JPH10162252A - Articel sale data processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To issue a receipt number which gives no hint to know information regarding the number of store visitors. SOLUTION: The article sale data processor finds the prices of articles and the total amount of all input articles and prints and issues a receipt when details are recorded in specific timing on condition that article information specifying the articles is inputted, and a number generated by combining date data and time data corresponding to the date and time of dealings is found by 1st means (T1 to T5) and inserted as a receipt number into the print contents of the receipt by a 2nd means (T6). Therefore, the receipt on which the receipt number consisting of a combination of the date data and time data is printed is issued. In this case, the receipt number functions as a number specifying the dealing since exactly the same number is generated repeatedly, and a serial number is not in serial number form, so it never gives a hint to know the number of store visitors.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a merchandise sales data processing apparatus such as an ECR or POS terminal having a receipt issuing function. Here, ECR stands for Electronic Cash Regi
It is an abbreviation of ster (electronic cash register), and a POS terminal is an abbreviation of a terminal used in a Point of Sale System (point of sale management system).

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An ECR or POS terminal obtains the price of a product and the total price of all input products on condition that product information is input by a barcode scanner or the like, and a receipt on which a sales statement is recorded at a predetermined timing. Print and issue. In this case, the receipt number is generally printed on the receipt in a serial number format. Since such a receipt number serves as a key for specifying a transaction corresponding to the receipt, it is indispensable for, for example, a process of changing registered contents in the event of a return.

[0003]

Since the receipt number is a serial number in the form of a serial number, the number of visitors per day, the number of visitors until a certain time, or the number of visitors during a certain time zone is based on the receipt number. It is easy to find out. Such information on the number of visitors belongs to confidential business information, and if known to other companies in the same industry, it is disadvantageous in business. However, if the receipt number is printed on the receipt, there is an inconvenience that anyone can easily know the number of various types of visitors.

[0004] In order to prevent the receipt number from being printed, it is practicable to use the setting. However, in this case, there is a problem in the process of changing the registered contents in the event of a return or the like.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a merchandise sales data processing apparatus capable of issuing a receipt number without giving a clue to knowing information on the number of visitors.

[0006]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
In a merchandise sales data processing device which obtains the price of the merchandise and the total amount of all the input merchandise on condition that the merchandise information specifying the merchandise is input, and prints and issues a receipt in which sales details are recorded at a predetermined timing A first means for obtaining a number obtained by combining date data and time data corresponding to the date and time when the transaction occurred, and a second means for inserting the number obtained by the first means as a receipt number into the printed content of the receipt. Means.

Therefore, a number obtained by combining date data and time data corresponding to the date and time when a transaction has been made is obtained by the first means, and this number is inserted into the printed content of the receipt by the second means, whereby On the receipt, a receipt number including a combination of date data and time data is printed. Such a receipt number functions as a number for specifying a transaction because two or more identical numbers do not exist. Since the receipt number is composed of a combination of date data and time data, it does not provide a clue to the number of visitors.

[0008]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. This embodiment is an example in which a product sales data processing device is applied to a stand-alone type ECR1.

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of the ECR 1. E
CR1 is placed on drawer 2 and this drawer 2
Of the drawer 3 is controlled. The ECR 1 has an area on its upper surface for receiving an operation by an operator. The operation area includes a keyboard 4 in which various keys are gathered, a control key 5 switched by a key (not shown), a receipt issuing port 6, a journal window 7, And a coin tray 8 are provided. As viewed from the operator, the keyboard 4 and the control key 5 are arranged in the right area, and the receipt issuing port 6, the journal window 7, and the coin tray 8 are arranged in the left area. A display 9 is arranged on the upper right side of the ECR 1, and a customer display unit (RIU) 10 stands upright in the vicinity of the display 9. Although not shown in FIG. 1, a bar code scanner 11 for optically reading a bar code is connected to the ECR 1.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the electrical connection of each part built in ECR1. The ECR 1 includes a microcomputer (hereinafter abbreviated as a microcomputer) 12 which is a computer, and the microcomputer 12 drives and controls each unit. The microcomputer 12 includes an arithmetic circuit, a program counter control circuit, an instruction recorder, a command register, a clock circuit, and the like.
b, ROM 15 for storing fixed data in advance via control line 14c, and RA for variably storing variable data.
M16 is connected. In practice, a plurality of RAMs 16 are provided for each application, and perform functions such as a work area and an image memory using a function of variably storing variable data. In this case, conceptually, RAM1
6, a plurality of storage areas are provided.

