KR20110130078A - Automated payment system using bar code with smart phone - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An automated payment system based on a barcode using a smart phone is provided to check the purchase of a product for a consumer. CONSTITUTION: A customer authentication code confirmation module(150) checks the normal unmanned payment software. The client authentication code checking module prevents the random of a client about the software. A product price storage module(160) stores the information of an existing product and shopping path. A virtual cart module(130) stores and deletes selected product information. The virtual cart module calculates the total shopping amount. A display module(140) checks the operation state of the manless payment software.

Description

Barcode-based unattended payment system using a smartphone {Automated payment system using bar code with smart phone}

The present invention relates to a system that enables consumers to automatically process a purchase and payment at a time by using a barcode in a large-scale offline shopping mall, and in detail, by using a wireless communication function of a smart phone, which has recently been popularized Receive price information of shopping malls, security module to prevent price information manipulation, barcode recognition using built-in camera, sending final product information and price information, payment through unattended payment window, and smartphone that can handle delivery at once It relates to a barcode-based unattended payment system used.

Barcodes are codes that can be read using optical devices by encoding alphanumeric characters or special symbols into combinations of lines of different thicknesses. Since barcodes were introduced in Korea in the 1970s, they are commonly used in everyday commerce. The majority of offline shopping malls operating in Korea also use barcodes to obtain prices and other data on products when consumers use these barcodes to calculate their purchases.

Meanwhile, a process of purchasing a product by a consumer in an existing shopping mall is as follows. First, the customer goes to the store to buy the product in the shopping mall, puts the product to buy in the cart, and finally, the cashier at the checkout counter recognizes the barcode of each product by using a scanner and checks the product. Find the price and display the payment amount in the cash register. The consumer then ends the purchase of the product after paying the displayed payment to the clerk.

However, this product purchase process checks and processes all the product identification process manually, so when a large number of consumers are crowded, the purchase time of the product is long, and the waiting time for payment is increased, which may cause inconvenience. Unless you calculate the total payment amount of the purchased goods separately, it is difficult to know the total payment amount until the clerk checks in bulk at the cash register, which may cause unnecessary expenses and overconsumption.

However, the purchase process in the offline shopping mall, using a smartphone that is recently popularized, consumers directly recognize the barcode of the product by using their smartphone, check the product price, check the total payment amount, and credit By allowing consumers to pay directly by using a card, a smartphone can play the role of an existing cashier. Such smart phones are intelligent terminals that install various applications on existing mobile phones or add computer support functions such as Internet communication. Recently, due to the abolition of the domestic Internet standard platform, WIPI (Wireless Internet Platform Interoperability), various types of smart phones are being released at home and abroad, and the services are diversified, and the popularity of smart phones is accelerating.

The present invention is proposed to solve the above problems, the consumer identifies and stores the product to be purchased directly by using his smartphone, and when the product selection is finished, the consumer can propose a device that can proceed directly to the payment It is aimed to be.

Since the system of the present invention must directly identify a product by using a smartphone owned by a consumer using an offline shopping mall, it requires software that operates on the smartphone. The software operating in the smartphone is a communication module for communication with a shopping mall server, an authentication code checking module for checking an authentication code for a shopping mall, a barcode recognition module for recognizing a barcode for a product to be purchased, and a product price provided by a shopping mall. It comprises a product price information storage module for storing information, a virtual cart for storing a list of products added by the consumer, and a display module for outputting various information. When the consumer accesses the shopping mall by using the GPS sensor in the smartphone, the communication module activates the authentication code module in the smartphone, receives price information of a product that is changed daily from the server of the shopping mall, Performs a function of transmitting total payment price information for all included products. In addition, the authentication code confirmation module receives the product price information that is changed every day from the server of the shopping mall, to check whether the matching with the authentication code provided by the shopping mall and update the price information if the match, otherwise, the consumer arbitrarily It has a function to prevent price information from being modified. The barcode recognition module for a product performs a function of identifying information on a corresponding product when a consumer photographs a barcode of a product to be purchased using a camera mounted on a smartphone. The product price information storing module receives and stores price information from a shopping mall server based on a product previously purchased by a consumer, and stores price information on a product recognized by a consumer using a barcode recognition module for the remaining products. In addition, it is received and stored. The virtual cart, which stores the list of products added by the consumer, calculates and stores the list of products that the consumer wants to purchase, the resulting price and the total payment amount, and the display module outputs all these processes. do.

