US 12,131,369 B2
Merchandise registration device and method
Hidehiro Naito, Mishima Shizuoka (JP); Atsushi Miyashima, Izunokuni Shizuoka (JP); Toshihiro Kaneko, Izunokuni Shizuoka (JP); Yuki Kawaguchi, Tagata Shizuoka (JP); Taiki Tanihira, Izunokuni Shizuoka (JP); Shinsuke Yajima, Mishima Shizuoka (JP); Masaki Ito, Numazu Shizuoka (JP); and Takahiro Saitou, Izunokuni Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/543,523.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-024254 (JP), filed on Feb. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0261877 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/06 (2023.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0633 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/201 (2013.01); G06Q 20/208 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A merchandise registration device, comprising:
a lamp;
a reading device configured to read a symbol;
a table on which an item for registration is to be placed after a symbol on the item for registration is read by the reading device;
a weight sensor configured to output a signal corresponding to a weight of any items on the table; and
a processor configured to:
perform a registration operation for a first item having a first symbol including:
acquiring identification information for the first item based on the first symbol read by the reading device,
determining a measured weight of the first item based on the signal output from the weight sensor,
acquiring from a memory an expected weight associated with the acquired identification information,
checking whether the measured weight corresponds to the expected weight, and
registering the first item in a sales transaction using the identification information if the measured weight corresponds to the expected weight; and
control the lamp to indicate progress states in the registration operation for the first item and whether the reading device is ready for reading a symbol for a next item in the sales transaction, wherein
the lamp comprises:
a first indicator to indicate that the reading device is ready for reading the symbol for the next item in the sales transaction, and
a second indicator to indicate a processing state in the registration operation including whether the previous item in the sales transaction has been successfully registered.