| 摘要 |
The device "Menú Informatico" represents a peripheral that can be inserted in a known electronic system for performing functions equivalent to those of a Palm Pilot (Personal Computer), oriented to specialised operative uses and aspects, not satisfactorily executed by the normal Palm Pilots.
It comes with the characteristics of a diary, Fig.1 and its use is specifically oriented to personnel with limited education and subject to frequent turnover, so much as to not being able to dedicate time to the knowledge of the device. Consequently its use is intuitive.
The most frequent utilisation of the device is recognised in the taking of orders in the Refreshments secto, in the acquisition of information on consumption and activities in the Hotel sector, in the quality control activities of industrial products, etc.
In more general terms it can be said that the "Menú Informatico", allows an operator to acquire known and repetitive information described in opportune modality on N pages in progressive order.
By definition, the data and/or items to be treated are made known to the whole System and consequently even the Peripheral "Menu Informatica"; or rather to its memory and in a clear and descriptive form reproduced on the Hard pages (8) as in a normal List or Menu. The pages containing the writing lines, on the "front" and on the "back", always assume a constant aligning position of the writing lines themselves with the keys of a keyboard with a double row of anonymous vertical keys. The position of the keyboard is central with respect to the "front" pages and the "back" pages such that at every description of the data there is a corresponding operating key. This is obtained by attributing spaces containing writing lines characterised by space ordinates (A,B,C,.... N ) each one flanked by a corresponding key of the same ordinate (A,B,C,... N ) to each page "front" and "back".
The constituent pages of the sheets, are inserted in transparent plastic envelopes (7) because of mechanical management needs, they are asily Turnable as sheets of a normal rim. The selected sheet, with suitable means, signals the pages described in it whose page ordinates becomes acquired automatically by the device with the switching on of the selected key.
Consequently, the device allows the Computerised acquisition of data or item N described on page N by the typing of only one key from a keyboard that has a limited number of keys. As an example, in the case of an Order, the operations executed by the operator, waiter, are:
€¢ Type the table number to which the Order is referred, using the numeric keyboard (3);
€¢ Search the requested course on the pages;
€¢ Type the operating key of the keyboard (4), corresponding to the meal, as many times as the quantity required. The operation is completed/concluded. With a specific key, forward the order via radio to the production area.
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