JPH0586770A - Gate system for shop - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To surely prevent goods from being illegally taken out, by providing an entrance gate which allows passing only in a direction toward a counter, and an exit gate which is opened only when a payment at a trade terminal device is completed. CONSTITUTION:When a sensor 21 provided at an entrance gate 2 detects a client outside of a shop 1, the entrance gate 2 is only once opened toward the shop 1. When the client selects a trade through manipulation of a keyboard of a trade terminal device 4 with the use of a card or a cash, a CRT of the trade terminal device 4 displays a procedure to be done by the client. Further, the payment is completed, the trade terminal device 4 opens an exit gate 3. Accordingly, a client can exits the shop only when he completes his payment.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a gate system for managing entrance and exit of customers in a store, and more particularly to a store gate system capable of realizing unmanned store staff in the store.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional store to which a product management system is applied, a customer can freely enter and exit through an entrance and exit, and in particular, there is no device for restricting the exit of the customer.

[0003]

However, since the conventional store can leave the store without any restrictions, it is possible to take the product out of the store without going through the normal settlement process. , There was a big problem in crime prevention management. In particular, if an attempt is made to unmanned a store clerk in the sales floor, a system capable of reliably preventing such illegal take-out of merchandise is required.

The object of the present invention is to prevent the illegal take-out of merchandise by surely leaving the sales floor only after the settlement process is completed, so that the regular settlement process is always carried out and the unmanned store is unattended. It is to provide a store gate system capable of coping with the trend.

[0005]

A store gate system according to the present invention comprises an entrance gate and an exit gate, the entrance gate opens a passage only in the entry direction with respect to a sales floor, and the exit gate is used in a transaction terminal device. The exit passage opening means for opening the passage in the exit direction from the sales floor is provided only at the end of the settlement process.

[0006]

In the present invention, the entrance gate permits only passage in the entrance direction to the sales floor, and cannot pass through the entrance gate when exiting. The exit passage opening means provided in the exit gate opens the passage in the exit direction only when the settlement processing in the transaction terminal device is completed. Therefore, the customer cannot leave the sales floor unless the settlement processing in the transaction terminal device is completed.

[0007]

1 is a plan view of a store to which a store gate system according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied. The sales floor 1 is provided with an entrance gate 2 and an exit gate 3.
The exit gate 3 operates in conjunction with the payment machine 4. Inside the store 1, there is provided a product display shelf 5 displaying products. The customer enters the store 1 via the entrance gate 2,
Exit from the exit gate 5 after the settlement processing in the transaction terminal device 4 is completed.

FIG. 2 is an external view of an entrance gate which constitutes the above-mentioned store gate system, and FIG. 3 is an external view of a transaction terminal device including an exit gate. The entrance gate 2 is provided with a sensor 21, and when the sensor 21 detects a customer outside the store 1, the entrance gate 2 can be opened to the store 1 side. Therefore, it is not possible to leave the store 1 via the entrance gate 2 to the outside.

The transaction terminal device 4 is a card reader 41, CR
The transaction terminal device 4 reads the product data stored in the shopping basket 46 when the shopping basket 46 is placed on the placing table 45, which is provided with a T42, a keyboard 43, and a money slot 44 on the upper surface of the device. ..

The transaction terminal device 4 executes a settlement process based on product data with the customer.

The customer operates the keyboard 43 to select a transaction process using a card or a transaction process using cash.
The transaction terminal device 4 displays the process to be performed by the customer on the CRT 42 according to this selection. The transaction terminal device 4 opens the exit gate 3 when the settlement process with the customer is completed.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the control unit of the entrance gate. CPU with ROM 32 and RAM 33
A sensor 21 is connected to 31 via a detection circuit 34, and a solenoid 2 for opening / closing the gate is opened / closed via an opening / closing circuit 35.
2 is connected. When the customer detection data is input from the sensor 21, the CPU 31 drives the solenoid 22 via the opening / closing circuit 35 to open the entrance gate 2 only once.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of the control unit of the transaction terminal device. CPU51 is ROM52 and RAM53
The opening / closing solenoid 47 of the exit gate 3 is connected to the CPU 51 via the opening / closing circuit 54, and the sensor 48 for detecting the shopping basket is connected via the detection circuit 55.
And a receiver 49 for receiving the product code via the card reader 41, the CRT 42, the keyboard 43, the money throwing machine 44, and the receiving circuit 56. The CPU 51 centrally controls the input / output device according to a program written in advance in the ROM 52, and temporarily stores the data input / output during this period in a predetermined memory area of the RAM 53. The CPU 51 starts the settlement process after the detection data is input from the sensor 48, reads the card data by the card reader 43 according to the operation content of the keyboard 43, accepts cash in the money insertion machine 44, and C
The message on the RT 42 is displayed. Also, the transaction amount is calculated based on the product data received by the receiver 49. A part of the memory area of the RAM 53 is shown in FIG.
The product code received by the receiver 49 is sequentially stored in the memory areas MA1 to MAm. The CPU 51 searches the PLU file previously stored in the memory area MC of the RAM 53 for the product code and cumulatively calculates the price of the corresponding product in the memory area MB. This total amount is the transaction amount with the customer.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure of the transaction terminal device. The CPU 51 waits for the detection data of the shopping basket 46 to be input from the sensor 48 (n
1) When the sensor 48 is turned on, a display prompting the user to select either payment by card or payment by cash is displayed (n2). When the payment by card is selected, a display prompting the card reader 41 to insert the card is displayed (n4), the card reader is read from the inserted card (n5), the card reader is inquired and the personal identification number is verified. After the processing, the card settlement process is performed. In this card settlement process, when the inserted card is a prepaid card, the transaction amount of this time is deducted from the available balance of the prepaid card. In the case of a credit card, the transaction withdrawal process from the designated account is registered by communication with the host computer.
When this card processing is completed, the card reader 41 returns the card to the customer (n9).

On the other hand, when the cash payment is selected, a message prompting the cash insertion machine 44 to insert the cash is displayed (n10), and the amount of the inserted cash is counted (n11). After that, a settlement process is performed according to the input amount (n12), and if change is required, it is released (n14, n15). After the card is returned at n9 or the change is released at n15, the exit gate 3 is opened (n16).

If the inquiry of the card reader is not normal at n7, or if the settlement process cannot be normally performed at n13 when the amount of money to be inserted is insufficient, a transaction failure message is displayed and the standby state is returned ( Message 18).

As described above, the exit gate 3 is opened only when the settlement processing is normally completed in the transaction terminal device 4, and the goods for which the settlement processing is not finished are not illegally taken out to the outside of the transaction. The process is always accurate.

[0018]

According to the present invention, it is possible to leave the exit gate through the exit gate only when the settlement process is completed, and it is possible to reliably prevent the goods from being illegally taken out, and to make the store staff unmanned. There is an advantage that can be dealt with.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a store to which a store gate system according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is an external view of an entrance gate that constitutes the store gate system.

FIG. 3 is an external view of a transaction terminal device including an exit gate that constitutes the same store gate system.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a control unit of the entrance gate.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a control unit of the transaction terminal device.

FIG. 6 is a memory map of a main part of a control unit of the transaction terminal device.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a part of a control unit showing a processing procedure of the transaction terminal device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1-Store 2-Entry gate 3-Exit gate 4-Transaction terminal device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A gate system for a store, comprising an entrance gate which permits passage only in an entrance direction at a sales floor, and an exit gate which is opened only at the end of a settlement process in a transaction terminal device.