Wireless-Tag Fitting-Room Tracking for Purchase Status Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
In apparel stores, distinguishing between purchased and unpurchased items during fitting room transactions can be challenging for store clerks, especially when customers perform self-settlement, leading to difficulties in separating settled and unsettled commodities.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system comprising a digital mirror, a gate, a checkout machine, and a display, which uses wireless tags, facial recognition, and a server to track and differentiate between purchased and unpurchased items by capturing customer faces, reading commodity codes, and transmitting display information to distinguish between purchase and nonpurchase commodities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If customers perform self-settlement in the fitting room, then settlement efficiency is improved, but the store clerk's ability to distinguish settled and unsettled commodities deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an information processing device as an intermediary system that automatically tracks and identifies settled versus unsettled commodities. The device receives commodity information from the fitting room, processes it to determine settlement status, and provides visual feedback to the store clerk through a display interface, eliminating the need for manual distinction while maintaining operational simplicity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical/manual method of distinguishing commodities through physical separation or visual inspection with an automated information processing system. The system uses data processing and display mechanisms to automatically identify and present settled versus unsettled items, substituting manual labor with automated information handling
2Measurement precision
If manual distinction of settled and unsettled commodities is performed, then accuracy is improved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The information processing device performs preliminary processing of commodity information automatically during the settlement process. It pre-determines which commodities are settled and which are unsettled based on the settlement transactions, so that when the store clerk needs to separate the commodities, the classification is already ready and requires no additional analysis time
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates an informational copy or representation of the commodity settlement status through the display interface. Instead of physically separating commodities, the system generates a visual copy that shows the store clerk which items are settled and which are not, allowing accurate distinction without physical handling time
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AI summary
An information processing device in an embodiment includes a brought-in commodity grasping unit configured to grasp, based on commodity specifying information of brought-in commodities brought into a fitting room, the brought-in commodities, a purchase commodity grasping unit configured to grasp, based on commodity specifying information of, among the brought-in commodities, purchase commodities subjected to commodity purchasing processing in a purchase processing device installed in the fitting room, the purchase commodities, a determination unit configured to determine, from the brought-in commodities and the purchase commodities, nonpurchase commodities not to be purchased, and a display transmission unit configured to transmit, to a display provided near the fitting room, display information for causing the display to display the purchase commodities and the nonpurchase commodities to be discriminable.