An unmanned supermarket vending system

Abstract

The present invention discloses an unmanned supermarket vending system, comprising a supermarket space with a gate, and an unmanned vending machine system composed of unmanned vending machines of standard width, wherein the unmanned vending machines of standard width are independent standard units, and are equipped with a vending slide facing consignees, and the consigned goods are installed in the vending slide, and the vending slide comprises a goods placing port and a goods picking port at two ends, and a counting device is provided at the picking port, and the goods are standard pre-packaged goods and are regularly placed on the vending slide, and the vending slide is a slide with two openings, namely, a goods placing port at a high position and a goods picking port at a low position, and is installed on an unmanned vending shelf, and the width of the unmanned vending shelf is 1-2 persons wide; the present invention adopts conditions such as limiting the width of the unmanned vending shelf, various recognition modes, and standard goods of specific slides, so that the overall solution can solve certain problems from a physical level, thereby greatly reducing the overall cost and technical difficulty.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The invention belongs to the field of automatic vending, and in particular relates to an unmanned supermarket vending system. Background Art

[0002] With the development of social science and technology, unmanned vending devices or systems are increasingly attracting people's attention. The unmanned vending method can not only provide customers with a better user experience, but also allow customers to avoid too many tedious processes such as paying and queuing, and can reduce labor and reduce overall costs. Because the unmanned vending model has become the choice of more and more merchants, but the current human-computer interaction of the unmanned vending method is still relatively complicated. If complex software and hardware combinations such as facial recognition are used, both the cost and technical difficulty are extremely high. Therefore, it is necessary to find a way and method of unmanned vending that can solve some simple problems with low cost and low technical difficulty. Summary of the invention

[0003] In view of this, the present invention aims to overcome at least one of the above-mentioned defects in the prior art, and proposes an unmanned supermarket vending system, comprising:

[0004] An unmanned vending machine system composed of standard width unmanned vending machines, wherein the standard width unmanned vending machines are independent standard units, and are equipped with a vending slide facing the consignee, and the consignment goods are installed in the vending slide, and the vending slide includes a product delivery port and a product pickup port at both ends, and the pickup port is provided with a counting device, and the products are standard pre-packaged products and are regularly placed on the vending slide, and the standard means the same weight or the same specification or the same quantity or the same volume of the same product or any combination of the above, and the vending slide is a slide with two openings, a product delivery port located at a high position and a product pickup port located at a low position, and is installed on an unmanned vending shelf, and the width of the unmanned vending shelf is 1-2 people wide, and there are n slides, which are arranged in an array in the unmanned vending machine, and the array arrangement is a spatial array arrangement of N*M slides.

[0005] After the user's identity is linked to the payment channel authentication, the user passes through the unmanned supermarket gate after identity recognition and identification confirmation with the payment channel. The user determines the location through indoor positioning. When the user is located in front of the unmanned vending machine, a second identity recognition is performed while performing location positioning and identity confirmation, and the user is connected to the goods to be taken. The user takes the goods from the goods slide in the unmanned vending machine, and the system records and settles the account until the user has taken all the items and arrives at the exit. The exit is connected to the system through wireless or wired mode to determine whether the user has walked out of the exit. If it is determined that the user has walked out of the exit, settlement is performed and the payment is automatically deducted;

[0006] The goods are installed in the sales slide, and the sales slide includes a goods release port and a goods pickup port at both ends. The pickup port is provided with a counting device. The goods are standard pre-packaged goods (the standard means the same weight or the same specification or the same quantity or the same volume of the same goods or any combination of the above) and are regularly placed on the sales slide. The sales slide is a slide with two openings, namely a goods release port located at a high position and a goods pickup port located at a low position, and is installed on an unmanned vending shelf. The width of the unmanned vending shelf is 1-2 people wide.

[0007] The setting of the width of the unmanned vending shelf can prevent two people from picking up goods from the same shelf at the same time. The width of 1-2 persons set in the present invention is set between 0.4 meters and 2 meters, preferably between 0.5 meters and 1.5 meters.

[0008] According to the description of the prior art in the background technology of this patent, the human-computer interaction in the current unmanned vending method is still relatively complicated. If complex software and hardware combinations such as facial recognition are used, both the cost and technical difficulty are extremely high. The unmanned supermarket vending system disclosed in the present invention adopts conditions such as limiting the width of unmanned vending shelves and various recognition modes and specific slide standard products, so that the overall solution can solve certain problems from a physical level, thereby greatly reducing the overall cost and technical difficulty, and can also achieve a good user experience.

