Abstract: A customer self-checkout system includes one or more checkout stations and multiple supervisor terminals. The supervisor terminals provide support to, and control over, the self-checkout system and checkout stations. The supervisory terminals may be wireless terminals that can capture self-checkout customer identification information including signatures, fingerprints, images, and other forms of identification.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 11, 2003
Date of Patent:
February 5, 2008
Assignee:
Optimal Robotics Corporation
Inventors:
Eric Jacobs, Iouri Kloubakov, Bruce McVicar, Thierry Leroux-Demers