JPH0778288A - Article sales data processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To execute drawing lots by automaticlly changing a winning probability from data related to a transaction by determining a winning number by determining the winning probability of drawing lots by the condition data of a transaction and outputting set benefit data when the drawing lots number generated by the operation input of a closing key coincides with the winning number. CONSTITUTION:A POS terminal has a random number generator 21 as a drawing lots number generation means, and composes a winning probability determination means, a winning number determination means, a winning or defeat decision means and a benefit output means according to the programs where a CPU 11 executes processings after the operation input of the closing key of a registration mode is performed. When the sales registration of all the articles that a customer purchases is performed, set condition data of various kinds of data of transactions is taken out and the winning probability of drawing lots is determined by the condition data. The winning number is determined by the winning probability. When the drawing lots number is generated by the operation input of a closing key, the drawing lots number becomes the drawing lots winning when the number coincides with the winning number and benefit data is outputted.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a commodity sales data processing device such as a POS (point of sale information management) terminal having an automatic lottery function and an electronic cash register.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional product sales data processing device having an automatic lottery function, a lottery prize is won when the total purchase amount of a customer or the total amount of a product group belonging to a specific department matches a preset number string. Has been decided, and a message indicating that there is a privilege is displayed (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2-299094).

Further, there is also a system in which a lottery winning is determined and automatically discounted when a transaction serial number sequentially issued to each customer matches a preset number string (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Hei 10-1999). 4-190496).

[0004]

However, in the conventional product sales data processing apparatus of this type, the probability of winning the lottery is the same for all customers. For this reason, for the store side, for example, the larger the purchase amount is, the higher the probability of winning is to promote sales, and the higher the probability of winning is to increase the number of visitors during quiet times to smooth the congestion level. However, it was not possible to fully satisfy these requests.

Therefore, according to the present invention, the winning probability can be automatically changed from the data relating to the transaction with the customer, and the lottery can be executed, and the privilege of the lottery is imparted fairly to each customer's degree of contribution to the store. It is intended to provide a product sales data processing device that can be used for operation.

[0006]

According to the present invention, in a product sales data processing device having an automatic lottery function, a winning probability determination means for determining a winning probability of a lottery by preset condition data of one transaction, and The winning number determining means for determining the winning number with the winning probability determined by the determining means, the lottery number generating means for generating the lottery number when the closing key is operated, and the lottery number generated by this generating means are won. The winning judgment means for judging whether or not it matches the winning number decided by the number deciding means, and the privilege to output preset privilege data when the matching of the lottery number and the winning number is confirmed by this judging means And output means.

[0007]

According to the present invention having such a structure, when the sales registration of all the products purchased by one customer is performed, preset condition data is extracted from various data relating to transactions with the customer. The winning probability of winning the lottery is determined by the condition data. Then, the winning number is determined by the winning probability. On the other hand, a lottery number is automatically generated according to the operation input of the closing key, and when the lottery number matches the winning number, the lottery is won and preset privilege data is output. If they do not match, a lottery is drawn and no privilege data is output.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a POS terminal will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of the POS terminal 1. As shown in the figure, a keyboard 2 is provided on the front of the housing, and a display device 3 is provided on the upper surface of the housing.

The keyboard 2 includes numeric keys 2a and PL.
U (Price Look Up) key 2b, Subtotal key 2
In addition to the c key and the closing key 2d, various keys necessary for registration work such as a clear key, a cancel key, a discount key, a multiplication key and a person in charge key are provided.

The display device 3 is provided with a cashier display device 3a on the front side and a customer display device 3b on the back side. Each of the display devices 3a and 3b is a screen such as a CRT display or a liquid crystal display. An indicator is used.

The POS terminal 1 also includes a printer 4 for receipt / journal printing, a bar code scanner 5 for optically reading a bar code, and a drawer 6 for accommodating cash or the like.

Further, the POS terminal 1 is "registered",
A mode switch 7 for selecting various business modes such as “inspection”, “payment”, and “setting” is provided. By the way,
“Registration” means to obtain product sales data from the data such as the code of the purchased product and the number of products purchased through the keyboard 2 and the barcode scanner 5 and perform sales registration processing in the storage unit, and also operate the closing key 2d. When the registration completion of one transaction is declared by the input, it is the business of outputting the total data of the merchandise sales data subjected to the sales registration processing in the transaction and issuing the receipt.

Further, "inspection" is a task of outputting a report of the contents of the storage unit subjected to sales registration processing by "registration",
"Settlement" outputs the same report as "Inspection" and then clears the contents of the storage unit. "Setting" sets the data necessary for executing various works such as "Registration" in the storage unit in advance. It is a task to do.

Therefore, the POS terminal 1 is installed at the checkout place of the store. A computer for centrally managing these POS terminals is installed in the store, and the POS terminal and the computer are electrically connected by a communication line.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a control unit in the POS terminal 1. The POS terminal 1 includes a CPU (central processing unit) 11 as a control unit main body.
And a ROM (Read Only Memory) 12 as a main storage unit controlled by the CPU 11.
And a RAM (random access memory) 13.