[0009] In addition, the unmanned supermarket vending system disclosed in the present invention also has the following additional technical features:

[0010] Further, the slideway comprises a U-shaped slideway, the U-shaped slideway is placed horizontally and vertically, the commodity pickup port is at a lower end, and the commodity delivery port is at a higher end;

[0011] or

[0012] The slide is an inclined slide, the commodity pickup port is at the lower end, and the commodity placement port is at the higher end;

[0013] or

[0014] The slide is composed of three sections, the first section is an inclined slide with the commodity delivery port, the third section is an inclined slide with the commodity pickup port, the second section is a connecting slide connecting the first section and the third section, and the inclination of the second section is greater than the inclination of the first section and the second section.

[0015] Existing slides are basically S-shaped, that is, they have multiple bends. Therefore, when goods fall, they often get stuck in certain bends, especially at the pickup port. If the goods are stuck in the bend, it will cause an empty space in the slide or cause the machine to misjudge out of stock. If it is stuck at the pickup port, and the traditional vending machine has a falling channel, then the goods cannot be obtained after payment, so the user experience is very bad. The use of a simple one-stage structure or a two-stage structure can well avoid this problem. Due to the good human-computer interaction interface, users can directly pick up goods at the pickup port, and there will be no situation where they cannot get the goods after paying. At the same time, due to the use of a one-stage or two-stage structure, the goods will not be opened at the connection of the two-stage structure. The diameter of the connection is more than 10% larger than the normal diameter, which can well avoid the above problems.

[0016] Furthermore, there are n slides, which are arranged in an array in the unmanned vending machine, and the array arrangement is a spatial array arrangement of N*M slides.

[0017] Furthermore, the commodity pickup port includes an anti-return device that restricts items from being taken out but not in. The anti-return device is located on both sides of the commodity. The starting position of the anti-return device is to clamp the commodities on the left and right sides. When the user takes the commodity, he holds the horizontally placed commodity with his hands and pulls the commodity outward. The anti-return device is forced to open to both sides, and the commodity is retrieved. The next commodity slides along the slide to the position of the previous commodity and is blocked by the anti-return device. The counting device counts when the commodity is taken out, and transmits the count to the calculation unit for price calculation. After completing an opening and closing operation of the door of the unmanned vending machine, the counting device is reset.

[0018] Furthermore, the counting device uses a mechanical counting method or an electronic counting method to count.

[0019] Furthermore, the user registers for the APP and is qualified, and the user communicates with the unmanned vending machine through a wireless transmission system.

[0020] Furthermore, the wireless transmission system is a mobile phone or a tablet or a Bluetooth device or an infrared device, and the unmanned vending machine includes a device corresponding to the wireless transmission system.

[0021] Furthermore, in the unmanned vending method, the slide is a slide whose inner side is predetermined to be consistent with the appearance of the goods being sold and corresponds one-to-one with the goods being sold, and the slide is a pre-installed goods slide. When the goods on the slide in the unmanned vending machine are sold out, the pre-installed goods slide with installed goods is directly installed on the slide position of the unmanned vending machine.

[0022] Furthermore, the exit is provided with a plurality of detection components to perform linear motion calculations on the user leaving the exit. When the trajectory formed by the user meets the requirements, it is determined that the user has left, at which time the APP settlement is performed and payment is deducted.

[0023] Furthermore, the unmanned supermarket vending system obtains greater than or equal to one identity recognition feature for use in the shopping process when the user links the user identity with the payment channel authentication, or obtains greater than or equal to one identity recognition feature for use in the shopping process through multiple detection components during the process of the user entering the unmanned supermarket, or obtains greater than or equal to one identity recognition feature for use in the shopping process from multiple angles and directions through the detection components when the user is in the unmanned supermarket, or obtains greater than or equal to one identity recognition feature for use in the shopping process by any combination of the above methods.

[0024] Furthermore, the identity recognition includes fingerprint recognition or face recognition or iris recognition or voice recognition or vein recognition or any combination of the above recognition methods, and the identity recognition also includes an identity recognition device, and the identity recognition device includes a bank card recognition or a fingerprint recognition component or a face recognition component or a vein recognition component or a voice recognition component or any combination of the above.

