CN113935792A

CN113935792A - Article information display method and device

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Publication number: CN113935792A
Application number: CN202010610112.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 郭一菲
Original assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
Current assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
Priority date: 2020-06-29
Filing date: 2020-06-29
Publication date: 2022-01-14

Abstract

One or more embodiments of the present specification provide an article information display method and apparatus, where the article information display method may include: determining selection information of a user on a target item in the alternative items; determining information to be displayed matched with the target object based on the selection information; and displaying the information to be displayed.

Description

Article information display method and device

Technical Field

One or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of terminal technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for displaying article information.

Background

In practical applications, users need to acquire information related to articles in a large number of scenes to make corresponding decisions. For example, in a shopping scenario, a user needs to obtain information about the price, category, etc. of a commodity to make a decision whether to purchase the commodity. Based on the requirement of the user for obtaining the article information, it is very important to reasonably display the article information.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of this, one or more embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for displaying article information.

One or more embodiments of the present disclosure provide the following:

according to a first aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, there is provided an item price display system including:

the collecting equipment is used for collecting the information of the alternative goods on the goods shelf;

the processing equipment is used for determining a target goods selected from the candidate goods by the user according to the information acquired by the acquisition equipment and determining the price information of the target goods;

and the electronic price tag is used for displaying the price information of the target goods.

According to a second aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, there is provided an article information display system including:

the acquisition equipment is used for acquiring the selection information of a user on a target article in the alternative articles;

the processing equipment is used for determining information to be displayed matched with the target object based on the selection information;

and the display equipment is used for displaying the information to be displayed.

According to a third aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, there is provided an article information display method including:

determining selection information of a user on a target item in the alternative items;

determining information to be displayed matched with the target object based on the selection information;

and displaying the information to be displayed.

According to a fourth aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, there is provided an article information display apparatus including:

the first determining unit is used for determining the selection information of a user on a target item in the alternative items;

the second determining unit is used for determining the information to be displayed matched with the target object based on the selection information;

and the display unit is used for displaying the information to be displayed.

According to a fifth aspect of one or more embodiments herein, there is provided an electronic device, comprising:

a processor;

a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;

wherein the processor implements the method according to the third aspect by executing the executable instructions.

According to a sixth aspect of one or more embodiments of the present specification, there is provided a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions which, when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the method according to the third aspect.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of an item information presentation system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an item information presentation method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of an item price display system shown in an exemplary embodiment of the present specification.

Fig. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an item price display method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification.

Fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating another price display method for an item according to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification.

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 7 is a block diagram of an article information display device shown in an exemplary embodiment of the present specification.

Detailed Description

Reference will now be made in detail to the exemplary embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. When the following description refers to the accompanying drawings, like numbers in different drawings represent the same or similar elements unless otherwise indicated. The implementations described in the following exemplary embodiments do not represent all implementations consistent with one or more embodiments of the present specification. Rather, they are merely examples of apparatus and methods consistent with certain aspects of one or more embodiments of the specification, as detailed in the claims which follow.

It should be noted that: in other embodiments, the steps of the corresponding methods are not necessarily performed in the order shown and described herein. In some other embodiments, the method may include more or fewer steps than those described herein. Moreover, a single step described in this specification may be broken down into multiple steps for description in other embodiments; multiple steps described in this specification may be combined into a single step in other embodiments.

In an embodiment, the article information display method according to the present specification may be applied to an electronic device, for example, the electronic device may include any type of mobile phone, tablet device, notebook computer, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), wearable device (such as smart glasses, smart watch, and the like), and the present specification does not limit this. In the operation process, the electronic equipment can determine an article concerned by a user through the integrated acquisition module, and after information related to the article is acquired, the acquired information is displayed to the user through the integrated display module.

In another embodiment, the article information display method of the present specification may be applied to an article information display system. Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of an item information presentation system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in fig. 1, the system may include an acquisition device 11, a processing device 12, and a presentation device 13. Wherein,

and the acquisition device 11 is used for acquiring the selection information of the target item in the alternative items from the user.

In this specification, a different electronic apparatus may be used as the above-described acquisition apparatus 11.

In an embodiment, the acquiring device 11 may be an image capturing device, for example, the image capturing device may be a camera. In one case, the image capturing device only has an image capturing function, and the acquired selection information may be a captured image that can be used for being recognized by the processing device 12 to determine the target item from the candidate items. In another case, the image capturing apparatus further has an image processing function in addition to the image capturing function, in this case, the obtained selection information may be a recognition result of the captured image by the image capturing apparatus, and the recognition result includes indication information of the target item, so as to indicate the target item to the processing apparatus 12 when the processing apparatus 12 receives the recognition result. In this embodiment, it is equivalent to determining the target item from the alternative items by image recognition technology. Different image recognition methods can be used in practical applications. For example, in one case, the moving condition of the candidate items may be identified, and when any one of the candidate items moves, the any one of the candidate items may be determined as the target item, for example, the user may identify the grabbing action of the candidate item, so as to determine the target item. In another case, the state of the user may be identified to determine the target item, for example, the line of sight of the user may be identified, when the line of sight of the user stays on any alternative item for more than a time threshold, the alternative item may be determined as the target item, or the finger of the user may be identified, and the alternative item pointed by the finger of the user may be determined as the target item. Of course, this example is only illustrative, and a person skilled in the art can set the image recognition mode according to actual situations, and this description does not limit this.

