KR980010914A - Cash register and method capable of multilingual printing - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus, which is configured such that different characters for each country are formed as separate tables based on a standard ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) code table and serial numbers are assigned to the configured tables, So that it can be changed and used from time to time, so that printing of a part expressed by characters such as an item name can be performed in multiple languages.

In order to accomplish the object of the present invention, a multilingual printing method in a cash register may include a multilingual option setting step of setting that the cash register can perform multilingual processing in a program mode, A multilingual option releasing step of releasing the multilingual font information from the first storage means and the multilingual font information to be printed at the time of printing in the cash register, And printing the stored fonts

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to efficiently accommodate national characters in a cash register, to add characters of other countries after the development of a basic model, and to easily handle multilingual characters according to needs, Since the purchaser can arbitrarily change it, it is possible to easily handle multilingual speech.

Description

Cash register and method capable of multilingual printing

The present invention relates to an electronic money register, and more particularly, to a multilingual printing system in which a character code of a country and a character font corresponding to each country are formed on a storage means for multilingual printing processing in a cash register, To a possible cash register and method.

As commerce develops, people who are subject to commerce are becoming diverse and multicultural. Therefore, in the past, the electronic cash register, which only supported the characters of one country for the native people, gradually demanded letter support from various countries.

In general, the electronic cash register comprises an input unit 14 for generating various mode signals of money transaction information or system, as shown in FIG. 1, and a central control unit 15 for controlling the overall operation of the system by the input of the input unit 14. [ A program memory 12 for storing operation programs of the system, a data memory 13 for temporarily storing various data, and various reports such as a receipt are issued under the control of the central processing unit 11 And a display unit (15) for displaying information under the control of the central processing unit (11).

The electronic cash register configured as described in the first aspect stores code and font information for characters of the country of use in the program memory 12 when the product is shipped. A code value corresponding to data to be output when printing is performed on the electronic money register thus configured is found in the program memory 12 and data is output using the font information corresponding to the code.

At this time, the code information and the font information stored in the program memory 12 are set to corresponding characters of the country in which the cash register is to be used and shipped. Therefore, since the characters used in each country are different, the cash registers used in countries with different characters must store the character information of the corresponding country.

Therefore, the program should be applied separately for each country. Therefore, if the country does not have a character program for the foreigner, the foreigner can understand There was a problem that the receipt could not be issued.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a system and method for configuring an ASCII (International Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) code table as a separate table for each country, assigning a serial number to the table, So that it can be changed and used from time to time, so that printing of a part expressed by a character such as an item name can be performed in multiple languages.

Figure 1 is a block diagram generally showing an electronic cash register.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a cash register capable of multilingual printing according to the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 3 is a table showing a multilingual ASCII code according to the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 4 is a table showing a multilingual font according to the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure for setting a multilingual function in a multilingual printable cash register according to the present invention; FIG.

6 is a flowchart showing the operation of a cash register capable of multilingual printing according to the present invention;

DESCRIPTION OF THE REFERENCE NUMERALS

11: central processing unit 12: program memory

13: Data memory 14: Input section

15: display section 16:

21: Code information memory

In order to achieve the object of the present invention, a cash register capable of multilingual printing includes first storage means for storing a multilingual ASCII code table, a standard ASCII code table and fonts corresponding to the codes, A second storing means for storing a font to be printed in accordance with the code font information stored in the first storing means; and a printing means for printing the font information stored in the second storing means.

In order to achieve the object of the present invention, there is provided a multilingual printing method in a cash register, comprising: a multilingual option setting step of setting the multilingual printing mode of the cash register in a program mode; A multilingual option releasing step of releasing the multilingual font information from the first storage means and the multilingual font information to be printed in the cash register, And printing the fonts stored in the means.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a cash register capable of multilingual printing according to the present invention. A central processing unit 11 for controlling the overall operation of the system by the input of the input unit 14, and a control unit 11 for controlling the operation of the system, A data memory 13 for temporarily storing characters corresponding to the fonts before printing and for temporarily storing various data; and a control unit 11 for controlling the central processing unit 11 such as a receipt A display unit 15 for displaying information under the control of the central processing unit 11 and a multilingual ASCII code table and a standard ASCII code table, And a code information memory 21 for storing font information corresponding to the codes.

FIG. 3 is a table showing the multilingual ASCII codes stored in the code information memory 21 according to the present invention.

As shown, an ASCII code value represents a country code corresponding to hexadecimal numbers 23 to 7E. For example, the ASCII code value hex # 23 is # in English, # in French, # in German, and so on. And Pt in Spanish.

FIG. 4 is a table showing multilingual fonts stored in the code information memory 21 according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, fonts 23 to 7E corresponding to the ASCII code values 23 to 7E of FIG. 3 and character font information of each country corresponding to each font are stored.

At this time, the default font value corresponding to the standard ASCII code value is found in English, and the font value of the corresponding country is found and printed using the font value. For example, in order to print a Spanish character corresponding to the ASCII code value 23, the font information corresponding to the ASCII code value 23 corresponds to the font 23 (the default font value: English) corresponding to the ASCII code value 23 stored in FIG. 4 ), The port information corresponding to the Spanish language is searched for and printed. At this time, since the Spanish character is located at the n-th position in the third figure, the font value that is nth away from the basic font value of FIG. 4 becomes the character font of the corresponding country.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure for setting a multilingual function in a multilingual printing capable cash register according to the present invention.

