JP2018097832A - Intelligent automatic vending machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an intelligent automatic vending machine.SOLUTION: The intelligent automatic vending machine analyzes the sex and age of a user on the basis of face video of the user, reproduces a personalized recommendation advertisement correlated to this sex/age material, collects user's sex, age and a purchased commodity item in a preset period to thereby generate a sales activity statistical result in each period, and on the basis of this sales activity statistical result, reproduces a corresponding period recommendation advertisement in each period.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to an intelligent vending machine.

  With a conventional vending machine, the user can only supply the user with the selected product after inserting the coin, and cannot supply any purchasing advice or recommendation to the user. It is also impossible to feed back the purchasing behavior to the product supplier. In addition, when a traditional vending machine is sold out, after the vending machine is sold out, the user can buy the product again just by waiting for the next product to be replenished. Not only does this make it harder for the user to purchase, but it also means that the merchandise supplier loses the possible revenue in this merchandise waiting time.

  The present invention provides an intelligent vending machine that recommends a personalized recommended advertisement suitable for a user based on the user's age and gender results determined by immediate facial recognition when the user approaches, and presents the user with the personalized recommendation advertisement. I will provide a. In addition, the face recognition function of the intelligent vending machine provided in the present invention collects and statistics the results of user's gender age analysis and purchased product items to identify the most consumed items for each period of the day. The user group and the most sold particular product type are obtained, thereby providing different period recommended advertisements for each period. In addition, using the user's consumption behavior, the number of items sold for each period is statistically calculated, and then the time required for replenishment of each product is predicted based on the sales situation. In addition, the product can be replenished in a timely manner so that the user can have a better purchasing experience, and the merchandise supplier is not lost in the replenishment waiting time.

  According to an embodiment of the present invention, a gender age analysis result is obtained by analyzing a gender and age of a user based on a shooting unit for shooting a user's face video, and the user's face video by the shooting unit. The product items to be purchased by the user are acquired, and within a preset time, the age analysis result of the user and the product items to be purchased are collected and statistically analyzed. The processing unit that obtains the most specific user group and the most specific product type to be sold, and thereby produces sales activity statistics results, and the specific user group and the specific product type for each relevant period A storage unit for storing corresponding multiple-period recommended advertisements and a processing unit, and within each period, the processing unit stores the storage unit based on the sales activity statistics results for each period. To obtain the corresponding period the recommendation advertisement from the door, to provide the intelligent vending machine including a display unit to be reproduced by the display unit.

  In one embodiment, the storage unit stores personalized recommended advertisements corresponding to each gender and each age, and when the shooting unit takes a picture of the user's face at that time, the processing unit is set by the shooting unit of the user at that time. Based on the facial image, the gender and age of the user at that time are analyzed immediately, the gender age analysis result corresponding to the user at that time is obtained, and the processing unit is personalized from the storage unit corresponding to the gender age analysis result. Get a recommendation ad and play it on the display unit.

  In one embodiment, the processing unit statistics the number of sales of each merchandise item in each period and predicts the replenishment required time based on the original inventory quantity and each sales quantity in each period.

  In an embodiment, an intelligent vending machine is coupled to the processing unit so that the user can pay for the item of interest, such as by payment by cash, plastic bills or mobile electronic devices. It further includes a payment facility.

  In one embodiment, the processing unit determines whether the payment amount of the user is accurate after the user selects and pays for the product item, and if so, the entity product corresponding to the product item. Is discharged.

In some embodiments, the processing unit controls the display unit to display an error message if the user determines that the payment amount of the product is incorrect after the user selects and pays for the merchandise item.

In one embodiment, the intelligent vending machine includes a remote communication unit coupled to the processing unit and a processing unit that captures the purchase status of the user at the time, and the processing unit is connected to the user by the remote communication unit. And a monitoring unit that immediately transmits the purchase status of the remote control server to the remote management server.

  In some embodiments, the intelligent vending machine further includes the processing unit transmitting the sales activity statistics result to the remote management server by the remote communication unit.

