Abstract: A tracking-based point-of-sales (POS) system includes a first sensing device, a second sensing device, and a processing device. The processing device is configured to perform location tracking with respect to the one or more customers around the product display section based on location information, perform a first operation to determine a purchasing customer who has performed a product displacement activity based on a result of the location tracking, and perform a product registration. The processing device is configured to perform a second operation to determine a product-returning customer who has performed a product placement activity based on a result of the location tracking, and perform a product deregistration. The processing device is configured to, upon the product deregistration causing an anomalous number of product in a purchase list of the product-returning customer, perform an anomaly operation.

Abstract: A tracking-based point-of-sales (POS) system includes a first sensing device, a second sensing device, and a processing device. The processing device is configured to perform location tracking with respect to the one or more customers around the product display section based on location information, perform a first operation to determine a purchasing customer who has performed a product displacement activity based on a result of the location tracking, and perform a product registration. The processing device is configured to perform a second operation to determine a product-returning customer who has performed a product placement activity based on a result of the location tracking, and perform a product deregistration. The processing device is configured to, upon the product deregistration causing an anomalous number of product in a purchase list of the product-returning customer, perform an anomaly operation.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a fraudulent act estimation device includes a first acquiring unit, an action recognizing unit, a second acquiring unit, and an output unit. The first acquiring unit acquires operation information from commodity registration operation by a customer at a settlement terminal. The action recognizing unit recognizes an action of the customer at the settlement terminal. The second acquiring unit acquires a reliability degree for the action of the customer. The output unit outputs result information based on the operation information and the reliability degree.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a registration apparatus comprises an information acquisition section configured to acquire commodity information of a commodity; a residual quantity acquisition section configured to acquire remaining battery level; and a communication section configured to transmit the commodity information input by the information acquisition section to a server if the remaining battery level is equal to or less than a first threshold value.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a customer authentication system includes at least one sensor configured to provide location information of people around a product display section. A customer authentication device is configured to provide customer identification information. A processing device is configured to perform location tracking of the people around the product display section based on the location information from the one or more sensors. The number of people in a predetermined area around the first customer authentication device is then determined based on the location tracking. The processing device enables customer authentication via the customer authentication device if only one person is in the predetermined area and disables customer authentication via the customer authentication device if more than one person is present in the predetermined area.

Abstract: A store system includes a processor. The processor is configured to detect movement of individual merchandise sold in a store, acquire a date and time when the movement of the merchandise is detected, determine a person related to the movement of the merchandise whose movement is detected, and store in a memory, for the individual merchandise, the date and time and information on the determined person as the movement detected at the date and time in association with each other.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a customer authentication system includes at least one sensor configured to provide location information of people around a product display section. A customer authentication device is configured to provide customer identification information. A processing device is configured to perform location tracking of the people around the product display section based on the location information from the one or more sensors. The number of people in a predetermined area around the first customer authentication device is then determined based on the location tracking. The processing device enables customer authentication via the customer authentication device if only one person is in the predetermined area and disables customer authentication via the customer authentication device if more than one person is present in the predetermined area.

Abstract: A fraudulent act recognition device is configured to be operatively coupled to a camera that monitors operation of a settlement terminal by a purchaser. The fraudulent act recognition device includes a controller configured to recognize a commodity registration operation of the settlement terminal initiated by the purchaser. The controller is configured to review imaging data provided by the camera to recognize an action of the purchaser who performs the commodity registration operation. The controller is configured to determine whether an action of the purchaser is indicative of a fraudulent act. The controller is configured to provide a notification in response to a determination that the action of the purchaser is indicative of the fraudulent act.

Abstract: A sales support device includes a weight measurement device for measuring a weight of a product displayed in a display section and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire, from the weight measurement device, a decrease amount if the weight of the product measured by the weight measurement device is decreased, specify, based on images captured by a camera, a customer who takes out the product for which the weight is decreased from the display section, and output identification information of the customer specified and information related to a sale of the product based on the decrease amount acquired to a sales management device that manages the information related to the sale in association with the identification information of the customer.

Abstract: A sales data processing apparatus comprises a control module which switches between a first mode for enabling a reading section, which reads a three-dimensional shape of an article and a two-dimensional image of the article, to read the three-dimensional shape of the article and a second mode for reading the two-dimensional image of the article; a calculation module which calculates a delivery charge of the article based on the three-dimensional shape of the article read in the first mode and a list in which the charge is determined for each volume of the article to be delivered; a registration module which registers an amount of the article contained in the two-dimensional image based on the two-dimensional image read in the second mode; and a first display control module which displays the delivery charge calculated by the calculation module or the amount registered by the registration module.

