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Methods and apparatus for product price verification and information display

  • US 9,311,665 B2
  • Filed: 07/02/2009
  • Issued: 04/12/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A customer price verification and information display station comprising:

  • a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader for broadcasting an RFID interrogation signal to an RFID tag affixed to a particular product specimen presented at the station and receiving an encoded RFID return message from the RFID tag including information particular to the particular product specimen programmed into the RFID tag by a manufacturer of the particular product specimen;

    a communication interface for communicating with a remote data processing server;

    a processor for controlling the communication interface to relay the encoded RFID return message to the server and to receive a transmission from the server including decoded data representing the information particular to the particular product specimen, organized and formatted to include display formatting codes that the display station processes, the formatting codes generated by the server;

    a display driven by the processor to process the formatting codes to display the decoded data received from the server including the information particular to the particular product specimen, and wherein the formatting codes include one or more font sizes, one or more font styles for displaying the decoded data on the display, codes indicating attention catching features when displaying, and designation of display registers in which the formatting codes are to be stored;

    a barcode scanner for scanning a barcode affixed to the particular product specimen; and

    a motion sensor for detecting the presence of a customer approaching the station;

    wherein when the motion sensor detects the presence of the customer, the processor is configured to activate the barcode scanner, and when the bar code scanner detects the barcode, the processor is configured to activate the RFID reader for broadcasting the interrogation signal.

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