JP2000304600A - Commodity processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly and easily designate the commodity. SOLUTION: A commodity processor has a tough screen for display the names of the commodity as well as their prices or weights. It is set so as to be capable of displaying on the touch screen a list of commodity designating keys 3b for designating the commodity to be processed and displaying the keys 3b with second names (abbreviated or nicknames) by simplifying first names (full) of the commodity.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a commodity processing apparatus such as an electronic balance having a touch screen.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, for example, in a corner of a meat store of a retail store or a supermarket, an electronic scale with a printer having a touch screen is provided. The clerk uses the electronic balance with a printer to measure the product to be purchased by the customer, and then specifies the product name on the electronic scale with the printer.
The electronic balance with printer calculates the price from the unit price corresponding to the product name and the measured weight, and displays the calculated value, the product name, and the like on a display device, or prints it on a receipt or label and issues it.

[0003]

In order to specify a product to be purchased, the user selects and touches a product specification key on which the product name of the product is displayed from a number of product specification keys displayed on the touch screen. It is done by doing. But,
Since the product name is displayed as it is on the product designation key, if the product name is long or similar, the product selection cannot be performed intuitively. It takes time. Further, there are extremely many types of products handled by this type of electronic balance. On the other hand, while the name of the product to be handled is relatively long, the size of the touch screen is limited, so that the number of product specification keys that can be displayed on one display screen is reduced. Therefore, a page break operation is required when specifying a product, and the product specification operation becomes complicated. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a product processing apparatus capable of specifying a product quickly and easily.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, a commodity processing apparatus according to the present invention has a touch screen for displaying the name of a commodity and displaying the price or weight of the commodity. In the touch screen, a product specification key for specifying a product to be processed is displayed in a list, and the product specification key can be displayed with a second name obtained by simplifying the first name of the product. It is characterized by the following.

[0005] In the present invention, the "first name" is a product name, which is generally represented by a full name of a product.
"Second name" refers to an alias for a product, for example,
The product name (first name) is a simplified abbreviation or nickname.

In the commodity processing apparatus, a part or all of a first character string constituting a first name of a commodity is associated with a character or a second character string obtained by simplifying the first character string. A corresponding storage unit for storing the information may be provided so that the second name is automatically obtained from the first name.

The "second character string obtained by simplifying the first character string" includes, for example, "Kokushi" for the first character string "Domestic cattle" and "Steel" for the first character string "Steak". The first character string is a character string obtained by simplifying the first character string using characters included in the first character string. The “second character string” is
For example, "American" for the first string "American"
For example, a word having the same meaning as the first character string or a word associating with the first character string and having a smaller number of characters than the first character string may be used. Note that the “character obtained by simplifying the first character string” means that the number of characters obtained by simplifying the first character string is “1”. For example, the character corresponding to the first character string “raw food” is used. There are cases such as "raw".

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 3 show a first embodiment. In FIG. 1, an electronic balance with a printer (product processing apparatus) 1 includes a weighing dish 20 on which an object to be weighed (product) such as food is placed. The weighing pan 20 is supported by a load cell (not shown).
The weighing unit 2 shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 1A, a touch screen 3, a stroke key unit 4, and a printing unit 5 are provided at the front of an electronic balance 1 with a printer. The printing unit 5 issues labels and receipts L to be attached to foods. The touch screen 3 and the stroke key unit 4 include a printing unit 5
It is provided on the same side as. The touch screen 3
As shown in FIG. 1 (b), another display 3A is provided on the side surface 50 opposite to the above, so that the customer can see the weight and price of the product.

As shown in FIG. 2A, the above-described measuring unit 2, touch screen 3, stroke key unit 4, and printing unit 5 are connected to an electronic balance 1 with a printer via an interface (not shown). Have been. The microcomputer 10 includes a CPU 11 and a memory 12.

The memory 12 has a product master (product name storage unit) 12a. As shown in FIG. 2B, the product master 12a includes a call number, a product name (first name), a second name, a unit price, and the like, and a department name for dividing the product into a product group of a predetermined category. Registration information of commodities such as “beef” and “side dish” is stored in association with each other. The second name is an alias that simplifies the product name. For example, the product can be identified from the second name, such as the second name “Kokusai beef sirloste” for the full name product name “Kokuso beef sirloin steak”. Consists of abbreviations and nicknames.

