EP0491392A2 - Interface d'utilisateur encastré avec choix de langues multiples - Google Patents

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EP0491392A2
EP0491392A2 EP91121790A EP91121790A EP0491392A2 EP 0491392 A2 EP0491392 A2 EP 0491392A2 EP 91121790 A EP91121790 A EP 91121790A EP 91121790 A EP91121790 A EP 91121790A EP 0491392 A2 EP0491392 A2 EP 0491392A2
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Terrence M. Doeberl
Patrick J. Donahue
Michael E. Field
Kevin D. Hunter
Paul H. Mitchell
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
    • G07B2017/00266—Man-machine interface on the apparatus
    • G07B2017/00274—Mechanical, e.g. keyboard
    • G07B2017/0029—Soft buttons; buttons that can change function
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
    • G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
    • G07B2017/00266—Man-machine interface on the apparatus
    • G07B2017/00298—Visual, e.g. screens and their layouts

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  • the user interface system provides a means for operator control over and interfacing with machine functions.
  • a mail processing system particularly, a postage meter mailing machine, with accounting functionality and report generating functionality.
  • the mailing machine with the ability to interface with external devices or system, such as, funds allocation system and external scales.
  • the user interface is particularly adapted for mailing machine application.
  • a mailing machine includes as part of the user interface a display, a display input/output (I/O) driver, six soft keys aligned to respective portion of the display and a number of hard keys.
  • the mailing machine is under the control of a microcontroller which includes a host programmable microprocessor in bus communication with suitable memory devices. One of the memory devices is a program memory.
  • the microcomputer is also coupled to the display I/O driver and to I/O drivers for the soft keys and hard keys.
  • the memory registers of the program memory are mapped into a number of regions, for example, a command region, a text region, a screen region, a dynamic field region, a hard key region and a soft key region.
  • the memory also includes a command file region.
  • the command file contains all the commands for a fully featured mailing machine, inclusive of all option command structures.
  • the execution code routines for the machine functions may be resident in the memory.
  • the text region is comprised of two or more sub-regions. Each region contains the necessary text strings in ASCII form in different languages.
  • the screen region is stored the data structure which represents each screen for the display.
  • the screen data defines which hard keys and soft keys are to be enabled with respect to that screen.
  • Each screen is identical in format such that there is a title area, a soft key text area, a dynamic or window area and a hard key text area. Therefore, when a particular screen is retrieved, the text string is retrieved from one of the text sub-region.
  • the particular text-region to be placed in use may be enabled during system set-up. Alternatively, the enabled text sub-region may be determined during operator log-on.
  • Fig. 4 is a schematic representation of a display having defined regions in accordance with the present invention.
  • a suitable microcontroller system is comprised of a core board 102 having located thereon a microprocessor based motor controller 104 in bus 106 communication with a code read only memory (ROM) 107, a motor application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) 108 and a shared non-volatile memory (NVM) controller 112.
  • a microprocessor based host controller 116 is in bus 118 with the NVM controller 112 and connectors 120, 122 and 123, respectively.
  • the motor controller 104 is also in bus 126 communication with a meter board 128, dater board 130 and scale board 132, also referred to as Weight On The Weight (WOW) board 132.
  • WOW Weight On The Weight
  • the NVM controller 112 is in bus 113 communication with a shared non-volatile memory NVM 115.
  • a microprocessor based sensor controller 119 is in bus 136 communication with the NVM controller 112.
  • An analog-to-digital (A/D) converter 138 is in bus 140 communication with the sensor controller 119.
  • a sensor bus 142 communicates the sensor controller 119 and A/D converter to the harness coupler 144.
  • a flex harness 146 is attached to the harness coupler 144 at one end and to the respective drive motors and sensors (not shown) of the postage meter mailing machine 1.
  • the dual communication module 150 permits bus 192 and 194 coupling thereto of a weighing platform with integrated rating 200, a rating board 202, a service device 204 or such other general purpose device 206 such as a printer.
  • an echoplexed scale 208 may coupled to the echoplex I/O module 152 by bus 210.
  • a system bus controller 220 is in bus 222 communication with the host controller bus 118 through the coupler 123. Also a code ROM 221 is in coupled bus 223 communication with the host controller bus 118 through coupler 122.
  • the system bus 224 provides communication of the system bus controller 220 with a I/O expansion module 226 from which may be coupled a parallel printer interface 228, a general purpose interface 230 and a custom parallel interface 223.
  • Other optional devices such as, a modem 236, an inserter module 238, an OCR module 242, an addresser module 224 and an additional stacker module 240 may be carried by bus 224.
  • each screen defines data window area DW, a soft key menu field MF, a screen title field TF, a prompt/error field PF.
  • the soft keys individually referred as 8a through 8f, are aligned to respective portion of the screen menu field MF. Aligning the soft keys to the screen field MF in this manner, allows a machine operator to easily associate the options presented in the menu field MF with the depression of the correspondingly aligned soft key. Operator instructions, request for operator variable data input and operator error messages are presented in the prompt field PF.
  • user system information pertinent to the current state of the mailing machine 1 or selected soft functions can be presented to the operator. It is noted that the soft functions refer to data processing functions, such as, funds accounting, and hard functions refer to machine control functions.
  • the screen retrieve routine is executed.
  • the operator is prompted to input the operator ID number at 12, if enabled.
  • the interface system proceeds to prompt the user at 14 to press the start key for a mail run at 14.
  • the operator will be prompted at 13 to input any missing user ID information at 15.
  • the operator is now presented with the menu set A1 through A6 which provides the operator with the option to choose by actuation of the respective soft key to change mail classes, change accounts, prepare site setup, service diagnostic, view addition options or quit.
  • the operator may choose to view the appropriate fees at 21 in the data window DW associated with the classes displayed in the data window. The operator is then prompted at 22 in the prompt field PF to hit the resume, option S6, to resume the selections at the A1 through A6 menu selection point.
  • the operator may choose at this point to view more options at A5 following which selection the operator is then prompted to make a selection or press start to run at 30 and the operator is presented with a second set of options A7 through A12.
  • the A7 option reinstates option A1 through A6 to the MF.
  • Option A8 allows the operator to display the meter register and other meter information. If selected, the meter information is displayed in the data window DW and the operator is prompted to hit enter or go back to the previous presented options A1 through A6 at 32.
  • the operator may choose to view reports at A9, should the operator make that selection, the operator is then presented with a list of reports in the data window DW and is prompted at 40 to select the report by hard key entry. The operator is then presented with a choice of three report types B1 through B3 to choose from.
  • the available options now being account summary at B1, last transaction at B2, and a site setup and operating reports at B3.
EP19910121790 1990-12-19 1991-12-19 Embedded user-interface having multiple language capability Withdrawn EP0491392A3 (en)

