164results about "Receipt giving machines" patented technology

A kiosk apparatus capable of mounting or detaching a printer is described. In an embodiment, the printer is fixed by coupling with a stand unit, so the printer can be easily and stably mounted on the kiosk apparatus by simply inserting the printer into the housing. In addition, the embodiment allows the printer to be easily attached and detached from the kiosk apparatus by disconnecting the printer from the stand unit simply by opening operation of the door of the printer without using a separate tool. Therefore, for the maintenance of the printer, the manager can easily mount or detach the printer.

A paperless receipt technology is disclosed that comprises an API that produces a QR code at the POS terminal. This can be integrated into POS systems in a wide variety of settings, such as banks, restaurants, retail shops, etc. Any merchant could gradually reduce their costs significantly, as the need of hardware and paper will be reduced. Once the user opts for a paperless receipt, a QR code is generated that the user can scan. A QR code or the user's phone's NFC chip may be used. Once scanned, the user will be taken to a secure website with their receipt. The receipt can then be saved and downloaded on the mobile device and placed into a folder. Others can access the shared folder at the user's discretion, such as the user's accountant.

Computing devices and methods for issuing an electronic receipt. Transaction information may be received and sent to a transfer rail. A unique transaction identifier can be generated using a hash function applied to the transaction information, and / or using the date information and time information, and / or a unique device identifier. A uniform resource locator (URL) can be generated based on the unique transaction identifier and / or at least some of a plurality of receipt elements. A confirmation of a successful completion of a transfer card transaction may be received from the transfer rail. The URL can be sent to an NFC tag controller.

To make it possible to execute merge printing by generating print data having a variable number of print elements without incorporating description required for repeatedly calling a print data generation application programming interface (API) in a program code of an application that calls the API.SOLUTION: Print data are generated using a template composed of commands of the minimum unit not including repetitions, the number of which corresponds to a variable number of print elements, and field data including data of print elements to be inserted into merge fields of application programming interface (API) call commands included in the template. A repetition range is specified from the template, a print data generation API is generated by replacing the merge fields, including repeat replacement of repetitions within the specified range, with the data of the print elements, and by executing the generated print data generation API, print data including print-related commands into which the data of the print elements have been inserted is generated.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5

To easily manage data of receipts issued at a plurality of stores.SOLUTION: A data management device comprises a reception section and a control section. The reception section receives receipt data in which a receipt including information of a transaction settled as one transaction is digitalized. If subject person identification information for identifying a subject person of a transaction is attached to receipt data received at the reception section, the control section stores the receipt data to a first storage section and a second storage section. If the subject person identification information is unattached thereto, the control section stores the receipt data in the first storage section and does not store it in the second storage section.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6

Provided is an autonomous mobile vending robot for point-of-sale, last-mile delivery, card issuance and ticket issuance operations. The robot includes a secure storage compartment that is configurable for various applications. The secure storage compartment may be insulated and include a heating system or a refrigeration system for mobile vending and delivery of food or drink items. According to various embodiments, the robot may include sensors and a card reader configured to verify the identity and age of users to dispense restricted items (e.g., alcohol, tobacco, recreational drugs). For mobile card issuance operations, the storage compartment houses programmable credit / gift cards and card-writing components to activate and program the cards for dispensing to users. The storage compartment may house a secure printer and ticket paper for mobile issuance of lottery / raffle tickets.

The utility model provides a stacking structure of a POS machine camera module and a horn device, which comprises a first shell, a second shell, a camera module, a horn, a fixed support and a flexible circuit board, the flexible circuit board and the camera module are sequentially embedded on a first end face of the fixed support, the horn is embedded on a second end face of the fixed support, and the first shell and the second shell are arranged in parallel. According to the utility model, after the loudspeaker and the camera module are embedded on the fixed support, the fixed support is fixed on the printer support in a buckling manner and is further fixed below the printer motor, so that the maximum utilization of the internal space is achieved from the structural stacking design, and the economical efficiency of the overall size of the POS machine is realized; on the premise, the whole structure is stacked compactly and concisely, a faster and simpler assembly effect can be achieved on the aspect of structure assembly, the appearance design can be designed more concisely and beautifully, functional regional distribution is clearer, and meanwhile, the holding experience of a handheld region is optimized to a great extent.

