CN110059778B

CN110059778B - Commodity position indicating method, commodity shelf system, commodity position indicating device, commodity position indicating equipment and commodity position indicating medium

Info

Publication number: CN110059778B
Application number: CN201910165144.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王帅刚
Original assignee: Shanghai Lazhasi Information Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Lazhasi Information Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-03-05
Filing date: 2019-03-05
Publication date: 2022-08-02
Anticipated expiration: 2039-03-05
Also published as: CN110059778A

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of electronic commerce, and discloses a commodity position indicating method, a goods shelf, a system, a device, equipment and a medium. The commodity position indicating method is applied to a server in a commodity position indicating system; the commodity position indicating system also comprises an intelligent goods shelf for placing commodities, the intelligent goods shelf comprises an identification code and indicating devices which are in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities, and the identification code is used for the terminal equipment to acquire commodity information on the intelligent goods shelf when identifying the identification code; the commodity position indicating method comprises the following steps: when a selection request for commodities on an intelligent shelf sent by a terminal device is received, an indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodity is obtained; and controlling the acquired indicating device to send prompt information. By adopting the embodiment of the invention, the user can quickly locate the commodity to be purchased, so that the time for the user to search the commodity is reduced, and the shopping experience of the user is improved.

Description

Commodity position indicating method, commodity shelf system, commodity position indicating device, commodity position indicating equipment and commodity position indicating medium

Technical Field

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of electronic commerce, in particular to a commodity position indicating method, a goods shelf, a system, a device, equipment and a medium.

Background

At present, the types and the quantity of commodities in supermarkets of large-scale entity malls or electronic malls are very various, and users can really feel real commodities by paying more attention to the shopping process experience when shopping in the entity malls; when shopping in the electronic shopping mall, the user can directly click the commodity through an application program, a webpage or the like to complete the purchase.

However, the inventors found that at least the following problems exist in the related art: the variety and the quantity of commodities in a large entity mall are very various, when a user wants to find a commodity needing to be purchased, the user needs to carefully find the commodity in a goods shelf, pick up the commodity, carefully distinguish the commodity and the like, the commodity needing to be purchased cannot be quickly and accurately positioned, and the shopping experience of the user is relatively influenced.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention aims to provide a commodity position indicating method, a goods shelf, a system, a device, equipment and a medium, so that a user can quickly locate a commodity to be purchased, the time for the user to search the commodity is reduced, and the shopping experience of the user is improved.

In order to solve the above technical problem, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for indicating a commodity position, which is applied to a server in a commodity position indicating system; the commodity position indicating system also comprises an intelligent goods shelf for placing commodities, the intelligent goods shelf comprises an identification code and indicating devices in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities, and the identification code is used for enabling terminal equipment to obtain commodity information on the intelligent goods shelf when identifying the identification code; the commodity position indicating method comprises the following steps: when a selection request for the commodities on the intelligent shelf, which is sent by the terminal equipment, is received, an indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodities is obtained; and controlling the acquired indicating device to send out prompt information.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a commodity position indicating method, which is applied to terminal equipment and comprises the following steps: identifying an identification code on an intelligent shelf to obtain commodity information on the intelligent shelf; and selecting the commodities on the intelligent shelf, and sending prompt information by using an indicating device which is in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities.

The embodiment of the invention also provides an intelligent shelf for placing commodities, which comprises: an identification code and indicating means; the identification code is used for acquiring commodity information on the intelligent shelf when the terminal equipment identifies the identification code; the indicating devices correspond to the commodity placing positions one by one and are used for sending out prompt information when the terminal equipment sends a selection request for the commodities on the intelligent shelf.

An embodiment of the present invention also provides an intelligent shelf system, including: the intelligent shelves and the slave servers correspond to the intelligent shelves one to one; the intelligent goods shelf is used for placing goods and comprises: an identification code and indicating means; the identification code is used for the terminal equipment to acquire commodity information on the intelligent shelf when the identification code is identified; the indicating devices correspond to the commodity placing positions one by one and are used for sending out prompt information when the terminal equipment sends a selection request for the commodities on the intelligent shelf. And the slave server is used for acquiring an indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodity when receiving a selection request of the commodity on the intelligent shelf sent by the terminal equipment, and controlling the acquired indicating device to send out prompt information.

An embodiment of the present invention also provides an indicating apparatus for a position of a commodity, including: the receiving module is used for receiving a selection request of commodities on the intelligent shelf, which is sent by terminal equipment; the acquisition module is used for acquiring the indicating device corresponding to the placing position of the selected commodity when the selection request is received; and the control module is used for controlling the acquired indicating device to send out prompt information.

An embodiment of the present invention also provides an indicating apparatus for a position of a commodity, including: the identification module is used for identifying the identification code on the intelligent goods shelf and acquiring the commodity information on the intelligent goods shelf; and the selection module is used for selecting the commodities on the intelligent shelf and sending prompt information to the indicating devices which are in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities.

An embodiment of the present invention also provides an electronic device, including: at least one processor; and a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to: when a request for selecting commodities on an intelligent shelf, which is sent by a terminal device, is received, an indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodities is obtained; and controlling the acquired indicating device to send out prompt information.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal device, including: at least one processor; and a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to enable the at least one processor to: identifying an identification code on an intelligent shelf to obtain commodity information on the intelligent shelf; and selecting the commodities on the intelligent shelf, and sending prompt information by using an indicating device which is in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a computer readable storage medium, and the computer program is used for realizing the method for indicating the position of the commodity when being executed by the processor.

Compared with the prior art, the commodity position indicating system comprises a server and an intelligent shelf for placing commodities, wherein the intelligent shelf comprises an identification code and indicating devices in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities, and the identification code is used for enabling terminal equipment to acquire commodity information on the intelligent shelf when identifying the identification code so that a user can browse and select commodities on the intelligent shelf through the terminal equipment; the commodity position indicating method comprises the following steps: when a selection request for the commodities on the intelligent shelf, which is sent by the terminal equipment, is received, an indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodities is obtained; the obtained indicating device is controlled to send out the prompt message, so that a user can quickly locate the selected commodity to purchase through the prompt message sent out by the indicating device in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities without finding the placing positions of the commodities on the intelligent goods shelf by himself or herself, time and energy for finding the commodities in the shopping process are saved, and shopping experience of the user is effectively improved.

