EP 0817140 A3 19980819 - Conveyor-type fee payment system
Title (en)
Conveyor-type fee payment system
Title (de)
Förderartiges Gebührenentrichtungssystem
Title (fr)
Système de paiement de taxes du type à transporteur
Publication
Application
Priority
JP 19163896 A 19960703
Abstract (en)
[origin: EP0817140A2] A fully automated system for the work of fee payment in supermarkets and other distribution outlets has a conveyance means 1 that conveys products 8 to be purchased, a reading means 2 that reads box codes printed on the products, a recognition means 3 that specifies the product names, quantities, and prices by the image read, referring to the read box codes by a merchandise control table 4, a computation means 5 that totals up the specified products and calculates the price to be paid, a display means 7 that displays the calculated monetary amount to be paid, and an exact-calculation means 6 that carries out the exact-calculation procedure by cash payment or a box-code prepaid card 10 according to the displayed price to be paid. <IMAGE>
IPC 1-7
IPC 8 full level
G06K 17/00 (2006.01); G07G 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP)
G07G 1/0045 (2013.01)
Citation (search report)
- [YA] EP 0443419 A2 19910828 - BIZERBA WERKE KRAUT KG WILH [DE]
- [Y] EP 0665510 A1 19950802 - TOMIOKA MAKOTO [JP], et al
- [A] US 4792018 A 19881220 - HUMBLE DAVID R [US], et al
- [A] FR 2658059 A1 19910816 - CROCY JEAN LOUIS
- [A] EP 0663643 A2 19950719 - SPECTRA PHYSICS [US]
- [AP] EP 0769766 A2 19970423 - NAGASHIO KICHINOSUKE [JP]
- [A] OKAWA Y: "IDENTIFICATION OF PACKAGED-IN-A-BOX GOODS FOR DESIGNING A PART OF AN INTELLIGENT CASH REGISTER", PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION, MIAMI BEACH, DECEMBER 1 - 4 1980, vol. VOL. 1, no. PROC. 5, 1 December 1980 (1980-12-01), INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, pages 150 - 152, XP002022028
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE CH DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE
DOCDB simple family (publication)
EP 0817140 A2 19980107; EP 0817140 A3 19980819; JP H1021466 A 19980123
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 97109532 A 19970612; JP 19163896 A 19960703