Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Chieji Katoh

Masayuki Konishi

Isamu Haneda

Shoichi Kawai

Naoki Shiraishi

Toshiaki Fujiwara

Masataka Nakasuji

Shigeru Shindoh

Yoshihiro Shintaku

Kenichi Inui

Katsunori Okuda

If an unnecessary sentence is included in data tabulated at a display, a head address is prepared in a memory region for storing a new data group. A counter m indicating a function and a counter n indicating a data number corresponding to the function are initialized. A determination whether or not the data (Y(m)) is necessary is made for every function (X(m, n)), and the only necessary data is stored in the memory. This operation is performed to check four functions and 100 pieces of data for each of the four functions. When the operation is completed, the resultant data is stored as a set of data in the memory.

Data processor for retrieving sentence data corresponding to an input

An information display apparatus having an input unit for entering a variety of data and processing requests, a processing unit, and a display unit for displaying input data and processing results is provided. The display unit displays two or more data groups in separate display areas, and provides scrolling functions to individually scroll each display area in predetermined directions as designated by the input unit. The processing unit includes an automatic power-off function for automatically turning off power to the apparatus if it remains non-operated for a predetermined time period. The processing unit also includes a continuous search function for continuously searching data in a predetermined order, and a search stop device that automatically stops a continuous search after a predetermined amount of search or search time, thereby enabling the automatic power-off function.

Information display apparatus and method of scrolling displayed data

A time display device comprising: a key input unit; a display unit; a clock unit for timing the standard time; a city name memory unit storing city names of three figures; a time difference memory unit storing the time differences of individual cities; a city name call unit for displaying the city names in a listed form in the display unit; a city name selection unit for selecting one city name from those listed; a city time calculation unit for determining the time of the selected city name by calculations of the standard time and the time difference and for outputting the determined time to the display unit; and city name rearrangement unit for enabling a city name of high selection frequency to be preferentially called by storing the selected city name in the head of the city name memory unit.

Time display device

Growing community of inventors

Nara-ken, Japan

Chieji Katoh