| CPC G06Q 20/208 (2013.01) [G06K 7/1413 (2013.01); G06Q 20/18 (2013.01)] | 17 Claims |
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1. A merchandise registration apparatus, comprising:
a first reading component configured to form a first reading area in which a code symbol attached to merchandise can be read;
a second reading component provided at a location different from that of the first reading component, the second reading component configured to form a second reading area overlapping with at least a part of the first reading area, in which the code symbol can be read;
a first acquisition component configured to acquire first code information stored in the code symbol from a reading result of the code symbol read by the first reading component;
a second acquisition component configured to acquire second code information stored in the code symbol from a reading result of the code symbol read by the second reading component; and
a registration component configured to register the merchandise based on the first code information or the second code information when the first code information and the second code information match each other,
wherein if either one of the first reading component and the second reading component reads either one of the first code information and the second code information, and then the other one thereof cannot read either one of the first code information and the second code information within a predetermined time, a registration unit registers the merchandise based on the first code information or the second code information read within the predetermined time without collation by a collation component and discards the first code information or the second code information read after the predetermined time.
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