In addition, optionally, the obtaining of the indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodity includes: acquiring a commodity identification of the selected commodity; according to the corresponding relation between the pre-stored commodity identification and the commodity placing position information, the commodity placing position information of the selected commodity is obtained; and acquiring an indicating device corresponding to the commodity placing position according to the commodity placing position information.

In addition, optionally, the indicating device is specifically an indicator light; the control of the acquired indication device sends out prompt information, which specifically comprises the following steps: and controlling the indicator lamp to be lightened. This embodiment provides a concrete implementation mode that indicating device sent tip information, and the suggestion effect of pilot lamp is obvious, and the user of being convenient for receives tip information fast.

In addition, optionally, the indicator light is controlled to be turned on, specifically: and controlling the indicator lamp to be lightened into the commodity indicating color corresponding to the selected commodity according to the corresponding relation between the prestored commodity and the commodity indicating color, so that the prompt information sent by the indicator lamp is more striking.

In addition, optionally, when the request for selecting the goods on the intelligent shelf sent by the terminal device is received, the method further includes: according to the corresponding relation between the pre-stored commodity and the commodity indicating color, the commodity indicating color corresponding to the selected commodity is displayed, so that a user can be favorably positioned to the indicating device according to the displayed commodity indicating color, and the condition that a plurality of indicating lamps are mixed up when being simultaneously lightened is avoided.

In addition, optionally, the method further comprises: after the indicating device sends out prompt information and lasts for a preset time, the indicating device is closed so as to save the electric quantity consumption of the indicating device and prolong the service life of the indicating device.

In addition, optionally, the indicating device is specifically a touch indicating device; the method, when the indication device sends out the prompt message, further comprises: if the indicating device is detected to receive touch operation, the indicating device is turned off, so that a user can actively turn off the indicating device after positioning the selected commodity to save the power consumption of the indicating device.

In addition, optionally, the acquiring of the commodity information on the intelligent shelf includes: and acquiring commodity information on the intelligent shelf through an interactive page. The embodiment provides an implementation mode for acquiring commodity information.

Further, optionally, the server comprises: the intelligent goods shelf system comprises a main server and slave servers which correspond to the intelligent goods shelves one to one, wherein the main server is connected with each slave server; the main server is used for acquiring an indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the commodity when receiving a selection request of the commodity on the intelligent shelf sent by the terminal equipment; the slave server is used for controlling the obtained indicating device to send out prompt information.

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One or more embodiments are illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawings, which correspond to the figures in which like reference numerals refer to similar elements and which are not to scale unless otherwise specified.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of an indicating method of a position of a commodity according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a flowchart of an indicating method of a position of an article according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an intelligent shelf according to a second embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the operation of the merchandise location indication system according to the second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a flowchart of an indicating method of a position of a commodity according to a third embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a block diagram of an indicating apparatus of a position of an article according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a block diagram of an indicating apparatus of a position of an article according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a block diagram of an electronic device according to a sixth embodiment of the invention;

fig. 9 is a block diagram of a terminal device according to a seventh embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention more apparent, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that numerous technical details are set forth in order to provide a better understanding of the present application in various embodiments of the present invention. However, the technical solution claimed in the present application can be implemented without these technical details and various changes and modifications based on the following embodiments. The following embodiments are divided for convenience of description, and should not constitute any limitation to the specific implementation manner of the present invention, and the embodiments may be mutually incorporated and referred to without contradiction.

A first embodiment of the present invention relates to a commodity position indicating method applied to a server in a commodity position indicating system; the specific flow of the method is shown in fig. 1, and specifically comprises the following steps:

step 101, when a request for selecting commodities on an intelligent shelf, which is sent by a terminal device, is received, an indicating device corresponding to the placing position of the selected commodity is obtained.

And 102, controlling the obtained indicating device to send prompt information.

In this embodiment, the commodity position indicating system includes a server and an intelligent shelf for placing commodities, where the intelligent shelf includes an identification code and indicating devices corresponding to the commodity placing positions one by one, and the identification code is used for a terminal device to obtain commodity information on the intelligent shelf when identifying the identification code, so that a user can browse and purchase commodities on the intelligent shelf through the terminal device; the commodity position indicating method comprises the following steps: when a selection request for the commodities on the intelligent shelf, which is sent by the terminal equipment, is received, an indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodities is obtained; the obtained indicating device is controlled to send out the prompt message, so that a user can quickly locate the selected commodity to purchase through the prompt message sent out by the indicating device in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities without finding the placing positions of the commodities on the intelligent goods shelf by himself or herself, time and energy for finding the commodities in the shopping process are saved, and shopping experience of the user is effectively improved.

The following describes in detail the method for indicating a position of a product according to the present embodiment, and the following is only for convenience of understanding and is not essential to the present embodiment.

In this embodiment, the product position indication system includes a server and an intelligent shelf. The server comprises a main server and slave servers which correspond to the intelligent shelves one by one; the main server is connected with each slave server and used for acquiring the indicating device corresponding to the placing position of the commodity, and the slave servers are used for controlling the acquired indicating device to send out prompt information. The intelligent goods shelf is used for placing goods and comprises an identification code and indicating devices which are in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the goods; the identification code is used for the terminal equipment to obtain commodity information on the intelligent goods shelf when identifying the identification code, and the indicating device is used for sending prompt information according to the control of the slave server corresponding to the intelligent goods shelf to which the indicating device belongs and prompting the placement position of the corresponding commodity. In the present embodiment, the correspondence relationship between the indicating device and the placement position of the item is SKU correspondence (item number correspondence), each item of the item has a unique SKU number and a unique placement position, and the unique placement position of each item of the item corresponds to one unique indicating device.

In step 101, a user identifies an identification code on an intelligent shelf through a terminal device to acquire commodity information on the intelligent shelf. The identification code on the intelligent goods shelf can be a static two-dimensional code picture fixed on the intelligent goods shelf; the identification code can also be a dynamic two-dimensional code picture displayed by an identification code device on the intelligent shelf, for example, the dynamic two-dimensional code picture is displayed by an LED display screen. After the user identifies the identification code through the terminal device, the user can acquire the commodity information on the intelligent shelf by playing the voice information contained in the identification code through the terminal device, for example, a section of voice information playing the commodity information on the intelligent shelf in sequence. Similarly, the user may send a selection request for the goods on the intelligent shelf to the host server by inputting voice information containing the name of the goods into the terminal device. When the main server receives a commodity selection request sent by the terminal equipment, the indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodity is obtained, data are sent to the slave server corresponding to the intelligent shelf, and the slave server is made to obtain the indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodity on the intelligent shelf.

