公开(公告)号：US20230005320A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-05

申请号：US17782078

申请日：2020-09-21

申请人： Weihai New Beiyang Digital Technology Co., Ltd. ,  Shandong New Beiyang Information Technology Co., Ltd.

发明人： Deyi Li ,  Jian Li ,  Juntao Liu ,  Hongming Li ,  Tianxin Jiang

IPC分类号： G07F9/00 ,  G07F11/16 ,  G07F11/10

摘要： An automatic vending machine includes a cabinet, a plurality of item columns, a pickup port and a delivery apparatus, and the delivery apparatus includes a hopper and a hopper drive mechanism. An item dispensing method of the automatic vending machine includes: determining, according to items to be purchased, all of item combination manners having a lowest number of item dispensing operations as candidate item combination manners; determining all of pickup manners for picking up items in each of the candidate item combination manners; determining all of item dispensing paths in one-to-one correspondence to all of pickup manners of all of the candidate item combination manners; and selecting, from all of the item dispensing paths, an item dispensing path having a highest efficiency as a target item dispensing path, and controlling, based on the target item dispensing path, the hopper to dispense items.

公开(公告)号：US20220400875A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-22

申请号：US17892785

申请日：2022-08-22

申请人： Leer, Inc.

发明人： William M. Huffar ,  Karl E. Katuin ,  Michael A. Andrew ,  Stephen J. Dieter ,  Terry D. Matt ,  John A. Miller ,  Nicholas A. Truesdale

IPC分类号： A47F10/02 ,  F25D11/04 ,  G07F9/10 ,  G07F11/62 ,  F25D17/04 ,  G06Q20/18 ,  G06Q20/20 ,  G07F9/00

摘要： A merchandiser for storing at least one product for purchase by a customer is provided. The merchandiser includes: a housing defining a cavity configured to receive the at least one product; an opening defined by the housing, the opening providing access to the cavity; and a door coupled to the housing and movable between a first position and a second position. The door substantially covers the opening in the first position and the door is positioned away from the opening in the second position such that the cavity is accessible. The merchandiser further includes a control system operable in a plurality of modes including at least a run mode and a setup mode. In the run mode, purchase of the at least one product is permitted. In the setup mode, one or more run mode provisions that control operation of the merchandiser in the run mode are received.

公开(公告)号：US11481780B2

公开(公告)日：2022-10-25

申请号：US16681673

申请日：2019-11-12

申请人： PAYRANGE INC.

发明人： Paresh K. Patel ,  Srinivas Annam ,  Prashant Kanhere ,  Rakesh Kulangara

IPC分类号： G06Q30/00 ,  G06Q20/40 ,  G06Q20/38 ,  G06Q20/32 ,  G07F9/02 ,  G06Q20/18 ,  G06Q30/06 ,  G06Q20/36 ,  G07F9/00

摘要： A mobile consumer device with a display, processor(s), and memory: identifies a merchant device in proximity to the consumer device based on broadcasted information transmitted by the first merchant device, the broadcasted information including a first identifier corresponding to the first merchant device; transmits the first identifier to a server and receives from the server an electronic communication including identification and transaction information associated with the merchant; displays the identification information, receives user selection of the merchant identification information; and in response, displays the merchant transaction information, receives supplemental user information, and transmits the supplemental transaction information to the server for completion of the transaction.

公开(公告)号：US20220309457A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-29

申请号：US17841067

申请日：2022-06-15

申请人： QUADIENT TECHNOLOGIES FRANCE

发明人： Christophe Peynet ,  Patrick Blanluet

IPC分类号： G06Q10/08 ,  G07C9/00 ,  G07F17/10 ,  G07C9/28 ,  G07F9/00

摘要： A method for operating electronic lockers for parcel deposit and collection and pick-up wherein a remote shipping system transmits to at least one mobile device via a long distance communication network data related to parcels to be handled by at least one electronic locker and wherein a user operates the at least one electronic locker with the at least one mobile device via a short distance communication network without using a user interface of the at least one electronic locker and wherein the at least one electronic locker using the at least one mobile device via the short distance communication network transmits data related to parcels handling during the user operation of the at least one electronic locker.

