| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 221 | POS SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A POS SYSTEM | US14311100 | 2014-06-20 | US20140379501A1 | 2014-12-25 | Kai JUNGCLAUS |
| A POS system comprises a checkout means for carrying out a payment operation, a cash drawer which includes a storage compartment for storing money, wherein in an open condition of the cash drawer the storage compartment is open for an access and in a closed condition of the cash drawer the storage compartment is closed, a control means for controlling the cash drawer, wherein the control means is formed to generate a control signal for opening the cash drawer, and a sensor means for generating an opening signal which indicates whether the cash drawer is in its open condition. The control means is formed to evaluate whether or not an opening signal is preceded by a control signal with a predetermined time interval, in order to detect a manipulation process during opening and/or closing the cash drawer on the basis of the evaluation. | ||||||
| 222 | ALARM PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | US14020231 | 2013-09-06 | US20140266685A1 | 2014-09-18 | John-Paul Joseph Brueggen; Alex Michael Shipman |
| According to an embodiment, a computer-implemented method of processing alarms, including a processor receiving machine-readable alarm information having a plurality of formats from a plurality of facility monitoring systems. The processor converting the machine-readable alarm information into normalized machine-readable event information having a common format and being free of vendor-specific alarm information, the normalized event information representing an exception condition detected by at least one of the plurality of monitoring systems. The method further includes the providing by the processor via a user interface, user access to the normalized event information independently of the alarm information. | ||||||
| 223 | Trusted monitoring system and method | US13724942 | 2012-12-21 | US08830053B2 | 2014-09-09 | Greg Benson; Matthew Anthony Fistonich |
| Methods and apparatus for monitoring remotely located objects with a system including at least one master data collection unit, remote sensor units, and a central data collection server are described. The master unit is configured to monitor any object, mobile or stationary, including monitoring multiple remote sensor units associated with the monitored objects. The master unit may be in a fixed location or attached to a mobile object. The master unit is configured for monitoring objects that enter and leave an area. The master unit may act as a parent controller for one or more child devices including remote sensors or monitors of measurable conditions including environmental conditions, substance identification, product identification, and/or biometric identification. The master unit may discover remote sensor units as they enter or leave the area where the master unit is located. The master unit can be remotely reprogrammed such as with authenticated instructions. | ||||||
| 224 | IMAGE EMBEDDING APPARATUS AND METHOD | US13533826 | 2012-06-26 | US20130341417A1 | 2013-12-26 | Stuart Argue; Anthony Emile Marcar |
| A method is disclosed for embedding an image during a transaction at a point-of-sale system. The method may include obtaining a first digital image coded to display a call to action and a placeholder occupying a specific position with respect to the call to action. A computer system associated with the point-of-sale system may interpret the first digital image to collect data identifying the specific position of the placeholder. The computer system may obtain a two-dimensional barcode encoded with a transaction identification unique to the transaction. Using the collected data, the computer system may generate a third digital image coded to display the call to action and the two-dimensional barcode. The two-dimensional barcode may occupy the specific position with respect to the call to action. The point-of-sale system may display the third digital image to a customer associated with the transaction via a receipt, a customer-facing screen, or the like. | ||||||
| 225 | Creating a training tool | US12262467 | 2008-10-31 | US08612286B2 | 2013-12-17 | Russell Patrick Bobbitt; Quanfu Fan; Arun Hampapur; Frederik Kjeldsen; Sharathchandra Umapathirao Pankanti; Akira Yanagawa; Yun Zhai |
| Techniques for creating a training technique for an individual are provided. The techniques include obtaining video of one or more events and information from a transaction log that corresponds to the one or more events, wherein the one or more events relate to one or more actions of an individual, classifying the one or more events into one or more event categories, comparing the one or more classified events with an enterprise best practices model to determine a degree of compliance, examining the one or more classified events to correct one or more misclassifications, if any, and revise the one or more event categories with the one or more corrected misclassifications, if any, and using the degree of compliance to create a training technique for the individual. | ||||||
