JPH05205161A - Cash register with braille output function - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate the confirmation of print contents by a visually handicapped person by printing not only characters, but also raised letters on the printer of the cash register. CONSTITUTION:The cash register is equipped with a print mode switching means and a printing means. The print mode switching means is equipped with a keyboard 11 and a control part 12 which generates a control code or character code according to input data from the keyboard and outputs it. The print kind of the printer 11 is switched between a 1st mode for only characters and a 2nd mode for both the characters and raised letters. The printing means 13 determines the 1st mode for only the characters or the 2nd mode for both the characters and raised letters as the print kind according to the control code or character code outputted from a control part 12 and performs printing operation.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention is based on the POS (Point of Sal
es) system, and in particular to a cash register with a Braille output function.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been known a cash register installed in a department store, supermarket or the like, and capable of immediately collecting data used for single item management, customer management, sales management and the like. This type of cash register generally has a register function, a file function for temporarily storing data, and an online function for connecting to a host device. As a register function, the printer has a function of printing a character corresponding to the character code when the character code is input.

[0003]

In the conventional cash register, since only the characters are printed by the printer, it is difficult for the visually impaired person to recognize the printed contents. ..

Therefore, the technical problem of the present invention is that the printer can print not only by characters but also by Braille.
(EN) It is to provide a money register machine with a Braille function that enables the visually impaired person to easily confirm the print content.

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided a print mode switching means for switching between a first mode in which the printer prints only with characters and a second mode in which both the characters and Braille are printed. A money registration machine with a Braille output function is provided which has a printing means for printing with a printing character type determined by the printing mode switching means.

[0006]

In the present invention, the printing mode switching means switches the printing of the printer to either a mode using only characters or a mode using both characters and braille, and the printing mode determined by the printing mode switching means is selected. The printing means prints.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a cash register according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown, a keyboard 11
The control unit 12, the printer 13, and the receipt paper 14 are provided. A keyboard 11 and a control unit 12 are provided as print mode switching means, and a printer 13 controlled by the control unit 12 is provided as print means.

The keyboard 11 inputs transaction information such as product registration and customer number registration into the POS system cash register. The control unit 12 generates a control code or a character code based on the input data from the keyboard 11,
Output. The printer 13 receives a control code or character code from the control unit 12. When a control code is input, the print type is switched between only letters or both letters and braille. When a character code is input, it prints with only the character or with both the character and the Braille, depending on the print type. As a result, the receipt paper 14 is printed by the printer 13 in either characters or characters and braille.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an operation flow of the operation of the cash register according to the embodiment of the present invention. Referring also to FIG. 2, first, it is set from the keyboard 11 whether to print only characters from the keyboard 11 (first mode), but to print both characters and Braille (second mode), that is,
The print mode is set (S1). Next, by inputting the setting contents of the print mode, the control unit 12 outputs a control code for printing characters or a control code for printing characters and Braille (S2). When a control code is input to the printer 13, the printing character type is switched (S3) to switch the printing type to the character mode or the character or braille mode based on the control code. next,
Product registration is performed by inputting transaction details from the keyboard 11 to the product department, product price, etc. (S4).

When the contents of the registered merchandise registration are input to the control unit 12, the print characters output by the printer 13 are edited (S5). Next, the control unit 12 generates a character code based on the character editing result in the print editing step (S5), and outputs the character code (S6). Next, in the printer 13, when the character code output in the output step of the character code is input, the process of the printing step of printing on the receipt 14 with characters or characters and Braille based on the result of the step of switching the printing character type. Is performed (S7). The print mode for changing the print character type for the next transaction or for selecting whether or not is changed (S8). When the print character type is changed, the process returns to the print character type setting step (S1). When the print character type is not changed, the product registration step (S) is performed.
The process moves to 4), and the operations after the print character editing (S5) stage are repeated.

[0012]

As described above, in the cash register of the present invention, the printer can print not only by characters but also by Braille, so that the visually handicapped person can easily confirm the printed contents. Has the effect of

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an operational flow under the configuration shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 keyboard 12 controller 13 printer 14 receipt paper S1 print mode setting step S2 control code output step S3 print character type switching step S4 product registration step S5 print character editing step S6 character code output step S7 print step S8 print mode Change stage

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A printing mode switching means for switching between a first mode in which printing of a printer is performed only with characters and a second mode in which printing is performed with both characters and braille, and the printing mode switching means. A money registration machine with a braille output function, which has a printing means for printing with a printing character type.