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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7107219 | Communication apparatus A terminal is designed so that a user who employs numerical keys, allocated for the entry of dots, can enter Braille dot combinations that are used for the input of characters. The input characters may be output as speech for feedback. Further, when a terminal acces... | 09/12/2006 |
| 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 |
| 4714362 | Typewriter daisy wheel A daisy wheel for a typewriter having a plurality of petals with a character head on the end of each petal comprising irregular width characters on the ends of the petals and means for positioning the character heads in an irregular spacing about the circ... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4680710 | Computer composition of nastaliq script of the urdu group of languages A method is disclosed for computer composition of Nastaliq script and similar Ruka'ah script of the Urdu group of languages (Arabic, Persian, Punjabi, Pushto, Sindhi) in full conformance to rules of a script. Basic constituent elements of the characters o... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4670842 | Method and system for the generation of Arabic script For effecting the automatic selection of Arabic character forms for display/printing of Arabic script, the structure of Arabic words is defined in terms of the respective shapes of the characters, and then production rules are derived to logically effect ... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4604712 | Apparatus for controlling reproduction of text characters whose form depends on adjacency of other characters A digital control device is used with a character generator for producing text in a typescript having multiform characters, such as Arabic script. The character generator includes a character store with a base page section to store codes identifying the b... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4527919 | Method for the composition of texts in Arabic letters and composition device The invention relates to a composition device for texts in Arabic letters which comprises a keyboard having several keys each corresponding to only one basic letter in all of its shapes, and an electronic device having a memory retaining the codes corresp... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4507734 | Display system for data in different forms of writing, such as the arabic and latin alphabets A system displays data in a first and second alphabet selectable by the operator, the second alphabet being of the kind in which the characters differ in form according to their position in the context. The system receives data in the form of a sequence o... | 03/26/1985 |
| 4400697 | Method of line buffer loading for a symbol generator In a symbol-display system which includes a keyboard for entering codes related to the symbols to be displayed and a memory for storing the codes associated with a line of symbols to be displayed, the symbols being from a font which includes at least one ... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4298773 | Method and system for 5-bit encoding of complete Arabic-Farsi languages A method and apparatus for coding, transmitting, receiving, and displaying remotely or locally, all Arabic-Farsi characters or letters, basic arithmetic signs, numerals, punctuation marks and diacritical marks, as well as teleprinter operation commands in... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4289411 | Multilingual ink jet printer An interactive ink jet printer prints characters of a language from left to right or right to left in accordance with the direction in which the language is normally written. The signals for the direction in which a motor, which moves ink droplet supply d... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4286329 | Complex character generator A character compaction and generation method and apparatus which is particularly adapted to the generation of complex characters such as Kanji characters. A dot matrix defining a given character is compacted into a sparse matrix, with the original charact... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4261126 | Numeric display A segment display wherein each segment is selectively energized to display, respectively, all numerals of the Arabian writing as distinguished from "arabic numbers". The segment display uses only seven or fewer segments for displaying all numbers by emplo... | 04/14/1981 |
| 4257711 | Proportional spacing impact printing apparatus A printing element (90) which is rotatable to different positions to print characters having different widths is carried by a carriage (98). The width of each character is divided into a leading width portion and a trailing width portion which are oriente... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4252452 | Arabic language typewriter An Arabic language or other right to left writing typewriter having mechanism normally effecting letter feeding movement from right to left in response to type actions is provided with additional mechanism selectively operatively positionable to effect po... | 02/24/1981 |
| 4225249 | Variable character spacing matrix for proportional spacing printing systems The aesthetic characteristics of adjacent characters are used to enhance the quality of output in a proportional spacing printer and to provide right margin justification for composing. Spacing between characters is determined on the basis of the characte... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4217055 | Daisy wheel printer which accommodates different print wheel fonts A daisy wheel printer which accommodates different print wheel fonts has switchable ROMs each containing print position and instruction information for each character on an associated print wheel. The possible number of printing positions is substantially... | 08/12/1980 |
| 4215238 | Method of and apparatus for printed character transmission and reception Printed characters are transmitted by storing data words in a transmitter representing character sequences for operating a printing head in accordance with a first mode, producing in the transmitter code words different from data words representing the ch... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4200769 | Process and arrangement for selectively transmitting predetermined characters or graphic patterns Predetermined characters or graphic patterns are transmitted from a transmitting station to a receiving station in a system wherein a printing head is provided with at least one printing component in the receiving station and is supplied with binary chara... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4181973 | Complex character generator A character compaction and generation method and apparatus which is particularly adapted to the generation of complex characters such as Kanji characters. A dot matrix defining a given character is compacted into a sparse matrix, with the original charact... | 01/01/1980 |
| 4176974 | Interactive video display and editing of text in the Arabic script A system, and related process, for mechanical reproduction of Arabic script is characterized by immediate response to user input and by full conformity to the ordinary calligraphic rules of the Arabic language. The process involves temporary storage of te... | 12/04/1979 |
| 4150902 | Electronic printer having a single tracing element for tracing out alphanumeric characters The printer is provided with a single tracing element for tracing characters under the control of stored digital instructions corresponding to a set of segments of the character. The tracing element is moved on the printing surface according to a pair of ... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4145570 | Method and system for 5-bit encoding of complete Arabic-Farsi languages A method and apparatus for coding, transmitting, receiving and displaying remotely or locally, all Arabic-Farsi characters or letters, basic arithmetic signs, numerals, punctuation marks and diacritical marks, as well as teleprinter operation commands in ... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4137425 | Bialphabetic teleprinter for texts in latin and arabic characters The teleprinter is provided with a bialphabetic keyboard, for example latin and arabic, and a dot printing head controlled by two different character generating units corresponding to the two alphabets. The teleprinter is normally predisposed for one of t... | 01/30/1979 |
| 3998310 | Apparatus for recording data in arabic script An apparatus for recording data in arabic script is disclosed. Arabic script is written from right to left and characters of arabic script are written in two forms referred to as short form and full form with few exceptions. Each character of the arabic s... | 12/21/1976 |
| 3938099 | Electronic digital system and method for reproducing languages using the Arabic-Farsi script A system for mechanically reproducing language characters in a cursive form in accordance with the natural style calligraphy of the language. Written letters are characterized by "links" with preceding and following characters, and mathematical rules desc... | 02/10/1976 |
