NL2020357B1

NL2020357B1 - Self-service supermarket system

Info

Publication number: NL2020357B1
Application number: NL2020357A
Authority: NL
Inventors: Han Guoyue
Original assignee: Univ North China Science & Technology
Priority date: 2017-11-14
Filing date: 2018-01-31
Publication date: 2021-09-17
Also published as: NL2020357A

Abstract

The invention discloses a self-service supermarket system, comprising an intelligent shopping cart consisting of a shopping cart body and a intelligent display 5 terminal realizing self-help scanning and payment of commodity, an intelligent recommendation system comprising a camera, a face recognition module with an analysis module and a first commodity push module being respectively connected with the analysis module, a touch display screen and a commodity database, an identiﬁcation system comprising a fingerprint identif1cation device, user information 10 storage module, f1ngerprint identiﬁcation module and second commodity push module, a sales summary system for subtotal commodities for sale. The self-service supermarket system recommends commodities for consumer by face recognition technology on touch display screen, greatly increases commodity purchasing possibility, and achieves precise customer-oriented differentiated marketing. At the 15 same time, the self-service supermarket system pushes commodities according to customer's previous purchase records to achieve humanized shopping by automatic payment without queuing, and be convenient.

Description

Self-service supermarket system

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The present invention belongs to the field of e-commerce intelligent shopping, in particular to a self-service supermarket system.

BACKGROUND

[0002] Supermarket is a large-scale comprehensive retail mall which is based on customers’ own choice of food, household necessities and eatables. It appeared in the 1930s, and started with a food court. It categorized all kinds of food on the shelves for selecting of customers for their own choice, and then paying for it once when they went out. This shopping form has been widely welcomed, and it has become an indispensable shopping place for people today, but most supermarkets currently use check-out counters to collect cash. After purchasing goods, customers need to go to the check-out counters to make payment. Especially when there are many customers, we often take a long time to wait in line for payment. However, with acceleration of the pace of life, most of time people are very nervous. Especially most people are concentrated in the commute time for shopping, and waiting in line for payment takes a lot of time, so intelligent shopping emerges. People use e-commerce model so that online and offline trading modes combine to take full advantage of online shopping and offline shopping, but how to make better use of advantages of online and offline shopping, and combine to be more effectively. It is very necessary to provide a more convenient shopping mode.

DESCRIPTION

[0003] A purpose of the present invention is to solve at least above problems and to provide at least advantages that will be described later.

[0004] Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a self-service supermarket system. By face recognition technology, the self-service supermarket system uses a consumption data analysis system to select commodity that may be interested in by consumers, and display on a touch display screen. Thereby, the self-service supermarket system greatly increases commodity purchasing possibility of customers, and achieves a precise customer-oriented differentiated marketing.

[0005] Another purpose of the present invention is to provide a self-service supermarket system. By an identification system, the self-service supermarket system pushes commodity according to customer's previous purchase records. Thereby, the self-service supermarket system achieves a humanized shopping mode by automatic payment without need to queue, and is more convenient.

[0006] In view of purposes mentioned above and other advantages, the present invention provides a mechanical self-service supermarket system, comprising:

[0007] an intelligent shopping cart including a shopping cart body and a intelligent display terminal disposed in the middle of a push hand of the shopping cart body in such a manner as to be rotatable along the push hand of the shopping cart body, the intelligent display terminal comprising a touch display screen arranged on the surface of the intelligent display terminal, and serial connected a code scanner, a commodity database, a purchased commodity storage module and a summary payment module provided inside the intelligent display terminal, the code scanner and the summary payment module connecting respectively with the touch display screen, so that commodity information scanned by the code scanner is copied from the commodity database and stored in the purchased commodity storage module, and stored commodity information being updated to the summary payment module through the purchased commodity storage module, and displayed on the touch display screen; the front end of the shopping cart body being movably connected with a box body, wherein the upper part of the box body is provided with an opening with a cover body so as to cover the opening of the box body, the inner of the box body is provided with a division plate dividing the box body into 2-4 compartments for placing different types of shopping bags, and the push hand of the shopping cart body is provided with a control button connecting to the cover body in order to control opening and closing of the cover body;

