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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2013
Hitachi Systems, Ltd., Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinori Otani, Kyoto, JP;
Kiyoshi Kanai, Tokyo, JP;
Noriho Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinori Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Hirofumi Tsutsumimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Systems, Ltd., Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.