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Electronic equipment displaying translated characters matching partial character input with subsequent erasure of non-matching translations

Patent 5713033 Issued on January 27, 1998. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject January 27, 2015. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Application

No. 176505 filed on 01/03/1994

US Classes:

715/534, Input of abbreviated word form400/110, Including Oriental language704/7, Storage or retrieval of data715/535Ideographic generator

Examiners

Primary: Hayes, Gail O.
Assistant: Tkacs, Stephen R.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Patent References

  • 0158819 JP 12/13/1979
  • 0050464 JP 05/13/1981
  • 0019936 JP. 02/13/1983

International Class

B41J 005/30

Foreign Application Priority Data

1983-04-06 JP

Abstract

Electronic equipment includes a memory containing first information such as KANA characters and second information such as KANJI characters corresponding to the first information, a key input device for inputting the first information, a display for displaying the second information corresponding to the input first information, and a control for reading out all of the second information corresponding to the input first information, from the memory, displaying it on the display and sequentially erasing the displayed second information which no longer correspond to the input first information subsequently inputted by the input device.

Other References

  • Lexis™ Handbook L82-1, Mead Data Central, 1980, 1-48
  • Arellano et al.; "Word Generation System for Typist"; IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin; v17 n8; Jan. 197
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