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Cited By (6)

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EP0586333A2 (fr) * 1992-09-04 1994-03-09 Frama Ag Dispositif de commande d'entrée d'une machine à affranchir électronique
EP0889443A3 (fr) * 1997-07-04 1999-04-14 Pitney Bowes Limited Machine à affranchir pour des monnaies multiples
US5960418A (en) * 1997-07-14 1999-09-28 Pitney Bowes Ltd. Multi-currency postage meter
EP0962893A1 (fr) * 1998-06-05 1999-12-08 Neopost Industrie Dispositif d'affranchissement à monnaie convertible
EP1136952A1 (fr) 2000-03-15 2001-09-26 Francotyp-Postalia AG & Co. Machine à affranchir avec commutation de langues
GB2419074A (en) * 2004-10-05 2006-04-12 Symbian Software Ltd Text string display

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GB2119992A (en) * 1982-05-06 1983-11-23 Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co Automatic transaction machine
US4449186A (en) * 1981-10-15 1984-05-15 Cubic Western Data Touch panel passenger self-ticketing system
GB2132138A (en) * 1979-12-28 1984-07-04 Pitney Bowes Inc An electronic postage meter system with a removable register on a card
EP0336589A2 (fr) * 1988-04-06 1989-10-11 W & T Avery Limited Machine à affranchir

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GB2132138A (en) * 1979-12-28 1984-07-04 Pitney Bowes Inc An electronic postage meter system with a removable register on a card
US4449186A (en) * 1981-10-15 1984-05-15 Cubic Western Data Touch panel passenger self-ticketing system
GB2119992A (en) * 1982-05-06 1983-11-23 Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co Automatic transaction machine
EP0336589A2 (fr) * 1988-04-06 1989-10-11 W & T Avery Limited Machine à affranchir

Cited By (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0586333A2 (fr) * 1992-09-04 1994-03-09 Frama Ag Dispositif de commande d'entrée d'une machine à affranchir électronique
EP0586333A3 (fr) * 1992-09-04 1995-05-31 Frama Ag Dispositif de commande d'entrée d'une machine à affranchir électronique.
EP0889443A3 (fr) * 1997-07-04 1999-04-14 Pitney Bowes Limited Machine à affranchir pour des monnaies multiples
US5960418A (en) * 1997-07-14 1999-09-28 Pitney Bowes Ltd. Multi-currency postage meter
EP0962893A1 (fr) * 1998-06-05 1999-12-08 Neopost Industrie Dispositif d'affranchissement à monnaie convertible
FR2779550A1 (fr) * 1998-06-05 1999-12-10 Neopost Ind Dispositif d'affranchissement a monnaie convertible
EP1136952A1 (fr) 2000-03-15 2001-09-26 Francotyp-Postalia AG & Co. Machine à affranchir avec commutation de langues
GB2419074A (en) * 2004-10-05 2006-04-12 Symbian Software Ltd Text string display

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