JPH0460764A - Electronic slip issuing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To considerably reduce the slip processing work of a teller by permitting OCR to read slip data inputted by a customer, displaying data on a handwriting tablet and permitting the customer to directly correct and input data by means of a light pen. CONSTITUTION:Image data inputted from an image reader 2 is segment- processed in an item area being the object of recognition in a slip by a control mechanism 7. The control mechanism 7 character-recognizes segmented image data and a recognized result is displayed on the handwriting tablet 4 and is converted into code information. The customer visually recognizes the recognized result displayed on the handwriting tablet 4 and a part concerned is corrected and inputted to the tablet 4 by the light pen if correction is required. When correction/input terminates, the control mechanism 7 executes a character recognition processing and the recognized result is displayed on the handwriting tablet 4. When an electronic slip issuing device is installed in a lobby, the customer can directly execute an input operation.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Field of Application] The present invention relates to the processing of inputting and correcting slip data in an information processing system, and particularly provides electronic slip processing in a financial institution branch system.

[Conventional technology]

In the conventional system, as described in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 60-057024, the customer fills out a slip and inputs it using OCR.

Other related matters include, for example, JP-A-58-876.
64 Recognition error correction method, JP-A-58-96373
Examples include methods for correcting reading results of optical character reading devices.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The above-mentioned conventional technology does not take into consideration real labor-saving aspects such as eliminating the teller's form input process, and data entered by the customer at the lobby is transferred again to the teller side for confirmation, correction, and auxiliary input. The purpose of the present invention is to significantly reduce the teller's invoice processing work by having the customer check and modify the input data himself/herself, and to improve image OCR and manual processing. The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electronic billing device that allows complete direct customer input using a writing tablet.

[Means to solve the problem]

The above purpose is to read the customer's input of slip data using ○CR, display the data on a handwriting tablet,
This is accomplished by a method in which the customer directly inputs corrections using a light pen.

[Effect]

By allowing the customer to read the invoice using OCR and then correct and confirm it on the spot on a handwriting tablet, the teller process is no longer necessary, and the teller operation can be greatly reduced. It becomes possible to save labor.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. FIG.

FIG. 1 shows an example of the overall configuration of the present invention. The electronic ticket issuing device has an image reading mechanism 2 (for example, image 0
CR), stacker 3 (e.g. slip stacking mechanism), handwriting tablet 4, light pen 5, printing mechanism 6 (e.g.
a device data transfer mechanism 9 consisting of a printer for printing reception number), a data transfer mechanism 8 with the parent device, and a control mechanism 7 that controls each of these mechanisms; a file mechanism 10; a data transmission/reception mechanism 11 with the upper station; and a control mechanism 7 that controls each of these mechanisms.

With the above configuration, the electronic ticket issuing device and the parent device share and execute the following six functions.

Function 1. Slip image reading function 2. Recognition function for specified items on slips 3. Handwriting tablet input function using a light pen 4. Recognition function for handwritten tablet input data 5. Display and correction function for handwritten tablet input data 6. Data communication functions 1 to 5 to the upper station are executed by the electronic ticket issuing device, and function 6 is executed by the parent device. Here, functions 1 to 5 and function 6 can be executed asynchronously, and a schematic operation of each is shown in FIG.

According to Fig. 2, the electronic billing device, the document reading by the parent device,
Explain data input, recognition, and queuing operations using a handwriting tablet. The customer follows the guidance on the handwriting tablet 4 and inputs the filled-in slip 1 through the image reading mechanism 2.

The image data input from the image reading mechanism 2 is processed by the control mechanism 7 to cut out the recognition target item area of the slip. The control mechanism 7 performs character recognition on the extracted image data, displays the recognition result on the handwriting tablet 4, and converts it into code information. The customer visually confirms the recognition result displayed on the handwriting tablet 4, and if correction is necessary, inputs correction input to the corresponding part on the handwriting tablet 4 with the light pen 5. After completing the correction input,
The control mechanism 7 performs character recognition processing and displays the recognition results on the handwriting tablet 4. After final confirmation by the customer, a receipt number is printed on the statement slip by the printing mechanism 6 and released. For the slips that have already been input by the customer, the receipt number is printed and then the slips are taken into the stacker 3. Further, the character-recognized code information and the input image information are transferred to the parent device by the data transfer mechanism 8. on the other hand. The i-device receives the code information and image information sent from the electronic billing device at the data transfer mechanism 9, and after the control mechanism 7 registers the code information and image information in the file mechanism 10 in sequence, the control mechanism 7
transmits data to the upper station using the data transmitting/receiving mechanism 11.

Although the case where the electronic ticket issuing device and the parent device are in a one-to-one relationship has been described above, an n-to-one configuration is also conceivable.

Furthermore, as described above, we have described a method for taking in slips using an electronic slip originating device, but once the slip is returned to the customer using the electronic slip originating device, the customer checks and corrects the slip while looking at it, and after final confirmation, the slip is loaded into the stacker of the external unit. Another option is to have it put into the system.

In addition, there are two types of electronic systems: one in which all slip entry is done on a handwriting tablet and the data is checked and corrected on the handwriting tablet, and the other is an electronic method in which slip entry is done through an image OCR reading mechanism and the input data is displayed, checked and corrected on a touch panel. A ticket issuing device may also be considered.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, customers can directly input, recognize, confirm, and modify slips using the image OCR and handwriting tablet of the electronic ticketing device, so if the electronic ticketing device is installed in the lobby, customers can Direct input operations are now possible, eliminating the need for traditional tellers to input slips, which significantly reduces teller operations.Customers also benefit from reduced waiting times, making it an integral part of financial service operations. It can become one.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing document reading, recognition, post-recognition confirmation in an electronic ticket originating device, correction using a handwriting tablet, transmission operation, and queuing operation and transmission operation in the parent device. FIG.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In an electronic billing device equipped with an image OCR reading mechanism and a transmission mechanism for transmitting the input data to a host device as a slip data input mechanism, the input data can be displayed and corrected manually. An electronic billing device characterized by the fact that it can be done from a calligraphy tablet. 2. An electronic billing device equipped with a handwriting tablet as a slip data input mechanism and a transmission mechanism for transmitting the input data to a host device, characterized in that input and display of input data and correction input are also performed from the handwriting tablet. electronic ticketing device.