Article sales data processing apparatus

• US 8,096,476 B2
• Filed: 07/17/2008
• Issued: 01/17/2012
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): St. Cyr, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US12/218,729
• Publication Number:
  US 20090026262A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,279 Days
• Field of Search: 235/462.01, 235/462.45, 235/472.1, 235/383, 235/385
• US Class Current: 235/462.01
• 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 article sales data for an article identified by an article identification code and display the article 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 counting unit configured to separately count the number of the article sales data for each article, the number of the article sales data including a first number which is the number of the article sales data obtained from the article identification code read by the first reading unit, and a second number which is the number of the article sales data obtained from the article identification code read by the second reading unit; and

a control unit configured to perform a region division mode to divide a screen of the display unit, and display, in one region of the divided screen, a first article name and the first number of the article identified by the article identification code read by the first reading unit, and, in another region of the divided screen, a second article name and the second number of the article identified by the article identification code read by the second reading unit.

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

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;

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 mode setting unit configured to set one of the 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 performs the region division mode, 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 first display attribute of the article identifiable by the article identification code read by the first reading unit and unidentifiable by the article identification code read by the second reading unit, a second display attribute of the article identifiable by the article identification code read by the second reading unit and unidentifiable by the article identification code read by the first reading unit, and a third display attribute of the article identifiable by the article identification code read by the first reading unit and also identifiable by the article identification code read by the second reading unit.

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

a mode setting unit configured to set one of the 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 performs the region division mode, and

when the article display mode set in the mode setting unit is the number division mode, the control unit divides the screen of the display unit into a region of the first and second article names, a region of the first number, and a region of the second number, and displays, in the region of the first and second article names, the first and second article names identified by the article identification code read by either the first reading unit or the second reading unit, wherein, for each article, in a case where the article identification code of the article is read by the first reading unit, the first number of the article is displayed in the region of the first number, and in a case where the article identification code of the article is read by the second reading unit, the second number of the article is displayed in the region of the second number.

6. An article sales data processing apparatus configured to acquire article sales data for an article identified by an article identification code and display the article 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 counting unit configured to separately count the number of the article sales data for each article, the number of the article sales data including a first number which is the number of the article sales data obtained from the article identification code read by the first reading unit, and a second number which is the number of the article sales data obtained from the article identification code read by the second reading unit; and

a control unit configured to perform a number division mode to divide a screen of the display unit into a region of an article name, a region of the first number, and a region of the second number, and display, in the region of the article name, the article name of the article identified by the article identification code read by the first reading unit and the article name of the article identified by the article identification code read by the second reading unit, wherein for each article, in a case where the article identification code of the article is read by the first reading unit, the first number of the article is displayed in the region of the first number, and in a case where the article identification code of the article is read by the second reading unit, the second number of the article is displayed in the region of the second number.

7. 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 the 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 first display attribute of the article identifiable by the article identification code read by the first reading unit and unidentifiable by the article identification code read by the second reading unit, a second display attribute of the article identifiable by the article identification code read by the second reading unit and unidentifiable by the article identification code read by the first reading unit, and a third display attribute of the article identifiable by the article identification code read by the first reading unit and also identifiable by the article identification code read by the second reading unit, and

when the article display mode set in the mode setting unit is the number division mode, the control unit performs the number division mode.

8. An article sales data processing apparatus configured to acquire article sales data for an article identified by an article identification code and display the article 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 counting unit configured to separately count the number of the article sales data for each article, the number of the article sales data including a first number which is the number of the article sales data obtained from the article identification code read by the first reading unit, and a second number which is the number of the article sales data obtained from the article identification code read by the second reading unit; and

a control unit configured to perform an attribute division mode to cause at least one display attribute to be different from other display attributes, the display attributes including a first display attribute of the article identifiable by the article identification code read by the first reading unit and unidentifiable by the article identification code read by the second reading unit, a second display attribute of the article identifiable by the article identification code read by the second reading unit and unidentifiable by the article identification code read by the first reading unit, and a third display attribute of the article identifiable by the article identification code read by the first reading unit and also identifiable by the article identification code read by the second reading unit.

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

each of the first through third display attributes is a character color.

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

each of the first through third display attributes is a character size.