According to one or more embodiments, a settlement apparatus includes a processor. The processor detects a state of the settlement apparatus related to execution of settlement processing at the settlement apparatus using a plurality of settlement methods. The processor determines, based on the detected state of the settlement apparatus, whether there is a first settlement method among the plurality of settlement methods which cannot be executed at the settlement processing apparatus. The processor then notifies a customer of settlement method information indicating the first settlement method cannot be executed at the settlement processing or that another settlement method, other than the first settlement method, can be executed at the settlement apparatus instead of the first settlement method.

The utility model relates to the technical field of invoice printers, in particular to an invoice printer for convenience stores, which comprises a printer body, and one side of the printer body is fixedly connected with an invoice clamping assembly. Through the arrangement of the bottom shell, the top shell, the rotating rod, the small motor, the telescopic rod, the spring and the limiting ring, in the using process, invoice paper drives the invoice roller to push the telescopic rod towards one side, the telescopic rod drives the limiting ring to extrude the spring, the invoice roller is inserted into the telescopic rod, then the other side is inserted into the telescopic rod on the other side, and the spring rebounds towards the opposite side after being extruded; the bottom shell fixes a rotating rod, the rotating rod fixes a top shell, the top shell can be manually opened and overturned to replace internal invoice paper, a small motor is fixed to one side of the bottom shell, and the small motor is connected with a power source and can drive a telescopic column on one side to rotate for printing work. Therefore, the invoice paper is clamped and fixed, and the situation that the invoice paper falls off to cause paper jam is prevented.

To provide a settlement device and a settlement method reporting system capable of reporting whether or not each of settlement methods can be executed on the settlement device that supports multiple settlement methods.SOLUTION: A settlement device of an embodiment, which supports multiple settlement methods, includes: a detection unit that detects a settlement method that cannot perform the settlement processing based on the status of an apparatus used in the settlement processing for each of the settlement methods; and a notification unit that, according to the detection results of the detection unit, informs a customer performing the settlement processing of settlement method information indicating the settlement method which cannot perform the settlement processing or the settlement method which can perform the settlement processing.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6

To provide an information processing apparatus and program for allowing a store to more effectively use a header portion of a receipt.SOLUTION: An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire commodity identification information identifying a commodity; a registration unit configured to register commodity information of a commodity identified by the commodity identification information acquired in the acquisition unit; an information management unit configured to manage first logo data including information indicating a business operator which sells a commodity and additional information related to the commodity, the first logo data being image data shown in a header portion of a receipt that presents commodity information registered by the registration unit in one transaction, and associated with the commodity identification information acquired by the acquisition unit; a selection unit which selects the first logo data on the basis of the commodity identification information acquired by the acquisition unit; and an output unit which outputs the first logo data selected by the selection unit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 11

To digitize non-transaction receipts in addition to transaction receipts.SOLUTION: A receipt processor includes a determination unit, a digitization unit, and a transmission unit. The determination unit determines whether receipt data generated by a receipt generation unit is receipt data of a transaction receipt representing a content of a commercial transaction or receipt data of a non-transaction receipt representing a content other than the commercial transaction. The digitization unit digitizes the receipt data by attaching first classification information when the receipt data is the receipt data of the transaction receipt, and digitizes the receipt data by attaching second classification information different from the first classification information when the receipt data is the receipt data of the non-transaction receipt. The transmission unit transmits the receipt data digitized by the digitization unit to a server.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

There is provided a printer including: a storage that stores transmission discrimination format information and information specification format information; a printing executor that performs printing based on print data received from a POS terminal; and a controller that transmits print text data, in which information adapted to information specification format indicated by information specification format information among information included in the print text data is converted or deleted, to a control server when a format of the print text data based on the print data received from the POS terminal is adapted to a transmission discrimination format indicated by the transmission discrimination format information.

