Jason C Nichols

US Patent:

20230131444, Apr 27, 2023

Filed:

Mar 19, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/910503

Inventors:

- Bentonville AR, US
Bowen Deng - Jersey City NJ, US
Joshua M. Horowitz - Brooklyn NY, US
Jason Nichols - New Providence NJ, US
Niyati Lalit Shah - Jersey City NJ, US
Samuel B. Jacobson - Brooklyn NY, US

International Classification:

G06Q 20/40
G06Q 20/18
G06Q 20/20
G07G 3/00
G06V 10/74
G06V 20/52
G06V 10/82

Abstract:

Methods and systems for detecting fraudulent activity at a self-checkout terminals of a retail store include a scanner for scanning an identifier of a candidate product located in the product-scanning area of the self-checkout terminal, and one or more sensors that detect at least one physical characteristic of the candidate product located in the product-scanning area of the self-checkout terminal. A computing device then correlates the obtained electronic data corresponding to actual identifying characteristic information associated with the candidate product to the reference physical characteristic information associated with the reference product in order to generate a similarity score between the actual and reference physical characteristic information. If the similarity score is above a predetermined similarity threshold, the self-checkout terminal is permitted to process a purchase of the candidate product, but if the similarity score is below the threshold, the self-checkout terminal is restricted from processing the purchase.