Abstract: A device having a monitor operable to display information to a customer. The device further including a touch sensitive module coupled to the monitor. Also, the device has an image capturing module operable to capture an image of the customer. Additionally, the device has a storage unit operable to store the image of the customer and product information including information related to products offered at a retail establishment and products offered in an online store of the retail establishment. Furthermore, the device has a communication module communicatively coupling the device to a server via a network. The server accessing a database to provide up-to-date product information to the device.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 15, 2010
Publication date:
October 21, 2010
Applicant:
J. C. Penney Corporation, Inc.
Inventors:
Robert Carpenter, JR., Thomas C. Feuerborn, Thomas N. Nealon, Rich Thompson, Brent McClintock, Jeff Wade
Abstract: A method and means for automatically inventorying items having coded tags or labels using a character-recognition device, such as a wand scanner, in combination with a system for specially marking the labels when they have been successfully read and recorded by the scanner, which system comprises the use of a photosensitive dye-forming material on the label and an ultraviolet light-producing flash device on the scanner. The flash device is actuated upon the successful completion of a recognition reading and irradiates the label with ultraviolet light which produces a visible and permanent mark on the label.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 8, 1978
Date of Patent:
December 25, 1979
Assignee:
The J. C. Penney Corporation, Inc.
Inventors:
Richard W. Koenig, Philip R. Girard, Alfred J. Neuhauser