US 11,810,442 B2
Device for monitoring a shopping cart
Kota Suzuki, Izunokuni Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/341,843.
Application 17/341,843 is a continuation of application No. 16/516,090, filed on Jul. 18, 2019, granted, now 11,043,104.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-200130 (JP), filed on Oct. 24, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0295672 A1, Sep. 23, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G08B 21/00 (2006.01); G08B 21/24 (2006.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G08B 21/18 (2006.01)
CPC G08B 21/24 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/202 (2013.01); G08B 21/182 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A monitoring device comprising:
one or more processors having programmed instructions to:
determine whether an information terminal is present in a second place different from a set first place, the information terminal moving together with a purchaser and receiving data input regarding commodities for purchase by the purchaser;
detect that the information terminal is left unattended in the second place;
activate an alarm in response to the information terminal being left unattended in the second place for a threshold period of time; and
in connection with the detection that the information terminal is left unattended in the second place, change, before and after an accounting instruction is received by the information terminal regarding the commodities for purchase by the purchaser, the threshold period of time until the information terminal is regarded as being left unattended.