The ROM 12 stores fixed data such as program data in advance. The RAM 13 functions as a storage unit for registering the product sales data.

Further, the POS terminal 1 controls the screen display of the clock circuit 14 for clocking the date and time, the keyboard controller 15 for taking in the key signal from the keyboard 2, the cashier display 3a and the customer display 3b. A display controller 16, a printer controller 17 for controlling receipt printing and journal printing by the printer 4, a scanner controller 18 for taking in bar code data from the bar code scanner 5, a communication interface for controlling data communication with the computer, An I / O port 21 for inputting a signal from the mode switch 7 and sending a drive signal to a drawer opening device 6a for opening the drawer 6 is provided.

Further, the POS terminal 1 is provided with a random number generator 22 as random number generating means for generating a lot number, which randomly generates an integer value of two digits or more when the CPU 11 issues a start command. .

The CPU 11, ROM 12, RAM 1
3, clock circuit 14, each controller 15-18, communication interface 19, I / O port 20 and random number generator 2
1 is connected by a bus line 22.

Therefore, the POS terminal 1 has the RA
By forming the respective memory areas 31 to 34 shown in FIG. 3 in M13 and programming the CPU 11 to execute the processing shown in the flowchart of FIG. 4 after the operation input of the closing key 2d in the “registration” mode. , A winning probability determining means, a winning number determining means, a winning determination means, and a privilege output means.

In FIG. 3, the memory area 31 is an area for setting the winning probability of the lottery corresponding to the buying time zone and the buying amount range, and hereinafter, the winning probability table 31.
Called.

The memory area 32 has [00] to [99].
This is an area for storing data “1” for the winning numbers and data “0” for the winning numbers out of the 100 kinds of lottery numbers up to the following, and will be referred to as a winning table 32 below.
Called.

The memory area 33 is reset to "0" when the lottery is not executed, and is set to "1" when the lottery is executed, and when the lottery prize is selected as a gift of the product. Is reset to "0" and "1" when discounting the purchase price
Is an area for storing option flags such as the service processing flag F2 set in
Called 3.

The memory area 34 stores print data indicating a gift product name (“** gift of present in this embodiment **”) corresponding to the data “0” of the service processing flag F2, and at the same time. This is an area for storing a discount rate (10% in this embodiment) corresponding to the data “1” of the flag F2, and will be referred to as a privilege data table 34 hereinafter.

The CPU 11 is, as shown in FIG.
When the sales registration of all the products purchased by one customer is performed in the "registration" mode and then the closing key 2d is operated and input, the lottery processing flag F1 in the flag area 33 is checked as ST (step) 1. When the lottery processing flag F1 is reset to "0", the lottery is not executed. Therefore, the normal closing processing, that is, the total data of the commodity sales data registered for sales in the transaction is output and the receipt is received. Execute the process to issue.

If the lottery processing flag F1 is set to "1" in ST1, the lottery is executed. Therefore, in ST2, the purchase amount of all commodities registered for sale in this transaction and the clock circuit 14 are used. After taking out the current time being clocked, the winning probability table 31 is referred to and the winning probability data corresponding to the purchase amount range including the purchase amount data in the time period including the current time data is read out. .

Here, if the purchase amount range including the purchase amount data in the time zone including the current time data is not set in the winning probability table 31, the winning probability is set to "0". Then, after displaying a message such as "lottery withdrawal" on the display devices 3a and 3b, the process proceeds to the normal closing process.

When the winning probability (> 0%) is determined in ST2, the winning data "1" and the winning data "0" are set in the winning table 32 according to the winning probability in ST3.

For example, when the winning probability is 10%, the lottery number whose first digit is "0" is won and the others are unsuccessful.
If the winning probability is 5%, the lottery number with the first digit being "1" and the second digit being an odd number will be selected as the winning lottery. If the winning probability is 20%, the lottery numbers with the first digit "2" and "3" are won and the others are lost.

Thereafter, the random number generator 21 is activated in ST4. Then, in ST5, the last two digits of the random number generated from the random number generator 21 are taken out as the lottery number of the customer, and the winning table 32 is referred to check the data corresponding to the lottery number.

If the data corresponding to the lottery number is "0", it means that the lottery will be drawn. Therefore, after displaying a message such as "lottery drawn" on the display devices 3a and 3b as described above, a normal lottery is drawn. Move to tightening process.

On the other hand, when the data corresponding to the lottery number is "1", it means that the lottery has been drawn, so that the indicator 3
A message such as "lottery winning" is displayed on a and 3b. Then, in ST6, the service processing flag F2 in the flag area 33 is checked.

The service processing flag F2 is "1".
If it is set to, since the privilege method for winning the lottery is a discount on the purchase amount, the discount rate data corresponding to the data “1” is read out from the privilege data table 34 in ST7, and the purchase amount of the customer at this discount rate. To discount. At this time, the discount rate and the discount amount are printed on the receipt and the journal. Then, the normal tightening process is performed.

