Reading device
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHidehiro Naito, Hitoshi Iizaka, Shinsuke Yajima
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Abstract
In an embodiment, a reading device comprises a housing having a height. A first reading window is on a first surface side of the housing at a first height position. A first reading unit is inside the housing and configured to direct light out the first reading window for imaging an item. A second reading window is on a second surface side of the housing at a second height position that is less than the first height position in height. A second reading unit is inside the housing and configured to direct light out the second reading window for imaging an item.
Claims20
A reading device, comprising:
- a housing having a height in a first direction;
- a first reading window on a first surface side of the housing at a first height position along the first direction;
- a first reading unit inside the housing and configured to direct light out the first reading window for imaging an item;
- a second reading window on a second surface side of the housing at a second height position along the first direction that is less than the first height position in height;
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- a second reading unit inside the housing and configured to direct light out the second reading window for imaging an item.
A sales register apparatus, comprising:
- a housing having a height in a first direction;
- an operator display screen mounted on the housing and facing an operator side of the housing;
- an operation panel mounted on the housing adjacent to the operator display screen and facing the operator side;
- a first reading window on a first surface of the housing facing the operator side of the housing, the first reading window being at a first height position along the first direction;
- a first reading unit inside the housing and configured to direct light out the first reading window for imaging an item on the operator side;
- a second reading window on a second surface of the housing facing a customer side of the housing, the second reading window being at a second height position along the first direction that is less than the first height position in height;
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- a second reading unit inside the housing and configured to direct light out the second reading window for imaging an item on the customer side.
A vertical scanner, comprising:
- a housing to be mounted to a checkout counter and have a height in a first direction orthogonal to an upper surface of the checkout counter;
- an operator display screen mounted on the housing to face an operator side of the checkout counter;
- an operation panel mounted on the housing adjacent to the operator display screen and facing the operator side;
- a first reading window on a first surface of the housing facing the operator side of the housing, the first reading window being at a first height position along the first direction from the checkout counter;
- a first scanner inside the housing and configured to direct light out the first reading window for imaging an item on the operator side;
- a second reading window on a second surface of the housing facing a customer side of the checkout counter, the second reading window being at a second height position along the first direction from the checkout counter, the second height position being less than the first height position in height from the checkout counter;
- a second scanner inside the housing and configured to direct light out the second reading window for imaging an item on the customer side;
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- a controller configured to receive commodity code information transmitted by one of the first scanner or the second scanner and store a commodity code corresponding to the received commodity code information in association with a scanner code indicating which of the first or second scanners transmitted the commodity code information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.