JPH05342291A - Display merchandise shelf assignment device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To minimize errors at the time of using printed shelf assignment data by obtaining image data more analogous to merchandise in a short time. CONSTITUTION:This device is provided with a merchandise master storage part 6 for correspondingly storing merchandise names, pertinent merchandise codes and the size of the merchandise and a shelf data storage part 9 for storing the contour of the shelf corresponding to the shelf name to be the object of display as shelf data. The image data are tentatively obtained from the photographic picture of the object merchandise by an image scanner 5 to be displayed at a display part 2, an obtaining range is specified by a keyboard 1 and the size of the merchandise provided with the pertinent merchandise code is read from the merchandise master storage part 6 by a size deciding means 4. Based on these, the image data of a specified magnification are obtained again from the photographic picture by the image scanner 5 to be stored in a merchandise image data storage part 8 and the image data stored inside the merchandise image data storage part 8 are inserted to an appropriate position in the pertinent shelf data stored in the shelf data storage part 9.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a display product shelf allocation device, and more particularly, when a product is arranged on the display shelf in a store or the like, the display product shelf allocation device allocates the arrangement position to the display shelf and outputs it. Regarding the device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional display product shelving device, a figure of a target product is drawn on a paper surface as a product image data by using a digitizer and the like, and the product image data is associated with a product code. The product image data storage unit stores the product. At this time, in consideration of the size of the target product, the size of the product drawn on the paper is set to be appropriate.

Further, contour data of a shelf displaying such a product as seen from the front is stored in the shelf data storage section as shelf data in which the contour data is associated with the shelf name.

Next, an editing command is added to the editing means,
The shelf data for the specific shelf specified by the edit command is read from the shelf data storage unit described above and displayed on the display unit, and the image data of the corresponding product with the product code specified above is displayed on the display of this shelf data. It is read from the image data storage unit and displayed on the display of the above-mentioned shelf data in a superimposed manner, and an edit command is added to the above-mentioned editing means to position it at an appropriate position on the outline display of the above-mentioned shelf. Shelving allocation data is created and identified and stored as a shelving allocation data with a corresponding shelf name, and the shelving allocation data output command designating this shelving name causes printing on the paper surface.

[0007] Normally, the image data of a plurality of products is inserted into one shelving allocation data to be the above shelving allocation data.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In the above-mentioned conventional display product shelving device, a drawing of a product to be displayed is drawn in advance on a paper and acquired as image data by a digitizer, or this device is used. Since the figure of the target product is drawn by using a pointing device such as a mouse on the display part that it has, it is used as image data.
It takes a lot of time to accurately draw the image data of the product created in this way and to display it in color, and in order to create such image data in a short time, the type of display color Is, for example, about 6 to 7 colors, and the resolution cannot be increased so much. Therefore, when the actual product is displayed on the display shelf using the shelving allocation data printed based on such image data. Has the drawback of being prone to error.

An object of the present invention is to refer to a product master storage section that stores the size of a product corresponding to a specified product code, based on a photograph of the product, and set a predetermined magnification. By acquiring image data of products using an image scanner, it is possible to acquire and generate image data that more closely resembles the actual product in a shorter time than conventional display product shelving devices of this type, and generate part of the shelving data. An object of the present invention is to provide a display product shelving device that can be printed as.

[0008]