On the other hand, when the consumer ends the purchase of the product using a smartphone, an unattended payment desk for payment is required. Such an unattended payment desk requires a credit card payment machine to allow consumers to pay for the goods, and an access blocker to prevent the uncalculated product from taking out. A credit card payment machine performs the same function as a conventional credit card payment machine, and an access blocker to prevent the uncalculated product from being taken out has a function of allowing a consumer to enter and exit only when all credit card payments are completed.

By the unattended payment system using a smartphone as proposed, consumers can check whether all the products they purchase have been purchased, thereby reducing unnecessary shopping time to move back and forth to the mall to purchase the products that were not purchased. In addition, the total amount of the purchased goods can be confirmed in advance on their smartphones to prevent unnecessary consumption or overconsumption.

In addition, the cashier does not go through the process of checking the merchandise individually, the customer directly checks all the goods by using their own smartphone, so the waiting time for the checkout at the cashier can be reduced.

In addition, the shopping mall can reduce the labor cost of the clerks who are placed on the checkout counter according to the introduction of the unattended checkout counter. It can be a factor to improve the brand value by instilling the image of a shopping mall that provides convenience to the user.

1 is a structural diagram illustrating the overall structure of a barcode-based unattended payment system using a smart phone according to the spirit of the present invention

2 is a block diagram of an unmanned payment software mounted on a customer smartphone for purchasing shopping mall products in an unmanned payment system.

3 is a diagram illustrating an unmanned cash register for an unmanned payment system

4 is a flowchart of updating information required for software initialization and shopping in the unattended payment software.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure for purchasing a product using an unmanned payment software and an automatic payment procedure for a purchased product using an unattended checkout counter.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail. However, the spirit of the present invention is not limited to the embodiments in which the present invention is presented, and those skilled in the art who understand the spirit of the present invention easily suggest other embodiments for adding, changing, deleting, and adding components within the scope of the same idea. Although this may be done, this also falls within the scope of the spirit of the present invention.

1 is a structural diagram illustrating the overall structure of a barcode-based unattended payment system using a smartphone according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a barcode-based unattended payment system using a smart phone largely receives information necessary for purchasing a product from a shopping mall server, and an unmanned payment software for processing information necessary for payment of a purchased product and a customer may purchase a product. It is divided into the unattended checkout used to actually pay.

in detail. Transaction (A) between the shopping mall server and the unattended payment software means that the unattended payment software requests product price information from the shopping mall server, requests for route search for product purchases based on existing purchased product information, additional product price transmission and reception, and finally purchases. It means sending / receiving information for payment of a product.

Transaction (B) between the shopping mall server and the unattended checkout counter means that the customer pays the product price by processing the payment method presented for the product payment, that is, sending and receiving the credit card information presented by the customer.

And the transaction (C) between the unmanned payment software and the unattended checkout counter means to check whether the wrong product payment is made by selecting a product whose barcode has not been identified among the products identified by the unmanned payment software.

2 is a block diagram illustrating an unattended payment software 100 mounted on a smartphone.

Most recently launched smartphones 40 are equipped with a Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor 60, a Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) device 70 capable of utilizing wireless Internet, and a camera 80 for image capturing. It is.

Unmanned payment software 100 is composed of a total of six detailed modules.

In detail, the communication module 110 is responsible for data transmission and reception with the GPS sensor 60, the Wi-Fi device 70, and the camera 80 mounted in the smartphone. The information received by the Wi-Fi device 70 is distributed to the authentication code confirmation module 150 and the product price storage module 160 according to the type, and the information transmitted by the camera 80 is a barcode recognition module ( 120).

The authentication code verification module 150 is responsible for the authentication process with the smartphone that has downloaded the unique identifier and the unattended payment software for distributing the software. That is, before the unmanned payment software starts communicating with the shopping mall server, it is checked whether the software distributed by the shopping mall is correct. This is a preliminary step to determine the price information provided by the shopping mall and the shopping path for the product. Even in the same shopping mall, the price may be different for each branch, and the location of the merchandise is different. Will be received.

The product price storage module 160 stores price information of products sold in the shopping mall. In this case, since receiving all the price information of all the products sold in the shopping mall may waste a lot of communication load and storage space, the price information of the previously purchased products is preferentially received. However, in the case of a first-time customer who does not have a list of previously purchased products, when the customer selects a product and identifies the bar code 50, the customer receives price information individually through the wireless Internet. This can cause network load for first time customers, but as the number of customers increases, such problems can be solved automatically. In addition, it is responsible for requesting the movement path of the customer for the merchandise display position in the shopping mall based on the existing product list and transmitting the result to the display module 140.

