A checkout device in a point of sales (POS) system includes a table on which one or more merchandise items can be placed, a scale configured to measure a total weight of the merchandise items placed on the table, a scanner configured to read an image displayed on a terminal operated by a customer, and a processor. The processor is configured to, upon receipt of the image by the scanner, determine one or more merchandise items that have been registered by the customer using the terminal, determine a total weight of the registered merchandise items using a weight predetermined for each merchandise item, determine whether a difference between the determined total weight and the measured total weight exceeds a threshold, and upon determining that the difference exceeds the threshold, issue an abnormal command.

Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are presented for a propensity module based optimization. An apparatus comprises a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to receive an electronic submission for a pass/fail interface, identify information from the electronic submission to suggest to a user for entering into an input field for the pass/fail interface prior to submitting the electronic submission to the pass/fail interface to reduce a likelihood that the electronic submission will be rejected at the pass/fail interface, determine the likelihood that the electronic submission will be accepted by the pass/fail interface, and submit the electronic submission to the pass/fail interface in response to the likelihood satisfying a threshold.

Kingo shopping device is an improvement of delivery services consist of an outdoor digital delivery box able the consumers receives automatically their orders, goods and packages more easily and securely in a presentable manner through specific easy new method let the delivery team scan the goods purchased receipt and drop the packages securely into the device. This new smart futures of this device characterized by the cash and certified check payment and the wireless WiFi mode permit the consumers enjoy receiving orders in proper presentable manner with absolutely consumer time free.

A wireless tag that is not guaranteed to be located within a predetermined area is prevented from being read as a valid wireless tag. A communication device includes: an antenna; a reference tag; a reception unit; and a determination unit. The reception unit uses the antenna to sequentially receive signals wirelessly transmitted from a reference tag whose relative position to the antenna is known and a reading target tag different from the reference tag. The determination unit determines that the signal transmitted from the reading target tag and received by the reception unit is invalid based on a phase of the signal transmitted from the reference tag and received by the reception unit.

According to an embodiment, a store management system includes a store entry management device and a sales management device. The store entry management device reads identification data, of a shopper, for using the electronic receipt service from an information terminal of a shopper who wants to enter the store. The sales management device causes the store entry management device to permit the shopper to enter the store when the settlement data can be acquired based on the read shopper identification data.

An interactive shopping system, or smart cart. The system allows a user to select items in a store and complete a purchase without having to wait in lines or interact with store personnel. The system can have a container for holding products selected by at least one user, a user interface, a scanner in communication with the user interface, a processor in communication with the user interface, and a data storage comprising computer instructions executable by the processor. A user can select products, place them within the container, scan the products, and initiate a payment transaction to complete a purchase.

In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful for a retail facility to maintain information regarding product location, in part, from correlating a shopper's cart path and their purchased items with those of other shoppers. In some approaches, the methods and apparatuses may determine a cart path for a particular shopping cart by analyzing aisle markers captured by an image capturing device in the shopping cart, associate that cart path with the purchased items from that shopping cart, and compare the associated cart path and purchased items with similar information from other customers. In some examples, by comparing the associated cart paths and purchased items form a plurality of customers, an aisle location of one of the retail items is identified and the database of aisle locations and retail items may be updated accordingly.

A sales management device includes a communication interface and a processor. The communication interface is configured to communicate with a mobile terminal on which a user registers purchases and a clerk terminal within a store. The processor is configured to acquire terminal identification information set for the mobile terminal, acquire status information indicating an operating status of the mobile terminal identified by the terminal identification, acquire a communication connection state of the mobile terminal, and outputs the terminal identification information to the clerk terminal in response to (i) the communication connection state of the mobile terminal being unconnected and (ii) the status information of the mobile terminal acquired before the communication connection state of the mobile terminal becoming unconnected indicating a non-checkout status.

An electronic apparatus operated by a sales clerk includes a display, a camera configured to capture an image of a code displayed on a screen of a portable registration apparatus operated by a customer in a store, the code corresponding to one or more commodities to be purchased and check data indicating whether each of said one or more commodities needs to be checked by the sales clerk before being checked out, and a processor configured to, when the image of the code is captured by the camera, acquire information indicating said one or more commodities to be purchased and the check data using the code, and control the display to display a screen showing one or more commodities that need to be checked by the sales clerk based on the acquired information.

A product recognition apparatus includes: an acquisition unit which acquires an image of a plurality of target products; a storage unit which stores a reference image of a product and a product name; a first setting unit which identifies image parts of the target products from the image, calculate, for each of the target products, the degree of similarity, and set a predetermined number of products as candidate products in a descending order of the degrees of similarity; a second setting unit which calculates, for each of the target products, a difference between a first candidate product and a second candidate product, and set a target product based on the difference between the degrees of similarity as a priority target product; and a generation unit which generates a composite image with the image part of each of the priority target products being focused on and a candidate product list.