ORDER RECEIVING APPARATUS AND ORDER RECEIVING METHOD

• US 20100259496A1
• Filed: 04/07/2010
• Published: 10/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Shimizu, Kenji, Okuma, Yumiko, Sato, Hisashi, Sambe, Masanori, Makiyama, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US12/755,715
• Publication Number:
  US 20100259496A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/00 Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0036 Checkout procedures

Abstract

An order receiving apparatus includes: a display control unit configured to display an order input screen on which a menu area and a details area are arranged, the menu area being an area in which operation images for receiving orders for menu items are displayed for each section of menu items and the details area being an area in which details of the menu item for which an order is received are displayed; a receiving unit configured to receive selection of a detail out of the details displayed in the details area; and a switching unit configured to switch the operation images displayed in the menu area to the operation images for receiving menu items of the section related to the menu item, whose selection of the detail is received.

Claims

1. An order receiving apparatus comprising:

a display control unit configured to display an order input screen on which a menu area and a details area are arranged, the menu area being an area in which operation images for receiving orders for menu items are displayed for each section of menu items and the details area being an area in which details of the menu item for which an order is received are displayed;

a receiving unit configured to receive selection of a detail out of the details displayed in the details area; and

a switching unit configured to switch the operation images displayed in the menu area to the operation images for receiving menu items of a section related to a menu item, whose selection of the detail is received.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit displays, as a special image, the detail of the menu item, the selection of which is received, among the details displayed in the details area.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit arranges, in time series for respective items received at same time, the details displayed in the details area and displays the details.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the receiving unit receives selection of a detail, an order for which is corrected, out of the details displayed in the details area.

5. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit displays the detail of the menu item, the selection of which is received, as the special image displayed in a color different from that of the other details.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operation images are images in which names of menu items are displayed.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit displays the order input screen on a liquid crystal display.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

a touch panel is laminated and arranged on a display surface of the liquid crystal display,

the display control unit displays the operation images as objects that can be touch-designated, and

the receiving unit further receives an order of a menu item, the operation image of which is touch-designated.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

the display control unit displays, as the objects that can be touch-designated, the details displayed in the details area, and

the receiving unit receives selection of a touch-designated detail out of the details displayed in the details area.

10. An order receiving method comprising:

displaying an order input screen on which a menu area and a details area are arranged, the menu area being an area in which operation images for receiving orders for menu items are displayed for each section of menu items and the details area being an area in which details of the menu item for which an order is received are displayed;

receiving selection of a detail out of the details displayed in the details area; and

switching the operation images displayed in the menu area to the operation images for receiving menu items of a section related to the menu item, whose selection of the detail is received.