  In certain embodiments, the intelligent vending machine further comprises a near field communication unit coupled to the processing unit. The processing unit immediately analyzes the gender and age of the user at that time, obtains the gender age analysis result corresponding to the user at the time, and then correlates with personalized recommended advertisements by the short-range communication unit. The shopping message is transmitted to the mobile electronic device of the user at that time.

  In some embodiments, the merchandise online shopping message includes a two-dimensional barcode that provides a merchandise online shopping website.

It is a functional block diagram which shows the intelligent vending machine of 1st Embodiment which concerns on this invention. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is an external appearance schematic diagram which shows the intelligent vending machine of 1st Embodiment which concerns on this invention.

  In the following, several embodiments of the present invention are disclosed in the drawings, but for the sake of clarity, many practical details are also set forth in the following description. However, it should be understood that these practical details are not intended to limit the invention. That is, these practical details are not necessary in some of the embodiments of the present invention. In order to simplify the drawings, some conventional structures and elements are simply and schematically depicted in the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an intelligent vending machine according to the first embodiment of the present invention. The intelligent vending machine 100 according to the present invention includes a processing unit 110, a photographing unit 120, a storage unit 130, a remote communication unit 140, a payment facility 150, a display unit 160, a short-range communication unit 170, and a monitor unit. 180.

  The processing unit 110 may be a processor having an arithmetic function. The imaging unit 120 is coupled to the processing unit 110 and may be a camera. The storage unit 130 is coupled to the processing unit 110 and may be a hard disk. The remote communication unit 140 is coupled to the processing unit 110 and may be a wide area network communication interface card. The payment facility 150 is coupled to the processing unit 110 and may be a coin insertion machine (including an insertion slot and a refund slot), a plastic bill sensor (for example, a credit card, a stored value card sensor) or a smartphone mobile payment sensor. The display unit 160 is coupled to the processing unit 110 and may be a screen. The near field communication unit 170 is coupled to the processing unit 110 and may be a Bluetooth® communication module. The monitor unit 180 is coupled to the processing unit 110 and may be a surveillance video recorder.

  FIG. 2 is a schematic external view showing the intelligent vending machine according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In addition to the above members, the product display area 210 and the product outlet 220 are also included. The user only needs to take out the product from the product outlet 220 after selecting the product in the product display area 210 and paying it with the payment facility 150.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the intelligent vending machine 100 stores a plurality of personalized recommended advertisements corresponding to each gender and each age in the storage unit 130. When the user at that time approaches the intelligent vending machine 100, the photographing unit 120 photographs the user's facial image, and the processing unit 110, based on the facial image of the user at that time by the photographing unit 120, The gender and age of the user at that time are immediately analyzed, and the gender age analysis result corresponding to the user at that time is obtained. Subsequently, the processing unit 110 acquires a personalized recommended advertisement corresponding to the sex age analysis result from the storage unit 130 and reproduces it on the display unit 160. Among them, personalized recommended advertisements corresponding to different genders and ages are provided by the product supplier.

  As an example, when the intelligent vending machine 100 sells many kinds of beverages, if the user who is approaching the intelligent vending machine 100 by the processing unit 110 determines that the woman is 25 years old, the processing unit 110 is stored in the storage unit 130. The advertisement of juice rich in vitamin C is acquired and reproduced on the display unit 160. If the user determines that the user is a 15-year-old man at that time, the processing unit 110 acquires an advertisement for an exercise drink from the storage unit 130 and reproduces it on the display unit 160.

  The processing unit 110 analyzes the gender and age of the user based on the face image of the user by the photographing unit 120 to obtain a gender age analysis result, and obtains a product item purchased by the user. In the preset time, we collect and analyze the gender age analysis results of all users and their purchased items, and for each period in the day, the specific user group with the highest consumption and the most sold Get a specific product type and make sales act statistics results. The processing unit transmits the sales activity statistics result to the remote management server 190 of the merchandise supplier through the remote communication unit 140.

  The storage unit 130 stores a plurality of period recommendation advertisements respectively corresponding to a specific user group and a specific product type in each period, and these period recommendation advertisements are provided by the product supplier. Within each period, the processing unit 110 acquires a corresponding period recommendation advertisement from the storage unit 130 based on the sales activity statistics result of each period, and reproduces it on the display unit 160.

