JP6395884B2 - Electronic shopping system. - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to product selection and identification in an electronic shopping system in which a client computer is connected to a server and a virtual in-store video is provided to the client computer.

Conventionally, in Internet shopping, a server is accessed from a client computer via the Internet, and a desired product is selected on a home page provided from the server. In selecting this item, the user must first enter product information in the search item, and the purchase product cannot be reached unless the product to be purchased is specified to some extent.
In addition, the number of products that are extracted and selected from the server after the search is started and the related products are limited in the number of displays in the screen display, and products can always be selected only within a narrow range of types. If there is no desired product on the displayed screen, the next candidate is displayed again on the next screen from the search again, and the operation of narrowing down the product is repeated or new product information is entered into the search item. There wasn't.
Therefore, Patent Document 1 describes means for solving such a problem. In the technology described in Patent Document 1, a client computer is connected to a server including data in a virtual store and data in which product information is stored, and a client user operates the client computer to operate the server. This is an electronic shopping system configured by displaying the video in the virtual store read from the database of the client in accordance with the movement of the user on the screen of the client computer and additionally storing it in the purchase file.

JP 2014-148716 A

However, the purchase system in this case is a virtual machine store that selects a product from the virtual store video read from the server database on the client computer and shifts to product purchase using the product search system of the existing shopping system. There is a problem that the product cannot be identified by only the shelf image of the image, and since the search system is used, the search power is required to identify the same product as the actual image product, and it is difficult to reach the target product.

In the present invention, a client computer and a server having in-store video storage means for storing virtual store video information are connected via a network, and a desired product is selected and purchased from the virtual store video displayed on the client computer. In the electronic shopping system, the client computer includes a current position designating unit for designating a current position in the virtual store, an in-store video display unit for displaying the video in the virtual store on the screen of the client computer, and the client in the virtual store video. Assuming the prior art, there is a product zoom means for zooming the product group to display on the screen in order to select a product from the product, and a product designating means for specifying the product desired by the client from the zoomed product group. The product designation means is a bar code attached to the shelf where the desired product is located. It has a bar code reading means for reading, and transmits the bar code read to the server. The server obtains the product displayed on the shelf corresponding to the received barcode from the shelf holder and transmits it to the client computer.
The client computer has a hardware configuration of a normal computer such as a CPU, a storage device, and an output device. The server also has a normal computer hardware configuration such as a CPU, a storage device, and an output device.

After the product is selected from the video on the in-store video display screen by the in-store video display means, the bar code reading means that the product information installed on the product display shelf is read by the bar code reading means, and the client is the bar code reading means The read barcode data is transmitted to the server by the data transmission means of the client computer, and the server collates the received barcode data from the product database shelf data holder managed by the barcode information, and is extracted. The product data of the shelf data holder that is transmitted to the client computer by the data transmission means and displayed on the in-store video display screen is set using the product data in the server of the existing shopping system.

The client computer displays the product data of the shelf data holder sent from the server, selects and designates the product from all the product images on the displayed shelf, and moves to the purchase system of the existing shopping system to purchase. decide.
Product display displays all products on the shelf in sequence,
For example, a product display image can be displayed as a band in a horizontal row, and the product image can be selected by sliding the product image by scrolling the image.

The shelf specified by the client computer and the shelf product data storage means for setting the shelf data holder that can store the product data in each barcode by classifying the shelf by the barcode set for each shelf in order to specify the product Transmission means for transmitting the product data of the corrugated bar code to the client computer.

  In order to solve the above problems, according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic shopping system in which a client computer is connected to a server via a network, the client computer including a display unit, a control unit, and an input unit. Product data specifying means, the input means has shelf identification information acquisition means, and the control means includes a store image transmission request generation unit, a store image display data generation unit, and a product data group. A transmission request generation unit; and a product data group display data generation unit. The server includes a storage unit, an image data calling unit, and a product data group calling unit. The storage unit is a store. The store image transmission request generation unit generates a store image data request including a shelf, and stores the store image data request. The store image display data generation unit generates display data for displaying the store image data received from the server on the display means, and the shelf identification information acquisition means The shelf identification information for identifying the shelf displayed by the display unit is acquired, and the product data group transmission request generation unit includes a product data group request including the shelf identification information acquired by the shelf identification information acquisition unit. The product data group request is transmitted to the server, and the product data group display data generation unit generates display data for displaying the product data group received from the server on the display means, The product data specifying means transmits the product data specified by the input means to a shopping site, and the image data calling means is the client computer. In response to the store image data request from the storage device, the store image data is called from the storage means, the store image data is transmitted to the client computer, and the product data call means is the product data group from the client computer. In response to the request, an electronic shopping system is provided in which the product data group of the shelf product data holder is called from the storage means and the product data group is transmitted to the client computer.