In another embodiment, the acquisition device 11 may be an electronic tag reader. In one case, the electronic price tag reader only has a function of detecting an electronic tag, the obtained selection information may be all electronic tag information collected by the electronic tag reader, and the collected all electronic tag information is used by the processing device 12 to compare with the electronic tag information of all candidate items to determine the target item from the candidate items. In another case, the electronic price tag reader has an information processing function in addition to a function of detecting an electronic tag, and in this case, the acquired selection information is a comparison result obtained by comparing all the acquired electronic tag information with electronic tag information of all the candidate items by the electronic tag reader, and the comparison result includes indication information of the target item, so that when the processing device 12 receives the identification result, the comparison result is used for indicating the target item to the processing device 12. It should be understood that in this case, the electronic tag information corresponding to all the alternative items is stored in the electronic tag reader.

In this embodiment where the obtaining device 11 is an electronic tag reader, different comparison manners may be set according to actual situations to determine the target item from the candidate items. In one case, the electronic tag reader can initially read the electronic tag information corresponding to all the alternative articles, and when the electronic tag of any article is no longer read, the any article is determined to be the target article. Specifically, the electronic tag reader may be arranged at a specific position, so that the reading range of the electronic tag reader can cover all the optional articles, and when any article cannot be read, it may be determined that the article is not in the reading range, and the article is determined as the target article. In other words, in this case, the target item is determined by comparing the electronic tag information corresponding to the candidate items that have not moved with the electronic tag information of all the candidate items. In another case, the electronic tag reader cannot initially read any electronic tag information, and when the electronic tag information of any article is read, the article can be determined as the target article. In this case, the target item is determined by comparing the electronic tag information corresponding to the moved candidate item with the electronic tag information of all the candidate items.

And the processing device 12 is used for determining the information to be displayed matched with the target object based on the selection information.

In this specification, the processing device 12 may be a terminal device such as a mobile phone, a PC, a tablet computer, or a notebook computer. Alternatively, the processing device 12 may be a server, which may be a physical server comprising a separate host, or the server may be a virtual server hosted by a cluster of hosts. In operation, the server may determine, based on the received selection information, information related to the target item as information to be displayed, and send the information to the display device 13 for displaying to the user through the display device 13.

In an embodiment, after receiving the selection information, the processing device 12 may obtain the information to be displayed matching the target item from the local storage space according to the selection information. In this case, the related information of all the alternative items is recorded in the local storage space, and after the processing device 12 determines the target item, the related information of the target item can be found from the related information of all the alternative items, and is determined as the information to be displayed.

In another embodiment, after receiving the selection information, the processing device 12 may obtain information to be displayed matching the target item from the cloud storage space according to the selection information. In this case, the related information of all the candidate items is recorded in the cloud storage space, for example, is stored in the remote storage server in advance, after the processing device 12 determines the target device, the processing device 12 may send an information acquisition request to the remote server, so that the remote storage server returns information matched with the determined target device according to the determined target device, and the processing device 12 may determine the returned information as information to be displayed matched with the target item.

In this specification, the acquisition device 11 and the processing device 12 may be separate devices in practical applications; the device may also be the same device that integrates the acquisition function and the processing function, for example, the device may be a mobile terminal with an image capturing function. The specific form of the acquisition device 11 and the processing device 12 can be determined by those skilled in the art according to practical situations, and the present specification does not limit this.

And the display equipment 13 is used for displaying the information to be displayed.

In this specification, the information to be displayed may be displayed in different forms. For example, the display can be performed by text display, voice broadcast, video play, and the like. Correspondingly, when different display modes are adopted, the display device 13 may be different devices, for example, the display device 13 may be an audio device, a video terminal, an electronic price tag, and the like. Of course, this example is only illustrative, and it should be understood that any device capable of displaying information can be used as the display device 13 in this specification, and is not limited herein.

In one embodiment, the display device 13 is mounted at the placement area of the candidate items, for example, when the candidate items are goods, the display device 13 is mounted on a shelf on which the goods are placed, so that after the target item is determined to be selected from the candidate items, the information related to the target item can be obtained through the display device 13 placed nearby, and the process of obtaining the information by the user is simplified.

In one embodiment, the presentation device 13 may be a mobile terminal used by a user. In this embodiment, after determining the information to be displayed, the information to be displayed may be sent to the mobile terminal used by the user, so that the mobile terminal displays the information to be displayed. It should be understood that, in the present embodiment, a process of determining a mobile terminal used by the user may also be included. In one case, the mobile terminal used by the user can be determined according to a face recognition result and a corresponding relation between face information stored in advance and the mobile terminal by acquiring an image containing the user and performing face recognition on the image; in another case, the mobile terminal detected within the preset range may be determined by the processing device 12 as the mobile terminal used by the user. Of course, this example is only illustrative, and the method for specifically determining the mobile terminal used by the user may be determined according to actual situations, and this specification does not limit this.

In this specification, the information to be displayed that matches the target item may include at least one of: price, traceability information, sales records, rental records, and the like. Of course, this example is only illustrative, and the specific content of the information to be displayed can be determined by those skilled in the art according to the actual needs, and this specification does not limit this.

It should be understood that a manufacturer producing an item typically only labels part of the information on the item, but not all of the information, i.e., the information associated with the item may include information that has been labeled on the item and information that has not been labeled on the item. In practical applications, users usually pay more attention to information that is not marked on the item, such as price, component, etc., and pay less attention to information that is marked on the item, such as origin, manufacturer, etc. Therefore, the information to be displayed may only include information that is not marked on the article. Of course, this example is only illustrative, and the information to be displayed may only include information that is not marked on the article, or may include both information that is marked on the article and information that is not marked on the article, which is not limited in this specification.

