Log-in control apparatus, control method of log- in control apparatus, and information terminal
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuta Sasaki
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a log-in control apparatus has a processor which controls an operation for log-in to an information terminal moving along with a carrier for carrying a commodity to be purchased. The processor detects a state in which the commodity is placed on the carrier, in cooperation with a sensor attached to the carrier. The processor detects the operation for log-in to the information terminal, in cooperation with an input device included in the information terminal. When the processor detects the operation for log-in, in a case in which the processor detects the state in which the commodity is placed on the carrier, the processor judges that the operation for log-in is ineffective.
Claims12
An information terminal which is attached to a carrier for carrying a commodity to be purchased and inputs information of the commodity for registration of the commodity to be purchased, the information terminal comprising:
- a sensor which detects whether or not a commodity is placed on the carrier, and then outputs a detection result accordingly;
- an input device which accepts an operation for log-in to the information terminal to input information for log-in;
- a memory which stores a program to control the operation for log-in;
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- a processor which executes the program to:
- detect whether or not the operation for log-in has been received by the input device,
- when it is detected that the operation for log-in has been received by the input device, determine, based on the detection result of the sensor, whether or not the commodity has been placed on the carrier,
- when the operation for log-in is detected, set the operation for log-in to be in an ineffective state and notify that the commodity is on the carrier if the commodity is determined to have been placed on the carrier, and
- after notifying that the commodity is on the carrier, detect whether or not the operation for log-in has been received by the input device again.
A control method for an information terminal which is attached to a carrier for carrying a commodity to be purchased and inputs information of the commodity for registration, the control method comprising:
- detecting whether or not an operation for log-in has been received by an input device;
- when it is detected that the operation for log-in has been received by the input device, determining whether or not a commodity has been placed on the carrier based on a detection result of a sensor which is attached to the carrier;
- when the operation for log-in is detected, setting the operation for log-in to be in an ineffective state and notifying that the commodity is on the carrier if the commodity is determined to have been placed on the carrier;
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- after notifying that the commodity is on the carrier, detecting whether or not the operation for log-in has been received by the input device again.
A cart-based point-of-sale terminal, comprising:
- a sensor configured to detect whether a commodity is in a cart to which the cart-based point-of-sale terminal is mounted;
- an input device to accept the input of information for a log-in operation for using the cart-based point-of-sale terminal;
- a processor configured by a software program to:
- determine whether information for the log-in operation has been input via the input device, and
- when the information of log-in is input, determine based on a detection result from the sensor whether or not an item is already in the cart and deny the log-in operation if the item is already in the cart and permit the log-in operation if no item is already in the cart and the information for the log-in operation is otherwise acceptable for log-in.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.