[0008] an intelligent recommendation system comprising a camera provided on the intelligent display terminal for acquiring a face image of a customer, and a face recognition module and a first commodity push module respectively connected to the camera; and the face recognition module including a face image pickup module and an analysis module for analyzing features of the face image, the first commodity push module being respectively connected with the analysis module, the touch display screen and the commodity database, and the first commodity push module being provided with a consumption data analysis system in order to make the first commodity push module system by the consumption data analysis system according to features of the face image acquired by the analysis module select commodities in line with the features from the commodity database, and display on the touch display screen;

[0009] an identification system provided on the shopping cart body, the identification system comprising a fingerprint identification device, and a user information storage module, a fingerprint identification module and a second commodity push module built in the fingerprint identification device; the fingerprint identification module connecting with the user information storage module, the user information storage module being respectively connected with the commodity database and the second commodity push module, and the second commodity push module connecting with the touch display screen, so that the second commodity push module obtains the user information and pushes commodity on the touch display screen by selecting commodity from the commodity database according to the user information;

[00010] a sales summary system which is arranged on the shopping cart body and is connected with the summary payment module so as to subtotal purchased commodity and send sale volume of various commodities to the corresponding commodity suppliers;

[00011] wherein the user information includes user's identity information, previous shopping records, and purchased commodity information;

[00012] wherein commodity information includes price data, price fluctuation data, inventory data, classification data, and arrangement location data.

[00013] Preferably, the self-service supermarket system, the intelligent display terminal is further provided with a query module, and the query module is respectively connected with the touch display screen and the commodity database so as to query commodity information of commodity database in the touch display screen.

[00014] Preferably, the self-service supermarket system, the intelligent display terminal is further provided with a wireless connection module and a comparison module connected to the wireless connection module, the wireless connection module connecting to an intelligent device of user, the comparison module connecting to the commodity database, and the comparison module comparing commodity information transmitted by the intelligent device with commodity information in the commodity database, and feeding back the comparison result to the intelligent device.

[00015] Preferably, the self-service supermarket system, the division plate is arranged along longitudinal extension direction of the box body.

[00016] Preferably, the self-service supermarket system, the inner surface of the cover body is provided with identifications for distinguishing type of shopping bags.

[00017] Preferably, the self-service supermarket system, the identification system further comprises an identity entry device, which is respectively connected with the fingerprint identification module and the touch display screen so that the user can perform identity registration on the touch display screen after inputting the fingerprint.

[00018] Preferably, the self-service supermarket system, the user information storage module stores the user's purchase records and purchased commodity information after finishing shopping each time of the user.

[00019] Preferably, the self-service supermarket system, a wheel of the shopping cart body is connected with the intelligent display terminal to trigger the intelligent display terminal to work when wheel rotates.

[00020] Preferably, the self-service supermarket system, the wheel is provided with a time controller connected with the intelligent display terminal so that the time controller controls of the intelligent display terminal for sleep when rotation stopping time of the wheel reaches the set threshold value of the time controller.

[00021] Preferably, the self-service supermarket system, the threshold value of the time controller is set to 8-20 min.

[00022] The present invention includes at least the following advantages.

[00023] The self-service supermarket systemof the present invention is provided with the box body in the front of the intelligent shopping cart, and is placed different 5 types of shopping bags in the box body so that the customer can press the control button to open the cover body according to need and then select the type of shopping bags and purchase, and then realizing directly scanning code for payment and packaging, eliminating the trouble of shopping by queuing for payment in the supermarket, and improving customer's shopping experience.

[00024] By setting the intelligent display terminal in the intelligent shopping cart, customers can scan a code to present detailed information such as specification, price, shelf-life of commodity on the touch display screen, and customers can operate to decide whether to purchase or not in the touch display screen, so that customers can select commodities more conveniently and quickly. At the same time, by configuring the intelligent recommendation system, the camera in the intelligent shopping cart can automatically take a customer image and pick up the customer image in the face image pickup module, and performing analysis of facial features in the analysis module, selecting commodity in line with facial features according to the results of analysis by the consumption data analysis system, and displaying on the touch display screen for customers to choose and purchase. Through the application of facial recognition technology, performing recommendation of interested commodities according to facial features of the customer's age, gender and makeup characteristics, so that most of recommended commodities are suitable for customers, thus greatly increasing commodity purchasing possibility of customers, but also achieving a purpose of precise differentiated marketing for each customer.