In step 102, the slave server controls the acquired instructing device to issue the presentation information based on the data transmitted from the master server. The indicating device can be a sound generating device playing preset voice information so as to prompt the user of the placement position of the selected commodity through voice. In addition, in consideration of the practical application condition, after the indicating device sends out the prompt message and continues for a preset time, the server controls the indicating device to be closed so as to save the electric quantity consumption of the indicating device and prolong the service life; meanwhile, the duration of the preset time when the indicating device sends the prompt message is preset as a duration (for example, 10 seconds) enough for the user to locate the selected commodity according to the prompt message, so that the normal utility of the commodity position indicating function is not influenced. Preferably, the indicating device may be a touch indicating device, so that the user may actively touch the indicating device after positioning the selected commodity, and immediately control the indicating device to be turned off according to the touch operation received by the indicating device from the server.

Compared with the prior art, each commodity single has a unique single number and a unique placing position, and the placing position of each commodity single corresponds to a unique indicating device. When a request for selecting the commodities on the intelligent shelf, which is sent by the terminal device, is received, the indicating device corresponding to the placing positions of the selected commodities is obtained, and the obtained indicating device is controlled to send prompt information, so that a user can quickly position the selected commodities to purchase the commodities through the prompt information sent by the indicating device which is uniquely corresponding to the placing positions of the commodities, the placing positions of the commodities do not need to be searched on the intelligent shelf by himself, the shopping process is quick, and the shopping experience of the user is effectively improved.

A second embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for indicating a position of a commodity, which is substantially the same as the first embodiment, and in the second embodiment of the present invention, an indicating device is obtained specifically by a pre-stored correspondence; the indicating device is specifically an indicating lamp. The method for indicating the position of a commodity in the present embodiment is shown in fig. 2, and the flow of fig. 2 will be specifically described below:

step 201, when a request for selecting commodities on an intelligent shelf sent by a terminal device is received, a commodity identification of the selected commodity is obtained.

Specifically, after recognizing the two-dimensional code of the intelligent shelf, the terminal device acquires the commodity information on the intelligent shelf through an interactive page (for example, an H5 interactive page), and sends a request for selecting the commodity on the intelligent shelf by clicking the commodity identification information, the commodity picture information, and the like displayed on the touch interactive page. When a commodity selection request sent by a terminal device is received, a commodity identification of a selected commodity is obtained, the commodity identification can be stored in a server in the form of a SKU number, and each commodity item has a unique SKU number.

Step 202, commodity placing position information of the selected commodity is obtained.

Specifically, the server stores in advance a correspondence between the product identifier and the product placement position information, which is specifically shown in table 1: each commodity unit has a unique identification (namely a commodity ID in a table) and unique placement position information (namely commodity placement position information in the table), and when a selection request for a commodity is received, the placement position information of the commodity is acquired according to the ID of the commodity. For example, in table 1, the product ID of the product "haifei refreshing shampoo" is HFS001, and the product placement position information is C001001, indicating that the haifei refreshing shampoo is located at position No. 1-001 of the smart shelf.

TABLE 1

Serial number	Commodity	Commodity ID	Commodity placing position information
				1	Haifeisi refreshing shampoo	HFS001	C001001
2	Sea-fly-silk de-oiling shampoo	HFS002	C001002
				3	Lion king toothpaste 200ml	SW001	C001003
4	Lion king toothpaste 350ml	SW002	C001004

Step 203, acquiring an indicating device corresponding to the placing position of the commodity.

Specifically, the server stores in advance the correspondence between the commodity placement position information and the pointing device, as shown in table 2: each commodity unit has unique placement position information (i.e., commodity placement position information in the table) and a unique indicating device (i.e., an indicating device in the table), and the corresponding indicating device is acquired according to the acquired commodity placement position information. For example, in table 2, the article placement position information of the article "haifei refreshing shampoo" is C001001, the indicating device is D001001, and the indicating device indicating the position where the haifei refreshing shampoo is placed is No. 1-layer 001 indicating device.

TABLE 2

Serial number	Commodity	Commodity placing position information	Indicating device
				1	Haifeisi refreshing shampoo	C001001	D001001
2	Sea-fly-silk de-oiling shampoo	C001002	D001002
				3	Lion king toothpaste 200ml	C001003	D001003
4	Lion king toothpaste 350ml	C001004	D001004

Step 204, controlling the obtained indicating device to be lightened; and displaying the commodity indication color corresponding to the selected commodity.

Specifically, the indicating device in the present embodiment is an indicator light, and the indicating effect of the indicator light is obvious and technically easy to implement. And the server controls the obtained indicator lamp to be lightened so as to prompt the user of the placement position of the selected commodity. Preferably, the server also prestores the corresponding relation between the commodities and the commodity indicating colors, and when a request of a user for selecting the commodities is received, the commodity indicating colors corresponding to the commodities are obtained according to the selected commodities so as to control the indicator lamps to be lightened to the commodity indicating colors corresponding to the commodities, so that the sent prompt information is more striking; simultaneously, still can show the commodity instruction colour that acquires on terminal equipment's mutual page to characters form or picture form to supply the user to know indicating device's the color of lighting, be favorable to fixing a position selected commodity according to the colour of knowing, avoid having a plurality of users to trigger a plurality of pilot lamps on the intelligent goods shelves and the condition of mixing up each other simultaneously. In this embodiment, the corresponding relationship between the commodities and the commodity indication colors may be SKU correspondence, and each commodity unit corresponds to a unique commodity indication color different from the commodity indication color of the commodity adjacent to the commodity ID; when the placement positions of the commodities adjacent to the commodity ID are also adjacent, different commodity indication colors are used for distinguishing different commodities so as to avoid prompting a wrong commodity placement position for a user.

It should be noted that the correspondence between the commodity identification and the commodity placement position information, the correspondence between the commodity placement position information and the indicating device, and the correspondence between the commodity and the commodity indication color, which are prestored in the server, are maintained by the operator, and the entry, modification, and the like of the correspondence are performed according to the actual conditions of the commodity placement position information and the indicating device corresponding to the placement position information in the entity market, and the like.

