Fujitsu Frontech North America Inc.

Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc.

Optimal Robotics Corporation

Bruce McVicar

Iouri Kloubakov

Thierry Leroux-Demers

Eric Jacobs

A customer self-checkout system includes one or more checkout stations and multiple supervisor terminals. The supervisor terminals provide support to, and control over, the self-checkout system and checkout stations. A controller is used to coordinate communications among the checkout stations and supervisor terminals over a wired and/or wireless network interfaces. A user may provide input at supervisory terminal using an interface providing context sensitive prompting to enable control using a simple keyboard interface.

Multi-device supervisor support for self-checkout systems

A customer self-checkout system includes one or more checkout stations and multiple supervisor terminals. The supervisor terminals provide support to, and control over, the self-checkout system and checkout stations. The supervisory terminals may be wireless terminals that can capture self-checkout customer identification information including signatures, fingerprints, images, and other forms of identification.

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Pincourt, Canada

Bruce McVicar