JPH08161635A - Sales data processing device with receipt issuing function - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] By printing image data on a predetermined part of the receipt with a simple input operation, it is possible to issue a receipt that is extremely effective for customer service and sales promotion, and based on the type of image data to be printed. Issue a receipt in a form suitable for the type. [Structure] The CPU 1 stores the image data read by the image scanner 7 in a service image storage unit 8-
2 and the type of the image data is determined, and if it is a coupon image, the coupon flag is turned on. When issuing a receipt, the CPU 1 checks whether the image in the service image storage unit 8-2 is a coupon or another image, and if it is a coupon, cuts a half cut on the receipt or calculates a discount amount and prints it on the receipt. The coupon image is printed, but if it is any other image, only the image data is printed as it is.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sales data processing device having a receipt issuing function such as an electronic cash register or a POS (point of sales) system for registering input sales data and issuing a receipt.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in an electronic cash register, every time the input sales data is registered, the registration data is printed out on a receipt and the total amount and the amount of money at the time of closing operation to end the registration of one transaction. The change is printed out and a receipt is issued. After issuing the receipt in this manner, the store name stamp and date are printed on the receipt paper for the next transaction.

[0003]

As described above, in the conventional receipt contents, in addition to the registered contents for one transaction, the store name and the date are simply printed, and the amount of information provided to the customer is extremely small. Therefore, preparing various character keys in order to print arbitrary message data has a problem that the keyboard becomes large and the input operation becomes complicated. An object of the present invention is to issue a receipt that is extremely effective for customer service and sales promotion by printing image data showing a service guide, a coupon, a special sale notice, etc. for a customer on a predetermined portion of the receipt with a simple input operation. With this, it is possible to issue a receipt in a form corresponding to the type of image data to be printed.

[0004]

The means of the present invention are as follows. Every time the input sales data is registered, the registration data is printed out on a receipt, and a receipt is issued at the closing operation to end the registration of one transaction. The image reading means reads image data, and is, for example, a CCD image sensor or the like. (2) The image storage means is a random access memory or the like for storing the image data read by the image reading means. (3) The printing means is a thermal printer or the like that prints out the image data in the image storage means on a receipt. (4) The discriminating means discriminates the type based on the image data in the image storing means. (5) The control means controls the operation of causing the printing means to print out the image data in the image storage means on a predetermined portion of the receipt and issue the receipt based on the determination result of the determination means. When the determination unit determines that the image data is the image data for issuing a coupon, the control unit controls the receipt line to be separated in the vicinity of the image data printing portion (for example, a half cut or a perforation line). )
May be formed. Further, the discriminating means may discriminate its type based on the size of the image data in the image storing means. Further, size changing means for changing the image data read by the image reading means to the print width size of the receipt may be provided, and the image storing means may store the image data changed by the size changing means. .

[0005]

The operation of the means of the present invention is as follows. When a printed matter prepared in advance is scanned by the image reading means and image data such as a guide to a customer, a coupon, or a special sale notice is read, the image data is stored in the image storage means. The discriminating means discriminates the type based on the image data in the image storing means. The control means controls the operation of printing the image data in the image storage means on the predetermined portion of the receipt by the printing means and issuing the receipt based on the determination result of the determination means. Therefore, with a simple input operation, it is possible to issue a receipt that is extremely effective for customer service and sales promotion by printing image data showing service guidance, coupons, special sale notice etc. for customers on a predetermined part of the receipt and an image to be printed. Based on the type of data, it is possible to issue a receipt in a form corresponding to the type.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an electronic cash register (ECR). The CPU 1 is a central processing unit that controls the overall operation of the ECR according to various programs stored in the ROM 2, and includes a processing unit 1-1, a control unit 1-2 and the like. An input unit 3, a display unit 4, a printing unit 5, a drawer 6, and an image scanner 7, which are peripheral devices, are connected to the CPU 1, and the CPU 1 controls their input / output operations.

The input unit 3 has various keys normally provided on the keyboard, and in addition to the numerical keys AK, a PLU (price look up) key BK and a department key which are operated at the time of registration for each product. CK, a closing key DK operated at the end of registration of one transaction, and the like, and a mode switch MS are further provided. In addition,
The mode switch MS displays the "REG" depending on the switching position.
(Registration), "OFF (power off)", "RF (return)", "PGM (setting)", "Z (settlement)", "X"
(Inspection) ”mode. Here, in the registration mode in which the mode switch MS is set to the REG position, when sales data is input from the input unit 3, the input sales data is displayed and output on the display unit 4 or printed on the printing unit 5. It is output and further registered in various totalizers 8-1 in the RAM 8.

The printing unit 5 is composed of a thermal transfer type dot printer, which prints the input sales data and the like as characters and prints the data read by the image scanner 7 as a dot image. In addition to the cutting cutter 5-1 for receipt issuance that cuts the receipt when issuing the receipt, a half cutter 5-2 that forms a half cut (separation line) along a width direction at a predetermined portion of the receipt is provided. ing.

