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A method and device for returning goods in an open automatic vending machine

A vending machine, an open technology, applied in the field of image recognition, can solve the problems of inconvenient shopping, poor user experience, and inability to put products back in their original positions, so as to achieve convenient shopping and improve user experience.

Active Publication Date: 2020-04-03
SHANGHAI YUEPU INVESTMENT CENT (LLP)
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However, in the open-based vending machine, during the shopping process, when the user needs to return the purchase for reasons such as dislike, the product needs to be returned to the original area, so that other consumers can more conveniently store according to the Clear placement to select products, but the existing vending machines cannot judge whether the products are put back to their original positions. In the process of repeated picking by the user, the position of the products will be confused, which will bring great inconvenience to the user's shopping experience. Inconvenience
[0004] In short, at present, the existing vending machines can only manually place the goods returned by consumers because they do not need them, and cannot directly and automatically identify the position of the goods, which consumes a lot of labor costs and causes troubles for other consumers in the shopping process. , poor user experience

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[0059] refer to figure 2 , the first embodiment of the present invention provides a method for returning goods in an open vending machine, including:

[0060] Step S10, receiving the weight gain change data generated by placing the returned product in the product display area to trigger the gravity sensor corresponding to the product display area;

[0061] As mentioned above, the method for returning goods in an open vending machine provided by this embodiment can be applied to an open shopping environment, such as shopping malls, supermarkets and other places, that is, unattended, and users can freely take goods. In this embodiment, it can be an open vending machine. After the user starts shopping, the door of the vending machine is opened, and the user directly takes the goods inside, and the vending machine monitors the user's shopping through the image acquisition device. Behaviors and purchased items are identified and counted to realize the final settlement of the user...

Embodiment 2

[0087] refer to image 3 , the second embodiment of the present invention provides a method for returning goods in an open vending machine, based on the above figure 2 In the first embodiment shown, the step S30, "if the weight gain change data does not match the preset weight data, determine that the returned product is placed in the wrong position, and generate a prompt message" includes:

[0088] Step S31, if the weight gain change data does not match the preset weight data, and besides the product display area, there are other product display areas whose preset weight data match the weight gain change data , then obtain the take-out record of the current shopping product in the product display area;

[0089] As mentioned above, when the shopping item is taken out record, the record includes the weight reduction data of the taken out item saved by the gravity sensor when the user takes out the item from the vending machine when shopping. For example, if the user takes ou...

Embodiment 3

[0095] refer to Figure 4 , the third embodiment of the present invention provides a method for returning goods in an open vending machine, based on the above figure 2 In the first embodiment shown, after the step S30, "if the weight gain change data does not match the preset weight data, determine that the returned product is placed in the wrong place, and generate a prompt message", then include:

[0096] Step S40, collecting commodity display images in the commodity display area through an image acquisition device corresponding to the commodity display area;

[0097] As mentioned above, the image acquisition device is a device capable of image acquisition for the commodity display area, and an image acquisition device may be provided corresponding to each commodity display area. The image acquisition device may be an acquisition device such as a camera or a camera.

[0098] As mentioned above, the product display image is an image of the current situation in the display...

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Abstract

A method for returning a product in an open vending machine, and a device for the same. The method comprises: receiving weight change data generated by a weight sensor corresponding to a product display region and triggered by placement of a product to be returned in the product display region (S10); comparing the weight change data against pre-determined weight data of a product on display corresponding to the product display region (S20); and if the weight change data does not match the pre-determined weight data, determining that the product to be returned was placed at the wrong location, and generating prompt information (S30). The method for returning a product and the device for the same achieve automatic determination of whether a product returned by a user was placed at the wrong location in an open shopping environment, and further provide a prompt to return the misplaced product to a display region, such that products in a vending machine are placed according to a specific location arrangement in an intelligent manner, thereby providing convenience to consumers during shopping, improving the user experience, and solving the problem in which manual labor is required for arranging products in existing vending machines, causing a large waste of labor costs.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of image recognition, and more specifically, to a method and device for returning goods in an open automatic vending machine. Background technique [0002] Material circulation is the most basic element of human society. As an important means of current material circulation, the retail industry or open related industries that sell directly to consumers (hereinafter referred to as the retail industry or retail enterprises) need to employ a large number of cashiers to realize the purchase and sale of goods. The purchased items are counted one by one, and after the statistics are completed, the payment is completed together with the consumer. [0003] The vending machine solves the defects of manual statistics and manual settlement in the retail industry, and is a consumer-oriented sales method with unmanned sales and automatic settlement. Through the user's selection, the types and total value of the commodi...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): G07F11/62G06Q30/00
CPCG06Q30/016G07F11/62
Inventor 黄鼎隆马修·罗伯特·斯科特马咪娜黄桢勉
Owner SHANGHAI YUEPU INVESTMENT CENT (LLP)