In the present embodiment, a schematic diagram of the structure of the smart shelf is shown in fig. 3. In fig. 3, the intelligent shelf places the goods through the shelf layer and the goods storage area, displays the identification code for the terminal device to identify through the two-dimensional code display module, and sends out the prompt information of the goods placement position through the touch lamp; in practical application, the intelligent shelf and the slave server corresponding to the intelligent shelf form an intelligent shelf system, wherein the slave server corresponding to the intelligent shelf specifically comprises a network module, a lamp control module, a calculation module, a power module and the like. The network module is used for receiving a selection request of commodities on the intelligent shelf sent by the terminal equipment and ensuring network connection and data transmission between a master server of the commodity position indicating system and a slave server corresponding to the intelligent shelf; the computing module is used for acquiring the indicating device corresponding to the placing position of the commodity according to the corresponding relation between the placing position information of the commodity prestored in the lamp control module and the indicating device when the terminal equipment sends a selection request for the commodity on the intelligent shelf, and sending an execution instruction to the lamp control module for the lamp control module to control the corresponding indicating device to send prompt information; the lamp control module is used for storing the corresponding relation between the commodity placing position information and the indicating device, and controlling the indicating device corresponding to the obtained commodity placing position to send out prompt information (specifically, controlling the touch lamp to be turned on in fig. 3) according to the execution instruction sent by the calculation module; the power module is used for supplying power to the intelligent goods shelf so as to guarantee the normal working power supply requirement of the intelligent goods shelf.

Referring to an example, a flow chart of the operation of the product position indication system is shown in fig. 4. When goods (goods) are put on shelf, an operator stores information such as a goods ID, goods placement position information, and an indicating device on an intelligent shelf in a server (supermarket information server), and can configure and maintain the information stored in the server at any time according to an actual selling situation. And generating an identification code (a goods area two-dimensional code) of the intelligent shelf according to the information on the intelligent shelf stored in the server. When a user scans the identification code on the intelligent shelf through the terminal equipment to obtain the commodity information on the intelligent shelf, the information of the commodity 'Shiwang toothpaste 200 ml' is clicked to send a commodity selection request. When the server receives a selection request of 200ml of Shiwang toothpaste sent by the terminal equipment, the commodity identification SW001 of the commodity is obtained; according to the commodity identification, commodity placement position information 'C001004' is obtained; according to the commodity placement position information, acquiring a corresponding indicator lamp D001004, controlling the indicator lamp to light a color (such as blue) corresponding to the Shiwang toothpaste 200ml, and displaying prompt information of the Shiwang toothpaste 200ml on an interactive page of the terminal equipment: blue "text. The user finds the indicator light which is lighted into blue according to the characters displayed on the interactive page, takes 200ml of the commodity Shiwang toothpaste away, and manually touches and closes the indicator light.

Compared with the prior art, the method has the advantages that after the two-dimensional code of the intelligent shelf is identified, the terminal equipment clicks the commodity on the intelligent shelf through the interactive page; the server acquires the indicator light corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodity according to the pre-stored corresponding relations, controls the indicator light to light the commodity indication color corresponding to the selected commodity, and displays the commodity indication color on the interactive page so as to clearly prompt the user of the placement position of the selected commodity from multiple aspects, and the user can conveniently and quickly locate the selected commodity.

The third embodiment of the present invention relates to a commodity position indication method, which is applied to a terminal device; a specific flow of the method for indicating a position of a commodity in this embodiment is shown in fig. 5, and the following specific steps of the flow of fig. 5 include:

step 501, identifying the identification code on the intelligent shelf, and acquiring commodity information on the intelligent shelf.

Step 502, selecting goods on the intelligent shelf.

Specifically, the intelligent shelf is provided with a static two-dimensional code picture or a dynamic two-dimensional code picture displayed through a display screen; the terminal equipment identifies the two-dimensional code picture, and commodity information, the commodity picture and the like on the intelligent shelf can be acquired through voice information or an interactive page. When the commodity information is acquired through the voice information, the voice information containing the commodity name can be input to realize the selection of the commodity; when the commodity information is acquired through the interactive page, the commodity information displayed on the interactive page can be clicked, so that the commodity can be selected, and the indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodity can send out prompt information.

Compared with the prior art, the method has the advantages that the terminal equipment identifies the identification code of the intelligent shelf, so that the commodities on the intelligent shelf can be browsed and purchased; after the commodities on the intelligent goods shelf are selected, the indicating device corresponding to the selected commodities on the intelligent goods shelf sends prompt information, so that a user of the terminal equipment can quickly locate the selected commodities to purchase the commodities, the placing positions of the commodities do not need to be searched on the intelligent goods shelf by oneself, time and energy for searching the commodities are saved, and shopping experience of the user is effectively improved.

A fourth embodiment of the present invention relates to a commodity position indicating device 60, as shown in fig. 6, including: a receiving module 601, an obtaining module 602 and a control module 603.

The receiving module 601 is used for receiving a selection request for the commodities on the intelligent shelf, which is sent by the terminal device;

an obtaining module 602, configured to obtain, when the selection request is received, an indicating device corresponding to a placement position of the selected commodity;

and the control module 603 is configured to control the obtained indication device to send out a prompt message.

In one example, the obtaining module 602 is configured to obtain an indicating device corresponding to a placement position of the selected article, and includes: the obtaining module 602 is configured to obtain a product identifier of the selected product; according to the corresponding relation between the pre-stored commodity identification and the commodity placing position information, the commodity placing position information of the selected commodity is obtained; and acquiring an indicating device corresponding to the commodity placing position according to the commodity placing position information.

In one example, the indicating device controlled by the control module 603 is specifically an indicator light; the control module 603 is configured to control the indicator light to be turned on.

In one example, the control module 603 is configured to control the indicator light to be turned on, specifically: the control module 603 is configured to control the indicator light to be turned on to a commodity indication color corresponding to the selected commodity according to a correspondence between pre-stored commodities and commodity indication colors.

In one example, the receiving module 601, when receiving a selection request for goods on the intelligent shelf sent by a terminal device, further includes: and displaying the commodity indicating color corresponding to the selected commodity according to the corresponding relation between the pre-stored commodity and the commodity indicating color.

In one example, the control module 603 is further configured to turn off the indication device after the indication device sends out the prompt message and continues for a preset time period.

In one example, the pointing device is embodied as a touch-sensitive pointing device; when the indication device sends a prompt message, if the control module 603 detects that the indication device receives a touch operation, the indication device is turned off.

