Patent ID: 11961375
Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A commodity management system, comprising:
a cart including a wireless tag reader-and-writer, wherein the wireless tag reader-and-writer is configured to read:
first information from first wireless tags attached to commodities displayed in a store, and
second information from second wireless tags associated with different display areas in the store, the second information including tag identifiers (IDs) of the second wireless tags; and

a commodity management apparatus configured to:
acquire the first and second information read by the wireless tag reader-and-writer,
determine a display area in which one of the commodities is displayed, using the tag IDs of the second wireless tags associated with the different display areas, and
specify a first quantity of said one of the commodities displayed in the determined display area based on the acquired first information, wherein

the wireless tag reader-and-writer is configured to emit radio signals at a first intensity and a second intensity less than the first intensity.