US 10,970,955 B2Granted

Accounting device and control program

AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsTsuyoshi Gotanda, Takashi Nakajima, Akiko Susaki

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Abstract

An accounting device according to an embodiment includes an input device that receives an instruction to start a job. A first display device includes a first screen facing a first direction towards a person who operates the input device. A change machine includes a depositing port for receiving money and a dispensing port for dispensing money. A second display device includes a second screen facing a second direction different from the first direction and towards a person who deposits money into the depositing port or receives money from the dispensing port. When the instruction received by the input device is to start a predetermined job that is different from the accounting transaction and that includes depositing money into the change machine or dispensing money from the change machine, the processor causes information supporting execution of the predetermined job to be displayed on the second screen.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An accounting device comprising:

a first display device that includes a first screen facing a first direction towards an operator and configured to accept a touch input;
a change machine that includes a depositing port for receiving money and a dispensing port for dispensing money, and faces a second direction different from the first direction;
a second display device that includes a second screen that is configured to accept a touch input and faces the second direction;
and
a processor configured to:
upon receipt of a first touch input via the first screen, determine whether the first touch input is made to start a first job performed on the change machine, or to start a second job that is different from the first job,
when the first touch input is made to start the first job, control the second display device to display a first button on the second screen, and
when the first touch input is made to start the second job, control the first display device to display information for supporting execution of the second job on the first screen,
wherein, when the first touch input is made to start the first job and a second touch input is made on the first button displayed on the second screen, the processor enables the change machine to receive or dispense money, and controls the second display device to display a second button for completing the first job on the second screen, and
when a third touch input is made on the second button displayed on the second screen, the processor disenables the change machine from receiving or dispensing money.

7 more elements

A non-transitory computer readable medium containing a program for controlling an accounting device having device, a first display device that faces a first direction towards an operator and includes a touch panel, a second display device including a touch panel and facing a second direction different from the first direction, and a change machine for receiving or dispensing money, the change machine facing the second direction, the program causing the accounting device to perform a method comprising:

receiving a first touch input via the first display device;
determine whether the first touch input is made to start a first job performed on the change machine, or to start a second job other than the first job;
when the first touch input is made to start the first job, displaying a first button on the second display device,
when a second touch input is made on the first button displayed on the second display device, enabling the change machine to receive or dispense money, and displaying a second button for completing the first job on the second display device, and
when a third touch input is made on the second button displayed on the second display device, disenabling the change machine from receiving or dispensing money;
and
when the first touch input is made to start the second job, displaying information for supporting execution of the second job on the first display device.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/377,137Filed 5 Apr 2019 · continuation
Priority: JP JP2016-2385668 Dec 2016
Published: US 2019/0236889 A11 Aug 2019
Granted: 6 Apr 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification22 codes

G07F 9/04
Details other than those peculiar to special kinds or types of apparatus: means for returning surplus or unused coins
G06Q 20/202
Point-of-sale [POS] network systems: interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network…
G07D 11/20
Devices accepting coins; Devices accepting, dispensing, sorting or counting valuable papers: controlling or monitoring the operation of devices;…
G07D 11/40
Devices accepting coins; Devices accepting, dispensing, sorting or counting valuable papers: device architecture, e.g. modular construction

Family

Application15/833,562Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Dec 2017
US 2019/0236889 A1Pre-grant publication · published 1 Aug 2019
US 10,255,745 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2018/0165911 A1Published application
US 10,970,955 B2This patent

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