[0025] Additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will be given in part in the following description and in part will be obvious from the following description, or will be learned through practice of the present invention. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0026] The above and / or additional aspects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and easily understood from the following description of the embodiments in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

[0027] Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of an unmanned supermarket vending system according to the present invention;

[0028] Figure 2 Schematic diagram of a U-shaped slide in an unmanned supermarket vending system embodiment according to the present invention;

[0029] Figure 3 2 is a schematic diagram of an inclined slide in an embodiment of an unmanned supermarket vending system according to the present invention;

[0030] Figure 4 2 is a schematic diagram of three sections of slideways in an unmanned supermarket vending system embodiment according to the present invention;

[0031] In the figure, 1 is a gate, 2 is a user, 3 is an unmanned vending machine, 301 is a pickup port, and 302 is a delivery port. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0032] Embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below, examples of which are shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein the same or similar reference numerals throughout represent the same or similar elements or elements having the same or similar functions. The embodiments described below with reference to the accompanying drawings are exemplary and are only used to explain the present invention, and cannot be interpreted as limiting the present invention.

[0033] In the description of the present invention, it is necessary to understand that the terms "upper", "lower", "bottom", "top", "front", "back", "inside", "outside", "horizontal", "vertical", etc. indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the accompanying drawings, and are only for the convenience of describing the present invention and simplifying the description, rather than indicating or implying that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and therefore cannot be understood as a limitation on the present invention.

[0034] In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless otherwise clearly stipulated and limited, the terms "connection", "coupling", "installation", "fitting", "fixed", and "connected" should be understood in a broad sense. For example, it can be a fixed connection, an integral connection, or a detachable connection; it can be an internal connection between two components; it can be a direct installation or an indirect installation through an intermediate medium; "fitting" can be the fit between surfaces, or the fit between points and surfaces, or between lines and surfaces. For ordinary technicians in this field, the specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood according to specific circumstances.

[0035] The present invention proposes an unmanned supermarket vending system, comprising:

[0036] An unmanned vending machine system composed of standard width unmanned vending machines, wherein the standard width unmanned vending machines are independent standard units, and are equipped with a vending slide facing the consignee, and the consignment goods are installed in the vending slide, and the vending slide includes a product delivery port and a product pickup port at both ends, and the pickup port is provided with a counting device, and the products are standard pre-packaged products and are regularly placed on the vending slide, and the standard means the same weight or the same specification or the same quantity or the same volume of the same product or any combination of the above, and the vending slide is a slide with two openings, a product delivery port located at a high position and a product pickup port located at a low position, and is installed on an unmanned vending shelf, and the width of the unmanned vending shelf is 1-2 people wide, and there are n slides, which are arranged in an array in the unmanned vending machine, and the array arrangement is a spatial array arrangement of N*M slides.

[0037] After the user's identity is linked to the payment channel authentication, the user passes through the unmanned supermarket gate after identity recognition and identification confirmation with the payment channel. The user determines the location through indoor positioning. When the user is located in front of the unmanned vending machine, a second identity recognition is performed while performing location positioning and identity confirmation, and the user is connected to the goods to be taken. The user takes the goods from the goods slide in the unmanned vending machine, and the system records and settles the account until the user has taken all the items and arrives at the exit. The exit is connected to the system through wireless or wired mode to determine whether the user has walked out of the exit. If it is determined that the user has walked out of the exit, settlement is performed and the payment is automatically deducted;

[0038] The goods are installed in the sales slide, and the sales slide includes a goods release port and a goods pickup port at both ends. The pickup port is provided with a counting device. The goods are standard pre-packaged goods (the standard means the same weight or the same specification or the same quantity or the same volume of the same goods or any combination of the above) and are regularly placed on the sales slide. The sales slide is a slide with two openings, namely a goods release port located at a high position and a goods pickup port located at a low position, and is installed on an unmanned vending shelf. The width of the unmanned vending shelf is 1-2 people wide.

[0039] The setting of the width of the unmanned vending shelf can prevent two people from picking up goods from the same shelf at the same time. The width of the unmanned vending shelf is set between 0.4 meters and 2 meters, preferably between 0.5 meters and 1.5 meters.

[0040] According to the description of the prior art in the background technology of this patent, the human-computer interaction in the current unmanned vending method is still relatively complicated. If complex software and hardware combinations such as facial recognition are used, both the cost and technical difficulty are extremely high. The unmanned supermarket vending system disclosed in the present invention adopts conditions such as limiting the width of unmanned vending shelves and various recognition modes and specific slide standard products, so that the overall solution can solve certain problems from a physical level, thereby greatly reducing the overall cost and technical difficulty, and can also achieve a good user experience.

