CN1726480A - Electronic shopping information system - Google Patents
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Abstract
An electronic shopping information system (100) assists shoppers (162) in a shopping venue (130). The electronic shopping system (100) may give shoppers (162) directions to desired products, tell shoppers (162) about sale items as they pass through the store aisles (167), and provide electronic coupons based on a preference profile. The shopping information system (100) includes portable electronic handsets (160), called electronic shopping cards (ESC) (160), carried by shoppers (162). The ESC (160), a microprocessor (201) controlled unit with an optical transceiver (203), requests and receives pricing directly from electronic price tags (170). In addition, the optical transceiver (203) can receive data from a central computer via artificial light sources throughout the shopping venue (130). The ESC's (160) may also keep a running total of items in a shopper's shopping cart and optically transmit the total to a check-out device (180) which obviates the need to bar-scan the items.
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1. technical field
Present invention relates in general to a kind of shopping information, and relate in particular to a kind of computer based system, be used for helping the shopper to locate product, provide the product information of usefulness to the shopper, and a kind of enhanced system that is used to make the check-out procedure robotization is provided in the shopping place.
2. background technology
Current retail shop is the supermarket especially, and dog-eat-dog is so that be attracted to the shopper in their shop.A kind of pattern that attracts is via saving paying of shopper aspect two, and this aspect two is under most of situation: time and money.
Current most of modern retail stores uses point of sale (point of sale-POS) system to come to provide service better faster to the shopper.POS system has one or more robotization checkout terminals usually, and it can also explain the bar code that is printed on each commodity item that will check out (item) by sensing.Be included in the described bar code is stock keeping unit (the Stock keeping unit-SKU) code of described article.Each checkout terminal is connected to the computing machine that is used to handle described SKU information.The database of described computing machine is included in the tabulation of the commodity item in the shop, and the SKU of each project and various types of information comprise price and the stock information that is associated with each SKU.When the shopper prepared to buy, the store worker used automatization terminal to come the bar code of sensing on the commodity that each shopper selects simply.Computer interpretation is included in the SKU in the described bar code, searches the price of each project, and preserves the sum of current purchase.
By being given to bid a low price, specific commodity item saves shopper's money by the shop.In order to notify the shopper this item sale, advertisement is made by direct mail, radio, televisor and/or newspaper in the shop, and usually utilizes promotional items that reward voucher is provided.In addition, in shop itself, the mark on shelf and the shopping cart, and the price of the runic on product for sale designator are intended to catch shopper's notice and make him or she buy institute's product sold.Yet, be used to make the shopper to save time and the existing designed system of money and the program part that much haves much room for improvement in addition.For example, though the raising of the quickening check-out procedure of bringing by POS system, In the view of most of shopper in the eyes check-out procedure remain bottleneck.
In addition, although POS system help shopper accelerates check-out procedure, they do not help to reduce the time that is spent during the shopping process.As long as in the shop, the shopper also will spend the project that a large amount of time attempts to locate required purchase.Although in many supermarkets, the mark that spreads all over the shop has provided general indication about various product spaces to the shopper, and these marks can not provide the accurate position and the directional information of specific product to the shopper.Thereby many shoppers can go about in the passageway and attempt to locate him or she and want the project bought.
The further deficiency of current system is whole benefits that the saving that provided by the shop usually can not be provided the shopper.Although advertisement and mark are arranged in the shop,, the shopper goes yet being difficult to go to it under the situation that the project of not understanding sale is sold there.Even the shopper attempts to buy the project of advertising as selling, when when fiscal period scans described project, the price of asking for to the shopper will can not reflect price sometimes and will do not noted by the shopper.Therefore, a kind of shopping information of needs system, it will help the shopper to save time with money and facilitate to the shopper during doing shopping.
The present invention relates to be used for a kind of electronic business transaction infosystem in the shopping place such as at the supermarket, be used to help the shopper at shopping time save time and money.Described electronic retailing system can come the navigation direction of each product in described shopper provides the place of doing shopping according to shopper's current location, and when passing the passageway, shop, the shopper can also provide store information to the shopper, such as notifying the shopper information, and provide electronics discount certificate to the shopper shopper according to the shopper preferences profile about item sale.
According to one aspect of the present invention, described shopping information system comprises the portable electronic handset of being carried by the shopper, is called electronic business transaction card (electronic shopping card-ESC).Described ESC is the unit of microprocessor control and comprises optical transceiver that it is configured to ask and directly receive pricing information from the electrovalence case marking that is associated with store item when the shopper asks.Except that request and reception pricing data, described optical transceiver provides via being positioned at the ability that a plurality of artificial light sources that spread all over the place of doing shopping to receive from central computer aforesaid location and shopper information data.Described light source also is suitable for adopting the light mode to send position data and store information except that carrying out conventional lighting function.