The invention relates to an intelligent charging machine for an electric power business hall, and belongs to the technical field of electric power charging. The intelligent charging machine for the electric power business hall comprises a machine shell, a central processing unit, a touch panel, a physical key operation panel, a payment module and a bill printing module, the central processing unit is installed in the machine shell, and the touch panel, the physical key operation panel, the payment module and the bill printing module are all installed on the surface of the machine shell. A storage cavity is formed in the surface of the machine shell, and a three-way channel communicating with the storage cavity is formed in the machine shell; the paper guide mechanism can detect whether the printing paper is used up or not in real time, and can switch and drive another printing paper roll when the printing paper is used up, so that the printing paper roll can continuously supply paper to the bill printing module, and the problem that the intelligent toll collector printer cannot normally print bills when the paper is used up can be solved. Therefore, the intelligent toll collector can realize effective 24-hour self-service.

The utility model relates to a novel intelligent payment acceptance terminal, which comprises a wireless communication module, a card acceptance device, a printer device, a display screen and a physical password keyboard, and is characterized in that the wireless communication module is used for being connected to a network; a card receiving device for receiving a bank card; the printer device is used for printing receipt vouchers; the display screen is used for displaying transaction information and interaction with a user, and the display screen is located on the front face of the terminal; the physical password keyboard is used for inputting bank card passwords, and the physical password keyboard is located on the back of the terminal. The utility model has the beneficial effects that the prejudice is broken through, the screen of the equipment is larger and is kept compact, and the use experience of a user is greatly improved; according to the utility model, the physical password keyboard is creatively arranged on the back surface of the terminal, so that a larger space is reserved for a screen; under a screen with the same size, the terminal is more compact, smaller in size and convenient to carry.

A sales transaction processing system includes a point-of-sale terminal in a store, a printer for printing transaction receipts, and a transaction system server connected to the point-of-sale terminal via a network. The server receives a commodity code of an item being registered for purchase in a sales transaction at the point-of-sale terminal and registers the item in transaction data for the sales transaction, receives a member code for a customer, generates printing data for printing a transaction receipt for the sales transaction on the printer, and, if the received member code indicates the customer is a member of an electronic receipt service, generates linkage data from the printing data. The linkage data permits an electronic receipt to be generated for the sales transaction either presently or subsequently.

The wall-mounted payment terminal comprises a machine body, a touch display integrated screen is fixedly installed on the front end face of the machine body, an installation assembly is arranged on the rear end face of the machine body, an inclined operation table top is arranged on the portion, on the front side of the touch display integrated screen, of the machine body, and a barcode scanner is arranged in the center of the operation table top. And a sensing area is arranged on the operation table surface on one side of the bar code scanning. According to the wall-mounted payment terminal of the utility model, fee settlement is realized through modes of face swiping, identity card swiping, chip card reading, magnetic stripe card reading, non-contact induction card reading or code scanning and the like, and the arranged installation assembly is used for fixing the machine body on a wall, so that the wall-mounted payment terminal is convenient for customers to use and does not occupy space.

