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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:
Oct. 21, 1986
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:
Fusahiro Shiono, Habikino, JP;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3645135 ; 381 51 ;
Abstract
An electronic cash register system includes an input keyboard and a high-speed computer which outputs through a buffer to a low-speed speech synthesizer. To avoid loss of data due to buffer overfill, a speech condition determination unit generates a control signal if the empty-condition of the buffer falls below a threshold. In one embodiment the control signal speeds up the speech synthesizer clock. In a second embodiment the keyboard is disabled.