A coin handling apparatus having: a first coin position; a second coin position; and a pipe for transporting coins from the first to the second coin position. The pipe is jointed and has a rigid, elongate element having a straight, elongate portion and a curved portion at a first end of the straight, elongate portion. The pipe further includes a rigid, curved element. The curved portion and the curved element are connected to define a continuous passageway through the curved element and the elongate element. The curved element, at least before mounting of the pipe in the coin handling apparatus, is rotatable in relation to the elongate element, such that an angle between a first opening of the curved element and a direction extending along the straight elongate portion is variable.

A method of payment terminal operation, including: receiving a payment collection request for a payment from an application, generating a payment initiation request for the payment, sending the payment initiation request to a secure processing system, switching the secure processing system from operation in an unsecured mode to operation in a secured mode in response to receipt of the payment initiation request, facilitating payment information entry, and receiving a payment response notification, generated based on the payment information, at the main processor.

According to one embodiment, a wireless tag reading device includes a product placing portion on which a product is placed, an antenna which is installed in a vicinity of the product placing portion and emits radio waves toward a wireless tag attached to the placed product, and an antenna moving mechanism for moving the antenna along a locus of a concave curve.

According to one embodiment, a bagging device includes a commodity placing unit having an inclined surface and on which a commodity is placed, an openable and closable door provided at the lowermost portion of the inclined surface, determining the position of the commodity placed on the commodity placing unit in a closed state, and allowing the placed commodity to slide outward along the inclined surface in an open state, and a storage mechanism for dropping the slid commodity into a storage body set at a sliding movement destination of the commodity.

There are provided systems and methods for a physical stand for multiple device orientations and peripheral card reader. A device stand may include a dock that allows for placement and securing of a computing device within the device case, such as through a locking or connecting mechanism. The device dock further includes a peripheral component, such as a physical card reader, that allows for reading and entry of card data into the computing device for use with an electronic transaction processing application on the computing device. This allows the computing device to process transactions electronic with an online service provider. Further, the device stand includes a hinge or joint that allows for rotating and inverting of the computing device over a curved extension from a base of the device stand, which allows the computing device to be viewed in multiple directions and orientations.

An accounting system according to the present disclosure includes a terminal that is placed on a table used by a customer, a connection apparatus that is connected to the terminal at the time of accounting, and a server that communicates with the terminal and the connection apparatus via a network. The terminal receives an order for a product from the customer and then transmits table identification information by which the table can be identified and product information regarding the product to the server, the server stores the table identification information and the product information in association with each other as accounting information, and the terminal acquires, when it is connected to the connection apparatus, the accounting information associated with the table identification information from the server and performs accounting processing.

A printer apparatus includes a wearable housing and a paper medium disposed therein, the paper medium including an adhesive label and a backing strip to which the adhesive label is affixed. The adhesive label includes first, second, and third portions affixed to the backing strip, wherein each of the first, second, and third portions is permitted to be peeled off from the backing strip while the others of the first, second, and third portions remain affixed to the backing strip.

A point-of-sale system is a dual-screen stand assembly that includes a merchant terminal and a consumer terminal. The merchant terminal and the consumer terminal can be mated together in a fixed position to form a single unitary stand, or can be separated from each other in a separated position with each terminal serving as its own separate stand. The merchant terminal supports a merchant computing device and is oriented in a merchant-facing direction. The consumer terminal is detachably mated to the merchant terminal and supports a consumer computing device that is oriented in a consumer-facing direction. The point-of-sale system also includes a card reader as part of the customer terminal to perform a payment. The card reader is configured to accepting swipe cards, chip cards or contactless (EMV or NFC) payments.

A scanner apparatus (1A) includes: a housing (11); a hand scanner (20); and a hand scanner holder (30) attached to a side of the housing (11) and configured to hold the hand scanner (20), in which the hand scanner holder (30) includes a base part (31) configured to be attached to the side of the housing (11), the base part (31) includes a pair of holding pieces (34a, 34b) opposed to each other with a first interval therebetween, and the pair of holding pieces (34a, 34b) form a holding recess (34) configured to hold a lower part (21a) of a grasping part (21) of the hand scanner (20), which is inserted, from above the pair of the holding pieces (34a, 34b), between the pair of holding pieces (34a, 34b), in a state in which an upper part (21b) of the grasping part (21) protrudes upward.

According to an embodiment, a self-checkout device has a commodity placing section where a commodity to be purchased can be placed prior to commodity registration processing and a commodity storing section where a commodity can be placed after registration. A commodity registration camera is positioned to capture images for commodity registration processing. A processor is configured to cause the commodity registration camera to capture images of a symbol attached to the commodity passing near the commodity registration camera. The camera also images the vicinity of the placing section and the storage section. Acquired images are stored in a data storage device. The processor executes commodity registration processing based on the commodity symbols and then commodity settlement processing after the commodity registration.