[00025] By setting an identification system in the intelligent shopping cart so that the customer's identity information, and previously purchased commodity information are recorded in the corresponding user information storage module, realizing the customer entering the fingerprint in the intelligent shopping cart, the fingerprint identification module identifying the fingerprint, retrieving customer's previous purchase record according to the identity information of the corresponding customer, and recommending corresponding commodity according to the customer's previous purchase record, thereby facilitating purchase of commonly used commodity for customers, making shopping process more intelligent and humane, greatly improving the customer's shopping experience, but also improving supermarket sales volume.

[00026] Other advantages, objects, and features of the present invention will be showed in part through following description, and in part will be understood by those skilled in the art from study and practice of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[00027] Fig. 1 is a frame diagram of the self-service supermarket system of the present invention;

[00028] Fig. 2 is a structural view of the intelligent shopping cart of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[00029] The present invention will now be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in order to enable person skilled in the art to practice with reference to the description.

[00030] It is to be understood that the terms of having, comprising and containing as used herein are not intended to be the presence or addition of one or more other elements or combinations thereof.

[00031] As shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, the present invention provides a self-service supermarket system, comprising: an intelligent shopping cart including a shopping cart body 1 and a intelligent display terminal 2 disposed in the middle of a push hand 3 of the shopping cart body 1 in such a manner as to be rotatable along the push hand 3 of the shopping cart body 1, the intelligent display terminal 2 comprising a touch display screen 4 arranged on the surface of the intelligent display terminal 2, and a serial connected code scanner, a commodity database, a purchased commodity storage module and a summary payment module provided inside the intelligent display terminal 2, the code scanner and the summary payment module connecting respectively with the touch display screen 4, so that commodity information scanned by the code scanner is copied from the commodity database and stored in the purchased commodity storage module. Stored commodity information is updated to the summary payment module through the purchased commodity storage module, and is displayed on the touch display screen 4; the front end of the shopping cart body 1 being movably connected with a box body 5, wherein the upper part of the box body 5 is provided with an opening 6 provided with a cover body 7 so as to cover the opening 6 of the box body 5, the inner of the box body 5 is provided with a division plate 8 dividing the box body 5 into 2-4 compartments placing different types of shopping bags, and the push hand 3 of the shopping cart body 1 is provided with a control button 9 connecting to the cover body 7 in order to control opening and closing of the cover body 7.

[00032] An intelligent recommendation system comprises a camera 10 provided on the intelligent display terminal 2 for acquiring a face image of a customer and a face recognition module and a first commodity push module respectively connected to the camera 10; and the face recognition module including a face image pickup module and an analysis module for analyzing features of the face image, the first commodity push module being respectively connected with the analysis module, the touch display screen 4 and the commodity database, and the first commodity push module being provided with a consumption data analysis system in order to make the first commodity push module system by the consumption data analysis system according to features of the face image acquired by the analysis module select commodities in line with the features from the commodity database, and display on the touch display screen 4,

[00033] An identification system 11 provided on the shopping cart body 1, the identification system comprising a fingerprint identification device, and a user information storage module, a fingerprint identification module and a second commodity push module built in the fingerprint identification device; the fingerprint identification module connecting with the user information storage module, the user information storage module being respectively connected with the commodity database and the second commodity push module, and the second commodity push module connecting with the touch display screen 4, so that the second commodity push module obtains the user information and pushes commodity on the touch display screen 4 according to the user information by selecting commodity in the commodity database.

[00034] A sales summary system which is arranged on the shopping cart body 1 and 1s connected with the summary payment module so as to subtotal purchased commodity and send sale volume of various commodities to the corresponding commodity suppliers.

[00035] Wherein the user information includes user's identity information, previous shopping records, and purchased commodity information.

[00036] Wherein commodity information includes price data, price fluctuation data, inventory data, classification data, and arrangement location data.

