Electronic account recording device

• US 5,021,952 A
• Filed: 05/15/1989
• Issued: 06/04/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Nishimura, Toshio, Morita, Akitaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Jerry
• Assistant Examiner(s): BUI, KIM T
• Application Number:
  US07/353,173
• Time in Patent Office: 750 Days
• Field of Search: 364/406, 364/709.01, 364/709.03, 364/709.04, 364/709.16, 364/710.04, 364/710.09
• US Class Current: 705/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/025 adapted to a specific application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0489 using dedicated keyboard keys or combinations thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/341 Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means, e.g. including an IC or chip
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/346 Cards serving only as information carrier of service
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4093 Monitoring of device authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system

Abstract

An electronic account recording device according to the present invention has number keys for effecting the input of a number, a switch key for selecting an item from a plurality of items, an amount key for recording an expense amount as inputted by the number keys, and a scan keys for calling back sequentially the expense amounts recorded by the number keys and the amount key. The device further has a display for displaying an item name and an expense amount during the input as effected by the number keys and the amount key, and also during the call back as effected by the scan key, and a memory for storing the item name and the expense amount in pairs sequentially in the input order. A controller is provided which operates in response to an actuation of the scan key, to call back the expense amounts chained by the item name. Thus, the expense amounts of one item are sequentially called back and displayed through the display one at a time and, thereafter, the expense amounts of another item are sequentially called back and displayed one at a time.

Claims

1. An electronic account recording device for storing a plurality of expense amounts which can include different types of expenses, corresponding to a plurality of item names comprising:

a casing;

a key board on said casing including,

number keys for inputting numbers,

a switch key for selecting an item name from said plurality of item names corresponding to a number inputted,

an amount key for inputting in first memory means a plurality of expense amounts corresponding to the item names selected;

the first memory means being divided into a plurality of memory segments, each of said plurality of memory segments storing one of said plurality of expense amounts and one of said plurality of item names;

scan key means for sequentially scanning the plurality of expense amounts stored in said first memory means;

display means for displaying one of said plurality of item names, numbers and said expense amounts in response to inputs of said number keys and said amount key, and sequentially displaying in response to actuation of said scan key means;

control means for operation in response to an actuation of said scan key means, for sequentially scanning for displaying on said display means said plurality of expense amounts corresponding to one of said plurality of item names; and

said control means further operating in response to actuation of said scan key means for sequentially scanning and for displaying on said display means expense amounts corresponding to another of said plurality of items;

means operatively connected with said scan key means for displaying on the display means said expense amounts corresponding to said one and another items in sequence; and

compression key means for operating said control means such that said plurality of expense amounts for said one of said plurality of item names are summed and stored in a single memory segment of said plurality of memory segments and each of said plurality of memory segments having said plurality of expense amounts corresponding to said one item name are emptied, so as to provide corresponding vacant memory segments in said first memory means.

2. An electronic account recording device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said scan key means comprises an up scan key and a down scan key, said down scan key actuating said control means for scanning the expense amounts of one of said plurality of item names sequentially in the order inputted into said first memory means, and said up scan key actuating said control means for scanning the expense amounts of one of said plurality of item names sequentially in the order opposite to the order inputted into said first memory means.

3. An electronic account recording device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said control means operates in response to the actuation of said down scan key for calculating a total of the expense amounts of one of said plurality of item names after displaying all the expense amounts in said one item name, and displaying said total.

4. An electronic account recording device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said control means operates in response to the actuation of said amount key for calculating a total of the expense amounts of one of said plurality of item names corresponding to said one item name of the expense amount, and displaying the total thereafter.

5. An electronic account recording device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a budget key for entering a budget for said plurality of item names, said budget being stored in said second memory means.

6. An electronic account recording device as claimed in claim 5, further comprising a balance key for operating said control means such that a balance is calcualted between said budget for one of said plurality of item names and a total of the expense amounts in one of said plurality of item names, and displaying said balance.

7. An electronic account recording device as claimed in claim 6, wherein said control means further produces a warning when said balance becomes a negative amount.

8. An electronic account recording device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a purpose key for selecting a purpose of the expense amount from a plurality of predetermined purposes, said purpose being stored in same first memory means corresponding to said expense amount.

9. An electronic account recording device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said control means produces a warning when all of said plurality of memory segments are filled.

10. An electronic account recording device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said display means has a window for disp aying a display number having digit places less than or equal to a predetermined number.

11. An electronic account recording device as claimed in claim 10, wherein said control means produces an estimated amount when said display number has digit places greater than said predetermined number.

12. A method for storing a plurality of expense amounts which can include difference types of expenses corresponding to a plurality of item names in an electronic accounting recording device, comprising the steps of:

(a) inputting numbers utilizing number keys on a keyboard of said electronic account recording device;

(b) selecting an item name from said plurality of item names to be inputted corresponding with said numbers by a switch key;

(c) storing an expense amount in first memory means using amount key that corresponds to said numbers and said item name inputted;

(d) sequentially scanning a plurality of expense amounts stored in said first memory means by using scan key means which corresponds to one of the item names;

(e) displaying on a display means one of said plurality of item names and said expense amounts corresponding to said one item name with the actuation of scan key means;

(f) displaying on the display in sequence to step (e) another of said plurality of items names and expense amounts corresponding to said another item name upon actuation of the scan key means; and

(g) operating a control means for summing a plurality of expense amounts associated with an item name for compressing the expense amounts in a portion of a memory means to provide another portion of the memory means as a vacant portion which can receive further expenses associated with an item name.