A self-checkout system including a cabinet supported by a floor, a tilt body coupled to a hinge and located inside the cabinet and a support body being slidably coupled to the tilt body. When the support body is located inside the cabinet, the tilt body is balanced about the hinge and the support body is spaced apart from the floor. When the support body is pulled outside the cabinet, a front of the tilt body is rotated about the hinge and the support body engages with the floor.

A self-checkout system including a cabinet supported by a floor, a tilt body coupled to a hinge and located inside the cabinet and a support body being slidably coupled to the tilt body. When the support body is located inside the cabinet, the tilt body is balanced about the hinge and the support body is spaced apart from the floor. When the support body is pulled outside the cabinet, a front of the tilt body is rotated about the hinge and the support body engages with the floor.

Examples provide a universal bag holder for storing multiple different types of bags on a single bag holder device. The bag holder includes a bag receptacle for holding folded paper bags or folded reusable bags, such as cloth bags. An access window in one side of the receptacle enables a user to retrieve items which may fall into the receptacle. The bag holder also includes a bag support rack having a set of bag support arms for supporting plastic bags or reusable bags on the arms. The loops on the plastic or reusable bags are placed over the bag support arms. A paper bag that has been unfolded can also be supported between the bag support arms. A label holder permits placement of price tags or other information labels for the bags. The bag holder can be attached to pre-existing bagging area fixtures for ease of use.

Examples provide a universal bag holder for storing multiple different types of bags on a single bag holder device. The bag holder includes a bag receptacle for holding folded paper bags or folded reusable bags, such as cloth bags. An access window in one side of the receptacle enables a user to retrieve items which may fall into the receptacle. The bag holder also includes a bag support rack having a set of bag support arms for supporting plastic bags or reusable bags on the arms. The loops on the plastic or reusable bags are placed over the bag support arms. A paper bag that has been unfolded can also be supported between the bag support arms. A label holder permits placement of price tags or other information labels for the bags. The bag holder can be attached to pre-existing bagging area fixtures for ease of use.

Systems and methods for using speech recognition technologies to facilitate retail store checkout are disclosed. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may detect a user's speech and analyze the speech to identify a set of matching items that may correspond to items being purchased by a customer. The electronic device may display, via a user interface, the set of matching items as well as a code or identification associated with the set of matching items. The user may interface with a point of sale system to input a code for a desired item, and the point of sale system may add the desired item to an order and may facilitate a checkout for the order.

A portable checkout unit automatically generates training data for an automatic checkout system as a customer collects items in a store. A customer uses an item scanner of portable checkout unit to generate a virtual shopping list of items collected in the shopping cart. When the customer adds a new item to the shopping cart or on some regular interval, the portable checkout unit captures images of the items contained by the shopping cart and can generate bounding boxes for each product in each image. The bounding boxes can be associated with item identifiers from previously-generated bounding boxes to identify the items captured by the bounding boxes. Each bounding box paired with an item identifier can then be used as training data for an automated checkout system.

The embodiments herein relate to surveillance of objects and, more particularly, to efficient detection and tracking of objects. A method disclosed herein includes detecting at least one object in the physical store, on receiving media from a plurality of media acquisition devices positioned in the physical store. The method further includes tracking the at least one object in the physical store by projecting input data points of each media acquisition device onto a groundplot, clustering the input data points into a single cluster, and assigning a tracking identifier (ID) to a centroid of the single cluster, wherein the centroid depicts the at least one object.

A registration apparatus includes a reader, an imaging device, and a processor. The reader is configured to read commodity identification information for identifying a commodity from a code symbol attached to the commodity and to read benefit information regarding a benefit of a commodity from a benefit symbol attached to the commodity. The imaging device is configured to image an imaging area including a readable area of the reader. The processor is configured to extract identification data corresponding to the commodity identification information, acquire image data obtained by the imaging device, determine whether a commodity in the acquired image data is the same as the commodity that is identified by the commodity identification information, and register transaction information regarding transaction of the commodity identified by the commodity identification information.

The invention relates to devices and methods for making purchases in supermarkets and other large commercial centres at checkouts and is aimed at simplifying and speeding up checkout operations, as well as at reducing the number of actions taken by a purchaser. A method for controlling the operation of a checkout equipped with a conveyor belt comprises the following steps, at which: —sections on the conveyor belt arranged between items of the purchasers next in line are designated manually or determined automatically; —virtual dividers are set on said sections by entering relevant coordinates in the control unit memory; —the location coordinates of the virtual separators are changed by the control unit in such a way that the virtual separators move synchronously with the conveyor belt.

The invention relates to devices and methods for making purchases in supermarkets and other large commercial centres at checkouts and is aimed at simplifying and speeding up checkout operations, as well as at reducing the number of actions taken by a purchaser. A method for controlling the operation of a checkout equipped with a conveyor belt comprises the following steps, at which: —sections on the conveyor belt arranged between items of the purchasers next in line are designated manually or determined automatically; —virtual dividers are set on said sections by entering relevant coordinates in the control unit memory; —the location coordinates of the virtual separators are changed by the control unit in such a way that the virtual separators move synchronously with the conveyor belt.