The CPU 11 has a registration mode for storing information about a product in the product master 12a and a normal mode for displaying the weight of the product weighed by the weighing unit 2.

The touch screen 3 constitutes a display for displaying a normal screen as shown in FIG. 3, and also constitutes input operation means capable of performing an input by touching a part of the display screen with a finger. . As shown in FIG.
At the top of the normal screen of the touch screen 3, there is provided a display field 3e for displaying a product name, a call number, a weight, a unit price, a price, and the like corresponding to the storage content of the product master 12a for one product. In addition, a plurality of section selection keys 3a and a number of product specification keys 3b are displayed on the normal screen. The section name is displayed on the section selection key 3a. The product designation key 3b includes the second
The name is displayed. The stroke key unit 4 shown in FIG. 1 includes a numeric keypad and is used for inputting numerical values.

Next, how to use the electronic balance with the printer according to the display screen of the touch screen 3 shown in FIG. 3 will be described. First, when merchandise information is stored and registered in advance, a predetermined key is touched to set the CPU 11 to the registration mode. In the registration mode, product information such as a product name, a second name obtained by simplifying the product name, a call number, and a unit price are input in association with each other, and the product master 12 is entered.
Store it in a.

Next, a case where a product is sold will be described. First, the CPU 11 is set to the normal mode by performing a predetermined operation, and the normal screen is displayed on the touch screen 3. Next, when an order for a product is received, the clerk moves the weighing pan 20
The product is placed on (FIG. 1), and the product is weighed to a predetermined amount while looking at the weight display field 3e of the touch screen 3. After this measurement, the section selection key 3a of the section corresponding to the product
Then, the CPU 11 reads out the second name of the product corresponding to the department from the product master 12a and displays the second name on the product specification key 3b.

After the display, when the clerk touches the product designation key 3b on which the second name corresponding to the product is displayed,
The registration information of the product associated with the product specification key 3b is read from the product master 12a, and the first name or the like of the product is displayed in the display column 3e. On the other hand, FIG.
The CPU 11 calculates the price of the product based on the weight measured by the weighing unit 2 and the unit price read from the product master 12a, and displays the price in the price display column. After the display, when the store clerk touches a predetermined key of the stroke key unit 4, a label or a receipt on which the product name, weight, unit price, and the like of the product are printed is issued by the printing unit 5.

As described above, since the product designation key 3b displays the second name including the simplified name or nickname of the product name, the selection of the product designation key 3b is performed intuitively (easily). Therefore, the product can be specified quickly. In addition, since the second name is a relatively short character string obtained by simplifying the product name, the number of product specification keys 3b that can be displayed on one display screen increases. Therefore, even if the number of products is large, complicated operations such as page breaks are not required, and the product can be easily specified.

In the first embodiment, the operator directly inputs and stores the second name in the product master 12a in the registration mode. However, in the second embodiment, the second name is based on the input product name. A description will be given of a product processing apparatus for automatically obtaining a second name.

FIG. 4 shows a second embodiment. As shown in FIG. 4A, the memory 12 includes a correspondence storage unit 12b in addition to the product master 12a. As shown in FIG.
In the correspondence storage unit 12b, the first character string and the corresponding character string are stored in advance in association with each other. The first string is
For example, it is included in the first name such as "domestic cow" or "sirloin" and is composed of a character string constituting a word. The corresponding character string is a character obtained by simplifying the first character string or a second character string.

In the registration mode, when a product name is input in the registration mode, the CPU 11 obtains a second name from the product name based on the contents stored in the correspondence storage unit 12b by a method described later. Other configurations are the same as those of the first embodiment, and the same or corresponding portions are denoted by the same reference characters, and detailed description and illustration thereof are omitted.

Next, how to determine the second name will be described. First, a predetermined key is touched to set the CPU 11 to the registration mode. In the registration mode, when a product name is input, the CPU 11 causes the first item included in the input product name to be displayed.
The second name is obtained by searching the character string from the correspondence storage unit 12b. For example, if the input product name is “domestic beef sirloin steak”, the CPU 11 searches the correspondence storage unit 12b for a first character string included in the product name, and firstly, matches the first character string “domestic beef sirloin steak”. Character string corresponding to "" (a character string obtained by simplifying the first character string or a second character string)
Obtain "Kokuyu". Next, the first character string included in the remaining part “sirloin steak” of the product name is stored in the corresponding storage unit 1.
2b, a corresponding character string “Sirlo” corresponding to the matching first character string “Sirloin” is obtained. The CPU 11
The search for the first character string corresponding to the product name is repeated, and the corresponding character strings are arranged in the reading order to obtain the second name "Koku-Sirlost". The CPU 11 stores the second name in the product master 12a in association with the product name.

