Radio-tag reading apparatus and radio tag
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuya Itagaki
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Abstract
The radio-tag data containing the merchandise management data about an item of merchandise from the radio tag attached to the item of merchandise. It is determined whether a prescribed one of the bytes constituting the radio-tag data is identification data that specifies the merchandise management data. If the prescribed byte is determined to be identification data, a prescribed number of bytes following the prescribed byte are extracted from the radio-tag data. The bytes thus extracted are output as merchandise management data.
Claims6
A radio-tag reading apparatus comprising:
- a reading unit which reads radio-tag data from a radio tag attached to an item of merchandise, the radio-tag data storing merchandise management data about the item of merchandise;
- a tag-data storing unit which stores the radio-tag data read by the reading unit;
- analyzing means for determining whether a prescribed one of the bytes constituting the radio-tag data stored in the tag-data storing unit is identification data that specifies the merchandise management data;
- extracting means for extracting, from the radio-tag data stored in the tag-data storing unit, a prescribed number of bytes following the prescribed one of the bytes, when the prescribed one of the bytes is determined to be the identification data by the analyzing means;
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- output means for outputting the bytes extracted by the extracting means as the merchandise management data.
A radio tag to be attached to an item of merchandise whose information of which is managed by using a multi-stage barcode, the radio tag comprising:
- a memory which is configured to store an ID code allocated to the radio tag and management data about the item of merchandise;
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- a control unit which is configured to control a process of writing data in, and reading data from, the memory,
- wherein the memory stores an identification data item specifying the management data about the item of merchandise and data corresponding to the first-stage barcode of the multi-stage barcode, and alternately stores identification data items specifying management data about other items of merchandise and data items corresponding to the second-stage et seq. of the multi-stage barcode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.