Self-service POS terminal device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11210644-B2
Application number	US-201916975935-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 13, 2019
Priority date	Feb 28, 2018
Publication date	Dec 28, 2021
Grant date	Dec 28, 2021

Abstract

A self-service POS terminal device comprises a first antenna and a second antenna, and reads, via each of the first antenna and the second antenna, commodity-related information stored in IC tags of commodities. The first antenna is positioned at a position for reading the IC tags of the commodities loaded in a shopping basket at a prescribed position, and forms a first reading area. The second antenna is positioned at a position for reading the IC tags of the commodities taken out from the shopping basket at the prescribed position and put into a shopping bag, and forms a second reading area.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A self-service POS terminal device having a first antenna and a second antenna and configured to read, through each of the first antenna and the second antenna, commodity-related information stored in an IC tag of a commodity, wherein:
the first antenna is disposed at a position to read the IC tag of the commodity loaded in a shopping basket at a predetermined position and forms a first reading area whereas the second antenna is disposed at a position to read the IC tag of the commodity taken out from the shopping basket at the predetermined position and put into a shopping bag and forms a second reading area;
each of the first antenna and the second antenna is configured to emit an electric wave at predetermined time intervals t 1 and t 2 in order to read the IC tag of the commodity; and
the self-service POS terminal is configured to start commodity registration in response to a triggering event that the commodity-related information is read through the first antenna from the IC tag of the commodity loaded in the shopping basket at the predetermined position, and to carry out the commodity registration by reading, through the second antenna, the commodity-related information stored in the IC tag of the commodity without using the commodity-related information read through the first antenna for the commodity registration.

2. The self-service POS terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein the self-service POS terminal device produces an alarm when the commodity-related information stored in the IC tag of the commodity is read through the first antenna after reception of input of completion of the commodity registration.

3. The self-service POS terminal device according to claim 1 , comprising a main body portion of the self-service POS terminal device, a left side plate portion extending from a left end of the main body portion towards a customer side, and a right side plate portion extending from a right end of the main body portion towards the customer side, the first antenna being disposed inside the left side plate portion or the right side plate portion, the second antenna being disposed inside the main body portion facing the left side plate portion and the right side plate portion.

4. The self-service POS terminal device according to claim 3 , comprising a bottom plate portion formed between a bottom of the left side plate portion and a bottom of the right side plate portion, a shopping bag reserving holding portion formed on the bottom plate portion to reserve a plurality of the shopping bags and to hold one of the shopping bags in an opened state, and a shopping basket placing portion formed outside the left side plate portion or the right side plate portion, which is provided with the first antenna, and configured to receive the shopping basket placed thereon.

5. The self-service POS terminal device according to claim 3 comprising a display device built in an upper part of the main body portion and configured to display an operation screen, and an AI (Aerial Imaging) plate disposed in front of the display device and configured to form an image in the air, the operation screen being displayed in the air through the AI plate.

6. The self-service POS terminal device according to claim 5 , wherein the self-service POS terminal device receives input via the operation screen by picking up, with an image pickup device, an image of a fingertip of a customer on the operation screen displayed in the air and detecting a position of the fingertip of the customer on the operation screen displayed in the air.

7. The self-service POS terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the self-service POS terminal device is configured to store commodity codes of all commodities as a commodity code list when the commodity codes are read through the first antenna from the IC tag of the commodities loaded in the shopping basket at the predetermined position, and to update the commodity code list until checkout for prices of the commodities for which the commodity registration is completed.

8. The self-service POS terminal device according to claim 2 , wherein the alarm is a voice message including a commodity name.

9. The self-service POS terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein the self-service POS terminal device is configured to produce an alarm when the commodity-related information stored in the IC tag of the commodity is read through the second antenna after a predetermined time interval t 3 has elapsed from completion of checkout for a price of the commodity for which the commodity registration is completed.

Assignees

• Nec Platforms Ltd

Inventors

• Mikami Hayato
• Sugiyama Satoru
• Iwata Akihisa
• Watanabe Motohisa
• MOTOHASHI Misako
• Nagano Takuro

Classifications

• G06Q20/18 Primary

  involving self-service terminals [SST], vending machines, kiosks or multimedia terminals · CPC title

• G06K7/10425

  the interrogation device being arranged for interrogation of record carriers passing by the interrogation device · CPC title

• G06Q20/208

  Input by product or record sensing, e.g. weighing or scanner processing · CPC title

• G06Q30/0633 Primary

  Managing shopping lists, e.g. compiling or processing purchase lists (shipping orders G06Q10/083; order filling G06Q10/087) · CPC title

• G06K7/10297

  arrangements for handling protocols designed for non-contact record carriers such as RFIDs NFCs, e.g. ISO/IEC 14443 and 18092 (cryptographic protocols H04L9/00; network security protocols H04L63/00; real-time communication protocols in data switching networks H04L65/00; network protocols for data switching network services H04L67/00) · CPC title