In an example, before the receiving module 601 receives a request for selecting a commodity on the intelligent shelf, which is sent by the terminal device, the terminal device obtains information of the commodity on the intelligent shelf through an interactive page.

It should be understood that this embodiment is an example of the apparatus corresponding to the first embodiment or the second embodiment, and may be implemented in cooperation with the first embodiment or the second embodiment. The related technical details mentioned in the first embodiment or the second embodiment are still valid in this embodiment, and are not described herein again in order to reduce the repetition. Accordingly, the related-art details mentioned in the present embodiment can also be applied to the first embodiment or the second embodiment.

It should be noted that each module referred to in this embodiment is a logical module, and in practical applications, one logical unit may be one physical unit, may be a part of one physical unit, and may be implemented by a combination of multiple physical units. In addition, in order to highlight the innovative part of the present invention, elements that are not so closely related to solving the technical problems proposed by the present invention are not introduced in the present embodiment, but this does not indicate that other elements are not present in the present embodiment.

A fifth embodiment of the present invention relates to a commodity position indicating device 70, as shown in fig. 7, including:

the identification module 701 is used for identifying an identification code on an intelligent shelf and acquiring commodity information on the intelligent shelf;

and the selection module 702 is used for selecting the commodities on the intelligent shelf and sending out prompt information by the indicating devices which are in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities.

It should be understood that this embodiment is an example of the apparatus corresponding to the third embodiment, and that this embodiment can be implemented in cooperation with the third embodiment. The related technical details mentioned in the third embodiment are still valid in this embodiment, and are not described herein again in order to reduce repetition. Accordingly, the related technical details mentioned in the present embodiment can also be applied to the third embodiment.

A sixth embodiment of the present invention relates to an electronic device, as shown in fig. 8, including at least one processor 801; and a memory 802 communicatively coupled to the at least one processor 801; and a communication component 803 communicatively connected to the means for indicating the location of the item 60, the communication component 803 receiving and transmitting data under the control of the processor 801; wherein the memory 802 stores instructions executable by the at least one processor 801 to implement: when a selection request for commodities on an intelligent shelf sent by a terminal device is received, an indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodities is obtained; and controlling the acquired indicating device to send out prompt information.

Specifically, the electronic device includes: one or more processors 801 and a memory 802, one processor 801 being illustrated in fig. 8. The processor 801 and the memory 802 may be connected by a bus or other means, and fig. 8 illustrates an example of a connection by a bus. Memory 802 serves as a computer-readable storage medium that may be used to store computer software programs, computer-executable programs, and modules. The processor 801 executes various functional applications of the apparatus and data processing by running computer software programs, instructions, and modules stored in the memory 802, that is, implements the above-described commodity position indicating method applied to the server of the commodity position indicating system.

The memory 802 may include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area may store an operating system, an application program required for at least one function; the storage data area may store a list of options, etc. Further, the memory 802 may include high speed random access memory and may also include non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other non-volatile solid state storage device. In some embodiments, the memory 802 may optionally include memory located remotely from the processor 801, which may be connected to an external device via a network. Examples of such networks include, but are not limited to, the internet, intranets, local area networks, mobile communication networks, and combinations thereof.

One or more modules are stored in the memory 802 and when executed by the one or more processors 701 perform the method of indicating the location of items as applied to the server of the item location indication system in any of the method embodiments described above.

The product can execute the method provided by the embodiment of the application, has corresponding functional modules and beneficial effects of the execution method, and can refer to the method provided by the embodiment of the application without detailed technical details in the embodiment.

A seventh embodiment of the present invention relates to a terminal device, as shown in fig. 9, including at least one processor 901; and, memory 902 communicatively connected to at least one processor 901; and a communication component 903 communicatively connected to the indicating device 70 of the position of the article, the communication component 903 receiving and transmitting data under the control of the processor 901; wherein the memory 902 stores instructions executable by the at least one processor 901, the instructions being executable by the at least one processor 901 to implement: identifying an identification code on an intelligent shelf to obtain commodity information on the intelligent shelf; and selecting the commodities on the intelligent shelf, and sending prompt information by using an indicating device which is in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities.

Specifically, the terminal device includes: one or more processors 901 and a memory 902, where one processor 901 is taken as an example in fig. 9. The processor 901 and the memory 902 may be connected by a bus or by other means, and fig. 9 illustrates the connection by the bus as an example. Memory 902, which is a computer-readable storage medium, may be used to store computer software programs, computer-executable programs, and modules. The processor 901 executes various functional applications and data processing of the device by running computer software programs, instructions and modules stored in the memory 902, that is, implements the above-described method of indicating the position of a commodity applied to a terminal device.

The memory 902 may include a program storage area and a data storage area, wherein the program storage area may store an operating system, an application program required for at least one function; the storage data area may store a list of options, etc. Further, the memory 902 may include high speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other non-volatile solid state storage device. In some embodiments, the memory 902 may optionally include memory located remotely from the processor 901, which may be connected to an external device via a network. Examples of such networks include, but are not limited to, the internet, intranets, local area networks, mobile communication networks, and combinations thereof.

One or more modules are stored in the memory 902 and when executed by the one or more processors 901 perform the method of indicating the location of an item applied to a terminal device in any of the method embodiments described above.

In the embodiment, the terminal equipment identifies the identification code of the intelligent shelf, so that the commodities on the intelligent shelf can be browsed and purchased; after the commodities on the intelligent goods shelf are selected, the indicating device corresponding to the selected commodities on the intelligent goods shelf sends prompt information, so that a user of the terminal equipment can quickly locate the selected commodities to purchase the commodities, the placing positions of the commodities do not need to be searched on the intelligent goods shelf by oneself, time and energy for searching the commodities are saved, and shopping experience of the user is effectively improved.

An eighth embodiment of the present invention relates to a computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program. The computer program, when executed by the processor, implements some or all of the above embodiments of a method for indicating a location of an item.

That is, those skilled in the art can understand that all or part of the steps in the above embodiments of the method for indicating the position of a commodity can be completed by a program instructing related hardware, where the program is stored in a storage medium and includes several instructions to enable a device (which may be a single chip, a chip, etc.) or a processor (processor) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to each embodiment of the present application. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a U-disk, a removable hard disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and other various media capable of storing program codes.

It will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the foregoing embodiments are specific examples for carrying out the invention, and that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention in practice.