In the second embodiment, if there is a character string that is not stored in the first character string of the correspondence storage unit 12b in the input product name, the character string is directly used as the corresponding character string. And

Further, in both of the above embodiments, FIG.
As shown in (b), as the display method of the product designation key 3b, a new line is provided for each corresponding character string, and the product is displayed (centered) in the center of the line, so that the product can be selected more intuitively. be able to. In the present invention,
The product designation key 3b may be displayed as shown in FIG.

The present invention can be applied to a product processing device such as a register not provided with the measuring section 2 or a face-to-face scale not provided with a printing section.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention,
A second name obtained by simplifying the first name of a product is displayed on a product specification key displayed in a list on the display screen of the product processing apparatus. Therefore, even if the product name is long or similar, the second name obtained by simplifying the product name is displayed on the product specification key, so that the product specification key can be easily selected. Therefore, the product can be specified quickly. Moreover, since the second name is a short character string obtained by simplifying the first name, the number of product designation keys that can be displayed on the display screen of the touch screen increases. Therefore, even if there are many types of commodities, complicated operations such as page breaks are not required, so that commodities can be specified more easily.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view showing an electronic balance with a printer according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2A is a schematic configuration diagram illustrating a main part of the electronic balance with a printer, and FIG. 2B is a table illustrating storage contents of a product master;

FIG. 3 is a front view showing a display screen of a touch screen.

FIG. 4A is a schematic configuration diagram illustrating a main part of an electronic balance with a printer according to a second embodiment, and FIGS. 4B and 4C are tables illustrating storage contents of a product master and a corresponding storage unit.

FIG. 5 is a front view showing a product designation key.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1: Electronic balance with printer 12a: Product master 12b: Correspondence storage unit 2: Weighing unit 3: Touch screen 3b: Product designation key 5: Printing unit

──────────────────────────────────────────────────の Continued on the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁷ Identification symbol FI Theme coat ゛ (Reference) G01G 23/00 G01G 23/42 C 23/42 B41J 29/00 T (72) Inventor Mitsuhiro Yoshida Kurita, Shiga Prefecture 959 Shimogaku, Ritto-gun, Gunma, Ltd., within the Ishida Shiga Works (72) Inventor Akimitsu Kojima, 959 Shiruga-cho, Ritto-cho, Kurita-gun, Shiga Prefecture, Japan Ishida Shiga Works, Ltd. (72) Inventor Shinsuke Sakamoto Shiga 959 Shimogaku, Ritto-cho, Kurita-gun, Ishida Shiga Works (72) Inventor Hideyuki Matsui 959 Shimogaku, Ritto-cho, Kurita-gun, Shiga Prefecture Shisha Works, Ishida (72) Inventor Hideyuki Matsuzuka Shiga 959, Shimogaku, Ritto-cho, Kurita-gun, Japan Inside the Ishida Shiga Office (72) Inventor Toshiyuki Watanabe 959, Shimogaku, Ritto-cho, Kurita-gun, Shiga Company Ishida Shiga plant F-term (reference) 2C061 AP10 CQ04 CQ34 2C087 AA06 AB01 BB03 BC07 BD55 CB16

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A product processing apparatus having a touch screen for displaying a product name or a price or weight of the product, wherein a product specification key for specifying a product to be processed on the touch screen. And a merchandise processing apparatus for displaying the merchandise designation key with a second name obtained by simplifying the first name of the merchandise. 2. The product according to claim 1, further comprising: a product name storage unit for storing the first name of the product for each product, wherein the product name storage unit can store a second name corresponding to the first name. Processing equipment. 3. The product processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a second name corresponding to the first name is read from the product name storage unit, and the read second name is displayed on the product specification key. 4. The storage device according to claim 1, wherein a part or all of the first character string constituting the first name of the product is associated with a character or a second character string obtained by simplifying the first character string. Product processing device provided with a corresponding storage unit. 5. The method according to claim 4, wherein a first character string included in the first name is retrieved from the correspondence storage unit, and a character or a second character string corresponding to the first character string is retrieved. A product processing apparatus for obtaining a name and displaying the obtained second name on the product specification key.