Tunnel-type digital imaging-based self-checkout system for use in retail point-of-sale environments

• US 20080252985A1
• Filed: 09/12/2007
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Metrologic Instruments Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Metrologic Instruments Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Inventors: Zhu, Xiaoxun, Ren, Jie, Knowles, C. Harry, Xian, Tao, Liu, Yong, Good, Timothy, Giordano, Patrick, Kotlarsky, Anatoly, Tao, Xi, Liu, JiBin, Essinger, Steven, Gardner, John, Kearney, Sean, Ellis, Duane, Zhuo, Ming, Yakovlev, Konstantin
• Granted Patent: US 7,954,719 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 359/641
• CPC Class Codes: A47F 9/046 Arrangement of recording means in or on check-out counters record carriers or readers per se G06K
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10544 by scanning of the records by radiation in the optical part of the electromagnetic spectrum
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10782 Slot readers
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10861 sensing of data fields affixed to objects or articles, e.g. coded labels postal sorting B07C3/14, conveying articles B65G47/48
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0036 Checkout procedures
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 3/00 Alarm indicators, e.g. bells

Abstract

A tunnel-type digital imaging-based self-checkout system capable of generating and projecting coplanar illumination and imaging planes into a 3D imaging volume within a tunnel structure. The tunnel structure is supported above a package conveyor in a retail POS environment, and employs automatic package identification, profiling and tracking techniques during self-checkout operations.

Claims

1-7. -7. (canceled)

8. A tunnel-type digital imaging-based system capable of generating and projecting coplanar illumination and imaging planes into a 3D imaging volume within a tunnel structure.

9. The tunnel-type digital imaging-based system of claim 8, wherein said tunnel structure is supported above a package conveyor in a retail POS environments, and employs automatic package identification, profiling and tracking techniques during checkout operations.