The embodiment of the application discloses A1. an indicating method of commodity positions, which is applied to a server in a commodity position indicating system; the commodity position indicating system also comprises an intelligent goods shelf for placing commodities, the intelligent goods shelf comprises an identification code and indicating devices in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities, and the identification code is used for enabling terminal equipment to obtain commodity information on the intelligent goods shelf when identifying the identification code;

the commodity position indicating method comprises the following steps:

when a selection request for the commodities on the intelligent shelf, which is sent by the terminal equipment, is received, an indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodities is obtained;

and controlling the acquired indicating device to send out prompt information.

A2. The method for indicating a position of a commodity according to claim a1, wherein the obtaining of the indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodity includes:

acquiring a commodity identification of the selected commodity;

according to the corresponding relation between the pre-stored commodity identification and the commodity placing position information, the commodity placing position information of the selected commodity is obtained;

and acquiring an indicating device corresponding to the commodity placing position according to the commodity placing position information.

A3. The method for indicating the position of the commodity according to a1, wherein the indicating device is specifically an indicator light; the control of the acquired indication device sends out prompt information, which specifically comprises the following steps:

and controlling the indicator lamp to be lightened.

A4. The method for indicating a commodity position according to a3, wherein the controlling of the indicator light to be turned on includes:

and controlling the indicator lamp to be lightened to the commodity indicating color corresponding to the selected commodity according to the corresponding relation between the prestored commodity and the commodity indicating color.

A5. In the method for indicating the commodity position according to a4, the method further includes, when the request for selecting the commodity on the smart shelf sent by the terminal device is received:

and displaying the commodity indicating color corresponding to the selected commodity according to the corresponding relation between the pre-stored commodity and the commodity indicating color.

A6. The method for indicating a location of a commodity according to a1, further comprising:

and after the indicating device sends out prompt information and lasts for a preset time, closing the indicating device.

A7. The method for indicating a location of a commodity according to a6, wherein the indicating device is specifically a touch indicating device; the method, when the indication device sends out the prompt message, further comprises:

and if the indicating device is detected to receive the touch operation, closing the indicating device.

A8. The method for indicating a commodity position according to a1, wherein the acquiring commodity information on the smart shelf includes:

and acquiring commodity information on the intelligent shelf through an interactive page.

A9. The method for indicating a location of an item of claim a1, wherein the server comprises: the intelligent goods shelf system comprises a main server and slave servers which correspond to the intelligent goods shelves one to one, wherein the main server is connected with each slave server;

the main server is used for acquiring an indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the commodity when receiving a selection request of the commodity on the intelligent shelf sent by the terminal equipment;

the slave server is used for controlling the obtained indicating device to send out prompt information.

The embodiment of the application discloses B1 an indicating method of commodity positions, which is applied to terminal equipment and comprises the following steps:

identifying an identification code on an intelligent shelf to obtain commodity information on the intelligent shelf;

and selecting the commodities on the intelligent shelf, and sending prompt information by using an indicating device which is in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities.

The embodiment of the application discloses C1. an intelligence goods shelves for place commodity, include: an identification code and indicating means; the identification code is used for acquiring commodity information on the intelligent shelf when the terminal equipment identifies the identification code;

the indicating devices correspond to the commodity placing positions one by one and are used for sending out prompt information when the terminal equipment sends a selection request for the commodities on the intelligent shelf.

C2. The intelligent shelf according to C1, wherein the identification code is displayed by an identification code device of the intelligent shelf.

The embodiment of the application discloses D1. an intelligence goods shelves system includes: the intelligent shelves and the slave servers correspond to the intelligent shelves one to one;

the intelligent goods shelf is used for placing goods and comprises: an identification code and indicating means; the identification code is used for acquiring commodity information on the intelligent shelf when the terminal equipment identifies the identification code; the indicating devices correspond to the commodity placing positions one by one and are used for sending out prompt information when the terminal equipment sends a selection request for the commodities on the intelligent shelf.

And the slave server is used for acquiring an indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodity when receiving a selection request of the commodity on the intelligent shelf sent by the terminal equipment, and controlling the acquired indicating device to send out prompt information.

D2. The intelligent shelf system as recited in D1, the slave server comprising: the device comprises a network module, a calculation module, a lamp control module and a power supply module;

the network module is used for receiving a selection request of commodities on the intelligent shelf, which is sent by the terminal equipment;

the computing module is used for acquiring the indicating device corresponding to the placing position of the commodity according to the corresponding relation between the placing position information of the commodity prestored in the lamp control module and the indicating device when the terminal equipment sends a selection request for the commodity on the intelligent shelf; the lamp control module is also used for sending an execution instruction to the lamp control module, so that the lamp control module controls the corresponding indicating device to send prompt information;

the lamp control module is used for storing the corresponding relation between the commodity placing position information and the indicating device; the system is also used for controlling an indicating device corresponding to the placing position of the commodity to send out prompt information according to the execution instruction sent by the computing module;

and the power supply module is used for supplying power to the intelligent goods shelf.

The embodiment of the application discloses E1. indicating device of commodity position includes:

the receiving module is used for receiving a selection request of commodities on the intelligent shelf, which is sent by terminal equipment;

the acquisition module is used for acquiring the indicating device corresponding to the placing position of the selected commodity when the selection request is received;

and the control module is used for controlling the acquired indicating device to send out prompt information.

E2. The device for indicating a location of an article of claim E1, wherein the obtaining module is configured to obtain an indicating device corresponding to a placement location of the selected article, and includes:

acquiring a commodity identification of the selected commodity;

according to the corresponding relation between the pre-stored commodity identification and the commodity placing position information, obtaining the commodity placing position information of the selected commodity;

E3. The indicating device for the commodity position according to E1, wherein the indicating device controlled by the control module is specifically an indicator light; the control module is used for controlling the obtained indicating device to send out prompt information, and specifically comprises the following steps:

and controlling the indicator lamp to be lightened.

E4. The indicating device for the commodity position according to E3, wherein the control module is configured to control the indicator light to be turned on, and specifically includes:

E5. The article position indicating apparatus according to E4, when the receiving module receives a request for selecting an article on the smart shelf sent from a terminal device, further comprising:

E6. The apparatus for indicating the location of an item of merchandise of E1, wherein the control module is further configured to turn off the indicator after the indicator sends a notification message for a predetermined duration.

E7. The indicating device for the commodity position according to E6, wherein the indicating device controlled by the control module is specifically a touch indicating device; when the control module controls the indicating device to send out prompt information, the method further comprises the following steps:

E8. The apparatus for indicating a commodity position according to E1, before the receiving module receives a request for selecting a commodity on the intelligent shelf, where the request is sent by a terminal device, the terminal device obtains commodity information on the intelligent shelf through an interactive page.

