The present application provides payment methods and systems. One method comprising: receiving first identification data of a vehicle from a road side unit of an electronic toll collection (ETC) system, wherein the first identification data comprises identification information of the vehicle; receiving transaction data of a fuel dispenser, wherein the transaction data comprises information determined based on the fuel dispenser of a refueling fee of the vehicle; determining identity information of an owner of the vehicle; and transmitting the identity information and the information of the refueling fee to a server.

Methods of detecting scan avoidance events are disclosed herein. An example method includes measuring, by a weighing scale associated with a barcode reader, an unstable weight over a timeframe having a duration that is greater than a threshold duration. The method further includes monitoring for (i) the barcode reader's failure, during the first timeframe, to transition from a first state in which an imager of the barcode reader does not transmit images for decoding to a second state in which the imager captures images over an FOV including a product scanning region and transmits the captured images for decoding; or (ii) the barcode reader's failure to decode a barcode from images captured over the FOV including the product scanning region during the first timeframe; and generating an alert indicating a potential scan avoidance event responsive to both the measured unstable weight over the timeframe and one of (i) or (ii).

Weber Process invention relates to checkout registers. To be more specific, this invention pertains process of shopping and purchasing goods in wholesale, retail, and all other places of business that include placing items in a shopping cart, in a basket, or on any mechanism for transferring merchandise, such as a cart at a home improvement store for purchase. It utilizes technology of anti-theft devices such as a scanner system in opposite way. The Weber Process records pre-installed programmable data on pre-installed microchip/scanner communication device/receiver chip installed on packaging of merchandise/trade item, registers it, and totals amount for sale to customer. The Weber grid system is permanently mounted on shopping carts to allow for shopping bags to be clipped to it, for shopping bags to be clipped so they remain in an open position.

Examples provide a tag manager component that identifies a plurality of stationary RFID tags located within a three-dimensional space outside an item display area based on an analysis of RFID tag data associated with the plurality of RFID tag readers. A zone detection component analyzes item data associated with a plurality of items corresponding to the plurality of stationary RFID tags and location data associated with the three-dimensional space using a set of per-item criteria. The set of per-item criteria includes a per-item minimum threshold number of items per unit of three-dimensional space and/or a minimum threshold stationary time-period. A verification component analyzes sensor data and/or transaction data to verify whether the three-dimensional space is a termination zone. If the three-dimensional space is a termination zone, an inventory manager component removes the plurality of items from perpetual inventory.

A product identification method comprises instructing an antenna in a product verification area to collect first product identification data of identified products in the case where a user enters the product verification area of a product identification passage; instructing the antenna in the product verification area to collect product verification data of identified products in the case where a user enters a product settlement area of the product identification passage; and determining user product data based on the first product identification data and the product verification data. A product verification area is provided to eliminate a tag outside the passage being falsely read and reduce a tag false reading probability.

In one embodiment, a log-in control apparatus has a processor which controls an operation for log-in to an information terminal moving along with a carrier for carrying a commodity to be purchased. The processor detects a state in which the commodity is placed on the carrier, in cooperation with a sensor attached to the carrier. The processor detects the operation for log-in to the information terminal, in cooperation with an input device included in the information terminal. When the processor detects the operation for log-in, in a case in which the processor detects the state in which the commodity is placed on the carrier, the processor judges that the operation for log-in is ineffective.

Methods and apparatus are described that use machine vision and machine learning to eliminate many of the steps of a typical retail transaction. For example, implementations are contemplated in which a user simply removes an item from a retail location to effect the transaction.

A workstation captures images of illuminated symbols with a solid-state imager. In an embodiment, the workstation includes a removable camera module in the workstation away from the imager. The camera module captures a secondary image through a window. The captured image of the illuminated symbol and the captured secondary image are independently processed.

According to one embodiment, a commodity registration device includes an optical reading unit with a reading range. The optical reading unit is configured to acquire an image of a commodity in the reading range. A wireless tag reading unit is configured to read a commodity code from a wireless tag of the commodity in the reading range. A processor determines whether the commodity is in the reading range of the optical reading unit and causes a notification unit to indicate the commodity has been registered if the wireless tag reading unit successfully reads the commodity code from the wireless tag while the commodity is determined to be in the reading range of the optical reading unit.

Provided is a shopping payment system and shopping basket that allow for correct payment of the purchase price of products in a short time. The shopping payment system includes a product database that store the product identification codes of products, the prices of the products, and the weights of the products such that each of the product identification codes for identifying each product, each of prices of the product, and each of weights of the product are associated with each other, a product identification code acquisition unit that acquires the product identification code of a product read before the product is put into a shopping basket, a registered weight acquisition unit that acquires the weight of the product associated with the product identification code acquired by the product identification code acquisition unit 201, a measured weight acquisition unit that acquires the measured value of the total weight of one or more product put in the shopping basket, a product price payment unit that when the total weight of the products acquired by the registered weight acquisition unit and the measured value of the total weight of the products acquired by the measured weight acquisition unit 203 are matched, pays the purchase price of the products, and an alarm output unit that when the weights are not matched, outputs an alarm message.