Electronic cash register and related registration and display system

• US 6,085,167 A
• Filed: 04/22/1998
• Issued: 07/04/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Iguchi, Kesayoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitts, Harold I.
• Application Number:
  US09/064,097
• Time in Patent Office: 804 Days
• Field of Search: 705/15, 705/24
• US Class Current: 705/15
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/209 Specified transaction journal output feature, e.g. printed receipt or voice output
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/12 Hotels or restaurants

Abstract

Each item is assigned by a combination of a main code and a sub code. During a registration of ordered items, each ordered item is displayed according to a first classification based on the main code and the sub code. The display screen is changed in response to a depression of a subtotal key or a total key. After the subtotal key or the total key is depressed, the ordered item is displayed according to a second classification based on the main code only.

Claims

1. An electronic cash register comprising:

a storing means for storing an item setting table setting a main code and a sub code for each item, said main code identifying the name of said item and said sub code representing the price of said item which varies according to the way of sales;

a judging means for judging whether or not a registration procedure is in a totaling stage; and

a display means for changing the pattern of a display screen from a first classification to a second classification when the registration procedure is in the totaling stage based on the judgment result of said judging means.

2. The electronic cash register in accordance with claim 1, wherein said judging means judges said total stage of the registration procedure by checking an entry of a key operation for totaling registered items.

3. The electronic cash register in accordance with claim 2, wherein said key operation for totaling the registered items is a depression of a subtotal key or a total key.

4. The electronic cash register in accordance with claim 1, wherein said first classification includes ordered items discriminable based on both said main code and said sub code, and said second classification includes the ordered items discriminable based on said main code only.

5. An electronic cash register comprising:

a storing means for storing an item setting table setting a main code and a sub code for each item, said main code identifying the name of said item and said sub code representing the price of said item which varies according to the way of sales;

a judging means for judging whether or not a registration procedure is in a totaling stage;

a correcting means for correcting a registered item; and

a display mans for changing the pattern of a display screen from a first classification to a second classification when the registration procedure is in the totaling stage based on the judgment result of said judging means and for returning the display pattern from said second classification to said first classification in response to a correction performed by said correcting means.

6. The electronic cash register in accordance with claim 5, wherein said judging means judges said totaling stage of the registration procedure by checking an entry of a key operation for totaling registered items.

7. The electronic cash register in accordance with claim 6, wherein said key operation for totaling the registered items is a depression of a subtotal key or a total key.

8. The electronic cash register in accordance with claim 5, wherein said first classification includes ordered items discriminable based on both said main code and said sub code, and said second classification includes the ordered items discriminable based on said main code only.

9. An electronic cash register comprising:

a first storing means for storing a single item setting table setting a main code and a sub code for each single item, said main code identifying the name of said item and said sub code representing the price of said item which varies according to the way of sales;

a second storing means for storing a set item setting table setting a set code for each set item;

a judging mans for judging whether an ordered item is a single item or a set item; and

a display means for changing the pattern of a display screen from a first classification to a second classification different from said first classification when said ordered item is a set item based on the judgment result of said judging means.

10. The electronic cash register in accordance with claim 9, wherein said second classification includes ordered items discriminable based on said set code only.