The embodiment of the application discloses F1 the indicating device of commodity position includes:

the identification module is used for identifying the identification code on the intelligent goods shelf and acquiring the commodity information on the intelligent goods shelf;

and the selection module is used for selecting the commodities on the intelligent shelf and sending prompt information to the indicating devices which are in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities.

The embodiment of the application discloses G1. an electronic equipment, includes:

at least one processor; and the number of the first and second groups,

a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; wherein the content of the first and second substances,

the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to cause the at least one processor to perform:

when a selection request for commodities on an intelligent shelf sent by a terminal device is received, an indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodities is obtained;

and controlling the acquired indicating device to send out prompt information.

G2. The electronic device according to G1, wherein the obtaining of the indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected article includes:

acquiring a commodity identification of the selected commodity;

G3. The electronic device according to G1, wherein the indicating device is specifically an indicator light; the control of the acquired indication device sends out prompt information, which specifically comprises the following steps:

and controlling the indicator lamp to be lightened.

G4. The electronic device according to G3, wherein the control unit is configured to control the indicator light to be turned on:

G5. The electronic device according to G4, further comprising, when receiving a request for selecting an item on the smart shelf sent from a terminal device:

G6. The electronic device of G1, further comprising:

G7. The electronic device according to G6, wherein the pointing device is specifically a touch pointing device; the method, when the indication device sends out the prompt message, further comprises:

G8. The electronic device according to G1, wherein the acquiring information about the commodity on the smart shelf includes:

G9. The electronic device of G1, the server comprising: the intelligent goods shelf system comprises a main server and slave servers which correspond to the intelligent goods shelves one to one, wherein the main server is connected with each slave server;

The embodiment of the application discloses H1 terminal equipment includes:

at least one processor; and the number of the first and second groups,

The embodiment of the application discloses I1. a computer readable storage medium, which stores a computer program, and the computer program is executed by a processor to realize the indication method of the commodity position of any one of A1 to A9.

An embodiment of the present application discloses j1. a computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the method for indicating a position of an article of merchandise described in B1.

Claims

1. The commodity position indicating method is characterized by being applied to a server in a commodity position indicating system; the commodity position indicating system further comprises an intelligent shelf for placing commodities, the intelligent shelf comprises an identification code and indicating devices in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities, the identification code is used for enabling terminal equipment to obtain commodity information on the intelligent shelf when identifying the identification code, and the server comprises a master server and slave servers in one-to-one correspondence with the intelligent shelf;

the commodity position indicating method comprises the following steps:

when a selection request for the commodities on the intelligent shelf, which is sent by the terminal equipment, is received, the main server acquires an indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodities;

and controlling the obtained indicating device to light up based on the commodity indicating color corresponding to the commodity and the slave server corresponding to the intelligent shelf, wherein the commodity indicating colors corresponding to the commodities adjacent to the placing position are different.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining of the indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected article includes:

acquiring a commodity identification of the selected commodity;

3. The method for indicating the position of a commercial product according to claim 1, wherein the indicating means is specifically an indicator lamp; the method comprises the following steps of controlling the obtained indicating device to be lightened based on the commodity indicating color corresponding to the commodity and the slave server corresponding to the intelligent shelf, and specifically comprises the following steps:

and controlling the indicator lamp to be lightened on the basis of the commodity indicating color corresponding to the commodity and the slave server corresponding to the intelligent shelf.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein before the controlling the indicator lamp to be turned on based on the article indication color corresponding to the article and the slave server corresponding to the smart shelf, the method further comprises:

and selecting the commodity indicating color corresponding to the commodity according to the corresponding relationship between the prestored commodity and the commodity indicating color.

5. The method for indicating a product location according to claim 4, wherein, when receiving a request for selecting a product on the smart shelf transmitted from a terminal device, the method further comprises:

6. The method of indicating a position of a commodity according to claim 1, further comprising:

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the indicating device is a touch-sensitive indicating device; the method, when the indication device sends out the prompt message, further comprises:

8. The method for indicating a commodity position according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring commodity information on the smart shelf includes:

9. The method of indicating a position of a commodity according to claim 1, wherein said server comprises: the intelligent goods shelf system comprises a main server and slave servers which correspond to the intelligent goods shelves one to one, wherein the main server is connected with each slave server;

the slave server is used for controlling the lighting of the obtained indicating device.

10. The commodity position indicating method is applied to terminal equipment, the terminal equipment is used for communicating with a server in a commodity position indicating system, the commodity position indicating system further comprises an intelligent shelf for placing commodities, the intelligent shelf comprises an identification code and indicating devices in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities, and the server comprises a master server and slave servers in one-to-one correspondence with the intelligent shelf;

the commodity position indicating method comprises the following steps:

identifying the identification code on the intelligent shelf to obtain commodity information on the intelligent shelf;

selecting the commodities on the intelligent shelf so that the main server obtains an indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodity, and controlling the indicating devices corresponding to the placement positions of the commodities to be turned on based on the commodity indicating color corresponding to the commodity and the slave server corresponding to the intelligent shelf, wherein the commodity indicating colors corresponding to the commodities adjacent to the placement positions are different.

11. The utility model provides an intelligence goods shelves for place commodity, its characterized in that includes: an identification code and indicating means; the identification code is used for the terminal equipment to acquire commodity information on the intelligent shelf when identifying the identification code, the intelligent shelf is contained in a commodity position indicating system, the commodity position indicating system further comprises a server, and the server comprises a master server and slave servers in one-to-one correspondence with the intelligent shelf;

the indicating devices correspond to the placing positions of the commodities one to one, and are used for acquiring the indicating device corresponding to the placing position of the selected commodity by the main server when the terminal equipment sends a selection request for the commodity on the intelligent shelf, and lightening the indicating device based on the commodity indicating color corresponding to the commodity and the slave server corresponding to the intelligent shelf, wherein the commodity indicating colors corresponding to the commodities adjacent to the placing positions are different.

12. The intelligent shelf according to claim 11, wherein the identification code is displayed by an identification code device of the intelligent shelf.

