JPH06162345A - Electronic cash register - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically re-input printed contents of a journal to restore sales register information lost from a storage device with respect to an electronic cash register with a receipt/journal printer. CONSTITUTION:An image read sensor 1 and light source lamps 3a and 3b are set in the vicinity of the journal paper face movement place of the receipt/ journal printer incorporated in the electronic cash register, and printed journal paper 4b is read while being taken up by a journal winder 6. Consequently, the labor and the time for manual re-input of journal print contents from a keyboard are reduced by automatically reading the journal when sales register information is restored.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

FIELD OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to electronic cash registers having receipt / journal printers.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a method of protecting sales information from a failure of a storage device of an electronic cash register, there are two hard disk devices disclosed in JP-A-4-23194, one of which is the other. There is one used as a backup. Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 1-280896 discloses a method in which, when a failure occurs in a storage device such as a hard disk device, it is held in an auxiliary recording device and this data is re-recorded in the original storage device after restoration. It was common to print in a journal as a reliable method of protecting information.

[0003]

Conventionally, the above information is lost or stored in a storage device due to a failure such as a failure of a storage device that stores information such as sales registration, inspection, and settlement. If there is a possibility that some of the information
Since it is necessary to manually re-input the print contents of the journal, which also has a meaning as a backup of the above information, from the keyboard of the electronic cash register, much labor and time are required.

The input of the journal print information by the image reading sensor of the present invention is intended to reduce the above-mentioned labor and time.

Further, in inputting character string information by the image reading sensor, it is necessary to accurately identify the print line or print range.

The printing of a symbol corresponding to the printing of information according to the present invention can be performed, for example, by printing a symbol for which pattern recognition is easy on both sides of a character string for each print line of information to convert a character string from image information by an image reading sensor. This is done for the purpose of facilitating the identification of the print line or print range.

Further, since the conventional journal does not print the check information for confirming the accuracy of the printed information after a certain registration, a series of inspections, and the printing of the settlement, the journal print contents. There was a problem that input error could not be detected when re-inputting.

The printing of the information for checking the print contents at the time of printing the information of the present invention is performed for the purpose of completely detecting an input error when the print contents of the journal are re-input.

[0009]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An electronic cash register according to the present invention has a built-in receipt / journal printer in which an optical image reading sensor and a light source lamp are installed in the vicinity of a moving position on a paper surface of a journal. The image on the paper is input as the signal current of the image reading sensor.

Regarding the printing of the symbols on the journal paper, the control unit of the electronic cash register transmits the print information in which the symbol print information is added to the journal character print information to the control circuit of the receipt / journal printer. .

Regarding the printing of the information for checking the print contents of the journal paper, the control unit of the electronic cash register transmits the print information for a certain amount of printing on the journal paper to the control circuit of the receipt / journal printer, The print information of the information for checking the print content is transmitted to the control circuit of the receipt / journal printer.

[0012]

The electronic cash register of the present invention has the above-mentioned structure. The light source lamp irradiates the journal paper with light, the reflected light is converted into an electric signal by an image reading sensor, and the electric signal is read. It is converted into image pattern information by the sensor interface circuit, the image pattern information is compared with the pattern information of the characters and symbols used for printing the journal, and the pattern information of the matched characters and symbols is converted into the corresponding information code and stored. The information stored in the device or the information stored in the storage device can be modified.

[0013]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, 1 is an image reading sensor and 2 is an image reading sensor.
Is a signal cable of the image reading sensor, 3a and 3b are light source lamps for irradiating the journal paper with light, and 4a and 4b are the journal roll paper and the pulled-out journal paper. Reference numeral 5 is a journal paper guide top plate provided so that the journal paper passes flat on the image reading sensor, and 6 is a journal winder for winding the pulled-out journal paper. Reference numerals 7a and 7b are receipt roll papers and drawn receipt papers, 8 is a printer print head for printing journals and receipts, and 9 is a signal cable for the printer print heads.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a circuit relating to print control of the receipt / journal printer and reading of a printed journal.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a part of a printed journal. The symbols 22a, 22b corresponding to the printing of the journal,
22c and a print example of information 24 for checking the print content are shown.

Electronic cash register is registered for sale,
When performing operations such as inspection and settlement, new printing is performed on the journal paper.

This will be explained with reference to sales registration as an example. As shown in FIG. 1, the journal roll paper 4a before printing is placed on the receipt / journal printer section of the electronic cash register, and the journal paper 4b is pulled out. Set so that it will be wound up by 6.

Similarly, the receipt roll paper 7a before use is placed and pulled out as shown in 7b of FIG.

When sales information is transmitted to the CPU 10 from the keyboard 17 or the bar code reader 18 of the electronic cash register shown in FIG.
The sales information is stored in the storage device 21 in accordance with the program stored in FIG.
The print information of 2b and 22c is transmitted to the printer driver circuit 14 via the printer control circuit 13. The print information is converted into an electric signal suitable for the printer by the printer driver circuit 14, transmitted to the printer print head 8 through the signal cable 9, and printed on the journal paper 4b and the receipt paper 7b.