[00037] In the above technical solution, the operation process of the self-service supermarket system includes specifically that: a customer chooses the intelligent shopping cart to enter a supermarket to purchase. The camera of the intelligent shopping cart takes a customer's image and sends the image to the face image pickup module to pick up the customer's face image. The analysis module then analyzes the customer's face image, obtains features of the customer's face image, and analyzes the customer's age, gender and makeup features according to the features. The first commodity push module performs recommendation of selected commodities on the touch display screen by the consumption data analysis system according to the face features of the customer. The customer can view and purchase of recommended commodities according to need. The customer simply need to purchase commodities on the code scanner to scan, and then choose to purchase on the touch display screen, so that the commodities information is stored in the purchased commodity storage module. At the same time, the customer can adjust commodities to be purchased according to the summary information displayed on the touch display screen, after confirming the purchase list, clicking payment on the touch display screen, then jumping to the payment page, customers choosing payment method to pay, thus completing the entire shopping process. The shopping process is convenient and quick, wherein the payment method can be one of WeChat, Alipay and UnionPay and other payment methods. After the realization of self-service shopping and payment of customer, the management of the supermarket is made easier to implement, the number of employees is reduced, and the cost for the supermarket operation is saved. At the same time, the intelligent shopping cart is also equipped with the identification system. Customers can choose whether to keep personal information in the user information storage module according to their own needs. After deciding to keep personal information, customers only need to enter a fingerprint in the intelligent shopping cart. The user record in the user information storage module will be retrieved, and then customers will be recommended commodities to facilitate the purchase of frequently purchased commodities according to the user's previous purchase record, which not only facilitates the customer purchase but also improves supermarket sales volume, and makes customers and supermarkets to form a win-win situation. The intelligent display terminal is provided in the middle of the push hand of the shopping cart body so as to be rotatable along the push hand of the shopping cart body, so that customers with different heights or habits can adjust the angle of the touch display screen according to personal needs, and thus facilitating use of customers. By setting the sales summary system on the shopping cart body, the sales summary can be summarized and classified of the daily sales volume and then be sent to the corresponding commodity suppliers so that the commodity suppliers can know the sales volume of the commoditys they supply in the supermarket, thus facilitating the commodity suppliers to supply their own goods to supermarkets based on the sales volume, eliminating steps for traditional supermarkets and suppliers to communicate with each other and coordinate delivery times and delivery volumes, thereby saving a lot of manpower and material resources.

[00038] In a preferred technical solution, the intelligent display terminal 2 is further provided with a query module, and the query module is respectively connected with the touch display screen 4 and the commodity database so as to query commodity information of commodity database in the touch display screen 4.

[00039] In the above technical solution, by setting the query module in the intelligent display terminal, and connecting with the commodity database, customers can conveniently query commodity that he or she wants to purchase on the touch display screen, and automatically display the commodity information on the touch display screen, wherein the commodity information includes price, inventory, production date, specific location, etc., facilitating guidance of customers to go to the appropriate location to purchase, saving shopping time of customers and improving user experience.

[00040] In a preferred technical solution, the intelligent display terminal 2 is further provided with a wireless connection module and a comparison module connected to the wireless connection module, the wireless connection module connecting to an intelligent device of user, the comparison module connecting to the commodity database, and the comparison module comparing commodity information transmitted by the intelligent device with commodity information in the commodity database, and feeding back the comparison result to the intelligent device.

[00041] In the above technical solution, by setting the wireless connection module in the intelligent display terminal, user can use the intelligent device such as a mobile phone and a tablet to connect with the intelligent display terminal, and further search for commodity on the intelligent device. By processing of the comparison module, corresponding search commodity is displayed on the intelligent device of user, wherein if the search commodity is included in the commodity database, the corresponding commodity information is sent to the intelligent device of user, and if the search commodity is not included in the commodity database, then related or similar commodity information is sent to the intelligent device for selection by user.

[00042] In a preferred technical solution, the division plate 8 is arranged along longitudinal extension direction of the box body 7.

[00043] In the above technical solution, by arranging the division plate along the longitudinal extension direction of the box body, the box body is divided into a plurality of compartments from left to right so as to make the opening of each compartment face upward, so as to facilitate storage of different types of shopping bags and access. Customers only need to take out the shopping bag from the opening of the compartment for storage of purchased commodities and then use the code scanner to pay, which is very convenient to use.