On the other hand, when the service processing flag F2 is reset to "0", the privilege method for winning the lottery is a gift of a service product. Therefore, in ST8, the print data corresponding to the data "0" is printed from the privilege data table 34. Is read, and this print data is printed as a receipt and as a journal. Then, the normal tightening process is performed.

Here, the winning probability determining means is constituted by the winning probability table 31 and the processing of ST2 of the CPU 11, and the winning number determining means is the winning table 32 and the CPU 11.
The winning determination means is configured by both the winning table 32 and the ST4 and ST5 processing of the CPU 11, and the privilege output means is the service processing flag F1 in the flag area 33 and the privilege data table 34 and ST6 of the CPU 11. It is configured by each processing of ST7 and ST8.

In this embodiment having such a configuration, required data is set in advance in the winning probability table 31, the flag area 33, and the privilege data table 34 by setting work.

That is, when the lottery is executed, the lottery processing flag F1 is set to "1". The winning probability table 31 is created by setting the respective winning probabilities from the arbitrary time period and the purchase amount range. Further, when presenting the service product to the lottery winner, the service processing flag F2 is reset to "0" and the corresponding print data is set in the area corresponding to the data "0" of the privilege data table 34. When a privilege is granted by discounting the purchase price, the service processing flag F2
Is set to "1" and the corresponding discount rate is set to the area corresponding to the data "1" of the privilege data table 34.

Now, it is assumed that lottery is executed (lottery processing fracturing F1 = 1), and a benefit to the winner is discounted 10% of the purchase amount (service processing flag F2 = 1).
Further, it is assumed that the winning probability table 31 is set with the data shown in FIG.

In this case, a lottery with a winning probability of 5% is executed for a customer who has input the closing key 2d at, for example, 12:30 and has a purchase amount of 3000 yen. On the other hand, it is 12:31 at the same time when the closing key 2d is operated and input, and the purchase amount is 1000
A lottery with a winning probability of 20% is executed for a customer of 0 yen.

Even if the customer purchases 3000 yen, if the time when the closing key 2d is operated is, for example, 10:30, a lottery with a winning probability of 10% is executed.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, depending on how the winning probability table 31 is set, the larger the purchase amount is, the higher the winning probability of the lottery will be, or the same amount of purchase will be made in a quiet time. It is possible to easily carry out operations that increase the winning probability of lottery, as compared to the case of purchasing when there is congestion.

The higher the purchase amount is, the higher the winning probability is, so that the promotion of sales can be expected. In addition, smoothing of the congestion degree can be expected by increasing the winning probability in a quiet time.

Further, in the present embodiment, one of the gift presentation and the discount is selected as a privilege for the lottery winners, and the prizes can be switched appropriately. Therefore, it becomes possible to carry out the lottery most efficiently according to the situation of the store (crowding degree, labor force, etc.).

In the above embodiment, both the purchase time and the purchase amount are used as the data relating to the transaction for determining the winning probability, but the winning probability is set arbitrarily for either one of the data ranges. Good. Further, the winning probability may be arbitrarily set on the condition of data other than these data (weather, day of week, customer's past sales record, etc.).

Of course, various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.

[0047]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, when the closing key is operated and input, the winning probability of the lottery is determined according to the preset condition data of the corresponding one transaction.
The lottery is executed after determining the winning number with the winning probability, and the privilege data preset as the lottery winning is output when the lottery number matches the winning number. It is possible to provide a product sales data processing device capable of automatically changing the winning probability and executing a lottery, and being able to deal with an operation of imparting a fair lottery privilege to each customer's degree of contribution to the store.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a POS terminal that is an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a main part of the POS terminal.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a main memory area formed in a RAM of the POS terminal.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing main processing executed by a CPU of the POS terminal.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... POS terminal 2 ... Keyboard 2d ... Tightening key 3 ... Display device 4 ... Printer 5 ... Bar code scanner 11 ... CPU 14 ... Clock circuit 21 ... Random number generator 31 ... Winning probability table 32 ... Winning table 33 ... Flag area 34 ... Privilege data table

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. When the product sales data is acquired from the data of the purchased product input through the input device and sales registration processing is performed in the storage unit, and the end of registration of one transaction is declared by the operation input of the closing key, In the product sales data processing device that outputs the total data of the product sales data that has undergone sales registration processing in that transaction, issues a receipt, and executes the lottery, the winning probability of the lottery is determined based on the preset condition data for one transaction. Winning probability determining means, a winning number determining means for determining a winning number with the winning probability determined by this determining means, a lottery number generating means for generating a lottery number when the closing key is operated, and this generation Winning determination means for determining whether or not the lottery number generated by the means matches the winning number determined by the winning number determination means. Merchandise sales data processing apparatus characterized by comprising a privilege output means for outputting the bonus data previously set a match with a lottery number and the winning number is confirmed by the determination means.