Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a marking apparatus comprises an acquiring section configured to acquire first information associated with an object; a setting section configured to set parameters of a laser beam based on the first information; and a marking section configured to irradiate the object with the laser beam based on the parameters set by the setting section to mark second information on the object.

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: 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 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: In accordance with an embodiment, a marking apparatus comprises an acquiring section configured to acquire first information associated with an object; a setting section configured to set parameters of a laser beam based on the first information; and a marking section configured to irradiate the object with the laser beam based on the parameters set by the setting section to mark second information on the object.

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 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 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: 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: 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.

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: According to an embodiment, a sales data processing apparatus includes first and second image-pickup cameras and a processor. The processor recognizes the object held by the operator's hand as the sold product on a basis of the first picked-up image of the first image-pickup camera. The processor detects motion of the operator's hand and the object held by the operator's hand on a basis of the second picked-up image of the second image-pickup camera. The processor determines whether the operator's behavior is unsuspicious or suspicious on a basis of the detection result based on the second picked-up image of the second image-pickup camera and the recognition result based on the first picked-up image of the first image-pickup camera.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a checkout apparatus includes a sensor; a reading device; an operation key; and a controller. The controller is configured to identify the product on the basis of read information from the reading device, and execute sales registration processing on the identified product. The controller is further configured to determine, in a case where the operation key receives the settlement operation, whether or not the product is in the predetermined placing area on the basis of detection information from the sensor. Further, the controller is further configured to execute, in a case of determining that no product is in the predetermined placing area, the settlement processing on the product on which the sales registration processing is executed.

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: A checkout system according to an embodiment includes a settlement device, a management terminal, and a camera. The settlement device starts a settlement processing based on generated settlement information, and then determines that the settlement processing is interrupted. In response to the determination that the settlement processing is interrupted, the settlement device receives image data from the camera and generates a calling screen indicating that a manager is called. Based on the received image data, the settlement device determines whether the manager is positioned in a predetermined checkout area proximate to the settlement device. When the manager is determined to be positioned in the predetermined checkout area, the settlement device stops displaying the calling screen and resumes the settlement processing.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a face feature detection unit (biometric information detection unit) activated by a detected motion activation unit detects a face feature (biometric information). A salesperson identification unit identifies whether or not an operator of a self-checkout POS terminal is anyone of registered salespersons by comparing the detected face feature with a face feature of a salesperson registered in a salesperson master. A motion detection unit detects a predetermined motion of the salesperson. An operation mode change unit changes a mode of the self-checkout POS terminal to an operation mode corresponding to the salesperson under a condition in which the salesperson identification unit identifies that the operator of the self-checkout POS terminal is the previously registered salesperson and the motion detection unit detects the predetermined motion.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image capturing unit that captures images of a first region positioned at an entrance, a second region in which a customer himself/herself performs accounting of a commodity, and a third region positioned at an exit in a checkout region relating to registration and accounting of the commodity, an extraction unit that extracts feature information indicating features of the customer, from a captured image obtained in each of the regions, a tracking unit that tracks a movement path until the same customer reaches the third region from the first region, based on similarity of the feature information extracted from the captured image of the first region to the feature information extracted from the captured images of the second region and the third region, and a reporting unit that performs reporting when the movement path indicates that the customer reaches the third region from the first region without passing through the second region are provided.

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: 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 printer driver comprising: a layout determining section that acquires data of a document page (logical page) and determines a layout of one or more printing pages (physical pages) by allocating a content of the logical page; a re-layout determining section that makes determination whether the determined layout includes an combinable pages or not, based on a ratio of a blank area in the physical page and based on presence/absence of continuity in the contents between the page and the immediately preceding physical page or based on an arrangement characteristic of a non-blank area in the physical page, when one logical page is allocated to plural physical pages; and a page combination control section that causes the layout determining section to determine a combined layout by re-allocating the combinable page and immediately preceding physical page to a single physical page based on the determination.