Described ESC device also comprises item profile database, it comprises the project profile table at least, it is configured to comprise the sign of each commodity item that is used for selling in the shop, such as brand name, class name etc., and comprises the positional information of each shop commodity item.If the shopper asks to locate particular items, control module by ESC comes processes said request so, described thus ESC use is from the positional information composition of item profile database and the locating information that sends via light source, calculate the directed path of described project, and show directed path and/or the navigation map that is calculated to described shopper in response to the project of being asked.As selection, described ESC can use synthetic speech that the directed path of being calculated is provided to the shopper.
According to a particular aspects of the present invention, a kind of robotization of using at the register office of checking out (checkoutregister) device of checking out is configured to shopper's pricing information that wireless receiving is stored in project on the ECS, in shopper's trolley, and needn't carry out the bar code scanning to the trolley project thus again.Can save time especially in this.
According to another aspect of the present invention, described shopping place comprises the shopper profile database, described shopper profile database comprises the shopper preferences table at least, and it is configured to comprise shopper's sign and shopper preference data, such as fast food, beverage, flavouring and cereal preference etc.When entering the shop, the shopper shopper preference data is sent to the ESC device from the shopper profile database via calling mechanism.
Described shopping information system provides many benefits to the shopper, comprising: just needn't carry out price scan in the register office of checking out by record by the price that electrovalence case marking light mode sends when by shopper's option; The guiding shopper is positioned at the project on the vending rack; And provide electronic coupons and supplementary information to the shopper according to the shopper preferences profile.
In addition, described shopping information system is for retail chain store provides many benefits, and comprising: (1) is convenient to reduce labour cost by making shopper's self-checkout; By at the supermarket when the shopper during near project then and there the distributing electronic reward voucher reduce the coupon distribution cost; (2) reduce the check-out time so that increase shopper's satisfaction by removing to scan in the register office of checking out; Having reduced the shopper attempts to locate the time of searching that detailed programs spent on the top of the shelf and has also saved at the energy that the interested product of described shopper is spent.Further benefit comprises the increase by the sales volume of bringing based on the electronic coupons of shopper preferences.
Come the detailed description with reference to following illustrative embodiment of the present invention in conjunction with the drawings, above-mentioned feature of the present invention will become apparent more and be more prone to be understood, wherein:
Fig. 1 for example understands the total arrangement synoptic diagram of communication plan, and described communication plan is provided by the data link that is provided by the fluorescing system of modulating;
Fig. 2 for example understands the functional block diagram of typical ESC device according to an embodiment, and described ESC device is carried by the user of shopping information of the present invention system; With
Fig. 3 for example understands the exemplary embodiment of shopping information of the present invention system.
In following detailed description of the present invention,, many details have been set forth in order to understand more up hill and dale to the present invention.Yet, for a person skilled in the art, do not having under the situation of these details, it is conspicuous implementing the present invention.In some cases, become unclear in order not make the present invention, show well-known construction and device with the block diagram form rather than with details.
To the present invention be described at the shopping information system in the shopping place.Yet those it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention can utilize in any data aggregation environment, wherein uses portable data collection terminal that data are delivered to the terminal user from central host.
Fig. 1 is the block diagram that the present invention and the novel use in shopping place 130 thereof are shown.Shopping place 130 comprises a series of shelfs 165 of having deposited store item (that is product) on it.Between shelf 165 entrance area or passageway 167.Described passageway 167 allows people near the object on shelf 165.People/shopper 162 passes passageway 167 so that select object from shelf 165.Such a shop is well known.For example, the shop of any retail or wholesale type will be object storage on the shelf 165 with passageway inlet, as shown in the figure.Object can comprise food, jar shape article, product, bag shape article, brightwork, sheet material, indoor vessel and any sell and other project that can carry with trolley or container.