Thus, as shown in FIG. 3, the symbols 22a and 22c indicating the order of the sales information, the symbol 22b indicating the sales type, and the sales information 23 are printed on the journal paper 4b.

Further, for registration of sales information for one transaction, the CPU 10 generates information for checking print contents according to a program stored in the memory 11, and after transmitting print information for sales information for one transaction, The print information of the check information is transmitted to the printer driver circuit 14 via the printer control circuit 13, converted into an electric signal suitable for the printer, and passed through the signal cable 9 to the printer print head 8
Then, the journal paper 4b is printed.

In this way, the information 24 for checking the print contents is printed on the journal paper 4b as shown in FIG.

As described above, when the electronic cash register is carrying out operations such as sales registration, inspection and settlement and new printing is performed on the journal paper, the image reading sensor 1 and the light source lamps 3a and 3b are in a non-operating state. Is.

Next, the reading of the print contents of the printed journal paper by the electronic cash register will be described.

When the registered information for sale is lost due to a failure of the storage device of the electronic cash register, the electronic cash register of the present invention reads the print contents of the printed journal paper and stores the information in the storage device. Can be restored to.

As shown in FIG. 1, the rolled-up journal paper 4a whose print contents should be read is placed on the receipt / journal printer section of the electronic cash register as shown in FIG. The unprinted part of the set is pulled out and set so as to be wound by the journal winder 6.

After this, when the keyboard 17 of the electronic cash register shown in FIG. 2 is operated to transmit the journal reading instruction information to the CPU 10, the CPU 10 controls the interface circuit 20 of the image reading sensor according to the program stored in the memory 11. After transmitting the information, the image reading sensor interface circuit 20 makes a control signal through the signal cable 2 to activate the image reading sensor 1 and the light source lamps 3a and 3b.

The CPU 10 then transmits information for driving the motor of the receipt / journal printer section to the printer driver circuit 14 via the printer control circuit 13,
While driving the motor to wind the printed journal paper 4b by the journal winder 6, the printing surface of the journal paper is moved over the image reading sensor 1.

The image reading sensor 1 transmits the reading signal to the image reading sensor interface circuit 20 through the signal cable 2, and the image reading sensor interface circuit 20 converts the reading signal into reading information and C
It is transmitted to PU10.

The CPU 10 uses the information of the symbols 22a and 22c indicating the order of the sales information from the read information and the symbol 22b indicating the sales type etc. as a mark to restore the sales registered information one by one and store it in the memory 11 once. Then, after recovering the sales information for one transaction, the recovery information stored in the memory 11 is checked by the information 24 for checking the print content, and if there is no error, the recovery information is transferred from the memory 11 to the storage device 21. The information in the storage device 21 is recovered.

If there is an error as a result of checking the recovery information as described above, the CPU 10 sends information regarding the content of the error via the input / output device interface circuit 16 to the display unit 1.
9 is transmitted and displayed.

[0033]

As described above, according to the present invention, the image reading sensor and the light source lamp for reading the printed contents of the printed journal paper are provided in the receipt / journal printer section in the electronic cash register. When information such as sales registration, inspection, and settlement is lost from the storage device of the electronic cash register or the storage device of the information processing system related to the electronic cash register, the effort to manually re-input the print contents of the journal from the keyboard The lost information can be recovered without taking time and without using a device for reading the print contents of the journal other than the electronic cash register.

The reading accuracy can be improved by using a symbol corresponding to the print contents of the journal as a guide for reading the journal.

Since the information for checking the print contents of the journal is printed on the journal paper, the contents read at the time of reading the journal can be checked, and the information read by mistake should be stored in the storage device as it is. It is possible to prevent it.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a three-dimensional view of a receipt / journal printer section of an electronic cash register as viewed from the front diagonally right top.

FIG. 2 is a circuit block diagram of an electronic cash register related to printing and reading a journal.

FIG. 3 is a partial front view of an example of printing a journal.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Image reading sensor, 3a, 3b ... Light source lamp, 4a, 4b ... Journal roll paper and drawn journal paper, 22a, 22b, 22c ... Examples of symbols corresponding to printing of journal, 24 ... Contents of printing of journal An example of printing information to check.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A printed journal paper is irradiated with light, the reflected light is received by an image reading sensor and converted into an electric signal, and the electric signal is converted into an information code of characters and symbols and stored in a storage device. Alternatively, the electronic cash register is characterized by comparing and checking the information stored in the storage device and correcting the information stored in the storage device if there is a difference. 2. The electronic cash register according to claim 1, wherein when printing information such as sales registration, inspection, and settlement on a journal paper, a symbol is printed on the journal paper corresponding to the printing. Electronic cash register with. 3. The electronic cash register according to claim 1, wherein when printing information such as sales registration, inspection, and settlement on a journal paper, information for checking the print contents is printed on the journal paper for every fixed printing unit. Electronic cash register characterized by printing.