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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7944354 | System and method for shopping cart security A system for securing purchased items, includes: an enclosure for holding items selected by a user; a personal shopping system (PSS) further comprised of an input/output device, a scanner, software, and security features for securing the items selected by the user a... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7920062 | Shopping cart The present invention teaches and discloses method and apparatus for alerting a grocery store check out cashier of merchandise placed on the bottom tray of a typical grocery shopping cart. A passive RFID transponder is incorporated into the structure of the cart whi... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7868759 | Shopping cart bottom of the basket item detection Embodiments of the invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to bottom of the basket (BOB) item detection and provide a method, system and computer program product for high-contrast BOB item detection. In one embodiment of the invention, a shopping cart B... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7839284 | Monitoring of shopping cart bottom tray A detection device is provided for alerting a cashier to the presence of an object located on the lower tray of a shopping cart. The detection device uses a combination of a weight sensor and a presence sensor to trigger a signal, all of which are mounted on the car... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7796037 | System for facilitating the handling of goods based on containers equipped with an RFID tag Containers such as shopping carts and shopping baskets take advantage of fraud detection systems in place with RFID cash registers in stores. The weight of the container is obtained when entering the store and the weight of the shopped articles is correlated with th... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7710267 | Information terminal, method and apparatus for providing store information, and computer product A movement information determining unit determines a moving direction and a moving speed of a user using position information detected by a position information detecting unit. A moving-speed determining unit determines whether the moving speed exceeds a predetermin... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7456742 | Apparatus and method for determining the position of a mobile platform A mobile platform such as a shopping cart, flatbed cart or lift truck is provided with a plurality of radiation detectors which are screened or limited in scope of view and which cooperate with circuitry which can distinguish from the interaction of the sensors with... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7453358 | Shopping cart conveyor with gated access A shopping cart conveyor that inhibits the loading of a non-compliant shopping cart onto the conveyor. In one aspect, the invention provides a conveyor comprising a track operable to guide the shopping cart between a first location and a second location, a gate asse... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7443295 | Media enabled advertising shopping cart system A media enhanced shopping cart system comprises a shopping cart comprising a frame, a basket, a handle, a base tray, a plurality of wheels, a read component for performing a proximity scan of the shopping cart, a locationing component for determining a location of t... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7420461 | Caster-lock with dual receivers A locking system for stopping a shopping cart includes a caster that can be selectively disabled when the cart encounters an electronic barrier. The caster includes a brake that is mounted on the frame of the caster. Also mounted on the frame are two receivers for s... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7397373 | System and method for security and electronic article surveillance A security system and method of providing security in a retail environment or the like, comprising shopping trolleys associated with the retail enviroment fitted with security devices having a receive-only wireless receiver and a processor. The receiver receiving wi... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7342496 | RF-enabled pallet The inventions involve material handling apparatus developed to operate in radio frequency rich environments. Articles are provided having at least one large compartment capable of enclosing at least one electronic device or a package populated with a plurality of d... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337960 | Systems and methods for merchandise automatic checkout Systems and methods for automatically checking out items located on a moving conveyor belt for the purpose of increasing the efficiency of a checkout process and revenue at a point-of-sale. The system includes a conveyor subsystem for moving the items, a housing tha... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7303198 | Trolley wheel assembly A trolley includes a front wheel assemblie (12) and a rear wheel assembly both assemblies mounted on a trolley frame. The front wheel assembly (12) includes a fixed wheel assembly (24) to aid control of the trolley. In one form the front wheel a... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292158 | Method and system for detecting and rewarding the returning of shopping carts A method and a system for detecting and rewarding the returning of shopping carts to the supermarket collection points is provided. During shopping, a first signal A is generated. When a shopping cart is returned, a signal B is generated. These two signals A and B a... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7264265 | Removable and stowable wheel stands for convertible children's carrier devices The invention relates to convertible children's fun-car devices, go-carts and wheeled carriers, and provides removable and stowable wheel stands or chocks that allow for convenient conversion of such wheeled carrier devices from typical rolling devices to fixed, sta... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7248164 | Radio frequency identification bag tracking and recycling system, and bag counting rack associated therewith An RFID-based system for tracking, managing, dispensing and recycling bags, particularly retail and grocery-type bags such as t-shirt bags and the like. The preferred embodiment of the present invention contemplates a system wherein there is employed at a T-Shirt ba... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7246745 | Method of merchandising for checkout lanes Methods and computer readable media for recognizing and identifying items located on the belt of a counter and/or in a shopping cart of a store environment for the purpose of reducing/preventing bottom-of-the-basket loss, checking out the items automatically, reduci... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7240564 | Method and apparatus for detecting and determining event characteristics with reduced data collection A method and apparatus for detecting and determining event characteristics such as, for example, the material failure of a component, in a manner which significantly reduces the amount of data collected. A sensor array, including a plurality of individual sensor ele... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242300 | Shopping cart The present invention teaches and discloses method and apparatus for alerting a grocery store check out cashier of merchandise placed on the bottom tray of a typical grocery shopping cart. A passive RFID transponder is incorporated into the structure of the cart whi... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7231228 | System and method for voice/data messaging application Described is an optical imaging system which a plurality of optical imaging devices coupled to one another via a communication network. Each of the optical imaging devices may include an apparatus for optically reading encoded data and storing the data in a data fil... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225980 | Shopping cart with RFID capability The present invention discloses a shopping cart with RFID capability, for detecting a RFID tag, comprising: a frame, further comprising: an accommodating space for accommodating RFID-tagged items; a plurality of wheels, coupling to the frame for carrying the frame t... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7219838 | System and method for notifying a cashier of the presence of an item in an obscured area of a shopping cart A method of facilitating a checkout at a shopping cart checkout station is provided, comprising the steps of: inhibiting processing of items on the shopping cart in the event of a detection of a non-empty obscured section of the shopping cart; and processing the ite... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218225 | System and method for detecting and rewarding the return of a supermarket trolley or a luggage trolley taken from a trolley park A system and a method for detecting and rewarding the return of supermarket carts or luggage carts taken from a cart stand. Each cart is provided with a contactless, preferably optically identifiable, individual mark, by which the cart is identified when it is retur... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218226 | Acceleration-based theft detection system for portable electronic devices A theft prevention system for protecting portable electronic devices is disclosed. An acceleration sensor detects the acceleration of a portable electronic device, and a controller analyzes this acceleration to determine whether a theft condition is present. If so, ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7206514 | Wireless object counter A battery powered transmitter circuit has a LED of a continuously cycling microcomputer transmit a beam of a predetermined number of infrared pulses at predetermined time periods to a sensor of a battery powered receiver circuit. Only a clock circuit of each circuit... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7198279 | Guide wheel assembly for carts A guide wheel assembly adapted to retrofit a shopping cart having a guide wheel capable of only rotating in the intended direction of travel of the shopping cart and a flexible one piece mechanism possessing strong material memory such that constant contact between ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199709 | Cart fleet management system A hand-operated cart constructed for carrying luggage or packages includes a frame including a cargo area, and cart wheels connected to the frame and connected to a handrail arranged for manually displacing the cart. The cart also includes a distance sensor construc... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7183910 | Tiered on-demand location-based service and infrastructure A location-based service includes detecting the relative motion of an on-site resource, such as a shopping cart, in addition to detecting the absolute position of the on-site resource, and displaying information on the on-site resource. The displayed information is ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7148499 | Device for interacting with an interface surface A device for interacting with an interface surface provided on a substrate, the interface surface including coded data disposed therein or thereon. The device includes at least one sensor for sensing at least some of the coded data and a processor for generating fir... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7129837 | Continuous security state tracking for intermodal containers transported through a global supply chain A control center continuously monitors a security state of a container through an extended network spanning from a shipper to a consignee. The control center changes the security state responsive to explicit information received from a trusted agent, or implicit inf... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7101113 | Shopping cart collection, storage, and retrieval system A self-guiding shopping cart collection, storage, and retrieval system is provided which is integrated into the parking lot construction. A collection channel is adjacent and parallel to a row of parking spaces which is formed as an inset trough configured to allow ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7036725 | Shopping cart handle with built-in console for the input and display of consumer product information A console for the input and display of consumer product information such as pricing, etc. The console may be built into the handle of the shopping cart or as a retrofit application on existing handles. The console has a product information input device for numerical... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7006982 | Purchase selection behavior analysis system and method utilizing a visibility measure A system and method for analyzing shopper behavior of a shopper within a shopping environment is provided. The method typically determining the position of a product within the shopping environment, tracking a shopper path of a shopper through the shopping environme... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6997382 | Auto teller shopping cart The object of this invention is to provide an electronic shopping cart which enables customers scan the products, view the totals and complete the transaction by means of self check-out. This invention relates to an electronic shopping cart which acts as a client in... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6965310 | Remote notification method The method for identifying the presence of an item to a user interface entails using a container having a loading opening and a collection opening, passing the item through the loading opening activating a first sensor, sending a first signal from the first sensor t... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963276 | Card-type anti-miss/anti-theft alarm device Card-type anti-miss/anti-theft alarm device including a portable mainframe and an alarm sub-frame each having a central processing/controlling unit and a power supply unit. One of the portable mainframe and alarm sub-frame includes an intermittent oscillating transm... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6945366 | Anti-theft vehicle system An anti-theft vehicle system for a vehicle wheel having a rotational axis includes a linear actuator disposed within the vehicle wheel for operatively engaging and disengaging an interior surface of the vehicle wheel to resist and allow rotational movement of the ve... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6928343 | Shopper tracker and portable customer service terminal charger A system and method is disclosed for a shopping system, the system including a shopping cart including a plurality of wheels; a portable electronic device (e.g., a CST or POS terminal), coupled to the shopping cart, for displaying shopping data; and a position mappi... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6924743 | Method and system for alerting customers in a shopping area An alert notification system for customers and sales personnel in a shopping area and a method of use is disclosed. In a first aspect, a system for alerting customers and sales personnel that merchandise has been left in a shopping area is disclosed. The system comp... | 08/02/2005 |