In this specification, the acquisition device 11, the processing device 12 and the presentation device 13 may interact with each other through a network, which may include various types of wired or wireless networks. For example, the network may comprise the internet, or the network may comprise a near field communication network based on bluetooth, ZigBee, LoRa, etc. protocols. The network through which the devices in the article information display system interact can be determined by those skilled in the art according to actual situations, and this description does not limit this.

As can be seen from the article information display system, in this specification, the obtaining device may obtain selection information of a user on a target article in the alternative articles, and the processing device determines information to be displayed, which is matched with the target article, based on the selection information, and the information to be displayed is displayed by the display device. Therefore, the object item concerned by the user can be identified through the item information display system, the information related to the item is automatically determined based on the identified object item, and then the object item is displayed, the condition that the user needs to search the information related to the item in the related technology is avoided, and the efficiency of the user for obtaining the item information is improved.

Furthermore, the acquisition device and the display device in the present specification may both adopt different electronic devices along with the change of actual requirements, for example, the acquisition device may be an image acquisition device or an electronic tag reader; the presentation device may be an audio device, a video device, an electronic price tag, or the like. Therefore, the electronic equipment serving as the acquisition equipment and/or the equipment serving as the display equipment can be flexibly changed according to the application scene and the actual requirements, and the expansibility is good.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an item information display method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, and as shown in fig. 2, the method may include the following steps:

in step 202, selection information of a user on a target item in the alternative items is determined.

In practical applications, when the objects are densely placed, the information related to the objects is often difficult to effectively display. For example, under the shopping scene, when needs show the goods of putting in the refrigerator-freezer, because goods in the refrigerator-freezer are put comparatively densely usually, and can post the space of information label comparatively scarcely, this makes the user when the information that needs to acquire wherein a certain goods, be difficult to acquire fast, needs the user to inquire to the trade company usually, or look for the information label that corresponds with this goods in intensive information label, makes the process that the user acquireed commodity information very loaded down with trivial details, and consuming time is longer.

Therefore, the efficiency of acquiring the article information by the user is improved by preferentially determining the target article concerned by the user and showing the information related to the target article to the user after the information is determined.

In this specification, alternative articles have different practical meanings in different application scenarios. For example, in the shopping scenario, the candidate item may be an item placed on a shelf, and accordingly, the target item is an item selected by the user. In the equipment maintenance scene, the alternative articles may be a plurality of apparatuses, and the target article is the apparatus to be inspected selected by the operation and maintenance personnel.

The technical scheme of the specification can be applied to processing equipment integrated with a collection function and a display function, and can also be applied to an article information display system. Specifically, the configuration of the electronic device may be determined according to actual requirements, and the specification does not limit this. It should be noted that the processing device as the main body of the present solution may be any electronic device with a data processing function, and this specification does not limit this.

And 204, determining the information to be displayed matched with the target object based on the selection information.

In this specification, the determined selection information may be data to be processed collected for the alternative item. In this case, the process of determining the information to be displayed matching the target item based on the selection information may include: and processing the determined data to be processed to obtain an identification result for indicating the target object, and determining the information to be displayed matched with the target object based on the identification result.

In one aspect, the data to be processed may be acquired by a local acquisition module. In this case, it is equivalent to that the processing device itself has a data acquisition function, and the data to be processed is not required to be acquired by a special acquisition device. In another case, the data to be processed acquired by the acquisition device may be received. In this case, it is equivalent to acquiring the data to be processed by a dedicated acquisition device. Of course, this example is only illustrative, and those skilled in the art can determine, according to the actual situation, which way to collect the data to be processed, and this specification does not limit this.

In one embodiment, the target item may be determined from the data to be processed by image recognition techniques. In this embodiment, the data to be processed may include a captured image for the alternative item; the process of processing the data to be processed to obtain the identification result indicating the target item may include: and performing image recognition on the image to determine the target item selected from the alternative items by the user. The image can be acquired by an image acquisition module integrated by the processing equipment, and can also be acquired by special image acquisition equipment. In this embodiment, the target object may be determined from the image by different image recognition methods. In one case, the target object may be determined by identifying a movement request of the candidate object, for example, the target object may be determined from the candidate object according to a grabbing action of the user in the image; in another case, the target item may be determined according to the user status, for example, the target item may be determined from the alternative items according to the line of sight of the user in the image, and for example, when the stay time of the line of sight of the user on a certain item exceeds a preset time, the certain item may be determined as the target item. Of course, this example is only illustrative, and what image recognition method is specifically adopted to determine the target item from the alternative items may be determined by those skilled in the art according to the actual situation, and this description does not limit this.

In another embodiment, the target item may be determined from the alternative items by radio frequency identification technology. In this embodiment, each alternative article corresponds to a unique electronic tag, and the data to be processed includes information that may include the identified electronic tag. The process of processing the data to be processed to obtain the identification result indicating the target item may include: and comparing the electronic tag information contained in the data to be processed with the electronic tag information of all the alternative articles to determine the target article selected by the user from the alternative articles.

In this specification, the selection information may be an identification result indicating a target item, and the determining of the selection information of the target item from among the candidate items by the user may include: and receiving an identification result sent by the acquisition equipment and used for indicating the target object, wherein the identification result is obtained after the acquisition equipment processes the acquired data to be processed. In other words, in this embodiment, the acquisition device has a data processing capability, and can process the acquired data to be processed, thereby obtaining an identification result for indicating the target item.

