JPH01192593A - Shopping card - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate the inconvenience of carrying about cash and to contrive the effective use of time, by equipping a liquid-crystal display plane, an input display means, and a storage means storing the input, for a credit card. CONSTITUTION:When a shopping card 1 is inserted into a house-side personal computer 11 and a menu determined is entered by a keyboard 17a, materials and quantities (number of pieces) required for the menu stored in a shopping floppy disk 13 are displayed on a CRT 14. These are inputted to the shopping card 1 to be displayed on a display plane 3 and stored in a memory 10. The card 1 is handed over a store, and then a credit number, materials, and quantities are read by a card reader 15 to be displayed on a CRT 16 of a personal computer 12. Then, on a shop side the displayed materials are prepared, the amount is entered by operating a keyboard 17b to be written in the card 1, a specification of amounts is printed out by a printer 18, and the shopping data is recorded to the computer. A customer drops in at the shop at the right moment to receive the goods and the specification of amounts, and the shopping card 1 is returned to the customer.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] (a) Industrial application field This invention is a new credit card which has the function of inputting and displaying necessary items for shopping at the same time, as well as recording functions. Regarding shopping cards.

(b) Conventional technology Conventionally, when shopping in town, for example, for groceries, after deciding on today's menu at home or in a store and thinking about the necessary ingredients and the number of people, ( Or write it down on paper in advance), collect the necessary materials from the store's display shelves, and pay at the cash register.

(c) Problems that the invention aims to solve However, with the above-mentioned method of shopping, there are disadvantages such as the hassle of searching for the necessary ingredients in a large store, the long waiting time of waiting in a cashier line, and the constant I had to carry cash.

The object of the present invention is to provide a shopping card that enables a shopping method that eliminates such problems.

(d) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention is characterized by a shopping card that includes a credit card with a liquid crystal display surface, input display means, and input storage means.

(e) Effects By using the shopping card according to the present invention, the following new shopping methods can be realized.

In other words, if you input shopping items (for example, ingredients for a menu) on a shopping card at home using a personal computer, and then hand the card to a store, the store will not display it. Collect the materials for the items being prepared, calculate the price, read and record the credit number with a card reader, return the card along with the materials to the customer, and calculate the number of representatives for a certain period of time (for example, every month). You can also withdraw the money from your bank account.

(f) Effects of the invention Therefore, the inconvenience of carrying cash is eliminated for customers, and
This eliminates the hassle and time of having to gather all the ingredients yourself and lining up at the cash register, and you can make more effective use of your time by being able to wait until the store has prepared the items before heading to the store.

(g) Examples An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an external view of a shopping card 1, which is itself a credit card, and has its account number, address, name, telephone number, etc. 2 engraved thereon.

The shopping card 1 has a liquid crystal display screen 3 on the front surface, and the display screen 3 displays the product name, quantity, and notes each [14
, 5, and 6, a comment column 7 regarding the opening of the store is provided.

FIG. 2 shows a control circuit in which information input from the input/output unit 8 is displayed on the display screen via the input display circuit 9, while being stored in the memory 10 and input information is read from the memory 10. ing.

The shopping card 1 is used for shopping by utilizing personal computers 11 and 12 at home and at stores shown in FIG.

To explain this with reference to the 01 flowcharts in FIGS. 4 and 5, the home personal computer 1
When you insert the shopping card 1 into the shopping card 1, decide on a menu, and type it in on the keyboard 17a, the ingredients required for that menu, fi (number of ffl), will be displayed on the CRT 4 from the shopping 70-tip disk 13. 1 and display it on the display screen 3 and store it in the memory 10 (steps n1.n2.n3.n4)
.

When this shopping card 1 is handed over to a store, the card reader 15 reads out the credit number, materials, and quantity from the memory 10 and records it in the CR of the personal computer 12.
Displayed on Tl6. Therefore, at the opening of the store, while arranging the displayed materials, the user operates the keyboard 17b to enter the amount, writes it on the shopping card 1, prints out a statement of payment on the printer 18, and records the shopping data on the computer (step n11.n12.n13゜n1
4. n15).

Customers stop by the store at the right time to pick up their items and payment statement,
Receive the return of shopping card 1.

In this way, the entire shopping process using the shopping card 1 is as shown in FIG. Open personal computer 12
For example, what is entered in , and processed for subtotal calculation at store opening,
The total will be processed for each month, and payment will be processed based on this (steps n21.n22.n23.n
24, n25. n26. n27>.

Therefore, customers do not need to carry cash, arrange their own items in the store, or line up at the cash register, thereby eliminating wasted labor and time. It also eliminates the need to buy unnecessary items.

At the store opening, as shown in Figure 7, card reader 15, memory 1
9, CRTl6, printer 18, auxiliary storage device 20
It is connected to the PU 21 to perform system processing as shown in FIG.

In FIG. 8, the card contents read from the shopping card 1 by the card reader 15 are printed on the printer 18 and registered in the auxiliary storage device 20. The contents of this card include the credit card number, sales item, quantity, price, etc. (steps n31, n32, n33).

While reading the data in the auxiliary storage device 20 for each fixed period of time and registering the aggregated data for each customer,
The amount is debited from the customer's bank account based on the aggregated data (steps n34, n35, n36).

Moreover, according to the above-mentioned system, customer management at the time of store opening becomes easy and can be used for creating a user list and registering new customers (steps n37 and n38).

In the correspondence between the configuration of the present invention and the embodiments described above, the input display means of the present invention corresponds to the input/output unit 8 and the input display circuit 9 of the embodiment, and the storage means corresponds to the memory 10. However, the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the above-described embodiments.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 1 is an external view of a shopping card, Fig. 2 is a control circuit diagram inside the card, Fig. 3 is a diagram of the equipment used in the shimming system, and Fig. 4 is a diagram of a household card. Figure 5 is an operation flowchart of the side computer; Figure 6 is an operation flowchart of the store opening computer;
Figure 7 is an operation flowchart of the shopping card, Figure 7 is a device configuration diagram of the store opening shopping system, Figure 8
The figure is a functional explanatory diagram of the store opening system. 1...Shopping card 3...Display surface 8...
Input/output section 9...Input display circuit 10...Memory Fig. 1 Schochilde card metato view 1...Shi3dump card (for home use) (for store use) Fig. 6

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A shopping card that includes a credit card with a liquid crystal display screen, input display means, and input storage means.