Program-controlled household appliance
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1. A program-controlled household appliance comprising:
- an optical indicator unit having at least one indicator element adapted to simultaneously display user and program information and test and service information as plain text and as symbols, said at least one indicator element simultaneously displaying a symbol and a letter character.
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Abstract
The optical indicator unit of a program-controlled household appliance includes one or more indicator elements for the display of information in plain text. Each indicator element includes a matrix with 5×8 pixels for the display of a character. Each indicator element is assigned a functional element/actuator belonging to the household appliance. The element/actuator and also at least one operating state of the element/actuator is represented in the indicator element by an initial letter or a symbol. Depending on a size of the display, a plurality of actuators can be indicated at the same time. The invention can be applied particularly well in testing and in servicing.
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1. A program-controlled household appliance comprising:
an optical indicator unit having at least one indicator element adapted to simultaneously display user and program information and test and service information as plain text and as symbols, said at least one indicator element simultaneously displaying a symbol and a letter character. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. In a program-controlled household appliance having functional units each with at least one operating and monitoring state, an optical indicator unit comprising:
at least one indicator element adapted to simultaneously display, as plain text and as symbols, user and program information regarding the at least one operating and monitoring state of each functional unit and test and service information regarding the at least one operating and monitoring state of each functional unit, said at least one indicator element simultaneously displaying a symbol and a letter character. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method of displaying information, which comprises the steps of:
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providing a program-controlled household appliance having an optical indicator and functional units each with at least one operating and monitoring state;
simultaneously displaying, as plain text and as symbols, user and program information regarding the at least one operating and monitoring state of each of the functional units and test and service information regarding the at least one operating and monitoring state of each of the functional units. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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