The display product shelving device of the present invention stores the height and width of a corresponding product in association with a product code given to an individual product as a product master. The product master storage unit, the product image data storage unit that stores product image data for each product code, the contour data when viewed from the front of the shelf displaying the product, and the contour data are separated at predetermined intervals. A shelf data storage unit that stores, as shelf data, data in which delimiters are numbered as shelf data, and a PO that stores the order of sales quantity in the same type of products in association with the product code.
The S data storage section, the first shelf allocation data in which the image data of the specified product is inserted at a predetermined position of the shelf data, and the image data of the product in the first shelf allocation data A shelving allocation data storage unit for storing second shelving allocation data having a product name as a character code, a keyboard for inputting various commands and data related to these commands, input image data and other image display signals And a display unit that displays, and an image that, when receiving the first and second image acquisition commands, converts the photographic image area of the product within the range specified by the acquisition commands into image data at the specified magnification and outputs the image data. When the scanner and the size determination command specifying the product code are received, the height and width corresponding to the corresponding product code are read from the product master storage unit. The corresponding image data from the data storage unit is displayed on the display unit, and the height and width of the range of the image data designated by the keyboard and the magnification of the image data acquired from the height and width read from the product master storage unit And a size determining means for outputting the second image acquisition command to the image scanner and an edit command designating a product code and a specific shelf name are added, the corresponding shelf data is stored from the shelf data storage section. An image corresponding to the corresponding product code specified at the position on the shelf data screen specified by the position setting signal when the position determination command specifying the product code is output and the position setting signal is received while being output to the display unit When data is read from the product image data storage unit and inserted into the shelf data and a separate correction command is added Edit processing is performed according to a specified command, and the first shelf allocation data is stored together with a corresponding shelf name in the shelving allocation data storage unit, and the product code is placed at a position where the image data exists instead of the image data. Editing means for generating the second shelving allocation data replaced with the character code indicating that and storing it in the shelving allocation data storage unit, and sales of the corresponding product code from the POS data storage unit when the position determination command is added. Position determination means for reading the order and outputting the position setting signal for positioning the read product image data at the shelf data position having the same division number as the sales order, and an image output command designating the shelf name. An image in which, when added, the corresponding first shelf allocation data is read from the shelf allocation data storage unit and output to an image printer. When output means and a character output command designating the shelf name are added, a corresponding second from the shelf allocation data storage unit
And a CPU for receiving the command output from the keyboard and controlling the respective units, the image scanner, and the display unit according to the command. ing.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the display product shelving device of the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows the storage contents of the product master stored in the product master storage unit shown in FIG. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram shown in FIG. 3, and P in FIG.
It is explanatory drawing which shows the memory content of the OS data storage part.

As shown in FIG. 1, the display product shelving device of this embodiment has a keyboard 1 for inputting various commands.
An image that acquires and outputs image data from a photographic image of a product in accordance with this command when a display unit 2 that displays input image data or other image data and an image acquisition signal that specifies an acquisition range and magnification are received. When the acquisition range is designated by the scanner 5, the size determination signal in which the product code is designated, and the image data on the display unit is input by the above-mentioned keyboard 1, the corresponding product code is stored in the product master storage unit 6 described later. Size determining means 4 for reading out the height and width of the corresponding product and outputting an image data acquisition command designating a predetermined scale factor for the height and width; a product name and a product code corresponding to this product name. Figure 2 shows the height and width of the product with this product name.
As shown in FIG. 4, the product master storage unit 6 stores the product masters in association with each other, the product image data storage unit 8 that stores the image data of the products acquired by the image scanner 5, and the shelf for displaying the above-mentioned products. A shelf data storage unit 9 that associates the contour data with its shelf name, separates the above-described contour data at predetermined positions, and stores character data with each partition numbered as shelf data, A shelving allocation data storage unit 10 for storing shelving allocation data described later is provided.

Further, this display product shelving allocation device is provided with the above-mentioned product code and a product having this product code,
When a POS data storage unit 11 that stores the ranks of sales quantities in products of the same kind as this product in association with the above-mentioned product code and an edit command that specifies the product code and the shelf name are added, the shelf When the corresponding shelf data is read from the data storage unit, the position determination command specifying this product code is output, and when the position determination signal is received, the corresponding image data is read from the product image data storage unit 8 and designated by the position determination signal. When this image data is inserted at the delimiter position of the shelf data, and the processing corresponding to the input editing command is performed and the shelving allocation data storage command is added, the data subjected to the above-mentioned processing is regarded as the first shelving allocation data. , The first
Editing means for storing image data inserted in the shelving allocation data as the second shelving allocation data converted into the corresponding product code, and storing the first and second shelving allocation data in the shelving allocation data storage unit 10. 7 and the above-mentioned position determination command output from the editing means 7, the sales order corresponding to the product code designated by this position determination command is read out by referring to the POS data storage unit 11, and the editing means 7 reads out. The position determining means 1 for outputting to the editing means 7 a position designation signal for inserting the image data having the product code in the division position that matches the above-mentioned sales order among the divisions of the shelf data.
2 and an image output command 13 that reads the first shelf allocation data having the corresponding shelf name from the shelf allocation data storage unit 10 when an image printing command specifying the shelf name is added and outputs the image to the image printer 14, When a character print command specifying a name is added, the second shelf allocation data having the corresponding shelf name is read from the shelf allocation data storage unit 10 and is output to the character printer 16.
And a CPU 3 that receives an instruction output from the keyboard 1 described above and controls each unit described above and the image scanner 5 by this instruction.

