least one of the set of moving objects as an operator of the POS.

Abstract: A powder medicine administering apparatus includes: an upper body including a lower surface, and a medicine storage chamber having an upper opening portion opened on the lower surface; a lower body including an upper surface, and a medicine receiving chamber which has a lower opening portion, and which is recessed in a downward direction from the lower opening portion. The lower body is relatively slid with respect to the upper body so that the lower surface of the upper body is slidably moved on the upper surface of the lower body to be switched between a connection state and a non-connection state. The medicine receiving chamber is arranged to be moved in a one section from the standby position to the discharge position so that entire of the lower opening portion of the medicine receiving chamber is within the upper opening portion of the upper body.

Abstract: A non-scan detect system for a retail checkout station includes a non-scan detect module. The non-scan detect module, when operated, causes the non-scan detect system to detect the passing of an item across a scanner device of a retail checkout station, determine that the item passing across the scanner device was not registered as a scan, establish a potential non-scanned item based on the item not being registered as a scan, obtain an image of the potential non-scanned item, establish a scanned item based on an item passing across the scanner device being registered as a scan, extract features associated with the scanned item, compare the features associated with the scanned item with the image of the potential non-scanned item, and trigger an actual non-scan if the features of the scanned item do not substantially match the image of the potential non-scanned item.

Abstract: A method for detecting a non-scan at a retail checkout station includes detecting the passing of an item across a scanner device of a retail checkout station, obtaining an image of the item passing across the scanner, detecting a scan of an item passing across the scanner to establish a scanned item, and establishing a register associated with the scanned item. A scan occurs if the image of the item passing across the scanner substantially matches the register associated with the scanned item. Conversely, a non-scan is triggered when the image of the item passing across the scanner does not match the register associated with the scanned item.

Abstract: A medicine administering device for nasal cavities of a patient suffering from nasal allergy or the like. The medicine administering device comprises a medicine administering device main body including a part defining a powdery medicine accommodating chamber, and a spray nozzle located at a tip end side of the main body. A pump is disposed at a base end side of the medicine administering device main body to discharge air within the pump through the powdery medicine accommodating chamber to the spray nozzle upon being pressed from an outside of the pump. Additionally, a restricting device is disposed within the pump to restrict a displacement amount of the pump in accordance with first and second kinds of pressing positions at which the pump is pressed. The first and second kinds of pressing positions lie respectively in first and second directions which are perpendicular to each other.

Abstract: A medicine cartridge including a medicine accommodating body having a plurality of medicine accommodating sections formed side by side with each other in a peripheral direction of the medicine accommodating body. Each medicine accommodating section accommodates therein medicine in powder form. A section defining an inflow hole is formed at the inner peripheral side of the medicine accommodating body to supply air into the medicine accommodating section. A section defining an outflow hole is formed at the outer peripheral side of the medicine accommodating body to flow out the medicine introduced by air.

Abstract: Medicine powder is prevented from adhering to the tongue and the like when the medicine powder is being inhaled, discomfort due to the sense of taste is relieved, and a prescribed amount of medicine powder is enabled to be administered efficiently. With regard to a long mouthpiece 16, the length L of its held-in-the-mouth area 16C to be held in the mouth 19 is set at approximately 80 mm. This enables one end of the held-in-the-mouth area 16C to be inserted deep into the oral cavity 22 when the held-in-the-mouth 16C is held in the mouth 19. Accordingly, the medicine powder can be discharged in a position beyond sweetness sensing parts 24A, saltiness sensing parts 24B, sourness sensing parts 24C and bitterness sensing parts 24D of the tongue 24. Thereby, a patient can inhale the medicine powder comfortably without sensing bitterness, sourness, sweetness and the like of the medicine powder.

