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Method and device for purchasing commodities in open type vending machine

A vending machine and open technology, applied in the field of image recognition, can solve problems such as poor user experience, judgment, labor cost, etc., and achieve the effect of improving user experience

Active Publication Date: 2018-12-07
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, in the current open shopping environment, it is only possible to manually place the goods returned by consumers because they do not need them, and it cannot directly and automatically identify the location of the goods, which consumes a lot of labor costs and leaves a lot of trouble for other consumers. The shopping process is troublesome and the user experience is poor

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[0080] refer to figure 2 , the first embodiment of the present invention provides a method for purchasing commodities in an open vending machine, including:

[0081] Step S100, receiving a capture instruction generated based on the user's shopping gesture touching the commodity and triggering the first infrared sensor;

[0082] As mentioned above, the first infrared sensor is located in the vending machine close to the commodity, and is used to sense and monitor the actions of the user touching the commodity. When the user touches any commodity in the vending machine, it will trigger The first infrared sensor generates a grabbing instruction.

[0083] There may be one first infrared sensor, or there may be multiple ones. For example, one infrared sensor is provided for each column of commodities, or one infrared sensor is corresponding to each commodity.

[0084] As mentioned above, the shopping gesture refers to the movement of the user's hands when the user puts his hand ...

Embodiment 2

[0099] refer to image 3 , the second embodiment of the present invention provides a method for purchasing commodities in an open vending machine, based on the above figure 2 In the first embodiment shown, the step S300, "recognizing the shopping action image, and judging whether the user has grabbed the product" includes:

[0100] Step S310, grayscale the shopping action image to obtain a grayscale image;

[0101] As mentioned above, a grayscale digital image is one in which each pixel has only one sampled color. Such images are usually displayed as a gray scale from the darkest black to the brightest white, although in theory this sampling could be any shade of any color, even different colors at different brightnesses. Grayscale images are different from black-and-white images. In the field of computer graphics, black-and-white images only have two colors, black and white. Grayscale images have many levels of color depth between black and white.

[0102] As mentioned ab...

Embodiment 3

[0111] refer to Figure 4-5 , the third embodiment of the present invention provides a method for purchasing commodities in an open vending machine, based on the above image 3 In the second embodiment shown, before the step S100, "receive the shopping instruction generated based on the user's shopping gesture touching the commodity through the first infrared sensor", it also includes:

[0112] Step S700, after opening the shopping compartment of the vending machine, receiving the user's shopping gesture to enter the shopping compartment and triggering a warehouse entry instruction generated by the second infrared sensor;

[0113] As mentioned above, after starting shopping, the shopping compartment is opened, and the user needs to enter the shopping compartment to grab the goods by himself. Before the user grabs the goods, when he just enters the shopping compartment through the shopping gesture, the second infrared sensor is triggered to determine the user's current status. ...

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Abstract

The invention provides a method and device for purchasing commodities in an open type vending machine. The method includes the following steps that: a grabbing instruction is received, wherein the grabbing instruction is generated by a first infrared sensor which is triggered under a condition that the shopping gesture of a user contacts a commodity; the shopping gesture image of a grabbing actioncorresponding to the shopping gesture of the user is collected according to the grabbing instruction; the shopping gesture image is identified, if the user grabs a target commodity, the first commodity information of the target commodity is confirmed; if the target product grabbed by the user is put back to the vending machine, whether the target commodity is put back to a placement area corresponding to the target commodity is judged; and if the target commodity is put back to the placement area corresponding to the target commodity, a shopping end instruction generated in response to the closing of a shopping cabin is received, and settlement is performed based on the first commodity information. With the method of the invention adopted, convenience is provided for different consumers during shopping, user experience is improved, and the problem of the waste of a large quantity of labor costs which is caused by a condition that an existing vending machine needs manual labor to arrange commodities can be avoided.

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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 purchasing commodities 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 ...

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IPC IPC(8): G06K9/00G07F11/00
CPCG07F11/00G06V40/20
Inventor 黄鼎隆马修·罗伯特·斯科特郭胜黄桢勉
Owner SHANGHAI YUEPU INVESTMENT CENT (LLP)