Commodity sales registration processing system and commodity information registering apparatus

• US 7,527,196 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2006
• Issued: 05/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Yasuo, Sano, Kouichi, Kiji, Yasuhito, Murofushi, Nobuo, Kunieda, Shigetoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Le; Thien M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TAYLOR, APRIL ALICIA
• Application Number:
  US11/369,925
• Publication Number:
  US 20060261161A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,155 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 235/383, 235/385, 235/462.45, 235/462.46, 235/472.01
• US Class Current: 235/383
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0045 with a code reader for reading of an identifying code of the article to be registered, e.g. barcode reader or radio-frequency identity [RFID] reader
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0054 with control of supplementary check-parameters, e.g. weight or number of articles

Abstract

Tag information which has been previously read but is not currently read is retrieved every time tag information is collectively read by a wireless tag reading device. When corresponding tag information is detected, sales information of a commodity is acquired from this tag information, and the acquired sales information is registered in a sales registering section. Further, display contents in a display device are changed in response to detection of the tag information which has been previously read but is not currently read. Furthermore, when information concerning a commodity for sale is input through a barcode reader, sales information of the commodity is acquired from this input information, and the acquired sales information is registered.

Claims

1. A commodity sales registration processing system comprising:

a sales registering section in which sales information of a commodity is registered;

a wireless tag reading device which collectively reads tag information from wireless tags attached to respective commodities placed in a read region at fixed intervals;

retrieving means for retrieving tag information which has been previously read but is not currently read every time the tag information is collectively read by the wireless tag reading device;

first commodity sales registration processing means for acquiring sales information of a commodity from corresponding tag information and registering the acquired sales information in the sales registering section when the tag information is detected by the retrieving means;

informing means for performing an informing operation in response to detection of the corresponding tag information by the retrieving means;

inputting means for inputting information concerning a commodity for sale; and

second commodity sales registration processing means for acquiring sales information of a commodity from information input through the inputting means, and registering the acquired sales information in the sales registering section.

2. The commodity sales registration processing system according to claim 1, wherein the inputting means is a barcode reading device which reads a barcode attached to a commodity for sale, and

the second commodity sales registration processing means is means for acquiring sales information of a commodity from a barcode read by the barcode reading device and registering the acquired sales information in the sales registering section.

3. The commodity sales registration processing system according to claim 1, comprising a display device for an operator,

wherein the informing means is means for changing display contents in the display device in response to detection of corresponding tag information by the retrieving means.

4. The commodity sales registration processing system according to claim 1, further comprising an area which temporarily stores tag information of the wireless tags collectively read by the wireless tag reading device.

5. The commodity sales registration processing system according to claim 4, wherein the retrieving means checks whether an ID of the tag information stored in the area exists in the currently read tag information by the wireless tag reading device every time tag information is collectively read by the wireless tag reading device.

6. A commodity sales registration processing system comprising:

a sales registering section in which sales information of a commodity is registered;

a wireless tag reading device which collectively reads tag information from wireless tags attached to respective commodities placed in a read range at fixed intervals;

first commodity sales registration processing means for acquiring sales information of each commodity placed in the read region and registering the acquired sales information in the sales registering section based on the tag information collectively read by the wireless tag reading device;

retrieving means for retrieving tag information which has been previously read but is not currently read every time the tag information is collectively read by the wireless tag reading device;

informing means for performing an informing operation in response to detection of corresponding tag information by the retrieving means;

inputting means for inputting information concerning a commodity for sale; and

second commodity sales registration processing means for acquiring sales information of a commodity from the information input through the inputting means and registering the acquired sales information in the sales registering section.

7. A commodity sales registration processing system comprising:

a sales registering section which registers sales information items on commodities;

a wireless tag reading device which reads tag information items at once from wireless tags attached to respective commodities placed in a read region at regular intervals;

retrieving means for retrieving a tag information item which has been previously read, but is not currently read, each time the tag information items are read at once by the wireless tag reading device;

first commodity sales registration processing means for acquiring, when the tag information item is retrieved by the retrieving means, the sales information item on a corresponding commodity from the retrieved tag information item, and registering the acquired sales information in the sales registering section; and

informing means for performing an informing operation in response to retrieval of the tag information item by the retrieving means.

8. The commodity sales registration processing system according to claim 7, wherein the informing means displays a name of the commodity corresponding to the retrieved tag information item.

9. The commodity sales registration processing system according to claim 7, wherein the informing means displays a name of the commodity corresponding to the retrieved tag information item and a commodity read number corresponding to the number of tag information items each retrieved by the retrieving means.

10. The commodity sales registration processing system according to claim 7, wherein the informing means displays an image of the commodity corresponding to the retrieved tag information item.

11. The commodity sales registration processing system according to claim 7, further comprising:

inputting means for inputting information concerning a commodity for sale; and

second commodity sales registration processing means for acquiring sales information on the commodity from the information input by the inputting means, and registering the acquired sales information in the sales registering section.

12. The commodity sales registration processing system according to claim 11, wherein the inputting means is a barcode reader which reads a barcode attached to the commodity for sale.

13. The commodity sales registration processing system according to claim 12, wherein the second commodity sales registering processing means acquires the sales information on the commodity, from the barcode read by the barcode reader, and registers the acquired sales information in the sales registering section.

14. The commodity sales registration processing system according to claim 7, further comprising an area which temporarily stores storage information of the wireless tags collectively read by the wireless tag reading device.

15. The commodity sales registration processing system according to claim 14, wherein the retrieving means checks whether an ID of the tag information stored in the area exists in the currently read tag information by the wireless tag reading device every time tag information is collectively read by the wireless tag reading device.