JPS60142496A - Electronic type cash register - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to electronic cash registers (hereinafter referred to as ECRs), and particularly to ECRs in which, for example, products to be registered are specified by alphabetical product names.

Description of Prior Art Conventionally, when specifying a product to be registered in ECH, there have been two methods: a so-called full key system and a method of inputting a product code using a numeric keypad. A full key system is a method in which a key is installed to specify the product for each product, but with this method, as the number of products increases, the number of keys to be provided increases, and the shape of the keyboard becomes larger.As a result, ECR There was a flaw that turned into a doll. - Using the method of specifying a product by inputting the product by h1 unkey, you can press fewer keys, but as the number of product types increases, the A verator is unable to memorize the product. First, you have to enter the product code while looking at it.

T's! However, there was a drawback that the operability deteriorated.

OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide an ECR that requires fewer keys even when the number of types of products increases, and has improved operability.

Bridge Construction and Effects of the Invention To summarize, the present invention is an ECR system in which a product to be registered is specified by inputting a part name using alphabet keys.
Deat - (, Memorize the full name of each product in the full spelling of Arnobet, and use the alphabet keys to add it to your fingertips.
When a part or all of the spelling of Alphabella 1 to 1 of a WJa product is entered from the beginning, it is possible to search for the corresponding product from the storage means and register that product based on the spelling with a panono level of 4. It was designed to be.

According to the present invention, it is not necessary to provide a key for specifying a product for each type of product as in the past, so it is possible to prevent the ECH from increasing in size. Furthermore, when entering a product name using the alphabet keys, it is sufficient to enter at least enough spelling to identify the designated product, and there is no need to enter the full spelling, so the product name input operation can be performed extremely quickly.

Hereinafter, this invention will be described in more detail with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of an ECR according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, this ECRI is provided with a printer 2 and a display 3 on the upper front surface thereof. Further, a keyboard 4 is provided at the lower front surface so as to project forward.

FIG. 2 is a key arrangement diagram of the keyboard 4 shown in FIG. 1. As shown in the figure, this keyboard 4 has a mode key 41
, an alphabet key 42 , a small i1 key 43 , a department key 44 , a total key 45 , a close key 46 , a clear key 47 , and a numeric keypad 48 . The mode key 41 is a key for switching the operation mode of the ECRI.

The alphabet key 42 inputs the alphabet.
This key is used for inputting product names, for example. The subtotal key 43 is a key used when it is desired to output the subtotal up to that point during a transaction. The department key 44 is a key for instructing a search for product names.

The total key 45 is a key for instructing department registration of products. The tightening key 46 is a key for causing the ECRI to perform a tightening operation. The clear key 47 is a key for instructing clearing of various input information and clearing of the product name displayed on the display 3. The numeric keypad 48 is a key for inputting numerical information.

FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram of the ECR 1 shown in FIG. 1. In the figure, [ECR1 includes CPLI5. This C
The aforementioned printer 21 display 3 and keyboard 4 are connected to the PU 5. Furthermore, CPLJ5 has ROM
G and RAM7 are connected. The ROM 6 stores an operating program as shown in FIG. 6, which will be described later. C.P.
U5 operates according to this operation program. R.A.
M7 stores processing data, performance data, etc. of CPLJ5, and also includes a storage area as described below.

Next, the storage area of the RAM 7 will be explained.

This RAM 7 includes storage areas 71-75.

The storage area 71 is used as an area for storing a flag indicating that numerical information has been input from the numeric keypad 48 and that alphabetical information has been input from the alpha-bellanimous key 42, that is, a key manual flag (F-KEY). The storage area 72 is used as a key manual data save register (WREG) for storing numerical information input from the numeric keypad 48 and alphabetical information input from the Arno bet keys 42. The storage area 73 is a first product number save area (WDEPT'#) that stores the product number (DEPT#) of the product name searched and selected by the CPU 5 when a product name is input using the Arno bet key 42. ) is used as The storage area 74 is used as a second product number save area (WDEPr#B) for storing the product number of the product name searched by the CPU 5 when a product name is input from the alphabet keys 42. Note that there may be a plurality of product names searched by the CPU 5, and therefore the second product number save area is configured to be able to store a plurality of product numbers. The storage area 75 is used as a product-specific registration area for storing the product name, total sales, number of products sold, and number of products sold on the previous day for each product type. This product-specific registration area 75 includes an area 751 for product number 1 to an area 75n for product number n.

