JP2000194938A - Commodity sales data processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a customer to simply and accurately know the name of a commodity at a place where the customer looks at a picture displayed on a display for customers. SOLUTION: The commodity sales data processor 10 is formed to display the picture of a commodity which can be taken in hand by an operator referring to a display for an operator 61 or a customer referring to the display for the customers 65 at the place on the display 65. In addition, the display 65 can display an at-the-place commodity switch 65B including the picture of the at-the- place commodity and with touching operation of the button 65B by a customer, the at-the-place commodity can be registered additionally.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a merchandise sales data processing apparatus capable of displaying merchandise sales data registered for merchandise on an operator display and a customer display.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, in an electronic cash register type product sales data processing device, when an operator (cashier) inputs a product code using data input means, product sales data (product name, unit price, etc.) is obtained from a product file. It is registered in the sales file (product registration). If a closing operation as one transaction end declaration is performed after registering all the purchased products of the customer, an accounting process including calculation of product sales data (total amount and change amount) is executed. Thereafter, the drawer is automatically released, money is exchanged, and the change is handed to the customer together with the receipt.

[0003] Product sales data relating to product registration and accounting processing is displayed as character information on an operator display and a customer display in real time, so that the operator refers to the operator display to perform product registration operations. The customer can confirm whether there is an error or not, and the customer can refer to the customer display to confirm whether the price and quantity of the product are correct or not. Therefore, it is safe to carry out a complicated product sales operation quickly and accurately and to confirm the authenticity of the customer on the spot.

[0004]

[Problem to be solved by the invention]
In many cases, a commodity that can be obtained by an operator who refers to the operator display or a customer who refers to the customer display during the transaction, that is, a commodity on the spot, is displayed near the cash register. For example, "tobacco", "gum"
And so on.

[0005] However, although the number of displayed products is large, the number of displayed products is small and the display space is narrow, so that customers may not know where and what is displayed. Also, if the customer knows, the customer can purchase the product on the spot (for example, "sale" of the beef sale day). That is, it is very convenient because the customer does not need to return to the store to make purchases and need to undergo the second product registration and accounting process, which is very convenient, and the store should also have higher business efficiency and higher sales results.

A first object of the present invention is to provide a merchandise sales data processing apparatus which enables a customer to easily and accurately know the merchandise on the spot by looking at an image displayed on a customer display. A second object is to provide a merchandise sales data processing apparatus which allows a customer to additionally register a commodity on the spot at the spot and in the commodity registration process.

[0007]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a merchandise sales data processing apparatus capable of displaying merchandise sales data registered for merchandise on an operator display and a customer display. It is possible to store an image of an on-the-spot product that can be obtained by a referring operator or the customer who refers to the customer display on the spot, and display the stored image of the on-the-spot product on the customer display. Is a product sales data processing device formed in the above.

[0008] In this invention, the customer's display referred to by the customer displays the pre-stored goods on the spot, for example, as a color image, so that the customer looks at the image displayed on the customer display. You can easily and accurately know the products on the spot.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a touch panel is provided on the customer display, and an image of the local product is formed so as to be displayed in the form of a local product button, and is displayed on the customer display. This is a product sales data processing device formed such that a customer can touch-operate a local product button to additionally register the local product.

[0010] In this invention, the customer touches the local product button for a desired local product from a plurality of local products, which the user has seen by viewing the local product button displayed on the customer display with the touch panel. By simply performing the operation, the user can additionally register the product on the spot (including the case where the product is registered first).

Therefore, in addition to providing the same operation and effect as the invention of claim 1, the customer service can be improved since the customer can additionally register the product on the spot on the spot and by himself. Since the labor involved in the additional registration operation can be omitted, the operational efficiency of the operator and the business performance of the store can be improved.

Further, in the invention according to claim 3, when the customer touch-operates the spot product button displayed on the customer display, the spot product is displayed on the operator display as the additional registration. This is a merchandise sales data processing device formed to be able to display that it has been selected as a target.

In this invention, when the customer touches the local product button displayed on the display for customer, the fact that the local product has been selected for additional registration is displayed on the operator display. Therefore, in addition to providing the same operation and effect as the case of the second aspect of the invention, the operator can more quickly take out the spot product as a sold product on the spot.

Further, according to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the local goods button group displayed on the customer display is stored for each customer layer, and the local goods button group is selected and operated from the stored local goods button group. A commodity sales data processing apparatus formed so as to extract a group of commodity buttons on the spot corresponding to the customer group and to display the group on the customer display.

