WO2016058716A1

WO2016058716A1 - Shopping terminal and system consisting of a plurality of shopping terminals

Info

Publication number: WO2016058716A1
Application number: PCT/EP2015/066672
Authority: WO
Inventors: Klaus Schulz
Original assignee: Medion Ag
Priority date: 2014-10-14
Filing date: 2015-07-21
Publication date: 2016-04-21
Also published as: DE202014104894U1; EP3207533A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a shopping terminal (1) for outputting a payment code (2) related to a product for purchasing an activated code (3) at a checkout point (4) for later acquiring the product corresponding to the activated code (3), comprising: a touch-controlled, in particular lower, control screen (5) for displaying and selecting the products that can be purchased, and a, in particular upper, remotely controlled display screen (6) for outputting product-related images and/or image sequences.

Description

Shopping terminal and system of several shopping terminals

Description

The present invention relates to a shopping terminal according to claim 1 and a system of at least one shopping terminal and a cash register according to claim 11 and a system of several with a

Central computer communication technology associated shopping terminals according to claim 13 and a method according to claim 15.

In particular, according to DE 10 2006 002 366 A1, automated vending devices are known, which have a vending device with at least one customer detection means for detecting

Customer information and a product detection means for detecting product information and an input means for data input by a customer. The goods purchased by the customer are handed out after a payment process or shipped from a warehouse to the customer. In practice, a variety of sales facilities in each store are necessary in order to enable the customers at the respective shelves to capture the purchased products. It is therefore a completely different sales concept, which is to get along without sales staff. The offer of non-physical goods such as e-books, electronic magazines, software, and movies are not readily available.

The object of the present invention is therefore to create a purchasing system which can be combined with classic shops and / or offers a large range of products, in particular non-physical products, on the smallest possible sales area for acquisition and / or manages without collecting personal data. The system should as simple as possible be operated by both the customer and the operator and the cashier. At the same time, the system is intended to promote sales.

The above object is achieved with the Merkmaien of claims 1, 11, 1 3 and 1 5.

The basic idea of the present invention is, in a shopping terminal with a small footprint, by a touch-controlled

Display and select the largest possible number of purchasable products and at the same time one

remote display screen for the output of product-related images and / or image sequences to realize a sales promotion. After selecting one, in particular single product, a corresponding product-related payment code is output to the customer via the control screen. With the product-related payment code, in particular in the form of a printout (or several printouts), the customer can go to the cash register of the store for payment. At the cash desk, the customer pays for any physical goods purchased at the store as well as the product-related payment code (s) and, upon payment, receives corresponding activated codes for the products purchased at the purchase terminal. With the codes activated, the customer can have the corresponding products sent, picked up or put on an e Download the appropriate communication medium (computer, TV, smartphone, tablet PC etc.).

The shopping terminal thus provides, in particular, an interface between products and shops that have been available for purchase up until now, in particular online

Stores acquirable product range significantly expanded. It is therefore no longer necessary to collect personal data via the shopping terminal, so that the purchase can be made anonymously, in particular in connection with a cash payment at the cash register.

The sales area can be reduced in particular to less than 1 m ² , whereby simultane- ously a sales promotion by issuing

product-related images and / or image sequences are made possible, to which the customer at the shopping terminal in particular has no influence.

The latter is made possible in particular by the fact that the

Display screen is designed exclusively remotely. In particular, the display screen is designed so that the customer has no influence on the content displayed on the display screen, in particular product-related images and / or image sequences. Instead, the content displayed on the display screen is specified by the respective store or by a group of stores.

To minimize the sales floor of the shopping mall while maximizing the display area and thus improving the shopping mall

Sales promotion is the Displayigebi screen with Vortei l in portrait orientation and / or above the control screen, in particular aligned with the control screen arranged. According to a further advantageous embodiment of the present invention, the control screen is a, in particular in the

Shopping terminal integrated, preferably inseparable for the customer, tablet PC. Hi erzu has the shopping terminal in particular

closed housing with a ei ne display surface of the

Control screen tailored opening.

According to a further advantageous embodiment of the shopping terminal defi ned the opening and / or arranged behind the opening

Holding device for the control screen an oblique plane directed towards the field of view of the customer. In this way, the on the

Control display screen displayed content and at the same time, the touch control can be done ergonomically. By virtue of the fact that the control screen is preferably arranged below the display screen, in particular in alignment therewith, the privacy of the customer is maximally protected when purchasing the products, in particular in combination with the others displayed on the display screen, in particular not related to the shopping process , Content.