When a first image acquisition command is applied to the CPU 3 from the keyboard 1, the image scanner 5 converts a photographic image of a product placed in a predetermined position of the image scanner 5 into image data, and the image data is transferred via the CPU 3. Output to the display unit 2.

An image acquisition area is designated on the image of the image data displayed on the display unit 2 by the keyboard 1,
When a size determination command designating a product code is input from the keyboard 1, this command is output to the size determination means 4 via the CPU 3. When the size determination means 4 receives the size determination command, it reads the height and width of the product associated with the corresponding product code from the product master storage unit 6,
The height and width of the product in the image data output to the display unit 2 are compared with the height and width read from the product master storage unit 6 to determine the magnification of the image data to be acquired, which is designated by the key code 1. The second image acquisition command having the acquired image acquisition range as the acquisition range is output to the image scanner 5 via the CPU 3.

The image scanner 5 acquires the image data according to the second image acquisition command from the above-mentioned photographic image and outputs it to the CPU 3. The CPU 3 attaches the product code specified by the size determination signal to this image data. Then, it is stored in the product image data storage unit 8.

In this way, the image data of the product requiring the display is created in advance. Next, an editing command designating the shelf name and the product code is entered on the keyboard 1 by pressing C.
When added to PU3, this command is added to the editing means 7. The editing means 7 reads out and temporarily stores the shelf data having the corresponding shelf name from the shelf data storage unit 9 and also reads out and temporarily stores the image data corresponding to the corresponding product code from the product image data storage unit 8 and then stores the data. The position determining command specifying the product code specified by the added editing command is output to the position determining means 12.

The position determining means 12 determines the sales rank of the product code designated by the added position determining command as POS.
By reading from the data storage unit 11 and referring to the number attached to the partition in the shelf data temporarily stored by the editing means 7, the position of the partition matching the sales order is detected from the shelf data and this position is designated. The position determination signal is output to the editing means 7.

The editing means 7 inserts the temporarily stored image data into the position in the shelf data designated by the position determination signal. The editing means 7 outputs the shelf data with the image data thus inserted to the display unit 2 via the CPU 3 and displays it.

If it is desired to correct the position of the inserted image data, it can be changed by a predetermined correction signal from the keyboard 1.

When a shelf data storage command is input from the keyboard 1, this command is added to the editing means 7 via the CPU.

Upon receipt of this shelf data storage command, the editing means 7 stores the shelf data added with the shelf name to the data obtained by inserting the image data into the shelf data as the first shelf allocation data in the shelf allocation data storage unit 10. Next, the character data indicating the product code is inserted in place of the image data at the position of the image data inserted in the first shelving allocation data, and the corresponding shelf name is attached to the shelving allocation data as the second shelving allocation data. The data is stored in the split data storage unit 10.

When an image print command specifying a shelf name is added to the CPU 3 from the keyboard 1, this command is sent to the CPU 3.
3 to the image output means 13. When this image print command is added, the image output means 13 reads the first shelf allocation data corresponding to the specified shelf name from the shelf allocation data storage unit 10 and the image printer 14
The image is printed on the paper by the image printer 14
Causes the shelving allocation data of to be printed.

When a character print command designating a shelf name is applied from the keyboard 1 to the CPU 3, this command is sent from the CPU 3 to the character output means 15, and the character output means 15 is designated by the shelving allocation data storage section 10. The second shelf allocation data of the shelf name is read out and output to the character printer 16 to be printed on the paper surface by the character printer 16.