To switch setting information corresponding to each of multiple types of different printer drivers on a printer in a stand-alone situation of not connecting to a host device.SOLUTION: A printer 100 includes: a printing unit 50; a transportation unit 60; a communication unit 40; a display unit 20 for displaying setting information such as device IDs; an operation unit (input unit) for selecting from the device IDs displayed on the display unit 20; and a control unit 10. The control unit 10 has a memory 14 (storage unit), and a processing unit 13. The memory 14 stores a different device ID for each printer driver, and a program for controlling the printing unit 50 and the transportation unit 60 for each device ID. The processing unit 13 executes the program corresponding to the device ID. The processing unit 13 executes the program corresponding to one device ID selected via the operation unit 30 among the plurality of device IDs displayed on the display unit 20.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Computing devices, computer-implemented methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media are provided for issuing an electronic receipt at a point of sale and using near field communication (NFC) technology.SOLUTION: The method receives 1110 transaction information, transmits 1120 the transaction information to a transfer rail of transaction information, generates 1130 a unique transaction identifier using date and time information and / or a unique device identifier using a hash function applied to the transaction information, generates 1140 a uniform resource locator (URL) based on at least a portion of the unique transaction identifier and / or a plurality of receipt elements, receives 1150 a confirmation of successful completion of the transfer card transaction from said transfer rail, and transmits 1160 the URL to an NFC tag controller.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 11

The present disclosure relates to a method and a computer program product for a merchant to store inventory. The method comprises: when the goods corresponding to an order are ready, a scanning device responds to the merchant's operation to scan the order barcode on the receipt printed based on the order, and identifies the barcode information of the order barcode; based on the barcode information, an order identifier of the order is determined; when the order corresponding to the order identifier is associated with the merchant corresponding to the scanning device, an idle target lock device is allocated to the goods corresponding to the order from multiple lock devices corresponding to the merchant, and a storage association is established between the identifier of the allocated target lock device and the order identifier; a control instruction is sent to control the target lock device allocated to the order to perform sensory prompts and unlock, so that the merchant can open the target lock device after the target lock device is unlocked, and hang the goods corresponding to the order at the storage shelf position corresponding to the target lock device.

The utility model provides a bedside settlement terminal which comprises a settlement terminal body, a display screen support is arranged on the top of the settlement terminal body, a first display screen and a second display screen are arranged on the front side and the rear side of the display screen support respectively, and a fixing box is arranged on the rear side of the display screen support. An angle adjusting assembly matched with the second display screen is arranged in the fixing box. Compared with the prior art, the angle adjusting device has the advantages that the angle adjusting assembly can adjust the angle position of the second display screen facing a patient according to use requirements, and when the angle adjusting device is used by some neck fracture patients or some patients without accompanying of family members, the angle of the second display screen facing the patient can be adjusted; patients with different illness states can watch the display screen II conveniently, the patients can confirm information conveniently, and use is convenient.

To provide a transaction processor that does not hold information necessary to process data received from a multi settlement server in the form of a data table.SOLUTION: A transaction processor enables cashless settlement of transactions in cooperation with a settlement server. The transaction processor includes notification means, detection means, editing means, and output means. The notification means notifies a settlement server of a payment amount of transaction and information on the settlement brand. The detection means detects brand information and message data included in payment result data returned from the settlement server that is notified by the notification means. The editing means edits output data with the brand information and the message data detected by the detection means. The output means outputs the output data edited by the editing means.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

An information processing apparatus includes a comparison unit and an update management unit. The comparison unit compares terminal information indicating a function validated or invalidated among a plurality of functions of an application installed on a terminal with a function to be updated by applying an update program of updating the application among the plurality of functions. The update management unit determines whether or not the terminal is a target of applying the update program based on a function comparison result by the comparison unit.

Implementations are disclosed for facilitating visual programming of machine learning state machines. In various implementations, one or more graphical user interfaces (GUIs) may be rendered on one or more displays. Each GUI may include a working canvas on which a plurality of graphical elements corresponding to at least some of a plurality of available logical routines are manipulable to define a machine learning state machine. One or more of the available logical routines may include logical operations that process data using machine learning model(s). Two or more at least partially redundant logical routines that include overlapping logical operations may be identified, and overlapping logical operations of the two or more at least partially redundant logical routines may be merged into a consolidated logical routine. At least some of the logical operations that were previously downstream from the overlapping logical operations may be logically coupled with the consolidated logical routine.

