JPH0658702B2 - Electronic cash register - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an electronic cash register (hereinafter, ECR).
In particular, the present invention relates to an ECR having a voice pronouncing function for pronouncing inputted single item price information as a voice.

Invention of Prior Art Recently, an ECR having a voice pronunciation function for producing a single item amount information inputted from a keyboard as a voice has been realized. In such an ECR, the scale of the numerical information input for the first time is determined by operating the department key after inputting the amount of money using the numerical keys of the keyboard.
For this reason, since the number of digits cannot be determined at the time of inputting the numerical information, the amount of money has to be pronounced collectively as a voice at the time of operating the department key.
However, since the operator's operation is relatively fast, the next single item price information is displayed on the display when the input single item price information of the product is being pronounced as a voice, and the customer is registered immediately before. There is a drawback in that the user must confirm the display of the next registered single item price information while listening to the voice of the single item price information.

Therefore, the main object of the present invention is to be able to instantly produce a voice of the amount of money accompanied by the scale each time the numerical key is operated, and to display information such as the single item price information of the registered product for the customer. It is to provide an ECR that can be identified very easily.

To summarize the present invention, the product code corresponding to the department key and the digit number data of the product unit price are stored in advance in the first storage means, and the scale data is stored in the second storage means. When the department key is operated and then the numerical data is input by the numerical key, the digit number data of the product unit price corresponding to the operated department key is searched by the first storage means,
Based on the retrieved digit number data, the corresponding scale data is retrieved from the second storage means, and a voice is generated based on the retrieved scale data and numerical data.

Therefore, according to the present invention, each time the numeric keys are operated, the scaled amount of money is audibly pronounced, the correspondence between the display and the uttered voice is clarified, and the single item price information registered by the customer is obtained. Etc. can be confirmed very easily.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described more specifically with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.
A memory 2, a keyboard 3, a display 4, a printer 5, and a voice synthesizing circuit 6 are connected to a CPU 1 which constitutes a scale determining means. The memory 2 is composed of, for example, a RAM and includes a storage area as shown in FIG. 4 described later.
The keyboard 3 is provided with various keys necessary for ECR, such as numerical keys and department keys. The display 4 displays the registered single item amount information, total amount information, and the like.
The printer 5 also prints the registered single item amount information and total amount information on the receipt. The voice synthesizing circuit 6 synthesizes a voice corresponding to the amount of money accompanied by the scale and gives it to the speaker 7, and causes the speaker 7 to generate a corresponding voice each time the numerical key is operated.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a key operation procedure by a conventional ECR with voice function, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a key operation procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Next, with reference to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, a key operation procedure in the prior art and one embodiment of the present invention will be described. Conventionally, when inputting 2984 yen as shown in FIG. 2,
At the stage of entering 2,9,8,4 from the numerical keys, the scale of the amount is not known, and the scale can be judged only when the next operation of the department key, for example, "Rohsham" is input, and then the voice output is performed. It was being done. However, at that time, the operator inputs the following numerical values 3 and 5, so that the next amount is displayed on the display unit while the voice is being pronounced, and the customer confirms the voice while looking at the display unit. I couldn't.

However, in one embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 3, first, after operating the department key of “loin ham”, the number of digits of the amount of money stored in advance corresponding to this product can be determined. At the stage of inputting the numerical value 2 of, it is possible to immediately discriminate how much numerical value is input. Therefore,
Each time a numeric value is entered from the numeric keys, a voice with scale can be announced.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing data stored in the memory 2 shown in FIG. In FIG. 2, storage areas 21 to 2n are provided corresponding to each department key. Then, for example, the storage area 21 is provided with storage areas 211 to 213 for individually storing the digit number of the product corresponding to the department key, the product name, and the product code. In addition, a storage area 24 is provided for storing the scale data required to notify the voice corresponding to each scale. In this storage area 24, data necessary for notifying as a voice for each digit position is stored in the storage areas 241 to 244. Further, the memory 2 is provided with a storage area as a digit number buffer 26 and a voice buffer 27. The digit number buffer 26 reads out the number of digits stored in the storage area 211 or the like and temporarily stores it. The voice buffer 27 temporarily stores a product name stored in the storage area 212 or the like or scale data stored in the storage areas 241 to 244.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart for explaining a specific operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