Figure 4 shows the case of registering a product such as coffee -
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a V-sequence.

The fifth factor is an illustrative diagram for explaining the product name search and selection operations performed by the CPtJ5 when the product name is input using the key sequence shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of CPtJ5 shown in FIG.

The operation of the embodiment described above will be described below with reference to FIGS. 4 to 6.

First, an explanation will be given of the operation when the department registration of a product is performed using the key sequence shown in FIG. In this case, the product to be registered is coffee, and therefore the alphabetic spelling of coffee is input using the alphabet keys 42. However, in the ECR 1 of this embodiment, it is not necessary to spell out the full spelling of the product name, so in FIG. 4, rcOJ is input from the beginning of the spelling of the product name. In step S1 of FIG. 6, it is determined whether there is a key force, and in step S2, it is determined that the key force is the alphabet key 42. Then, the process proceeds to step $3, and the input alphabet information is stored in the key manual data save register <WREG) of the RAM 7. Then, at step S4 113,
The key human power flag (FKEY) is set to stone. When the input of the product name is completed, the department key 44 is pressed this time.

This pressing of the department key 44 is judged by the test 735,
In step S6, it is determined whether the key human power flag is set. In this case, if the key human power flag is not set, it means that the department key 44 was pressed even though there was no human power for the product name, so error processing J1 is performed.

On the other hand, if it is determined that the key human power flag is set to 1~, the process goes to step $7~step S12, and the product name and product-specific registration stored in the key human power data save register (WR[EG) are saved. The product names stored in the area 75 are sequentially compared, a matching product name is searched for, and if there are multiple product names searched, one product name is selected from among them. The operation at this time will be explained with reference to Fig. 5. For example, if I C0,1 is entered manually as part of the product name as shown in Fig. 4, the same product name as rcOJ will be picked up. Product-specific registration area 75
Search product names sequentially starting from DEPT #1.

In this example, DEPT4t1 and DEPT#3 are the same.゛, This product non-purchase is stored in the second product non-purchase save area (WDEPT#B).

Next, for DEPT #1 and DEPT #3, the one with the larger sales counter for the previous day is selected. In this example, coffee is larger, 300 pieces for coffee and 50 pieces for cocoa.
Therefore, coffee is selected and DEP'T#1 is set in the first product number save area (WDEPT#). In addition, in such an ECR, a daily post-closing product sales report is generally issued, and at the same time, a predetermined area of the RAM 7 is cleared (this process is generally referred to as 7-settlement). At this time, before clearing the sales counter, the value is transferred to the previous day's sales counter. In this Z settlement, the area for the day before the sales 7J counter is not cleared.

Next, the process proceeds to step 313, where the product name corresponding to the product number stored in the first product number save area is displayed on the display 3. The process then proceeds to step 814, where the key human power flag 71 is reset. Here, if the product name displayed on the display 3 is different from the product name displayed by the mebelator, the clear key 47 is pressed. This suppression of clear energy/1.7 is performed in step S1*S2
＋S! J + After S17, judgment lT is determined in step 315.
1 will be given. Then, the process proceeds to step 316, where the display contents on the display 3 are cleared. Furthermore, the process proceeds to step 314 and the key human power flag is reset to 8. Note that this difference in selection occurred because the number of incorrect spellings of product names was small. (If you want to enter a Baidu product name, you can enter more spellings than the number of spellings of the product name entered this time. Or you can manually spell out the full product name. Good. If you enter the full spelling of the product name, the desired product will definitely be selected.

