Mobile terminal supporting self-help shopping and self-help shopping method

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a mobile terminal which supports self-help shopping. The mobile terminal includes: a commodity identification unit arranged in a mobile terminal and used for scanning and identifying commodity information; a display unit used for displaying the commodity information to a user so as to enable the user to judge whether the commodity information is identical with information provided by an information bar of a supermarket; a command input unit used for receiving command information input by the user; a processor used for caching the commodity information obtained by the commodity identification unit and receiving a command input by the command input unit and sending an execution instruction to an execution unit according to the input command; and the execution unit used for executing shopping operations according to the execution instruction when receiving the execution instruction sent by the processor. The invention also provides a self-help shopping method based on the above-mentioned terminal so that cost of manpower and material resources is saved and a large part of the supermarket is used for exhibiting commodities and thus shopping is more convenient.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of mobile terminals, in particular to a mobile terminal supporting self-service shopping and a self-service shopping method based on the mobile terminal. Background technique [0002] At present, people's daily shopping methods usually include online shopping, on-site shopping in supermarkets, shopping malls or stores, and online media shopping. Although they have brought great convenience, these shopping methods still have many restrictions on users. [0003] For example, there are usually frauds in online shopping. Many inexperienced consumers often buy unsatisfactory products and lack a sense of security because they can’t see the actual product and choose only based on the merchant’s promotional description when shopping online or through media. So there's still a bigger market for brick-and-mortar stores where people can physically pick and shop, like supermarkets or hypermarkets. However, when shoppin...

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Problems solved by technology

However, when shopping in hypermarkets or supermarkets, usually due to the large passenger flow, it is necessary to wait in long lines for the cashier to scan the goods one by one to check out, which often consumes a lot of time for consumers and is not satisfactory.

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