公开(公告)号：US11445347B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-13

申请号：US16467514

申请日：2016-12-07

申请人： Essity Hygiene and Health Aktiebolag

发明人： Hakan Lindstrom

IPC分类号： H04W4/80 ,  H04W4/38 ,  G07F9/00 ,  G07F11/00 ,  G08B1/08 ,  G08B23/00 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04W84/18 ,  A47K5/06 ,  A47K10/32

摘要： A piece of hygiene equipment includes a transmitting section configured to transmit an outbound radio signal carrying transmission payload data; a receiving section configured to receive an inbound radio signal carrying reception payload data; a processing section configured to transmit an outbound radio signal carrying specific transmission payload data and/or to receive an inbound radio signal carrying specific reception payload data for determining a communication partner to which outbound radio signals are to be transmitted and from which inbound radio signals are to be received; and a memory section. The processing section is configured to determine said communication partner and to store information on the determined communication partner in said memory section.

公开(公告)号：US20220254215A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-11

申请号：US17629596

申请日：2020-07-16

申请人： PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS S.A.

发明人： Cyrille Poindron ,  Louis-Philippe Vancraeynest ,  Guido Janeke ,  Loic Samson

IPC分类号： G07F9/00 ,  G07F17/00 ,  G07F9/02

摘要： A vending apparatus includes (i) an interface configured to allow a user to select a consumable for use in an aerosol generating device; (ii) a first compartment for storing the selected consumable; (iii) dispenser apparatus configured to dispense the selected consumable from the first compartment to the user; (iv) a controller operably coupled to the user interface and the dispenser apparatus and configured to cause the dispenser to retrieve the selected consumable from the first compartment and to dispense the selected consumable to the user; and (iv) communication apparatus operably coupled to the controller and configured to receive data regarding the aerosol generating device.

公开(公告)号：US20220234880A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-28

申请号：US17719985

申请日：2022-04-13

申请人： The Coca-Cola Company

发明人： Arthur G. Rudick ,  Rahab Saqib Karori ,  John Boyd ,  Keith A. Gibson ,  Damian J. Mycroft ,  Scott Cuppari ,  David Mulcahey

IPC分类号： B67D1/08 ,  G07F13/06 ,  G07F9/00

摘要： A beverage dispenser and method for operating a beverage dispenser may include receiving a handshake request from a mobile device of a user. A communications link may be established with the mobile device. Responsive to receiving control data associated with a beverage order from the mobile device, a physical function may be caused to be performed by the beverage dispenser.

公开(公告)号：US11386788B2

公开(公告)日：2022-07-12

申请号：US16662869

申请日：2019-10-24

申请人： Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.

发明人： Mengmeng Tang ,  Wanqi Chai ,  Junping Wang ,  Fan Yang ,  Chen Chen ,  Wenlong Rao

IPC分类号： G08G1/00 ,  G01C21/36 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G07C5/08 ,  G10L15/22 ,  G07F9/00

摘要： A method and an apparatus for controlling interaction between a vehicle and a vehicle-mounted device are provided according to embodiments of the disclosure. The method includes: determining whether the vehicle is in a parking state; acquiring input operation information of a user, in response to determining the vehicle being in the parking state; determining whether there is as operation matching the input operation information based on the input operation information; and sending control information for executing the operation to the vehicle-mounted device, in response to determining there being the operation matching the input operation information. The embodiment achieves controlling the vehicle-mounted device based on the vehicle state and the user input.

公开(公告)号：US20220207953A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-30

申请号：US17558589

申请日：2021-12-22

申请人： Glory Ltd.

发明人： Shota FUJINAGA ,  Hiroyuki HATAI

IPC分类号： G07F9/02 ,  G07F9/00

摘要： An automatic transaction apparatus includes: a display device configured to display an operation screen; a contact sensor configured to detect a contact operation with respect to the operation screen; a non-contact sensor configured to detect a non-contact operation with respect to the operation screen; and processing circuitry configured to accept input with respect to the operation screen by selectively processing first signals from the contact sensor based on the contact operation or second signals from the non-contact sensor based on the non-contact operation.

公开(公告)号：US11354965B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-07

申请号：US16179327

申请日：2018-11-02

申请人： PepsiCo, Inc.

发明人： Emad Jafa ,  Xuejun Li ,  Yong Serock ,  Cheuk Chi Lau ,  Martyn Thomas Mitchell ,  Euan Morrison ,  Wai Ting Chan ,  Samuel Luke Johnstone ,  Erik David Williams

IPC分类号： G07F9/02 ,  G07F11/62 ,  G07F9/00 ,  G06Q30/06

摘要： A vending machine has an interactive customer experience. Some embodiments of the vending machine include a transparent front wall with a plurality of display units located behind the front wall. Each of the display units may contain an example of a product available for vending. Based on input received from a customer and other information, the vending machine may provide a recommendation for a product or products to select for purchase. The vending machine may highlight the recommendation by selectively illuminating the product display units that contain the recommended products.