The method provides for taking by a customer of a shopping cart and passing the entry checkpoint, taking out of products from shelved cabinets with weight sensors and putting into the shopping cart, monitoring the number of products and calculation of the sum payable.Human body communication system is being used.Customer is identified by means of a pre-coded shopping cart when passing through the checkpoint and touching the sensor element of the checkpoint and the cart handle,following which the customer is let into the shopping area.Customer opens cabinet door,retouches its handle and the cart handle simultaneously, also sensor element and the cart handle while going through the checkout barrier. Customer is informed about charged sum, after paying by a card the customer leaves shopping area. The invention provides also a system for embodiment of the mentioned method.

A customer behavioural system (100) in a store (10), the customer behavioural system (100) comprising a sensor arrangement (110) comprising one or more sensors (114a-c) and a behavioural analysis module (120). The behavioural analysis module (120) is configured to determine at least one behavioural feature (160) of a customer (20) based on sensor data from said one or more sensors (114a-c) and/or determine at least one motion event (160) of a customer (20) based on sensor data from said one or more sensors (114a-c), and determine behavioural information (122) for said customer (20) based at least on one determined behavioural feature (140) and/or at least one determined motion event (160).

A wireless tag reading device of an embodiment includes: a housing portion formed by a bottom surface portion and a side surface portion erected upward from the bottom surface portion; an opening through which an article is allowed to be taken in and out of the housing portion; a reading unit that reads tag information from a wireless tag attached to the article housed in the housing portion via the opening by transmitting and receiving a radio wave to and from the wireless tag; a detection unit that detects a position of the article in the housing portion; and an announcement unit that makes an announcement to prompt approach of the article to a predetermined position of the housing portion based on output of the detection unit.

Techniques described herein are directed to, among other things, utilizing a self-centering user interface to receive information associated with a transaction. For instance, a computing device may receive a first input at a first location of a display. The computing device may then determine a positioning for the user interface, where the user interface may be substantially centered about the first location. In some instances, the computing device may display the user interface using the positioning. The computing device may then receive a second input corresponding to swipe from the first location of the display to a second location of the display. The computing device may then determine a symbol included in the user interface based at least in part on the second input. In some instances, the user interface includes a keypad for entering a personal identification number associated with a payment instrument.

A system and method for interaction monitoring in a retail environment that includes executing a first monitoring system and thereby generating a first evaluation of customer selection of items; executing a second monitoring system and thereby generating a second evaluation of customer selection of items; determining monitoring alignment between the first evaluation and the second evaluation of a first customer; and triggering an action in response to the monitoring alignment.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a skip-scanning identification method and apparatus, a self-service cash register terminal and system. The method includes: obtaining a video of a user scanning an item; determining posture data of the user based on the obtained video; determining, according to the posture data of the user, a time period in which a scanning action of the user takes place; receiving a scanning result of the item; and determining whether the user has skipped scanning the item based on the scanning result and the time period.

A method and system for generating perceivable data representing a digital order is provided. A GUI receives a user selection of a particular button of a plurality of buttons. Each button of the plurality of buttons is for adding a respective menu or catalog item to a checkout cart. The particular button displays within its border at least one line of copy and at least one emoji, where the at least one emoji indicates the respective menu or catalog item. The at least one line of copy provides a text description of the respective menu or catalog item and is displayed in at least a minimum font point size and at least a minimum color contrast ratio relative to a background of the particular button. The GUI is then updated to indicate that the respective menu or catalog item for the particular button is added to the checkout cart.

A system and method for interaction monitoring in a retail environment that includes executing a first monitoring system and thereby generating a first evaluation of customer selection of items; executing a second monitoring system and thereby generating a second evaluation of customer selection of items; determining monitoring alignment between the first evaluation and the second evaluation of a first customer; and triggering an action in response to the monitoring alignment.

The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and method and an information processing system that make it possible to perform more appropriate information provision. Processing relating to settlement of a commercial transaction is performed and log information relating to the settlement is generated, and the generated log information relating to the settlement is supplied to a server, which performs processing relating to provision of the log information relating to the settlement, without the intervention of a commercial transaction processing unit that performs processing relating to the commercial transaction. Further, processing relating to settlement of a commercial transaction is performed by a given method corresponding to a settlement service selected from a plurality of settlement services that can be utilized for the settlement of the commercial transaction and log information relating to the settlement corresponding to the settlement service is generated.

The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and method and an information processing system that make it possible to perform more appropriate information provision. Processing relating to settlement of a commercial transaction is performed and log information relating to the settlement is generated, and the generated log information relating to the settlement is supplied to a server, which performs processing relating to provision of the log information relating to the settlement, without the intervention of a commercial transaction processing unit that performs processing relating to the commercial transaction. Further, processing relating to settlement of a commercial transaction is performed by a given method corresponding to a settlement service selected from a plurality of settlement services that can be utilized for the settlement of the commercial transaction and log information relating to the settlement corresponding to the settlement service is generated.