In another aspect, the client computer is used in an electronic shopping system in which the client computer is connected to a server via a network, the client computer including a display unit, a control unit, an input unit, and product data. Specifying means, and the input means includes shelf identification information acquisition means, and the control means includes a store image transmission request generation unit, a store image display data generation unit, and a product data group transmission request generation. A store image transmission request generation unit that generates a store image data request including a shelf, transmits the store image data request to the server, and The store image display data generation unit generates display data for displaying the store image data received from the server on the display means. The shelf identification information acquisition unit acquires the shelf identification information for identifying the shelf displayed by the display unit, and the product data group transmission request generation unit acquires the shelf identification information acquisition unit. The product data group request including the shelf level identification information is generated, the product data group request is transmitted to the server, and the product data group display data generation unit displays the product data group received from the server as the display Display data to be displayed on the means is generated, and the product data specifying means is provided with a client computer that transmits the product data specified by the input means to a shopping site.
In the client computer, the shelf shelf identification information may be shelf location information. In addition, the shelf identification information acquisition means displays the shelf position information assigned to each actual shelf on the display means, and the display means displays the displayed shelf position information by a pointer or It may be specified by a touch panel, and the specified shelf position information may be transmitted to the server.

In still another aspect, the server is used in an electronic shopping system in which a client computer is connected to a server via a network, the server including a storage unit, an image data calling unit, a commodity data group calling unit, The storage means has store image data and a shelf data holder, and the image data calling means receives the store image data request from the client computer and receives the store image data request from the storage means. The store image data is called, the store image data is transmitted to the client computer, and the merchandise data calling means receives the merchandise data group request from the client computer and receives the merchandise in the shelf merchandise data holder from the storage means. Call up a data group and put the product data group in front The server sending the client computer is provided.
In the server, the storage means of the server sets the shelf product data holder assigned by the shelf position information for each actual shelf, and the product placed on the actual shelf The same product may be stored, and the product data group of the product data holder corresponding to the shelf position information received by the server may be transmitted to the client computer.

In the present invention, by displaying all the products for each shelf specified using the shelf display image of the video in the virtual store on the client computer, the target product can be selected from among them, so that the search can be performed. You can decide the product without using it, and the trouble of selecting the word in the search input is eliminated, the client can experience shopping, and the product data and purchase system can use the existing system as it is now It is easier to use than before, can be configured at low cost, and can perform electronic shopping that matches the user's thoughts.
Also, the server shelf data holders are linked to all the shelves in the actual store, and the product data in each shelf is replaced with the product in the actual store shelf. Since it is performed at the same time, the product data capacity of the entire shelf data holder is a constant data amount and will not increase once it is set unless the actual shelves increase.

It is a block diagram in embodiment of shelf merchandise cataloging of this invention. It is the stage setting and replacement figure of the goods for every shelf of the actual store in this invention. It is a flowchart figure of a goods purchase procedure. It is a client computer display figure until goods purchase. It is a figure explaining the goods shelf setup and change of a tablet. It is a figure explaining the merchandise data in a shelf data holder. It is a figure explaining the flow of the return data of a bookstore. It is a correlation diagram between a form, which is product data, an actual product, and a shelf according to Jean that stores the product. Electronic shopping system diagram System Configuration

The network configuration of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
A server 3 is connected to a network 1 such as the Internet, and a server 2 is connected to the server 3.
The server 2 is an existing shopping system having a database in which product information is stored. The client computer designates the current position in the virtual store, and the image at that position is sent to the client computer by the server 3 in the virtual store video system. Provided.
Product information is provided by the server 4 from a holder in which product information is stored for each shelf.
The client computer 5 is connected to the network 1 and can access the servers 3 and 4 via the network 1.