The image scanner 5 described above is, for example,
If the target product image is a color image, image data is generated for each of the three types of image components of red, blue and yellow as image data, and product image data is stored in association with the product code. It can be stored in the unit 8.

It is also possible to specify a product code and a product name corresponding to the product code by an edit command and input a character code indicating the product name instead of the product code of the second shelving allocation data described above.

[0026]

As described above, the display product shelving device of the present invention converts a photographic image of a product into image data by an image scanner and temporarily displays the image data, and designates the display range area with a keyboard to display a product master. By re-acquiring the image data of the product at a predetermined magnification from the height and width of the product stored inside and storing it in the product image data storage unit, it becomes possible to achieve the same result as the conventional display product shelving device of this type. Compared to the case of manually drawing an image on paper or a display screen as image data, the time required to acquire the image data can be shortened, and when this image data is displayed in color, an image closer to a product can be obtained. The data can be used as data, and the shelving data output by the image printer based on such image data can be used as the actual quotient. It has the effect that it is possible to small errors when displayed in the display shelf.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a display product shelving allocation device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the content of a product master stored in a product master storage unit in FIG.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing contents stored in a POS data storage unit in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 keyboard 2 display section 3 CPU 4 size determination means 5 image scanner 6 product master storage section 7 editing means 8 product image data storage section 9 shelf data storage section 10 shelf allocation data storage section 11 POS data storage section 12 rank value determination section 13 Image output means 14 Image printer 15 Character output means 16 Character printer

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A product master storage unit that stores a height and a width of a corresponding product as a product master in association with a product code given to an individual product, and product image data for each product code. A product image data storage unit for storing the product, and contour data viewed from the front of the shelf displaying the products and the contour data divided at predetermined intervals and numbered at each delimiter as display data A shelf data storage unit to be separately stored, a POS data storage unit that stores the rank of the sales quantity in the same type of products in association with the product code, and a product specified at a predetermined position of the shelf data. The first shelving allocation data in which the image data is inserted, and the second shelving allocation data having the product name as a character code instead of the image data of the product in the first shelving allocation data. A shelving allocation data storage unit for storing data, a keyboard for inputting various commands and data related to these commands, a display unit for displaying the input image data and other image display signals, first and second When the image acquisition command of 2 is received, the image scanner that converts the photographic image area of the product within the range specified by this acquisition command into image data at the specified magnification and outputs it, and the size determination command that specified the product code When receiving, the height and width corresponding to the corresponding product code are read from the product master storage unit, the corresponding image data is displayed from the product image data storage unit on the display unit, and the image data of the image data designated by the keyboard is displayed. The height and width of the range and the height and width read from the product master storage unit are used to determine the magnification of the image data to be acquired. When a size determining means for outputting a second image acquisition command to the image scanner and an edit command designating a product code and a specific shelf name are added, the corresponding shelf data is displayed from the shelf data storage section on the display section. When outputting a position determination command specifying the product code and receiving a position setting signal, the image data corresponding to the corresponding product code specified at the position on the shelf data screen specified by the position setting signal is output. When the data is read from the product image data storage unit and inserted into the shelf data and a correction command is separately added, the editing process is performed according to the specified command, and the first shelf allocation data is stored together with the shelf name corresponding to the shelf allocation data storage unit. The character code indicating the product code is stored at a position where the image data exists instead of the image data. Editing means for generating the changed second shelving allocation data and storing it in the shelving allocation data storage unit, and when the position determination command is added, reads the sales order for the corresponding product code from the POS data storage unit and reads the sales. Position determining means for outputting the position setting signal for locating the read product image data at the shelf data position having the same partition number as the order, and the shelf when the image output command designating the shelf name is added. An image output unit for reading the corresponding first shelving allocation data from the split data storage unit and outputting it to an image printer, and a second corresponding data from the shelving allocation data storage unit when a character output command designating the shelf name is added. Character output means for reading out the shelving allocation data of and outputting it to the character printer and receiving the command output from the keyboard C for controlling the respective units, the image scanner, and the display unit according to the command
A display product shelving device, comprising: a PU.