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Rebecca Jernigan

KARLSRUHE, Germany -- There is no doubt as to the usefulness of self-service scales at the grocery store – they reduce waiting time and stress on customers. And, of course, you know what produce you picked up better than any cashier would … or do you? What was the number for those apples again? Working on behalf of Mettler-Toledo Inc., an industrial weighing company based in Columbus, Ohio, USA, scientists at Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing IITB have created a webcam module for self-service scales. This device enables the scales to identify automatically what kind of produce has...Read full article

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    In optics, an image is the reconstruction of light rays from a source or object when light from that source or object is passed through a system of optics and onto an image forming plane. Light rays passing through an optical system tend to either converge (real image) or diverge (virtual image) to a plane (also called the image plane) in which a visual reproduction of the object is formed. This reconstructed pictorial representation of the object is called an image.
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