Purchase and payment automation method and device in a physical merchant site

摘要

Process for automating the purchase of a product in a physical merchant site equipped with: optical surveillance means capable of detecting any potential customer entering the site, space for the presentation of products or services offered for sale and to which the customer has free access to means for locating the products or services that said customer selects on the presentation spaces, to a set of means located near the exit from said site comprising a man-machine interface and suitable for locating and the visualization of customers wishing to leave the said site, the validation by them of the list of their purchases as well as the payment of said purchases, and a digital information processing system controlling all said means of the site, characterized in that: each customer entering the said site is detected anonymously by the optical surveillance system through the processing of some of its characteristics c orporelles so as to be able to be followed in all his movements within the site, that the said detection provides in real time to the said processing system only the location and the route of each customer throughout his journey to the site. inside said merchant site, that the extraction of any product from its presentation space by a customer is identified through the combination of the aforementioned optical surveillance system combined with other technical means such as, and without this being exhaustive, three-dimensional depth cameras or pressure sensors installed on all or part of the shelves on which the said products are presented, that each product identified as extracted by a customer is temporarily associated with a customer previously detected anonymously and followed in his journey within the said merchant site, that at the end of his journey in the said merchant site, each customer is presented on a device placed near imitated from its output and having a man-machine interface the list and the respective prices of each of the products that he has extracted from the shelves, and that this presentation then allows the customer to electronically validate the list of products he has selected in view of their purchase and settle them by any available payment method, including electronically.