The image scanner 7 is composed of a CCD image sensor, and reads arbitrary image data from a postcard-sized booklet, which is prepared by repeating an image printed matter in a book shape. The image read by the image scanner 7 is read. Data is CPU
RAM is changed to print width size of receipt by 1
8 is stored in the service image storage unit 8-2 or the stamp image storage unit 8-3.

The RAM 8 includes various totalizers 8-1, a service image storage section 8-2, a stamp image storage section 8-3,
Various summing devices 8 having a configuration including a flag register 8-4 and the like.
-1 is a department file or P that stores sales data for each department
It has a PLU file for storing sales data for each LU. The service image storage unit 8-2 stores a special sale notice read by the image scanner 7, service information for customers, and image data (binary image data) for issuing coupons, and completes registration of one transaction. At the time of the closing operation, the image data in the service image storage section 8-2 is read out and printed on the end portion of the receipt. Here, when printing the image data showing the special sale notice and the service guide to the customer on the receipt, after the normal printing operation accompanying the closing operation, the image data is printed following the print contents, but the coupon When printing the image data for issuance, a special operation control different from the above-mentioned special sale notice and service guidance to customers is required. In other words, it is necessary to calculate the discount content according to the total amount of one transaction and print it out, and since the coupon is used separately from the ordinary receipt part, it is necessary to form a cut by half cut In addition, since the coupon portion is separated from the ordinary receipt portion, it is necessary to print store information (store name, address, telephone number, etc.) on the coupon portion. Therefore, in the present embodiment, when the image data is read by the image scanner 7, the type is determined based on the image data, and if the image data is for coupon issuance, it indicates that. A coupon flag is set in the flag register 8-4.

The stamp image storage section 8-3 normally stores image data read by the image scanner 7 as store information for receipt printing, instead of store information such as store names and addresses printed on stamps on receipts. , The contents of the stamp image storage section 8-3 are printed at the beginning of the receipt, and if the image data in the service image storage section 8-2 is for issuing a coupon, it will be printed at the end of the receipt together with this image data. Printed on the part.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. First,
FIG. 2 (A) shows a print image of a postcard-sized booklet, which is made by preliminarily folding an image printed matter into a book. The image data of the special sale notice / service information is printed in a postcard-sized image. The image data for issuing a coupon is printed with a length of about ½. In other words, the coupon image data is printed only on the upper half of the postcard size in the lengthwise direction, and the lower half is blank.

When reading an arbitrary image from such a booklet, the input unit 3 is instructed to read the image. Then, the CPU 1 operates according to the flowchart shown in FIG. First, the CPU 1 activates the image scanner 7, takes in the image data read by the image scanner 7 (step A1), and determines the type based on the image data (step A2). That is, the type is determined based on whether or not there is data in the lower half of the postcard size image data. At that time, if the CPU 1 is 95% or more of the lower half area and is blank, , Recognize that there is no data in the lower half. This 95%
The numerical value is set to a value that does not hinder actual operation in consideration of dust reading, scanner sensitivity, garbled data, and the like.

When it is detected that there is no data in the lower half of the read image, the CPU 1 recognizes that the coupon issue image data has been read, and R
"1" is set in the flag register 8-4 in the AM8 to turn on the coupon flag (step A3). on the other hand,
If there is data in the lower half of the read image, it is recognized that the image data indicating the special sale notice / service guidance to the customer has been read, and the flag register 8-4 is reset to turn off the coupon flag ( Step A4).
Then, the image data of the postcard size is reduced to the print width size of the receipt to change the size (step A5) and then stored in the service image storage unit 8-2 (step A6).

Although FIG. 3 shows the operation when reading the image data for the special sale notice, service information, and coupon, the stamp image does not need to be rewritten frequently, so the stamp image can be preliminarily operated by key operation. The storage unit 8-3 is designated and then the image is read. Here, when the stamp image is read from the image scanner 7, the image data is changed to the receipt print width size and stored in the stamp image storage unit 8-3.

In this way, the service image storage unit 8
-2. When the registration operation is performed in a state where the image data is stored in the stamp image storage unit 8-3, the operation according to the flowchart of FIG. 4 is started. First, in step B1, with the mode switch MS set to the REG position, normal registration processing is performed according to a predetermined key operation procedure. That is, FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an outline of this registration processing. Every time a product registration operation is performed (step C1), the total sales in the various totalizers 8-1 are updated based on this registration operation. The subtotal amount is updated (step C2), and registration printing is performed on the receipt (step C3). And
When the registration of one transaction is completed and a closing key such as a cash key is operated (step C4), closing processing (excluding receipt issuance) such as change calculation and totalizer calculation is performed (step C).
5). Note that the subtotal amount is retained as it is during this closing process. Then, the result of the closing process is printed on the receipt (step C6). If any other key is operated, the corresponding process is performed (step C7).

