Apparatus and method for registering commodity information

Abstract

A commodity registration apparatus comprises a commodity reader configured to identify a code symbol on an item and a commodity designation module providing a display screen including a plurality of buttons corresponding to items lacking a code symbol. A registration module is configured to register items according to code symbols identified by the commodity reader or as designated by a selection of a button from the plurality of buttons provided on the display screen. A notification instruction module is configured to instruct a notification module to signal a registration of commodity information for each item registered by the registration module regardless of the item identification/designation method.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.