Electronic cash register and a method of displaying a processing result in an electronic cash register

• US 6,568,590 B2
• Filed: 05/21/1999
• Issued: 05/27/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Iguchi, Kesayoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Diane I.
• Application Number:
  US09/316,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20020074395A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,467 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 235/376, 235/378, 235/380, 705/15, 705/19, 705/30
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0018 Constructional details, e.g. of drawer, printing means, input means
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/12 electronically operated digital data processing aspects G06Q20/00

Abstract

An electronic cash register displays images for an article key receiving process and a total key response process on a screen, and in response to a first function key (IN indicative of eating inside), displays font data of a mark. Display attribution of the display is changed in accordance with the processing condition. That is, in response to the first function key, the background color at a predetermined area is changed in response to the first or second function key. An indicator for emitting a plurality of color rays indicates the processing condition with one of the color rays.

Claims

1. An electronic cash register comprising:

a key board including article keys, a first function key indicative of eating inside a shop and a second function key indicative of taking out, and a total key;

processing means responsive to said key board for effecting one of predetermined processes including an article key receiving process and a total key response process;

font data storing means for storing sets of font data;

a code table;

setting means responsive to a user through said key board for user-initiated setting a first code indicative of a relation between said first function key and a first set of said font data and a second code indicative of a relation between said second function key and a second set of said font data in said code table in a setting mode, said setting means entering said setting mode in response to a predetermined key operation; and

display means having a screen responsive to said processing means for displaying images for said article key receiving process and said total key response process on said screen, and displaying either of said first set of font data on said screen in accordance with said first code from said setting means in response to said first function key or said second set of font data on said screen in accordance with said second code from said setting means in response to said second function key in a non-setting mode, wherein said first and second sets of said font data indicate font images other than character word images.

2. An electronic cash register as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a non-volatile memory, wherein said setting means stores said first and second codes in said code table in said non-volatile memory.

3. An electronic cash register as claimed in claim 1, wherein said setting means non-temporarily stores said first and second codes.

4. An electronic cash resister comprising:

a key board including article keys, a first function key indicative of eating inside a shop and a second function key indicative of taking out, and a total key;

a code table;

setting means responsive to a user through said key board for user initiated setting a code indicative of a relation between one of sets of said font data and one of said predetermined processes in the code table in a setting mode which is set in response to a predetermined key operation, said predetermined processes including article key receiving process for receiving input of said article key, a first function key receiving process for receiving input of said first function key, a second function key receiving process for receiving input of said second function key, and a total key response process responsive to said total key;

processing means responsive to said key board for effecting one of the predetermined processes;

condition judging means for judging that said article key receiving processing has been finished, judging that said input of said first function key is received, and judging that said input of said second function key is received; and

display means having a screen responsive to said processing means for displaying, in a non-setting mode, images for said article key receiving process and said total key response process on said screen, said display means displaying a condition of said processing means in accordance with the judging result of said condition judging means with predetermined information other than character words.

5. An electronic cash register as claimed in claim 4, further comprising:

font data storing means for storing sets of font data; and

wherein said display means reads said code from said setting means when the judging result indicates said one of predetermined processes, displays said set of font data on said screen in accordance with said code from said setting means.

6. An electronic cash register as claimed in claim 4, wherein said display means includes display attribution changing means for changing display attribution at a predetermined area of said screen image in accordance with the judging result of said condition judging means.

7. An electronic cash register as claimed in claim 6, wherein said display attribution changing means changes display attribution at said predetermined area of said screen image from a first background color to a second background color in accordance with the judging result.

8. An electronic cash register as claimed in claim 7, wherein alphanumeric characters on said image for displaying for said article key receiving process is displayed on said predetermined area.

9. An electronic cash register as claimed in claim 7, wherein alphanumeric characters on said image for displaying for said total key response process is displayed on said predetermined area.

10. An electronic cash register as claimed in claim 7, wherein alphanumeric characters on said image for said article key receiving process is displayed outside said predetermined area within said screen.

11. An electronic cash register as claimed in claim 4, further comprising another displaying means for emitting one of predetermined color rays in accordance with the judging result of said condition judging means.

12. A method of displaying processing result in an electronic cash register including a key board including article keys, a first function key indicative of eating inside a shop, a second function key indicative of taking out, and a total key and a processor responsive to said key board for effecting either of predetermined processes including article key receiving process for receiving input of said article key, a first function key receiving process for receiving input of said first function key, a second function key receiving process for receiving input of said second function key, or a total key response process responsive to said total key at least and a display, said method comprising the steps of:

providing a code table;

user-initiated storing a first code indicative of a relation between said first function key and a first set of said font data and a second code indicative of a relation between said second function key and a second set of said font data in said code table in a setting mode which is set in response to a predetermined key operation;

judging that said article key receiving processing has been just finished, judging that said input of said first function key is received, and judging that said input of said second function key is received; and

displaying images for said article key receiving process and said total key response process on a screen, displaying a condition of said processor in accordance with the judging result with predetermined information other than character words using said first and second codes in a non-setting mode.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising the steps of:

storing sets of font data;

generating and storing a code indicative of a relation between one of sets of said font data and one of said predetermined processes in response to said key board;

reading the stored first code when the judging result indicates said one of said predetermined processes; and

displaying said first set of font data on said screen in accordance with said first code from said setting means.

14. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising the step of:

changing display attribution at a predetermined area of said screen image in accordance with the judging result.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein alphanumeric characters on said image for displaying for said total key response process is displayed on said predetermined area.

16. An electronic cash register as claimed in claim 14, wherein alphanumeric characters on said image for said article key receiving process is displayed outside said predetermined area within said screen.

17. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein said display attribution at said predetermined area of said screen image is changed from a first background color to a background color in accordance with the judging result.

18. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein alphanumeric characters on said image for displaying for said article key receiving process is displayed at said predetermined area.

19. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising the steps of emitting one of predetermined color rays in accordance with the judging result of said condition judging means.

20. An electronic cash resister comprising:

a key board including article keys, a first function key indicative of eating inside a shop and a second function key indicative of taking out, and a total key;

a code table;

setting means responsive to a user through said key board for user initiated setting a code indicative of a relation between one of sets of said font data and one of said predetermined processes in the code table in a setting mode which is set in response to a predetermined key operation, said predetermined process including article key receiving process for receiving input of said article key, a first function key receiving process for receiving input of said first function key, a second function key receiving process for receiving input of said second function key, and a total key response process responsive to said total key;

processing means responsive to said key board for effecting one of the predetermined process;

condition judging means for judging that said article key receiving processing has been just finished in response to said first or second function key; and

display means having a screen responsive to said processing means for displaying images for said article key receiving process in a non-setting mode, distinctively displaying a condition of said processing means in accordance with the judging result of said condition judging means with predetermined information other than character words to indicate any one of said article key receiving process, said first function key receiving process, and said second function key receiving process, and as well as displaying said total key process of said received input of said article key on said screen when the judging result of said condition judging means indicated that said article key receiving processing has been just finished in response to said first or second function key.