In an embodiment, the acquiring device may be an image acquiring device, and after the image acquiring device acquires the image, the image acquiring device may process the acquired image to obtain an identification result indicating the target object, and send the identification result to the processing device. As described above, the target item may be identified from the image by different image recognition methods. In one case, the target object can be determined from the alternative objects by recognizing the grabbing action of the user; in another case, the target item may be identified from the alternative items by identifying the user's line of sight in the image.

In another embodiment, the obtaining device may be an electronic tag reader, and after the electronic tag reader identifies the electronic tag information, the electronic tag reader may compare the electronic tag information with electronic tags corresponding to all the alternative articles to obtain an identification result indicating the target article, and send the identification result to the processing device.

In the present specification, in the above-mentioned embodiment of determining the target object by using the rfid technology, whether the step of comparing the electronic tag information is performed by an electronic tag reader or the step of comparing the electronic tag information is performed by a processing device, the electronic tag information may be compared in various ways.

In one case, the electronic tag reader can initially read the electronic tag information corresponding to all the alternative articles, and when the electronic tag of any article is no longer read, the any article is determined to be the target article. Specifically, the electronic tag reader may be arranged at a specific position, so that the reading range of the electronic tag reader can cover all the optional articles, and when any article cannot be read, it may be determined that the article is not in the reading range, and the article is determined as the target article. For example, in a shopping scene, the reading range of the electronic tag reader can only cover a shelf on which goods are placed, and when any goods is taken up by a user and then separated from the shelf, the electronic tag reader cannot read electronic tag information corresponding to any goods, so that any goods can be determined as target goods. In other words, in this case, the target item is determined by comparing the electronic tag information corresponding to the candidate items that have not moved with the electronic tag information of all the candidate items.

In another case, the electronic tag reader cannot initially read any electronic tag information, and when the electronic tag information of any article is read, the article can be determined as the target article. Still taking a shopping scene as an example, the reading range of the electronic tag reader can cover the aisles between the shelves, and when any goods is taken up by the user, the electronic tag reader can read the electronic tag information corresponding to the any goods, and further determine the goods as target goods. In other words, in this case, the target item is determined by comparing the electronic tag information corresponding to the candidate item that has moved with the electronic tag information of all the candidate items.

In this specification, the related information of the alternative item may be stored in the local storage space, or may be stored in the cloud storage space.

In the case that the related information of the candidate item is stored in the local storage space, after receiving the selection information, the processing device may obtain the information to be displayed matching the target item from the local storage space according to the selection information. In this case, after the processing device determines the target item, the relevant information of the target item can be found from the relevant information of all the candidate items, and the target item is determined as the information to be displayed.

Under the condition that the related information of the alternative articles is stored in the cloud storage space, after receiving the selection information, the processing device can acquire the information to be displayed matched with the target article from the cloud storage space according to the selection information. For example, the related information of the candidate item may be stored in the remote storage server in advance, and after the processing device determines the target device, the processing device may send an information acquisition request to the remote server, so that the remote storage server returns information matched with the determined target device according to the determined target device, and the processing device may determine the returned information as information to be displayed matched with the target item.

And step 206, displaying the information to be displayed.

Similar to the acquisition mode of the selected information, the step of displaying the information to be displayed in the specification can be executed by a local display module; the information to be displayed can also be sent to the display equipment so as to be displayed by the display equipment.

Under the condition that the information to be displayed is sent to the display equipment, different electronic equipment can be used as the display equipment according to different actual requirements and/or application scenes.

In one case, a plurality of display devices may be set in advance for the position placement information of the candidate items. After the information to be displayed is determined, the display equipment matched with the position information of the target object can be determined according to the position information of the target object, and then the information to be displayed is sent to the display equipment matched with the position information of the target object, so that the information to be displayed is displayed through the display equipment. It should be noted that the display device matched with the position information of the target object refers to a display device which is convenient for the user to obtain the object information, for example, a display device which satisfies the conditions of closest distance, best angle, and the like. The optimal angle refers to the minimum included angle between the line where the user is located and the target object placing position and the line where the user is located and the display equipment. By the method, the information to be displayed can be displayed through the display equipment matched with the position of the target object, and the efficiency of acquiring the information related to the target object by a user is improved.

In another case, the presentation device may be a mobile terminal used by the user. In this case, after the information to be displayed is determined, the information to be displayed can be sent to the mobile terminal used by the user, so that the mobile terminal can display the information to be displayed. It should be understood that, in the present embodiment, a process of determining a mobile terminal used by the user may also be included. Specifically, the mobile terminal used by the user can be determined according to the face recognition result and the corresponding relation between the face information stored in advance and the mobile terminal by collecting the image containing the user and carrying out face recognition on the image; the mobile terminal detected within the preset range may also be determined by the processing device to be a mobile terminal used by the user. Of course, this example is only illustrative, and the method for specifically determining the mobile terminal used by the user may be determined according to actual situations, and this specification does not limit this.

In this specification, the information to be displayed may be displayed in different forms. For example, the display can be performed by means of text description, voice broadcasting, video playing and the like. Correspondingly, when different display modes are adopted, the display equipment can be different equipment, for example, the display equipment can be audio equipment, a video terminal, an electronic price tag and the like. Of course, the example is only illustrative, and it should be understood that any device capable of displaying information can be used as the displaying device in this specification, and is not limited herein.

It should be understood that an item typically only labels part of the information on the item, but not all of the information, i.e., the information related to the item may include information that has been labeled on the item and information that has not been labeled on the item. In practical applications, users usually pay more attention to information that is not marked on the article, such as price, component, etc., and pay less attention to information that is marked on the article, such as origin, manufacturer, date of production, etc. Therefore, the information to be displayed may only include information that is not marked on the article. Of course, this example is only illustrative, and the information to be displayed may only include information that is not marked on the article, or may include both information that is marked on the article and information that is not marked on the article, which is not limited in this specification.

