CA2005090A1 - Cash register with display for displaying plural goods - Google Patents

Cash register with display for displaying plural goods

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CA2005090A1
CA2005090A1 CA 2005090 CA2005090A CA2005090A1 CA 2005090 A1 CA2005090 A1 CA 2005090A1 CA 2005090 CA2005090 CA 2005090 CA 2005090 A CA2005090 A CA 2005090A CA 2005090 A1 CA2005090 A1 CA 2005090A1
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goods
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Yasushi Nakamura
Masashi Utsumi
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NCR Voyix Corp
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    • GPHYSICS
    • G07CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07GREGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS
    • G07G1/00Cash registers
    • G07G1/12Cash registers electronically operated
    • GPHYSICS
    • G07CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07GREGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS
    • G07G1/00Cash registers
    • G07G1/01Details for indicating

Abstract

A cash register or point of sale terminal has an operator display unit with a first portion thereof for displaying currently registered goods and a second portion thereof for displaying previously registered goods to enable the operator to confirm the registration of such previously registered goods. A
customer display unit is provided for displaying previously registered goods and currently registered goods and a total of the prices of such previously and currently registered goods to inform the customer of the status of the registered goods.

Description

CASH REGISTER WIT~ DISPLAY FOR DISPLAYING PLURAL GOODS

Background of the Invention In a cash register or like business machine, information regarding purchased goods or items is entered via a keyboard, a scanner or other input device, the information is printed on a receipt and/or a journal, and the information is displayed on a display unit. In the conventionai cash register, only that information relative to an item or goods which is currently being input or which has just been input into the register is displayed on an operator display unit.
Recent developments in the merchandising field have included a cash register having a cathode ray tube (CRT) with a large screen which is used as an operator display. The operator display is for displaying several items or information regarding such items which have just been entered into the register.
A customer display unit is provided for displaying only the last item entered into the register.
In the above-mentioned conventional cash register, it is sometimes necessary to confirm that items or information regarding such items have already been entered into the register. This requires checking the information which has been printed on a journal or on a receipt, except for that item or those items which are displayed on the operator display unit. In case the information has already been entered into the register and has been printed on the journal, it is necessary to look through the journal window to confirm which items have been included in the contents printed on the journal. A viewing through the journal window shows only the last item or several items which have been printed on the journal.
If it is desired to confirm entering and printing of additional items, it is necessary to manually feed the _ -- 2 journal to a position where such additional items can be viewed and confirmed. In similar manner, it may be desired to see the information or data which has been printed on the receipt, and it is necessary to manually feed the receipt through a slot in the register to confirm the items on the receipt. It is seen that this manner of confirming the data or information is time consuming and inefficient on the part of the operator.
Additionally, data or information which has just been entered into the register is displayed on the customer display unit. While the customer can view and confirm each item of data or information that appears on the customer display unit, the customer cannot check the current subtotal or the total price of the items. Therefore, it sometimes results in the subtotal or the total price being beyond an exact amount, or even an estimate of the total to be registered, and the customer cannot pay for all the items. Some of the items or articles of goods may have to be set back or canceled and the records of the register need to be corrected. This correction of the journal and of the receipt requires additional time on the part of the operator which further slows the register operation.
Representative documentation in the area of operator and customer displays includes United States Patent No. 4,638,312, issled to B. A. Quinn et al. on January 20, 1987, which discloses an order entry system which includes a display showing elements or items from a menu. A control element is used to calculate the monetary value of an order.
United States Patent No, 4,656,344, issued to B. M. Mergenthaler et al. on April 7, 1987, discloses a checkout counter with the price of the item displayed on a display unit and printed on a receipt.

United States Patent No. 4,660,663, issued to G. L. Amacher et al. on April 28, 1987, discloses a checkout counter with a customer display which displays the price and weight of the items.
United States Patent No, 4,707,785, issued to H. Takagi on November 17, 1987, discloses an electronic cash register having memory ~eans, a keyboard, and a printer. New price data and difference data along with fixed price data are printed on the receipt.
United States Patent No. 4,797,540, issued to R. Kimizu on January 10, 1989, discloses a terminal device having a front side display for the customer and a rear side display for the operator.
United States Patent No. 4,852,042, issued to A. Zur Muhlen et al. on July 25, 1989, discloses a journal window display for displaying a plurality of items with controls to scroll the items and to count the items.

