JPS5914848Y2 - POS terminal device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention provides a PO5 terminal device, particularly a terminal device having an instruction display section for operator guidance. The present invention relates to a PO5 terminal device in which the operator can easily recognize the cause of the error by blinking the symbol.

Generally, in a terminal device such as a PO3 terminal device, an operator performs data input processing according to a data input procedure instructed by an instruction display section.

If an operator error occurs due to an operator error, the built-in speaker will generate an intermittent sound and the error lamp on the instruction display will light up to notify the operator that an operator error has occurred. I have to.

By the way, the above-mentioned operator errors include things like the normal method.

In other words, operator errors include (1) an error in the number of data input digits (usually an error due to overflow);
) Errors in input category contents, (3) Errors due to incorrect operation of function keys, (4) Errors such as over-digits in calculation results, (5) Errors due to incorrect insertion of slips, (6) Errors in handling of credits. There are errors as a result of credit inquiries in transactions.

In the conventional terminal device as described above, the operator:
The operator errors (1) to 4) above (temporarily referred to as the first group of operator errors) are errors that are directly caused by errors in the input data, and the time of data input processing and the time of error occurrence are different. Since they are almost synchronized, the cause of the input error can be easily recognized.

However, operator errors in (5) and (6) above (
Regarding the second group of operator errors),
Errors that are not directly caused by errors in the input data and are due to the fact that the time of data input processing and the time of error occurrence are not necessarily synchronized, or the frequency of occurrence of these operator errors is relatively small. It was difficult for the operator to recognize the causes of these errors, and error recovery processing was not carried out smoothly.

Additionally, an error code corresponding to the type of error that has occurred is displayed.

This error code display is based on the type entered by the operator.
It is also used as a display section to display data.

Therefore, when an error occurs, the input data value displayed on the display section at that time is erased.

This error display method is effective for the first group of operator errors (that is, errors directly caused by an error in the operator's input category).

However, the second group of operator errors mentioned above (i.e.
In the case of an error caused by an operator operation other than operation input data, the data displayed at the time of the error becomes invalid, and there is a risk that the operator may cause subsequent data input errors.

The present invention aims to solve the above-mentioned problems, and is configured so that when a certain type of operator error occurs, for example, the second group of operator errors mentioned above, the operator can easily know the cause of the error. 2nd group of operators
The purpose is to ensure that the error recovery process for the occurrence of an error is performed as smoothly as the error recovery process for the first group of operator errors.

For this reason, the PO5 terminal device of the present invention includes an instruction display section including a plurality of item lamps for instructing the operator about data input items, and an operation input means for inputting data based on instructions from the instruction display section. a processing unit that performs transaction processing based on data input by the human operating means; and a sequence control unit that controls the instruction display unit according to the processing result of the processing unit and specifies the next item to be input. a terminal device having a notification means for notifying that an error has occurred during a data input operation by an operator or a transaction processing by the processing section; a determining unit that determines whether or not the error is directly caused by an error; and as a result of the determination by the determining unit, if the error that has occurred is not directly caused by an error in the input data, the notifying means notifies the error; The present invention is characterized by comprising a control means for blinking an item lamp of an instruction display section corresponding to an error that has occurred.

The present invention will be explained below with reference to the drawings.

Fig. 1 shows the configuration of an embodiment of the terminal device of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the PO3 terminal device of the invention, and Fig. 3 shows a flowchart explaining its processing operation. .

In FIG. 1, 1 is an internal bus, 2 is a microprocessor, 3 is a random access memory, 4 is a read-only memory in which instructions are stored, 5 is a display control section, 6 is a keyboard control section, 7 is the keyboard, 8
9 is an instruction display unit that instructs the operator to perform manual procedures, 9 is a speaker control unit, and 10
1 is a speaker which generates, for example, an intermittent sound when an input error occurs; 11 is a reception control section; 12 is a transmission control section; 13 is a line; 14 is a floppy disk control section;
5 is a floppy disk, 16 is a printer control unit, 1
7 each represent a printer.

On the instruction display section 8, input items such as item 1, product number, and slip are displayed in advance, and a lamp is provided in association with each item.

The operator operates the keyboard 7 according to instructions on the instruction display section 8 to perform data input processing.

That is, for example, when a lamp corresponding to a weighted item is lit, the operator inputs and processes data related to the date.

The manually entered data is printed by, for example, a printer 17 and is transferred to a center device (not shown) via the reception control section 11 and line 13.

Note that both the printing process by the printer 17 and the transfer process to the center device are performed according to the process by the microprocessor 2.

If an operator error as described above occurs, an error lamp (not shown) in the instruction display section 8 is lit and an intermittent sound is emitted from the speaker 10 via the speaker control section 9 through processing by the microprocessor 2. will now occur.

In this case, if the operator error that has occurred is a second group operator error as described above, in addition to the generation of intermittent sound by the speaker 10, an input corresponding to the type of operator error is displayed on the instruction display section 8. Make the item lamp blink in synchronization with the intermittent sound of the speaker.

FIG. 2 shows the configuration of an embodiment of the PO5 terminal device according to the present invention.

