| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 141 | SALE DATA PROCESSING TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | US13032696 | 2011-02-23 | US20110208602A1 | 2011-08-25 | Motohiro Katsumata |
| A sale data processing terminal includes: a receiver unit that receives an operation input by a user's operation; a registering unit that registers transaction details of a transaction received by the receiver unit in sale data; an account adjusting unit that performs an account adjusting process of summing up the transactions registered in the sale data, when a predetermined adjusting time at which the account adjusting process of summing up sales is performed arrives and the transaction details are not being received; and a non-adjustment alarming unit that gives an alarm indicating a non-adjusted state where the account adjusting process is not performed, when the predetermined adjusting time arrives but the transaction details are being received. | ||||||
| 142 | Tunnel-type digital imaging-based self-checkout system for use in retail point-of-sale environments | US11900651 | 2007-09-12 | US07954719B2 | 2011-06-07 | Xiaoxun Zhu; Anatoly Kotlarsky; Tao Xian; Timothy Good; Jie Ren; Yong Liu; Konstantin Yakovlev; John Gardner; Steven Essinger; Patrick Giordano; Sean Kearney; Xi Tao; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Duane Ellis; C. Harry Knowles |
| A tunnel-type digital imaging-based self-checkout system capable of generating and projecting coplanar illumination and imaging planes into a 3D imaging volume within a tunnel structure. The tunnel structure is supported above a package conveyor in a retail POS environment, and employs automatic package identification, profiling and tracking techniques during self-checkout operations. | ||||||
| 143 | Fuel dispenser | US12190820 | 2008-08-13 | US07948376B2 | 2011-05-24 | Jonathan E. DeLine |
| A fuel dispenser comprising a housing, a fuel dispensing apparatus mounted within the housing, control electronics operatively connected to the fuel dispensing apparatus, at least one display mounted in the housing and operatively coupled to the control electronics, and a nozzle operatively coupled to the fuel dispensing apparatus and the fuel dispensing apparatus control electronics, the nozzle configured to produce electromagnetic signals. The dispenser is configured to trigger an alarm when the nozzle is brought into close proximity to the at least one display to prevent the user from using the nozzle to make data entries. | ||||||
| 144 | RFID theft prevention system | US11837818 | 2007-08-13 | US07920063B2 | 2011-04-05 | Richard Ulrich |
| Systems, apparatuses and methods for deterring product theft and preventing the fraudulent return or exchange of products. Products are associated with a Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. Tag readers located at store access points can detect the presence of the RFID tag and can be used to help determine a direction of travel of the RFID tag. When a product is determined to be leaving the store, the transaction history of the product can be accessed, as well as the supply chain history of the product, to confirm the product has been validly purchased and therefore authorized for removal from the store. When a product is determined to be entering a store, the supply chain history and transaction history of the product can be consulted to determine if the product can be validly exchanged or returned. | ||||||
| 145 | Scale with automatic offline indication and related method | US11633240 | 2006-12-04 | US07886230B2 | 2011-02-08 | Carla A. Monnier; Mark Edward Eberhardt, Jr.; David Scott Miller; James Carl Meyer |
| A scale and associated methods 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. | ||||||
| 146 | Digital image capturing and processing system for automatically recognizing objects in a POS environment | US11980078 | 2007-10-30 | US07806335B2 | 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 digital image capturing and processing system for automatically recognizing objects in a POS environment. The system includes a system housing having an imaging window; illumination and imaging stations for generating and projecting illumination and imaging planes or zones through the imaging window, and into a 3D imaging volume definable relative to the imaging window, for digital imaging an object passing through the 3D imaging volume, and generating digital linear images of the object as the object intersects the illumination and imaging planes or zones during system operation. A digital image processor processes the digital images and automatically recognizes the object, such as produce and fruit, graphically represented by the digital images. | ||||||
| 147 | Device for producing a laser beam of reduced coherency using high-frequency modulation of the laser diode current and optical multiplexing of the output laser beam | US11980317 | 2007-10-30 | US07770796B2 | 2010-08-10 | 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 despeckling device including a laser diode for producing a laser beam having a central characteristic wavelength. The device includes diode current drive circuitry for producing a diode drive current to drive said laser diode and produce said laser beam. High frequency modulation (HFM) circuitry modulates the diode drive current at a sufficiently high frequency to cause said laser diode to produce spectral side-band components about the central characteristic wavelength, and reducing the coherence as well as coherence length of the laser beam. An optical beam multiplexing (OMUX) module is provided for receiving the laser beam as input beam, a generating as output, a plurality of laser beam components that are recombined to produce a composite laser beam having substantially reduced coherence for use in illumination applications where a substantial reduction in speckle pattern noise is achieved. | ||||||
