Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions

Johanna Hinkle

Evgeny Shevtsov

Philip Brown

Viktor Ivakhno

Techniques to reconfigure self-checkout kiosks based on attendant availability. A first transaction is processed based on an indication of current availability, at a first point in time, of one or more attendants for a physical area associated with a self-checkout kiosk. After processing the first transaction, an indication of current availability, at a second point in time, of the one or more attendants is determined. A second transaction is processed based on the indication of current availability, at the second point in time, of the one or more attendants.

Reconfiguring self-checkout kiosks based on attendant availability

Systems and methods of controlling self-checkout security validation are presented. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by a first network node operably coupled over a network to a second network node having a sensing device operable to sense self-checkout information associated with self-checkout of an item by the second network node. Further, the second network node is operable to determine that the self-checkout information corresponds to a security violation during the self-checkout of that item and to selectively send an indication to request a validation of the security violation. The method comprises receiving, by the first network node, a validation resolution information indication associated with a resolution of the requested validation of the security violation so as to adaptively control, based on the validation resolution information, a condition by which the second network node determines to send the validation request indication associated with the security violation.

Self-checkout security violation validation control

Systems and methods of detecting activity at point of sale are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by a POS system having an optical sensor device, an optical scanner device and a load sensor device. The optical sensor device has a field of view that includes a first region about the POS system and the load sensor device is operable to measure a load of an object while positioned in a bagging area of the POS system. Further, the first region includes a second region associated with a certain object type that can be positioned in the bagging area without having to be scanned or weighed. The method includes obtaining a successive image captured by the optical sensor device to enable a determination that the target object corresponds to the certain object type that is exempt from being scanned or weighed based on the successive image.

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South Bend, IN, United States of America

Johanna Hinkle