G07G1/0027

Systems and methods for automated teller drawer counting and balancing

Systems, methods, and apparatuses using a processor coupled to a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions. The processor is structured to count a first amount of currency, wherein the first amount of currency is the actual amount of currency received by a teller money drawer, receive an indication of a second amount of currency, wherein the second amount of currency is an expected amount of currency, compare the first amount of currency to the second amount of currency, discover a discrepancy between the first amount of currency and the second amount of currency, and transmit discrepancy information to be displayed on a teller computing device.

Compact self-checkout kiosks

A kiosk includes a kiosk housing, a barcode reader, a receipt printer, a display unit, and a processor communicatively coupled to the barcode reader, receipt printer, and display unit. The kiosk has a reader housing having a lower housing portion with an upper surface facing a product scanning region and an upper housing portion extending above the lower housing portion, a horizontal window positioned at the upper surface of the lower housing portion and configured to allow a first light to pass between the product scanning region and an interior region of the reader housing, and an upright window positioned in the upper housing portion and configured to allow a second light to pass between the product scanning region and the interior region of the reader housing.

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM
20210019390 · 2021-01-21 · ·

Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a storage medium that can improve security of a peripheral device connected to a support stand in a configuration in which a mobile information device and the support stand can be attached and detached. The information processing apparatus includes: a mobile information device; a support stand that supports the mobile information device in a detachable manner and to which a peripheral device is connected; an authentication unit that performs authentication between the mobile information device and the support stand when the mobile information device is attached to the support stand; and a device control unit that causes the peripheral device to enter an active state when the authentication is successful.

REGISTER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF
20210012307 · 2021-01-14 ·

According to one embodiment, a register system includes a main body, a first touch panel on a first side of the main body, a second touch panel on a second side of the main body that is on an opposite side of the main body with respect to the first side, a change machine on the second side of the main body, and a control circuit to configured to display a first user interface on the first touch panel and a second user interface on the second touch panel. The control circuit including a change machine interface through which the control circuit transmits to the change machine a single instruction containing a change amount to dispense in response to more than one confirmation input being made through the first user interface.

Cash storage apparatus
10891835 · 2021-01-12 · ·

A cash storage apparatus of which a housing is structured such that a length in a depth direction is longer than a length in a height direction in a horizontal orientation state where a surface from which a cash storage case is pulled out or pushed out serves as a front surface, and in which a portion of an upper surface or undersurface of the housing when the housing is in the horizontal orientation state serves as an open/close cover that is opened frontward, in order to enable use in a vertical orientation state where the front surface when the housing is in the horizontal orientation state serves as an upper surface.

Coin handling apparatus and coin handling method
10891817 · 2021-01-12 · ·

A coin handling apparatus comprises an inlet section that is provided on customer side of the coin handling apparatus and from which the coins are put in, a recognition unit that recognizes the coins put in from the inlet section, and a first ejection section that is provided on attendant side of the coin handling apparatus and to which the coins recognized as rejected coins by the recognition unit are ejected.

Collection box for point-of-sale printed matter

A collection apparatus for organizing paper-based transaction items collected at a store checkout comprises a housing including a front section, rear section, left side, right side, top region, and bottom region; and an interior of the housing that is constructed and arranged into three regions. Each region includes a cavity; a removable container positioned in each cavity; three slot-shaped openings in the front section. Each slot-shaped opening is aligned with an opening in a removable container for providing a path for the paper-based transaction items to the removable container. A sensor in each cavity or container senses the paper-based transaction items received via a slot-shaped opening into the container.

Drop Cart with Cashbox Data Reader Array and Autonomous Drop Cart Processing System for Automated Casino Accounting
20200357228 · 2020-11-12 ·

An autonomous drop cart processing system is described. The system is configured to communicably couple with a drop cart that includes an array of cashbox data readers configured to interface with cashbox data transmitters associated with cashboxes inserted into compartments of the drop cart. As a result of this construction, the autonomous drop cart processing system can remove contents of each cashbox on the drop cart without needing to remove the cashbox from the drop cart in order to read the data from the cashbox data transmitter.

Straightforward Cash Dispenser
20200342722 · 2020-10-29 ·

A straightforward cash dispenser includes a body unit having a body and a cash box mounted on top of the body. The body includes a front side having an exit slot. A bill conveying device is mounted in the body. A bill counting device is mounted inside the body and adjacent to an inner side of the body. The bill counting device is configured to convey a bill inside the body into the bill conveying device in a widthwise direction of the bill and in a lateral direction of the body. The bill conveying device is configured to output the bill via the exit slot in a lengthwise direction of the bill.

Change machine, money handling system, cash register, and money handling method
10796538 · 2020-10-06 · ·

One object is to efficiently identify number of transactions that can be performed by using an inventory amount of money inside a change machine and to improve the business efficiency. A POS register (290) transmits a total amount request to a change machine (200) connected thereto (Step S11). Upon receiving the total amount request from the POS register (290), a change machine (200) transmits to the POS register (290) a total amount of money that can be dispensed as change and that is calculated based on an inventory amount of one or more predetermined denominations (Step S12). The POS register (290) receives the total amount from the change machine (200) (Step S13) and calculates number of transactions for which the change can be dispensed by calculating how many times is the total amount of the maximum change amount (JPY9, 999) for one transaction (Step S14). The POS register (290) informs the salesclerk of the calculated number of transactions by displaying and the like. Therefore, the salesclerk can confirm the number of transactions and can use this information as a factor to determine a timing of replenishing the change.