Summary of the Invention The present invention relates to a cash register such as a point of sale (POS) terminal or an electronic cash register (ECR) or the like which is used for registration of sold articles or goods and the payment or settlement of accounts for such articles or goods.
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a cash register with associated peripheral equipment coupled to complete a purchase of goods transaction and having an operator display unit which includes a display area and a registered item storage area for sequentially storing data or information in the order in which the data or information are input into the register, the most recent registered data or information associated with an item or article being displayed in large size in the display area and the data or information on a plurality of previously registered items or articles being displayed on said operator display unit in small size simultaneously with the large size display in the display area with respect to said plurality of items or articles on a last-in first-out basis.
In another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a cash register having a customer display unit which includes a display area on which a plurality of lines of data or information can be displayed and arranged such that data or information relating to the price of the most recent item or article registered is displayed in one portion of the display area and a total of the prices of previously registered items or articles is displayed in another portion of the display area.
In accordance with the above discussion, a principal object of the present invention is to provide a cash register or like business machine wherein data or information already entered into the register can be confirmed by the operator.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a cash register having an operator display unit which includes one display portion for displaying the last-entered item and another display portion for displaying previously entered items simultaneously with said last-entered item.
An additional object of the present invention is to provide a cash register having a customer display unit wherein a unit price of each registered item is displayed and a subtotal or a total price of all previously registered items are displayed.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a cash register having an operator display unit and a customer display unit to enable confirmation of registered data or information and to display a subtotal or a total of prices of items which have been entered into the register.

Additional advantages and features of the present invention will become apparent and fully understood from a reading of the following description taken together with the annexed drawing.

Brief Description of the Drawing The single figure is a block diagram incorporating the structure of the present invention.

Description of the Preferred Embodiment A cash register or point of sale terminal, generally designated as 10, includes a keyboard 12 for use by the operator in manually inputting data or information relative to prices of goods, items or articles purchased by the customer. A scanner 14 is used to input data or information relative to prices of goods which include a universal product code (UPC) or like bar code and which scanner reads the bar code to input the data into the register 10.
Data or information is sent from the keyboard 12 by means of a bus 16 and data or information is sent from the scanner 14 by means of a bus 18 to a system bus 20 which is coupled to a central processing unit (CPU) 22. The central processing unit 22 reads out data or information relative to prices of items or articles from a price look up (PLU) file (not shown).
The PLU file may be either internally or externally provided and the CPU 22 calculates the subtotal of the registered items or articles. The CPU 22 processes the input data or information into data to be printed on a receipt and/or a journal by a printer 24. The data from the CPU 22 is sent by means of a bus 26 to a printer control 28 which is coupled to the printer 24 by means of a bus 30.
The processed data is also transmitted along the system bus 20 to an operator display control 32 by means of a bus 34. The operator display control 32 is coupled by means of a bus 36 to an operator display unit 38. The operator display unit 38 includes a first portion 40 and a second portion 42. The portions 40 and 42 may occupy separate screens or may occupy a split screen of the display unit 38.
The processed data is also transmitted along the system bus 20 to a customer display control 44 by means of a bus 46. The customer display control 44 is coupled by means of a bus 48 to a customer display unit 50. The CPU 22 can be coupled to additional registers (not shown) by means of the system bus 20.
Input data and item or article data are transmitted from the CPU 22 to the operator display control 32. The operator display control 32 includes a registered data memory 52 for storing individual input data and item or article data in the order in which the individual data are input and in which the items or articles are registered. Data transmitted from the CPU 22 is sequentially stored in the data memory 52 and displayed in a large size on portion 40 of the operator display unit 38. Information or data stored in the data memory 52 is also displayed in a small size on portion 42 of the operator display unit 38. The data or information is displayed on portion 42 of the operator display unit 38 in the reverse order in which the individual data is input into the data memory 52.
As mentioned above, the most recently registered data (pudding 100) is displayed in large size on the display portion 40 so that the operator can readily confirm the article data which has just been registered. The subtotal of prices of registered articles which is calculated by the CPU 22 or the most recently registered data may be displayed (pudding 100) in the lower row of items on the display portion 42. The number of items of the most recent registered data, that is, the number of items which are displayed ;~0(35090 on the portion 42 of the operator display unit 38, can be changed as required by the particular operation In case that data which have been stored previously to the storage of the registered article data which now appears on the portion 42 of the display unit 38 needs to be confirmed, the previously stored data can be read out from the data memory 52 by means of operating the keyboard 12 and displayed on the portion 42. As an alternative, the data in the data memory 52 can be sequentially read out and sequentially displayed, or displayed by shifts, on the portion 42.
The split display arrangement of the operator display unit 38, the designation of the number of data to be displayed, the read out of the specific item of data from the data memory 52 to be displayed, and the shift display on the portion 42 are well known in the art.
Data or information on the subtotal price of the transactions is transmitted to the customer display control 44 together with individual input data and article data. The customer display unit 50 is constructed such that data can be displayed in different areas thereof, such data being in the order of the data displayed in portion 42 of the operator display unit 38. The most recent input data relative to the name of the item or article and the article data (price) are displayed in an upper area of the customer display unit 50 and the subtotal is displayed in a lower area of the customer display unit 50. Of course, the upper and lower arrangement may be reversed from that just mentioned, as desired by the particular operation. The subtotal price may be considered a running or current total for the benefit of the customer at any time during the registering transaction.
The input data of the plurality of the most recent items or articles are displayed on the portions 40 and 42 of the operator display unit 38. An alternative arrangement provides that only the article data which has just been registered is displayed in normal operation and the data stored in the data memory 52 are displayed as required by a particular operation. Additionally, the data memory 52 may be provided as a part of the CPU 22 rather than the operator display control 32.
The present invention is constructed such that the previously registered data can be promptly confirmed with the provision of the data memory 52 for storing input data in the order in which the data are input. Confirmation of such data can be readily performed by the operator and the efficiency of the operation is thereby improved. The sequential storage of input data in the registered data memory 52 permits switching from the confirming operation of the registration of a system configuration by viewing the printing on the journal to an operation by viewing the display on the operator display unit 38, wherein the registration of the system configuration can be effectively performed.
Additionally, the price of each article and the subtotal of all the purchased articles are displayed on the customer display unit 50, so that the customer can see the subtotal of the registered articles at all times. If the customer sees that the amount of the registered items does or will exceed the estimate, the customer can cancel any remaining articles and not require changing of the registered data or information.
It is thus seen that the present invention provides memory means for sequentially storing therein input data relative to the name of the item or article or goods purchased and price data associated with the input data and that such data stored in the memory means are displayed on the operator display unit for ready confirmation by the operator.