Next, the operator inputs the amount of the product using the numeric keypad 48 as shown in FIG. The key manual power data is stored in the save register. Then, in step S4, the key manual power flag is set. Thereafter, the operation returns to step S1 again.

Next, the operator presses the white key 45 as shown in FIG. This pressing of the total key 45 is performed in step S1.
After S'2.35, a determination is made in step 817. The process then proceeds to step 818, where it is determined whether the stored content of the first product number save area is O. if,
If the stored content of the first product number save area is O, it means that the total key 45 was pressed even though there is no product corresponding to the entered product name, and an error process is performed. On the other hand, if the above memory content is 0, step 8
The process proceeds to step 19, where it is determined whether or not the key human power flag is set. If the key human power flag is not set, it means that the total key 45 has been pressed even though the price of the product has not been input, so an error process is performed.

On the other hand, if it is determined that the key human power flag is set, the process proceeds to step 820 and 1, the product name in the product-specific registration area corresponding to the product number stored in the first product number save area and the key human power data are stored. The amount of the product stored in the save register is displayed on the display 3. Then, the process proceeds to step 321, and the same content as that displayed in step 820 is printed on the printer 2. Continuation 1,
Proceeding to step 322, the sales amount and product counter in the product-specific registration area corresponding to the product number stored in the first product number save area are updated.

Next, the process proceeds to step 323, where the key human power flag is reset and the first product number save area is cleared. Thereafter, the process returns to step S1 again.

Next, although not shown in FIG. 4, the closing operation of ECRI, that is, the closing operation of one transaction will be explained.

In this case, the operator presses the locking key 46 to cause the ECR1 to perform a tightening operation. The pressing of the close key 46 is determined in step 324, and the process proceeds to step 825, where the sales and total amount of the transaction at that time are displayed on the display 3. Also, proceed to step 326 and step 8
The same content as displayed at 25 is displayed on the printer 2. Thereafter, the process returns to step S1 again.

Although the operations that are of interest to the present invention have been described above, other operations may be the same as those of a general ECR, and their explanation will be omitted.

As described above, according to the above-mentioned embodiment, the product name to be registered is specified by inputting the product name using the alphabet keys, so even if the number of product types increases, the ECR will become a puppet due to the keyboard space. can be prevented. Further, even if the full spelling of the product name is not input, the desired product can be effectively searched and selected within the range of the number of spellings entered, so the input operation of the product name can be performed extremely quickly.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of an ECH according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a key arrangement diagram of the keyboard 4 shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram of the ECR 1 not shown in FIG. 1. No. 400 is a diagram showing an example of a key sequence for registering a product that becomes the ECRI shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 5 is an illustrative diagram for explaining the product name search and selection operations performed by the CPU 5 when a product name is input using the key sequence shown in FIG. FIG. 6 is a flowchart 1 for explaining the operation of tCI)U5 shown in FIG. In the figure, 1 is the EGR 12 is the printer, 3 is the display,
4 is the keyboard, 5 is the CPU, (3 is 1 (OM), 7 is R
A M, 42 is Nofuruffabet key, 75 is registered J rear by product. Figure 1 Blade 2 Figure 3

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) An electronic cash register in which products to be registered are specified by product name from Alphabella 1, a means for storing the product name of each product in alphabetical norspelling, and a means for inputting the product name. Arc 1 bet 1-1゛-
When a part or all of the spelling of an alphabetic product name is entered manually from the beginning using the alphabeke/1- key, C1 selects the corresponding product from the nJ billion means based on the spelling entered by input σ. An electronic type equipped with means for detecting ()1.
11 Tsushiyu register. (2) One way to search for the product is to select one of the 4 products based on past 〇〇 record information for each product when there are multiple corresponding products.Ts ;)
'1 Product Range Electrical formula 1 as described in item 1. Tosh register. (3) The past registration information is the electronic % type % according to claim 2, which is the sales quantity on the previous day.