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EP0655717A2
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Pos system
Assignee: Fujitsu Ltd
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Filing: 1994-07-29
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2014-07-29
Abstract
Abstract A POS (Point Of Sales) system which employs a purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus having a self scanning function is improved in that a total amount of money for commodities loaded on a shopping cart or in a shopping basket or unit prices of the individual commodities can come to a knowledge of a customer before the commodities are transported to a settlement POS terminal thereby to prevent possible shopping of an amount of money greater than an estimate to allow smooth shopping and that commodities are printed in a sorted condition for different groups to facilitate confirmation of purchased commodities by a customer. A display section (7) is provided on the purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) and displays the prices of commodities obtained by retrieval of a commodity price file (4) in accordance with commodity code information read by a commodity code reading section (1) and a total value of the prices of the commodities. <IMAGE>
Inventors
- 👤 Kazuhito C/O Fujitsu Limited Sakai
- 👤 Tomochika C/O Fujitsu Limited Shibata
- 👤 Chizuo C/O Fujitsu Limited Suzuki
- 👤 Chizu C/O Fujitsu Limited Shimizu
- 👤 Kyouko C/O Fujitsu Limited Terada
- 👤 Kaoru Kikuchi
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
EP
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-07 23:07
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06Q; G06Q20/00; G06Q20/08; G06Q20/20; G07; G07F; G07F7/00; G07F7/02; G06Q20/202; G06Q20/203; G06Q20/209; G07G; G07G1/00; G07G1/0036; G07G1/0045; G07G1/0081; G07G1/12
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 19
Claim 1
Independent Claim
178 words
A POS system, characterized in that it comprises: a purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) having a self scanning function and including a commodity code reading section (1) for reading a commodity code applied to a commodity, and an accommodation section (2) for accommodating therein a commodity whose commodity code has been read by said commodity code reading section (1); a commodity price file (4) for accommodating price information of commodities corresponding to commodity codes; a settlement POS terminal (5) for performing final settlement of accounts for purchased commodities accommodated in said accommodation section (2) of said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3); a control apparatus (6) for controlling said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) and said settlement POS terminal (5); and a display section (7) provided on said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) for displaying prices of commodities obtained by retrieval of said commodity price file (4) in accordance with commodity code information read by said commodity code reading section (1) and a total value of the prices of the commodities.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
27 words
A POS system as set forth in claim 1, characterized in that said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) includes said commodity price file (4) therein.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
212 words
A POS system as set forth in claim 1, characterized in that said control apparatus (6) includes a commodity price retrieval section for retrieving, in accordance with commodity code information read by said commodity code reading section (1) of said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3), a price of a commodity corresponding to the commodity code information from said commodity price file (4), a total amount calculation section for calculating a total value of prices of commodities retrieved by said commodity price retrieval section, a screen data edition section for editing a screen which includes, as display information, the prices of the commodities retrieved by said commodity price retrieval section and the total value of the prices of the commodities calculated by said total amount calculation section, and a screen data transmission section for transmitting the edited screen edited by said screen data edition section to said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3), and said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) includes a screen data reception section for receiving the screen data transmitted thereto from said screen data transmission section of said control apparatus (6), said display section (7) of said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) displaying the edited screen received by said screen data reception section.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
85 words
A POS system as set forth in claim 3, characterized in that said control apparatus (6) further includes a purchased commodity data storage section for storing edited screen information edited by said screen data edition section as purchased commodity data of said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3), and a data transmission section for transmitting the purchased commodity data stored in said purchased commodity data storage section to said settlement POS terminal (5) in response to a request from said settlement POS terminal (5).
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
70 words
A POS system as set forth in claim 1, characterized in that said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) includes a screen information holding section for holding information of a plurality of particular screens, and a display control section for controlling said display section (7) to display the information of at least one of the plurality of particular screens held in said screen information holding section by window display.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
35 words
A POS system as set forth in claim 5, characterized in that the information of the plurality of particular screens held in said screen information holding section are read in from said control apparatus (6).
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
45 words
A POS system as set forth in claim 5, characterized in that the information of the plurality of particular screens held in said screen information holding section are read in from an external storage medium loaded on said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3).