  For example, one period may be set as one hour, and there are twenty-four periods in one day. The above preset time is one month. Within one month, the processing unit 110 of the intelligent vending machine 100 of the present invention collects and statistics the gender age analysis results of all users and their purchased merchandise items and consumes them every hour of the day. The specific user group having the largest number of users and the specific product type to be sold most are obtained, thereby creating a sales activity statistical result. According to the sales activity statistics obtained in the processing unit 110, for example, in the period from 7:00 am to 8:00 am, the user group with the highest consumption is males of 10 to 18 years old, and is most sold. A specific product type is milk. From 2 pm to 3 pm, the user group with the highest consumption is women aged 30 to 40, and the specific product type sold most is coffee.

  After obtaining the sales activity statistics result, the merchandise supplier designs a period recommendation advertisement suitable for reproduction in each period based on the user group with the highest consumption in different periods and the specific merchandise type sold most. For example, a milk advertisement recommended by a youth star may be played during a period from 7 am to 8 am. A coffee advertisement recommended by a middle-aged star may be played during the period from 2 pm to 3 pm. If there is only one period recommended advertisement within one period, the period recommended advertisement is continuously reproduced. If there are multiple period recommended advertisements within one period, they are played in order.

  In other embodiments of the present invention, the period recommended advertisement may be concurrently with the implementation of the personalized recommended advertisement. As an example, a coffee advertisement recommended by a preset middle-aged male star may be played during the period from 2 to 3 pm, but at 2:30 pm, one user at that time is intelligent When the vending machine 100 tries to purchase a product, the photographing unit 120 photographs the face image of the user at that time, and the processing unit 110 uses the photographing unit 120 based on the face image of the user at that time. At that time, the user is judged to be a 60-year-old middle-aged man and does not belong to the user group with the highest consumption during this period. At this time, the processing unit 110 immediately acquires the personalized recommended advertisement corresponding to the 60-year-old male from the storage unit 130 and reproduces it on the display unit 160.

  In another embodiment of the present invention, the processing unit 110 statistics the sales quantity of each commodity item in each period, and predicts the replenishment required time based on the original inventory amount and each sales quantity in each period. .

  As an example, since the number of milk sold is large during the period from 7:00 am to 8:00 am, and the stock quantity rapidly decreases during this period, the processing unit 110 predicts that 8:00 am is the time for replenishment. , A message is sent by the remote communication unit 140 to inform the merchandise supplier of the predicted replenishment time. In another embodiment, the merchandise supplier obtains the sales quantity of each merchandise item in each period according to the sales activity statistical result for one month in the intelligent vending machine 100, thereby determining the replenishment required time.

  The payment facility 150 of the intelligent vending machine 100 allows the user to pay for each item of goods in a manner such as payment by cash, plastic banknote (for example, credit card or various stored value cards) or mobile electronic device. To be able to. After the user selects and pays for the merchandise item, the processing unit 110 determines whether the payment amount of the user is correct, and if it is correct, discharges the actual merchandise corresponding to the merchandise item. The processing unit 110 controls the display unit 160 to display an error message if the payment amount of the user is determined to be inaccurate after the user selects and pays for the merchandise item.

  The monitor unit 180 of the intelligent vending machine 100 captures the purchase status of the user at that time, and the processing unit 110 immediately transmits the purchase status of the user at that time to the remote management server 190 by the remote communication unit 140. As a result, the product supplier is informed of the situation surrounding the intelligent vending machine 100 as needed.

  In another embodiment of the present invention, the processing unit 110 immediately analyzes the gender and age of the user at that time and obtains the gender age analysis result corresponding to the user at that time, A product online shopping message correlating with the personalized recommended advertisement is transmitted to the mobile electronic device of the user at that time. The merchandise online shopping message includes a two-dimensional barcode (QRCode) that provides a merchandise online shopping website.

  For example, when the user approaches the intelligent vending machine 100 at that time, the processing unit 110 analyzes that the user is a 25-year-old woman and displays an advertisement for juice rich in vitamin C on the display unit 160. In addition to controlling to play, the short-range communication unit 170 transmits a product online shopping message correlated with the juice advertisement to the user's mobile phone at the time, and the product online shopping message is linked to the juice product. QRCode, which provides online shopping websites.

