Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Akira Tanimoto

Sigeaki Masuzawa

Shintaro Hashimoto

Shinya Shibata

Shinzo Nishizaki

Tomohiro Inoue

Toshihiko Yoshida

Isamu Washizuka

Yukihiro Yoshida

Shigeki Komaki

Yutaka Ikemoto

Mitsuhiro Saiji

Satoshi Tominaga

Toshiyuki Masui

Toshiyuki Itoga

Takashi Tatsumi

Masato Takemoto

Yutaka Iizuka

Shinji Okamoto

Susumu Genba

Toshiro Kita

Mikio Higashiyama

Shigenobu Yanagiuchi

Kosuke Nishimura

Tosaku Nakanishi

Hiroshi Miyazaki

Yoshisaburo Yoshida

Mituhiro Saizi

Susumu Maetani

Mituhiro Saiji

Sunao Katoh

Sanao Katoh

Mamoru Koike

An information retrieval apparatus includes a display section for displaying a first image; an enlargement section for continuously enlarging the first image displayed by the display section in response to an instruction of the user; and a determination section for determining that a magnification ratio of the first image enlarged by the enlargement section has reached a prescribed value. When the magnification ratio is determined to have reached the prescribed value, the display section displays at least one second image at a position related to the first image. When the first image is still enlarged by the enlargement section, the enlargement section enlarges the at least one second image at a magnification ratio equal to the magnification ratio used for enlarging the first image.

Information retrieval apparatus and method

The information search apparatus of the invention includes: a memory for storing character information therein, a display tablet having a function of displaying at least one character information and a function of inputting data, a detecting section for detecting a position at which an input pen has come into contact with the display tablet, and a control section for performing a control such that a function cursor, used for searching for arbitrary character information through the character information, is displayed at the detected position. In the information search apparatus, the control section extracts a plurality of character information from the character information for searching for the arbitrary character information through the character information.

Information search apparatus and information search control method

An image processing device for controlling data transfer includes an image scanner, an image printer, a facsimile control unit, bus lines for data transfer, a bidirectional parallel interface unit, and a main CPU in a housing. The device is connected to an external data processing device through the parallel interface unit. In addition to the functions which are obtained independent from the external data processing device, the image processing device realizes various kinds of functions by controlling the image scanner, the image printer facsimile control unit and the interface unit by the main CPU in response to commands from the data processing device. As a result, various kinds of image processing functions are carried out.

Image processing device of multifunctional type

A pocketbook type electronic apparatus includes a pocketbook which comprises inner and outer covers between which is contained an electronic apparatus. When the covers are in a closed position, operation of said electronic apparatus is nevertheless possible. The covers are provided with transparent sections corresponding to the positions of the operating keys, display apparatus and solar cell of the electronic apparatus. Also disclosed is a pocketbook type electronic apparatus wherein the body of the electronic apparatus comprises one of the covers wherein the operating surface of the electronic apparatus is positioned on the outside of such cover.

Pocketbook type electronic apparatus

A measuring instrument capable of providing its readouts of measurements of a physical quantity such as voltage, current or resistance includes voice synthesizer circuitry which may be realized by the use of a large scale integrated circuit (LSI) chip. A mode selector switch is provided for selection of an audible indication mode and a visual indication mode.

Digital volt-ohm meter with audible synthesis of measured values

A portable electronic language interpreter includes an alphabetical keyboard for entering a particular Japanese word therein using a system of alphabetized Japanese. A retrieval circuit is responsive to the alphabetical keyboard for causing access of a memory containing a plurality of translated English words equivalent to a plurality of Japanese words. A decoder is provided for converting the alphabetized Japanese word into a word in the Japanese 'Katakana' language equivalent thereto. A voice synthesizer is provided which generates an audible pronunciation of the input Japanese word. A display is connected to the alphabetical keyboard and the retrieval circuit and decoder for displaying the alphabetized Japanese word, the word represented in the Japanese 'Katakana' language, and the translated English word. In a specific form of the present invention, the memory contains at least one pair of translated English words both having a meaning identical to the input Japanese word. In another specific form of the present invention, a phonetic-symbol keyboard may be provided for entering a sequence of phonetic symbols indicating an English word.

