JPS5846463A - Detection system of electronic register for number of customers - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain materials for business to be utilized by detecting the number of coming customers, counting data on the number of customers every time the detection is performed and finding data on the number of costomer at prescribed time, and then recording the number of customers coming within a specified time. CONSTITUTION:A store is opened at, for example, 9 o'clock. Coming customers are detected by a sensor S2, whose output is supplied to a one-shot circuit 22 and an AND circuit 31. Once said customers are detected by a sensor S1, the output signal of the circuit 22 allows counters 4 and 6 to go up by one, sending a customer entry signal to a circuit 5. According to the counted value of the counter 4, circuits 8 and 5 operate. Each entering customer is detected by the sensors S1 and S2 successively, and while the signal of a circuit 21 decreases the contents of the counter 4 by one, the circuit 5 operates. A timing signal is inputted to a control circuit 10 and a delay circuit 11 one hour later, and the counted value of the counter 6 is written in a memory 13 as data on the number of entering customers between 9 and 10 o'clock. A clocking circuit 14 writes current time and the delay circuit 11 clears the counter 6. Said operation is carried out repeatedly.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a method for detecting the number of customers at an electronic register for determining the number of customers visiting a store.

Generally, electronic registers do not have a function to detect the number of customers in the store, and therefore, the number of customers entering the store cannot be used as a sales data.

In particular, if you can know at what time of day the number of customers is the highest, you can respond appropriately when displaying products or allocating employees. Also, if you can understand the relationship between product sales and the number of customers, it can be a useful material for sales.

This invention was made based on the above circumstances, and its purpose is to provide a completely new electronic register that can calculate the number of customers at a predetermined time.

An embodiment in which the present invention is applied to an electronic cash register with a voice function will be shown below. FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram of the main part, and shows a sensor 811S! installed near the store door at a predetermined interval. is provided. This sensor is 81.8! Each of the sensors 8m and 5m is composed of, for example, a light emitting element and a light receiving element, and the detection signals from the sensors 8m and 5m are respectively input into the waveform shaping circuit 11.1.

This waveform shaping circuit 11.1'' shapes the waveform of the input detection signal, and the waveform shaped rectangular signal from the waveform shaping circuit 11 is sent to the one shot circuit 21 and the AND gate 3
Further, a rectangular signal whose waveform has been shaped by the waveform shaping circuit 12 is outputted to the one-shot circuit 28 and the AND gate 31. In addition, one-shot circuit sz, 2
The one-shot signals output from the dew are input to AND gates 31 and 32, respectively. The one-shot signal output from the AND gate 31 is input to the DW terminal which subtracts 771 from the count value of the counter 4, and is further input to the audio output control circuit 5 to output audio for the store customers. On the other hand, the one-shot signal output from the AND gate 32 changes the counted value of the counter 4.6 according to the inputted one-shot (i%), and converts this counted value into the current in-store customer count data. as 0Pt
0P T7 and speaking speed as current in-store customer number data
Sends to U7 and speech rate designation circuit 8, and also outputs 0Pt
The OI+ signal that clears the count value is input from T7.

The speech rate designation circuit 8 outputs, to the audio output control circuit 5, speech rate data corresponding to the input customer number data in the store among the plurality of speech rate data. In addition, the audio output control circuit 5 stores the output audio data, and when the one-ma-shot signal is input from the anime game 31, the audio data for uttering "Iran Shai Mase" is outputted again. When a one-shot signal is input from the gate 32, the voice data for uttering "Mido Arigato Gozaimashita" is addressed and output to the speaker 9 at a speed specified by the voice speed data input. Furthermore, the audio output control circuit 5 is addressed by the audio data corresponding to the registered data from the 0PU 7, and this audio data is outputted at a speed according to the vocal jointness degree data.

The counter 6 increments the count value by +1 every time the one-shot signal is input and sells, and sends the count value to the write control circuit 10 as data on the number of customers who have entered the store from a specific time to the present. It is cleared by the OL multiplication signal input from 11. When the timing signal is input from the timer 12 at regular intervals, the control circuit 10 first writes the customer number data into the memory area of the specified row address in the memory 13, and then writes the current time sent from the clock circuit 14. Control is performed to write data to the storage area.

The timer 12 outputs the timing signal at regular time intervals according to the time interval data set from the OPH 1, and this timing signal is also input to the delay circuit 11, where it is delayed and the writing of the current time data is completed. At the same time, the OL multiplied signal is output. The memory 13
The number of customers and time data entered in the storage area of the designated row address are stored in the memory 13, and the data in the memory 13 is sent to the QPU 7. The 0PU7 outputs registration data and time interval data, and also receives the in-store customer number data and data in the memory 13, and also inputs the clock circuit 1.
Current time data is input from 4. In addition, OPH1
A key operation signal from an input * (not shown) and a control signal from a printing eye (not shown) are input, and data is further output to a printing section and a display section (not shown).

