Printing device with spelling check that continues printing after a delay

• US 4,995,740 A
• Filed: 08/22/1989
• Issued: 02/26/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Brother Industries Limited)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Norio
• Primary Examiner(s): Wiecking, David A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kelley, Steven S.
• Application Number:
  US07/397,745
• Time in Patent Office: 553 Days
• Field of Search: 400/50, 400/63, 400/695-697.1, 400/712
• US Class Current: 400/63
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/232 Orthographic correction, e.g. spell checking or vowelisation

Abstract

A printing device that detects misspelled words which contains a counter for counting a period of time after a detection of misspelling of the character string executed by a spelling check and a print controller for controlling a print head member so as to execute print operations in case that a value counted by the counter reaches a predetermined value.

Claims

1. A printing device comprising input means for inputting character data, print means including a print head member moveable along a print line on a print sheet, for executing print operations through a print ribbon in response to the inputted character data, said printing device further comprises:

dictionary memory means for storing spelling information of a multiplicity of words;

spelling check means for checking the spelling of a character string defined in a predetermined manner and having been printed on said print sheet, by retrieving the words stored in said dictionary memory means;

first control means for controlling said print means so as to cease the print operation in case that a word whose spelling is equal to the character string checked by said spelling check means is not stored in said dictionary memory means;

memory means for storing the data inputted after said print means is so controlled to cease the print operations by said first control means;

count means for counting a period of time after a detection of misspelling of the character string executed by said spelling check means; and

print control means for controlling said print head member so as to execute print operations in response to the data stored in said memory means in case that a value counted by said count reaches a predetermined value.

2. The printing device according to claim 1 wherein the cease operation executed by said first control means is a shift operation of said print ribbon from a print position to a rest position.

3. The printing device according to claim 1 wherein said print control means further controls said print head member so as to successively execute print operations after the print operations corresponding to the data having been stored in said memory means.

4. The printing device according to claim 1 which further comprised second control means for the controlling said print head member so as to be operated in response to a predetermined data in case that said predetermined data is inputted before the value counted by said count means reaches said predetermined value.

5. The printing device according to claim 1 which further comprises display means for displaying the characters corresponding to the data stored in said memory means.

6. The printing device according to claim 4 wherein said operation executed by said second control means is a correction operation of the character string having been printed on said print sheet.

7. The printing device according to claim 6 wherein said correction operation is print operations overlapping with said character string through a correction ribbon.

8. The printing device according to claim 1 which further comprises alarm means for alarming in case that said print ribbon is so controlled to be shifted by said first control means.

9. The printing device according to claim 7 wherein said alarm means comprises a buzzer for generating an audible alarm signal.