Shopping cart mounted portable data collection device with tethered dataform reader
First Claim
1. A portable data collection device comprising:
- a) a housing defining an interior region for device electrical circuitry, the housing adapted to be affixed to a shopping cart;
b) a hand held dataform reader for reading a dataform affixed to an item, the reader releasably disposed on the housing and being continuously actuated when disposed on the housing and selectively actuatable when removed from the housing;
c) the electronic circuitry supported within the housing interior region and electrically coupled to the reader, the electronic circuitry being operatively coupled to a printer for printing out at least one of;
a coupon a recipe and a receipt, the electronic circuitry including;
i) a processor for controlling operations of the electronic circuitry and the dataform reader;
ii) decoding circuitry for decoding the dataform read by the dataform reader to generate decoded data related to the item;
iii) communications circuitry responsive to the decoding circuitry for transmitting a portion of the decoded dataform data to a remote device and receiving data relating to the item from the remote device;
iv) electronic memory for storing at least a portion of the decoded dataform data and at least a portion of the data received from the remote device;
d) a visual display screen supported by the housing for displaying in human recognizable form at least a portion of the decoded dataform data and at least a portion of the data retrieved from the remote device; and
e) input means supported by the housing for interfacing with the processor.
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Abstract
A portable data collection device adapted to be mounted to a shopping cart includes a housing having a clamping assembly for releasably clamping the housing to a pushing bar of a shopping cart. The housing defines an interior region supporting device electronics. The device further includes an interactive touch sensitive visual display screen and a retractable, tethered dataform reader releasably mounted on the housing. When mounted on the housing, an imaging assembly and an illumination assembly of the reader are continuously actuated to read a dataform presented to the reader. When removed from the housing, the reader is actuated by depressing a trigger on the reader. The device also includes a magnetic stripe reading assembly and communications circuitry including a radio transceiver module.
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27 Claims
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1. A portable data collection device comprising:
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a) a housing defining an interior region for device electrical circuitry, the housing adapted to be affixed to a shopping cart; b) a hand held dataform reader for reading a dataform affixed to an item, the reader releasably disposed on the housing and being continuously actuated when disposed on the housing and selectively actuatable when removed from the housing; c) the electronic circuitry supported within the housing interior region and electrically coupled to the reader, the electronic circuitry being operatively coupled to a printer for printing out at least one of;
a coupon a recipe and a receipt, the electronic circuitry including;i) a processor for controlling operations of the electronic circuitry and the dataform reader; ii) decoding circuitry for decoding the dataform read by the dataform reader to generate decoded data related to the item; iii) communications circuitry responsive to the decoding circuitry for transmitting a portion of the decoded dataform data to a remote device and receiving data relating to the item from the remote device; iv) electronic memory for storing at least a portion of the decoded dataform data and at least a portion of the data received from the remote device; d) a visual display screen supported by the housing for displaying in human recognizable form at least a portion of the decoded dataform data and at least a portion of the data retrieved from the remote device; and e) input means supported by the housing for interfacing with the processor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 26)
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16. A portable data collection device comprising:
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a) a housing defining an interior region for device electrical circuitry operatively coupled to a printer for printing out at least one of;
a coupon, a recipe and a receipt, the housing adapted to be affixed to a shopping cart;b) a dataform reading assembly coupled to the electrical circuitry and including a camera assembly disposed in a modular camera housing, the camera assembly supported by the housing and removable therefrom, the reader assembly including circuitry from generating a decoded representation of a bar code associated with an item, the camera assembly being selectively actuatable when removed from the housing; c) communications circuitry including a radio frequency transceiver module disposed, at least in part, within the housing, the transceiver module transmitting at least a portion of the decoded representation to a remote data device and receiving data associated with the item from the remote device; and d) a visual display screen for displaying at least a portion of the data associated with the item received from the remote device. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27)
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