In a further development of the present invention, the control screen is arranged in landscape format, in particular with a significantly smaller format than the display screen, preferably with at least a factor of 2, more preferably at least a factor of 4

more preferably at least a factor of 5 smaller format to the

Protect the privacy of the customer during the purchase process.

By displaying the products in categories grouped on the control screen, it is easier for the customer to choose from a variety of products. In a further development of the present invention, the output of the payment codes by one, in particular integrated in the purchase terminal, in particular in the area Ch of Steuerungsbi ldschi rms arranged and / or arranged below the control screen and / or with the

Control screen and / or the display screen

arranged, printer. On a printer output,

in particular the payment code having runnotes are preferably one or more of the fol lowing information printed:

- product-related images and / or information,

- user manual for the customer,

- Operating instructions for the cashier.

According to an alternative or combined with the printer

Embodiment of the present invention, the output of the payment codes by wireless Kombinati on, in particular by means of NFC (near field communication), carried out with a mobile communication device of the customer / purchaser. That way, the cost of the

Shopping terminal reduces and improves the design, since in particular can be dispensed with the provision of a printer.

As far as the payment codes, especially as a barcode, at the cash register

are formed automatically readable, in particular by means of a, preferably single, scanning process, the acquisition of the activated codes is simplified and gl eichzeitig accelerates, which is for integration into cash registers i n shops of particular importance.

An independent invention is also a system comprising at least one pre-described shopping terminal and at least one cash register

claimed, wherein the system is designed to work self-sufficient especially during the purchase at the shopping terminal and / or at the cash register. Self-sufficient in the sense of the present invention means, in particular, that during the purchase at the shopping terminal and / or at the cash register there is no active communication connection between the shopping terminal s and the cash registers and / or between the shopping terminal s and others, in particular outside the shop, Communication units is required. In particular, at the box office or on the

Store system of the store or the operator of the store related store codes already stored activated codes corresponding to the product-related payment codes. The activated codes are issued, in particular automated, to the customer after the end of the payment process.

Being self-sufficient within the meaning of the present invention also means in particular that no payment provider is necessary. to the

Complete the payment process and / or issue the activated codes.

Thus, even when paying with a credit card or a

Bank card no personal data to third parties (except the operator of the store and / or the bank of the customer) issued.

According to a further invention, in particular independent invention, a system is disclosed from a plurality of communication terminals connected to a central computer, the aforementioned shopping terminals, wherein the shopping manger, in particular in groups

individualized, can be fed from the central computer with product-related data. The connection to the central computer and feeding the

product-related data is carried out in particular outside of the

Shop opening times and / or at certain intervals, preferably not during a shopping process and / or payment transaction by the customer. As far as present and / or in the subsequent description of the figures device features are disclosed, they should also al s

Procedural features disclosed apply and vice versa.

Further advantages, features and details of the Erfundung will become apparent from the following description of a preferred embodiment and with reference to the figure.

1 shows a schematic view of an embodiment of a system according to the invention from a shopping terminal 1, a cash register 4 and a central computer 8, a display computer 9 and a

Merchandise system computer 1 0.

The Einkaufstermi nal 1 has a portrait format housing 11 with a kl a footprint (maximum e width x maximum depth) on. The housing 11 or the shopping terminal 1 is in a part of the

Stand surface upwardly extending lower output section 1 2, a si ch then anschli eßenden operating section 1 3 and a to the

Operating section subsequent display section 14 divided.

The output section 1 2, the Bedi enabschnitt 3 3 and the display section 14 form a common, the customer facing the front side 1 5 and facing away from the customer or the front side 1 5 rear side 1 6. The back 1 6 is in particular as a plane, preferably perpendicular formed to the footprint extending surface.

The output section 1 2 knows a greater depth by at least a factor of 2 than the display section 3 4, the front 15 in the

Output section 1 2 and / or in the display section 14 parallel to

Rear 1 6 runs. The operating section 13 is angled at the front side 15 opposite the rear side 16 or towards the customer, so that the front side 15 forms an oblique plane in the operating section 13.

In the inclined plane of the front side 15, in the operating section 13 a, in particular centered, opening 17 is arranged.

Behind the opening 17 of the control screen 15, in particular in the form of a tablet PC, integrated, in particular on a housing 13 arranged in the holder (not shown).

In the display section 12, the housing 11 has an opening 18, behind which the display screen 6 is integrated and / or fixed.

The output section 12 has an opening 19, behind which a printer 7 is arranged.

Furthermore, according to the invention, a holding plate 20 arranged on the rear side 16 and the rear side 16 on the side, in particular equidistant, can be arranged. The holding plate 20 preferably has a series of hooks 21 for receiving presentation cards, in particular in the form of gift cards. These serve in particular to clarify the purpose of the purchase term and are therefore preferably designed as a pattern.

