KR100468590B1 - Digital video recoding system and method by POS data - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a digital video surveillance system and method using POS data, and more particularly, the POS data sent from a plurality of POS terminals installed on the cashier of the merchandise and the video sent from the camera installed in the POS terminal as a moving picture. The present invention relates to a system and method for storing, monitoring, and monitoring a DVR.

The system according to the present invention includes a POS terminal installed at the checkout counter of the merchandise and automatically collecting and recording the sales management data accompanying the sale of the goods at the point of sale, a camera installed at the force terminal and capturing the surroundings of the checkout counter; Data line and image line for transmitting POS data of the POS terminal and the image of the camera, POS data and image transmitted through the line are made into a moving picture and output on one monitor screen, and stored if necessary It consists of a DVR for retrieving moving picture data.

Description

Digital video surveillance system and method using POS data {Digital video recoding system and method by POS data}

The present invention relates to a digital video surveillance system and method using POS data, and more particularly, the POS data sent from a plurality of POS terminals installed on the cashier of the merchandise and the video sent from the camera installed in the POS terminal as a moving picture. The present invention relates to a system and method for storing, monitoring, and monitoring a DVR.

Point of sale system (POS) is a point-of-sale system that represents a point-of-sale management system that allows POS terminals to be installed at the point of sale to provide comprehensive management of the distribution economy, including sales office work, market research, inventory, and point-of-sale management. .

In other words, the POS terminal equipped with an electronic cash register function and a computer function is provided at a sales item checkout counter such as a department store or a supermarket, and the sales management data accompanying the sale of the product (data to be used for merchandise sales management, inventory management, etc.) It is a system that collects and records automatically at the point of sale.

While the main role of the cash register is to quickly and accurately calculate the amount of the customer's sales in the field, the current POS system collects and processes the information on the purchase revenue of the product, and utilizes it to inquire and manage various product information and accounting information quickly. Do it.

The POS terminal has the same function as a conventional cash register, a function of temporarily recording data, and a function of connecting and transmitting data at the point of sale to a host device, and inputs a product code by a key input or a scanner and transmits the product code to the host device. .

On the other hand, digital video recoding system is a next-generation CCTV video surveillance system that converts images from a CCD camera, which is a surveillance camera, into digital storage and stores them in a storage means. Frame switches and screens must be purchased separately from analog systems. It is an integrated system consisting of a divider and a time lapse VCR in one product.

CCTV is an abbreviation of Closed Circuit Television, which transmits images to a specific receiver. The transmission and reception of images is possible via wired or wireless, and cannot be arbitrarily received except for a reception target.

Unlike the existing analog VCR, the digital video surveillance system does not need to maintain or exchange video tapes regularly, and there is no deterioration in image quality due to repeated tape use. There is an advantage to this.

However, in the related art, the POS system and the digital video surveillance system are installed and operated separately, and the POS data and the camera image must be separately stored and recorded in the storage means provided in each system. There was a complicated and expensive problem.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, by operating the POS system and the digital video surveillance system integrated, POS data sent from a plurality of POS terminals installed on the checkout counter of the goods and images sent from the camera installed in the POS terminal It is an object of the present invention to provide a digital video surveillance system and method using POS data that can prevent theft of sales and prevent deliberately missing calculations by storing, monitoring and monitoring the data in one DVR.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention, the POS terminal is installed on the cashier of the sales article to collect and record the sales management data accompanying the sale of goods automatically at the point of sale;

A camera installed in the force terminal to capture an image around a cashier;

A data / image line for transmitting POS data of the POS terminal and an image of the camera; And

DVR that outputs and saves the POS data and video transmitted through the above line as a moving picture on one monitor screen and retrieves the stored moving picture data when necessary:

The present invention provides a digital video surveillance system using POS data.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention comprises the steps of collecting and recording the point of sale POS data associated with the sale of goods at the point of sale;

Imaging around the cashier of the merchandise with a CCD camera;

Transmitting the POS data and the captured image on the sales management to a DVR;

Synthesizing the POS data and the image into one moving picture to be displayed together on one monitor;

Displaying a synthesized moving image on the one monitor; And

Compressing and storing the moving image data in real time:

It is intended to provide a digital video surveillance method using POS data comprising a.

1 is a block diagram of a digital video surveillance system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing an application example of a digital video surveillance system according to the present invention.

3 is a schematic structural diagram of a force terminal shown in FIG.

4 is a schematic structural diagram of the DVR shown in FIG.

5 is a flowchart of a digital video surveillance method according to the present invention.

6A is a screen example of a normal monitoring state, and FIG. 6B is a screen example of a special monitoring state.

