JPH07182566A - Cash register - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate an error such as forgetting output and to prevent the generation of difference depending on an operator by correlating the output condition and the output kind of a report and selecting a report output processing. CONSTITUTION:A cash register 3 controls a table preparation part 1, prepares a table relating with the output condition and the output kind of the report and successively stores it in a memory 2. The table stored in the memory 2 is utilized for report output processing executed by a circuit consisting of the collating part 5 and the report output part 6 of a report output processing selection part 4. Namely, when conditions at the time of outputting the report such as a condition which can be decided from information obtained within the cash register such as a date, a day, time, etc., is coincident with the condition stored in the memory 2, the combination of the reports to be outputted can be decided. Thereby, the operator does not have to think about a condition at the time of outputting the report and manually output plural kinds of the necessary reports.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cash register, and more particularly to outputting a report of data input to the cash register.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional cash register is capable of outputting several kinds of reports, and a combination of these kinds of reports has a table of a combination number and an output report kind in a memory and a keyboard. By inputting the combination number from the etc., the required report is output (for example,
(See JP-A-56-042874).

[0003]

In this conventional cash register, it is not immediately known which report is combined with the "report combination number", and which combination number is necessary for this output. However, there is a problem that the user may not know.

[0004]

A cash register of the present invention is
It has a table in which combinations of report types and output conditions of the combinations of reports are associated with each other, a program for creating the table, and a program for outputting a report based on the table.

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a table of report output conditions and output report types according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. When creating the table shown in FIG. 1, the control unit 3 of the cash register of FIG. 2 controls the table creating unit 1 to create the table, and after creating the table, sequentially stores the table in the memory 2. For example, at the address corresponding to item No. 1, the data representing the output condition "every day with 0 and 5" and the report numbers (No) 1, 2, 3
Data is registered. The table stored in the memory 2 is used for the report output process executed by the circuit including the collation unit 5 and the report output unit 6 of the report output process selection unit 4. That is, when a condition for outputting a report, for example, a condition that can be determined from information obtained in the cash register such as date, day of the week, time, etc., matches a condition in the table stored in the memory 2, it should be output. It is possible to determine a combination of reports (reports that can be output by the cash register). Here, the report is information such as the sales amount of products, the number of products sold, and the date.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of the operation when a report is output based on the table of FIG. First, the report output process selection unit 4 in FIG. 2 selects a report output process (step 10), and the control unit 3 shifts from another job to a report output process. Next, the collation unit 5 compares the output conditions shown in FIG. 1 stored in the memory 2 with various information (information such as the day of the week, day / time) stored in the memory 2 in step 20 of collating the report output conditions. And search the output condition of the report that best matches when the report output process is selected. Subsequently, in step 30 of determining the report type, the collating unit 5 knows the report number to be output from the table shown in FIG. 1 and sets the output report number. The report output unit 6 outputs the report stored in the memory 2 based on the set report number.

In the collation of the report output conditions by the collating unit 5, when a plurality of output conditions are matched, for example, when the table of FIG. 1 is used as the condition table, the report output process is selected as "April 30 Friday". , The output report numbers are "1, 2, 3" and "1, 3, 4".
It becomes "2, 3, 4". In this case, the collation unit 5 selects the same report so as not to be output multiple times when determining the report type. That is, in the above example, "1,
It becomes four kinds of "2, 3, 4".

[0009]

As described above, according to the present invention, by associating the report output condition with the report output type and only selecting the report output process, the report that matches the output condition at that time is automatically selected. Since it is output, it is not necessary for the operator to manually output a plurality of types of necessary reports in consideration of the conditions for outputting the report, mistakes such as forgetting to output are eliminated, and a difference between operators does not occur.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a report output condition according to an embodiment of the present invention,
It is a figure which shows the combination table of an output report.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 table creation unit 2 memory 3 control unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A report is generated on the basis of means for generating a table showing a relationship between a report output condition and an output report type, a storage means for storing the generated table, and table information stored in the storage means. A cash register including a means for outputting. 2. The means for outputting the report comprises: means for reading the table from the memory, searching for optimum conditions to determine the type of report that meets the conditions, and output means for outputting the confirmed report. The cash register described in claim 1.