Personal shopping assistant
AssigneeRoboSystems, Inc.
InventorSurya Chilukuri
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Abstract
A portable data terminal device configured as a personal shopping assistant (PSA) may display information about product locations in a store, product features, and alternative product recommendations upon request by a customer visiting the store's physical location. The PSA may detect and identify items placed into a shopping container, maintain an inventory of items selected for purchase, and communicate the inventory to a check-out station for rapid and convenient check-out and payment by the customer before leaving the store. The PSA may detect its location in a store and may activate an alarm when the PSA is moved outside a geofence boundary.
Claims18
An apparatus, comprising:
- a personal shopping assistant (PSA), comprising:
- an enclosure having an enclosure front side;
- a processor configured to display an alarm indication when said PSA is outside a geofence boundary and to operate an LED bar in a plurality of illumination patterns, said illumination patterns corresponding to operating statuses of said PSA;
- a flat panel display mounted in said enclosure and visible toward said enclosure front side;
- a product code reader coupled to said enclosure front side;
- a first video camera coupled to said enclosure front side, said first video camera positioned to view essentially all of a space for carrying items in a basket of a shopping container when said PSA is attached to the shopping container;
- a second video camera coupled to said enclosure, said second video camera positioned to record a person facing said enclosure front side;
- and
- a first motion detector coupled to said enclosure front side, said first motion detector positioned to detect an item moving into the shopping container,
- wherein said enclosure further comprises an indicator light configured for activation by said processor when a product detected by said first video camera and/or said first motion detector has not been scanned by said product code reader, and said flat panel display, said product code reader, said first video camera, said second video camera, and said first motion detector are connected for data communication with said processor.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a personal shopping assistant (PSA) comprising:
- an enclosure comprising an enclosure front side;
- a PSA dock configured to attach said enclosure to a shopping cart;
- a flat panel display mounted in said enclosure, said flat panel display positioned for viewing toward said enclosure front side;
- a product code reader positioned to read outward from said enclosure front side;
- a first video camera positioned in said enclosure with an first video camera field of view extending outward from said enclosure front side;
- a second video camera mounted in said enclosure with a second video camera field of view extending outward from said enclosure front side;
- a motion detector positioned on said enclosure to detect motion in front of said enclosure front side;
- and
- a processor in said enclosure, said processor connected for data communication with said PSA dock, said flat panel display;
- said product code reader, said first video camera, said second video camera, and said motion detector, said enclosure further comprising an indicator light configured for activation by said processor when a product detected by said first video camera and/or said first motion detector has not been scanned by said product code reader, said processor configured to display an alarm indication when said PSA is outside a geofence boundary, and said processor configured to operate an LED bar in a plurality of illumination patterns, said illumination patterns corresponding to operating statuses of said PSA.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.