US 12,450,585 B2
Shopping payment system and shopping basket
Katsunori Suetsugu, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Katsunori Suetsugu, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/059,019.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-204407 (JP), filed on Dec. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0297991 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/20 (2012.01)
CPC G06Q 20/208 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/204 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shopping payment system for paying a purchase price of a product put in a shopping basket in a store, comprising:
a product information storage unit configured to store product identification codes for identifying products, prices of the products, and weights of the products such that each of the product identification codes for identifying each product, each of the prices of the product, and each of the weights of the product are associated with each other;
a product identification code acquisition unit configured to acquire a product identification code of a product read before the product is put into the shopping basket;
a registered weight acquisition unit configured to acquire a weight of the product previously stored in the product information storage unit so as to be associated with the product identification code acquired by the product identification code acquisition unit;
a measured weight acquisition unit configured to acquire a measured value of a total weight of one or more products put in the shopping basket;
a product price payment unit configured to, when a total weight of one or more products acquired by the registered weight acquisition unit and the measured value of the total weight of the products acquired by the measured weight acquisition unit are matched, pay a purchase price of the products; and
an alarm output unit configured to, when a total weight of one or more products acquired by the registered weight acquisition unit and the measured value of the total weight of the products acquired by the measured weight acquisition unit are not matched, output an alarm message,
wherein weight sensors are disposed on the shopping basket and a cash register table of the store,
wherein when the shopping basket is placed on the cash register table, the measured weight acquisition unit is configured to acquire the measured value of the total weight of the products put in the shopping basket concurrently from each of the weight sensors disposed on the shopping basket and the cash register table, and
wherein when the measured values of the weight concurrently acquired from the weight sensor disposed on the shopping basket and from the weight sensor disposed on the cash register table are not matched to each other, the alarm output unit outputs an alarm message.