<Description of Symbols for Main Parts of Drawings>

10: POS terminal 20: camera

30: data line 40: video line

50: DVR 60: sensor

70: alarm 80: remote monitoring server

85: remote central server 90: internet network

100: Digital video surveillance system

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram of a digital video surveillance system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown, the number of force terminals 10a, 10b, ..., 10n installed on the checkout counter of the merchandise and the number of force terminals for imaging around the cashier on which the force terminals 10a, 10b, ..., 10n are installed. Cameras 20a, 20b, ..., 20n, DVR 50 for processing video and POS data from cameras and POS terminals, and data lines 30 for transmitting POS data from the POS terminal to the DVR; And an image line 40 for transmitting an image from the camera to the DVR.

Each POS terminal 10a, 10b, ..., 10n automatically collects and records POS data, which is sales management data associated with the sale of the product, at the point of sale, and stores the POS data as an upper device through the data line 30. It transmits to DVR50.

To this end, as shown in FIG. 3, each POS terminal specifically inputs an item key for inputting an item of a product, a signal for driving or retrieving stored data, a program embedded in a hard disk, or the like. Input means 11 consisting of a function key, a numeric key for inputting a price of a product or other necessary numbers, a mode selection switch for selecting various modes required for point of sale management, and a barcode of the product automatically. A barcode scanner 12 for reading and inputting is connected to the control unit 13.

POS data such as barcodes, items, prices, etc. input by the input means 11 or the barcode scanner 12 are stored in the storage means 14 in real time by a control signal of the controller 13 and are stored in the monitor 15. It is displayed and printed via the output device 17.

The storage means 14 is composed of a ROM which stores an operating system including communication, various programs and the like, and a RAM which stores POS data.

In addition, the POS data is transmitted to the DVR 50 through its communication means 16 and the data line 30 under the control of the control unit 13.

In FIG. 1, the cameras 20a, 20b, ..., 20n are installed in a 1: 1 manner with the poster terminal around the checkout counter where the force terminals 10a, 10b, ..., 10n, which need monitoring, are installed to capture an image, and the captured image. Is transmitted to the DVR 50 via the video line 40.

The DVR 50 synthesizes the POS data and the images transmitted through the lines 30 and 40 into one moving image and displays them on the monitor 58.

That is, the character information of the POS data is displayed together in real time on the screen on which the image captured by the cameras 20a, 20b, ..., 20n is output to the monitor 58. FIG.

4 is an internal structural diagram of the DVR.

The capture board 52 converts an analog image input through the camera 20 into a digital image, and the controller 54 compresses, processes, and manages the DVR as a whole.

By the control unit 54, the character information of the POS data is synthesized into a moving picture in a digital image and output together with one monitor 58.

This moving picture is also compressed into an MPEG4 file, stored in storage means 56 in real time, and transmitted to an external remote server via communication means 55.

Since the storage means 56 requires a large storage medium, it is preferable to use a hard disk of a computer.

In the present invention, there are several force terminals 10a, 10b, ..., 10n, and cameras 20a, 20b, ..., 20n are provided as many as the number of force terminals to process a plurality of POS data and images in the control unit 54. The processed moving image is output in the screen division format as many as the number of force terminals on one monitor 58 as shown in FIG. 6A. At this time, if one of the outputted screens is selected by clicking on one screen to be monitored, as shown in FIG. Only the screen is output on one monitor 58 as a whole.

In Fig. 1, when the cameras 20a, 20b, ..., 20n are installed in a place or time zone where there are few humans, such as a rare emergency or a nighttime without remodeling, sensors 60a, 60b, ... 60n), the camera may not operate normally, but may operate the camera only when the movement of the human body is detected by the sensor.

The alarms 70a, 70b, ..., 70n are for emitting an alarm sound or emitting an alarm lamp manually or automatically when an abnormal movement is found.

It may also be provided with an output device 57 capable of printing POS data and / or video in the above configuration.

In addition, the configuration further includes an RX receiver 59 for receiving and receiving a camera control command of the DVR, that is, pan / tilt, zoom, and focus, thereby performing substantial camera control. You may.

Other needs include additional halogen lights, pan / tilt drivers, joysticks, microphones and speakers for nighttime surveillance.

The digital video surveillance system 100 configured as described above can be connected to a plurality of remote monitoring servers 80a, 80b, ..., 80n through the Internet network 90 by the communication means 55 provided in the DVR 50. It can be configured to monitor the monitoring data sent from one DVR 50 from multiple remote monitoring servers at the same time.

On the other hand, as shown in Figure 2, the digital video surveillance system (100a, 100b, ..., 100n) is installed in several places, the monitoring data sent from several places are sent to a single remote central server 85 through the Internet network 90 Centrally manage and monitor all monitoring data.

That is, multi communication between local and remote locations is possible.

The Internet network 90 may be configured of any network such as PSTN, ISDN, LAN, and Leased Circuit.

Looking at the monitoring method of the system configuration as described above are as follows.

5 is a flowchart of a digital video surveillance method according to the present invention.

As shown, the POS terminals 10a, 10b, ..., 10n collect POS data such as bar codes, items, prices, etc. of the goods sold by the input means 11 or the bar code scanner 12, and store them on their own. It records in the means 14 (S10).