Next, the operation of this invention will be explained. First, after specifying the mode switch of the input section to "setting" mode,
When the ffi number key and the time key provided on the input section are operated to input a one-hour time interval of 1'lj, this time interval data is set in the timer 12. Next, the mode switch is designated to the "registration" mode, and at this time, the counts of counters 4 and 6 are both cleared to "0". If the store opens at 9 o'clock, a customer who enters the store through the store door is first detected by the sensor S2,
The rectangular signal shown in FIG. 2(A) output from the waveform shaping circuit 12 is one-shot circuit 2! and AND circuit 31
is input. Next, the customer is detected by the sensor 8, and the waveform shaping circuit 11 outputs the signal (FIG. 2 CB).
The rectangular signal shown in is one-shot circuit 2! and And Gate 3! At this time, the one-shot circuit 22
The one-shot signal shown in FIG.
At the same time, the signal is input to the audio output control circuit 5 as an input customer audio output signal. Then, the count value of the counter 4 is converted by the speech rate designation circuit 8 and inputted as speech rate data to the voice output control circuit 5, and the voice data of "Iratsu Shaimase" is outputted in accordance with this voice rate data. The above operation is repeated whenever a customer enters the store,
At this time, voice data whose speaking speed is subject to control is output.

By the way, when a customer in the store enters the store, this customer is first detected by sensor S1, and then detected by sensor S2.
Therefore, the one-shot signal output from the one-shot circuit 21 decreases the count value of the counter 4 by 1 via the AND gate 31, and is inputted to the audio output control circuit 5 as a customer audio output signal. [Might
...Mashita' voice data is output at a speed according to the speaking speed data. Such operations are repeated each time a customer opens a store.

Next, when it reaches 10 o'clock one hour after the store opens, a timing signal is output from the timer 12 and the write control circuit 1
0 and is input to the delay circuit 11. Then, the count value of the counter 6 is written into a designated storage area of the memory 13 via the write control circuit 10 as data on the number of customers who entered the store during the time period from 9:00 to 10:00. Immediately after this, the current time data is written from the clock circuit 14 to the storage area of the memory 13 via the write control circuit 10, and after this, the signal OII is output from the delay circuit 11 and the count value of the counter 6 is cleared. . Exactly the same operation is repeated every hour, and as a result, the number of customers who entered the store during the hour and their final time are sequentially written in the storage area of the memory 13 ◇ Also, operate the input section When you register,
The registered data is transmitted to the audio output control circuit 5 via 0PTr7.
The corresponding voice data is specified, and this voice data is output at a speed according to speech speed data obtained by converting the count value of the counter 4 corresponding to the current number of customers in the store.

Furthermore, after the registration operation for -day is completed, when the mode switch is set to the "Payment" mode and a predetermined key is operated, the contents of the memory 13 are sequentially read out to 0PU7 and output to the printing section, and the third It is printed on recording paper as shown in the figure.

As mentioned above, in this embodiment, the counter 4 always counts the number of customers currently in the store and controls the output speed of audio data from the audio output control circuit 5 based on this count. The processing speed can be increased depending on how crowded it is. In addition, the counter 6 counted the number of customers who entered the store within an hour, stored it in the memory 13, and printed it out.
There is also the advantage that this printed data can be used as business materials.In addition, in the above embodiment, the sensors S1 and S snow were configured with a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element, respectively, but they can be freely configured as long as they can detect customers at a crowded store. be.

Further, in the above embodiment, the total number of customers data within a predetermined time is stored, but the count value of a counter that counts the total number of customers entering the store is stored sequentially at a predetermined time. Good too. Here, you can get the cumulative number of customers entering the store up to a certain time.

As explained above, according to the present invention, the number of customers entering the store is detected, and each time the customer entering the store is detected, the customer number data is counted to calculate the number of customers at a predetermined time.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a circuit configuration diagram of a main part showing one embodiment of the present invention, FIGS. 2(A) to (0) are time charts of the same embodiment, and FIG.
The figure is a printing state diagram of the same embodiment. 4.6...Counter, 5...Audio output control circuit, 7
...OPU, 8...Speech rate designation circuit, 10...
Write control circuit, 12... timer, 13... memory,
14...Clock circuit, 91.82...Sensor. Patent applicant Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Claims] a customer number detection means for detecting the number of customers entering the store; a customer number counting means for counting customer number data each time a customer enters the store is detected by the customer number detection means; A method for detecting the number of customers of an electronic register, comprising a storage means for sequentially storing data on the number of customers.