[00044] In a preferred technical solution, the inner surface of the cover body 7 is provided with identifications for distinguishing types of shopping bags.

[00045] In the above technical solution, by providing identifications for distinguishing types of shopping bags on the inner surface of the cover body, the customer can easily understand the shopping bag at the time of taking the shopping bag, wherein identifications can be in any forms such as characters, letters or patterns.

[00046] In a preferred technical solution, the identification system 11 further comprises an identity entry device, which is respectively connected with the fingerprint identification module and the touch display screen 4 so that user can perform identity registration on the touch display screen 4 after inputting the fingerprint.

[00047] In the above technical solution, customer can choose whether to enter fingerprints according to own needs. At the same time, it also facilitates operation of the customer for first fingerprinting. After the identity entry device is activated, the customer inputs the fingerprints, and then touches user information entry interface on the touch display screen. Customers can follow the instructions on the interface to enter information in order to facilitate storage of follow-up of personal purchase records and purchased commodity information.

[00048] In a preferred technical solution, the user information storage module stores the user's purchase records and purchased commodity information after finishing shopping each time of the user.

[00049] In the above technical solution, By setting the user information storage module to store each purchase records and the purchased commodity information of the user, the information of the user can be more complete, so that pushed commodities is more accurate and more targeted by the second commodity push module so as to be beneficial to customers for choosing and purchasing.

[00050] In a preferred technical solution, a wheel 12 of the shopping cart body 1 are connected with the intelligent display terminal 2 to trigger the intelligent display terminal 2 to work when the wheel 12 rotates.

[00051] In the above technical solution, by setting the wheel of the shopping cart body to connect with the intelligent display terminal, rotation of the wheel can trigger work of the intelligent display terminal. That is, the intelligent display terminal automatically starts working when the customer drives the intelligent shopping cart, thereby facilitating the customers’ use. Wherein connection and control methods of the wheel and the intelligent display terminal can be: providing magnet in the vicinity of the wheel, setting Hall switch in the wheel, using the Hall switch to control the power supply of the intelligent display terminal. It should be noted that the connection and control methods between the wheel and the intelligent display terminal are not limited to the above methods, but may be other arbitrary methods. In addition, the power supply is conveniently installed inside the push hand of the shopping cart body, and a charging interface can also be set on one end of the push hand to facilitate powering the intelligent display terminal and the identification system.

[00052] In a preferred technical solution, the wheel 12 are provided with a time controller connected with the intelligent display terminal 2 so that the time controller controls of the intelligent display terminal 2 for sleep when rotation stopping time of the wheel 12 reaches the set threshold value of the time controller.

[00053] In the above technical solution, by setting the time controller in the wheel, delay process for on and off of the power supply can be performed by the time controller to facilitate customers to stay in a certain position of the supermarket to select commodities. The intelligent display terminal and the identification system will not power off to stop working, so as to facilitate the use of customers. By setting the threshold value on the time controller, the intelligent shopping cart works normally within limited duration of the threshold value, and automatically cuts off power beyond the limited duration of the threshold value, such as when the customer discarded the intelligent shopping cart, thus saving energy, reducing the cost of intelligent shopping carts.

[00054] In a preferred technical solution, the threshold value of the time controller is set to 8-20 min.

[00055] In the above technical solution, the threshold value of the time controller is set to 8-20min to meet time for choosing commodity of general customers, of course, the threshold value of the time controller can be adjusted according to the special needs o to meet the actual needs.

[00056] Although the embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed above, they are not limited to the applications previously mentioned in the specification and embodiments, and can be applied in various fields suitable for the present invention. For ordinary skilled person in the field, other various changed model, formula and parameter may be easily achieved without creative work according to instruction of the present invention, changed, modified and replaced embodiments without departing the general concept defined by the claims and their equivalent are still included in the present invention. The present invention is not limited to particular details and illustrations shown and described herein.