| 148 | Device for optically multiplexing a laser beam | US11978981 | 2007-10-30 | US07762465B2 | 2010-07-27 | 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 device for optically multiplexing a laser beam, having a glass plate construction with an input surface and an output surface, and bearing reflective and semi-reflective coatings arranged so as to optically multiplex an input laser beam entering the input surface, into multiple spatial-coherence reduced output laser beams exiting from the output surface. Through such optical multiplexing, and recombination, the coherence of the resulting laser beam is substantially reduced, as is the power of speckle pattern noise observed at an image detection array detecting an image of an object illuminated by said laser beam. | ||||||
| 149 | POS-based code driven retail transaction system configured to enable the reading of code symbols on cashier and customer sides thereof, during a retail transaction being carried out at a point-of-sale (POS) station, and driven by a retail transaction application program | US11805837 | 2007-05-24 | US07753269B2 | 2010-07-13 | Garrett Russell; Mark Schmidt; Ronald Jackson; Sung Byun; Timothy A. Good |
| Novel POS-based bar code symbol reading systems are disclosed having an integrated customer-kiosk terminal. Also disclosed are novel POS-Based Bar Code Reading Cash Register Systems having Integrated Internet-Enabled Customer-Kiosk Terminals. | ||||||
| 150 | Digital image capturing and processing system employing automatic object detection and spectral-mixing based illumination techniques | US11977422 | 2007-10-24 | US07731091B2 | 2010-06-08 | 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 digital image capturing and processing system for illuminating objects using automatic object detection and spectral-mixing illumination technique. The system comprises an area-type illumination and imaging module for projecting a coextensive area-type illumination and imaging field (i.e. zone) into a 3D imaging volume during object illumination and imaging operations. The area-type illumination and imaging module includes a spectral-mixing based illumination subsystem for producing a first field of visible illumination from an array of visible LEDs, and producing a second field of invisible illumination from an array of infrared (IR) LEDs, wherein the first and second fields of illumination spatially overlap and intermix with each other and produce a composite illumination field that is at least substantially coextensive with the FOV of the image sensing array. An automatic object detection subsystem automatically detects an object moving through the 3D imaging volume, while an illumination control subsystem controls the relative power ratio (VIS/IR) of visible illumination and invisible illumination during system operations so as to achieve sufficient image contrast in captured digital images to ensure satisfactory image processing. | ||||||
| 151 | COMMODITY SALES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | US12614932 | 2009-11-09 | US20100117831A1 | 2010-05-13 | Yasuhiro Katabira |
| A commodity sales data processing apparatus includes a power supply unit configured to switch a power supply source for a control circuit to an auxiliary power supply when power supply from the outside is stopped and a movement detecting unit configured to detect the movement of a main body of the commodity sales data processing apparatus. The commodity sales data processing apparatus causes an alarming unit to generate an alarm according to the switch of the power supply source for the control circuit to the auxiliary power supply by the power supply unit and the detection of the movement of the main body by the movement detecting unit. | ||||||
| 152 | CREATING A TRAINING TOOL | US12262467 | 2008-10-31 | US20100114671A1 | 2010-05-06 | 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. | ||||||
| 153 | Trusted monitoring system and method | US11418380 | 2006-05-03 | US07656286B2 | 2010-02-02 | Greg Benson; Matthew Anthony Fistonich |
| Methods and apparatus for monitoring remotely located objects with a system comprised of at least one master data collection unit, any number of 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 objects being monitored. 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 the area where it is located. The master unit may act as a parent controller for one or more child devices, wherein the child devices can be remote sensors or monitors of various measurable conditions including environmental conditions, substance identification, product identification and biometric identification. The master unit is able to discover new remote sensor units as they enter or leave the area where the master unit is located. The master unit can be remotely reprogrammed. The reprogramming can be accomplished with authenticated instructions. | ||||||
| 154 | System and method for alerting an operator | US11696392 | 2007-04-04 | US07612302B2 | 2009-11-03 | Ronald W. Tamkin; J. Thomas King; Kevin A. Russo |
