Message display device

Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp

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Filing: 1984-11-13

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Granted: —

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Expires: 2004-11-13

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Abstract

Abstract A message display device in which an apparatus control section (1) for controlling a copying machine or the like and a message-display control section (2) for controlling messages to be displayed are separated from one another. The message-display control section (2) is divided into a message memory (5), a status memory (4) for storing message numbers of messages to be displayed, and a status judgement/control unit (3) so that the message memory (5) and the status judgement/control unit (3) can be accessed by a message number from the status memory (4). The device includes a display section (6) which receives a display pattern signal for displaying the selected message. When the language to be displayed is to be changed, a message to be displayed is altered, or an output mode is to be changed, it is sufficient to change only the message memory (5) or the status memory (4) without changing the apparatus control section (1), the program of the display control section (2), or the like. By storing output formats corresponding to messages to be displayed in the status memory (4), it is made possible to designate an output format and to change the display mode between messages in accordance with the status.

Inventors

👤 Junichi C/O Fuji Xerox Co.Ltd. Yamaguchi
👤 Akira C/O Fuji Xerox Co.Ltd. Miyazaki

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —

Jurisdiction EP

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Last Synchronized 2026-10-30 10:00

CPC Classifications

G; G09; G09G; G09G3/00; G06; G06F; G06F3/00; G06F3/14; G06F3/147

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 6

Claim 1

Independent Claim 154 words

A message display device for displaying a message representing the status of and/or operating instructions for an electronic apparatus, said device comprising: an apparatus control section for controlling said electronic apparatus and generating a status signal representing a status of said apparatus; a message-display control section responsive to said status signal for selecting a message to be displayed from among previously stored messages and for producing a display pattern signal on the basis of the selected message to be displayed, said message-display control section comrising status memory means for storing, for every unit display, message numbers of messages to be displayed, message memory means for storing messages to be displayed and corresponding message numbers, and status judgement/control means for controlling the selection of messages to be displayed and the output of said display pattern pattern; and a message display section responsive to said display pattern signal for displaying the selected message to be displayed.

Claim 2

Dependent Claim 154 words

Claim 3

Dependent Claim 32 words

A message display device according to claim 1, wherein said status memory means stores, for every unit display, message numbers of messages to be displayed and corresponding output formats of the messages.

Claim 4

Dependent Claim 39 words

A message display device according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein said message memory means stores said messages to be displayed such that messages of various languages having the same meaning are stored with the same message number.

Claim 5

Dependent Claim 91 words

A message display device according to claim 1, wherein said status judgement/control means comprises: (a) status judgement means for judging said status on the basis of said status signal; (b) message number detecting means for reading a message number from said status memory means on the basis of the judged status; (c) message selecting means for reading a message to be displayed from said message . memory means on the basis of the read-out message number; and (d) display instructing means for instructing said display section to display the read-out message.

Claim 6

Dependent Claim 115 words

A message display device according to claim 2, wherein said status judgement/control means comprises: (a) status judgement means for judging said status on the basis of said status signal; (b) message number detecting means for reading a message number from said status memory means on the basis of the judged status; (c) output-format detecting means for reading an output format from said status memory means on the basis of the judged status; (d) message selecting means for reading a message to be displayed from said message memory means on the basis of the read-out message number; and (d) display instructing means for instructing said display section to display the read-out message in said read-out format.

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