Container, shopping assistance system for use with same, shopping assistance method for use with same
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsRyusuke KAWAMOTO, Tatsuaki AMEMURA
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Abstract
A container is a container which is portable and which includes a body, a receiver, a placement sensor, and a determining processor. The body allows one or more goods to be put in. The placement sensor is provided to the body and is configured to sense that the one or more goods are put in the body. The receiver is provided to the body and is configured to acquire respective one or more pieces of goods information on one or more goods. The determining processor is provided to the body and is configured to determine a placed state of the one or more goods in the body in accordance with an acquisition result by the receiver and a sensed result by the placement sensor.
Claims20
A container being portable and comprising:
- a body which allows one or more goods to be put in;
- a placement sensor provided to the body and configured to sense that the one or more goods are put in the body;
- a receiver provided to the body and configured to acquire respective one or more pieces of goods information on one or more goods;
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- a determining processor provided to the body and configured to determine a placed state of the one or more goods in the body in accordance with an acquisition result by the receiver and a sensed result by the placement sensor.
A shopping assistance method, comprising:
- determining a placed state of one or more goods in a body of a container which is portable in accordance with a sensed result of putting of the one or more goods in the body and an acquisition result of respective one or more pieces of goods information on one or more goods;
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- notifying a user of the container of determination information denoting a determination result or notifying a sales system of the determination information, the sales system being configured to perform a sales process of the one or more goods put in the body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.