Except that the conventional aspect of Fig. 1, also show information purchase system of the present invention, be designated as 100 generally.System 100 comprises control center's (that is, central host) 110, and described control center 110 comprises store computer 120 and is used for storing at least the database 122 of shopper preference data.Described store computer 120 is with the control data link, described data link can send to (referring to arrow 52) ambulatory handheld formula unit to the light mode coded data that will be transmitted, entrained ESC 160 when described ambulatory handheld formula unit promptly is passed in the passageway 167 of shopping in the place by shopper 162.Realize described data link by fluorescent lighting system 140, described fluorescent lighting system 140 is made up of a plurality of fluorescent illumination source or luminaire 141.At the United States Patent (USP) of delivering on November 17th, 1998 by people such as Katyl 5,838, a kind of method that is used for sending via flourescent ballast data has been described among 116 " the Fluorescent Light Ballast with Information TransmissionCircuitry ", at this all in conjunction with for your guidance.The data that will be sent produce and are connected to input FPDP on the ballast resistor 143 that is positioned at fluorescent luminaire 141 at computing machine 120.Adopt following manner to modulate the light of being launched (as shown in arrow 52), data are sent to ESC device 160 from the lamp fluorescent luminaire 141, described ESC device 160 preferably carries on the shopper's 162 that the place 130 that is to do shopping goes about the person.
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Fig. 2 for example understands the functional block diagram of typical ESC device 160 according to an embodiment, and described ESC device 160 is carried by the user of shopping information system.According to an embodiment, ESC device 160 comprises ESC control module 201.Described control module 201 can comprise any standard disposal system such as CPU.Control module 201 allows centralized control other assembly as described below, and the general work condition of ESC device 160, data and power inspection, compliance check etc., specifically depends on the circumstances.
Shown, what separate with controller 201 is storage unit 211, but it can be incorporated in the identical unit with control module 201.Storage unit 211 allows data long or that short-term storage for example receives via the light transponder beacon 203 that will describe.Storer is controlled, is managed and passes on and can be controlled by control module 201.Described storage unit 211 can suitably comprise the little hard disk drive of size, PCMCIA storage card able to programme, high capacity flexible media magnetic tape cassette and floppy disk combination, FROM (flash ROM) array, SRAM or DRAM storage chip etc.
Described ESC device 160 also comprises light transponder beacon 203, is used to carry out reception and sending function so that the data that transmission/reception is associated with described shopping experience.Reception (RX) function of being carried out by ESC device 160 comprises: from spreading all over the ability of a plurality of fluorescent luminaires 141 reception light mode coded datas of distributing in shopping place 130; From being positioned at the ability that receives pricing information near the electronics priced tag on the shelf of each store item 170; With the ability that receives shopper preference data from the calling mechanism 190 that is positioned at shopping place 130 inlets.Transmission (TX) function of being carried out by ESC device 160 comprises following ability, for each store item is asked to being arranged in any one the transmission price that spreads all over a plurality of electrovalence case markings 170 of shopping place 130 on each shelf 165; Send the part of the pricing information of the store item of buying to the device 180 of checking out that is positioned near the shop outlet as the robotization check-out procedure.Check-out procedure is described below.
In a preferred embodiment, ESC device 160 also has a limited number of activator button 215,217,219 and 221, be used to carry out various user functions, such as " price-request " key 215, be used for from electrovalence case marking that each project of buying in shopping place 130 is associated ask pricing information, " add " key 217, be used for to the project of bought item tabulation " increase " by shopper's 162 selections, " subtract " key 219, be used for from buying the previous project of selecting of tabulation " deletion ", described project will be returned on the shelf in shop and " equal sign " key 221, be used to show the total expenses of selecting bought item.
Preferably, ECS 160 comprises power management/distributed power management (not shown), is used to guarantee effectively use power supply at least as much as possible for portable components, thereby guarantees to obtain the complete life-span of power supply.In particular, can use different assemblies to carry out the place of different tasks, preferably, use,, thereby satisfy necessary power demand so that optimize power demand by the power of adjusting each assembly that distributes with respect to each assembly separately in terminal.
The those skilled in that art that grasp disclosure benefit will be readily appreciated that, under the situation that does not break away from spirit of the present invention, can carry out various modifications to illustrative specific embodiment here.For example, in order to define input media, can provide numeral or alphanumeric button or keypad arrangement in conjunction with display 213.
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Interactive shopping infosystem 100 according to the invention scheme is particularly useful in food products market, thereby the supermarket can utilize all useful features of system 100.In view of the above, under such sight, the scheme of being invented is described.Yet, should not be interpreted as restriction to this example.
