US 11,741,526 B2
Shopping support device, shopping support system, and shopping support method
Tsuyoshi Kawamoto, Nerima Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 25, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/912,611.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-152315 (JP), filed on Aug. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0056614 A1, Feb. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01); G06K 19/06 (2006.01); G06Q 20/32 (2012.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0633 (2013.01) [G06K 19/06037 (2013.01); G06Q 20/322 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0641 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shopping support device connectable to a point-of-sale (POS) server via a store network of a store, comprising:
a display;
a memory;
a camera by which a two-dimensional code can be read;
a network interface; and
a processor configured to:
generate a first screen to be displayed on the display at an entrance of the store, the first screen instructing a user to check in at the store by presenting a first code for reading with the camera;
upon reading of the first code with the camera while the first screen is displayed, decode the first code and acquire and store in the memory first and second parameter values encoded in the first code;
control the network interface to connect to the store network using the first parameter value;
after a connection to the store network is established, generate a second screen to be displayed on the display for registering a commodity for purchase, the second screen including a button to proceed to checkout processing;
upon reading of a commodity ID for a commodity with the camera while the second screen is displayed, control the network interface to transmit the commodity ID via the store network to the POS server for registration; and
in response to an operation on the button of the second screen, perform checkout processing based on the registered commodity ID on the POS server according to the second parameter value.