Abstract: A portable computing device is installed in or mountable to a shopping cart and linked for communication with a hand-held commodity registration apparatus. The portable computing device includes a wireless interface, a camera configured to capture an image, and a processor configured to establish a communication link with the hand-held commodity registration apparatus through the wireless interface, to perform object recognition on objects in the image captured by the camera, and to confirm that the objects recognized in the image correspond to commodities identified in registered commodity data received from the hand-held commodity registration apparatus through the wireless interface.

Abstract: A point-of-sale terminal includes a touch panel screen displaying first selectable objects and a second selectable object associated with one of the first selectable objects, first and second memory regions, and a processor. The first memory region stores for each of first selectable objects, display location and size, attributes of an image, and an operation command to be issued upon selection of the first selectable object. The second memory region stores data of the second selectable object. The processor is configured to arrange the second selectable object to be partially overlaid on one of the first selectable objects on the touch panel screen, such that responsive to a selection of the second selectable object or the partially overlaid first selectable object, the operation command for the partially overlaid first selectable object is issued.

Abstract: A system includes a processor and a communication unit. The processor is configured to track sales promotion information supplied to the user computing device, viewing of the sales promotion information at the user computing device, and electronic receipts for purchases of products by a user of the user computing device, and to determine, based on data tracked by the sales tracking module, whether or not conditions for transmitting the electronic reward to the user computing device has been satisfied. The communication unit is connected to the user computing device and a server for the application through a network. Upon determining that the conditions have been satisfied, the processor transmits the electronic reward to the server for the application through the communication unit, so that the user can be notified of the electronic reward through the user computing device while the user computing device is executing the application.

Abstract: An electronic content filtering server includes a communication unit and a processing unit. The communication unit is configured to receive from a mobile computing device a request for promotion information and a location of the mobile computing device, and from an electronic receipt server, store information of stores where a product being promoted has been sold. The processing unit is programmed to perform a filtering function on the store information and supply a filtered result to the mobile computing device through the communication unit. The processing unit, when performing the filtering function, determines a distance between the mobile computing device and each of the stores where the product has been sold, selects one or more stores based on the distance, and generates the filtered result including a product name of the product being promoted, and a store name of and a distance to each of the selected stores.

Abstract: A system is for tracking effectiveness of electronic promotions distributed to a plurality of mobile computing devices over a network. A system includes a promotion distribution unit and a central management server. The promotion distribution unit is configured to distribute content of the promotions to mobile computing devices of users, each of the promotions having a promotion ID and a product ID associated therewith. The central management server is configured to store in a first table, the promotion IDs and the products IDs in association with each other, to store in a second table, a promotion ID, a user ID, and a promotion viewing time in association with each other, upon receiving confirmation from a mobile computing device, and to store electronic receipt data. The central management server is further configured to compute an effectiveness value for each of the promotions.

Abstract: A display unit displays information in a fitting room. An operation input unit receives operation input of information in the fitting room. An RFID reader writer performs radio communication with an RFID tag, which is attached to a commodity and stores data of a commodity ID for identifying the commodity, and sets a radio communication range in the inside of the fitting room.

Abstract: A commodity display position alert system includes commodity display shelves set in a selling floor space of a store, an RFID reader provided in each of the commodity display shelves, and a server as a system control unit. The RFID reader reads a commodity code from an RFID tag attached to a commodity. A server compares the commodity code of the commodity and display permission information stored in a database functioning as a shelf-rule storing unit and determines whether the read commodity code is a commodity code of a commodity that should be displayed on the commodity display shelf. When the server determines that a commodity other than the commodity that should be displayed on the commodity display shelf is displayed on the commodity display shelf, the server performs control for outputting a reporting signal for causing the PDA terminal to perform reporting operation.

Abstract: A display unit displays information in a fitting room. An operation input unit receives operation input of information in the fitting room. An RFID reader writer performs radio communication with an RFID tag, which is attached to a commodity and stores data of a commodity ID for identifying the commodity, and sets a radio communication range in the inside of the fitting room.

Abstract: A display unit displays information in a fitting room. An operation input unit receives operation input of information in the fitting room. An RFID reader writer performs radio communication with an RFID tag, which is attached to a commodity and stores data of a commodity ID for identifying the commodity, and sets a radio communication range in the inside of the fitting room.

Abstract: An order receiving apparatus includes: a display control unit configured to display an order input screen in which function information concerning menu order functions is arranged in a plurality of areas; a moving unit configured to move a boundary between the areas adjacent to each other; and a scaling unit configured to scale the function information arranged in the areas adjacent to each other across the moved boundary.

Abstract: RFID tags are attached to commodities sold in a selling floor of a store. The RFID tags have stored therein identification codes for enabling identification of the RFID tags. An RFID reader configured to read the identification codes stored in the RFID tags is attached to a commodity display shelf on which the commodities are displayed. When a display quantity of stock of the commodities displayed on the commodity display shelf changes and the display quantity of stock decreases to be equal to or smaller than a predetermined alert value, a server causes a radio access point to output a reporting signal for causing a PDA terminal to perform reporting operation. A store clerk can learn, by checking a message displayed by the PDA terminal, that the display quantity of stock of the commodities decreases and can take timing for display work for commodities.

Abstract: A commodity display position alert system includes commodity display shelves set in a selling floor space of a store, an RFID reader provided in each of the commodity display shelves, and a server as a system control unit. The RFID reader reads a commodity code from an RFID tag attached to a commodity. A server compares the commodity code of the commodity and display permission information stored in a database functioning as a shelf-rule storing unit and determines whether the read commodity code is a commodity code of a commodity that should be displayed on the commodity display shelf. When the server determines that a commodity other than the commodity that should be displayed on the commodity display shelf is displayed on the commodity display shelf, the server performs control for outputting a reporting signal for causing the PDA terminal to perform reporting operation.

Abstract: In order to easily calculate a maximum number of commodities that can be displayed in a display space on a display shelf, a computer system executes: processing for dividing space width of a display space specified by a space code by commodity width of a commodity specified by a commodity code to calculate a width direction number of commodities that can be displayed in a width direction of the display space; processing for dividing space depth of the display space specified by the space code by commodity depth of the commodity specified by the commodity code to calculate a depth direction number of commodities that can be displayed in a depth direction of the display space; and processing for multiplying together the width direction number of commodities and the depth direction number of commodities to calculate a limit number of displayed commodities.

Abstract: One of the sales-promotion information items stored is selected and displayed on the dedicated second customer-use display unit provided on the upper surface of the counter.

Abstract: An information terminal displays a coordinate screen acquired from a coordinate database on a liquid crystal display, acquires data of an article code of clothes coordinated in the coordinate image from the coordinate database, acquires data of inventory status and display status associated with the acquired article code from an inventory database which stores and saves an article code of an individual article in association with inventory status of the article in a warehouse and display status of the article in a sales floor, and displays an inventory screen which reports a place where the article exists as an article inventory list on the liquid crystal display.

Abstract: A notifying unit performs notifying operation on the outside of a fitting room. A display unit displays information in the fitting room. An operation input unit receives operation input of the information in the fitting room. An RFID reader writer performs radio communication with an RFID tag, which is attached to a commodity and stores data of a commodity ID for identifying the commodity, and sets a radio communication range in the inside of the fitting room.

Abstract: A display unit displays information in a fitting room. An operation input unit receives operation input of information in the fitting room. An RFID reader writer performs radio communication with an RFID tag, which is attached to a commodity and stores data of a commodity ID for identifying the commodity, and sets a radio communication range in the inside of the fitting room.