Electronic payment terminal with an improved display
AssigneeCompagnie Industrielle et Financiere D'lngenierie "Ingenico"
InventorPierre Lacroix
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Abstract
An electronic payment terminal is disclosed including a display screen including first and second terminals for receiving display data, a first processor connected to the first terminal and adapted for supplying display data to the first terminal at a first rate, and a second processor connected to the second terminal and adapted for supplying display data to the second terminal at a second rate lower than the first rate and adapted for supplying to the display screen a signal for the selection of the display data received at one of the first and second terminals. The second processor is further connected to the first processor and is adapted to send to the first processor a signal for authorizing or forbidding the transmission of display data to the display screen.
Claims10
An electronic payment unit comprising:
- a display having first and second terminals for receiving display data;
- a first processor connected to the first terminal and capable of providing display data to the first terminal at a first rate;
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- a second processor connected to the second terminal and capable of providing display data to the second terminal at a second rate lower than the first rate and capable of providing the display with a signal of selection of the display data received on one of the first or second terminals, the second processor being further connected to the first processor and being capable of providing the first processor with a signal for allowing or forbidding the transmission of display data to the display.
A method for displaying display data on a display of an electronic payment unit, said display comprising first and second terminals for receiving display data, the payment unit further comprising a first processor connected to the first terminal and capable of providing display data to the first terminal at a first rate and a second processor connected to the second terminal and capable of providing display data to the second terminal at a second rate lower than the first rate, the method comprising having the second processor provide the display with a signal for selecting display data received on one of the first or second terminals and providing the first processor with a signal for allowing or forbidding the transmission of display data to the display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.