INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND STORE SYSTEM

• US 20090313142A1
• Filed: 06/11/2009
• Published: 12/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Shimizu, Kenji, Hiruma, Akio, Kubota, Takahide, Hiramatsu, Kenya
• Application Number:
  US12/482,575
• Publication Number:
  US 20090313142A1
• 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 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

An information terminal displays a coordinate screen acquired from a coordinate database on a liquid crystal display, acquires data of an article code of clothes coordinated in the coordinate image from the coordinate database, acquires data of inventory status and display status associated with the acquired article code from an inventory database which stores and saves an article code of an individual article in association with inventory status of the article in a warehouse and display status of the article in a sales floor, and displays an inventory screen which reports a place where the article exists as an article inventory list on the liquid crystal display.

Claims

1. An information providing device comprising:

a display unit for displaying information;

an operation input unit for carrying out operation input of information; and

a controller which executes processing to;

acquire data of a coordinate image from a coordinate database which stores and saves a coordinate image formed by picking up an image of coordinated clothes as an article in association with an articles code of the coordinated clothes in the coordinate image;

display a coordinate screen including the acquired coordinate image on the display unit;

acquire data of an article code of the coordinated clothes in the coordinate image included in the coordinate screen, from the coordinate database;

acquire data of inventory status in a warehouse and data of display status in a sales floor associated with the acquired article code, from an inventory database which stores and saves an article code of an individual article in association with inventory status of the article in a warehouse and display status of the article in a sales floor; and

display, on the display unit, an inventory screen which reports a place where the article exists on the basis of the acquired data of inventory status and display status.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein if the acquired data of the display status in the sales floor indicates that there is a displayed article, the controller only displays the display information in the sales floor on the inventory screen without displaying the inventory information in the warehouse, and if the acquired data of the display status in the sales floor indicates that there is no article displayed, the controller only displays the inventory information in the warehouse on the inventory screen without displaying the display information in the sales floor.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the controller executes processing to:

allow a display designation of display position of the selected and designated clothes by the operation input unit;

output a command to request transmission of an article code to plural sales floor readers as RFID readers which are installed at plural positions on a display rack for displaying clothes in the sales floor and acquire an article code from a wireless tag attached to clothes via short-range wireless communication in accordance with the display designation of display position;

search a display position definition which stores each of the sales floor readers and a display position in association with each other, and acquires the display position associated with the sales floor reader transmitting the acquired article code; and

display the acquired display position on the display unit.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the controller executes processing to:

allow a display designation of a display position of the selected and designated clothes by the operation input unit;

output a command to request transmission of an article code to a smart shelf containing a sales floor reader as an RFID reader which acquires an article code, by using an antenna arranged at plural positions on a display rack having one or plural shelves to display clothes on, from a wireless tag attached to clothes displayed on the display rack via short-range wireless communication, and transmits and outputs the acquired article code by each of the antennas, in accordance with the display designation of display position;

search a display position definition which stores each of the antennas and a display position in association with each other, and acquires the display position associated with the antenna prescribing the unit of the transmitted and outputted article code; and

display the acquired display position on the display unit.

5. A computer-readable medium having a computer program stored thereon which, when executed by a computer, will cause the computer to:

acquire data of a coordinate image from a coordinate database which stores and saves a coordinate image formed by picking up an image of coordinated clothes as an article in association with an articles code of the coordinated clothes in the coordinate image;

display a coordinate screen including the acquired coordinate image on the display unit;

acquire data of an article code of the coordinated clothes in the coordinate image included in the coordinate screen, from the coordinate database;

acquire data of inventory status in a warehouse and data of display status in a sales floor associated with the acquired article code, from an inventory database which stores and saves an article code of an individual article in association with inventory status of the article in a warehouse and display status of the article in a sales floor; and

display, on the display unit, an inventory screen which reports a place where the article exists on the basis of the acquired data of inventory status and display status.

6. A store system comprising:

an entrance reader which is installed at an entrance of a warehouse, has a data communication function with an external device, and acquires an article code from a wireless tag attached to clothes via short-range wireless communication;

an exit reader which is installed at a doorway between the warehouse and a sales floor, has a data communication function with an external device, and acquires an article code from a wireless tag attached to clothes via short-range wireless communication; and

an information providing device including;

a display unit for displaying information;

an operation input unit for carrying out operation input of information;

a data communication unit which communicates data with the entrance reader and the exit reader; and

a controller which executes processing to;

if the information providing device receives an article code that is data-transmitted from the entrance reader, increment the number of articles stocked in the warehouse by one with respect to that article, as update management of an inventory database which stores and saves an article code of an individual article in association with the number of articles stocked in the warehouse and the number of articles displayed in the sales floor with respect to that article;

if the information providing device receives an article code that is data-transmitted from the exit reader, decrement the number of articles stocked in the warehouse by one and increment the number of articles displayed in the sales floor by one with respect to that article, as update management of the inventory database;

acquire data of a coordinate image from a coordinate database which stores and saves a coordinate image formed by picking up an image of coordinated clothes as an article in association with an articles code of the coordinated clothes in the coordinate image;

display a coordinate screen including the acquired coordinate image on the display unit;

acquire data of an article code of the coordinated clothes in the coordinate image included in the coordinate screen, from the coordinate database;

acquire data of inventory status in the warehouse and data of display status in the sales floor associated with the acquired article code, from the inventory database; and

display, on the display unit, an inventory screen which reports a place where the article exists on the basis of the acquired data of inventory status and display status.