An HDD 17 (hard disk drive) is connected to the address bus 14a, the data bus 14b, and the control line 14c connected to the CPU 13, and the HDD 17 has a PLU (price look up) file structure. A master file, a sales memory, and a control program are stored. Therefore, the HDD 17
Is a medium on which a control program is recorded. ECR
At the time of startup of 1, the control program stored in the HDD 17 is written in the RAM 16 together with a part of the master file of the product, whereby the microcomputer 12 is in a state where the drive of each unit can be controlled. The components that are driven and controlled by the microcomputer 12 will be described below.

The keyboard 4 has a keyboard input circuit 18.
The microcomputer 12 is connected to the data bus 14b and the control line 14c via the CPU 12 and inputs a signal corresponding to a key pressed by the operation of the keyboard input circuit 18 to the microcomputer 12.

The control key 5 is switched by a plurality of types of keys (not shown). In this case, the switchable positions differ depending on the type of the key. And
The control key 5 is a control key input circuit 19
Are connected to the data bus 14b and the control line 14c via the control key input circuit 19 to input a signal corresponding to the switching position to the microcomputer 12 by the operation of the control key input circuit 19. The microcomputer 12 responds to the output signal of the control key 5 by
The operation mode of CR1 is set to a registration mode, a setting mode, a checkout mode, an inspection mode, an entry mode, and the like.

Display 9 and customer-side display unit 10
Are connected to the data bus 14b and the control line 14c via the respective display control circuits 20, and
Is input to the display control circuit 20,
It is driven by the display control circuit 20 to display predetermined items.

The barcode scanner 11 is connected to the data bus 14 b and the control line 14 c via the scanner input circuit 21, and transmits the barcode BC data read by the operation of the scanner input circuit 21 to the microcomputer 12.

A line printer 22 is built in the ECR 1, and the line printer 22 is also driven and controlled by the microcomputer 12. The line printer 22 is connected to the data bus 14b and the control line 1 via the printer control circuit 23.
4c, and performs a receipt printer function and a journal printer function. Therefore, when print data from the microcomputer 12 is input to the printer control circuit 23, the line printer 22 is driven by the printer control circuit 23 and prints the contents corresponding to the print data. in this case,
The receipt printer function played by the line printer 22 includes:
This function prints necessary items as receipts on long paper (not shown), cuts them, and issues them as receipts through the receipt issuing port 6. The journal printer function performed by the line printer 22 is a function of performing journal printing on merchandise sales data and leaving this as an internal record. At this time, the journal paper 24 (see FIG. 1)
The ECR is supported by a journal table (not shown).
It is exposed to the outside from the journal window 7 arranged in the first operation area, and accepts writing by the operator.

A drawer 2 provided separately from the ECR 1
Is also controlled by the microcomputer 12 included in the ECR 1. That is, the drawer 2 is also connected to the data bus 14b and the control line 14c via the drawer control circuit 25.