Alphabetizing Japanese words in a portable electronic language

An electronic dictionary and language interpreter includes an input keyboard actuated for entering a pair of a new word or words and a translated word or words corresponding thereto, a read/write memory for memorizing the pair of the word or words and the translated word or words, a read-only memory fixedly containing a plurality of pairs of a word/words and a translated word/words, and an access circuit operated for addressing the read/write memory and the read-only memory to cause retrieval of any desired pair of a word and a translation word or words among the new word or words and the translated word or words, and the plurality of pairs of the word/words and the translated word/words. Preferably, there is further provided a word cancellation circuit useful in permitting the removal of the pair of the new word or words and the translated word or words from the read/write memory. A different new pair of a new word or words and a translated word or words may replace the old pair of the word or words and the translated word or words in the read/write memory when the old pair has been applied from the input keyboard to the read/write memory.

Electronic language interpreter with faculties for memorizing and

A word information storage device is adapted to retrieve symbols for explaining the context of literal forms of translated words in a second language corresponding to a specific word in a first language. The symbols are preliminarily stored in a memory such as ROM together with the relevant literal forms of translated words. The word information storage device causes retrieval of the symbols, and the literal forms of the translated words corresponding to the specific word entered. The word information storage device is further adapted to selectively function as an electronic calculator. A keyboard is provided to be operated as an alphabetical keyboard in a word information searching mode and as a numeral keyboard in an electronic calculator mode. A display screen is provided for simultaneously displaying a specific word in a first language, a plurality of literal forms of translated words in a second language corresponding to the specific word and the respective symbols explaining the context of the literal forms of the translated words.

Electronic dictionary and language interpreter of searching and

A portable word information storage device comprises an input device for entering a specific word or words in a first language, a translator for producing a translated word or words equivalent to the specific word or words, and a voice synthesizer for developing pronunciation of the specific word or words in the first language. The pronunciation of the specific word or words can be repeated in response to an actuation of a repeat key switch. The pronunciation is generated in the same form as one reads it and, otherwise, of spelling or alphabetizing it.

Electronic dictionary and language interpreter with faculties of

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 second language equivalent to the first word or words, wherein the improvement comprises a marking circuit for marking at least one selected data item of a plurality of data items each representing the second word or words to differentiate each selected data item from other data items in the second language, and an output circuit responsive to a command from the input device for outputting only the at least one selected data item which is marked by the marking circuit.

Electronic translator for marking words or sentences

An electronic translator is capable of preparing sentences on the basis of old sentences stored in a memory and different voice data for the new sentences are outputted, the intonations depending on the position of one or more changeable words in the new sentences and the syntax of the new sentence. A voice memory is provided for sorting different voice data for the one or more words depending on the position of the one or more words in the new sentences and the syntax of the new sentences. The new sentences are voice synthesized using the different voice data to provide audible outputs having different intonations.

Intonation-varying audio output device in electronic translator

A musical instrument comprises an input circuit for entering pitch information and duration information of a note, a counting circuit for counting the time when the input means continues to be actuated in order to fix the duration information, a memory circuit for storing the pitch information and the duration information, and an output circuit for actuating the memory circuit so as to develop the pitch information and the length information.

Programmable musical instrument

Disclosed is an electronic musical instrument with musical information input keys for producing musical information. A plurality of keys are provided for generating musical information of musical notes to introduce musical tones and pitches of the musical notes into the electronic musical instrument. A memory is included within the electronic musical instrument for sequentially memorizing the musical information. A musical generator is provided for sequentially reading out the stored musical information and providing an audio music in response to the stored musical information. The electronic musical instrument may function as an attendant feature of a conventional electronic calculator and/or an electronic timepiece. In a combined electronic musical instrument and calculator, the audio music can be utilized for announcing alarm conditions such as error, premature actuations of keys, overflow, voltage drop in power supply, etc. The audio music can further be used to alarm when a predetermined time has just run in the combined electronic musical instrument and a timepiece.

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Kashihara, Japan

Akira Tanimoto