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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2006
Yoshinori Otani, Kyoto, JP;
Kiyoshi Kanai, Kodaira, JP;
Tohru Kaneko, Shinagawa, JP;
Katsumasa Kishida, Shinagawa, JP;
Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto, Shinagawa, JP;
Yoshinori Otani, Kyoto, JP;
Kiyoshi Kanai, Kodaira, JP;
Tohru Kaneko, Shinagawa, JP;
Katsumasa Kishida, Shinagawa, JP;
Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto, Shinagawa, JP;
Hitachi Information Systems, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Tana-X-Inc., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
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.