JPH07319984A - Slip receiving terminal system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a slip receiving terminal system simplifying the whole operation by eliminating the necessity of slip input operation in a teller side master device and executing only check and correction by the master device. CONSTITUTION:The slip receiving terminal system is provided with a slave device arranged on a customer side and capable of reading out the image of an inputted slip 1, recognizing a prescribed item in the read slip 1 and displaying recognized code data and the master device arranged on a teller side and capable of receiving image data read out by the slave device and code data recognizing the image data, temporarily queueing the received data, successively extracting and displaying (10) respective data, and after checking and correcting the displayed data, transmitting prescribed data to a master station.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a slip acceptance terminal system, and in particular, for a slip input by a child device installed on the lobby side, the parent device installed on the teller side does not require input, and confirmation and correction are possible. The present invention relates to a slip acceptance terminal system that simplifies the operation as a whole by doing only the above.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, at the window of a bank, processing of slips has conventionally been performed on both the lobby side and the teller side. That is, when the customer fills out the slip on the lobby side,
While looking at the voucher received by the teller, enter the necessary information of the voucher from the keyboard of the window device installed on the teller side,
Processing has been completed. In this case, if the number of items required to enter a slip increases or a complicated key input operation accompanies, the teller side increases the slip input time, and as a result, the transaction processing time for one transaction is affected. A transaction system for simplifying the work of such transaction at a bank teller, in particular, for saving labor on the teller side is disclosed in, for example, Japanese Patent Publication No. 59-4.
It is proposed in Japanese Patent No. 1223. According to this system, the teller is equipped with an indicator to monitor the input operation that the customer fills out on the slip, and the teller can check what is displayed on the monitor and press the confirmation button to complete all the work. Is configured.

[0003]

However, in the above system, since the customer and the teller need to correspond on a one-to-one basis during the transaction operation, the operation time of the teller cannot be shortened. The effect of labor saving is not as expected. On the other hand, in a situation where the demand for automated machines for bank online systems, which was introduced as a means of saving labor in banking operations, is further increasing, it is the most important matter in counter operations using slips to shorten the slip input operation time of tellers. Has become. As a solution to this problem, a customer may input a slip, but it has not been realized yet because of problems such as simplification of operation and handling of a seal stamp. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to solve the above-described problems in the related art, eliminate the slip input operation in the teller side device (parent device), and make the parent device side The purpose is to provide a voucher terminal system that simplifies the operation as a whole so that only confirmation and correction are necessary.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The above object of the present invention is to install an image of a slip, which is installed on the customer side, to recognize a predetermined item of the read slip, and display the recognized code data. The child device to be installed, and the image data read by the child device and the code data recognized by the child device installed on the staff side are received and temporarily queued, and then the respective data are sequentially taken out and displayed, and the displayed data is displayed. This is achieved by a slip acceptance terminal system having a parent device that transmits predetermined data to a higher-level station after confirmation and correction.

[0005]

In the slip receiving terminal system according to the present invention, the image of the slip input by the child device is read and the data corresponding to the image is sent to the parent device. In the parent device, the received data is once queued and then displayed in a predetermined order, and the teller makes corrections and confirmation inputs as necessary. As a result, the operation of the teller is significantly simplified as compared with the conventional method, and the operation of the customer is also simplified, so that it is possible to realize a slip acceptance terminal system with a simplified operation as a whole. Becomes

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a slip acceptance terminal system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the slip acceptance terminal system according to the present embodiment, the slip acceptance terminal device is divided into a child device installed on the lobby side of the bank and a parent device installed on the teller side, and the image reading of the slip is performed by the child device. The input item is recognized and coded, and the parent device is configured to perform only confirmation and correction. That is, in the slip acceptance terminal system according to the present embodiment, among the slip items entered by the customer, the items on the teller side that were conventionally key-inputted are read by the child device to operate the teller side. Is substantially unnecessary.
Specifically, the child device on the lobby side reads the image of the slip, performs a series of processes for OCR recognition and coding, and transfers this data to the parent device on the teller side. In the parent device, the teller checks and corrects the sent data, and inputs auxiliary data only when necessary. As a result, it becomes possible to save labor for transaction acceptance input.

The child device described above includes an image reading mechanism such as an image OCR, a stacker such as a slip stack mechanism, a display mechanism such as a guidance CRT, a communication control mechanism, and a data transfer with a parent device. A mechanism 5, a printing mechanism 7 such as a printer for printing a receipt number, and a control mechanism (control device) 8 for controlling input / output of each of these mechanisms and recognizing read data are provided. On the other hand, the parent device has a file mechanism 6 for read data such as a disk, a data transfer mechanism 9 for receiving data from a child device such as a communication control mechanism, a received data display mechanism 10 such as a high definition CRT, a laser beam printer. Such as a hard copy mechanism 11, a keyboard 12 for teller operation, a communication control mechanism such as a data transmission / reception mechanism 1 with an upper station.
3, and a control mechanism (control device) 14 for performing input / output control of each of these mechanisms and recognition processing of read data. The slip acceptance terminal system according to the present embodiment configured as described above has the following six functions. Among these, function 1 and function 2 are the above-mentioned child devices, and function 3 to function. 6 is shared by the parent devices.

