Fraunhofer Institute for Information and Data Processing and Mettler Toledo have been more than effective in providing us with newer check-out scales. They’ve come up with a fresh one, able enough to tell between an apple and an orange. These scales are already in fashion in Europe and are set to be introduced in North America. A digital camera that takes photographs of the item, now it’s over to the algorithm that compares the images and differentiates them. No doubt, it makes use of the database to do it. Seemingly effective, yet another facet distinguishes even the slightest difference in colors and comes out with the correct details of the object mounted over it. So, you have the most accurate and scrupulous weighing machine that can peep into the semi-transparent plastic bags.
Source: OhGizmo