In this invention, when the operator selects a customer layer, a local product button group corresponding to the customer layer is extracted from a plurality of local product button groups stored and displayed on the customer display. . In other words, the spot product focused on the customer can be displayed relatively large, for example, in a fixed display area of the customer display. Therefore, in addition to providing the same operation and effect as in each of the inventions according to the second and third aspects of the present invention, the customer can more easily and easily see the merchandise on the spot.

[0016]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, this product sales data processing device has a basic configuration of an electronic cash register 10 and an operator who refers to an operator display 61 or a customer who refers to a customer display 65 is provided on hand. The image of the spot product that can be stored in the spot product file 41B can be stored and the stored image of the spot product can be displayed on the customer display 65 in the form of the spot product button 65B. I have.

When the customer touches the local product button 65B displayed on the customer display 65, the customer can additionally register the local product.

In FIG. 1, an electronic cash register 1
Reference numeral 0 denotes an external input / output device connected to the personal computer 20 including a standard input device (keyboard 43). The appearance is shown in FIGS.

The personal computer 20 has a CPU 31, a ROM 3
An HDD (hard disk device) 41 and an FDD (floppy disk device) on a motherboard 30 which includes a RAM 33, a clock circuit and the like (not shown) and constitutes a control unit.
42, a keyboard 43 as data input means, input / output ports (I / O) 46 and 47, and an external device (for example, a store controller 80 or a host computer which is a higher-level device thereof) via a data communication network 45. A communication interface (I / F) 44 for communication is connected.

A scanner (SCN) 71 as data input means and other input devices (such as a card reader) 73 are connected to the input / output port 46.
7 is a printer (PNT) 75 as data output means.
And other output devices (automatic opening type drawer, card writer, etc.) 76 are connected. The control unit (3
0) includes a sound output means (speaker) 70, touch panels 62 and 6 through each controller (CONT).
6 are connected.

The image display controller 50 controls display of merchandise sales data and on-the-spot merchandise buttons 65B (61B) on an operator display (FIU) 61 and a customer display (BIU) 65 constituting the display 60. . Furthermore, in this embodiment, while the merchandise sales data processing is paused, a merchandise commercial is displayed on the customer display 65 so that the merchandise to be sold and other merchandise can be strongly appealed. I have. A touch panel 62 is attached to the operator display 61, and a touch panel 66 is attached to the customer display 65.

The touch panel 66 (62) is used by the customer (or the customer) to display the on-the-spot product button 65B (61B) displayed on the customer display 65 (the operator display 61) (see FIG. 6).
The operator) performs a touch operation to select (input) a spot product as a target product for additional registration. Note that, in the present invention, the case where the product is registered first in the one transaction is also defined as additional registration. That is, it refers to product registration using the local product button 65B (61B).

The HDD 41 stores local product button data (local product name, local product image number) classified by customer layer to be displayed on the screen of the display (61, 65) as shown in FIG. In addition to the spot product button file 41B, the commercial file 41IG shown in FIG. 1 and each image data (for example, compressed image data) corresponding to the commercial image numbers (for example, G001, G002,...) Stored in the commercial file 41IG. And a commercial image file 41G storing the stored bitmap data).

The on-the-spot product button data (on-the-spot product name and on-the-spot product image number) in FIG. 2 and the commercials (the product number and the product image data) in FIG. 1 correspond to the interface (I / F) 44 in FIG. What is distributed from the outside (store controller 80) via the communication network 45 is transferred to the image data storage control means (CPU 31, R
OM32) automatically updates and stores the files 41B, 41IG, and 41G.

In the present embodiment, the spot product image data corresponding to each spot product image number can be stored in the commercial image file 41G. The local product button data and the local product image data are stored in the ROM
32 (or the like).

When the operator uses the data input means (keyboards 43 and 71) to input product data (YES in ST10 of FIG. 5), the registration control means (CPU 3
1, ROM32) and the product is registered (ST1).
1) is done. Product sales data (product name, unit price,
The display area (61A) of the operator display (FIU) 61 and the customer display (BIU) 65 in FIG.
1) Displayed in real time on 65A1 (ST12).

However, in the case of this embodiment, at least for the spot product, the operator uses the touch panel 62 provided on the operator display 61 to select and input the same as in the case of additional registration by the customer, which will be described later in detail. (Product registration) is formed. That is, as shown in parentheses in FIG.
As in the case of No. 5, the spot product button 61B group is formed so as to be displayable and touch-operable.