The utility model discloses a shop bill printer with a code scanning function, which overcomes the problems of single function, high equipment hardware cost and inconvenience in operation of the printer in the prior art, and comprises a printer body and a wireless communication module arranged in the printer body, and the wireless communication module is connected with a printer core. The printer core is connected with a stepping motor, a backlight plate is installed on the machine body, a code scanning camera is installed in the middle of the backlight plate, and the wireless communication module is connected with the code scanning camera. The system is directly connected with the cloud server, can independently complete the functions of code scanning and printing, reduces the hardware cost, saves the space, is high in recognition capability of the camera, can achieve the quick recognition of code scanning in far and near distances, is convenient to operate, and improves the working efficiency.

To provide an electronic receipt issuance system with high freedom degree and versatility of electronic receipt issuance, an information processing device, and an electronic receipt issuance method.SOLUTION: An electronic receipt issuance system comprises: a transaction information generation unit which generates transaction information on the basis of a commodity registered for settlement processing; a membership information acquisition unit which acquires information for identifying an electronic receipt membership when registering the commodity; a print data generation unit which generates print data for causing a printer to issue a paper receipt corresponding to the transaction information; a coordination data generation unit which generates coordination data including information specifying a format corresponding to the paper receipt and based on the transaction information when electronic receipt data is determined to be generated according to the information for identifying the electronic receipt membership; and an electronic receipt generation unit which generates electronic receipt data using the coordination data.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 10

A transaction data processing apparatus includes a scanning unit configured to scan a product code of a product related to a transaction, a printing unit configured to print transaction data on a sheet, a communication unit configured to transmit the transaction data to an external device over a network, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to generate the transaction data based on the scanned product code, determine whether the network is online or offline, and control the communication unit to transmit the transaction data to the external device when the network is online, and the printing unit to print the transaction data on the sheet when the network is offline.

The invention discloses a printing integrated taximeter, and relates to the technical field of taximeters, the printing integrated taximeter comprises a base, a display screen is integrated at the front end of the base, a printing paper outlet bin is integrated at the rear end of the base, a top shell is hinged to the printing paper outlet bin, an unlocking key acting on the printing paper outlet bin is arranged on the top shell, and a paper outlet structure is arranged in the printing paper outlet bin. The paper delivery structure comprises an unwinding roller and a printing part, invoice paper is wound on the unwinding roller, and the technical advantages of the taximeter are that the printing paper delivery bin and the display screen of the taximeter are integrated; according to the invoice paper cutting device, the cutter and the abutting roller are additionally arranged, the cutter is folded before cutting, the tensioning degree of invoice paper is adjusted through the abutting roller, then the cutter is driven by the air cylinder to be turned out, preliminary cutting of the invoice paper is achieved, and the uniformity of the fracture surface is improved when the invoice paper is pulled apart subsequently; by arranging the telescopic driving assembly, the cutting assembly is axially far away from and avoids in the invoice paper output process, and the cutting assembly can axially intervene in the pre-cutting process.

A method for collecting data from a receipt produced by an electronic cash register at a point of sale, comprising the steps of: the electronic cash register (1) authorizes a payment from a customer (20); the electronic cash register generates a receipt for the payment (21); a print service (3) prepares a print job file for a printer (6) and sends said print job file to a receipt printer device driver (7); an electronic cash register utility module (5) executed in the electronic cash register (1) reads the print job file; the electronic cash register utility module (5) interprets the content of the print job file and extract receipt data; the electronic cash register utility module sends said receipt data to a remote server (8).

The utility model provides a code scanning printer and a code scanning printer system, the code scanning printer comprises a machine body shell, the machine body shell comprises an operation panel, and the operation panel is provided with a printing area, a code scanning area and a key area provided with a plurality of keys; the code scanning area and the printing area are distinguished through an edge linear structure, and the key area is distinguished from other areas through the edge linear structure. By utilizing the edge linear structure, the plurality of areas are distinguished, so that on one hand, each operation area is easy to distinguish; and on the other hand, integration of a plurality of different areas can be conveniently achieved, and the installation convenience is improved.