In the figure, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17 correspond to the numbers in FIG. 1, 18 is an input control section, 19 is an arithmetic control section, 20 is a sequence control section, and 21 is a line data editing section. , 22 is a print data editing section, 23 is an error detection section,
24 is a timer circuit, 25 is a flip-flop circuit, 2
6 represents an error determination section, and 27 represents an AND gate.

In FIG. 2, the input control section 18 processes input data input manually by an operator's keyboard operations.

The arithmetic control section 19 performs arithmetic processing on the processed input data or the data sent from the center device via the reception control section 11, and sends the arithmetic results to the sequence control section 20 and the line device. The data is sent to the data editing section 21 and the print data editing section 22.

The sequence control unit 20 outputs input item designation information to the input control unit 18 and the instruction display unit 8 based on the calculation results from the calculation control unit 19.

Here, the input item designation information is information that designates the item related to the data to be input next.

The line data editing unit 21 edits the calculation results from the calculation control unit 19 into a line data format, and outputs the edited line data to the transmission control unit 12.

The transmission control section 12 outputs the line data from the line data editing section 21 to a center device (not shown) via the line 13.

On the other hand, the print data editing section 22 edits the calculation results from the calculation control section 19 into a print data format,
The edited print data is output to the printer 17.

The printer 17 also performs printing processing based on the print data from the print data editing section 22.

The error detection section 23 detects the input data check result signal sent from the input control section 18, the slip insertion state check result signal sent from the Punonta 17, and the credit transaction check signal sent from the reception control section 11. Operator error detection processing is also performed based on the verification result signal.

The timer circuit 24 is operated by the operator by the error detection section 23.
When an error is detected, a timing pulse is output to periodically set and reset the flip-flop circuit 25.

The speaker 10 generates an intermittent sound in response to the periodic setting and resetting of the flip-flop circuit 25.

When an operator error is detected by the error detection unit 23, the error determination unit 26 determines whether the operator error belongs to the first group of operator errors or the second group of operator errors as described above. and outputs a logic "0" signal if said operator error belongs to the first group of operator errors, while outputting a logic "1" signal if said operator error belongs to the second group of operator errors. Output a signal.

In the instruction display section 8, the error detection section 2
3, when an operator error is detected, an error lamp is lit.

In addition, in the instruction display section 8, when the error determination section 26 determines that the operator error belongs to the second group of operator errors, the lamp of the item corresponding to the operator error is synchronized with the intermittent tone of the speaker 10. and flashes.

An example of the processing operation of the PO5 terminal device in the terminal device configured as described above will be sequentially explained below with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

(1) When an operator error is detected by the error detection section 23, the error detection section 23 outputs an error display signal to the instruction display section 8 and lights up an error lamp.

(2) When the error detection section 23 detects an operator error, the timer circuit 24 outputs a timing pulse and flips.

The circuit 25 is periodically set and reset.

Therefore, the speaker 10 has a flip-flop circuit 25
Intermittent sounds will now be generated in response to set/reset.

(3) On the other hand, the error determination unit 26 performs processing to determine whether the operator error belongs to the first group of operator errors or the second group of operator errors, and determines whether the operator error belongs to the first group of operator errors. If it belongs to an operator error, it outputs a logic "O" signal, while if the operator error belongs to the second group of operator errors, it outputs a logic "1" signal.

(4) Therefore, when the operator error belongs to the first group of operator errors, the output of the AND gate 27 becomes a logic "0" signal, and only the error lamp on the instruction display section 8 is lit.

(5) On the other hand, operator error occurs in the second group of operators.
If the error belongs to a lamp, the output of the AND gate 27 will be the same as the output of the flip-flop circuit 25, and the lamp of the item corresponding to the operator error in the instruction display section 8 will blink.

That is, the lamp starts blinking in time with the intermittent sound from the speaker 10.

(6) The operator then performs error recovery processing.

As explained above, according to the present invention, operator errors are assigned a hierarchy in advance, and errors are displayed according to each hierarchy.

Therefore, even if an operator error that is difficult for the operator to identify, such as the second group of operator errors, occurs, the operator can
You can easily recognize what the error is.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an embodiment of the terminal device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the PO3 terminal device according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 shows a flowchart illustrating its processing operation. In the figure, 8 represents an instruction display section, 10 a speaker, 23 an error detection section, and 26 an error determination section.

Claims (1)

[Claims for Utility Model Registration] An instruction display section provided with a plurality of item lamps for instructing an operator on data input items; an operation input means for inputting data based on instructions from the instruction display section; A terminal device comprising: a processing section that performs transaction processing by inputting input through an operation input means; and a sequence control section that controls the instruction display section according to the result and specifies the next item to be input, A notification means for notifying that an error has occurred during a data input operation by an operator or during transaction processing by the processing unit, and determining whether the error that has occurred is directly caused by an error in the input data. a determination unit; and as a result of the determination by the determination unit, if the error that has occurred is not directly caused by an error in the input data, a false notification means notifies the error and an item lamp on the instruction display unit corresponding to the error that has occurred; A PO5 terminal device characterized by comprising: a control means for blinking.