JPS60220488A - 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] <Technical Field of the Invention> The present invention provides an electronic cash register (hereinafter referred to as E
It's called CR. ) regarding.

<Prior art and its problems> Conventionally, many ECRs display item names, payment items, etc. in katakana on a display, and use a printer to print kanji or katakana on paper such as receipts. The method for displaying and printing these characters is to perform predetermined operations on the ECR keyboard, store the character code corresponding to the key manually in the work area from the character setting memory area of the storage section, and then display and print. It is something. The character setting memory area is provided in the storage unit with two memory areas, one for display and one for printing. When displaying characters, etc., the display memory area is used, and when characters, etc. are printed using a printer, the display and printing processes are performed using the printing memory area.

However, in the above method, there are two parts in the storage part, one for display and one for printing.
Since two character setting areas are required, there is a problem in that the storage section becomes large.

When displaying or printing characters other than kanji, use the display and print character setting areas.
It was necessary to perform character setting operations twice.

<Object of the Invention> The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems.The purpose of the present invention is to reduce the size of the storage unit, and to make it possible to set characters only once when displaying and printing on displays, receipts, etc. The purpose is to provide an electronic cash register that can be operated easily.

<Structure and Effects of the Invention> In order to achieve the above object, the electronic cash register of the present invention includes a memory for storing key input information from a keyboard having payment keys, etc., and a central processor for calculating and controlling the information in the memory. an electronic cash register having a device, a display for displaying the results processed by the central processing unit, and a printer for printing the results; 1 character setting area, a storage means for storing the character code, a kanji/katakana correspondence table for converting the kanji character code into the character code for the character J'-isu, and characters for displaying and printing the character code. It is characterized in that it has a character code correspondence table for converting into a pattern and k[+ifi. According to the present invention having such a configuration, the RAfV1 area of the storage section can be significantly reduced. Dad, you can perform display and print processing with a single character setting operation. In other words, this has the effect of simplifying the character setting operation.

<Embodiments of the invention> Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail based on the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an overall block diagram showing an embodiment of an ECR according to the present invention. In the figure, 1 is a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU) that performs arithmetic processing and various controls, and this CPtJ 1 includes a memory (hereinafter referred to as CPU) that stores preset programs shown in FIGS. 8 to 10, which will be described later. The following RO
M) 2, and a writable and readable memory (hereinafter referred to as RAM) that stores data etc. based on the results of arithmetic processing.
3, a keyboard 4 shown in FIG. 2 which will be described later, a display 5 for displaying numbers, departments, and other various characters, a printer 6, and a cash drawer 7 are connected.

FIG. 2 is an illustrative diagram specifically showing the keyboard 4. As shown in FIG. In the figure, on the operation panel of the keyboard 4, a mode setting switch 8 for selecting the operation mode of the ECR, a department key 9, a numerical key 10 & for inputting numerical information, and a function key 11 for payment etc. are arranged. ing.

FIG. 3 shows a layout diagram of the memory area of the RAM 3. This area includes a memory area 3a for the character code correspondence table, a memory area 3b for the Kanji/Katakana correspondence table, a character setting memory area 3C for display and printing, and a memory area 3C for each of the 4 and II flags and work. Memory area 3d and memory area 3e used for other purposes
It consists of FIG. 4 is an illustrative diagram showing the specific contents of the character code correspondence table 3a shown in FIG. 3, and FIG. FIG. 6 is an illustrative diagram showing the specific contents of the memory area 3C for character setting shown in FIG. 3. FIGS. 7(a) and 7(b) are illustrative views showing examples of display by the display 5 and examples of printing by the printer 6. FIGS.

FIGS. 8 to 10 are operational flowcharts of an embodiment of the present invention. Based on this operation 70-chart, the case of displaying and printing the characters ``total'' and ``voice'' will be described below. First, the mode setting switch 8, department key 9, and functions for payment etc. on the operation panel of the keyboard 4 will be described. Operate key 11 (step ■
), signals corresponding to the human power of these keys are input to the CPU 1. Among these keys, function key 11
The input signal is converted into character codes such as 101 and 102 in the memory area 3c for character setting. This converted character code is then stored in the work memory area 3d (step 2). Next CPU1
Step (2) executes display processing of the character code stored in this work memory area 3d, then step (2) executes printing processing for printing on paper such as a receipt, and finally, Execute processing such as sending out receipts, etc. (Step ■), and finish.

By the way, to explain in more detail the display processing in step (3), the CPU 1 first reads the character codes stored in the work memory area 3d, for example, 101, 1.
Determine whether 02 is a code representing a kanji (
Step ■). If this character code is a character code that represents a total of 6 ``'' kanji, then this character code is 101,
102 is the character code 010, 051, 003, which represents katakana in the kanji/katakana correspondence table 3N2.
009 and 002 (step @). Then, this converted character code is converted to the character pattern "'BOOKEI" in the character code correspondence table 3a, and this converted explosive pattern "GOUKEI"' is displayed on the display 5 as shown in FIG. 7(a). (Step ■). on the other hand,
If a character code representing a katakana character other than a kanji character is stored in the work memory area 3d by the key operation, the process jumps from the process of step (2) to the process of step [Yes]. That is, the stored character code representing katakana etc. other than kanji is converted into a character pattern of the character code correspondence table 3a, and the katakana etc. character corresponding to this character pattern is displayed on the display 5.

Next, to describe in detail the printing process in step (3), the CPU 1 converts the character code, for example 101°102, stored in the work memory area 3d into the character pattern pattern sum of the character code correspondence table 3a, and this conversion The resulting character pattern “total” is shown in Figure 7 (
b) is printed by the printer 6 (step 0
). In addition, in the process of this step @, even if a character code representing katakana etc. is stored in the work memory area 3d, this character code is converted into a character pattern in the same manner as described above, and this character pattern is The corresponding characters are printed via the printer 6.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, a case was explained in which the sum of 6 is converted into "wo"gokei" in the kanji/katakana correspondence table 3b provided in the RAIV 13 of the ECR, but other characters are also displayed and printed. be able to.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an overall block diagram of an ECR that is an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an illustrative diagram of the keyboard shown in FIG. 1, and FIG.
FIG. 1 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of one embodiment of the RAM layerer shown in FIG. 1...CPU, 2...ROM, 3...RAM, 4...
・Keyboard, 5... Display, 6... Printer, 7...
...Cash drawer. Patent Applicant Tateishi Electric Co., Ltd. Agent Patent Attorney Tetsuji Iwakura (and 1 other person) Figure 1 Figure 2 w & Figure 3 Figure 4 T! l No. 5 Kindergarten No. 8

Claims (1)

[Claims] A memory that stores key information from a keyboard having payment keys, etc., a central processing unit that calculates and controls the information in the memory, a display that displays the results processed by the central processing unit, and a printer that prints the results. an electronic cash register having, in the memory, a character setting area for converting the key into a character code in response to human input; a storage means for storing the character code; An electronic cash register comprising: a kanji/katakana correspondence table for converting character codes into character codes; and a character code correspondence table for converting the character codes into character patterns for displaying and printing.