Point of sale shopping bag

Abstract

A point of sale shopping bag to store purchasable items therein, including a main body, a scanner to scan a barcode of at least one of the purchasable items, a camera to take a photograph of at least another one of the purchasable items, a scale to determine a weight of the at least another one of the purchasable items in response to the at least another one of the purchasable items being placed on the scale, a display screen to display an image of the at least one of the purchasable items in response to the at least one of the purchasable items being scanned by the scanner, and a chip reader to allow a user to pay for any items disposed within the main body using a credit card chip in response to the user bringing the credit card chip within a predetermined proximity of the chip reader.

Description

BACKGROUND1. Field

[0001] The present general inventive concept relates generally to a shopping bag, and particularly, to a point of sale shopping bag.2. Description of the Related Art

[0002] Traditional shopping and delivery processes can be cumbersome with consideration of long checkout lines, forgotten items, and order mix-ups that can turn a routine task into a frustrating ordeal.

[0003] With the expansion of shopping support apps like Uber, Instacart, etc. the ability to select, organize, charge, and deliver items with confidence to buyers is of increasing importance.

[0004] Point of sale (POS) or point of purchase (POP) is a time and place at which a retail transaction is completed. At the point of sale, the merchant calculates the amount owed by the customer, indicates that amount, may prepare an invoice for the customer (which may be a cash register printout), and indicates the options for the customer to make payment. It is also the point at which a customer makes a payment to the merchant in exchange for goods or after provision of a service. After receiving payment, the merchant may issue a receipt, as proof of transaction, which is usually printed but can also be dispensed with or sent electronically.

[0005] To calculate the amount owed by a customer, the merchant may use various devices such as weighing scales, barcode scanners, and cash registers (or the more advanced “POS cash registers”, which are sometimes also called “POS systems”). To make a payment, payment terminals, touch screens, and other hardware and software options are available.

[0006] However, there is no convenient way to utilize a POS system without using a shopping cart and / or POS station.

[0007] Therefore, there is a need for a hand-held POS system that allows for convenient and portable checkout at a store.SUMMARY

[0008] The present general inventive concept provides a point of sale shopping bag.

[0009] Additional features and utilities of the present general inventive concept will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the general inventive concept.

[0010] The foregoing and / or other features and utilities of the present general inventive concept may be achieved by providing a point of sale shopping bag to store purchasable items therein, including a main body having a shape of a shopping bag, a scanner disposed on an outer surface of the main body to scan a barcode of at least one of the purchasable items, a camera disposed on the outer surface of the main body to take a photograph of at least another one of the purchasable items, a scale disposed within an inner portion of the main body to determine a weight of the at least another one of the purchasable items in response to the at least another one of the purchasable items being placed on the scale, a display screen disposed on the outer surface of the main body to display an image of the at least one of the purchasable items in response to the at least one of the purchasable items being scanned by the scanner, and a chip reader disposed on the outer surface of the main body to allow a user to pay for any items disposed within the main body using a credit card chip in response to the user bringing the credit card chip within a predetermined proximity of the chip reader.

[0011] The display screen may display the at least another one of the purchasable items in response to the camera taking a picture of the at least another one of the purchasable items, and then may display the weight of the at least another one of the purchasable items in response to the at least another one of the purchasable items being placed on the scale.

[0012] The point of sale shopping bag may further include a central processing unit (CPU) to receive information or data from at least one of the scanner when the at least one of the purchasable items is scanned, the camera when the at least another one of the purchasable items is photographed, the scale when the at least another one of the purchasable items is weighed, and the chip reader when the credit card chip is brought within the predetermined proximity of the chip reader.

[0013] The CPU may send payment information to a database of a store in response to the user's payment via the chip reader, so that the store can confirm that the items stored within the main body have been purchased.

[0014] The CPU may maintain an accurate record of a total weight of the items disposed within the main body.

[0015] The point of sale shopping bag may further include a sensor disposed within the inner portion of the main body to sense each time an item is placed within the main body.

