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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2013
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Wataru Hattori, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A marketing data collection system includes commodity information storage unit () that stores at least one of position information of the target article placement region and commodity identification information, commodity presence/absence determination unit () that determines presence or absence of the target article on the basis of the signal strength information of the RF tag to generate article presence/absence information, refers to the position information of the target article placement region and the commodity identification information to generate commodity presence/absence information in which presence/absence information of the target article and the commodity information are associated with each other and commodity detection time information in which information about the time when the commodity presence/absence information has been generated and the commodity information are associated with each other, and recording accumulation unit () that accumulates the commodity presence/absence information and the commodity detection time information.