A cashierless tracking system uses a biometric sensor disposed at the entry of a store or the entry of a shelf or an entry to a section of a store is configured to capture biometric feature aspects of a user. Cashierless shopping is enabled without requiring a user to supply mobile phone or device to identify themselves. Instead, processing and classification of biometric features occur via a neural network to identify at least one label representing classified features of the user, the label being used to identify a profile for the user. A plurality of sensors in the store produces data to identify a take of an item by a single user or by a group of users tied to a single account. Included tracking embodiments involve overlapping cameras, skeletal tracking, microphone input, feature extraction and/or feature engineering. The take of the item is chargeable to an electronic shopping cart of the user. Items may be charged or accounted for in relation to user activity, store membership, subscription, entitlement, direct debit, etc.

To appropriately execute a receipt generating process based on whether or not an application is installed on a mobile terminal as the target communication device. A printer driver according to the invention has an installation decision unit that determines if a specific application is installed on a mobile device targeted for communication; a receipt generation decision unit that determines whether or not to generate a paper receipt and/or electronic receipt based on the decision of the installation decision unit; and receipt generating process units that execute paper receipt and/or electronic receipt generating processes according to the decision of the receipt generation decision unit.

To appropriately execute a receipt generating process based on whether or not an application is installed on a mobile terminal as the target communication device. A printer driver according to the invention has an installation decision unit that determines if a specific application is installed on a mobile device targeted for communication; a receipt generation decision unit that determines whether or not to generate a paper receipt and/or electronic receipt based on the decision of the installation decision unit; and receipt generating process units that execute paper receipt and/or electronic receipt generating processes according to the decision of the receipt generation decision unit.

A checkout-payment device includes a table on which an item can be placed; a touch screen display; a camera for shooting the item on the table; and a controller configured to perform an operation for recognizing the item based on an image captured by the camera, display an item recognition result on the touch screen display, and start a confirmation waiting time during which the controller continues the item recognition operation and the user can confirm the item recognition result, followed by transitioning to a state in which the user's instructions for payment execution is acceptable.

A checkout-payment device includes a controller configured to recognize items to be purchased by a user from an image captured by a camera, make checkout and payment for the recognized items, and perform face recognition to identify the user based on an image of the user’s face captured by a second camera, wherein, upon recognition of an age-restricted item, after identifying a user, the controller performs age verification based on information on the age of the identified user to determine whether the user is subject to the age restrictions. The device also includes a touch screen display configured to display results of operations for item recognition, checkout and payment, and face recognition.

The same workstation supports an electro-optical reader for reading bar code symbols, and a radio frequency (RF) antenna of an RF identification (RFID) reader for reading RFID tags, through a window that is transmissive to light and to RF energy. The RF antenna is mounted in an interior cavity of the workstation that is bounded by electrically conductive walls and the window. An RF reflector behind the RF antenna reflects the RF energy radiated by the RF antenna out of the interior cavity through the window along a direction generally perpendicular to the window.

Example implementations relate to determining cash drawer access. An example controller can detect a request to access an integrated cash drawer, determine a source of the request, and filter the request based on the determined source. In some examples, in response to a rejection during filtering, access to the integrated cash drawer can be denied and in response to an allowance during filtering access to the integrated cash drawer can be allowed.

A handy terminal has a housing, a secondary battery embedded in the housing, and a terminal portion including a charging terminal for charging the secondary battery, and is used by gripping the housing with one hand, wherein: the housing is provided with a grip assumed region extending, within a predetermined range, upward from the lower end of the front surface, the back surface, the left-side surface, and the right-side surface in a vertical direction and capable of being touched by one gripping hand of an operator during operation; and the terminal is provided outside the grip assumed region in the right-side surface.

A method for determining whether shoppers are eligible for frictionless checkout is disclosed. The method may include obtaining image data captured using a plurality of image sensors positioned in a retail store; analyzing the image data to identify at least one shopper at one or more locations of the retail store; detecting, based on the analysis of the image data, at least one product interaction event associated with an action of the at least one shopper at the one or more locations of the retail store; based on the detected at least one product interaction event, determining whether the at least one shopper is eligible for frictionless checkout; and in response to a determination that the at least one shopper is ineligible for frictionless checkout, causing delivery of an indicator that the at least one shopper is ineligible for frictionless checkout.

A registration apparatus for registering commodity information includes a bar code reader configured to read commodity information from a symbol attached to a commodity, a wireless tag reader configured to read tag information stored in a wireless tag attached to a commodity, a first cancel key, and a processor configured to upon reading of tag information stored in a wireless tag via the wireless tag reader, acquire commodity information associated with the tag information and register the acquired commodity information as first data, upon reading of commodity information from a symbol via the bar code reader, register the read commodity information as second data, and upon detection of the first cancel key being operated, cancel registration of the commodity information registered as the first data.