According to the technical scheme, the selection information of the user on the target object in the alternative objects can be determined, the information to be displayed matched with the target object is determined according to the determined selection information, and the determined information to be displayed is displayed. Therefore, according to the technical scheme of the specification, the information related to the article can be automatically acquired and displayed on the basis of determining the article concerned by the user, so that the user does not need to search the information related to the article by himself or herself in the related technology, and the efficiency of acquiring the article information by the user is greatly improved.

Further, the present specification may determine the selection information of the target item in the alternative items by the user through an image acquisition technology or a radio frequency identification technology. The image acquisition technology needs processing equipment integrated with an image acquisition function or needs image acquisition equipment; the rfid technology requires identification through a corresponding rfid reader and rfid information corresponding to all articles. Therefore, the target object can be determined from the alternative objects by adopting a corresponding technology according to the actual application scene and the equipment condition, and the method is flexible and changeable.

Still further, the present specification may determine, according to the position information of the target object, a display device matched with the target object, and then send information to be displayed to the determined display device. The matched display device refers to a display device which is convenient for a user to obtain article information, such as a display device which meets the conditions of being closest in distance, being best in angle and the like. The efficiency of the user obtaining the article information can be further improved.

In addition, under the condition that a plurality of alternative articles are available and the display area is limited, the technical scheme of the specification can accurately identify the target article selected by the user, and further can display the information of the target article in the limited display area. Therefore, on the premise of meeting the user information acquisition requirement, the information redundancy caused by the fact that the information of all the alternative articles is displayed at the same time in the related technology is avoided, so that a user does not need to spend a large amount of time for searching the article information, and the efficiency of the user for acquiring the article information is improved.

The technical scheme of the specification can also be specifically applied to the scene of goods price display. Next, the application in the scene is introduced in combination with the goods price display system. Most of the operation manners in this embodiment, such as a determination manner for determining a target article, an information display manner, and the like, similar to the article information display system, can refer to the descriptions of the above embodiments, and are not described again in the following.

Fig. 3 is a diagram illustrating an item price display system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification. As shown in fig. 3, the item price display system may include a collecting device 31, a processing device 32, and an electronic price tag 33. Wherein, the collecting device 31 is used for collecting the information of the candidate goods A-J on the shelf 34.

The capture device 31 in this embodiment may be a camera with a lens directed toward the alternative items a-J. The information collected for the candidate item on the shelf 34 may be a collected image that may be used to be recognized by the processing device 32 to identify the target item 35, i.e., candidate item C, from the candidate items a-J. In this embodiment, the target article 35 is determined from the candidate articles a to J by image recognition technology, and specifically, different image recognition methods may be adopted in practical applications. For example, in one case, the movement of the candidate items a to J may be recognized, and when any of the candidate items moves, the any of the candidate items may be determined as the target item 35, for example, the user may recognize the grabbing action of the candidate items a to J, so as to determine the target item 35. In another case, the state of the user may be identified to determine the target item 35, for example, the line of sight of the user may be identified, when the line of sight of the user stays on any of the candidate items for a time period exceeding a time period threshold, the any of the candidate items is determined as the target item 35, or the finger of the user is identified, and the candidate item pointed by the finger of the user is determined as the target item 35. Of course, this example is only illustrative, and a person skilled in the art can set the image recognition mode according to actual situations, and this description does not limit this.

The acquisition device 31 in this embodiment may include an electronic tag reader. In one case, the electronic tags of the alternative items A-J can be read by the electronic tag reader when the alternative items A-J are located on the shelf 34, and the electronic tags on the picked up alternative items cannot be read by the electronic tag reader when the alternative items are picked up from the shelf 34 by the user. In other words, in this case, the candidate item corresponding to the electronic tag that cannot be identified is determined as the target item 35. In another case, when the item candidate is picked up from the shelf 34 by the user, the electronic tag on the picked up item candidate can be read by the electronic tag reader, while the electronic tag of the item candidate still located on the shelf 34 cannot be read by the electronic tag reader. In other words, in this case, the candidate item corresponding to the identified electronic tag is determined as the target item 35.

And the processing device 32 is used for determining a target item 35 selected by the user from the candidate items a-J according to the information collected by the collecting device 31 and determining the price information of the target item 35.

As mentioned above, the processing device 32 may be any device having processing capabilities, such as a cell phone, PC, or server.

As described above, after the processing device 32 receives the information sent by the collecting device 31, the target item 35 selected by the user from the candidate items a-J can be determined according to the information collected by the collecting device 31. Wherein, in the case that the collecting device 31 is a camera with a lens facing the candidate goods a-J, the target goods 35 is determined by performing image recognition on the image collected by the lens; in the case where the collecting device 31 is an electronic tag reader, the target article 35 is determined by comparing the electronic tag information read by the electronic tag reader with the electronic tag information of the candidate articles a to J.

As described above, the processing device 32, upon determining the target item 35, may obtain price information for the target item 35 from the local storage space or the cloud storage space.

As mentioned above, the acquisition device 31 and the processing device 32 may be separate devices in practical applications; it may also be the same device that integrates the acquisition function and the processing function, for example, the device may be a mobile terminal with an image acquisition function. The specific form of the collecting device 31 and the processing device 32 can be determined by those skilled in the art according to practical situations, and the present specification does not limit this.