Here, the spot product button display control means (CPU 31 and ROM 32) stores the spot product button file 41B (and the commercial image file 41G).
The group of product buttons 65B stored in the customer display 65
Is displayed as shown in FIG. 6 (NO in ST13, ST
17).

When the operator selects (declares) a customer layer (for example, a young man) for the next customer using the customer layer key (keyboard 43) (YES in ST14).
Includes a commodity button group extraction control means (CPU 31,
ROM 32) is extracted from the on-the-spot product button file 41B (and the commercial image file 41G) (ST1).
6) The spot button 65B (61) corresponding to the selected customer class
B) The group is displayed (ST17). If the customer layer has not been selected (NO in ST14), all the spot commodity button groups are displayed (ST15, ST17).

By the way, on the upper side of the display area 65A3 of the customer display 65 shown in FIG. 6, an on-the-spot commodity button 65B corresponding to the customer class (young men) is displayed. Each spot item button 65B has the spot item “cigarette A”, “lighter”, “replacement blade”, and “knob”. In addition, each spot product button 65B has a corresponding spot product image (each photograph or illustration of “cigarette A”, “lighter”, “replacement blade”, “knob”) G and each spot product name (“ "Cigarette A", "lighter", "replacement blade", "knob") I are displayed. In this embodiment, each unit price (“25
0 "," 90 "," 500 ", and" 200 "circles are also displayed, and the button 65B (61B) of the product on the spot (" cigarette A ") is displayed as shown in FIG. .

Further, in this embodiment, for example, even if the customer segment (young men) is selected, the display area 65
On the lower side of A3, in-situ product buttons 65B corresponding to products (for example, "battery" and "gum") common to each customer layer are formed so as to be displayed together.

Then, when the customer touches the spot product button (for example, "Cigarette A") 65B displayed on the customer display 65 (YES in ST18), the product ("Cigarette A") is additionally registered. (ST20). The number of additional registrations is “1” in one touch operation, and the number increases to “2” after the second touch operation (N = N + 1 = 1
+1). This additional registration number is determined by touching the determination button K shown in FIG.

If a touch operation (YES in ST18) for the additional registration (ST20) is performed, the additional registration notification control means (CPU 31, ROM 32) displays the operator display 61 on the operator display 61 side. The fact is notified and displayed (ST19) on the screen 61 in a recognizable manner.

In this embodiment, the number of additional registrations displayed on the spot product button 61B is displayed as flicker. However, the on-the-spot product button 6
The product (the product button on the spot) touched by the customer by the operator may be formed so as to be recognizable by another method of highlighting 1B or the like.

In this embodiment, the operator uses the data input means (43) to select and input a customer class (for example, "Youth male").

Here, the operator inputs the product data using the data input means (43, 71) or the touch panel 62 of the operator display 61 and registers the product (YES in ST10 in FIG. 5, ST11). The product data (product name, unit price, quantity, amount) is displayed on the display area 65A1 (and 61A1) of the customer display 65 (and the operator display 61) shown in FIG. 6 (ST12).

It is to be noted that the customer display 6 of the on-the-spot commodity button group.
The display on No. 5 can be formed so that the display starts at an arbitrary timing. For example, immediately after the customer display 65 (operator display 61) is activated, or immediately before the transaction processing, the on-the-spot product button 65B
(61B) is displayed.

In this case, the local product button group extraction control means (31, 32) searches the local product button file 41B shown in FIG. 2 and stores the local product button (65B) stored for each customer layer. From the group (screen), an on-the-spot product button (65B) group corresponding to the customer group (“Youth male”) selected and input is extracted (NO in ST13, Y in ST14).
ES, ST16). As a result, the plurality of spot product button display control means (31, 32) can change the plurality of spot product buttons 65 belonging to the extracted spot product button group.
B is displayed in the display area 65A3 shown in FIG. 6 of the customer display 65 with the touch panel 66 (ST17). Display area 6
In 5A2, "information on the spot product" is displayed in large size.

At this time, each display area 61A1, 61A2, 61A of the operator display 61 with the touch panel 62 is provided.
3 includes display areas 65A1 and 65A of the customer display 65.
The same content displayed in 2, 65A3 is displayed.

Here, the customer who refers to the customer display 65 is
From the on-the-spot product button 65B including a color image on the screen of the customer display 65, the on-the-spot product that can be ordered on the spot can be easily and accurately known.