The barcode recognition module 120 recognizes the barcode 50 when the customer photographs the barcode 50 of the product using a camera mounted on the smartphone, and extracts the product price from the product price storage module 160. If the commodity price does not exist in the commodity price storage module 160, the commodity price is newly requested from the shopping mall server using the communication module 110. Then, the identified goods and the extracted price are added to the virtual cart 130. However, the barcode recognition function using the camera in the barcode recognition module 120 is excluded from the scope of the present invention because it utilizes the functions previously released.

The virtual cart 130 calculates the final prices of the products stored so far as a list storing the product and price information selected by the barcode recognition module 120, and when the customer selects the end of the product selection, the final price of the communication module 110. ) To the shopping mall server so that the final payment can be made. In addition, the virtual cart 130 includes not only the addition of goods by the barcode recognition module 120, but also a function of removing the currently stored goods.

The display module 140 outputs the entire process of the unattended payment system to the customer. The display module 140 outputs the authentication process and the result of the authentication code checking module 150, and the product price downloading process of the product price storage module 160. The result and the shopping path are output, and the product identification result and price information of the barcode recognition module 120 are output. And it outputs a list of products currently stored in the virtual cart 130, and provides a function to remove the products added to the virtual cart.

3 is a diagram for explaining an unmanned computer. The unattended counter is a product search station 200 for identifying a product that is identified by the identification, a calculation monitor 210 that outputs the product calculation results, credit card payment machine 220, credit card receipt output machine 230, and access preventer ( 240). In addition, the consumer purchases the product along the calculation direction 250 and payment is made.

In a general checkout, after paying for the product, the product is checked through the product search station to identify the existence of the goods. In the present invention, the product price is pre-calculated by the unattended payment software, and the consumer pays the calculated amount directly. You should be able to determine the presence of a gourmet commodity before entering the unattended counter. Therefore, along the calculation direction 250 of the unmanned cash register, the consumer firstly grasps the existence of the gourmet goods, that is, the gourmet goods that are not loaded in the virtual cart 130, and the payment is made. In addition, the consumer has a procedure of confirming the total payment amount once again through the calculation monitor 210 and directly performing the payment for the product using the credit card payment machine 220. In this case, the wrong payment of the consumer is made before the payment is made. In order to prevent the entry of the entrance guard 240 is placed at the end of the unattended checkout counter.

4 is a flowchart of updating information required for software initialization and shopping in the unattended payment software.

In detail, when the consumer executes the unattended payment software mounted on the smartphone for shopping (A10), the unattended payment software requests the current location (A20) using the GPS embedded in the smartphone. Then, when the current location of the consumer is correctly identified (A30), based on the current location of the consumer, information of the adjacent shopping mall such as a shopping mall name, shopping mall authentication code, and shopping mall server-related information is received (A40). At this time, if the current position of the consumer is not correctly identified, such a message is output to the consumer and returned to the beginning. When the reception of the adjacent shopping mall information is completed, the unmanned payment software activates the WI-FI module of the smartphone (A50) and then requests a connection (A60) to the server of the neighboring shopping mall. When the shopping mall server connection A70 is correctly established, the unattended payment software requests the customer authentication of the shopping mall server (A80). At this time, the customer authentication requested to the shopping mall server is for checking the information required for the unattended payment software to communicate with the shopping mall server. If authentication is not performed properly, product identification / purchase through unmanned payment software will not be possible. If the customer authentication fails, the message is printed to the consumer and returned to the beginning.

When the shopping mall server performs the customer authentication normally (A90), the unattended payment software searches for the product price storage module 160 (A100). The search of the product price storage module 160 searches for whether there is a list of products previously purchased by a consumer, and aims to predict a shopping path based on the list. However, when the unattended payment software is used for the first time, since no information exists in the product price storage module 160, the product list check A110 is not executed. However, if it is not used for the first time, a product list existing in the product price storage module 160 is checked (A110) and based on the request for a shopping path (A120). The shopping path request A120 has a high probability of repurchasing previously purchased products because many shopping mall customers mainly purchase consumable necessities. Therefore, it aims to shorten the shopping time by providing a route for purchasing existing products and to support a route prediction for additional purchase of products based on the routes of previously purchased products. When the shopping path is requested, the shopping mall server calculates (A130) a product price for the product list of the product price storage module 160 and the corresponding list, and transmits the product price to the unmanned payment software of the consumer. In this case, the price and route calculation for the product list is also omitted because there is no product list for the first user.

