Arrangement and method for fitting rooms

• US 10,019,738 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2015
• Issued: 07/10/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mariella Labels Oy
• Original Assignee: Mariella Labels Oy
• Inventors: Virnes, Jenni, Nurmisalo, Minna
• Primary Examiner(s): TRIEU, VAN THANH
• Application Number:
  US15/523,525
• Publication Number:
  US 20170342731A1
• Time in Patent Office: 987 Days
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 1/1266 Cubicles for dressing; Toilets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/06 Arrangements for sorting, selecting, merging, or comparing data on individual record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/077 Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10 by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0281 Customer communication at a business location, e.g. providing product or service information, consulting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 Rating or review of business operators or products
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/246 Check out systems combined with EAS, e.g. price information stored on EAS tag anti-theft systems in point of sale systems G07G3/003
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/248 EAS system combined with another detection technology, e.g. dual EAS and video or other presence detection system

Abstract

An arrangement and a method for observing fitting rooms (100) and/or fitting areas (200), wherein following steps are performed in the method: detecting number, type, size and/or color of products brought to the fitting room and/or fitting area by detecting presence of remotely readable identification tags, electronic article surveillance tags and/or electronic price labels in the fitting room and/or fitting area (200) and reading product information linked to the remotely readable identification tag, electronic article surveillance tag and/or electronic price label, comparing detected number, type, size and/or color of products to predefined criteria, the criteria relating to the number, type, size and/or color of products, and generating an alarm based on the detected number, type, size and/or color of products if at least one predefined criterion is fulfilled.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring fitting rooms and/or fitting areas comprising:

detecting a number, type, size and/or colour of products brought to the fitting room and/or fitting area by detecting a presence of a remotely readable identification tag, electronic article surveillance tag and/or electronic price label in the fitting room and/or fitting area and reading product information linked to the remotely readable identification tag, electronic article surveillance tag and/or electronic price label,

comparing the detected number, type, size and/or colour of products to predefined criteria, the criteria relating to the number, type, size and/or colour of products,

generating an alarm based on the detected number, type, size and/or colour of products if at least one predefined criterion is fulfilled,

wherein the predefined alarm criteria is fulfilled when more than two sizes and/or colour of a same product are detected in the fitting room or fitting area, more than two different sizes of a same product are detected in the fitting room or fitting area and/or more than one different types of product are detected in the fitting room or fitting area, the different types being clothes for children, clothes for men and clothes for women.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the product information is read directly from the remotely readable identification tag, electronic article surveillance tag and/or electronic price label.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the product information is read from a database based on the information of the remotely readable identification tag, electronic article surveillance tag and/or electronic price label.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the alarm is generated to a control system of the store, to a mobile device such as a mobile phone or tablet and/or any device such as cashier equipment.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the remotely readable identification tag, the electronic article surveillance tag and/or the electronic label is a radio frequency tag such as an RFID-tag.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein detecting the presence and/or number of remotely readable identification tags, electronic article surveillance tags and/or electronic price labels is performed by a gate detector, radio frequency tag reader or an RFID-gate.

7. An arrangement for monitoring fitting rooms and/or fitting areas, comprising:

a sensor for detecting a presence of a remotely readable identification tag, electronic article surveillance tag and/or electronic price label,

wherein the arrangement is configured to;

detect a number, type, size and/or colour of products brought to the fitting room and/or fitting area by detecting the presence of the remotely readable identification tags, electronic article surveillance tags and/or electronic price labels in the fitting room and/or fitting area and reading product information linked to the remotely readable identification tag, electronic article surveillance tag and/or electronic price label,

compare the detected number, type, size and/or colour of products to predefined criteria, the criteria relating to the number, type, size and/or colour of products, and

generate an alarm based on the detected number, type, size and/or colour of products if at least one predefined criterion is fulfilled,

wherein the predefined alarm criteria is fulfilled when more than two sizes and/or colour of a same product are detected in the fitting room or fitting area, more than two different sizes of a same product are detected in the fitting room or fitting area and/or more than one different types of product are detected in the fitting room or fitting area, the different types being clothes for children, clothes for men and clothes for women.

8. An arrangement according to claim 7, wherein the arrangement is configured to read the product information directly from the remotely readable identification tag, electronic article surveillance tag and/or electronic price label.

9. An arrangement according to claim 8, wherein the arrangement is configured to read the product information from a database based on the information of the remotely readable identification tag, electronic article surveillance tag and/or electronic price label.

10. An arrangement according to claim 7, wherein the arrangement is configured to generate the alarm to a control system of the store, to a mobile device such as a mobile phone or tablet and/or any device such as cashier equipment.

11. An arrangement according to claim 7, wherein the remotely readable identification tag, the electronic article surveillance tag and/or electronic label is a radio frequency tag.

12. An arrangement according to claim 7, wherein the sensor for detecting presence of a remotely readable identification tag, electronic article surveillance tags and/or electronic price labels is a gate detector, radio frequency tag reader such as an RFID-tag reader or an RFID-gate.