Commodity management system and commodity management apparatus
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshiyuki MATSUI
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Abstract
A commodity management system includes a cart including a wireless tag reader/writer configured to read first information from first wireless tags attached to commodities displayed in a store and second information from second wireless tags each disposed in a different display area in the store, and a commodity management apparatus configured to acquire the first and second information read by the wireless tag reader/writer, determine a display area in the store using the acquired second information, and specify a quantity of a commodity displayed in the determined display area based on the acquired first information.
Claims18
A commodity management system, comprising:
- a cart including a wireless tag reader/writer configured to read:
- first information from first wireless tags attached to commodities displayed in a display area, and
- second information from second wireless tags associated with display areas;
- and
- a commodity management apparatus configured to:
- acquire the first and second information read by the wireless tag reader/writer,
- determine the display area based on a tag ID in the acquired second information, and
- specify the quantity of a commodity displayed in the determined display area based on the acquired first information.
A commodity management apparatus, comprising:
- a network interface configured to communicate with a wireless tag reader/writer that is attached to a cart and is configured to read:
- first information from first wireless tags attached to commodities displayed in a display area and
- second information from second wireless tags associated with display areas;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- acquire, via the network interface, the first and second information read by the wireless tag reader/writer,
- determine the display area based on a tag ID in the acquired second information, and
- specify the quantity of a commodity displayed in the determined display area based on the acquired first information.
A commodity management method, comprising:
- emitting radio waves from a wireless tag reader/writer attached to a shopping cart to read first information from first wireless tags attached to commodities displayed in a store and second information from second wireless tags each disposed in one of display areas in the store;
- transmitting the read first and second information from the wireless tag reader/writer to a commodity management apparatus;
- determining, by the commodity management apparatus, a display area in the store using the acquired second information;
- and
- specifying, by the commodity management apparatus, a quantity of a commodity displayed in the determined display area based on the acquired first information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.