  The present invention provides an intelligent vending machine that recommends a personalized recommended advertisement suitable for a user and shows the user to the user based on the user age and gender result determined by immediate face recognition when the user approaches. provide. In addition, the face recognition function of the intelligent vending machine according to the present invention collects and statistics the results of the user's gender age analysis and purchased merchandise items, and the specific user who consumes the most every period of the day. Get the group and the specific product type that is most sold, thereby providing different period recommendation advertisements for each period. In addition, using the user's consumption behavior, the number of sales of each product item for each period is statistically calculated, and then the replenishment required time of each product is predicted based on the sales situation. Before, the supplier can immediately replenish the merchandise, thereby allowing the user to have a better buying experience, and the merchandise supplier will not lose profits during this replenishment waiting period.

  Although various embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed as described above, they are not intended to limit the present invention. Those skilled in the art can make various changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, the scope of protection of the present invention shall be based on what is limited to the appended claims.

100 Intelligent Vending Machine 110 Processing Unit 120 Imaging Unit 130 Storage Unit 140 Remote Communication Unit 150 Payment Equipment 160 Display Unit 170 Near Field Communication Unit 180 Monitor Unit 190 Remote Management Server

Claims (7)

A photographing unit for photographing the user's face image;
Combining with a photographing unit, based on the face image of the user by the photographing unit, analyzing the gender and age of the user to obtain a gender age analysis result, a product item to be purchased by the user And collecting and statistically analyzing the user's gender age analysis results and the purchased merchandise items within a preset time period, and a specific user group with the highest consumption for each period in a day and A processing unit that obtains the most sold specific product type and thereby produces sales activity statistics,
A storage unit coupled to the processing unit for storing a plurality of period recommended advertisements corresponding to the specific user group and the specific product type in each of the periods;
The processing unit is coupled to the processing unit, and within each period, the processing unit obtains the corresponding period recommendation advertisement from the storage unit based on the sales activity statistics result of each period and reproduces it on the display unit. A display unit;
Including intelligent vending machines.   A plurality of personalized recommended advertisements corresponding to each gender and each age are stored in the storage unit, and when the photographing unit photographs the face image of the user at that time, the processing unit is photographed by the photographing unit. Based on the facial image of the user at that time, the gender and the age of the user at that time are immediately analyzed, the gender age analysis result corresponding to the user at the time is obtained, and the processing unit is The intelligent vending machine according to claim 1, wherein the personalized recommendation advertisement corresponding to the sex age analysis result is acquired from the storage unit and reproduced on the display unit.   2. The processing unit according to claim 1, wherein the processing unit statistics the number of sales of each of the commodity items in each of the periods, and predicts the replenishment required time based on the original inventory amount and each of the sales of each of the periods. Intelligent vending machine.   The processing unit further includes a payment facility coupled to the processing unit so that the user can pay the cost of each of the merchandise items in a manner such as cash, plastic bill or mobile electronic device payment. 2. After the user selects and pays for the product item, it is determined whether the payment amount of the user is correct, and if it is correct, the actual product corresponding to the product item is discharged. Listed in the intelligent vending machine.   After the user selects and pays for the product item, if the user determines that the payment amount is incorrect, the processing unit controls the display unit to display an error message. The intelligent vending machine according to claim 4, further comprising: A remote communication unit coupled to the processing unit;
The processing unit is coupled with the processing unit to photograph the purchase status of the user at that time, and the processing unit immediately transmits the purchase status of the user at the time to the remote management server by the remote communication unit, A monitor unit for transmitting the sales activity statistics result to the remote management server by a communication unit;
The intelligent vending machine according to claim 2, further comprising:   A short-range communication unit coupled to the processing unit, wherein the processing unit immediately analyzes the gender and the age of the user at the time, and the gender age analysis result corresponding to the user at the time After analyzing, the short-range communication unit transmits a merchandise online shopping message including a two-dimensional barcode providing a merchandise online shopping website, which correlates to the personalized recommended advertisement, to the mobile electronic device of the user at that time Item 3. An intelligent vending machine according to item 2.

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