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 detection device for detecting a fraud behavior of a customer at a point-of-sale (POS) terminal in a store, including a first interface circuit configured to receive a first image of the customer from a camera, a second interface circuit configured to receive a second image that is displayed on the POS terminal, and a processor configured to acquire one or more first images via the first interface circuit and determine one or more behaviors of the customer based on the acquired first images, acquire one or more second images via the second interface circuit and determine, based on the acquired second images, one or more operations that have been made by the customer on the POS terminal, and determine that one of the behaviors is fraudulent based on one or more of the operations that have been made by the customer before said one of the behaviors.

A mobile, modular bagging station comprises a rotatable carousel base constructed and arranged for positioning on a self-checkout scale platform; a center piece coupled to a top surface of the carousel base; and a plurality of holding elements extending from the top portion. A weight of a plurality of store items in shopping bags positioned on the holding elements is determined by the scale platform on which the carousel base is positioned.

A self-checkout system comprises a register belt station; an itemization station downstream from the register belt station; and a bagging station downstream from the itemization station. The register belt station, an itemization station, and bagging station are each modular and removably coupled to each other.

The invention relates to a passageway system with at least one foot element, with at least one blocking element which is mounted on the foot element and which is movable between at least one blocking position intended for at least partially blocking a passage and at least one release position releasing the passage, with a drive unit serving to move the at least one blocking element with a control of the drive unit, with a detection unit intended for the identifying detection of goods, and with interfaces to a data processing unit and optionally further components.

The invention is characterized in that at least one optical detection device is arranged on the at least one blocking element and is a component of the detection unit.

To enable registration of a commodity without interrupting the flow of sales registration by an operator, a commodity identification device 2 specifically includes: a camera 27 that takes an image of an object that an operator holds over the camera; and a CPU 211 that is configured to, when the object is recognized from an image taken by the camera 27 and the object recognized is compared with reference images of each commodity in plurality of directions, and when the object is similar to a plurality of commodities, specify reference images having a noticeable difference, and guide the operator to rotate the object so that the object in the direction corresponding to the specified reference images is directed toward the camera 27.

A settlement device according to an embodiment includes a first reading unit configured to read a symbol attached to a commodity located in a first reading region, one or a plurality of second reading units configured to read a symbol attached to a commodity located in a second reading region entirely or partially overlapping the first reading region, and a light emitting unit for causing a customer to recognize a position of the first reading unit.

An information processing device (10) includes an image acquisition unit (110) that acquires an image obtained by capturing a vicinity of a merchandise self-checkout system, and a detection unit (120) that detects a presence or absence of a plurality of persons within a first area in the vicinity of the merchandise self-checkout system during a time period between a start and end of a merchandise self-checkout process based on the acquired image.

The invention relates to a cash register system (10) comprising a scanner (12, 14) for scanning articles and a deposit unit (18) for depositing the scanned articles. Further, the cash register system (10) comprises a sensor unit (22, 30) for detecting a sequence of motions of the user of the cash register system (10). A control unit selects one of several preset cash register functions dependent on the sequence of motions detected by means of the sensor unit (20, 30) and controls the cash register system (10) accordingly.

A money depositing/dispensing apparatus comprises a coin depositing/dispensing device, configured to store coins acquired through a coin reception port, which includes a first path along which the stored coins travel to a coin dispensing port and a second path along which the stored coins travel to be saved, a bill depositing/dispensing device, configured to store bills acquired through a bill reception port and discharge the stored bills to a bill dispensing port, which is arranged at the lower side of the coin depositing/dispensing device in a space formed at the lower part of the coin dispensing port, and a container, configured to store coins traveling along the second path, which is detachably attached to the coin depositing/dispensing device in the space.