System and method for notifying a cashier of the presence of an item in an obscured area of a shopping cart
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1. A method of facilitating a checkout at a shopping cart checkout station, comprising the steps of:
- inhibiting processing of items on the shopping cart in the event of a detection of a non-empty obscured section of the shopping cart; and
processing the items upon receipt of a command input from an operator at the checkout station.
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Abstract
A method of facilitating a checkout at a shopping cart checkout station is provided, comprising the steps of: inhibiting processing of items on the shopping cart in the event of a detection of a non-empty obscured section of the shopping cart; and processing the items upon receipt of a command input from an operator at the checkout station. A checkout station and apparatus for implementing the method are also provided.
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42 Claims
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1. A method of facilitating a checkout at a shopping cart checkout station, comprising the steps of:
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inhibiting processing of items on the shopping cart in the event of a detection of a non-empty obscured section of the shopping cart; and
processing the items upon receipt of a command input from an operator at the checkout station. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A shopping cart checkout station, comprising:
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a detector for detecting a non-empty obscured section of a shopping cart, the detector being configured to generate a halt command upon the detection of the non-empty obscured section; and
a processor for processing items on the shopping cart for checkout, the computer being in communication with the detector and being configured to inhibit the processing of the items on the shopping cart upon receipt of the halt command from the detector. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. An apparatus for facilitating a checkout of items in a shopping cart at a computer-based checkout station, the apparatus comprising:
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a detector for detecting a non-empty obscured section of the shopping cart at the checkout station; and
a communication interface for interfacing the detector with the checkout station, the communication interface being configured to command the checkout station to halt processing of the items upon the detection of the non-empty obscured section. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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