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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 1980
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1978
Joe F Sexton, Houston, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A calculator printer interface performs control of a printer's segmenting of symbols in a string of numeral words from an LSI/MOS calculator chip. The output from the LSI/MOS calculator chip is a sequence of multibit data words including a leading decimal point position word indicating the position of a decimal point followed by numeral words indicating respective numerals of a number to be printed. The decimal point position word is decoded and the numeral words are entered into a shift register together with a word indicating a decimal point in the position within the sequence indicated by the decimal point position word. When the number is printed, words indicating where commas are to appear are inserted into the sequence of data words outputted from the shift register by counting by three after the word indicating a decimal. Commas and zeros occurring after the last nonzero numeral word in the sequence are suppressed.
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