Thus, when it is desired to place an additional order for the spot product, the displayed spot product button 65B is touch-operated (YES in ST18) to additionally register the product ("cigarette A") (ST20). )can do. The number is equal to the number of touch operations on the spot product button 65B, and is determined by touching the enter button K. The confirmed additional registration spot product is displayed on the operator display 61 so that the operator who refers to the product can be recognized (ST19).

Therefore, in the course of the accounting process from the product registration, the customer can additionally register the product on the spot on the spot and by himself, and the operator can save the trouble of the product registration operation on the spot, so that, for example, the operator is additionally registered. In addition, the preparation for handing over the in-place registered product ("tobacco A") can be performed more quickly.

Product registration (ST11) and additional registration (S
After the end of T20), when the closing operation as one transaction end declaration (YES in ST21) is performed, the accounting process (ST22)
Is executed.

It should be noted that merchandise sales data relating to merchandise registration, additional registration, and accounting processing is displayed on the operator display 61 and the customer display 65 each time.

Further, in this embodiment, the accounting process (S
T22) After the next customer data input (ST10), that is, while waiting for the merchandise sales data processing, a merchandise commercial is displayed on the customer display 65 based on the audio signal Sv.
The sound (music, narration, etc.) from 0 is played (displayed) as a color moving image. At this time, a reduced digest (still image) that is a part of the moving image and is reduced is displayed on the display 61 for the operator. Therefore, various commodities can be strongly appealed to the customers, and the purchase motivation can be aroused.

[0046]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, since the merchandise sales data processing device is formed so that the image of the merchandise on the spot can be displayed on the customer display, the customer is displayed on the customer display. You can easily and accurately know the goods on the spot by looking at the images.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the local product can be additionally registered by touching the local product button displayed on the customer display. In addition to providing the same effect as in the case of the first invention, the customer can additionally register the goods on the spot on the spot and by himself, thereby improving the customer service and saving the labor involved in the additional registration operation of the operator. Therefore, the operational efficiency of the operator and the business performance of the store can be improved.

Further, according to the third aspect of the present invention, the fact that the customer has selected an item on the spot as an additional registration target can be displayed on the operator display. In addition to providing the same effect, the operator can also take out the spot product as a sold product more quickly on the spot.

Further, according to the invention of claim 4, since the operator selects and operates the customer layer, the spot commodity button group corresponding to the selected customer layer can be displayed on the customer display. In addition to providing the same effects as those of the inventions described in the second and third aspects, the customers can more easily and easily see the merchandise on the spot and more quickly.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining a spot product button file.

FIG. 3 is an external perspective view of the electronic cash register viewed from the operator display side.

FIG. 4 is an external perspective view of the electronic cash register as viewed from the customer display side.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining a product registration and additional registration operation.

FIG. 6 is a view for explaining a display mode of a spot commodity button group on a customer display (operator display).

FIG. 7 is a view for explaining a display mode of a spot product button.

[Explanation of symbols]

Reference Signs List 10 electronic cash register (product sales data processing device) 20 personal computer 30 motherboard 41 HDD 41B spot product button file 43 keyboard 50 image display control device 60 display 61 operator display 61B spot product button 62 touch panel 65 customer display 65B In-place product button 66 Touch panel 71 Scanner 75 Printer 80 Store controller I In-place product name G In-place product image

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Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A merchandise sales data processing device capable of displaying registered merchandise sales data on an operator display and a customer display, wherein the operator refers to the operator display or the customer display. A merchandise sales data processing device capable of storing an image of an on-the-spot product that can be obtained by a customer on the spot and displaying the stored image of the on-the-spot product on the customer display. 2. A touch panel is provided on the customer display, and an image of the local product is formed so as to be displayed in the form of a local product button. The local product button displayed on the customer display is displayed on the customer display. 2. The customer is able to additionally register the product on the spot by performing a touch operation.
Product sales data processing device as described. 3. When the customer touch-operates a local product button displayed on the customer display, the operator display indicates that the local product has been selected as a target of the additional registration. 3. The merchandise sales data processing device according to claim 2, wherein the merchandise sales data processing device is formed to be displayable. 4. A spot product button group displayed on the customer display is stored for each customer layer, and a spot corresponding to a customer layer selected and operated by an operator from the stored spot product button groups. 4. The merchandise sales data processing device according to claim 2, wherein a merchandise button group is extracted and formed so as to be displayed on the customer display.