[0016] If an item not scanned by the scanner, not photographed by the camera, or not weighed by the scale, the CPU sends an alert to the display screen to indicate and display that an unscanned item has been placed inside the main body in response to the sensor sensing that the unscanned item has been placed inside the main body.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0017] These and / or other features and utilities of the present generally inventive concept will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

[0018] FIG. 1 illustrates a front perspective view of a point of sale shopping bag, according to an exemplary embodiment of the present general inventive concept.DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0019] Various example embodiments (a.k.a., exemplary embodiments) will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings in which some example embodiments are illustrated. In the figures, the thicknesses of lines, layers and / or regions may be exaggerated for clarity.

[0020] Accordingly, while example embodiments are capable of various modifications and alternative forms, embodiments thereof are shown by way of example in the figures and will herein be described in detail. It should be understood, however, that there is no intent to limit example embodiments to the particular forms disclosed, but on the contrary, example embodiments are to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the scope of the disclosure. Like numbers refer to like / similar elements throughout the detailed description.

[0021] It is understood that when an element is referred to as being “connected” or “coupled” to another element, it can be directly connected or coupled to the other element or intervening elements may be present. In contrast, when an element is referred to as being “directly connected” or “directly coupled” to another element, there are no intervening elements present. Other words used to describe the relationship between elements should be interpreted in a like fashion (e.g., “between” versus “directly between,”“adjacent” versus “directly adjacent,” etc.).

[0022] The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of example embodiments. As used herein, the singular forms “a,”“an” and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms “comprises,”“comprising,”“includes” and / or “including,” when used herein, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements and / or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components and / or groups thereof.

[0023] Unless otherwise defined, all terms (including technical and scientific terms) used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which example embodiments belong. It will be further understood that terms, e.g., those defined in commonly used dictionaries, should be interpreted as having a meaning that is consistent with their meaning in the context of the relevant art. However, should the present disclosure give a specific meaning to a term deviating from a meaning commonly understood by one of ordinary skill, this meaning is to be taken into account in the specific context this definition is given herein.LIST OF COMPONENTSMobile Device 10

[0025] Point of Sale Shopping Bag 100

[0026] Main Body 110

[0027] Handles 111

[0028] Power Button 112

[0029] Sensor 113

[0030] Central Processing Unit (CPU) 114

[0031] Battery 115

[0032] Charging Port 116

[0033] Scanner Button 120

[0034] Scanner 130

[0035] Scale Button 140

[0036] Scale 150

[0037] Camera Button 160

[0038] Camera 170

[0039] Display Screen 180

[0040] Chip Reader 190

[0041] FIG. 1 illustrates a front perspective view of a point of sale shopping bag 100, according to an exemplary embodiment of the present general inventive concept.

[0042] Referring to FIG. 1, the point of sale shopping bag 100 may include a main body 110, a scanner button 120, a scanner 130, a scale button 140, a scale 150, a camera button 160, a camera 170, a display screen 180, and a chip reader 190, but is not limited thereto.

[0043] The point of sale shopping bag 100, and all components therein, may be constructed from at least one of plastic, paper, wood, metal, silicone, liquid, fibers, threads, fabric, foam, sponge, feathers, circuitry, glass, and rubber, etc., but is not limited thereto, and can be constructed from any material known to one of ordinary skill in the art.

[0044] The main body 110 may include handles 111, a power button 112, a sensor 113, a central processing unit (CPU) 114, a battery 115, and a charging port 116, but is not limited thereto.

[0045] The main body 110 may have an appearance of any type of shopping bag known to one of ordinary skill in the art, and the handles 111 may be provided at top portions of the main body 110 to allow a user to carry the point of sale shopping bag 100 with ease.

[0046] The power button 112 may be disposed on an outer surface of the main body 110, but is not limited thereto, and may be electronically connected to the other components within the point of sale shopping bag 100, such that upon depression of the power button 112, power is supplied to all of the components within the point of sale shopping bag 100.

[0047] The sensor 113 may be disposed within an inner surface and / or portion of the main body 110, such that the sensor 113 senses each time an item is placed within the inner portion of the main body 110.

