SYNCHRONIZING SCAN ACTIVITY WITH LOSS PREVENTION CAMERAS

• US 20150269549A1
• Filed: 03/20/2014
• Published: 09/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: HERRING, Dean Frederick, SMITH, Jeffrey John
• Application Number:
  US14/221,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20150269549A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/203 Inventory monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/208 Input by product or record sensing, e.g. weighing or scanner processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3224 Transactions dependent on location of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0081 the reader being a portable scanner or data reader G07G1/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 3/003 Anti-theft control theft alarms G08B13/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/33 for indoor environments, e.g. buildings
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

System, method, and computer program product to perform an operation comprising receiving, via a computer network connection, information for a product scan indicating that a product has been scanned for purchase by a mobile checkout application executing on a mobile device, and storing, in a computer-readable storage medium, a plurality of attributes describing the product scan and identification information of an image capture device in the retail store configured to capture video of the product scan.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, via a computer network connection, information for a product scan indicating that a product has been scanned for purchase by a mobile checkout application executing on a mobile device; and

storing, in a computer-readable storage medium and by operation of one or more computer processors, a plurality of attributes describing the product scan and identification information of an image capture device in the retail store configured to capture video of the product scan.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

upon determining that the product has been scanned, causing the image capture device to capture an image of the location in the retail store where the product was scanned.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing, in a video captured by the image capture device, a representation of the timestamp, the product identifier, and a mobile device identifier of the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the location of the product scan is determined by at least one of:

determining a location of the mobile device;

determining a product location of the product in the retail store; and

identifying, at a time proximate to the timestamp, at least one of the mobile device and the product in the video captured by the image capture device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the location of the mobile device is determined by at least one of:

(i) triangulating a wireless signal of the mobile device, (ii) detecting a radio-frequency identification (RFID) device of the mobile device, (iii) detecting a near field communication (NFC) device of the mobile device, and (iv) location information provided by the mobile device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the identification information of the image capture device is determined by identifying, in a store layout, the image capture device assigned to monitor the location of the product scan in the retail store.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the product has been scanned comprises receiving a product scan indication from the mobile checkout application, the method further comprising:

storing a mobile device identifier of the mobile device in the compute-readable storage medium.

8. A system, comprising:

one or more computer processors; and

a memory containing a program, which when executed by the one or more processors, performs an operation comprising;

receiving, via a computer network connection, information for a product scan indicating that a product has been scanned for purchase by a mobile checkout application executing on a mobile device; and

storing, in a computer-readable storage medium, a plurality of attributes describing the product scan and identification information of an image capture device in the retail store configured to capture video of the product scan.

9. The system of claim 8, the operation further comprising:

upon determining that the product has been scanned, causing the image capture device to capture an image of the location in the retail store where the product was scanned.

10. The system of claim 8, the operation further comprising:

storing, in a video captured by the image capture device, a representation of the timestamp, the product identifier, and a mobile device identifier of the mobile device.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the location of the product scan is determined by at least one of:

determining a location of the mobile device;

determining a product location of the product in the retail store; and

identifying, at a time proximate to the timestamp, at least one of the mobile device and the product in the video captured by the image capture device.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the location of the mobile device is determined by at least one of:

(i) triangulating a wireless signal of the mobile device, (ii) detecting a radio-frequency identification (RFID) device of the mobile device, (iii) detecting a near field communication (NFC) device of the mobile device, and (iv) location information provided by the mobile device.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the identification information of the image capture device is determined by identifying, in a store layout, the image capture device assigned to monitor the location of the product scan in the retail store.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein determining that the product has been scanned comprises receiving a product scan indication from the mobile checkout application, the operation further comprising:

storing a mobile device identifier of the mobile device in the compute-readable storage medium.

15. A computer program product, comprising:

a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code comprising;

computer-readable program code configured to receive, via a computer network connection, information for a product scan indicating that a product has been scanned for purchase by a mobile checkout application executing on a mobile device; and

computer-readable program code configured to store a plurality of attributes describing the product scan and identification information of an image capture device in the retail store configured to capture video of the product scan.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, further comprising:

computer-readable program code configured to, upon determining that the product has been scanned, cause the image capture device to capture an image of the location in the retail store where the product was scanned.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, further comprising:

computer-readable program code configured to store, in a video captured by the image capture device, a representation of the timestamp, the product identifier, and a mobile device identifier of the mobile device.

18. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the location of the product scan is determined by at least one of:

determining a location of the mobile device;

determining a product location of the product in the retail store; and

identifying, at a time proximate to the timestamp, at least one of the mobile device and the product in the video captured by the image capture device.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the location of the mobile device is determined by at least one of:

(i) triangulating a wireless signal of the mobile device, (ii) detecting a radio-frequency identification (RFID) device of the mobile device, (iii) detecting a near field communication (NFC) device of the mobile device, and (iv) location information provided by the mobile device.

20. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the identification information of the image capture device is determined by identifying, in a store layout, the image capture device assigned to monitor the location of the product scan in the retail store.