13. An intelligent shelving system, comprising: the intelligent goods shelves and the server, wherein the server comprises a master server and slave servers which are in one-to-one correspondence with the intelligent goods shelves;

the intelligent goods shelf is used for placing goods and comprises: an identification code and indicating means; the identification code is used for the terminal equipment to acquire commodity information on the intelligent shelf when the identification code is identified; the indicating devices correspond to the commodity placing positions one by one and are used for lighting when the terminal equipment sends a selection request for the commodities on the intelligent shelf;

and the server is used for acquiring an indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodity by the main server when receiving a selection request of the commodity on the intelligent shelf sent by the terminal equipment, and controlling the acquired indicating device to be lightened on the basis of the commodity indicating color corresponding to the commodity and the slave server corresponding to the intelligent shelf, wherein the commodity indicating colors corresponding to the commodities adjacent to the placement position are different.

14. The intelligent shelving system of claim 13, wherein the slave server comprises: the device comprises a network module, a computing module, a lamp control module and a power supply module;

15. An indicating device for a commodity position is characterized in that the indicating device is arranged on a server in a commodity position indicating system; the commodity position indicating system further comprises an intelligent shelf for placing commodities, the intelligent shelf comprises an identification code and indicating devices in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities, the identification code is used for enabling terminal equipment to obtain commodity information on the intelligent shelf when identifying the identification code, and the server comprises a master server and slave servers in one-to-one correspondence with the intelligent shelf;

the indicating device of commodity position includes:

the acquisition module is used for acquiring the indicating device corresponding to the placing position of the selected commodity by the main server when the selection request is received;

and the control module is used for controlling the obtained indicating device to be lightened on the basis of the commodity indicating color corresponding to the commodity and the slave server corresponding to the intelligent shelf, wherein the commodity indicating colors corresponding to the commodities adjacent to the placing position are different.

16. The apparatus for indicating positions of commodities as claimed in claim 15, wherein said obtaining module is configured to obtain an indicating apparatus corresponding to a placement position of the selected commodity, and comprises:

acquiring a commodity identification of the selected commodity;

17. The device for indicating the position of a commercial product according to claim 15, wherein the indicating device controlled by the control module is specifically an indicating lamp; the control module is used for controlling the obtained indicating device to be lightened based on the commodity indicating color corresponding to the commodity and the slave server corresponding to the intelligent shelf, and specifically comprises the following steps:

18. The merchandise location indicating device of claim 17,

and the control module is also used for selecting the commodity indicating color corresponding to the commodity according to the corresponding relation between the prestored commodity and the commodity indicating color.

19. The apparatus for indicating positions of commodities as claimed in claim 18, wherein when said receiving module receives a request for selecting commodities on said smart shelf from a terminal device, further comprising:

20. The device of claim 15, wherein the control module is further configured to turn off the indicating device after the indicating device sends a prompt for a predetermined duration.

21. The device for indicating the position of a commercial product according to claim 20, wherein the indicating device controlled by the control module is a touch indicating device; when the control module controls the indicating device to send out prompt information, the method further comprises the following steps:

22. The device for indicating the positions of the commodities as claimed in claim 15, wherein before the receiving module receives a request for selecting the commodities on the intelligent shelf sent by a terminal device, the terminal device obtains the commodity information on the intelligent shelf through an interactive page.

23. The commodity position indicating device is characterized by being arranged on a terminal device, wherein the terminal device is used for communicating with a server in a commodity position indicating system, the commodity position indicating system further comprises an intelligent shelf for placing commodities, the intelligent shelf comprises an identification code and indicating devices in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities, and the server comprises a master server and slave servers in one-to-one correspondence with the intelligent shelf;

the indicating device of commodity position includes:

the identification module is used for identifying the identification code on the intelligent shelf and acquiring commodity information on the intelligent shelf;

and the selection module is used for selecting the commodities on the intelligent shelf so that the main server acquires the indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodity, and controls the indicating devices corresponding to the placement positions of the commodities to send out prompt information on the basis of the commodity indication color corresponding to the commodity and the slave server corresponding to the intelligent shelf, wherein the commodity indication colors corresponding to the commodities adjacent to the placement positions are different.

24. An electronic device, specifically a server in a commodity position indication system; the commodity position indicating system further comprises an intelligent shelf for placing commodities, the intelligent shelf comprises an identification code and indicating devices in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities, the identification code is used for enabling terminal equipment to obtain commodity information on the intelligent shelf when identifying the identification code, and the server comprises a master server and slave servers in one-to-one correspondence with the intelligent shelf;

the electronic device includes:

at least one processor; and the number of the first and second groups,

when a selection request for commodities on an intelligent shelf sent by a terminal device is received, the main server acquires an indicating device corresponding to the placement position of the selected commodities;

25. The electronic device of claim 24, wherein the obtaining of the indication device corresponding to the placement position of the selected article comprises:

acquiring a commodity identification of the selected commodity;

26. The electronic device according to claim 24, characterized in that the indicating means are in particular an indicator light; the method comprises the following steps of controlling the obtained indicating device to be lightened based on the commodity indicating color corresponding to the commodity and the slave server corresponding to the intelligent shelf, and specifically comprises the following steps:

27. The electronic device of claim 26, further comprising, before the controlling the indicator light to illuminate based on the article indication color corresponding to the article and the slave server corresponding to the smart shelf:

28. The electronic device of claim 27, wherein upon receiving a request for selection of an item on the smart shelf sent by a terminal device, further comprising:

29. The electronic device of claim 24, further comprising:

30. The electronic device according to claim 29, wherein the pointing device is specifically a touch-sensitive pointing device; when the indicating device sends out prompt information, the method further comprises the following steps:

31. The electronic device of claim 24, wherein the obtaining of the commodity information on the smart shelf comprises:

32. The electronic device of claim 24, wherein the server comprises: the intelligent goods shelf system comprises a main server and slave servers which correspond to the intelligent goods shelves one to one, wherein the main server is connected with each slave server;

33. The terminal equipment is characterized by being used for communicating with a server in a commodity position indicating system, the commodity position indicating system further comprises an intelligent shelf for placing commodities, the intelligent shelf comprises an identification code and indicating devices in one-to-one correspondence with the placing positions of the commodities, and the server comprises a master server and slave servers in one-to-one correspondence with the intelligent shelf;

the terminal device includes:

at least one processor; and the number of the first and second groups,

34. A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, wherein the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the method for indicating a position of an article of manufacture of any one of claims 1 to 9.

35. A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, wherein the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the method for indicating a position of an article according to claim 10.