The operation method of this system is explained using the flowchart in Fig. 3.
In step 1, the client accesses the server 3 via the network (FIG. 3 (3)) by the client computer (FIG. 3 (1)), and acquires initial data about the virtual store.
As an example of the initial data, for example, as shown in FIG. 4 (1), the layout in the store is shown.
Here, the pointer (P) is operated to specify the current position and its direction. Then, the passage image (video in the virtual store) of FIG. 4 (2) is displayed on the client computer 5.
(2) In step 2, the aisle image is changed to move the aisle and display a shelf image (FIG. 3 (2)). The shelf image includes an auxiliary step 1 for acquiring a passage image and an auxiliary step 2 for acquiring only a shelf image from the passage image.
The passage image of auxiliary step 1 is displayed as shown in Fig. 4 (2). The details of the auxiliary step 2 shelf image are shown in Fig. 4 (3).
Step 2 includes a first step, a second step, and a third step as shown in FIGS. 4 (2), (3), and (4), for example.
(3) In step 3, search for the desired product while zooming the shelf (Fig. 4 (4)), and after narrowing the product to some extent, zoom the shelf again so that it is displayed in Fig. 4 (5), and then the shelf Focus on the barcode that has been shaken for each level, place it in the barcode reading frame, and read it with the barcode reading means (Fig. 4 (5)) (Fig. 3 (3)).
(4) In step 4, the server assigns each shelf to a shelf bar code to identify the product, classifies the shelf, and puts each shelf barcode on the actual shelf. Set a shelf data holder that can store product data similar to a product.
The client computer 5 transmits the barcode read by the barcode reading means from all the shelf data holders in the server 4 by the transmission means, and the linked shelf data holder (FIG. 3 (4 At the same time, the product data of the specified shelf data holder is called from the product data of the existing shopping system of the server 2 (FIG. 3 (6)).
(5) In step 5, the shelf holder sent from the server 4 is displayed on the client computer.
(6) (Figure 3 (5)).
(6) Since all products on the shelf are displayed on the client computer in step 6, scroll the screen while selecting it, and when the desired product appears, place the pointer on the product and click. 7) (Figure 3 (7)).
(7) Step 7
The corresponding item clicked will be displayed, and if you decide to purchase the item, you can send the item data to the existing shopping system on the server and place it in the cart (Fig. 4 (8)) (Fig. 3 (8)) Is displayed.

The replacement of the shelf data holder and the product will be described.
The product data is sent from the agency (Fig. 2 (1)) to the bookstore server or cloud (Fig. 2 (3)), classified into product genres, and the number of shelves provided according to the size of the store. are categorized. (Figure 2 (4))
Then, the bookstore displays the product data to be received and the shelf classification data on the designated shelf, and the store bibliographic search machine can retrieve the bibliography by obtaining information from the store server. The bookstore collects the data with shelf classification for the products shown in Figure 5 (3)) for each shelf.
At this time, the product data classified for each shelf in the bookstore is added to the shelf classification item (Fig. 5 (4)) entered by the on-site employee, and sent to the tablet of the bookstore on-site employee. It can be stored in any shelf at the time of display, and the shelf can be entered.The shelf classification item is provided in the form.The stored shelf data is the shelf data of the server 4 Send it to the holder (Fig. 5 (8)) and store it.

The product data acquisition in the shelf data holder will be described with reference to FIG.
When the client computer (Fig. 6 (1)) accesses the electronic shopping system (Fig. 6 (2)) and reads the shelf bar code (Fig. 6 (4)) of the video in the virtual store (Fig. 6 (3)) The scanned barcode is linked to the barcode (Fig. 6 (5)) linked to the shelf data holder (Fig. 6 (6)) of the server 4 and linked to the shelf data holder (Fig. 6). (6) At the same time as specified, the electronic shopping system (Fig. 6 (2)) is displayed on the designated shelf by accessing the product database (Fig. 6 (7)) of the existing shopping system of the server 2 Product information is called and sent to the client computer (Fig. 6 (1)) for display.
The actual arrangement of the products on the shelf and the order of the products in the shelf data holder may not necessarily match.