First, the cash register is initialized (step 51).

After the cash register is initialized, it is determined whether the operation mode of the cash register is the program mode (step 52).

If the operation mode of the cash register is not the program mode, the operation of the corresponding mode is performed (step 53).

If the operation mode of the cash register is determined to be the program mode, it is determined whether the multi-language option is set to support multilingual processing (step 54).

As a result of determining whether or not the multilingual option is set, if the multilingual option is set, a multilingual flag indicating that multilingual processing can be performed is set (step 55).

The cash register receives the foreign language number of the corresponding country corresponding to the foreign language to be processed (step 56). In the table shown in FIG. 3, a vertical line means a multilingual code to be printed corresponding to one ASCII value. Therefore, if "n" is entered, it means Spanish.

The inputted foreign language number is stored in the data memory 13 (step 57).

If the operation mode of the cash register is the program mode and the multi-language option release is requested (step 58).

If the multilingual option cancellation is requested, the multilingual flag is reset (step 59).

Then, the foreign language number stored in the data memory 13 is erased (step 60).

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of a cash register capable of multilingual printing according to the present invention.

As shown, first, the printer is initialized (step 71).

Then, it is determined whether the code of the character to be printed at present is a code corresponding to multilingual processing (step 72). That is, it is determined whether or not the character code to be printed corresponds to the multilingual ASCII code table (codes 23 to 7E) of the third degree.

If the code of the character to be printed is not the code corresponding to the multilingual processing, the font of the corresponding character is read from the font table for the code stored in the standard ASCII table (not shown) and stored in the data memory 13 ( Steps 73, 74).

If the code of the character to be printed is a code corresponding to the multilingual processing, it is determined whether the multilingual flag is set for multilingual processing (step 75).

At this time, if the multi-language flag is not set, the font to be printed is read using the standard ASCII table and stored in the data memory 13 (steps 73 and 74).

If it is determined that the multilingual flag is set, if the multilingual flag is set, the code corresponding to the character to be printed is found in the multilingual ASCII code of the third degree, and the font corresponding to this code is found in the font table of the fourth degree And stores it in the data memory 13 (steps 76 and 77). In this case, the foreign language number inputted in the multi-language setting step is added to the basic font value to find the actual font value to be printed. For example, when printing an ASCII code value 23 in Spanish, print the font information stored in the default font_23 (English) plus the foreign language number (n) corresponding to Spanish.

After the code font information is written in the data memory 13, it is determined whether there is a character to be printed next (step 78).

If it is determined that there is a character to be printed next, the process returns to step 72 if there are more characters to be printed.

If it is determined that there is no more character to be printed next, the printing is performed using the font information for the codes stored in the data memory 13 (step 79).

At this time, the multilingual ASCII code table of FIG. 3 can be always added when the user desires, and since the number of fonts supported by the system is increased only after the addition, compatibility with the previous program is ensured and multilingual is supported. Compatibility is guaranteed even when applied to the country.

For example, the alphabet of the new country may be stored in the multilingual ASCII code table of FIG. 3, and the font information corresponding to the alphabet may be additionally stored in the font table of FIG.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to efficiently accommodate national characters in a cash register, to add characters of other countries after the development of a basic model, and to easily handle multilingual characters according to needs, Since the purchaser can arbitrarily change it, it is possible to easily handle multilingual speech.

Claims (6)

A cash register for printing a character code, comprising: first storage means for storing a multilingual ASCII code table, a standard ASCII code table and fonts corresponding to the codes; A second storing means for storing a font to be printed in accordance with the font information; and a printing means for printing the font information stored in the second storing means. A method of printing a character code in a cash register, the method comprising: setting a multilingual option setting step in which the cash register can perform multilingual processing in a program mode; and canceling a multilingual processing function of the cash register in the program mode The method comprising the steps of: reading information from a first storing unit that stores multilingual font information to be printed when printing is performed in the cash register, storing the multilingual font information in a second storing unit, And printing the character code in the cash register. 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of setting the multilingual option comprises the steps of setting a multilingual flag indicating that the money register can perform multilingual processing, receiving a foreign language identifier to be processed by the money register, And storing the character code in the cash register. 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of releasing the multi-language option comprises the steps of: resetting the multilingual flag indicating that the cash register is capable of performing multi-language processing; and releasing the foreign language identifier stored in the second storing means from the second storing means And removing the character code from the cash register. The printing method according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the printing step comprises: a multi-language processing code step of determining whether a character to be printed is a code corresponding to a multilingual ASCII code; Reading the code font value of the corresponding country stored in the first storing means and storing the code font value in the second storing means if the multi-flag is set; and if the character to be printed as a result of the multi- Reading the font corresponding to the code from the standard ASCII table stored in the first storing means and storing the font in the second storing means if the code is not a code for performing multilingual processing; If the multiple flag is not set, the standard ASCII table stored in the first storage means Reading the font corresponding to the code and storing the font in the second storing means; repeating the steps until the character code to be printed is completed; and printing the fonts stored in the second storing means Wherein the character code is printed on the character code. 3. The cash register of claim 2, wherein the first storage means stores a standard ASCII (ASCII) table, a multilingual ASCII (ASCII) table, and font information corresponding to codes stored in the tables. How to print character codes. ※ Note: Published by the first application.