When the registration of one transaction is completed and the closing process is performed in this way, in step B2 of FIG. 4, the flag register 8-4 is accessed to check whether the coupon flag is on or off. Now, if the coupon flag is "0" and it is turned off, the service image storage unit 8-
It is determined that the image data in 2 is a special sale notice or a service guide to customers. In this case, the image data in the service image storage unit 8-2 is read and printed out on the receipt (step B3). Then, the receipt is cut by using the cutting cutter 5-1 to issue the receipt, and the contents of the stamp image storage section 8-3 are printed out on the receipt paper for the next transaction (step B4).

On the other hand, if the coupon flag is turned on at "1", it is determined that the image data in the service image storage section 8-2 is coupon issuing image data. In this case, a half cut is cut along the width direction of the receipt using the half cutter 5-2 (step B5). Next, the subtotal amount (total amount of sales of one transaction) is read, and the discount amount is calculated from this total amount (step B
6) Print out this discount amount (step B
7). Then, after the image data in the service image storage unit 8-2 is read out and printed out (step B8), the image data in the stamp image storage unit 8-3 is read out and printed out (step B9). Then, the receipt is issued and the stamp image is printed out on the receipt paper for the next transaction (step B10).

FIG. 2B shows an example of receipt printing. If the image data is a special sale notice / service guide, only the image data is printed at the end of the receipt, but if it is a coupon, the end of the receipt. A discount amount is printed following the half cut cut in the portion, and further, image data for a coupon and a stamp image are printed after that.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the print contents printed on the booklet are read by the image scanner 7.
It is possible to print a special sale notice, service guide or coupon on a predetermined part of the receipt just by reading with.By issuing the originality of the store on the receipt, it is possible to issue a receipt that is extremely effective for customer service and sales promotion. It will be possible. In this case, the type can be determined from the size of the read image data, and the operation until the receipt is issued can be automatically controlled according to the type, so the user can switch the operation control by key operation etc. Need not be performed, and there is no risk of switching mistakes.

In the above embodiment, the type of image data is determined by whether or not the lower half of the image data is blank. However, when the area above the predetermined area for printing the stamp image is blank, , The stamp image may be enlarged / reduced according to the size of the blank area. Further, in the above embodiment, the discount amount is printed on the line above the coupon image, but if it is automatically incorporated into the coupon image with the superimpose function, a coupon with a higher design is created. it can. Further, in the above embodiment, the type of image data is determined according to its size, but it may be determined based on the content of image data (for example, presence / absence of ruled lines). Further, in the above embodiment, the special sale notice and the service guide are printed at the end of the receipt, but they may be printed at the start, and the print position is arbitrary, and the calendar information is read as image data. It may be printed on a receipt. Further, in the above embodiment, when the coupon is issued, the discount amount is calculated and printed from the total sales of one transaction, but it is not always necessary to print the discount amount, and the stamp image is included in the coupon image. It may be incorporated in.

[0022]

According to the present invention, with a simple input operation,
By printing image data showing service information for customers, coupons, special sale notices, etc. on a predetermined part of the receipt, it is possible to issue a receipt that is extremely effective for customer service and sales promotion, and the type based on the type of image data to be printed. It is possible to issue a receipt in a form according to the above. Therefore, the receipt can be widely used as an advertising medium or a service to customers, which is extremely practical and does not require a special operation for switching the receipt in a form according to the type of image. Can be surely obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an electronic cash register according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a print example of a receipt issued according to the type of read image data.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation at the time of reading an image.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation under a registration mode.

5 is a flowchart for explaining the registration process (step B1) of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 CPU 2 ROM 3 input section 4 display section 5 printing section 5-2 half cutter 6 drawer 7 image scanner 8 RAM 8-1 various totalizers 8-2 service image storage section 8-3 stamp image storage section 8-4 flag register

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. Each time the input sales data is registered,
In a sales data processing device with a receipt issuing function that prints out the registration data on a receipt and issues a receipt at the time of closing operation to end the registration of one transaction, an image reading means for reading the image data, and a reading by the image reading means. Image storing means for storing the obtained image data, printing means for printing out the image data in the image storing means on a receipt, and determining means for determining the type based on the image data in the image storing means, A control unit that controls the operation until the image data in the image storage unit is printed out on a predetermined portion of the receipt by the printing unit and the receipt is issued based on the determination result of the determination unit. Sales with featured receipt issuing function Over data processing apparatus. 2. When the image data is discriminated for coupon issue by the discriminating means, the control means forms a separating line for separating the receipt near the image data printing portion. The sales data processing device with a receipt issuing function according to claim 1, wherein 3. The sales data processing with a receipt issuing function according to claim 1, wherein the discriminating means discriminates the type of the image data based on the size of the image data in the image storing means. apparatus. 4. Further, there is provided size changing means for changing the image data read by the image reading means to a print width size of a receipt, and the image storing means stores the image data changed by the size changing means. The sales data processing device with a receipt issuing function according to claim 1, characterized in that.