| 226 | Valuable medium processing system | US13498936 | 2009-09-30 | US08534539B2 | 2013-09-17 | Kazuhiro Doi; Koichi Nishida |
| Provided is a valuable medium processing system capable of improving the work efficiency of a person in charge when continuously storing a quantity of valuable media collected from a plurality of valuable medium transaction machines into a storage unit. The valuable medium processing system comprises: a valuable medium processing machine for performing a count process on a predetermined kind of valuable media from among the valuable media collected from the valuable medium transaction machines; and a control machine for storing and managing the quantity of valuable media collected from the valuable medium transaction machines on a per valuable medium transaction machine basis. While the processing machine is performing the counting process on the valuable media collected from one of the valuable medium transaction machines, if the quantity of valuable media which are collected from a different valuable medium transaction machine and on which the processing machine cannot perform the counting process is inputted by an input operation means, the control machine controls a predetermined storage means to store the inputted quantity of valuable media as the quantity of valuable media collected from the different valuable medium transaction machine. | ||||||
| 227 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MERCHANDISE CHECKOUT | US13610783 | 2012-09-11 | US20130018741A1 | 2013-01-17 | Jim Ostrowski; Luis Goncalves; Michael Cremean; Alex Simonini; Alec Hudnut |
| Systems and methods for recognizing and identifying items located on the lower shelf of a shopping cart in a checkout lane of a retail store environment for reducing or preventing loss or fraud and increasing the efficiency of a checkout process efficiency. The system includes one or more visual sensors that can take images of items and a computer system that receives the images and automatically identifies the items. The system can be trained to recognize the items using images taken of the items. The system relies on matching visual features from training images to match against features extracted from images taken at the checkout lane. Using the scale-invariant feature transformation (SIFT) method, for example, the system can compare extracted visual features of the images to the features stored in a database to find one or more matches, where the found one or more matches are used to identify the items. | ||||||
| 228 | MONITORING OCCUPANCY OF A SPACE | US13464552 | 2012-05-04 | US20120281094A1 | 2012-11-08 | JOHN ANDREW FORSHAW |
| A queue monitoring system for monitoring persons queuing to use electronic transaction apparatus, wherein the apparatus comprises at least one user interface, the system comprising one or more cameras for providing data relating to persons queuing and processing apparatus configured to process the data to determine one or more parameters of the queue, wherein the processing apparatus is additionally configured to receive from the electronic apparatus information that is conveyed to the user interface and to use this information in processing the data. | ||||||
| 229 | Fuel dispenser | US13291182 | 2011-11-08 | US08284053B2 | 2012-10-09 | Jonathan E. DeLine |
| A fuel dispenser comprises fuel dispensing apparatus mounted within a housing and a nozzle for dispensing fuel. The fuel dispensing apparatus includes control electronics and at least one touch display mounted in the housing and operatively coupled to the control electronics. The touch display is configured to allow a user to make selections for conducting a transaction. A camera or other suitable proximity detector is configured to detect the presence of a user and whether the user exceeds a height threshold without the user physically touching the fuel dispenser. In response to detecting the presence of the user, the fuel dispenser control electronics activates the display so that instructions are presented to the user in a first orientation or a second orientation depending on whether the user's height exceeds the threshold. | ||||||
| 230 | FUEL DISPENSER | US13291182 | 2011-11-08 | US20120078741A1 | 2012-03-29 | Jonathan E. DeLine |
| A fuel dispenser comprises fuel dispensing apparatus mounted within a housing and a nozzle for dispensing fuel. The fuel dispensing apparatus includes control electronics and at least one touch display mounted in the housing and operatively coupled to the control electronics. The touch display is configured to allow a user to make selections for conducting a transaction. A camera or other suitable proximity detector is configured to detect the presence of a user and whether the user exceeds a height threshold without the user physically touching the fuel dispenser. In response to detecting the presence of the user, the fuel dispenser control electronics activates the display so that instructions are presented to the user in a first orientation or a second orientation depending on whether the user's height exceeds the threshold. | ||||||