Figure 3 illustrates supermarket of the present invention and use, represented as the shopping place 130 of Fig. 1.For using system 100, the shopper 162 who enters supermarket environment 300 at first comes check-in counter 190, and described check-in counter 190 is preferably placed near the inlet 195 in supermarket.Described supermarket 300 provides a plurality of portable ESC devices 160 automatically, and it leaves the position of conveniently taking near described check-in counter 190 in.Shopper 162 uses when an ESC device 160 is selected in check-in counter zone 190 for shopping.After selecting ESC device 160, the shopper has scanning on the person identifier card of the identification data of storage, such as being positioned at or near the supermarket loyalty card (loyaltycard) of the registering apparatus 191 of check-in counter 190.Registering apparatus 191 reads the information that is stored on the loyalty card of supermarket and checks with central computer 120, and whether whether corresponding shopper's data file for confirmation exist and authorize the shopper to use described system 100.As long as acquisition system approval is uploaded the identification data that is stored on shopper's loyalty card to central host 120 so, so as from shopper preference database 122 that central computer (main frame) 110 is associated obtain shopper preference data.In case obtain described shopper preference data, just it be transferred to shopper's ESC device 160 from check-in counter 191 via light transmission.Except that shopper preference data, the product for being included in the shopper preference database 122 can be transferred to ESC device 160 to electronic coupons.
When shopper 162 in shopping place 130 when mobile everywhere, fluorescent luminaire 141 to 160 broadcasting of ESC device about the product that can buy at place, ESC device 160 places-such as the store information of shop special etc.Except that store information, fluorescent luminaire 141 also sends position data to ESC device 160 smooth modes.Use described position data to come to provide the suitable direction or the position markers of selected project according to shopper's current location, so that for example when the shopper asks, be positioned at next project in shopping specific, the shopper the tabulation, perhaps provide according to analyzing as the do shopping suitable direction or the position markers of that historical record is advised, selected supplementary item of the shopper's of definition individual in shopper preference database 122.In this case, shopper 162 can use loudspeaker 209 to ask the position of particular store item via voice command.By ESC control module 201 processes said request, and use the map in the supermarket 130 of local storage, ESC 162 shows the text string of the direction that is used to locate the product of asking on display device 213, and/or describes the map of how locating the store item of asking by the passageway, shop.
As further feature of the present invention, by ESC device 160 being positioned near the electronic price label 170 that is associated with each store item, and by " price check " button 215 that is pressed on the ESC device 160, initiate from the data transfer request of the pricing information of electronic price label 170 to ESC devices 160, so just can easily obtain pricing information by ESC device 160 for any store item.In response to " price check " request, electronic price label 170 will be transferred to ESC device 160 to the data of being asked.The short distance bi-directional light transmissions pass that " price check " request process is enabled by shopper's manual intervention realizes.
Be used for carrying out the ability of " price check " except that having, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, ESC device 160 also allows shopper 162 to add project by " adding " key 217 of selecting to be positioned at the ESC keypad to his or her shopping cart, by selecting " subtracting " key 219 to return the project of previous selection, perhaps provide the current sum of selected product to shopper 162.Described shopper can have the current total expenses of all options, and the indication of current saving, shows or shows when requiring as acquiescence.This current total expenses shows it can is the part of screen display.Can also in the sense of hearing, provide current total expenses, for example after selecting each project, or when requiring, provide.
Key feature of the present invention is the method that is used for the payment of realization purchase store item when checking out.When shopper 162 finished shopping, shopper 162 came checkout stations 180, and described checkout stations 180 comprises the device that is used for the price of being stored is transferred to from ESC device 160 checkout stations 180.In this manner, do not exist with conventional, require scanning and write down the stand-by period that point of sale (POS) system of each project is associated.Can significantly save time in this.After shopper 162 shows sum, can inquire whether shopper 162 is the time of paying the bill for the objects/items of carrying in trolley.Shopper 162 can adopt conventional mode, for example by using credit card or other bill payment device to pay the project of being bought.
Embodiments of the invention described herein are intended to the preferred embodiments of the present invention that current applicant expects.According to example described herein, without departing from the invention, it all is conspicuous that described preferred embodiment is carried out various modifications any technician in correlative technology field.In addition, describe preferred embodiment in the range of application at the supermarket, can be used for described system the retail application of any kind.For example, in hard ware store's (for example, the family expenses warehouse), can use the electronic business transaction card to come by inquiring that simply electronic price label provides the information relevant with the position of various store item and the pricing information of a plurality of projects for sale.Therefore, the embodiments described herein only is exemplary in nature, expects and is not intended to and represent each possible embodiment of the present invention.
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1. hand-held electronic shopping equipment (160) comprising:
Processor (201) is configured to use from remote shop computing machine (120) position data that receives and the item location information that prestores, and calculates distance and the direction of store item with respect to shopper (162) current location;
With the memory storage (211) of described processor (201) coupling, it can operate the stored items database, and described project database comprises the item location information that is prestored;
By the display (213) of described processor (201) control, it can operate display message;
The input end (215,217,219,221) that sense of touch activates;
Voice user interface (205,207,209) can operate and described processor (201) coupling, is used to receive interview and order and replying of can hearing is provided; With
Optical transceiver (203) with described processor (201) coupling is used for communicating by letter with one of a plurality of shop electrovalence case markings (170) with remote shop computing machine (120).
