Method for preventing article theft and self-checkout system carrying out the method
AssigneeSentry Technology Corp.
InventorPeter Trenciansky
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Abstract
A method of inhibiting article theft at a location employing at least one-self checkout station and an antitheft security system, each article carrying at least one antitheft label, comprises reading information from an article, sensing at least one physical parameter of the article, retrieving article parameter information from a database based on the read identification information, comparing the sensed the at least one physical parameter with the retrieved article parameter information and deactivating each antitheft security label carried by the article if the sensed at least one physical parameter generally corresponds with the article parameter information.
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A method of inhibiting article theft at a location employing at least one self-checkout station and an antitheft security system, each article carrying at least one antitheft security label, said method comprising:
- reading identification information from an article;
- sensing at least one physical parameter of said article;
- retrieving article parameter information from at least one database based on said read identification information;
- comparing the sensed at least one physical parameter with the retrieved article parameter information;
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- deactivating each antitheft security label carried by the article if the sensed at least one physical parameter generally corresponds with said article parameter information.
A self-checkout system comprising:
- at least one reader for reading information from an article;
- at least one sensor for sensing at least one physical parameter of said article;
- processing structure communicating with said at least one reader and said at least one sensor and comparing the sensed at least one physical parameter with article parameter information read from at least one database;
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- an antitheft security label deactivator for deactivating an antitheft security label carried by the article when the sensed at least one physical parameter generally corresponds to said article parameter information.
A computer readable medium embodying a computer program, said computer program comprising:
- computer program code for causing a reader to read identification information from an article;
- computer program code for causing a sensor to sense at least one physical parameter of said article;
- computer program code for retrieving article parameter information from at least one database based on said read identification information;
- computer program code for comparing the sensed at least one physical parameter with the retrieved article parameter information;
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- computer program code for causing a deactivator to deactivate each antitheft security label carried by the article if the sensed at least one physical parameter generally corresponds with said article parameter information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.