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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7481589 | Braille pen writer A Braille writing instrument has a housing which has a first end and a second end, extending in a first direction. Six plungers are positioned near the first end, arranged in a first column of three plungers and a second column of three plungers. The first and secon... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7352899 | Realistic machine-generated handwriting with personalized fonts There are provided new and improved methods and systems for producing machine-generated handwriting having realistic human appearance. In various embodiments, the handwriting may include characteristics of particular classes and/or characteristics of particular indi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7327884 | Realistic machine-generated handwriting There have thus been provided new and improved methods and systems for producing machine-generated handwriting having realistic human appearance. In various embodiments, the handwriting may include characteristics of particular classes and/or characteristics of part... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7256769 | System and method for text entry on a reduced keyboard A system and method for efficient Asian character text input into a reduced keypad machine such as a word processor, telephone, hand-held computer, or personal computer is provided. The system comprises a data entry keypad associated with a monitor, and a disambigua... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7195409 | Apparatus, method and program for producing small prints An apparatus, method and program produce small print including character string information in a plurality of languages together with a logo. A language converting function converts an input character string into another language. A multi-language printing function ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7144168 | Printing device A printing device for printing labels comprises a memory for storing one or more character sets, each character set including at least a principle character and an additional character which is associated with the principle character; user input means having charact... | 12/05/2006 |
| 6916129 | Printing device A printing device for printing labels comprises a memory for storing one or more character sets, each character set including at least a principle character and an additional character which is associated with the principle character; user input means having charact... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6535145 | Ideographic keyboard and method Ideographic keyboard and method in which an array of characters are printed on one side of a panel and optically readable data corresponding to the characters is recorded on the other side of the panel. A character selector is moved about the first side t... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6281884 | General Chinese phonetic keyboard setting apparatus A general Chinese phonetic keyboard setting apparatus enables the user to define a phonetic keyboard in a computer system. The user can define a key to correspond with a Chinese phonetic character (one key, one sound), or one key to correspond with severa... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6247400 | Apparatus for producing elevations which can be detected in a tactile manner The invention relates to an apparatus for producing elevations which can be detected in a tactile manner on a flat recording medium, with the following components: at least one stamp with several printing areas which are provided with one or several eleva... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6231252 | Character input system and method using keyboard A character input system (and method) is actualized using an "easy-to-operate" keyboard, which is downsized by reducing a number of keys and which has a good efficiency in performance and operation without increasing key-pressing numbers so much. The keyb... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6007261 | Printing system with means to extract data type before printing on a recording medium A host computer checks the frequency of type data such as a character code or a graphic pattern in print data. Type data with a high frequency is registered in a registered character management area in correspondence with a data ID and sent to a printer. ... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5984545 | Character information processor The present invention relates to a character information processor having a function by which the user can obtain a character to be inputted by inputting a code corresponding to the character. The character information processor of the present invention includ... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5505549 | Character resource utilizing system A character resource utilizing system for preparing print data from an extracted character resource and printing characters. The character resource utilizing system includes a memory for storing a first type of character resources and a second type of cha... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5488363 | Direction code for encoding Chinese characters using English alphabet and inputting method thereof The present invention relates to the direction code for encoding Chinese characters using English alphabet and the inputting method thereof. While encoding a Chinese character, constructing the English letters that exist in said character according to hor... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5387042 | Multilingual keyboard system A multilingual keyboard system (10) including a customized keyboard unit (12) is provided to operate in conjunction with a central processing unit (14) and a logic system (16) having unique software in order to facilitate multilingual typing from a single... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5331557 | Audio-video coding system for Chinese characters A method for audio-video coding of Chinese characters wherein each audio-video code has two elements. The first element is an audio code element, and the second element is a video code element. The audio code element is always made of two English letters.... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5213422 | Bicameral pictographic-language keyboard A Bicameral Keyboard is provided for generating pictographic characters wherein twenty keys are sufficient to specify the roughly 3000 characters required for ordinary personal and business correspondence. The Bicameral Keyboard is compatible with pictogr... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5182709 | System for parsing multidimensional and multidirectional text into encoded units and storing each encoded unit as a separate data structure A method and apparatus editing and creating multidirectional or multidimensional text includes an editor responsive to keystrokes representing text characters and editing commands for generating a string of codes defining a text and a parser responsive to... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5127748 | Documentation system having multilingual function A documentation system having a multilingual function, including a keyboard; a keyboard mode selecting device for setting at least a standard language mode and a multilingual mode wherein one keyboard mode (an optional language mode different from the sta... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5043712 | Character display apparatus A Chinese character display apparatus includes a font memory for storing character fonts and tone symbol fonts. There is a first memory for storing strings of pairs of a character code and a tone code arranged in order of the character arrangement in a se... | 08/27/1991 |
