Product identification system using hand-held customer assistant

Details Product identification system using hand-held customer assistant Product identification system using hand-held customer assistant

1997-05-20

1999-08-17

Lee, Michael G.

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Systems controlled by data bearing records

Mechanized store

235385, 235375, 235472, 902 24, G06K 1500

Patent

active

059396954

ABSTRACT:
A device for providing product information to customers of a retail establishment. The device is a hand-held unit which contains a detector which identifies a product located nearby. The identification can be accomplished through scanning a bar code affixed to the product. Once the product is identified, the device retrieves descriptive information about the product from memory, and displays the information to the customer.

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