US 12,154,093 B2
Shopping support apparatus and shopping support method
Tsuyoshi Kawamoto, Nerima Tokyo (JP); Fumio Nakatsukasa, Yokohama Kanagawa (JP); Mikio Ito, Ota Tokyo (JP); Kiyomitu Yamaguchi, Izunokuni Shizuoka (JP); Shigeki Nimiya, Yokohama Kanagawa (JP); and Takuya Haketa, Izunokuni Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 21, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/076,396.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-017708 (JP), filed on Feb. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0241259 A1, Aug. 5, 2021
Int. Cl. G06Q 20/32 (2012.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01); G06Q 20/34 (2012.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06Q 30/018 (2023.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 20/3276 (2013.01) [G06K 7/1417 (2013.01); G06Q 20/346 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0607 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0613 (2013.01); G06Q 20/201 (2013.01); G06Q 20/202 (2013.01); G06Q 20/203 (2013.01); G06Q 20/208 (2013.01); G06Q 20/326 (2020.05); G06Q 30/0185 (2013.01); H02J 7/0048 (2020.01)] 9 Claims
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1. A shopping support apparatus that performs a support operation of shopping at a store when a consumer performs shopping at the store, the shopping support apparatus comprising:
a battery;
a reader that reads a data code, the data code including a first data code and a second data code, the first data code including first setting information indicating that a control mode is a first mode, the second data code including second setting information indicating that the control mode is a second mode, and the first data code and the second data code both including third setting information indicating a battery check threshold value for checking a remaining capacity of the battery;
a memory that stores setting information included in the read data code; and
a processor that performs the following processing of
when the reader reads the data code, storing the setting information included in the read data code, which includes the third setting information, in the memory, and checking the remaining capacity of the battery by determining whether the remaining capacity is more than the battery check threshold value indicated by the third setting information stored in the memory,
after checking the remaining capacity of the battery, determining whether the first setting information or the second setting information is stored in the memory,
performing, in a case where the first setting information is stored in the memory, a task for supporting shopping at the store, and
performing, in a case where the second setting information is stored in the memory, a task restricted to an operation of an authorized person.