Next, a specific operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. First, the operator operates the department key corresponding to the product purchased by the customer.
Then, the CPU 1 determines whether or not the department key has been operated, and when determining that the department key has been operated, determines whether or not the digit number buffer 26 is 0. At this point, since no data is stored in the digit number buffer 26, if any data remains in the digit number buffer 26, it is determined as an error, and if there is no data, the storage areas 21 to 2n are searched and operated. It is determined whether or not the product code corresponding to the department key is set. If it is not set, error processing is performed. If it is set, digit number data is read from the storage area corresponding to the product, and the digit number buffer 26
Temporarily store in. At the same time, the product name is read and temporarily stored in the voice buffer 27. The product name data temporarily stored in the voice buffer 27 is given to the voice synthesis circuit 6,
The product name corresponding to the operated department key is sounded as a voice from the speaker 7.

The operator operates the department keys and then the numerical keys to input the numerical information of the first digit. Then, the CPU 1 determines that the numerical value key has been operated without operating the department key, and determines whether the digit number data is temporarily stored in the digit number buffer 26. If the digit number data is not temporarily stored, an error process is performed. If it is stored, the numeric data input from the numeric key is temporarily stored in the voice buffer 27. Then, the scale data is retrieved from the storage area 24 based on the digit number data temporarily stored in the digit number buffer 26. Here, the data of “sen” is read from the storage area 243 and is temporarily stored in the voice buffer 27. That is, the voice buffer 27 temporarily stores "ni" and scale data "sen".
The data stored in the voice buffer 27 is sounded from the speaker 7 via the voice synthesis circuit 6. That is, "nice" is pronounced from the speaker 7.

Further, the CPU 1 decrements the digit number data temporarily stored in the digit number buffer 26 by 1 and determines whether or not the content of the digit number buffer 26 has become zero. If it is not 0, it waits for the next key input. Then, when the numerical value of the second digit is input from the numerical key, the above-mentioned operation is repeated and the speaker 7 outputs "Kyuuhyaku". In the same manner, "Hachiju" and "Joen" are pronounced in sequence. Then, when the content of the digit number buffer 26 becomes 0,
“EN” is temporarily stored in the voice buffer 27, and the corresponding voice is pronounced from the speaker 7.

As described above, according to this embodiment, when the numeric key is operated and the numeric data is input after the department key is operated,
Based on the number of digits of the amount of money corresponding to the department key, the scale of the entered numerical data is determined, and based on the scale data and the numerical information entered from the numerical keys, the audio such as the amount accompanied by the scale is output. Can pronounce. Therefore, the operator and the customer hear a corresponding voice each time the numeric key is input, which facilitates confirmation and prevents erroneous operation.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a conventional key operation procedure. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a key operation procedure of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is an illustrative view showing data stored in the memory.
FIG. 5 is a flow chart for explaining a specific operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A first storage means for storing a product code corresponding to a department key and digit number data of a product unit price, a second storage means for storing scale data, and determining whether or not the department key has been operated. First determining means for searching the first storage means for a product code corresponding to the operated department key in response to the determination means determining that the department key has been operated. Read-out means for reading the digit number data of the product unit price stored corresponding to the searched product code from the first storage means in response to the search of the product code by the first search means A digit number storage means for storing the digit number data read by the reading means; a numeric data storage means for storing the numeric data input by a numeric key after the department key is operated; Based on the digit number data stored in the memory,
Second retrieval means for retrieving the scale data of the numerical data stored in the numerical data storage means from the second storage means, and the scale data retrieved by the second search means, and the numerical data storage An electronic cash register comprising voice generating means for generating a voice based on numerical data stored in the means.