Patent ID: 7845554
Filing Date: 2010-12-07
Classification: G06Q,G07G

Abstract:
1. A point-of-sale self-checkout apparatus comprising: an audio input device; an audio processing module configured to process an audio input signal comprising item terminology received from the audio input device, and to query a database based on a received audio input to determine a query result, wherein the query result comprises one or more identified products based on a match between the processed audio input and keywords associated with the identified one or more products, wherein at least one of the one or more of the identified products was obtained as a result of a prediction process derived from terminology that is different from the item terminology used in the audio input; and a display for displaying to the purchaser a graphical user interface comprising a plurality of icons, each icon depicting one of the products identified in the query result; wherein the display in configured to receive from the purchaser a selection of one of the displayed icons.