Abstract: A tracking-based point-of-sales (POS) system includes a first sensing device, a second sensing device, and a processing device. The processing device is configured to perform location tracking with respect to the one or more customers around the product display section based on location information, perform a first operation to determine a purchasing customer who has performed a product displacement activity based on a result of the location tracking, and perform a product registration. The processing device is configured to perform a second operation to determine a product-returning customer who has performed a product placement activity based on a result of the location tracking, and perform a product deregistration. The processing device is configured to, upon the product deregistration causing an anomalous number of product in a purchase list of the product-returning customer, perform an anomaly operation.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a customer authentication system includes at least one sensor configured to provide location information of people around a product display section. A customer authentication device is configured to provide customer identification information. A processing device is configured to perform location tracking of the people around the product display section based on the location information from the one or more sensors. The number of people in a predetermined area around the first customer authentication device is then determined based on the location tracking. The processing device enables customer authentication via the customer authentication device if only one person is in the predetermined area and disables customer authentication via the customer authentication device if more than one person is present in the predetermined area.

Abstract: A shopper management device includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to store a first list of first identifiers for identifying a plurality of tracked people within a store, store a second list of second identifiers for specifying a plurality of shoppers within the store, determine that a respective first identifier from the first list of first identifiers for identifying a respective tracked person is not correlated with a respective second identifier from the second list of second identifiers for specifying a respective shopper, receive an input that links the respective tracked person to the respective shopper according to an operation performed by an operator, and correlate the respective second identifier with the respective first identifier such that the respective tracked person is identified as the respective shopper.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a sales management system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores an unidentified product list in association with a purchaser who comes into a store. The processor determines at least one purchaser who may have taken out a product from a display area on the basis of a monitoring result of a motion of the purchaser and a movement of the product from the display area thereof. The processor updates, when the purchaser who has taken out the product from the display area fails to be identified, the unidentified product list associated with the determined at least one purchaser, the updated unidentified product list including an identification code of the taken-out product.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an information processing apparatus has an interface, a storage device, and a processor. The processor executes a control program stored in the storage device, to accept an image in which a prescribed area in a store has been imaged, via the interface, and detects a direction of a visual line of a person contained in the image. Further the processor determines a commodity which the person has browsed in the store, based on the direction of the visual line.

Abstract: A checkout system includes a register machine having a camera for capturing an image of a customer initiating a transaction, a checkout machine configured to perform checkout processing on the transaction, and a server in communication with the register machine and the checkout machine. The server includes a storage section in which the transaction information including an image of the customer captured with the camera, is stored, and a processor, which determines whether or not the checkout processing of the transaction has completed and erases the image of the customer at a first timing that is after determining that the checkout processing has completed, if an indication is received that the customer may have left behind an item, and at a second timing that is earlier than the first timing and is after determining that the checkout processing has completed, if the indication is not received.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a registration apparatus comprises an information acquisition section configured to acquire commodity information of a commodity; a residual quantity acquisition section configured to acquire remaining battery level; and a communication section configured to transmit the commodity information input by the information acquisition section to a server if the remaining battery level is equal to or less than a first threshold value.

Abstract: A commodity return processing device is configured to communicate with a point-of-sale (POS) server, and includes a display, scanner, an input device, and a processor. The processor is configured to control the scanner to read a customer ID that identifies a customer, control the display to show a list of transactions made by the identified customer, determine a commodity to be returned included in one of the transactions in response to a selection made by the customer via the input device, retrieve from the POS server information about one or more requirements for accepting a return of the commodity using a commodity code assigned to the commodity, determine whether the requirements are met based on at least one of a condition of the commodity and the current date, and perform a refund process for the commodity if the requirements are met.

Abstract: A shopping cart according to an embodiment comprises a shopping basket in which items to be purchased are placed and an electronic device including a display, a memory in which a list of the items to be purchased is stored, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine a plurality of items to be returned from the list of the items to be purchased, calculate a priority value for each of items to be returned based on character of the item, determine a return sequence of the items to be returned based on the calculated priority value, and control the display to display guidance information indicating the determined return sequence of the items to be returned.

Abstract: A notification system includes a detector, an identifier, a notifier, a determination module, and a controller. The detector detects that a commodity is placed at a display location. The identifier identifies the commodity. The notifier executes a notification operation with a plurality of different notification methods. The determination module determines a degree of conformity between the commodity identified by the identifier and the display location at which the commodity is placed. The controller controls the notifier such that the notifier executes the notification operation with one notification method associated to the degree of conformity determined by the determination module from the plurality of notification methods.