Hitachi-kokusai Electric Inc.

Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

Hitachi Information Systems, Ltd.

Tanax, Inc.

Yoshinori Otani

Kiyoshi Kanai

Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto

Yoshinori Tanaka

Tohru Kaneko

Noriho Tanaka

Katsumasa Kishida

To guide other products related to a product which is taken out in hand by a customer. The present product display rack system carries out a first step for detecting an RFID number of a product taken by a customer from desired display rackstobased upon the detection result of the RFID reader; a second step for acquiring RFID numbers of related products having related product types and functional types relative to the product type of the RFID number from the product related information data baseby using the detected RFID number as a key; a third step for acquiring the product display coordinates of the product type from the product coordinate data baseby using the acquired RFID number of the related product as a key; and a fourth step for lighting or flickering the lamp of the lamp guiding unitstoat a position close to the acquired product display coordinates.

Product display rack system, product display rack method, and product display rack program

A system with an intelligent shelf () has product display shelves (to) displaying products having RFID tags R. The system includes antennas (to) each having unique antenna numbers and detecting a tag serial number from an RFID tag on a product, human body sensors S disposed on each end of the product display shelf, a tag-product ID registration table storing the tag serial numbers of the RFID tags and the product IDs of the products and a control computer () detecting that a particular product is picked up from and/or returned to a particular product display shelf by combining the input tag serial number and the antenna number of the antenna detecting the tag serial number and analyzing which direction the detected human body has moved based on the difference of the detection times of the human body sensors.

Product display rack system and purchasing behavior analysis program

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Kyoto, Japan

Yoshinori Otani