Patent ID: 9218337
Filing Date: 2015-12-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: an apparatus main body; a cassette attachment part that a tape cassette is attached to and is disposed inside said apparatus main body; a cover that covers said cassette attachment part and is disposed at said apparatus main body so as to be openable/closable; a display device and an operation device disposed in portions of said apparatus main body, the portions being not opened or closed by said cover; said display device configured to display a character string, the display device including, on a common single display, an input character display screen, a conversion candidate display screen, and a text display screen; a tape feeding roller driving shaft that is disposed in said cassette attachment part and is configured to feed a printing tape provided from said tape cassette attached; a printing device that is disposed in said cassette attachment part and is configured to print a character string on said printing tape fed; said operation device configured to enable an operator to input an operation, wherein a character input by the operator is displayed on the input character display screen; said operation device including: a conversion key configured to be used to display said at least one conversion candidate associated with the character displayed on the input character display screen; a selective final determination key configured to be used to finally determinate a character string selected from the conversion candidates displayed on said conversion candidate display screen as a finally-determined character string; a print key configured to be used to output character string data displayed on said text display screen to said printing device and to issue a printing instruction; the printing apparatus further comprising: a conversion candidate creating portion configured to create at the time of an operation of said conversion key at least one conversion candidate associated with the character string inputted by the operator with said operation device and to display the created conversion candidate on the conversion candidate display screen of said display device; a shortened character string creating portion configured to create a shorted character string formed of one character or two character on the basis of the character string inputted by the operator with said operation device; and a finally-determined character string output portion configured to, based on an operation of said selective final determination key by the operator with said operation device associated with the display of said conversion candidate in said conversion candidate display screen of said display device, display the corresponding conversion candidate as said finally-determined character string on the text display screen of said display device; and a learning portion configured to learn and store for the next input operation and creation of at least conversion candidate, wherein the operator is capable of performing an editing operation of the finally-determined character string on the text display screen so that the finally-determined character string on the text display screen is different from the character string at the time of the operation of said selective final determination key by the operator, the printing apparatus further comprises a control portion having a first mode and a second mode, wherein in the first mode the control portion controls said printing device and said learning portion so that said printing device at the time of input of the printing instruction by the operator with said print key different from the time of the operation of said selective final determination key after the editing operation, prints on said printing tape character string data displayed on said text display screen and said learning portion, at the time of the input of the printing instruction by the operator with said print key different from the time of the operation of said selective final determination key, after the editing operation, learns and stores the shorted character string formed of one character or two characters created by said shortened character string creating portion based on the character string that was input at the time before the first time of an operation of said conversion key, associated with character string data displayed on said text display screen of said display device at the time of the input of the printing instruction, wherein the second mode the control portion controls said printing device and said learning portion so that said printing device at the time of the operation of said selective final determination key after the editing operation, prints on said printing tape character string data displayed on said text display screen and said learning portion at the time of the operation of said selective final determination key after the editing operation, learns and stores the shorted character string formed of one character or two characters created by said shortened character string creating portion based on the character string that was input at the time before the first time of an operation of said conversion key associated with character string data displayed on said text display screen of said display device at the time of the operation of said selective determination key and wherein said editing operation includes an operation for abbreviating said finally-determined character string by the operator, and said operation device includes a mode changeover switch configured to switch said first mode and said second mode, selectively.