FOOD PRODUCT PRICING SCALE WITH AUTOMATED MULTI-LANGUAGE INTERFACE
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1. A multi-language food product scale system, including:
- a weighing station for weighing food items;
a user interface including a display screen;
an RF detection system for outputting an RF field for detecting the presence of an RFID unit within the RF field;
a scale controller connected to control the user interface and connected to receive information from the RF detection system and the weighing station, the scale controller configured to operate such that;
upon receiving RFID unit identification information from the RF detection system, the scale controller utilizes the RFID unit identification information to identify a display language to be used on the display screen and effects operation of the display screen to display information in the identified language.
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Abstract
A scale, such as a food product scale in a perishables department of a store, identifies an operator via an RF detection system, or other operator identification system, and displays information on the scale user interface in a preferred language for the identified operator.
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1. A multi-language food product scale system, including:
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a weighing station for weighing food items; a user interface including a display screen; an RF detection system for outputting an RF field for detecting the presence of an RFID unit within the RF field; a scale controller connected to control the user interface and connected to receive information from the RF detection system and the weighing station, the scale controller configured to operate such that; upon receiving RFID unit identification information from the RF detection system, the scale controller utilizes the RFID unit identification information to identify a display language to be used on the display screen and effects operation of the display screen to display information in the identified language. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method for language customization on a scale system, comprising:
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(a) providing a scale system including a weighing station, a scale controller, a user interface capable of displaying information in at least two languages, and an operator identification mechanism; (b) identifying a scale operator via the operator identification mechanism; (c) based upon the identification made in step (b), identifying a preferred language for the scale operator; (d) the user interface displaying information in the identified preferred language. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 10)
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9. The method of claim 9 wherein,
the scale controller, in response to receiving the RFID unit identification information, accesses the database and either matches the RFID unit identification information to a profile in the database or finds no match; if no match is found, the scale controller creates a new operator profile associated with the RFID unit identification information, the new profile preferred language set to a default language.
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11. A multi-language food product scale system, including
a weighing station; -
a user interface including a display screen; a scale controller connected to control the user interface and connected to receive information from the weighing station, the scale controller configured to operate such that; a scale operator is identified; a display language to be used for the identified operator is automatically identified from among at least two possible languages; operation of the display screen is effected to display information in the identified display language. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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