Vending machine and operation method thereof and vending machine system

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of vending machines, in particular to a vending machine and an operation method thereof and a vending machine system. The vending machine comprises a casewith an opening, a visual sensor and a server; the visual sensor is connected with the server; goods are accommodated in the case; the visual sensor is arranged outside the opening of the case and canacquire video or image information of the goods moving at the position of the opening of the case and send the video or image information to the server; the server can identify whether the goods aremoved to the case or out of the case according to the video or image information and determine the type and quantity of products a user ultimately purchases. The vending machine allows the purchase ofthe goods to be settled using a separate image identification technology, simpleness in method and high speed are achieved, and user experience is improved.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of unmanned vending, and more specifically, to an automatic vending device, an operating method thereof, and an automatic vending system. Background technique [0002] Vending refrigerators are intelligent and automatic common equipment in the commercial retail field. They can provide services to users anytime and anywhere, which can not only save a lot of service costs, but also facilitate shopping for users. [0003] At present, the vending machines on the market seldom use refrigerators as design prototypes, and the vending machines similar to them are complex in design, not flexible enough, and require complex operating procedures. On the one hand, users usually need to select products through buttons, touch screens, etc., then pay, and finally pick up the products to purchase. During the entire purchase process, users cannot directly contact the products for sale, nor can they make shopping choi...

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[0003] At present, the vending machines on the market rarely use refrigerators as design prototypes, and the vending machines similar to them are complex in design, not flexible enough, and require complex operating procedures

On the one hand, users usually need to select products through buttons, touch screens, etc., then pay, and finally pick up the products to purchase. During the entire purchase process, users cannot directly contact the products for sale, nor can they make shopping choices flexibly; On the one hand, the aisles designed to strictly distinguish product categories not only cannot make full use of the shelf space, but also increase product design and assembly costs, and often cause machine failures due to device jams, resulting in problems such as payment but not shipments

If the above problems are small, they will directly lead to transaction risks, and if they are large, they will greatly weaken the user experience, resulting in the loss of consumer groups and the consumer market.

Furthermore, from the perspective of developers, product providers, and maintainers, due to the small shelf capacity and large user needs, the closed main body of the machine must be opened every time replenishment or maintenance, and replenishment needs to be done according to the order of the goods. Accurately classifying and arranging commodities, these time-consuming and labor-intensive operations have accumulated a large amount of cost loss

[0004] It can be seen that the existing vending machines have defects such as small capacity, cumbersome and complicated design, poor user experience, high supply and maintenance costs, etc., while vending refrigerators can solve the above problems to a certain extent, but they have not yet been marketed. popularization

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