Claims

Conclusions:

1. A self-service supermarket system, characterized in that it comprises: an intelligent shopping cart having a shopping cart body (1) and an intelligent display terminal (2) arranged in the center of a push stick (3) of the shopping cart body (1) in such a manner manner of being rotatable about the push stick (3), the intelligent display terminal (2) including a touch screen (4) mounted on a surface of the intelligent display terminal (3), and a serially connected code scanner, a commodity database, a storage module for purchased goods and a payment module provided in the intelligent display terminal, wherein the code scanner and the payment module are connected to the touchscreen (4), such that goods information scanned by the scanner is copied from the goods database and stored in the storage module for purchased goods and stored goods information is communicated up-to-date to the lump sum payment module via the storage module for purchased goods and is displayed on the touchscreen (4) wherein the front side of the shopping cart body (1) is movably connected to a box body (5), wherein the top part of the box body (5) is provided with an opening (6) with a lid (7) for covering the opening (6) of the box body (5) and the inner part of the box body is provided with a divider plate (8) for dividing the box body (5) into 2 to 4 compartments to accommodate different types of shopping bags and the push stick is provided a control button connected to the lid for opening and closing the lid (7) an intelligent recommendation system with a camera (10) provided on the intelligent display terminal (2) for recording a face of a customer, and a face recognition module and a first commodity display module connected to the camera, the facial recognition module including a facial recording module and an analysis module for analyzing facial features, the first commodity display mod ue is connected to the analysis module, the touchscreen (4) and the commodity database and wherein the first commodity pricing module is provided with a consumption data analysis system for the first commodity pricing module to select commodities from the commodity database by the consumption data analysis system in accordance with the characteristics of the face recorded by the analysis module and displaying it on the touch screen (4) an identification system (11) provided on the shopping cart body (1), the identification system comprising a fingerprint identification device and a user information storage module, wherein in the fingerprint identification device a fingerprint identification module and a second commodity promotion module are built in, wherein the fingerprint identification module is connected to the user information storage module, and the user information storage module is connected to the commodity database and the second commodity promotion module, and the second commodity promotion module is connected to the touch hscreen (4) so that the second merchandise promotion module obtains user information and advertises merchandise on the touchscreen (4) by selecting it from the commodity database based on the user information, a purchase summary system mounted on the shopping cart body (1) connected to a purchase summary module to display subtotals of the purchased items commodities and forward purchase volumes to corresponding commodity suppliers. wherein the user information includes information about the user's identity, records of previous store visits and information about purchased goods, wherein information about purchased goods includes data about prices, price fluctuations, inventory, classification and location.

Self-service supermarket system according to claim 1, characterized in that the intelligent display terminal (2) further comprises a demand module and the demand module is connected to the touchscreen (4) and the commodity database for retrieving commodity information from the commodity database in the touch screen (4).

The self-service supermarket system according to claim 1, characterized in that the intelligent display terminal (2) further comprises a wireless connection module and a comparison module connected to the wireless connection module, the wireless connection module connecting to an intelligent user device and the comparison model connecting to the commodity database, the comparison module comparing commodity information from the intelligent device with commodity information in the commodity database and feeding the result of this comparison back to the intelligent device.

A self-service supermarket system according to claim 1, characterized in that the distribution plate (8) is arranged in a longitudinal direction of the box body (5).

Self-service supermarket system according to claim |, characterized in that the inside of the lid (7) is provided with indications for distinguishing different types of shopping bags.

The self-service supermarket system according to claim 1, characterized in that the identification system further comprises an identity input device connected to the fingerprint identification module and the touch screen so that a user can register his identity on the touch screen after introduction of the fingerprint.

The self-service supermarket system according to claim 1, characterized in that user information storage module stores the list of purchases made by the user and information about the purchased goods every time after a user has shopped.

The self-service supermarket system according to claim 1, characterized in that a wheel (12) of the shopping cart body (1) is coupled to the intelligent display terminal (2) to turn on the intelligent display terminal (2) when the wheel ( 12) will spin.

The self-service supermarket system according to claim 8, characterized in that the wheel (12) is provided with a time control module connected to the intelligent display terminal (2), the time control module putting the intelligent display terminal (2) in the sleep mode after has not turned the wheel for a threshold time.

A self-service supermarket system according to claim 9, characterized in that the threshold time of the time control module is set between 8 and 20 minutes.