[0048] The central processing unit (CPU) 114 may include electronic circuitry to carry out instructions of a computer program by performing basic arithmetic, logical, control and input / output (I / O) operations specified by the instructions. The CPU 114 may include an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) that performs arithmetic and logic operations, processor registers that supply operands to the ALU and store the results of ALU operations, and a control unit that fetches instructions from memory and “executes” them by directing the coordinated operations of the ALU, registers and other components. The CPU 114 may also include a microprocessor and a microcontroller. The CPU 114 may be a local computer device, a remote server, or cloud computing device.

[0049] The CPU 114 may also include a storage unit, a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), a hard disk, a flash drive, a database connected to the Internet, cloud-based storage, Internet-based storage, or any other type of storage unit.

[0050] The CPU 114 may access the Internet via an internal communication unit to allow the CPU 114 to access a website, and / or may allow for communication with a mobile application and / or a software application. The communication unit may include various wireless capabilities including, but not limited to, WIFI, Bluetooth, cellular, near field communications (NFC), etc. For ease of description, the mobile and / or the software application will be hereinafter referred to as an app. The app may be downloaded from the Internet to be stored on the storage unit of the CPU 114.

[0051] The CPU 114 may also have a global positioning service (GPS) device installed therein, to allow the CPU 114 to be located via a GPS signal.

[0052] Thus, the CPU 114 may allow a user to communicate with the point of sale shopping bag 100 via a mobile device 10, which may be running an app thereon, in order to identify in which store the user is currently shopping. The mobile device 10 may be a cell phone, a laptop computer, a tablet computer, or any type of mobile device known to one of ordinary skill in the art.

[0053] Accordingly, the CPU 114 may automatically configure the point of sale shopping bag 100 to be usable in a particular store, because the store's inventory will be readable by the CPU 114. Also, the point of sale shopping bag 100 may be controlled by the mobile device 10 via the CPU 114.

[0054] Also, the CPU 114 may process data provided by the other electronic components within the point of sale shopping bag 100, or may send data to the other electronic components within the point of sale shopping bag 100, which will be later explained in detail.

[0055] The battery 115 may be any type of battery known to one of ordinary skill in the art, including, but not limited to, a nickel cadmium battery, a lithium ion battery, a rechargeable battery, etc.

[0056] The charging port 116 may be disposed on the main body and may be any type of port known to one of ordinary skill in the art that allows for the battery 115 to be charged, including, but not limited to, a USB port, a mini USB port, a micro USB port, a USB-C port, a lightning port, etc.

[0057] The scanner button 120 and the scanner 130 may be disposed on the outer surface of the main body 110. When the scanner button 120 is pressed, the scanner 130 may be activated to allow a user to scan a barcode of an item so that the item is scannable by the scanner 130, data of which is saved by the CPU 114 to indicate that the user intends to purchase the item. The scanner button 120 may also scan electronic chips, QR codes, or any other type of static type of scanning item.

[0058] The scale button 140 may be disposed on the outer surface of the main body 110, and the scale 150 may be disposed within a bottom inner portion of the main body 110. When the scale button 140 is pressed, the scale 150 may be activated to allow a user to weigh an item that must be weighed in order to be counted as an item that the user intends to purchase.

[0059] The camera button 160 and the camera 170 may be disposed on the outer surface of the main body 110. When the camera button 160 is pressed, the camera 170 may take a photograph.

[0060] The scale button 140, the scale 150, the camera button 160, and the camera 170 may work together in conjunction to quickly and easily allow a user to ensure that an item without a barcode is properly counted as being desired for purchase. For example, if grapes are sold by the pound, but have no barcode, the user may hold the grapes up to the camera 170, press the camera button 160 to allow the camera 170 to take a photograph of the grapes (i.e., such that the photograph data is sent to the CPU 114), and then press the scale button 140 to activate the scale 150. Then, the user may place the grapes onto the scale 150 to allow an accurate weight of the grapes to be calculated and stored by the CPU 114.