Function 1: Image reading of slip Function 2: Recognition of predetermined item of slip Function 3: Temporary queuing of recognized data Function 4: Extraction of queuing data Function 5: Display of image data of slip and OCR recognition code Function 6: Data transmission to host station The slave device recognizes a predetermined item of the slip by reading an image of the slip entered by the customer, and then the recognized data is transmitted to the master device by the data transfer mechanism 5. Forward. In the parent device, after the transferred data is temporarily queued, the queuing data is taken out in order, and the image data of the taken out slip and the OCR recognition code are displayed on the display mechanism 10 for confirmation and correction by the teller. Send necessary information to the upper station.

In this case, since the child device and the parent device can execute the processing asynchronously, it is not always necessary to correspond the work of the customer and the work of the teller one to one, and the processing on the teller side can be executed at high speed. It is possible to run Figure 2
2 is a flow chart showing an operation of a slip process in the child device in the embodiment shown in FIG. By greeting the customer at the bank teller with the display device 4 and displaying guidance, the customer issues a slip (step 21) and inserts it into the image reading mechanism 2 (step 22). When reading is performed by the image reading mechanism 2, this is input to the control device 8. In the control device 8, the image data input from the image reading mechanism 2 is first subjected to a clipping process of a recognition target item area of a slip.
(Step 23).

During this time, the display mechanism 4 displays "Reading" (step 24). Next, the control device 8 character-recognizes the cut-out image data and converts it into code information (step 25). Then, the recognition result is displayed on the display mechanism 4, and the customer is asked to confirm the account number, name, total amount, etc. based on the image data based on the above code information (step 26). Here, if the customer presses the cancel key (step 32) due to a reason such as an error in the displayed image data (step 32), the slip is ejected, and the customer re-enters it or cancels it. Make a decision. When the customer confirms the displayed image data and presses the confirmation key (step 27), the display mechanism 4 displays "Processing".
Is displayed (step 28), the printing mechanism 7 is activated, and the receipt number is printed on the slip (step 29). After that, the printed slip is stored in the stacker 3 (step 30), and the code data recognized as the image data and the character is transferred from the data transfer mechanism 5 to the parent device (step 31).

The recognition result data transferred from the child device via the transmission path is received by the data transfer mechanism 9 of the parent device and input to the control device 14 (step 37). The control device 14 sequentially queues the input recognition result data in the file mechanism 6 (step 38). The registered recognition result data is in a state of waiting for processing by the teller (step 39). FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the slip processing in the parent device in the embodiment shown in FIG. The operation of the parent device for data extraction, confirmation, correction, and data transmission to the host station will be described below. In the parent device, every time the processing of the slip is completed, a request for taking out the next data is issued from the keyboard 12 (step 41), so that the control device 14 causes the file mechanism 6 to recognize the queued recognition data in the next order. It is taken out (step 42) and displayed on the display mechanism 10 (step 43).

The control device 14 checks the slip image data read by the slave device and the O for the confirmation and correction by the teller.
The CR recognition code data is displayed in contrast with the display mechanism 10. The teller confirms the displayed contents and inputs the correction from the keyboard 12 only when the correction is necessary (step 4).
4-46). When the contents are normal or when the correction input is completed, the teller instructs the data transmission from the keyboard 12 to the upper station (steps 47 and 48). In response to the instruction, the control device 14 of the parent device instructs the transmission / reception mechanism 13 to transmit the data of the processing result to the upper station. According to the above-described embodiment, when accepting a transaction, it is possible to complete the transaction by only entering the image OCR of the slip filled in by the customer, recognizing it, and then checking and correcting it by the teller. Is obtained.

It is needless to say that the above embodiment shows an example of the present invention, and the present invention should not be limited to this. For example, in the above embodiment, the child device and the parent device are provided in a one-to-one relationship, but this can be modified so that one parent device is installed for a plurality of child devices. Is. Also, FIG.
In the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, the child device is configured to receive the slip from the customer. This is because once the child device completes the processing, the child device returns the slip to the customer and the teller It is also possible to bring them to the place. Furthermore, in the above embodiment, the present invention is applied to a bank online system, but the present invention can be applied not only to bank offices but also to general financial business fields dealing with slips. Yes, it is not limited to a specific job.

[0014]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, the slip input operation on the parent device side is unnecessary, and only the confirmation and correction are sufficient on the parent device side to simplify the operation as a whole. This is a remarkable effect of realizing a simplified slip acceptance terminal system.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a slip acceptance terminal system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation of slip processing in the child device in the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation of slip processing in the parent device in the embodiment shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 slip 2 image reading mechanism 3 stacker 4, 10 display mechanism 5, 9 data transfer mechanism 6 file mechanism 7, 11 printing mechanism 8, 14 control device 12 keyboard 13 data transmission / reception mechanism

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of front page (72) Inventor Masahiro Morita 1 Ikegami, Haruoka-cho, Owariasahi-shi, Aichi Hitachi Ltd. Asahi factory

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A child device installed on the customer side, which reads an image of an input slip, recognizes a predetermined item of the read slip, and displays the recognized code data. After receiving the image data read by the slave device and the code data that recognizes this, temporarily queuing, and then sequentially taking out and displaying each of the above-mentioned data, confirming and correcting the displayed data, and then to the upper station. A slip acceptance terminal system comprising: a parent device that transmits predetermined data. 2. The child device has a function of displaying the image data read once and the code data recognizing the image data in parallel after reading the image of the input slip. The slip acceptance terminal system described in 1. 3. The slip acceptance terminal system according to claim 1, wherein the parent device has a function of displaying in parallel image data received from the child device and code data recognizing the image data.