| A system for alerting an operator of a weighing apparatus is described. The weighing apparatus may be capable of displaying a message in a message area to an operator. The message may be displayed in response to a command sent from a remote device. | ||||||
| 155 | Trusted monitoring system and method | US11418381 | 2006-05-03 | US07609159B2 | 2009-10-27 | Greg Benson; Matthew Anthony Fistonich |
| Methods and apparatus for monitoring remotely located objects with a system comprised of at least one master data collection unit, any number of 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 objects being monitored. 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 the area where it is located. The master unit may act as a parent controller for one or more child devices, wherein the child devices can be remote sensors or monitors of various measurable conditions including environmental conditions, substance identification, product identification and biometric identification. The master unit is able to discover new remote sensor units as they enter or leave the area where the master unit is located. The master unit can be remotely reprogrammed. The reprogramming can be accomplished with authenticated instructions. | ||||||
| 156 | Pos-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniques | US11978522 | 2007-10-29 | US07588188B2 | 2009-09-15 | 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 Furlong; Nicholas Ciarlante; Yong Liu; Jie Ren; Xi Tao; JiBin Liu; Ming Zhuo; Duane Ellis |
| A digital image capturing and processing system including an image formation and detection (IFD) subsystem having a linear image sensing array and optics providing a field of view (FOV) on the linear image sensing array. A spectral-mixing based illumination subsystem produces a first field of visible laser illumination produced from an array of visible VLDs, and a second field of invisible laser illumination produced from an array of IR laser diodes (LDs) that spatially overlap and intermix with each other so as to produce a composite planar laser illumination beam which is substantially with the FOV of the linear image sensing array. An illumination control subsystem controls the spectral mixing of visible and invisible laser illumination produced from the spectral-mixing based illumination subsystem, by adaptively controlling the relative power ratio (VIS/IR) of said fields of visible and invisible laser illumination. An image capturing and buffering subsystem captures and buffers images from the image sensing array. An automatic object detection subsystem automatically detects the an object moving through at least a portion of the FOV of the linear image sensing array, and generation a control activation signal. A control subsystem, responsive to the control activation signal, controls the operations of the subsystems within the illumination and imaging station. | ||||||
| 157 | Method and system for detecting and rewarding the returning of shopping carts | US11850198 | 2007-09-05 | US07579967B2 | 2009-08-25 | Franz Wieth; Horst Sonnendorfer |
| A method and a system for detecting and rewarding the returning of shopping carts to the supermarket collection points is provided. During shopping, a first signal A is generated. When a shopping cart is returned, a signal B is generated. These two signals A and B are correlated either in the supermarket or in an information device that the customer carries with him or her, in order to deliver a reward for returning the shopping cart. When the first signal A is generated, the customer or an information device carried with the customer is identified. Alternatively, the signal is provided to the customer at the supermarket checkout so that the customer himself/herself can take steps for the correlation of the signal A with the signal B that is still to be obtained. | ||||||
| 158 | COMMODITY SALES DATA PROCESSOR | US12356926 | 2009-01-21 | US20090192908A1 | 2009-07-30 | 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. | ||||||
| 159 | Small footprint self checkout method | US10390964 | 2003-03-18 | US07565952B2 | 2009-07-28 | Richard H. Harris; Hollis P. Posey |
| Aspects of a self checkout method are described. The method includes utilizing an imaging scanner to image products being purchased; providing a bag rack with scales substantially adjacent the imaging scanner for holding a bag to receive imaged products; and utilizing a computer system to process data from the imaging scanner and the bag rack to ensure complete and secure product purchasing. The method also includes utilizing the computer system to process image data from the product imaging scanner to track movement of each imaged product relative to the bag rack and determine whether each imaged product is entering or exiting the bag. | ||||||
| 160 | Multi-device supervisor support for self-checkout systems | US10060423 | 2002-01-30 | US07558742B2 | 2009-07-07 | Iouri Kloubakov; Bruce McVicar; Thierry Leroux-Demers |
| A customer self-checkout system includes one or more checkout stations and multiple supervisor terminals. The supervisor terminals provide support to, and control over, the self-checkout system and checkout stations. A controller is used to coordinate communications among the checkout stations and supervisor terminals over a wired and/or wireless network interfaces. A user may provide input at supervisory terminal using an interface providing context sensitive prompting to enable control using a simple keyboard interface. | ||||||
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