And the electronic price tag 33 is used for displaying the price information of the target goods 35.

In the present embodiment, the electronic price tag 33 is used as the display device in the above-described embodiment. Normally, the electronic price tag 33 displays only information related to price, but other information of the target item 35, such as name, picture, etc., may be displayed at the same time in practical applications. In this way, when the user selects a plurality of target items 35, the plurality of target items 35 may be distinguished based on other displayed information.

To facilitate the user to timely and accurately obtain price information of the target item 35, the electronic price tag 33 is typically mounted on the shelf 34 or near the shelf 34.

In this embodiment, the acquisition device 31, the processing device 32 and the electronic price tag 33 may interact with each other through a network, and the network may include various types of wired or wireless networks. For example, the network may comprise the internet, or the network may comprise a near field communication network based on bluetooth, ZigBee, LoRa, etc. protocols. The kind of network through which the devices in the goods price display system interact can be determined by those skilled in the art according to the actual situation, and this description does not limit this.

According to the goods price display system, the information of the alternative goods on the goods shelf can be collected through the collection device in the specification, the target goods selected by the user can be determined after the information is processed by the processing device, and further the processing device sends the price information of the target goods to the electronic price tags based on the determined price information so that the electronic price tags can display the price information. Therefore, through the goods price display system, the price information of the goods can be automatically acquired on the basis of determining the goods concerned by the user, and the price information is displayed for the user, so that the problem of low information acquisition efficiency caused by the fact that the user needs to search the price information of the goods by himself in the related technology is solved.

Next, taking the scenario shown in fig. 3 as an example, the technical solution in this embodiment is specifically described. It should be noted that in the embodiment shown in fig. 4, the mobile terminal used by the user is used as the display device, instead of the electronic price tag shown in fig. 3, that is, in fig. 4, the electronic price tag used as the display device in the previous embodiment is replaced by the mobile terminal used by the user. In addition, the embodiment shown in fig. 4 uses a camera as a collecting device to determine the target goods by image recognition technology. In the embodiment shown in fig. 5, similar to the previous embodiment, the target goods are determined by the radio frequency identification technology with the electronic price tag as the display device and the electronic tag reader as the acquisition device.

Fig. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an item price display method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification. As shown in fig. 4, the method may include the steps of:

step 401, receiving an image collected by a camera and containing a user and an alternative goods.

In this embodiment, the camera may take a real-time picture of the area containing the candidate goods, and send the real-time taken image to the processing device, so that the processing device performs corresponding processing.

In this embodiment, the position and angle of the camera may be adjusted, so that when the user enters the above-mentioned area to view the goods, the taken picture contains both the candidate items and the user.

At step 402A, the candidate item that is moved is determined based on the user's grasping action in the image.

In this embodiment, the received image is subjected to image recognition to determine the candidate item that has moved according to the grasping action of the user.

In step 403A, the candidate item which is moved is determined as the target item.

And determining the candidate goods which are determined to move according to the grabbing action of the user as the goods selected by the user, namely the target goods. For example, when an alternative item such as A, B, C, D, E is placed on the shelf, if it is determined that the alternative item C has moved according to the grasping action of the user, the item C may be determined as the target item.

In step 404A, price information of the target item is obtained from the pre-allocated storage space.

In this embodiment, price information of all the candidate items may be stored in a pre-allocated storage space in advance, and the pre-allocated storage space may be a local storage space or a cloud storage space. After the target goods are determined, price information of the target goods can be obtained from the pre-allocated storage space.

In response to the above example, price information of an alternative item such as A, B, C, D, E may be stored in advance in the pre-allocated storage space. In this step, the price information of the goods C can be obtained from the pre-allocated storage space.

And step 402B, carrying out face recognition on the image to acquire face information of the user.

In this embodiment, the mobile terminal used by the user is used as the display device of the price information. Therefore, on the basis of obtaining price information of the target item based on steps 402A-404A, it is also necessary to determine the target mobile terminal used by the user.

Therefore, in the step, the image collected by the camera is subjected to face recognition to obtain the face information of the user, and the target mobile terminal is determined according to the obtained face information.

And step 403B, acquiring a corresponding relation between the face information stored in advance and the mobile terminal.

In this embodiment, the correspondence between the face information of each user and the mobile terminal used is stored locally or on the network in advance. In practical application, for example, in the process of consumption in a shopping mall by a consumer, the consumer can register a member in an application program of the shopping mall, and upload the face image of the consumer and the information of the used mobile terminal, thereby achieving the purpose of pre-storing the corresponding relationship between the face information and the mobile terminal. Of course, this example is only illustrative, and those skilled in the art can determine the way to store the above correspondence in advance according to actual requirements.

And step 404B, determining the target mobile terminal according to the corresponding relation.

On the basis of pre-storing the corresponding relation, after the face information of the user is obtained, the mobile terminal used by the user is determined, and then the mobile terminal is determined as the target mobile terminal.

And 405, sending the acquired price information to the target mobile terminal so that the target mobile terminal displays the price information.

After the price information of the target goods and the target mobile terminal are determined, the determined price information can be sent to the target mobile terminal, so that a user can check the price information of the target goods through the mobile terminal used by the user.

According to the technical scheme, on one hand, the target goods selected from the alternative goods by the user can be determined through the image recognition technology, and the price information of the target goods is further acquired; and on the other hand, the face information of the user can be determined through the face recognition technology, and the mobile terminal used by the user is determined based on the face information. On the basis, the specification can send the price information which the user needs to check to the mobile terminal used by the user for the user to check. It can be understood that the user usually carries the used mobile terminal with him, and checking the goods information through the mobile terminal is efficient and quick, and because the mobile terminal is a common device, the comfort level of checking the information by the user is greatly improved.

Fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating another price display method for an item according to an exemplary embodiment of the present specification. As shown in fig. 5, the method may include the steps of:

step 501, receiving the electronic tag information read by the electronic tag reader.

In this embodiment, after the electronic tag reader is installed, the reading range covered by the electronic tag reader does not have any electronic tag corresponding to the candidate item, but the electronic tag reader enters the reading range when the candidate item moves. For example, when the candidate goods are placed on the shelf, the reading range of the electronic tag reader can cover the area where the candidate goods are not placed on the edge of the shelf, and in this case, the electronic tag reader can read the electronic tag corresponding to any candidate goods only by grabbing any candidate goods by the user.

Bearing the example of the previous embodiment, when the user moves the goods C on the shelf, the electronic tag reader can read the electronic tag information corresponding to the goods C, and then send the electronic tag information corresponding to the goods C to the processing device.

Step 502, obtaining the pre-stored electronic tag information of all the candidate items.

In this embodiment, the electronic tag information corresponding to all the candidate items may be stored locally or on the network for identification of the target item.

Step 503, determining the target goods selected by the user from the candidate goods according to the read electronic tags and the electronic tag information of all the candidate goods.

And after receiving the electronic tag information corresponding to the goods C, the matching can be performed in the electronic tag information of all the candidate goods, and then the target goods is determined to be the goods C.

Step 504A, obtain price information of all the candidate items stored in the local storage space.

In step 505A, price information for the target item is determined.

In this embodiment, the price information of all the alternative goods is saved in the local storage space in advance.

In connection with the above example, when the target item is determined to be item C, the price information of item C may be obtained from the local storage space.

And step 504B, determining the placing position of the target goods.

And 505B, determining the electronic price tag closest to the placing position of the target goods.

Step 506, sending the obtained price information to the determined electronic price tag, so that the electronic price tag displays the price information.

According to the technical scheme, the specification can determine the target goods selected from the alternative goods by the user through the radio frequency identification technology, and determine the electronic price tag closest to the target goods based on the placing position of the target goods while acquiring the price information of the target goods. On this basis, determined price information is sent to the determined electronic price tag for presentation by the electronic price tag. It will be appreciated that the determination of the target item from the alternatives is made more accurate as each alternative corresponds to a unique electronic price tag. In addition, price information is displayed through the electronic price tags which are closest to the target goods, and the efficiency of obtaining price information by a user is greatly improved.

FIG. 6 is a schematic block diagram of an apparatus provided in an exemplary embodiment. Referring to fig. 6, at the hardware level, the apparatus includes a processor 602, an internal bus 604, a network interface 606, a memory 608 and a non-volatile memory 610, but may also include hardware required for other services. The processor 602 reads the corresponding computer program from the non-volatile memory 610 into the memory 608 and then runs the computer program to form the article information presentation apparatus on a logical level. Of course, besides software implementation, the one or more embodiments in this specification do not exclude other implementations, such as logic devices or combinations of software and hardware, and so on, that is, the execution subject of the following processing flow is not limited to each logic unit, and may also be hardware or logic devices.

Referring to fig. 7, in a software implementation, the article information display apparatus may include:

a first determining unit 701 that determines selection information of a user for a target item among the candidate items;

a second determining unit 702, configured to determine information to be displayed, which matches the target item, based on the selection information;

the display unit 703 displays the information to be displayed.

Optionally, the selection information is to-be-processed data acquired for the alternative article; the second determining unit 702 is further configured to:

and processing the data to be processed to obtain an identification result for indicating the target object, and determining the information to be displayed matched with the target object based on the identification result.

Optionally, the first determining unit 701 is further configured to:

acquiring data through a local acquisition module to obtain the data to be processed; or,

and receiving the data to be processed acquired by the acquisition equipment.

Optionally, the data to be processed includes: an image acquired for the alternative item; the second determining unit 702 is further configured to:

and performing image recognition on the image to determine the target item selected from the alternative items by the user.

Optionally, each alternative article corresponds to a unique electronic tag; the data to be processed comprises: the identified electronic label information; the second determining unit 702 is further configured to:

and comparing the electronic tag information contained in the indication information with the electronic tag information of all the alternative articles to determine the target article selected by the user from the alternative articles.

Optionally, the selection information is an identification result for indicating the target item; the first determining unit 701 is further configured to:

and receiving an identification result sent by the acquisition equipment and used for indicating the target object, wherein the identification result is obtained after the acquisition equipment processes the acquired data to be processed.

Optionally, the second determining unit 702 is further configured to:

and acquiring information to be displayed matched with the target object from a local storage space and/or a cloud storage space based on the selection information.

Optionally, the display unit 703 is further configured to:

displaying the information to be displayed through a local display module; or,

sending the information to be displayed to display equipment matched with the position information of the target object so as to display the information to be displayed through the display equipment; or,

and sending the information to be displayed to a mobile terminal used by the user so that the mobile terminal displays the information to be displayed.

Optionally, the information to be displayed matched with the target item includes at least one of the following:

price, traceability information, sale records and lease records.

The systems, devices, modules or units illustrated in the above embodiments may be implemented by a computer chip or an entity, or by a product with certain functions. A typical implementation device is a computer, which may take the form of a personal computer, laptop computer, cellular telephone, camera phone, smart phone, personal digital assistant, media player, navigation device, email messaging device, game console, tablet computer, wearable device, or a combination of any of these devices.

