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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 1994
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1993
Seiji Fuyama, Yokohama, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An electronic cash register which includes a keyboard having macro keys of a plurality of key functions to be combinedly specified and device of recognizing a state of the electronic register, and wherein macro key information corresponding to each of the macro keys includes key code information indicative of a sequence of the key codes to be executed when the macro key is designated and a check code for inspection of conditions allowing execution thereof, and wherein, when the electronic register accepts the key code corresponding to the macro key from the keyboard and at the same time when the state of the electronic register recognized by the recognition means satisfies the conditions specified by the check code corresponding to the macro key, the register converts the sequence of the key code into an executable instruction, whereby a predetermined macro key instruction enables an authorized operator to operate the electronic register at a predetermined time and in predetermined conditions.