When the product price and shopping path calculation (A130) is completed, the unattended payment software receives the information (A140), and when the reception is completed, activates the barcode recognition module 120 (A150). When the barcode recognition module is activated (A150), the consumer identifies a barcode of a product to purchase using a camera mounted in the unattended payment software, and compares the product price received from the shopping mall server through the identified barcode information. Thus, the price of the product selected by the consumer is recognized.

When the activation (A150) of the barcode recognition module is completed, the virtual cart 130 is generated (A160) to store the recognized product list. The generated virtual cart 130 stores the list of goods identified by the barcode recognition module and calculates the total price of the stored goods list. The virtual cart 130 also includes a function for canceling a purchase from a list of stored products.

After the barcode recognition module is activated (A150) and the virtual cart generation (A160) is completed, the received shopping path is output to the display module 140.

Finally, for S 180 and C 200, which are the end of FIG. 4, S 180 means normal progress of all procedures, and S 180 state is based on the following commodity purchase procedure and use of an unattended checkout counter. It is possible to proceed. And C (200) means to stop or cancel (Cancel) in each procedure, it means that the procedure is no longer in progress, or return to the initial state.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an actual product purchase procedure using an unmanned payment software and an automatic payment process of a purchased product using an unattended checkout counter after updating information required for software initialization and shopping in an unmanned payment software.

In detail, when the consumer selects the purchased product to purchase the product (S10), the barcode is identified using the unattended payment software mounted on the smartphone of the consumer (S20). When the barcode of the product is identified, the unmanned payment software checks whether the price information of the purchased product selected in the product price storage module 160 exists in the price list (S30). If there is no commodity price, the commodity price list is requested to the shopping mall server (S40), and the corresponding price information is received (S70). In this case, if the price information is not received, the unattended payment software stores all the information up to now and returns to the initial stage, and if the price information is correctly received (S70) or the selected product exists in the price list (S30), the corresponding product is The virtual cart 130 is loaded (S50).

After that, if it is determined whether to continue to select the purchased product (S60) and continues to select the purchased product, the process returns to the purchased product selection (S10) and repeats the product selection process. After that, the total product price currently loaded in the virtual cart 130 is calculated (S80). When the total shopping product payment amount calculated as described above is requested to request a total shopping price approval (S90) to the shopping mall server, the shopping mall server approves the corresponding amount (S100) and enters a payment waiting state using a credit card. If there is a problem with the shopping price, it is sent back to the unattended payment software again to calculate the shopping price (S80) is repeated.

If the total shopping price is approved (S100) from the shopping mall server, the customer enters the unattended checkout counter (S110). At this time, the product search station 200 of the unmanned cash register checks whether there is a food item, that is, the missing product in the total shopping price calculation in the virtual cart 130, and if the missing product does not exist, the customer uses a credit card. The payment for the product price is requested (S130). At this time, the customer's credit card information is performed using the credit card payment machine 220 included in the unattended checkout counter. When the product payment is completed by the credit card payment machine, the customer ends the shopping by entering the unattended cash register (S170). However, if the gasoline item is present in the virtual cart, the customer's presence of the gasoline item is notified to the customer on the display monitor 140 and the display module 140 of the unattended checkout counter (S150) and at the same time the entrance of the unattended counter The preventer 240 rejects the customer's access (S160) and returns to the previous shopping price calculation step.

Claims (4)

In configuring an unattended payment system,
A customer verification code verification module to verify that it is a normal unattended payment software and to prevent any changes to the software by the customer,
A commodity price storage module that stores information about an existing commodity and a shopping path connecting the commodity location based thereon;
Virtual cart module for saving / deleting selected product information and calculating total shopping amount,
Display module for checking the operation status of the unattended payment software,
Unmanned payment software installed in a smartphone including communication modules between modules of the unmanned payment software

In configuring an unattended payment system,
In order to identify the presence of Gourmet-specific merchandise, we will locate the existing merchandise finder before the credit card
Unmanned checkout counter considering the position of access guards to prevent unauthorized entry of gourmet goods



In unattended payment software,
When connecting to the shopping mall server, the authentication process to confirm that the unattended payment software works correctly,
Request process for a product price list based on existing product information,
Initialization and information update process of unattended payment software including shopping path request process based on the existing product information

In real shopping with unattended payment software,
Full shopping price approval process using virtual cart of unattended payment software,
Procedures to prevent abnormal entry and exit based on the presence of gourmet products,
Shopping and payment procedures using unattended payment software, including payment procedures for customers' selected items using credit cards

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