In a typical configuration, a computer includes one or more processors (CPUs), input/output interfaces, network interfaces, and memory.

The memory may include forms of volatile memory in a computer readable medium, Random Access Memory (RAM) and/or non-volatile memory, such as Read Only Memory (ROM) or flash memory (flash RAM). Memory is an example of a computer-readable medium.

Computer-readable media, including both non-transitory and non-transitory, removable and non-removable media, may implement information storage by any method or technology. The information may be computer readable instructions, data structures, modules of a program, or other data. Examples of computer storage media include, but are not limited to, phase change memory (PRAM), Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), other types of Random Access Memory (RAM), Read Only Memory (ROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technology, compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM), Digital Versatile Discs (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic disk storage, quantum memory, graphene-based storage media or other magnetic storage devices, or any other non-transmission medium that can be used to store information that can be accessed by a computing device. As defined herein, a computer readable medium does not include a transitory computer readable medium such as a modulated data signal and a carrier wave.

It should also be noted that the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

The foregoing description has been directed to specific embodiments of this disclosure. Other embodiments are within the scope of the following claims. In some cases, the actions or steps recited in the claims may be performed in a different order than in the embodiments and still achieve desirable results. In addition, the processes depicted in the accompanying figures do not necessarily require the particular order shown, or sequential order, to achieve desirable results. In some embodiments, multitasking and parallel processing may also be possible or may be advantageous.

The terminology used in the description of the one or more embodiments is for the purpose of describing the particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the description of the one or more embodiments. As used in one or more embodiments of the present specification and the appended claims, the singular forms "a," "an," and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It should also be understood that the term "and/or" as used herein refers to and encompasses any and all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

It should be understood that although the terms first, second, third, etc. may be used in one or more embodiments of the present description to describe various information, such information should not be limited to these terms. These terms are only used to distinguish one type of information from another. For example, first information may also be referred to as second information, and similarly, second information may also be referred to as first information, without departing from the scope of one or more embodiments herein. The word "if" as used herein may be interpreted as "at … …" or "when … …" or "in response to a determination", depending on the context.

The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, and is not intended to limit the scope of the one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, and any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the one or more embodiments of the present disclosure should be included in the scope of the one or more embodiments of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. An article price display system characterized by comprising:

2. The item information display system of claim 1, wherein the collection device comprises: the lens is directed towards the camera of the candidate item.

3. The item information display system of claim 1, wherein the collection device comprises: an electronic tag reader; wherein:

when the alternative goods are positioned on the shelf, the electronic tags on the alternative goods can be read by the electronic tag reader, and when the alternative goods are taken up from the shelf by a user, the electronic tags on the alternative goods cannot be read by the electronic tag reader; or,

when the spare goods are taken up from the shelf by the user, the electronic tags on the spare goods can be read by the electronic tag reader, and when the spare goods are located on the shelf, the electronic tags on the spare goods cannot be read by the electronic tag reader.

4. The item information display system of claim 1, wherein the display device is mounted on or near the shelf.

5. An item information display system, comprising:

6. The item information display system of claim 5, wherein the acquisition device is an image capture device; wherein:

the selection information is an image acquired by the image acquisition equipment, and the image is used for being recognized by the processing equipment to determine the target item from the alternative items; or,

the selection information is a recognition result of the image acquisition device on the acquired image, and the recognition result contains indication information of the target object so as to indicate the target object to the processing device.

7. The item information presentation system of claim 5, wherein the acquisition device is an electronic tag reader;

the selection information is all electronic tag information collected by the electronic tag reader, and the electronic tag information is used by the processing equipment for comparing with the electronic tag information of all the alternative articles so as to determine the target article from the alternative articles; or,

the selection information is a comparison result obtained by comparing all the collected electronic tag information with the electronic tag information of all the alternative articles by the electronic tag reader, and the comparison result contains indication information of the target article so as to indicate the target article to the processing equipment.

8. The item information display system of claim 5, wherein the display device is mounted at a presentation area of the alternative item.

9. An article information display method, comprising:

and displaying the information to be displayed.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the selection information is data to be processed collected for the alternative item; the determining the information to be displayed matched with the target object based on the selection information comprises the following steps:

11. The method of claim 10, wherein determining user selection information for a target item of the candidate items comprises:

and receiving the data to be processed acquired by the acquisition equipment.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the data to be processed comprises: an image acquired for the alternative item; the processing the data to be processed to obtain an identification result for indicating the target object includes:

13. The method of claim 10, wherein each alternative item corresponds to a unique electronic tag; the data to be processed comprises: the identified electronic label information; the processing the data to be processed to obtain an identification result for indicating the target object includes:

and comparing the electronic tag information contained in the data to be processed with the electronic tag information of all the alternative articles to determine the target article selected by the user from the alternative articles.

14. The method according to claim 9, wherein the selection information is an identification result indicating the target item; the determining of the selection information of the user on the target item in the alternative items includes:

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the determining information to be presented that matches the target item based on the selection information comprises:

16. The method according to claim 9, wherein the presenting the information to be presented comprises at least one of:

displaying the information to be displayed through a local display module; or,

17. The method of claim 9, wherein the information to be displayed that matches the target item comprises at least one of:

price, traceability information, sale records and lease records.

18. An article information display device, comprising:

and the display unit is used for displaying the information to be displayed.

19. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor;

a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;

wherein the processor implements the method of any one of claims 9-17 by executing the executable instructions.

20. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions, which, when executed by a processor, carry out the steps of the method according to any one of claims 9-17.