For example, products that arrive at the A bookstore (Fig. 2 (2)) from the agency (Fig. 2 (1)) are sent to the A bookstore server or the A bookstore cloud (Fig. 2 (3)) as product data in advance. .
The product data includes an ISBN code and a C classification code, and the products can be classified by genre.
In the A bookstore, products are displayed on the shelves by genre. In other words, the genre of products to be displayed on each shelf is determined in advance, and when the product data to be received (FIG. 8 (1)) comes in from the agency, the product data has an identification system in ISBN. The genre is read from there, and the shelf is automatically specified for each genre based on the genre.
For example, in the genre of sports (Fig. 8 (3)), 1, 2, and 3 shelves correspond (Fig. 8 (4)), and the book of the genre of sports (Fig. 8 (2)) The sub-genre subdivided is applied to this book, and this book is displayed on the shelf by sub-genre. That is, in each shelf, it is determined in advance which genre and which sub-genre are displayed.
The sub-genre is set at the A bookstore and applied to each product. In the product data (FIG. 5 (2)), a shelf corresponding to the applied sub-genre is input as a shelf in which the product is to be stored.
When the shelves to be placed in the product data are entered, this time, the product data is aggregated for each shelf and printed as a form (Fig. 5 (3)) (Fig. 8 (1)). While displaying the product on the shelf (Fig. 8 (2)).
By the way, when the employee actually displays the product on the shelf described in the form, it is determined which shelf of the shelf to display in consideration of the context of the product content.
Therefore, there is an item to put a shelf in the tablet data that the employee is waiting for, and if an employee puts a product in a shelf, the product has entered the shelf in that shelf. Input is done. For example, input is performed by checking a shelf selection item (FIG. 5 (4)). Then, the checked shelf is transmitted to the server 4, and the shelf data holder of the server 4 is configured.
Each shelf data holder of the server 4 is linked with a barcode attached to the actual shelf (Fig. 2 (9)).
Figure 7 The flow of deleting inventory items from the return data at the bookstore
The merchandise return data at the bookstore (Fig. 7 (1)), that is, the deletion of the merchandise data, the goods are actually returned from the bookstore, and the agency reads the ISBN one by one and registers it as return data. Is done. At the same time, the product data is deleted by sending the data to the bookstore's product data server or cloud (Fig. 7 (4)). At the same time, the product data is also deleted from the shelf data and the server 4 shelf data holder (Fig. 7 (5)) The product deletion data is transmitted to), and the product data in the shelf data holder is also deleted.

Next, the modified example will be explained as the second method.
To identify the shelf, the location information of the shelf is used instead of the barcode, but everything except the barcode is the same.
In the first embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, the identification of the shelf storing the products in the network configuration is performed by reading the barcode attached to the shelf. However, in the modified example, the shelf is identified by the location information of the shelf, not the barcode.
In the configuration, a server is connected to a network such as the Internet, and a shopping site is connected to the server.
A shopping site is a shopping system having a database in which product information is stored. The client computer designates the current position block in the virtual store and transmits it to the server. The server transmits the image at the designated block position to the client computer, and provides the video in the virtual store to the client computer by the display means.
Product information is provided from a holder in which product information is stored as position information of each shelf from the storage means of the server.
The client computers are connected via a network and can access the server via this network.

The following is a flowchart of product purchase.
The client computer generates store image transmission request means and transmits the image of the specified block by the client transmission / reception means, the server transmission / reception means receives, the server receives the store image request, and the data calling means receives the store image from the server storage means. The data is called and transmitted to the client computer via the server transmission / reception means. The client computer receives the store image data by the client transmission / reception means, and the client display means displays the received store image data on the monitor of the client computer.
The client computer acquires the tapped position from the displayed image monitor. It is sent from the tap position to the shelf information acquisition means, and the shelf identification information is identified from the tap position. The identified shelf identification information is sent to the server via the client transmission / reception means. Product information group is extracted from the server storage means according to the shelf identification information and transmitted to the client computer via the server transmission / reception means, and the client computer receives the product information via the client transmission / reception means. The data group is displayed by the display means, the product data specifying means is specified from the displayed product data group, and the specified product data is transmitted to the shopping site via the client transmitting / receiving means.