The POS data thus recorded is printed via the output device 17 and displayed on the terminal monitor 15, but such steps are omitted in the present invention.

Further, the cameras 20a, 20b, ..., 20n capture an analog image around the checkout counter on which the force terminal is installed (S12).

The post data and the analog image thus obtained are simultaneously transmitted to the DVR 50 through the data line 30 and the image line 40 (S14).

At this time, a plurality of POS data and analog video are transmitted to the DVR 50, and the controller 54 separates them through unique IDs included in the POS data signal and the analog video signal.

The capture board 52 converts an analog image into a digital image, and the control unit 54 synthesizes the characters of the POS data therein to create a moving image (S16).

Each moving picture thus produced is displayed on the screen of one monitor 58 in a screen division method under the control of the control unit 54 (S18).

In this way, when monitoring is normally performed by clicking and selecting one of the screens to be monitored in particular (S20), the entire screen is displayed on the monitor 58 (S22) for monitoring.

If a particular screen is not clicked, the display is continued in a screen-dividing manner through the monitor 58 in real time as usual, and at the same time, all moving image data is stored in the storage means 56 by cameras 20a, 20b, ..., 20n in real time. Compressed and stored (S24).

The moving image data stored in this way is convenient because the force data and the image can be searched by the date, time, and camera by the time when a problem such as the item is stolen or the calculation is missed for the sold item occurs.

In addition, it is also possible to remotely monitor using such moving image data. In this case, the communication means 55 of the DVR 50 is connected to the remote servers 80a, 80b, ..., 80n, 85 through the Internet network 90. (S26) The moving image data is transmitted (S28).

The remote server monitors it remotely through a monitor provided therein, and stores and manages the data (S30).

In this case, one remote central server 85 may comprehensively monitor video data sent from each of the digital video surveillance systems 100a, 100b, ..., 100n, and a plurality of remote monitoring servers 80a, 80b, ..., 80n), video data sent from one monitoring system 100 may be monitored at the same time.

As described above, the sales point management system and the digital video surveillance system are integrated to calculate the sales items by managing, storing and monitoring the POS data of the point of sales management system and the video of the digital video surveillance system as one moving image data. You can monitor theft and deliberate omissions that occur as you go along, and if such problems occur, you can immediately search and find them.

In addition, through the Internet network 90 can be accessed and monitored from a remote as well as local, it is convenient and can always maintain a high quality regardless of the number of storage.

As described above, according to the present invention, the POS system and the digital video surveillance system are integrated and operated, and one DVR records POS data sent from a plurality of POS terminals installed at a checkout counter of a merchandise and an image sent from a camera installed in the POS terminal. By storing, monitoring, and monitoring the system, you can prevent theft of inadequate sales and intentional omissions.

Claims (12)

In the digital video surveillance system using POS data, A POS terminal installed at the checkout counter of the selling article and automatically collecting and recording data on sales management associated with the sale of the product at the point of sale; A camera installed as many as the force terminals to operate the camera only when the movement of the human body is detected by a sensor; A data / image line for transmitting POS data of the POS terminal and an image of the camera; And DVR that outputs and saves the POS data and video transmitted through the above line as a moving picture on one monitor screen and retrieves the stored moving picture data when necessary: Digital video surveillance system using POS data, including. delete The digital video surveillance system according to claim 1, wherein a moving image obtained by synthesizing the POS data and the image by the number of cameras is made and outputted in a screen division format on one monitor screen. delete The digital video surveillance system using POS data according to claim 1, wherein the DVR is provided with a communication means and connected to an external remote server through an internet network. The digital video surveillance system according to claim 5, wherein the DVR is one and a plurality of remote servers are provided to monitor video data sent from a single DVR at multiple remote servers at the same time. The digital video surveillance system according to claim 5, wherein the plurality of DVRs are provided and one remote server is provided to monitor video data transmitted from multiple DVRs simultaneously in one remote server. In the digital video surveillance method using POS data, Collecting and recording point-of-sale (POS) data associated with the sale of the goods at the point of sale; Photographing around the cashier of the merchandise with a camera; Transmitting the POS data and the captured image on the sales management to a DVR; Synthesizing the POS data and the image into one moving picture to be displayed together on one monitor; Displaying the synthesized moving image on the one monitor: Compressing and storing the moving image data in real time: Storing the moving image data and then connecting to a remote server; Transmitting the moving picture data to a remote server; And Displaying and storing the moving image data to monitor / manage the moving image data. Digital video surveillance method using POS data comprising a. The method according to claim 8, wherein, in the step of displaying the moving image on the monitor, a plurality of moving images synthesized on one monitor are displayed in a screen division format, and judging whether one specific screen is clicked from the selected screen; Digital image monitoring method using the POS data, characterized in that it further comprises a step displayed on the entire monitor screen. delete The method of claim 8, wherein the single moving image data is simultaneously displayed and stored by multiple remote servers for monitoring / managing. The method of claim 8, wherein the plurality of moving image data are displayed and stored in one remote server for comprehensive monitoring and management.