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Method for updating the position of electronic price tag by graphic code

  • US 10,163,373 B2
  • Filed: 08/02/2016
  • Issued: 12/25/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for updating the position of electronic price tag by graphic code, the method comprising following steps:

  • step 1;

    placing n(n≥

    2) kinds of commodities on a commodity shelf, attaching a commodity information graphic code on a package of each commodity;

    placing a plurality of commodities of the same kind continuously, each kind of commodity successively occupying a length of l1, l2, . . . , ln on the commodity shelf;

    mounting an electronic price tag screen on the commodity shelf and below the commodities, wherein a length of the electronic price tag screen is d=l1+l2+. . . +ln;

    step 2;

    displaying at least n position graphic codes with a predetermined interval between two adjacent graphic codes on the electronic price tag screen;

    step 3;

    carrying out a first scan by a supermarket tally clerk, scanning the commodity information graphic code of a x-th kind of commodity (x=1,2, . . . ,n) on the package of the x-th kind of commodity, sending commodity information to a server;

    step 4;

    the x-th kind of commodity occupying a length lx on the commodity shelf, carrying out a second scan on a nearest position graphic code adjacent to a position of lx/2 by the supermarket tally clerk, to locate a position of the x-th kind of commodity, sending information of the position of the x-th kind of commodity to the server;

    step 5;

    after the server receives the information of the position of the x-th kind of commodity from step 4, sending a plurality of size graphic codes with different size information to the position of the x-th kind of commodity, which was determined in step 4;

    step 6;

    selecting one of the plurality of size graphic codes from step 5 with a third scan, according to the length lx of the commodity shelf occupied by the x-th kind of commodity in step 1 by the supermarket tally clerk, and sending size information from the third scan to the server;

    step 7;

    generating a commodity tag by the server according to the commodity information and the size information, and sending the commodity tag to the position of the x-th kind of commodity in step 4, displaying the commodity tag on the electronic price tag screen.

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