| 4890230 | Electronic dictionary An electronic dictionary for electronic translation of words or compound words in a source language to the corresponding words or compound words in a target language comprises an optical reader which optically reads the source language to be translated, a... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4879653 | Selection system for ideographic characters by touch typing using phonetic/hieroglyphic codes A system for ideographic character selection. Provision is made for selection of desired ideographic characters by use of designators termed combinational headwords each having a one-to-one correspondence with an ideographic character. The designators are... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4768164 | Word processor with font exchanging font synthesizing mode, and spacing mode of operation A daisy wheel printing unit includes a wheel data memory housing wheel data such as kinds of characters provided in the daisy wheel by which it can be discriminated. The printing unit compares printing commands supplied to the printer and discriminates wh... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4735515 | Serial printing apparatus having two character generators, one which generates characters common to a plurality of countries A printing apparatus having two character generators, one which generates characters common to a plurality of countries, comprises a keyboard for entering character codes, a first character generator for producing certain character patterns representing c... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4727366 | Apparatus and method for CRT display screen The video memory of a CRT display system is split into an application video memory and a CRT memory. The two memories are interconnected by logic means for manipulating primary and secondary texts whose characters proceed in directions which are different... | 02/23/1988 |
| 4684275 | Electronic typewriter with presettable specification tables An electronic typewriter includes a plurality of character keys, a specification selector, a printer circuit, and a memory for storing a plurality of specification tables, each having a plurality of key data. A data processing circuit detects a determined... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4684926 | Universal system of encoding chinese characters and its keyboard A system includes a keyboard for encoding Chinese characters and phrases. The invention relates to the quick input of Chinese characters and phrases into any large, medium, small and mini-sized computers as well as systems for Chinese information processi... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4632578 | Computerized printing system A computerized system for the rapid rendering of written or spoken material into printed text. A stenographic record of the material is produced by a reporter according to a stenographic system including "automatics" to enable batch translation of the ste... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4580916 | Typing device for typing in several languages by combining sub-components of the characters The typing arrangement includes a character-bearing member of the "daisy wheel" type, the symbols of which can be printed at the point of printing either alone or in the form of combinations of successive strikes of certain symbols for constituting a font... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4469455 | Electronic equipment There is disclosed an electronic equipment comprising character input means capable of inputting a plurality of characters; a first read-only memory for storing information of the characters of said character input means; first print means capable of prin... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4468754 | Electronic translator for selecting cursor position to input new words An electronic translator operates to replace an old word or words in a sentence with a new word or words so as to make from an old sentence a new sentence. A cursor selector is provided for passing over part of the old word or words, such part being commo... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4460973 | Electronic translator for marking words or sentences An electronic translator of the type having an input device for inputting words and directing the output of selected words in which a first word or words represented in a first language are retrieved in response to a second word or words represented in a ... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4456969 | System for automatically hyphenating and verifying the spelling of words in a multi-lingual document Disclosed is an improved system for verifying the spelling and providing hyphenation points for text words from a plurality of interspersed languages. The control system includes control codes which are inserted in the text to define the language of the t... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4383306 | Electronic translator for indicating the kind of translated tongue An electronic translator in which a first word or words represented in a first language are entered to obtain a second word or words represented in a second language but equivalent in meaning to the first word or words, comprises an input device for enter... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4381551 | Electronic translator An electronic translator is characterized in that similarity detection circuit is provided for detecting similarity between letters within a first word and those within a second word in the same language as the first word, with the object of locating a se... | 04/26/1983 |
| 4375922 | Character printing system in electronic data processing apparatus such as electronic calculators A character printing system in an electronic data processing apparatus is provided that is adapted for printing language characters in response to numerical value coded data entered through numeral keys of a keyboard, each character being represented by a... | 03/08/1983 |
| 4359286 | Character set expansion A method of, and system for, increasing the number of characters available to be printed with a single print element. If a printer is printing from storage and the character being presented to the printer does not match the print element in use, a determi... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4353653 | Font selection and compression for printer subsystem A printer subsystem receives command and data information from a host system and retains a large number of font images in an associated storage area within the printer subsystem. A base font image set is ordinarily selected by the user but provision is ma... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4351618 | Selection controlled print impression control for single element impact printers The impact velocity with which a single element printer prints is determined by the velocity with which the printing element is propelled toward the record sheet. The mechanism disclosed herein is capable of adjusting the velocity with which a print eleme... | 09/28/1982 |
