User interface for a postage meter machine

US5818020A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Francotyp-Postalia GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Hasbi Kabacaoglu · Berlin, DE
• Claus Freytag · Berlin, DE
• Norbert Knoth · Berlin, DE
• Thomas Epping · Hanau, DE
• Wolfgang Von Inten · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 1995
• Grant date: Oct 6, 1998
• Expiry date: Dec 20, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07B2017/00701
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A user interface for a postage meter machine has a number of menu images which are available for display on a single display unit, the menu images containing internally generated and externally entered information, the menu images containing fields in which the information is contained and displayed, these fields being spatially allocated to input elements of the input unit. The setting of the fields in the menu images is variable, i.e., the limits or boundaries of the individual fields can be varied from menu image to menu image, so that the field size can be flexibly matched to the information to be displayed.