Commodity sales registration processing system and commodity information registering apparatus

• US 7,527,197 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2007
• 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: Kunieda, Shigetoshi, Matsumoto, Yasuo, Sano, Kouichi, Kiji, Yasuhito, Murofushi, Nobuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Frech; Karl D
• Assistant Examiner(s): TAYLOR, APRIL ALICIA
• Application Number:
  US11/705,925
• Publication Number:
  US 20070138271A1
• Time in Patent Office: 811 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 235/383, 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 information registering apparatus comprising:

a display section;

communicating means for communicating with a wireless tag in which commodity identifying information is stored, and reading the commodity identifying information;

displaying means for displaying in the display section an image corresponding to the commodity identifying information read by the communicating means;

registering means for registering commodity information corresponding to the commodity identifying information; and

deleting means for deleting the image corresponding to commodity identifying information of a wireless tag which fails to perform communication when the displaying means displays in the display section the image corresponding to the commodity identifying information read by the communicating means and then communication with the wireless tag fails,

wherein, when the communicating means reads the commodity identifying information from the wireless tag, the registering means registers commodity information corresponding to the read commodity identifying information in the wireless tag, and the displaying means displays the image corresponding to the commodity identifying information in the display section.

2. The commodity information registering apparatus according to claim 1, wherein commodity information corresponding to a numerical quantity input from an inputting means is registered after commodity information corresponding to the commodity identifying information is registered by the registering means.

3. The commodity information registering apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when commodity information corresponding to the commodity identifying information is registered by the registering means and then a function which communicates with the wireless tag reads the same commodity identifying information as the registered commodity identifying information, the registered commodity information is deleted in response to an input from an inputting means.

4. The commodity information registering apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, barcode reading means for reading a barcode is stopped when the communicating means operates, and the communicating means is stopped when the barcode reading means operates.

5. A commodity information registering apparatus comprising:

a display section which displays a plurality of image display frames;

communicating means for communicating with a plurality of wireless tags in which respective commodity identifying information items are stored, and reading the commodity identifying information items at once from the wire tags;

registering means for registering commodity information items respectively corresponding to the commodity identifying information items read at once by the communicating means;

display controlling means for causing commodity images to be respectively displayed in the image display frames displayed by the display section, the commodity images respectively corresponding to the commodity identifying information items read at once by the communicating means; and

deleting means for deleting the commodity image corresponding to the commodity identifying information items stored in a wireless tag which fails to communicate with the communicating means, from the commodity images displayed in the image display frames.

6. The commodity information registering apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising selecting means for selecting a commodity image from among the commodity images displayed in the image display frames displayed in the display section.

7. The commodity information registering apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the selecting means is allowed to input the number of commodities indicated by the commodity image selected by the selecting means, and the registering means registers a commodity information item concerning the input time of commodities.

8. The commodity information registering apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising barcode reading means for reading barcode information.

9. The commodity information registering apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising operation switching means for stopping an operation of the barcode reading means when the communicating means operates.

10. The commodity information registering apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

determining means for determining whether or not each of the commodity information items respectively corresponding to the commodity identifying information items read at once by the communicating means is registered by the registering means;

cancellation display means for causing the display section to display a message indicating a registration cancellation confirmation, when the determining means determines that said each of the commodity information items is registered; and

deleting means for deleting a commodity registration information item corresponding to said each of the commodity information items in response to inputting of an instruction for registration cancellation, when the message is displayed by the display section.