Abstract: A powder medicine administering device includes a main body, an air supply section, and a movable member slidably attached to the main body, and arranged to be moved relative to the main body from a first position through a second position to a third position. One of the main body and the movable member includes a side wall portion defining a medicine storage chamber including an opening closed by a sliding surface of the other of the main body and the movable member at the second position of the movable member, and a medicine discharge passage. The other of the main body and the movable member is formed with a medicine carrying chamber connected with the opening of the medicine storage chamber at the first position of the movable member, and connected with the medicine discharge passage at the third position of the movable member.

Abstract: A powder medicine administering device includes a main body formed with a powder medicine discharge passage for discharging a powder medicine, and a nozzle member removably attached to the main body, and formed with a nozzle passage connected with the powder medicine discharge passage of the main body, and arranged to receive the powder medicine in a closed state. The nozzle member is arranged to be changed from the closed state to an opened state when the nozzle member is attached to the main body, to discharge the powder medicine received in the nozzle passage.

Abstract: A mouthpiece 15 is configured to be provided with a plurality of air nozzles 22 which are positioned around an admission port, and from which the air to enclose the surroundings of medicine powder flow discharged from the admission port 20 is blown off. Accordingly, when the breath is inhaled while an outer body 21 of the mouthpiece 15 is being held in the mouth, the air to be blown off from the air nozzles 22 forms an air curtain 24 to enclose the surroundings of the medicine powder flow 23 discharged from the admission port 20. Thereby, medicine powder included in the medicine powder flow 23 is prevented, by the air curtain 24, from adhering to the surface of the tongue, the internal surface of the oral cavity and the like. Thus, the medicine powder can be inhaled comfortably while unnecessary taste of the medicine powder such as sweetness, saltiness, sourness, bitterness and the like, is not being sensed.

Abstract: This invention attempts to provide a composition for intranasal administration which has markedly lower risk of developing side effects compared to oral formulation, which promptly exhibits analgesic effects, and which has excellent bioavailability. The composition for nasal absorption comprises a carrier of calcium carbonate and/or calcium phosphate having an average particle size of 500 ?m or less and an effective dose of an opioid analgesic uniformly distributed and attached to the carrier.

Abstract: A medicine cartridge including a medicine accommodating body having a plurality of medicine accommodating sections formed side by side with each other in a peripheral direction of the medicine accommodating body. Each medicine accommodating section accommodates therein medicine in powder form. A section defining an inflow hole is formed at the inner peripheral side of the medicine accommodating body to supply air into the medicine accommodating section. A section defining an outflow hole is formed at the outer peripheral side of the medicine accommodating body to flow out the medicine introduced by air.

Abstract: A medicine administering device for nasal cavities includes (a) a medicine accommodating chamber configured to accommodate at once a powdery medicine used in a plurality of administrations; (b) a spray nozzle for spraying the powdery medicine into nasal cavities, the spray nozzle communicating with the medicine accommodating chamber; and (c) a pump for supplying an air into the medicine accommodating chamber and forcing the powdery medicine by the air out of the spray nozzle into the nasal cavities.

Abstract: An image processing system comprises a plurality of memories to which image data is input, a control circuit for selecting areas for image processing from the image data input to the memories, and a plurality of DSPs connected to the memories and performing image processing of the selected image data selected by the control circuit. The present invention provides a an image processing system and method where selected image data including overlap areas can be sent from memories to DSPs by entering the same image data into a plurality of memories, without requiring transfers of overlap areas between DSPs, such that the image processing speed is improved.

Abstract: A blister pack for an inhalant medicator has a plurality of medical powder storage chambers spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction. The inhalant medicator includes a pricking tool with a pair of parallel pins that prick inflow and outflow holes in one of the medical powder storage chambers during a preliminary operation of inhalant medication. The inflow and outflow holes are spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance in a direction parallel to a lid panel of the blister pack to produce turbulent airflow within the medical powder storage chamber during inhalation during which the medical powder is inhaled by a patient's breathing. The medical powder storage chambers are dimensioned and designed to properly regulate or control properties of the airflow passing through the medical storage chamber, to ensure the airflow is suitable for the medical powder stored in the storage chamber.