[0041] In addition, the unmanned supermarket vending system disclosed in the present invention also has the following additional technical features:

[0042] According to an embodiment of the present invention, the slide includes a U-shaped slide, the U-shaped slide is placed horizontally and vertically, the commodity pickup port is at a lower end, and the commodity delivery port is at a higher end;

[0043] or

[0044] The slide is an inclined slide, the commodity pickup port is at the lower end, and the commodity placement port is at the higher end;

[0045] or

[0046] The slide is composed of three sections, the first section is an inclined slide with the commodity delivery port, the third section is an inclined slide with the commodity pickup port, the second section is a connecting slide connecting the first section and the third section, and the inclination of the second section is greater than the inclination of the first section and the second section.

[0047] Existing slides are basically S-shaped, that is, they have multiple bends. Therefore, when goods fall, they often get stuck in certain bends, especially at the pickup port. If the goods are stuck in the bend, it will cause an empty space in the slide or cause the machine to misjudge out of stock. If it is stuck at the pickup port, and the traditional vending machine has a falling channel, then the goods cannot be obtained after payment, so the user experience is very bad. The use of a simple one-stage structure or a two-stage structure can well avoid this problem. Due to the good human-computer interaction interface, users can directly pick up goods at the pickup port, and there will be no situation where they cannot get the goods after paying. At the same time, due to the use of a one-stage or two-stage structure, the goods will not be opened at the connection of the two-stage structure. The diameter of the connection is more than 10% larger than the normal diameter, which can well avoid the above problems.

[0048] According to an embodiment of the present invention, there are n slides, which are arranged in an array in the unmanned vending machine, and the array arrangement is a spatial array arrangement of N*M slides.

[0049] According to some embodiments of the present invention, the product pickup port includes an anti-backward device that restricts items from being taken out but not in. The anti-backward device is located on both sides of the product, and the starting position of the anti-backward device is to clamp the product on the left and right sides. When the user takes the product, he holds the horizontally placed product with his hands and pulls the product outward. The anti-backward device is forced to open to both sides, and the product is retrieved. The next product slides along the slide to the position of the previous product and is blocked by the anti-backward device. The counting device counts when the product is taken out, and transmits the count to the calculation unit for price calculation. After completing an opening and closing operation of the door of the unmanned vending machine, the counting device is reset.

[0050] According to some embodiments of the present invention, the counting device uses a mechanical counting method or an electronic counting method to count.

[0051] According to an embodiment of the present invention, the user is qualified by registering an APP, and the user communicates with the unmanned vending machine through a wireless transmission system.

[0052] Furthermore, the wireless transmission system is a mobile phone or a tablet or a Bluetooth device or an infrared device, and the unmanned vending machine includes a device corresponding to the wireless transmission system.

[0053] According to some embodiments of the present invention, in the unmanned vending method, the slide is a slide whose inner side is predetermined to be consistent with the appearance of the goods being sold and corresponds one-to-one with the goods being sold, and the slide is a pre-installed goods slide. When the goods on the slide in the unmanned vending machine are sold out, the pre-installed goods slide with installed goods is directly installed on the slide position of the unmanned vending machine.

[0054] According to some embodiments of the present invention, the exit is provided with a plurality of detection components for calculating the linear motion of the user leaving the exit. When the trajectory formed by the user meets the requirements, it is determined that the user has left, at which time the APP settlement is performed and the payment is deducted.

[0055] According to some embodiments of the present invention, the unmanned supermarket vending system obtains greater than or equal to 1 identity recognition feature for use in the shopping process when the user links the user identity with the payment channel authentication, or obtains greater than or equal to 1 identity recognition feature for use in the shopping process through multiple detection components when the user enters the unmanned supermarket, or obtains greater than or equal to 1 identity recognition feature for use in the shopping process from multiple angles and directions through the detection components when the user is in the unmanned supermarket, or obtains greater than or equal to 1 identity recognition feature for use in the shopping process by any combination of the above methods.

[0056] Furthermore, the identity recognition includes fingerprint recognition or face recognition or iris recognition or voice recognition or vein recognition or any combination of the above recognition methods, and the identity recognition also includes an identity recognition device, and the identity recognition device includes a bank card recognition or a fingerprint recognition component or a face recognition component or a vein recognition component or a voice recognition component or any combination of the above.