Here, the function of the control program stored in the HDD 17 to be executed by the microcomputer 12 will be described. In the ECR 1 after activation, the operation mode is selected according to the switching position of the control key 5. That is, the microcomputer 12 sets the operation mode of the ECR 1 to a registration mode, a setting mode, a checkout mode, an inspection mode, an entry mode, or the like according to an output signal generated by a switching position of the control key 5. Setting mode, checkout mode,
The processing in the inspection mode and the entry mode is not different from the similar processing performed by the conventional ECR, and thus the description thereof is omitted. Therefore, the flow of processing in the registration mode will be described below together with the receipt number issuing function unique to the ECR of the present embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart schematically showing the flow of the product registration process. First, barcode scanner 1
1 waits for input of product information by reading a bar code or the like (step S1). The product information in this case is a product code that specifies each product, and this product code is generally used according to the JAN code system, but is based on another code system such as an in-store code. It may be. If it is determined in step S1 that product information has been input, the display 9 and the customer side display unit 10 are drive-controlled, and the product name and price of the product are displayed (step S2). The processing of steps S1 and S2 is repeated until the subtotal key on the keyboard 4 is pressed (step S3), and
By pressing the subtotal key determined in step 3, the subtotal amount is displayed on the display 9 and the customer side display unit 10 (step S4). At this time, the calculation processing of the subtotal amount is performed when steps S1 and S2 are repeated. After the subtotal amount is displayed, if there is a product input again without the closing process, the processes of steps S1 to S5 are repeated (step S5), and the product registration process is performed by the closing process determined in step S5 (step S5). S6), the process ends. Here, the “close process” is, for example, declared by pressing a deposit / current key on the keyboard 4 in the case of cash payment, and declared by pressing a credit key in the keyboard 4 in the case of credit payment. . Then, in the “commodity registration process” after the closing process, the registration process of the sales data finally stored in the sales memory in the HDD 17, the opening of the drawer 3 of the drawer 2, and the receipt in which the transaction details by the line printer 22 are recorded Print issuance, as well as the line printer 22
Records the transaction details in the journal.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of the receipt number issuing process. When the receipt is printed out in the merchandise registration process in step S6 in FIG. 3, the data of the sales details is transferred to an edit buffer set in a partial area of the RAM 16, and the contents of the edit buffer are stored in the RAM 16. The image data is expanded in the image memory set in the partial area, and the printing operation by the line printer 22 is performed based on the contents of the image memory. At this time, the CPU 1
The parallel processing function of No. 3 executes the receipt number issuing process routine shown in FIG. 4 with the declaration of the closing process in step S5 of FIG. 3 as a trigger.

In the receipt number issuing process, first, date data is read from a clock circuit built in the CPU 13 with a declaration of the closing process in step S5 of FIG. 3 as a trigger (step T1). (Step T2). Next, time data is read from a clock circuit built in the CPU 13 (step T3),
The data is stored in a register Y provided in the work area in M16 (step T4). In the following step T5, a value obtained by combining the value of the register X and the value of the register Y is obtained, and the number of this value is stored in the register Z provided in the work area in the RAM 16 (step T5).
For example, when the closing process is declared at 11:35:39 pm on June 14, the register Z is set to “0614111.
3539 "is stored. Thus, by the processing of steps T1 to T5, the function of the first means for obtaining a number obtained by combining the date data and the time data corresponding to the date and time of the transaction is executed. Next, in step T6, a process of inserting the number stored in the register Z as print data into the edit buffer is performed. That is, the function of the second means for inserting the number obtained by the first means as the receipt number into the print content of the receipt is executed. Therefore, the print data developed in the image memory includes the issued receipt number, whereby the issued receipt number is printed on the receipt.

A receipt number composed of a combination of date data and time data functions as a number for specifying a transaction because there are no two or more identical numbers, and a receipt number is composed of a combination of date data and time data. Therefore, it is not a clue to know the number of visitors. Therefore, according to the ECR of the present embodiment, it is possible to issue a receipt number that does not give a clue to know information on the number of visitors.

Although this embodiment has been described as an example of application to ECR, it may be applied to a POS system or a POS terminal.

In this embodiment, the HDD 17 is used as a medium on which the control program is recorded. However, as the medium, a floppy disk or a ROM 15 may be used.
And the like may be used.

[0025]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a number obtained by combining date data and time data corresponding to the date and time of a transaction is obtained by the first means, and the number obtained by the second means is received. Since the number is inserted into the print content of the receipt, the receipt can be printed and issued with the receipt number being a number obtained by combining date data and time data. A receipt number consisting of a combination of date data and time data functions as a number that identifies a transaction because there are no more than one of the same number, and a receipt number consists of a combination of date data and time data, so it comes to the store Thus, according to the present invention, it is possible to issue a receipt number that does not give a clue to know information on the number of visitors.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of an ECR showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the electrical connection of each unit inside the ECR.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart schematically showing a flow of a product registration process.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of a receipt number issuing process.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Step T1-5 First means Step T6 Second means

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A product which obtains the price of the product and the total price of all the input products on condition that the product information for specifying the product is input, and prints and issues a receipt on which sales details are recorded at a predetermined timing. In the sales data processing device, a first means for obtaining a number combining date data and time data corresponding to the date and time when the transaction was made, and the printed content of the receipt as a receipt number using the number obtained by the first means And a second means for inserting the data into the merchandise sales data processing apparatus.