[0061] The display screen 180 may be disposed on the outer surface of the main body 110, and may be any type of display screen known to one of ordinary skill int eh art, including, but not limited to, a plasma screen, an LCD screen, a light emitting diode (LED) screen, an organic LED (OLED) screen, a computer monitor, a hologram output unit, a sound outputting unit, or any other type of device that visually or aurally displays data. Moreover, the display screen 180 may integrate input functions and operate as a touchscreen.

[0062] Thus, when a user scans an item using the scanner 130, or takes a picture using the camera 170, the display screen 180 may actually display the item that is intended for purchase, along with a price, weight, size, nutritional information, or any other information desired by the user.

[0063] The chip reader 190 may be disposed on or within the main body 110, and may allow for a user to pay for the items disposed within the main body 110 using a credit card chip, mobile device 10 payment (e.g., via a payment app), or any other electronic payment method.

[0064] Once payment is performed by the user using the chip reader 190, the CPU 114 may send payment information to a store's server, so that the store receives the payment.

[0065] Another application of the present general inventive concept may include a restaurant-type application. For example, if a customer orders a ten hamburgers and four large French fries from a fast food restaurant, a food-delivery driver can ensure that all of the items are inside the point of sale shopping bag 100 by checking to make sure that all of the items were scanned, weighed, and / or photographed, and then, sensed as entering the point of sale shopping bag 100. This will avoid problems with missing food for food delivery drivers.

[0066] The present general inventive concept may include a point of sale shopping bag 100 to store purchasable items therein, including a main body 110 having a shape of a shopping bag, a scanner 130 disposed on an outer surface of the main body 110 to scan a barcode of at least one of the purchasable items, a camera 170 disposed on the outer surface of the main body 110 to take a photograph of at least another one of the purchasable items, a scale 150 disposed within an inner portion of the main body 110 to determine a weight of the at least another one of the purchasable items in response to the at least another one of the purchasable items being placed on the scale 150, a display screen 180 disposed on the outer surface of the main body 110 to display an image of the at least one of the purchasable items in response to the at least one of the purchasable items being scanned by the scanner 130, and a chip reader 190 disposed on the outer surface of the main body 110 to allow a user to pay for any items disposed within the main body 110 using a credit card chip in response to the user bringing the credit card chip within a predetermined proximity of the chip reader 190.

[0067] The display screen 180 may display the at least another one of the purchasable items in response to the camera 170 taking a picture of the at least another one of the purchasable items, and then may display the weight of the at least another one of the purchasable items in response to the at least another one of the purchasable items being placed on the scale 150.

[0068] The point of sale shopping bag 100 may further include a central processing unit (CPU) 114 to receive information or data from at least one of the scanner 130 when the at least one of the purchasable items is scanned, the camera 170 when the at least another one of the purchasable items is photographed, the scale 150 when the at least another one of the purchasable items is weighed, and the chip reader 190 when the credit card chip is brought within the predetermined proximity of the chip reader 190.

[0069] The CPU 114 may send payment information to a database of a store in response to the user's payment via the chip reader 190, so that the store can confirm that the items stored within the main body 110 have been purchased.

[0070] The CPU 114 may maintain an accurate record of a total weight of the items disposed within the main body 110.

[0071] The point of sale shopping bag 100 may further include a sensor 113 disposed within the inner portion of the main body 110 to sense each time an item is placed within the main body 110.

[0072] If an item not scanned by the scanner 130, not photographed by the camera 170, or not weighed by the scale 150, the CPU 114 sends an alert to the display screen 180 to indicate and display that an unscanned item has been placed inside the main body 110 in response to the sensor 130 sensing that the unscanned item has been placed inside the main body 110.

