TELE-INVENTORY SYSTEM, AND IN-SHOP TERMINAL AND REMOTE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS FOR THE SYSTEM

• US 20080027838A1
• Filed: 09/27/2007
• Published: 01/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: SAWASAKI, Naoyuki
• Application Number:
  US11/862,770
• Publication Number:
  US 20080027838A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0875 Itemisation or classification of parts, supplies or services, e.g. bill of materials

Abstract

A tele-inventory system for inventorying various kinds of commodities in a shop by an operator from a remote management apparatus installed remotely from the shop.

Claims

1. A remote management apparatus for use in a tele-inventory system in which various kinds of object commodities in a shop are inventoried by a human operator from the remote management apparatus, comprising:

image-receiver means for receiving images of the object commodities from a image-transmitter means for transmitting images of the object commodities taken by a camera of the shop;

display means for displaying the taken images of the object commodities which images have been received by the image-receiver means;

makers means for selectively labeling the taken image of an individual object commodity pointed by the human operator in the displayed taken images, with either one of a predetermined mark and a special mark other than the predetermined mark; and

counter means for counting the number of images of the object commodities which images each have been labeled with the predetermined mark by the marker means.

2. A remote management apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

instruction-transmitter means for transmitting instructions of the human operator to the shop.

3. A remote management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the marked image, which is the image labeled with the predetermined special mark by the marker means, is returned to the shop together with instructions of the operator.

4. A remote inventory management method, comprising:

receiving images of object commodities from a image-transmitter means for transmitting images of the object commodities taken by a camera of the shop;

displaying the taken images of the object commodities which images have been received by the image-receiver means;

selectively labeling the taken images of an individual object commodity pointed by a human operator in the taken images displayed by the displaying, with either one of a predetermined mark and a special mark other than the predetermined mark; and

counting the number of images of the object commodities which images each have been labeled with the predetermined mark by said selectively labeling.