Checkout imaging mechanism

• US 9,406,059 B1
• Filed: 03/25/2015
• Issued: 08/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NCR Voyix Corporation
• Original Assignee: NCR Corporation
• Inventors: Chavez-Laurico, Lakambini Abalde, Mendoza, Joseph Jover Pion, Regis, Anthony Pages, White, Daniel Frederick
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Thien M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brown, Claude J
• Application Number:
  US14/667,871
• Time in Patent Office: 496 Days
• Field of Search: 235/383
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7335 Graphical querying, e.g. query-by-region, query-by-sketch, query-by-trajectory, GUIs for designating a person/face/object as a query predicate end-user interface involving hot spots associated with the video H04N21/4725; end-user interface for selecting a Region of Interest H04N21/4728
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/208 Input by product or record sensing, e.g. weighing or scanner processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/209 Specified transaction journal output feature, e.g. printed receipt or voice output
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0054 with control of supplementary check-parameters, e.g. weight or number of articles
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0063 with means for detecting the geometric dimensions of the article of which the code is read, such as its size or height, for the verification of the registration
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 5/00 Receipt-giving machines cash registers giving receipts G07G1/00

Abstract

A checkout system includes a scanner, a camera positioned to capture images of items being scanned by the scanner, and a receipt generator coupled to receive information of items being scanned and images of the items being scanned, correlate the information and images, and provide a link to the images on a receipt.

Claims

1. A checkout system comprising:

a scanner;

a camera positioned to capture images of items being scanned by the scanner; and

a receipt generator coupled to receive information of items being scanned and images of the items being scanned, correlate the information and images, and provide a link to the images on a receipt.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the images comprise a video of the items being scanned.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the link to the images comprises a bar code.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the receipt is a printed receipt.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the receipt is an electronic receipt.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the link uniquely identifies a video of the images being scanned.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the receipt has a link for each individual item scanned that uniquely identifies a video segment of each item being scanned.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the receipt has a link for each individual item scanned that uniquely identifies an image of each item being scanned, and wherein the information and images are correlated as a function of the time of scanning and capturing the images.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the images are stored on a remote server.

10. A method comprising:

scanning an item at a checkout counter;

imaging the scanning of the item at the checkout counter; and

creating a receipt that includes a link associated with the item, the link providing access to the imaging of the item.

11. The method of claim 10 and further comprising scanning and imaging multiple items, wherein the link provides access to the imaging of the multiple items during a transaction.

12. The method of claim 11 and further comprising:

generating a link for each item scanned; and

providing a list of the items scanned on the receipt, each item having an associated link identifying imaging of each item.

13. The method of claim 10 wherein the imaging comprises a video of the items being scanned.

14. The method of claim 10 wherein the link to the images comprises a bar code encoding an IP address.

15. The method of claim 10 wherein the receipt is a printed receipt.

16. A checkout system comprising:

a scanner;

a camera supported to provide imaging of items being scanned by the scanner;

circuitry coupled to receive signals from the scanner representative of the items being scanned and to receive imaging from the camera of the items being scanned; and

a memory device coupled to the circuitry and having a program stored thereon for execution by the circuitry to create a receipt that includes a link associated with the items being scanned, the link providing access to the imaging of the items.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the circuitry comprises a printer to print the receipt.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein the images comprise a video of the items being scanned.

19. The system of claim 16 wherein the link to the images comprises a bar code.

20. The system of claim 16 wherein the receipt has a link for each individual item scanned that uniquely identifies a video segment of each item being scanned.