Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Keizo Saito

Hiroko Murai

Hiroyuki Nagasawa

Katsunori Takeda

Yasushi Yamamoto

Kazuhiko Matsuo

Masanobu Watanabe

Jun Inoue

An electronic word processor comprises a memory storing print data, a print wheel, and a check circuit for checking whether the type of the print wheel is suitable for printing out the print data. In the second form, the processor may store word data accompanied with hyphenate data in a selected group of words. In the third form, the processor may comprise a message memory for storing message sentences, and a modification circuit for modifying the message data. In the fourth form, the processor may comprise a control circuit featured in that one or more specific letters can be retrieved and replaced by one or more new letters in the unit of chapter.

Intelligent electronic word processor with plural print wheels and

A word processor with a spelling correction function. A spelling error can result from for example, improperly inputted characters or misread characters. When the improperly input or misread characters are not found, for example in a main dictionary or a user's dictionary of the word processor, characters from a probability table are selected to replace the improper characters which have been caused by the spelling errors. The probability tables can be formed by determining from proper inputting into the word processor the highest frequency of appearance order of two characters. In addition, the probability table can be made by determining the frequency of corrections of an improperly inputted character. When the proper character is added to the improper character which caused the spelling error, the proper character is compared with the main or user dictionary and when it is determined that the character is in the main or user dictionary the character sting is outputted as the correct word from an output portion of the word processor.

European language processing machine with a spelling correction function

A word processor may be used in a plurality of languages such as Japanese and English. The word processor has a function of replacing a particular symbol added with an editing symbol with a described character in automatic editing text. The capability of adding of the preferred edit data (edit symbol) to a series of particular symbols is done by arranging newly inputted data in positions of the particular symbols so that the desired edit can be performed. Where a number of newly inputted characters is smaller than that of the particular symbols, they are replaced with space codes or they are deleted. This prevents unnecessary symbols or spaces from remaining in a simplified format.

Word processing apparatus

A word processor has capabilities for dividing a region corresponding to one page into a plurality of blocks, for specifying a sentence or sentences to be placed into each of the blocks, for specifying priority sequence among these blocks or among the specified sentences, and outputting an image. It may also have additional capabilities for specifying a certain position in a sentence and assigning a position name thereto, specifying a certain region of a sentence and assigning a region name thereto, and carrying out a process regarding the position or the region by using its position name or region name.

Word processor with column layout function

A character processor for reading a source character from a character generator and outputting it to an output unit after editing. It is provided with a dot pattern correcting function, which includes generating a magnified thick character by magnifying the read souce character pattern. It further includes generating a magnified character contour outline by magnifying the read source character pattern in parallel with the magnified thick character generation, shifting the magnified blanked character in predetermined directions, synthesizing the magnified thick character and the shifted magnified blanked character, removing a domain surrounded by a contour of the magnified blanked character from the magnified thick character, thereby generating a magnified blanked character with a thick contour.

Character processor provided with dot pattern correcting function

A character processing system with a spelling check function including: an input device; a storage for storing character information; a display for displaying the character information or the like; a control unit for storing the character information input from the input device in the storage and also for outputting the character information on the display; a condensed dictionary storage provided with a dictionary proper composed of plural blocks wherein the first word of a block is stored in the form of a noncondensed character string wherein the second and subsequent words are stored in condensed relative code whereby words not transformable into condensed relative code are replaced with modified Huffman codes and provided with and an index section for the dictionary proper which includes offsets and block numbers indicative of plural blocks and spelling check means for performing a retrieval of the keyword from with the condensed dictionary storage means, upon reception of spelling check instructions input from the input means.

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Souraku, Japan

Keizo Saito