Patent ID: 8317086
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: G06Q,G07G

Abstract:
1. A self-checkout method comprising: capturing, by a shopper using a mobile computing device, images of items to be purchased by the shopper; generating, at the mobile computing device and in response to capture of the images, purchase item identifiers of the items based on the captured images; generating, at the mobile computing device, a sequence of machine-readable representations of the purchase item identifiers; controlling a display device of the mobile computing device to display the sequence of machine-readable representations of the purchase item identifiers with a timing; reading, by a shopper checkout terminal, each of the machine-readable representations of the sequence displayed on the display device of the mobile computing device, the mobile computing device controlling the timing of the display of the sequence of machine-readable representations of the purchase item identifiers in response to acknowledgement signals received from the shopper checkout terminal in response to the checkout terminal reading each of the machine-readable representations of the sequence displayed; and conducting a self-checkout purchase transaction for the shopper for the items.