VORRICHTUNG ZUM UNBEAUFSICHTIGTEN ABFERTIGEN VON ARTIKELN, PRODUKTEN, WAREN ODER DGL.

摘要

An operator-unattended checkout system for articles to be purchased and of first type bearing supplier-applied UPC indication and of second type not having supplier-applied UPC indication includes a reader (10) for UPC indications where present on articles, a first processing part operable without customer input for using the reader output signals for determining the first type article price, and a second processing part operable on customer input to a display unit (11) for using weight output signals from a scale (22) for obtaining second type article price. The processing operation is controlled by a central processor (23) together with associated price data store (24), icon store (25) and weight range store (26). A surveillance system (29) and associated camera (19) and display (30) may also be included. <IMAGE>