[0057] Although specific embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail with reference to a number of illustrative embodiments of the present invention, it must be understood that a variety of other modifications and embodiments may be devised by those skilled in the art that will fall within the spirit and scope of the principles of the present invention. Specifically, within the scope of the foregoing disclosure, the accompanying drawings, and the claims, reasonable variations and improvements may be made in the arrangement of components and / or dependent combinations without departing from the spirit of the present invention. Except for variations and improvements in components and / or arrangement, the scope is defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. An unmanned supermarket vending system, characterized in that: It includes a supermarket space with a gate, and an unmanned vending machine system composed of standard-width unmanned vending machines, wherein the standard-width unmanned vending machine is an independent standard unit, and is equipped with a vending slide facing the consignee, and the consigned goods are installed in the vending slide, and the vending slide includes a product delivery port and a product pickup port at both ends, and the pickup port is provided with a counting device, and the products are standard pre-packaged products and are regularly placed on the vending slide, and the standard means the same weight, specification, quantity, volume, or any combination of the above products, and the vending slide is a slide with two openings, a product delivery port located at a high position and a product pickup port located at a low position, and is installed on an unmanned vending shelf, and the width of the unmanned vending shelf is one person wide, and the slides are n in number, and are arranged in an array in the unmanned vending machine, and the array arrangement is a spatial array arrangement of N*M slides; The width of the unmanned shelf is set to prevent two people from picking up goods from the same shelf at the same time. The width of the unmanned shelf is set to between 0.4 meters and 1.5 meters. After the user's identity is linked with the payment channel authentication, the user passes through the unmanned supermarket gate after identity recognition and identification and confirmation with the payment channel. The user determines the location through indoor positioning. When the user is located in front of the unmanned vending machine, a secondary identity recognition is performed while positioning and confirming the identity, and the user is connected with the goods to be taken. The user takes the goods from the goods slide in the unmanned vending machine, and the system records the settlement until the user has taken all the items and arrives at the exit. The exit is connected to the system through wireless or wired mode to determine whether the user has walked out of the exit. When it is determined that the user has walked out of the exit, settlement is performed and the money is automatically deducted.

2. The unmanned supermarket vending system according to claim 1, characterized in that: The slideway comprises a U-shaped slideway, the U-shaped slideway is placed horizontally and vertically, the commodity pickup port is at the lower end, and the commodity delivery port is at the higher end; or The slide is an inclined slide, the commodity pickup port is at the lower end, and the commodity placement port is at the higher end; or The slide is composed of three sections, the first section is an inclined slide with the commodity delivery port, the third section is an inclined slide with the commodity pickup port, the second section is a connecting slide connecting the first section and the third section, and the inclination of the second section is greater than the inclination of the first section and the second section.

3. The unmanned supermarket vending system according to claim 1, characterized in that: The commodity pickup port includes an anti-return device that restricts items from being taken out but not in. The anti-return device is located on both sides of the commodity and the starting position is to clamp the commodities on the left and right sides. When the user takes the commodity, he holds the horizontally placed commodity with his hands and pulls the commodity outward. The anti-return device is forced to open to both sides, the commodity is retrieved, and the next commodity slides along the slide to the position of the previous commodity and is blocked by the anti-return device. The counting device counts when the commodity is taken out and transmits the count to the calculation unit for price calculation. After completing an opening and closing operation of the door of the unmanned vending machine, the counting device is reset.

4. The unmanned supermarket vending system according to claim 1, characterized in that: The counting device uses a mechanical counting method or an electronic counting method to count.

5. The unmanned supermarket vending system according to claim 1, characterized in that: The user is qualified by registering the APP, and the user communicates with the unmanned vending machine through a wireless transmission system.

6. The unmanned supermarket vending system according to claim 5, characterized in that: The wireless transmission system is a mobile phone, a tablet, a Bluetooth device, or an infrared device.

7. The unmanned supermarket vending system according to claim 1, characterized in that: In the unmanned vending machine, the slide is a slide whose inner side is predetermined to be consistent with the appearance of the goods being sold and corresponds one-to-one with the goods being sold. The slide is a pre-installed goods slide. When the goods on the slide in the unmanned vending machine are sold out, the pre-installed goods slide with installed goods is directly installed on the slide position of the unmanned vending machine.

8. The unmanned supermarket vending system according to claim 5, characterized in that: The exit is provided with a plurality of detection components, which calculate the linear motion of the user leaving the exit. When the trajectory formed by the user meets the requirements, it is determined that the user has left, at which time the APP settlement is performed and the payment is deducted.

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