JPS63132396A - Electronic cash register - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an electronic cash register that can display messages for operation guidance and error details, and in particular to an electronic cash register that can display messages alternately in two languages. Regarding.

[Prior Art] Some electronic cash registers have a function that allows credit sales in addition to normal cash sales. Such an electronic cash register is provided with a card reader VRII (IDCR) for reading card information stored in a credit card and a keypad for a customer to enter a personal identification number. Then, the cashier sequentially enters sales data such as the sales amount and number of products sold to the customer, inserts the credit card received from the customer into the card reader, reads the card information, and asks the customer to enter the password. Have the number entered from the keypad. If the customer is permitted to sell by card based on the card information, password, etc., the payment terms and other information for credit card sales are entered manually from the keyboard. Then, a credit slip is issued.

When conducting credit sales in this way, what is the series of procedures? ! Requires complicated operations. Therefore, there are systems in which an operation guidance message indicating the next operation to be performed is displayed on the display section for unaccustomed cashiers. Further, in such an electronic cash register, if an erroneous operation is performed during the execution, an error message indicating the details of the erroneous operation is also displayed. Some of these operation guidance messages and error messages need to be confirmed only by the cashier, while others, such as matters related to keypad operation, require the customer to be informed of the contents of the message as well.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, even with the above-described electronic cash register in which operation guidance messages and error messages are displayed on the display section, the following problems still exist.

In other words, at shops selling souvenirs at airports, ports, and large train stations, the customers are not only people from that country, but also people from other countries.

Therefore, the ancient words that each customer understands may differ. For electronic cash registers installed in such stores, if the operating guidance messages and error messages are limited to only one language, there is a concern that an increase in the number of customers who will not be able to understand the contents of the messages will prevent smooth credit sales operations. There is. As a result, service to credit card customers deteriorates.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic cash register that can be smoothly used by more people and improve customer service by displaying the same message alternately in two different languages.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In the electronic cash register of the present invention, a message memory for storing each message to be displayed in two different languages is provided, and the message language switching display means allows the message to be displayed during one message display period. The corresponding message is alternately displayed in each language stored in the message memory.

[Operation] With the electronic cash register configured in this manner, for example, operation guidance messages and error messages are displayed alternately in two languages, so that more people can understand the contents of these messages.

[Example] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the electronic cash register of the embodiment. As shown in the figure, a keyboard 2 as an input device is provided on the front of the housing 1, and a department code of the sales product is provided on the upper front of the housing 1. , a display unit 3 for displaying numbers such as sales amount 1 total amount and various messages, and a slip printer 4 in the middle part. Receipt issue port 5
A drawer 6 is provided at the bottom for use when selling cash. Roughly speaking, a display section 7 for customers having almost the same configuration as the display section 3 is attached to the upper surface of the housing 1 using a support rod.

Furthermore, a card reader 8 for reading credit card information is attached to the side of the housing 1.
Further, a keypad 9 is placed on a table separate from the housing 1 for the customer to manually enter a personal identification number.

As shown in the figure, the keyboard 2 includes number keys 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 30, 40, 40, 50, 50, 50, 50, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 500, 400, 400, 400, 400, 400, 400, 400, 400, 400, 400, 400, 400, 400, 400, 400, 400, etc., to be designated as department keys 11. Deposit used when paying with cash/
Current total key 12. Various sales registration keys such as a card counter key 13 used when making a payment with a credit card are provided.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the electronic cash register. The CPU (Central Processing Unit) 15 has a built-in arithmetic circuit, etc., and performs various arithmetic processing based on input information from the keyboard 2, etc., as well as the data bus 16. control line 17
R that stores fixed data such as each business program via
The OM 18 and the RAM 19, which stores sales data such as the sales amount of each product manually entered, are operated. Also,
The CPU 15 uses a data bus 16. A print buffer storage section 22 that sends print data to a printer drive circuit 21 via a data select 20, and a display section drive circuit 23.
It controls the display buffer storage unit 24 that sends display data to. A printer 25 for printing, for example, sales data on a receipt is connected to the printer drive circuit 21, and each display section 3.7 is connected to the display section drive circuit 23.

Furthermore, the CPU 15 has a data bus 16 and a control line 17.
a keyboard circuit 26. to which key signals from the keyboard 2 and keypad 9 are inputted; The IDCR drive circuit 27 of the card reading device 8 is connected.