[0073] A main purpose of the present general inventive concept is to provide users with a virtual bag that is automatically linked to a scanner at a store or restaurant to streamline shopping and point-of-sale transactions. Ingenious and practical, the present general inventive concept offers a modern accessory that optimizes these processes, making shopping and deliveries more efficient, accurate, and secure. The present general inventive concept introduces a novel battery-operated / USB chargeable bag that works in complement with a cutting-edge app to redefine shopping and delivery experiences, and it is intended to be a primary accessory for on-site or app-support service workers. Equipped with internal V-shaped slots designed to securely hold items, the present general inventive concept permits workers to place items into the bag where a built-in scanner and camera automatically records each item. When an item is removed, the present general inventive concept sends individuals, the buyer, real-time alerts to ensure they're always aware of any changes in the content register with the additional benefit of users monitoring the items in their bag via their smartphone. To further enhance functionality, the bag may include control buttons at the top of the bag for taking pictures of content within. This innovative, top-quality product replaces traditional containers like plastic bags and paper sacks, providing a more environmentally friendly and efficient solution for storing items, including those that require specific conditions like refrigeration or warming. The present general inventive concept minimizes the chances of physical errors, improving the accuracy and efficiency of all shopping and delivery experiences and therefore may prove to be essential in the electronics / commercial industry.

[0074] The present general inventive concept is the only product of its kind that has the capability to verify the contents of a bag, simplifying the checkout process, and enhancing the security of items placed therein. This unprecedented product is uniquely designed with an advanced fingerprint recognition system that guarantees only authorized users can access the bag. Moreover, the present general inventive concept is carefully crafted with durable, high-quality materials to ensure long-term sustainability, offers diverse bags to protect food, groceries, or electronics, safely, and it can conveniently streamline updates between shoppers and buyers, remotely, via a mobile application.

[0075] As will be appreciated by a person of ordinary skill in the art, aspects of the present general inventive concept may be embodied as a method, a device, a system, or a computer program product, for example. Accordingly, aspects of the present general inventive concept may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc.) or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects that may all generally be referred to herein as a “circuit,”“module” or “system.” Furthermore, aspects of the present general inventive concept may take the form of a computer program product embodied in one or more computer-readable data storage devices or computer-readable data storage components that include computer-readable medium(s) having computer readable program code embodied thereon. For example, a computer-readable data storage device may be embodied as a tangible device that may include a tangible data storage medium (which may be non-transitory in some examples), as well as a controller configured for receiving instructions from a resource such as a central processing unit (CPU) to retrieve information stored at one or more particular addresses in the tangible, non-transitory data storage medium, and for retrieving and providing the information stored at those particular one or more addresses in the data storage medium.

[0076] The data storage device may store information that encodes both instructions and data, for example, and may retrieve and communicate information encoding instructions and / or data to other resources such as a CPU, for example. The data storage device may take the form of a main memory component such as a hard disc drive or a flash drive in various embodiments, for example. The data storage device may also take the form of another memory component such as a RAM integrated circuit or a buffer or a local cache in any of a variety of forms, in various embodiments. This may include a cache integrated with a controller, a cache integrated with a graphics processing unit (GPU), a cache integrated with a system bus, a cache integrated with a multi-chip die, a cache integrated within a CPU, or the processor registers within a CPU, as various illustrative examples. The data storage apparatus or data storage system may also take a distributed form such as a redundant array of independent discs (RAID) system or a cloud-based data storage service, and still be considered to be a data storage component or data storage system as a part of or a component of an embodiment of a system of the present general inventive concept, in various embodiments.

[0077] Any combination of one or more computer readable medium(s) may be utilized. The computer readable medium may be a computer readable signal medium or a computer readable storage medium. A computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but is not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, electro-optic, heat-assisted magnetic, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. A non-exhaustive list of additional specific examples of a computer readable storage medium includes the following: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disc, a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. In the context of this document, a computer readable storage medium may be any tangible medium that can contain or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device, for example.