The display screen 6 is displayed by the display computer 9 via a, in particular wireless communication connection with contents,

fed in particular product-related images and / or image sequences. The contents are advantageously selectable with respect to the respective shopping terminal 1, so that, in particular independently of the operation of the control screen 5, contents of the operator of the shop can be specified. The display computer 9 is in particular connected to a merchandise information system computer 10,

The merchandise management system computer 10 is in turn connected in particular with one or more cash registers 4 communication technology.

The components display computer 9, merchandise management system computer 10 and cash registers 4 are in the shops usually in this form already exists. The cash registers 4 have Regelfali POS printer 22.

The central computer 8 is a, in particular independent of the

Warenwirtschaftssystemrechner 10 and / or display computer 9 powered, computer, in particular via the Internet, at least temporarily with the inventory management system computer 10 and / or the

Control screen 5 is connected. The central computer 8 is

Especially locally independent of the shop and on the

Central computer 8 are connected to a variety of shopping terminals 1, which can be controlled individually or in groups.

Thus, contents for the control screen 5 can be changed at the central computer 8, specifically one or more of the following contents:

- change or addition of categories,

- modification or addition of purchased products and / or product related data, such as prices,

- Deposit of product related payment codes 2. The payment codes 2 are after selection of a product by a customer on the control screen 5 by means of the printer 7 on a

Run slip 23 issued.

The ticket 23 contains not only the payment code 2, in particular in the form of a barcode, but in addition product-related information and a user manual for the customer, which has to do with the ticket 23. Furthermore, the slip 23 contains information for operators at the till 4, which is to do with the slip 23 at the cash register 4.

The customer takes the slip 23 with the checkout. 4

At the cash register 4, the payment code 2 is scanned, whereupon the cash register displays the price to be paid. After completing the payment process, an activated code 3 stored in the merchandise management system computer 10 or in the cash register 4 is printed on the customer receipt 24 on the POS printer 22.

With the activated code 3 the customer is in the position the acquired one

Receive product, for example, by entering the pin code on a website mentioned on the customer document 24 or by picking it up at a pickup point on presentation of the customer document 24 or by downloading a non-physical product via a smartphone or a computer of the customer.

The customer document 24 is also in particular as a gift certificate

usable and in particular contains no personal data. Shopping terminal and system of several shopping windows.

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Claims

claims

Purchasing terminal (1) for issuing a product-related payment code (2) for acquiring an activated code (3) at a checkout (4) for later product acquisition of the product corresponding to the activated code (3) comprising: a touch-controlled, in particular lower,

Control screen (5) for displaying and selecting the purchasable products and a, in particular upper, remote-controlled display screen (6) for outputting product-related images and / or sequences of biographies,

2. Shopping terminal according to claim 1, wherein the display screen (6) is designed exclusively remotely.

3. Shopping terminal according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the display screen (6) is arranged in portrait format.

4. Shopping terminal according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the control screen (5) is in the shopping terminal (1) integrated tablet PC.

5. Shopping terminal according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the control screen (5) is arranged in landscape format.

6. Shopping terminal according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the products are grouped in categories on the control screen (5) can be displayed.

7. Shopping terminal according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the output of the payment codes (2) by a, in particular in the shopping terminal (1) integrated printer (7).

8. Shopping terminal according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the output of the payment codes (2) by wireless communication, in particular by means of NFC, with a mobile communication device of the customer.

9. shopping terminal according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the payment codes, in particular as a bar code, are formed automatically readable at the cash register (4), in particular by means of a single scanning operation.

10. Shopping terminal according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the activated code (3) is a pin code.

11. System comprising at least one shopping terminal (1) according to one of the preceding claims and at least one cash register (4).

12. System according to claim 11, wherein the system is designed to be self-sufficient during the acquisition.

13. System of several with a central computer (8)

communication-related shopping terminals (1).

14. System according to claim 13, wherein the purchase terminals (1),

individualized especially in groups, can be fed from the central computer with product-related data.

15. Method for issuing a product-related payment code (2) for acquiring an activated code (3) at a cash register (4) for later product acquisition of the code (3) which has been activated

corresponding product at a shopping terminal (1) with the following steps, in particular the following sequence:

Selecting a product on a touch-controlled control screen (5) of the shopping terminal (1) for displaying and selecting the purchasable products, displaying product-related images and / or image sequences at least during selection on a remote display screen (6) of the shopping terminal (1)

Issue of the payment code (2).