g Additionally, the present invention provides a unit price of an item or article and a subtotal or current total of the prices of the items or articles which have been registered and which are displayed on the customer display unit for benefiting the customer.
The structure and arrangement enable the accomplishment of the objects and advantages mentioned above, and while the preferred embodiment of the invention has been disclosed herein, variations thereof may occur to those skilled in the art. It is contemplated that all such variations not departing from the spirit and scope of the invention hereof are to be construed in accordance with the following claims.

Claims (10)

1. A business machine comprising data input means, central processing means and printing means operably coupled with each other to complete a purchase of goods transaction, said business machine including an operator display unit and control means therefor coupled to said central processing means and to said data input means, said operator display unit having a first display portion for displaying data relative to goods currently being registered in said business machine and a second display portion for displaying data relative to goods currently being registered and also for displaying data relative to goods previously registered, said control means including storage means for sequentially storing registered goods data in the order in which the data was input, said second portion display enabling the operator to confirm previously registered goods.
2. The business machine of claim 1 wherein the first display portion of said operator display unit provides a display of the currently registered data in one size and the second display portion of said operator display unit provides a display of the previously registered data in a size smaller than said one size.
3. The business machine of claim 1 wherein said control means provides previously registered goods data to said second portion of said operator display unit and said second portion displays such data with respect to a plurality of goods on a last-in first-out basis.
4. The business machine of claim 1 wherein said printing means prints previously registered goods data on a journal and said operator can confirm the printed data by observing the second portion of said operator display unit.
5. The business machine of claim 1 including a customer display unit and control means therefor coupled to said processing means and to said data input means, said customer display unit providing a display of data relative to individual goods previously registered and a display of data relative to a current total of the prices of such individual goods.
6. In a business machine having data input means and central processing means coupled thereto for processing input data relative to goods being purchased, the improvement comprising an operator display unit and memory means coupled thereto, said memory means sequentially storing registered goods data in the order as input by said input means, said operator display unit having a first display portion for displaying data relative to goods currently being registered in said business machine, and said operator display unit having a second portion for displaying data relative to goods previously registered to enable the operator to confirm previously registered goods.
7. In the business machine of claim 6 wherein the first display portion of said operator display unit provides a display of the currently registered data in one size and the second display portion of said operator display unit provides a display of the previously registered data in a size smaller than said one size.
8. In the business machine of claim 6 wherein said memory means provides previously registered goods data to said second portion of said operator display unit and said second portion displays such data with respect to a plurality of goods on a last-in first-out basis.
9. In the business machine of claim 6 including means for printing data relative to previously registered goods on a journal and said operator can confirm the printed data by observing the second portion of said operator display unit.
10. In the business machine of claim 6 including a customer display unit and control means therefor coupled to said central processing means and to said data input means, said customer display unit providing a display of data relative to individual items of goods previously registered and a display of data relative to a subtotal or a current total of the prices of such individual items of goods.
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