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
89 words
A POS system as set forth in claim 5, characterized in that said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) further includes a screen information retrieval section for retrieving from said screen information holding section the information of that one of the particular screens which relates to commodity code information read by said commodity code reading section (1), the information of the particular screen retrieved by said screen information retrieval section being displayed by window display on said display section (7) under the control of said display control section.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
125 words
A POS system as set forth in claim 8, characterized in that said screen information holding section is constructed as a group information holding section which holds, for each of a plurality of commodity categories to which commodities belong, information of a plurality of particular screens relating to the commodity category as a group, and said screen information retrieval section retrieves, from said group information holding section, that one of the groups of information of particular screens which relates to a commodity category to which commodity code information read by said commodity code reading section (1) belongs whereas said display control section controls said display section (7) to successively display the information of the particular screens of the particular screen information group by window display.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
126 words
A POS system as set forth in any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) includes an inputting section for inputting a purchase estimate of a customer when the customer starts use of said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3), a comparison section for comparing the purchase estimate inputted from said inputting section and the total value of the prices of the commodities, and an excess notification section operable when it is determined by said comparison section that the total value of the prices of the commodities exceeds the purchase estimate inputted from said inputting section for causing said display section (7) to display the determination in order to notify the determination to the customer.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
31 words
A POS system as set forth in claim 10, characterized in that said inputting section is constructed as ten keys of the touch sensor type displayed on said display section (7).
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
251 words
A POS system, characterized in that it comprises: a purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) having a self scanning function and including a commodity code reading section (1) for reading a commodity code applied to a commodity, and an accommodation section (2) for accommodating therein a commodity whose commodity code has been read by said commodity code reading section (1); a commodity price file (4) for accommodating price information of commodities corresponding to commodity codes; a settlement POS terminal (9) for performing final settlement of accounts for purchased commodities accommodated in said accommodation section (2) of said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3), said settlement POS terminal (9) including a receipt issuance section (8) for issuing a result of the settlement of accounts as a receipt; a control apparatus (10) for controlling said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) and said settlement POS terminal (9); and a sorting processing section (11) for sorting, at a point of time when reading of commodity codes by said commodity code reading section (1) of said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) is completed, purchased commodity data regarding prices of the commodities obtained by retrieval of said commodity price file (4) in accordance with the commodity code information read by said commodity code reading section (1) into commodity categories to which the commodities belong; said receipt issuance section (8) of said settlement POS terminal (9) issuing a result of the sorting processing by said sorting processing section (11) as a receipt.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
54 words
A POS system as set forth in claim 12, characterized in that said sorting processing section (11) is provided in said control apparatus (10), and said control apparatus (10) includes a data transmission section for transmitting the result of the sorting processing by said sorting processing section (11) to said settlement POS terminal (9).
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
164 words
A POS system as set forth in claim 13, characterized in that said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) includes a customer information inputting section for inputting information unique to a customer who utilizes said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3), and said control apparatus (10) includes a purchased commodity data storage section for storing, for unique information to each customer from said customer information inputting section of said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3), purchased commodity data of the customer in accordance with the result of the sorting by said sorting processing section (11), a period determination section for determining lapse of a fixed period of time, and a purchased commodity data issuance section operable when it is determined by said period determination section that the fixed period of time has elapsed for issuing purchased commodity data for the fixed period of time stored in said purchased commodity data storage section in accordance with the unique information of the customer.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
165 words
A POS system as set forth in claim 13, characterized in that said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) includes a customer information inputting section for inputting information unique to a customer who utilizes said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3), and said control apparatus (10) includes a point number storage section for converting, for unique information to each customer from said customer information inputting section of said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3), a total amount of money for each one transaction of the customer into a point number and cumulatively storing the point number, a period determination section for determining lapse of a fixed period of time, and a point number issuance section operable when it is determined by said period determination section that the fixed period of time has elapsed for issuing a total point number for the fixed period of time stored in said point storage section in a corresponding relationship to the peculiar information of the customer.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
119 words
A POS system as set forth in claim 15, characterized in that said control apparatus (10) includes a purchased commodity data storage section for storing, for unique information to each customer from said customer information inputting section of said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3), purchased commodity data of the customer in accordance with the result of the sorting by said sorting processing section (11), and a purchased commodity data issuance section operable when it is determined by said period determination section that the fixed period of time has elapsed for issuing purchased commodity data for the fixed period of time stored in said purchased commodity data storage section in accordance with the unique information of the customer.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
62 words
A POS system as set forth in claim 12, characterized in that said sorting processing section (11) is provided in said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3), and said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) includes a data transmission section for transmitting the result of the sorting processing by said sorting processing section (11) to said settlement POS terminal (9).
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
28 words
A POS system as set forth in claim 17, characterized in that said commodity price file (4) is provided in said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3).
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
167 words
A POS system as set forth in claim 17 or 18, characterized in that said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3) includes a customer information inputting section for inputting unique information to a customer who utilizes said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3), and said control apparatus (10) includes a point number storage section for converting, for unique information to each customer from said customer information inputting section of said purchased commodity accommodating and transporting apparatus (3), a total amount of money for each one transaction of the customer into a point number and cumulatively storing the point number, a period determination section for determining lapse of a fixed period of time, and a point number issuance section operable when it is determined by said period determination section that the fixed period of time has elapsed for issuing a total point number for the fixed period of time stored in said point storage section in a corresponding relationship to the unique information of the customer.
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