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

• Current Assignee: Wuxi Vision Peak Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Wuxi Vision Peak Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Bao, Jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Walsh, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US15/540,574
• Publication Number:
  US 20180204487A1
• Time in Patent Office: 875 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06112 the marking being simulated using a light source, e.g. a barcode shown on a display or a laser beam with time-varying intensity profile
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/14 using light without selection of wavelength, e.g. sensing reflected white light G06K7/10831 - G06K7/1097 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/1413 1D bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0281 Customer communication at a business location, e.g. providing product or service information, consulting
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/204 specially adapted to be attached to a shelf or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/208 Electronic labels, Labels integrating electronic displays
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/04 Electronic labels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/38 with means for controlling the display position

Abstract

A method for updating the position of electronic price tag by graphic code including: step 1, placing a plurality kinds of commodities on a commodity shelf, mounting an electronic price tag screen on the commodity shelf and below the commodities; step 2, displaying at least n position graphic codes with an even interval on the electronic price tag screen; step 3, carrying out a first scan to send the commodity information to a server; step 4, carrying out a second scan to check a position of the commodity; step 5, sending a plurality of size graphic codes with different size information to a position where the position graphic code in step 4 locates; step 6, selecting a size graphic code with a proper size for a third scan by the supermarket tally clerk; step 7, generating a commodity tag by the server.

Claims

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, . . . , l_n 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+. . . +l_n;

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 l_x on the commodity shelf, carrying out a second scan on a nearest position graphic code adjacent to a position of l_x/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 l_x 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.

2. The method for updating the position of electronic price tag by graphic code of claim 1, wherein, a length of the electronic price tag screen is in a range of 300-400 mm, and a width of the electronic price tag screen is in a range of 25-35 mm.

3. The method for updating the position of electronic price tag by graphic code of claim 1, wherein, in step 5, the plurality of size graphic codes are three size graphic codes marked with “

large”

, “

medium”

, and “

small”

to the position of the x-_th kind of commodity in step 4;

if the supermarket tally clerk selects the size graphic code marked with “

large”

to scan in step 6, then an electronic price tag with a length of 14.57 cm is generated in step 7;

if the supermarket tally clerk selects the size graphic code marked with “

medium”

to scan in step 6, then an electronic price tag with a length of 9.67 cm is generated in step 7;

if the supermarket tally clerk selects the size graphic code marked with “

small”

to scan in step 6, then an electronic price tag with a length of 5.13 cm is generated in step 7.

4. The method for updating the position of electronic price tag by graphic code of claim 1, wherein, the graphic code is a bar code or a two-dimensional code.