As shown in FIG. 1, the RAM 19 stores sales data, such as the sales amount and number of sales items, of each product sold manually using various sales registration keys provided on the keyboard 2, for example, by part code. Sales registration file R1 to be stored cumulatively
, - In addition to the totalizer R2 that calculates the total price of products sold to customers, various messages such as operation guidance messages and error messages to be displayed on the display section 3.7 are displayed in order of message number, first word jI and A message memory R3 is formed which stores messages in two different languages, a second language. Furthermore, a display flag R4 that specifies the display language when messages are displayed alternately in these two languages.
, and a display time memory R5 for storing a set display time To of each language that is alternately displayed.

The CPU 15 is programmed to execute a message display process according to the flowchart of FIG. 4 when it becomes necessary to display a message such as an operation guide message or an error message during the sales registration process. That is, when a message display process with a designated message number is started, each message in two languages corresponding to the message number is read out from the message memory R3 at Pl and stored in the display buffer? Set in the storage unit 24.

Next, at P2, the value of the display flag R4 in the RAM 19 is checked. Then, if the display flag remains cleared to O,
Among the messages consisting of two words 81 previously set in the display buffer storage section 24, the message in the first language is displayed on each display section 3, 7 for a minute time Δt. When the message display for the minute time Δt is completed, it is checked in P3 whether or not a key operation has occurred from the keyboard 2 or keypad 9 as a response to the message displayed. If there is no key operation, the elapsed display time from the start of displaying the message in the first language at P4 is stored in the display time memory R of RAM19.
5, confirm that the set display time To, for example, 1.0 seconds, has not elapsed. If the display elapsed time has not passed the set display time To, the process returns to P2, the display flag R4 is checked, and the message is displayed again in the first language for a minute time Δt.

Then, in P4, when the elapsed display time exceeds the set display time To, the value of the display flag R4 is inverted in P5, and then the process returns to P2. If the value of the display flag R4 is inverted to 1 at P2, the display buffer storage unit 24
The message in the second language set to 1 is displayed on each display section 3.7 for a short time Δt. If there is no new key operation at P3, it is checked at P4 whether the elapsed display time from the start of displaying the message in the second language has exceeded the set display time To.

In this way, unless a new key operation is performed at P3, the value set in the display time memory R5, for example 1.0
The language of the displayed message changes every set display time TO, such as seconds.

Then, when a new key operation is executed at P3, P6
Then, the key manual processing corresponding to that key is executed, and the program proceeds.

With an electronic cash register configured in this way, for example, if you want to prompt a customer to enter a PIN number during a credit card sales operation, the message ``Please enter PIN number'' may be displayed in two languages, katakana and English. are displayed alternately every second.

Then, when the customer manually enters the four-digit PIN number from the keypad 9, the message goes off. Further, at each key operation step in credit sales, messages indicating the next key operation are displayed alternately in two languages. Additionally, if the cashier or customer presses a key incorrectly, an error message will be displayed in two languages alternately.

Although the set display time To is set to 1 second in the embodiment, it is also possible for the cashier or the customer to change it to a time that is most convenient for viewing the message content.

Since the messages displayed on display sections 3 and 7 are displayed alternately in two languages, more people can understand the contents of the messages, and sales operations at the time of credit sales can be carried out more smoothly. can.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, the same message is displayed alternately in two different languages. Therefore, more people can understand the contents of the message, so more people can smoothly use the electronic cash register, and the service to customers can be improved.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The figures show an electronic cash register according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which Fig. 1 shows the main memory of the storage section, Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the external appearance, and Fig. 3 shows the block configuration. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Housing, 2... Keyboard, 3.7... Display part, 8... Card reader, 9... Keypad, 1
5...CPU, 19-=・RAM, 27・ID,
CR drive circuit, R3...message memory, R5...
・Display time memory. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue Figure 1 2rl! l

Claims (1)

[Claims] In an electronic cash register, sales data inputted through an input device is registered in a storage unit, and a plurality of types of messages including the sales data and at least operation guidance are displayed on a display unit. An electronic device comprising: a message memory for storing messages in different languages; and message language switching display means for alternately displaying a corresponding message in each language stored in the message memory during one message display period. cash register.