Camera device and vending device

The utility model provides an image pickup apparatus and a vending apparatus. The imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor configured to sense an image of an article; the image processing module isconfigured to process the image of the article to obtain category information of the article; and the first communication interface is configured to report the category information of the article tothe server. According to the utility model, image processing is locally carried out on the camera device, and only the image processing result is reported to the server, so that the load pressure of the server for network transmission is significantly reduced, and the article identification efficiency is effectively improved. 本公开提供一种摄像装置和售货装置。摄像装置包括：图像传感器，被配置为感测物品的图像；图像处理模块，被配置为对物品的图像进行处理，以得到物品的类别信息；第一通信接口，被配置为将物品的类别信息上报给服务器。本公开通过在摄像装置本地进行图像处理，仅将图像处理结果上报给服务器，显著减小了网络传输的服务器的负荷压力，有效提高物品识别效率。