Next, only the changed part of the product data in the shelf data holder is described.
In the first example, the shelf data holder in the server is linked to the shelf barcode attached to the actual shelf (see Fig. 6), but in the modified example the products in the shelf data holder Data acquisition will be described with reference to FIG.
When the client computer (FIG. 13 (1)) accesses the electronic shopping system (FIG. 13 (2)) and designates the shelf position (FIG. 12 (4)) of the video in the virtual store (FIG. 13 (3)), The designated shelf position information (FIG. 13 (5)) is stored in the shelf data holder (FIG. 13 (6)) of the server 4 linked to the shelf data holder (FIG. 13 (6)) of the server 4. At the same time, the electronic shopping system (FIG. 13 (2)) accesses the product database (FIG. 13 (7)) of the existing shopping system of the server 2 and displays the product information displayed on the designated shelf. (FIG. 13 (9)) is called and transmitted to the client computer (FIG. 13 (1)) for display.
The actual arrangement of products on the shelf does not necessarily match the order of the products in the shelf data holder.

Next, only the changed part regarding the creation of the shelf data holder is described.
In the first embodiment, shelf bar code information is linked to the shelf data holder in the server configuration (see FIG. 2). However, in the modified example, the shelf data holder is linked to the shelf identification information (see FIG. 12). This is the difference between barcode and position information compared to the shelf data holder in Fig.2.
As shown in Figure 12, it consists of shelf identification information linked to the shelf data holder. This is the difference between barcode and position information compared to the shelf data holder in Fig.2.

Next, only the part that has changed the flow of the return data of the bookstore is described.
In the first embodiment, in the flow of deleting inventory products based on bookstore data, a bar code is prepared to link each shelf data holder of the server 4 and the actual shelf in FIG. However, in the modified example, the shelf identification information means is used for each shelf holder and the actual shelf. (See Figure 14)
The shelf identification information means here refers to a screen designation means such as a bar code, a number, a color, a voice, or a touch panel screen or a click with a pointer.

1 network
2 server 2 (existing shopping system
3 Server 3 (Video data)
4 servers 4 (shelf data holder storage means)
101 client computer
102 Client computer shelf image
103 Read the barcode of the desired shelf
Product data of shelf data holders linked with 104 barcodes
Display shelf product data linked to 105 client computers
106 Product data of existing shopping system
Identify products while viewing 107 images
108Purchase of products using existing shopping system

Claims (8)

An electronic shopping system in which a client computer and a server having in-store video storage means for storing in-store video information are connected by a network, and a desired product is selected and purchased from the virtual in-store video displayed on the client computer. And
The client computer is
The shelf identification information acquisition which displays the video in the virtual store provided by the server by designating the current position in the virtual store and acquires the specified shelf identification information from the shelf video displayed in the video in the virtual store Means,
Transmitting means for transmitting the acquired shelf identification information to the server;
Based on the shelf product data transmitted from the shelf data holder for managing the product data in the shelf, classifying the shelf with the shelf identification information set for each shelf to identify the product. Means for displaying the shelf product data on a client computer;
Transmission means for determining the purchase of the product based on the shelf product data of the shelf, and transmitting the determined product to a product purchase system of an existing shopping system of a server. Shopping system.   2. The electronic shopping system according to claim 1, wherein the shelf identification information is shelf barcode data specifying the shelf or shelf location information indicating a location of the shelf. The server sets the shelf data holder assigned by the shelf identification information for each actual shelf, and stores the product data of the products placed on the actual shelf in the shelf data holder. The electronic shopping system according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that:   4. The shelf product data in the shelf data holder is called from an existing shopping system in a server having a database in which product information is stored and displayed on a client computer. The electronic shopping system according to claim 1. Comprising a product change means replacing the product data in the trays data holder, the shelves of the data holder product data, when changing the trays display products in physical stores, goods data sent from the agency Categorize with ISBN at the bookstore and then classify the shelf, and send the data for each shelf to the shelf data holder of the server as product change data from the communication terminal at the actual store. The electronic shopping system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the electronic shopping system is any one of the above.   The client computer displays all the product data of the designated shelf data holder, or sequentially displays all the product data of the shelf data holder. The electronic shopping system of any one of Claims.   The client computer specifies a product from all product images of the specified shelf data holder, and transmits the specified product from the client computer to an existing shopping system to determine purchase. The electronic shopping system of any one of 1-6. The trays identification information acquisition unit displayed on the display means the trays identification information is attached allocated to each actual trays, the pointer or the touch panel provided in the display means the trays identification information displayed The electronic shopping system according to any one of claims 2 to 7, characterized in that the specified shelf position information is transmitted to the server.

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