Store system, reading apparatus, and sales registration apparatus

• US 8,805,092 B2
• Filed: 07/01/2013
• Issued: 08/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Wakebe, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Mehta, Bhavesh
• Assistant Examiner(s): Harandi, Siamak
• Application Number:
  US13/932,165
• Publication Number:
  US 20130297433A1
• Time in Patent Office: 407 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 382/218
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/204 comprising interface for record bearing medium or carrier for electronic funds transfer or payment credit
• 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

Abstract

A store system includes a reading unit that includes an image acquiring unit and an image output unit, and a sales registration apparatus that includes a similar image detection unit and a sales registration unit. The image acquiring unit acquires an image that is captured by an image capturing unit. The image output unit outputs the acquired image. The similar image detection unit detects an image of a product that is similar to at least a portion of the output image by referencing product management information in which information relating to sales registration of a product and an image of the product are associated for each product. The sales registration unit registers sales of a product based on information relating to the sales registration associated with the image of the detected product.

Claims

1. A store system comprising:

a memory in which product identification data assigned respectively to first, second, and third products displayed in a store, and respective product names, respective unit prices, and respective images of the first, second, and third products are stored;

a display configured to display the respective product names, the respective unit prices, and the respective images of the first and second products in response to a determination that the respective images of the first and second products are similar to at least a portion of an image captured by an image capturing unit, wherein the image is input when outlines extracted from a plurality of images sequentially captured by the image capturing unit are compared with each other and a portion in which there is a change between the outlines is detected as a product; and

a sales registration circuit configured to register, based on the unit price of a single one product selected from the first and second products displayed on the display, sale of the single one product.

2. The system according to claim 1,

wherein the memory is configured to store further respective product categories to which the first, second, and third products belong, and

the display is further configured to display the respective product identification data and the respective product categories of the first and second products of which the respective images are similar to at least the portion of the image captured by an image capturing unit.

3. The system according to claim 1,

wherein the first and second products of which the respective product names, the respective unit prices, and the respective images are displayed on the display are displayed on first and second display regions of the display, respectively, and

the sales registration circuit is configured to register the sale of the single one product in response to detection of a touch operation performed on one of the first or second display regions.