Automated shopping basket system with accounting and article tra

Details Automated shopping basket system with accounting and article tra Automated shopping basket system with accounting and article tra

1995-03-08

1997-06-10

Hajec, Donald T.

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Systems controlled by data bearing records

Mechanized store

235385, 186 61, G06K 1500

Patent

active

056378475

ABSTRACT:
A system for operating shopping basket with an accounting function. Each shopping basket comprises an article registering unit, an accounting control unit (calculator), a display, an alarm, a transmitter, a receiver, and an external memory. The article registering unit includes elements for detecting a moving direction of an article to and from the shopping basket, and elements for reading a status code on the article. The calculator checks a valid/invalid status of articles, registers articles, and performs an accounting operation. The display indicates prices of articles received in the shopping basket, and a sub-total of the articles present therein. The alarm alerts a shopper that a sub-total of articles actually present in the shopping basket does not agree with a sub-total calculated on the basis of identification codes of the articles. The transmitter transmits accounting data of the shopping basket arriving at a cashier's counter to the accounting unit. The receiver receives programs and sale information from a host computer. The external memory stores the data received from the host computer.

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