[0078] Program code embodied on a computer readable medium may be transmitted using any appropriate medium, including but not limited to radio frequency (RF) or other wireless, wire line, optical fiber cable, etc., or any suitable combination of the foregoing. Computer program code for carrying out operations for aspects of the present general inventive concept may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Java, Smalltalk, C++, or the like, or other imperative programming languages such as C, or functional languages such as Common Lisp, Haskell, or Clojure, or multi-paradigm languages such as C #, Python, or Ruby, among a variety of illustrative examples. One or more sets of applicable program code may execute partly or entirely on the user's desktop or laptop computer, smartphone, tablet, or other computing device; as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computing device and partly on a remote computing device; or entirely on one or more remote servers or other computing devices, among various examples. In the latter scenario, the remote computing device may be connected to the user's computing device through any type of network, including a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), or the connection may be made to an external computer (for example, through a public network such as the Internet using an Internet Service Provider), and for which a virtual private network (VPN) may also optionally be used.

[0079] In various illustrative embodiments, various computer programs, software applications, modules, or other software elements may be executed in connection with one or more user interfaces being executed on a client computing device, that may also interact with one or more web server applications that may be running on one or more servers or other separate computing devices and may be executing or accessing other computer programs, software applications, modules, databases, data stores, or other software elements or data structures. A graphical user interface may be executed on a client computing device and may access applications from the one or more web server applications, for example. Various content within a browser or dedicated application graphical user interface may be rendered or executed in or in association with the web browser using any combination of any release version of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, AJAX, JSON, and various other languages or technologies. Other content may be provided by computer programs, software applications, modules, or other elements executed on the one or more web servers and written in any programming language and / or using or accessing any computer programs, software elements, data structures, or technologies, in various illustrative embodiments.

[0080] A computer readable signal medium may include a propagated data signal with computer readable program code embodied therein, for example, in baseband or as part of a carrier wave. Such a propagated signal may take any of a variety of forms, including, but not limited to, electromagnetic, optical, or any suitable combination thereof. A computer readable signal medium may be any computer readable medium that is not a computer readable storage medium and that can communicate, propagate, or transport a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

[0081] Although a few embodiments of the present general inventive concept have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes may be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the general inventive concept, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. A point of sale shopping bag to store purchasable items therein, the point of sale shopping bag comprising:a main body having a shape of a shopping bag;a scanner disposed on an outer surface of the main body to scan a barcode of at least one of the purchasable items;a camera disposed on the outer surface of the main body to take a photograph of at least another one of the purchasable items;a scale disposed within an inner portion of the main body to determine a weight of the at least another one of the purchasable items in response to the at least another one of the purchasable items being placed on the scale;a display screen disposed on the outer surface of the main body to display an image of the at least one of the purchasable items in response to the at least one of the purchasable items being scanned by the scanner; anda chip reader disposed on the outer surface of the main body to allow a user to pay for any items disposed within the main body using a credit card chip in response to the user bringing the credit card chip within a predetermined proximity of the chip reader.

2. The point of sale shopping bag of claim 1, wherein the display screen displays the at least another one of the purchasable items in response to the camera taking a picture of the at least another one of the purchasable items, and then displays the weight of the at least another one of the purchasable items in response to the at least another one of the purchasable items being placed on the scale.

3. The point of sale shopping bag of claim 1, further comprising:a central processing unit (CPU) to receive information or data from at least one of the scanner when the at least one of the purchasable items is scanned, the camera when the at least another one of the purchasable items is photographed, the scale when the at least another one of the purchasable items is weighed, and the chip reader when the credit card chip is brought within the predetermined proximity of the chip reader.

4. The point of sale shopping bag of claim 3, wherein the CPU sends payment information to a database of a store in response to the user's payment via the chip reader, so that the store can confirm that the items stored within the main body have been purchased.

5. The point of sale shopping bag of claim 3, wherein the CPU maintains an accurate record of a total weight of the items disposed within the main body.

6. The point of sale shopping bag of claim 3, further comprising:a sensor disposed within the inner portion of the main body to sense each time an item is placed within the main body.

7. The point of sale shopping bag of claim 6, wherein if an item not scanned by the scanner, not photographed by the camera, or not weighed by the scale, the CPU sends an alert to the display screen to indicate and display that an unscanned item has been placed inside the main body in response to the sensor sensing that the unscanned item has been placed inside the main body.

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