2. hand-held electronic shopping equipment (160) as claimed in claim 1, wherein said voice user interface (205,207,209) comprises microphone and the loudspeaker (209) that is built in described equipment.
3. hand-held electronic as claimed in claim 1 shopping equipment (160), wherein said memory storage (211) also can be operated the price fixing data of storing the position data that receives from described remote shop computing machine (120) and store information data and receiving from a plurality of shop electrovalence case markings (170).
4. hand-held electronic shopping equipment (160) as claimed in claim 3, wherein shopper's convenience data comprises electronic product reward voucher, product sale information and produce market information.
5. mobile electronic shopping equipment (160) as claimed in claim 1, wherein display message comprises show navigator information so that described shopper (162) is directed to the store item of wanting from current location, and/or shows store map in conjunction with shown navigation information on display unit.
6. mobile electronic as claimed in claim 1 shopping equipment, wherein said sense of touch activate input end (215,217,219,221) and comprise that touch display screen and a plurality of button are one of at least.
7. one kind is used for providing the system (100) of shopping information in shopping place (130) to shopper (162), and described system (100) comprising:
(a) central processing unit (120) that is associated with described shopping place (130) is configured to:
1. generation position data;
2. produce the store information data; And
3. safeguard shopper profile database (110);
(b) a plurality of data dispensing light-emitting components (141) are coupled with described processor (120) and are suitable for spreading all over described shopping place (130) and come the light mode to send described position data and shopper's convenience data from described processor (120);
(c) a plurality of wireless devices (160), each device (160) comprises optical transceiver (203), and it is configured to receive shopper's convenience data that position data that the described smooth mode from described a plurality of DATA DISTRIBUTION light-emitting components (141) sends and described smooth mode send; With
(d) a plurality of electrovalence case markings (170) are configured to initiate the price fixing request in response to described a plurality of wireless devices (160), send pricing information to described a plurality of wireless devices (160) light mode.
8. system as claimed in claim 7 (100), wherein said a plurality of wireless devices (160) also are configured to initiate described price fixing request in response to described wireless device (160) and receive pricing data.
9. system as claimed in claim 7 (100), wherein said shopper profile database (110) comprises the shopper preferences table at least, described shopper preferences table is configured to comprise:
Shopper's sign is used for discerning described shopper when the shopper enters described shopping place; With
At least with the shopper preference data of the previous purchase history part correlation of shopper, be included at least one the shopper's product preference mark in each of a plurality of product categories.
10. system as claimed in claim 7 (100), also comprise calling mechanism (190), be used for sending shopper's sign, and be used for receiving shopper preference data and enrollment time resending the shopper preference data that is received to one of described a plurality of wireless devices (160) the shopper from described central processing unit (120) to described central processing unit (120).
11. system as claimed in claim 7 (100) wherein is associated described shopping place (130) with the businessman.
12. one kind be used for the shopping place (162) to the method that shopper (162) provides shopping information, comprise step:
(a) when shopper (162) enters described shopping place (130), issue a wireless device (160) to shopper (162);
(b) when entering described shopping place (160), the shopper obtains shopper's sign from described shopper (160);
(c) use the shopper's sign that is obtained to obtain shopper profile information from the database (110) that is associated with described shopping place (130);
(d) wireless device (160) the light mode to described shopper sends store information and position data; And
(e) initiate the interrogating signal that will send by described wireless device (160) by described shopper (162), described interrogating signal is used for the electronic price label (170) that inquiry is associated with store item in described shopping place (130), so that obtain the pricing data of described store item; And
(f) inquire from described electronic price label (170) in response to described electronics and obtain described pricing data.
13. method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the store information that sends to described shopper (162) light mode in described step (d) is based on described shopper profile information.
14. method as claimed in claim 12, the step (f) that wherein obtains described pricing data by described shopper (162) by on described wireless device (160), carrying out suitable keystroke (215,217,219,221) and from touch-screen display select one of suitable key to initiate.
15. method as claimed in claim 12 also comprises step:
When shopper (162) when strolling about, stores the pricing data that described shopper (162) considers the project of purchase in described shopping place (130) in described wireless device (160);
In described wireless device (130), be treated to the pricing data that project that each described consideration buys is stored, so that the definition total expenses; And
Described total expenses is transferred to checkout stations (180) from described wireless device (16).
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