Article sales data processing apparatus

• US 20090026262A1
• Filed: 07/17/2008
• Published: 01/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Shigeaki
• Granted Patent: US 8,096,476 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/383
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0036 Checkout procedures
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0045 with a code reader for reading of an identifying code of the article to be registered, e.g. barcode reader or radio-frequency identity [RFID] reader
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/009 the reader being an RFID reader
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/145 PLU-management

Abstract

An article sales data processing apparatus comprises a first reading unit configured to read an article identification code from a first medium attached to an article, a second reading unit configured to read the article identification code from a second medium attached to the article, a determination unit configured to determine whether the article identification code is the code read by the first reading unit or the code read by the second reading unit, and a control unit configured to separately display, on a display unit, article sales data obtained from the article identification code determined to have been read by the first reading unit and article sales data obtained from the article identification code determined to have been read by the second reading unit.

Claims

1. An article sales data processing apparatus configured to acquire sales data for an article identified by an article identification code and display the sales data on a display unit, the apparatus comprising:

a first reading unit configured to read the article identification code from a first medium attached to the article;

a second reading unit configured to read the article identification code from a second medium attached to the article;

a determination unit configured to determine whether the article identification code is the code read by the first reading unit or the code read by the second reading unit; and

a control unit configured to separately display, on the display unit, article sales data obtained from the article identification code determined to have been read by the first reading unit and article sales data obtained from the article identification code determined to have been read by the second reading unit.

2. The article sales data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the first reading unit outputs the article identification code read from the first medium to the determination unit after adding a first identifier thereto,

the second reading unit outputs the article identification code read from the second medium to the determination unit after adding a second identifier different from the first identifier thereto, and

the determination unit determines, by the identifier added to the article identification code by the first or second reading unit, whether the article identification code is the code read by the first reading unit or the code read by the second reading unit.

3. The article sales data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the first reading unit is configured to read the article identification code from a barcode attached to the article, and

the second reading unit is configured to read the article identification code from a wireless tag attached to the article.

4. The article sales data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a counting unit configured to separately count the number of article sales data for each article, the number of article sales data including a first number which is the number of article sales data obtained from the article identification code determined to have been read by the first reading unit, and a second number which is the number of article sales data obtained from the article identification code determined to have been read by the second reading unit.

5. The article sales data processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the control unit separately displays the first number and the second number counted in the counting unit on the display unit for each article.

6. The article sales data processing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

a judgment unit configured to judge for each article whether the first number and the second number counted in the counting unit are 0 or are greater than or equal to 1.

7. The article sales data processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the control unit divides the display unit, and displays, on one of the display units, the article name and first number of the article for which the first number has been judged to be greater than or equal to 1 by the judgment unit, and on the other of the display units, the article name and second number of the article for which the second number has been judged to be greater than or equal to 1.

8. The article sales data processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the control unit causes at least one display attribute to be different from other display attributes, the display attributes including a display attribute of the article sales data regarding the article for which the first number has been judged to be 0 by the judgment unit, a display attribute of the article sales data regarding the article for which the second number has been judged to be 0, and a display attribute of the article sales data regarding the article for which both the first number and the second number have been judged to be greater than or equal to 1.

9. The article sales data processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

the display attribute is a character color.

10. The article sales data processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

the display attribute is a character size.

11. The article sales data processing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

a mode setting unit configured to set one of a region division mode and an attribute division mode as an article display mode,

wherein when the article display mode set in the mode setting unit is the region division mode, the control unit divides the display unit, and displays, on one of the display units, the article name and first number of the article for which the first number has been judged to be greater than or equal to 1 by the judgment unit, and on the other of the display units, the article name and second number of the article for which the second number has been judged to be greater than or equal to 1, and

when the article display mode set in the mode setting unit is the attribute division mode, the control unit causes at least one display attribute to be different from other display attributes, the display attributes including a display attribute of the article sales data regarding the article for which the first number has been judged to be 0 by the judgment unit, a display attribute of the article sales data regarding the article for which the second number has been judged to be 0, and a display attribute of the article sales data regarding the article for which both the first number and the second number have been judged to be greater than or equal to 1.

12. The article sales data processing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

a mode setting unit configured to set one of a region division mode and a number division mode as an article display mode,

wherein when the article display mode set in the mode setting unit is the region division mode, the control unit divides the display unit, and displays, on one of the display units, the article name and first number of the article for which the first number has been judged to be greater than or equal to 1 by the judgment unit, and on the other of the display units, the article name and second number of the article for which the second number has been judged to be greater than or equal to 1, and

when the article display mode set in the mode setting unit is the number division mode, the control unit separately displays the first number and the second number counted in the counting unit on the display unit for each article.

13. The article sales data processing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

a mode setting unit configured to set one of an attribute division mode and a number division mode as an article display mode,

wherein when the article display mode set in the mode setting unit is the attribute division mode, the control unit causes at least one display attribute to be different from other display attributes, the display attributes including a display attribute of the article sales data regarding the article for which the first number has been judged to be 0 by the judgment unit, a display attribute of the article sales data regarding the article for which the second number has been judged to be 0, and a display attribute of the article sales data regarding the article for which both the first number and the second number have been judged to be greater than or equal to 1, and

when the article display mode set in the mode setting unit is the number division mode, the control unit separately displays the first number and the second number counted in the counting unit on the display unit for each article.

14. An article sales data processing apparatus configured to acquire sales data for an article identified by an article identification code and display the sales data on a display unit, the apparatus comprising:

a barcode reading unit configured to read the article identification code from a barcode attached to the article;

a tag reading unit configured to read the article identification code from a wireless tag attached to the article;

a determination unit configured to determine whether the input article identification code is the code read by the barcode reading unit or the code read by the tag reading unit;

a counting unit configured to separately count the number of article sales data for each article, the number of article sales data including a first number which is the number of article sales data obtained from the article identification code determined to have been read by the barcode reading unit, and a second number which is the number of article sales data obtained from the article identification code determined to have been read by the tag reading unit; and

a control unit configured to separately display the first number and the second number counted in the counting unit on the display unit for each article.

15. The article sales data processing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein

the barcode reading unit outputs the article identification code read from the barcode to the determination unit after adding a first identifier thereto,

the tag reading unit outputs the article identification code read from the wireless tag to the determination unit after adding a second identifier different from the first identifier thereto, and

the determination unit determines, by the identifier added to the article identification code by the first or second reading unit, whether the article identification code is the code read by the barcode reading unit or the code read by the tag reading unit.

16. The article sales data processing apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising:

a judgment unit configured to judge for each article whether the first number and the second number counted in the counting unit are 0 or are greater than or equal to 1,

wherein the control unit divides the display unit, and displays, on one of the display units, the article name and first number of the article for which the first number has been judged to be greater than or equal to 1 by the judgment unit, and on the other of the display units, the article name and second number of the article for which the second number has been judged to be greater than or equal to 1.