| 231 | Generation And Use Of Transaction Records With Imaging | US12847652 | 2010-07-30 | US20120030107A1 | 2012-02-02 | Lisa Gibson; James G. Ronca; Kerry Cantley |
| Systems and methods for generating transaction records with imaging are described. Data representative of a transaction of a user may be received and a transaction record for the transaction may be generated. A user request to withdraw an amount of monetary funds from an account associated with the transaction may be received. At least one captured image of the user during the transaction may be associated with the transaction record. Monetary funds from the account in the amount requested by the user may be outputted, and the transaction record may be stored in a database. Upon determining the amount of monetary funds requested for withdrawal exceeds a first threshold, at least one image of the user may be captured, and a copy of the at least one captured image of the user or a link to the at least one captured image may be stored in the transaction record. | ||||||
| 232 | THEFT PROTECTION FOR SELF-SERVICE STORES | US13146692 | 2010-02-02 | US20110279272A1 | 2011-11-17 | Franz Wieth; Horst Sonnendorfer |
| In order to detect attempted theft, the time that a shopping cart remains in a self-scanning zone in a self-checkout line is monitored. If a certain duration is not met between the time at which the region of the self-scanning register is entered and the exit is passed, an alarm is triggered. | ||||||
| 233 | Method of reading bar code symbols on objects at a point-of-sale station by passing said objects through a complex of stationary coplanar illumination and imaging planes projected into a 3D imaging volume | US11880087 | 2007-07-19 | US08042740B2 | 2011-10-25 | C. Harry Knowles; Xiaoxun Zhu; Timothy Good; Tao Xian; Anatoly Kotlarsky; Michael Veksland; Mark Hernandez; John Gardner; Steven Essinger; Patrick Giordano; Sean Kearney; Mark Schmidt; John A. Furlong; Nicholas Ciarlante; Yong Liu; Jie Ren; Xi Tao; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Duane Ellis |
| Digital image capture and processing systems and methods for generating and projecting coplanar illumination and imaging planes and/or coextensive area-type illumination and imaging zones, through one or more imaging windows, and into a 3D imaging volume in a retail POS environments, while employing automatic object motion and/or velocity detection, real-time image analysis and other techniques to capture and processing high-quality digital images of objects passing through the 3D imaging volume, and intelligently controlling and/or managing the use of visible and invisible forms of illumination, during object illumination and imaging operations, that might otherwise annoy or disturb human operators and/or customers working and/or shopping in such retail environments. | ||||||
| 234 | Commodity sales data processor system having camera for picking up user image and USB storage device connector for storing date and time of user transactions | US12356926 | 2009-01-21 | US08032667B2 | 2011-10-04 | Yuuri Takei |
| Connection of a USB memory (storage device) to a USB port (data transmitting and receiving unit) is detected and the date and time of detection of this connection is stored. Using this detection of connection as trigger, a camera is caused to pick up an image of an area embracing a user positioned in a position where the user can operate a user interface. Picked-up image data outputted from the camera is stored together with shooting date and time. | ||||||
| 235 | Operation monitoring and enhanced host communications in systems employing electronic article surveillance and RFID tags | US12435989 | 2009-05-05 | US08006904B2 | 2011-08-30 | Mohamed A Salim; Harold C. Clifford; Alan Jackson Guess; Bruce Edward Paris |
| A system and method for monitoring operation and performance of electronic tags such as article surveillance (EAS) tags or radio frequency identification (RFID) tags such as by monitoring and reporting electronic tag readability and operator/system performance levels. The system includes an optical symbol reader and/or electronic tag sensor/deactivator that measures and reports values of reading, detection, or deactivation events during operation which may be indicative of electronic tag operability. The apparatus may further comprise a data accumulation device including memory storage to accumulate the measurement values for each set of electronic tags, and a programmed computing system to analyze the measured values and report on the results of the analysis. | ||||||
| 236 | SCALE WITH AUTOMATIC OFFLINE INDICATION AND RELATED METHOD | US12982387 | 2010-12-30 | US20110099504A1 | 2011-04-28 | Carla A. Monnier; Mark Edward Eberhardt, JR.; David Scott Miller; James Carl Meyer |
| A scale and associated method automatically identify when a food product pricing scale is in an offline condition and changes a color condition on the scale display to alert scale operators of the offline condition. | ||||||
