Patent Application
20240214665
The present invention discloses the technical field of terminal sale machines, especially a rotatable camera for a POS machine.
The POS machine is also called the sale terminal, (point of service, or point of sale, POS), which is an essential tool for managing cash income. It is mainly used as a multifunctional computer device for commodity retails, restaurants, and business counters. It can be externally connected to devices and other equipment such as printers, magnetic card machines, and code scans. Its functions can calculate the cash register, store the unit price of goods, inventory information, and print sales reports. It is an indispensable basic electronic device for modern and automated business management.
The early traditional point of sale (POS) terminals all included a mainframe, a keyboard and a display screen. The integrated volume was huge, and it was very inconvenient to occupy a lot of space in practical applications. Moreover, the product function expansion was low and could not meet the needs of various customers. A new generation of products has adopted a tablet computer installed on a bracket as a POS (point of sale) machine, which can be greatly reduced in size and has stronger practical functions.
With the development of science and technology, some sale terminals also have the function of paying after scanning a face. However, the cameras of existing POS machines for payment after scanning a face as recognition, that are generally fixed configurations, which limits the shooting angle of the camera, making it difficult to operate and use with consumers of different heights, and its structural design is not yet perfect, which limits its scope of application. It cannot be used to perform image recognition for booting, so further improvement is necessary.
In view of this, the main purpose of the invention is to provide a rotatable camera device of a POS machine, which comprises:
A POS machine has a main display screen and a customer display screen, wherein the customer display screen is located behind the main display screen.
A camera unit is rotatably arranged on the customer display screen and has at least a first rotational location and a second rotational location.
The first rotational location is located in the same direction as the customer display screen, faces a customer end for sale payment and collection on an image big data, but the actual function is not limited thereto; and
The second rotational location is located in the same direction as the main display screen, is higher than an upper end of the main display screen and faces a cash register for image recognition and booting, but the actual function is not limited thereto.
In a preferred embodiment, wherein the customer display screen is composed of a VFD (vacuum fluorescent display) or an LCD (liquid crystal screen) for the customer display screen, but it is not limited to this.
In a preferred embodiment, wherein the POS machine is a flat panel POS machine, and the customer display screen is recessed with a placement position to accommodate the horizontal pivoting of the camera unit, the rotational angle between the first rotational location and the second rotational location is at least 180 degrees, but it is not limited to this actually.
Preferably implemented, wherein the camera unit is in the shape of a horizontal bar, and the front of the camera unit is a plane portion on which a camera is installed, and the rear of the camera unit is an arc portion for back and forth rotation, a hinge on one side connected to the placement position and the camera unit, and the sleeve hole on the other side connected to the placement position and the camera unit, a center of the swivel hole is provided for a wiring configuration of the camera, the wiring is pulled out to the POS machine through the outlet hole on the rear of the swivel seat.
Compared with the prior art, the advantage of the rotatable camera device of the creation POS machine is that the structure is simple and practical. The biggest feature is the design that the camera unit can be flipped from front side to back side, wherein the first rotational location is located in the same direction as the customer display screen, faces the customer side to perform sales payment and collection on an image big data, effectively collects and analyzes customer source consumption time, gender, age, purchase information, etc., and allow customers to scan QR CODE for mobile phone payment recognition, etc., and the second rotational location is located in the same direction as the main display screen, faces the cash register to perform image recognition and boot to keep information confidentiality from disclosed. The overall effective design can improve the practicability of the intelligent functions of the POS machine and meet the market demand for modern sales.
For the convenience of understanding the content of the invention and the effect that can be achieved, the specific embodiments are listed in conjunction with the drawings, and the details are as follows. Please refer to shown in
A POS machine 100 has a main display screen 1 and a customer display screen 2, wherein the customer display screen 2 is located behind the main display screen 1.
A camera unit 3 is rotatably located on the customer display screen 2 and has at least a first rotational location 30 and a second rotational location 39.
The first rotational location 30 is located in the same direction as the customer display screen 2, faces a customer end for sale payment and collection on an image big data, but the actual function is not limited thereto; and
The second rotational location 39 is located in the same direction as the main display screen 1, is higher than an upper end of the main display screen 1 and faces a cash register for image recognition and booting, but the actual function is not limited thereto.
In a preferred embodiment, wherein the POS machine 100 is a flat panel POS machine, and the customer display screen 2 is recessed with a placement position 23 to accommodate the horizontal pivoting of the camera unit 3, the rotational angle between the first rotational location 30 and the second rotational location 39 is at least 180 degrees, but it is not limited thereto.
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In a preferred embodiment, wherein the camera unit 3 is in the shape of a horizontal bar, and the front of the camera unit 3 is a plane portion 31 on which a camera 35 is installed, and the rear of the camera unit 3 is an arc portion 32 for back and forth rotation, a hinge 33 on one side connected to the camera unit 3 and the placement position 23, and the sleeve hole 34 on the other side connected to the camera unit 3 and the placement position 23, a center of the swivel hole 34 is provided for a wiring 351 configuration of the camera 35, the wiring 351 is pulled out to the POS machine 100 through the outlet hole 226 on the rear of the swivel seat 225.
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Simultaneously, the camera unit 3 is effectively integrally integrated and pivoted on the customer display screen 2, so that the POS machine 100 composed of the invention can also recognize the facial features through the camera unit 3, thereby realizing the function of payment after scanning face, especially focus on the camera unit 3 of the present invention, because the camera unit 3 can easily turn up and down to adjust the angle, so the orientation of the camera 35 can be adjusted at any time according to the height of the customer or the position of the customer station, so as to prevent the customer from being blocked by the products on the cash register and unable to aim at the camera. The cash register checkout process is more convenient, faster and saves time.
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In summary, the invention is novel and practical and fully meets the requirements of a patent, and an application for a new patent is proposed. However, the foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and should not limit the scope of implementation of the present invention; therefore, all equivalent changes and modifications made in accordance with the patent scope of the present invention and the content of the present invention specification that should be within the scope covered by the present invention patent.