| 237 | VISUAL SECURITY FOR POINT OF SALE TERMINALS | US12436831 | 2009-05-07 | US20100282841A1 | 2010-11-11 | Jonathan H. Connell II; Mayron D. Flickner; Norman Haas; Arun Hampapur; Sharathchandra U. Pankanti; Yashodhara M. Patnaik |
| Under the present invention, item verification is automated and expedited. Specifically, items to be purchased can be scanned by the shopper using a barcode reader (e.g., a scanner), attached to or positioned near the checkout station. As items are scanned, they are identified based on their barcode, and added to an item list. Item verification can then be performed at checkout using imaging technology. Specifically, as items are scanned, an item verification unit will capture an appearance thereof (via a camera). Item verification software within the item verification unit will access a database that associates items with their images/appearances. The appearance will be compared for consistency to the identity as determined based on the scan. In general, the item verification unit is a separate unit from the cash register, but adapted to work in conjunction therewith (e.g., as a pluggable system, via wireless communication, etc.). | ||||||
| 238 | Laser beam generation system employing a laser diode and high-frequency modulation circuitry mounted on a flexible circuit | US11980192 | 2007-10-30 | US07806336B2 | 2010-10-05 | C. Harry Knowles; Xiaoxun Zhu; Timothy Good; Tao Xian; Anatoly Kotlarsky; Michael Veksland; Mark Hernandez; John Gardner; Steven Essinger; Patrick Giordano; Sean Kearney; Mark Schmidt; John A. Furlong; Nicholas Ciarlante; Yong Liu; Jie Ren; Xi Tao; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Duane Ellis |
| A laser beam generation system having an integrated coherence reduction mechanism. The system includes: a flexible circuit having a first end portion and a second end portion; a laser diode mounted on the first end portion of the flexible circuit, for producing a laser beam having a central characteristic wavelength; diode current drive circuitry for producing a diode drive current to drive the laser diode and produce said laser beam; and high frequency modulation (HFM) circuitry also mounted on the first end portion of the flexible circuit, for modulating the diode drive current at a sufficiently high frequency to cause the laser diode to produce a laser beam having a spectral side-band components about the central characteristic wavelength, and thereby reducing the coherence as well as coherence length of the laser beam. | ||||||
| 239 | Laser illumination beam generation system employing despeckling of the laser beam using high-frequency modulation of the laser diode current and optical multiplexing of the component laser beams | US11980084 | 2007-10-30 | US07793841B2 | 2010-09-14 | C. Harry Knowles; Xiaoxun Zhu; Timothy Good; Tao Xian; Anatoly Kotlarsky; Michael Veksland; Mark Hernandez; John Gardner; Steven Essinger; Patrick Giordano; Sean Kearney; Mark Schmidt; John A. Furlong; Nicholas Ciarlante; Yong Liu; Jie Ren; Xi Tao; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Duane Ellis |
| A laser illumination beam generation system including a laser diode (LD) for producing a laser beam in response to a diode current supplied thereto, wherein the laser beam has a central characteristic wavelength. Diode current drive circuitry generates the diode current and supplies the same to the VLD. A high frequency modulation (HFM) circuitry modulates the diode current supplied to the laser diode, so as to produce a spectral side-band components about the central characteristic wavelength, and thereby reduces the coherence of the laser illumination beam as well as its coherence length. An optical multiplexing (OMUX) device receives the laser beam as an input beam and generates multiple laser beams therefrom and recombines the multiple laser beams so as to produce a composite output laser illumination beam having reduce coherence. | ||||||
| 240 | Planar laser illumination module (PLIM) employing high-frequency modulation (HFM) of the laser drive currents and optical multplexing of the output laser beams | US11980083 | 2007-10-30 | US07784695B2 | 2010-08-31 | C. Harry Knowles; Xiaoxun Zhu; Timothy Good; Tao Xian; Anatoly Kotlarsky; Michael Veksland; Mark Hernandez; John A. Gardner; Steven Essinger; Patrick Giordano; Sean Kearney; Mark Schmidt; John A. Furlong; Nicholas Ciarlante; Yong Liu; Jie Ren; Xi Tao; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Duane Ellis |
| A planar laser illumination module (PLIM) including: (i) a laser illumination source driven preferably by high frequency modulated (HFM) diode current drive circuitry; (ii) a beam collimating optics disposed beyond the laser illumination source; (ii) an optical beam multiplexer (OMUX) device disposed beyond the collimating optics; and (iv) a planarizing-type illumination lens array disposed beyond the OMUX device, and arranged for generating a plurality of substantially planar coherence-reduced laser illumination beams (PLIBs) that form a composite substantially planar laser illumination beam (PLIB) having substantially reduced spatial/temporal coherence. | ||||||
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