Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Intec Inc.

Xing Inc.

Seiko Ishikawa

Motokazu Yoshimura

Tsuyoshi Nishibu

Yasuhiro Funahashi

Yoshihiko Hibino

Kazunori Ikami

Masaru Yasuda

Takayoshi Urano

Tatsuo Matsuda

Hiroshi Matsuhashi

Naomi Moriguchi

Kazuhiro Fujii

Disclosed is an improved fire alarm system for an information providing system having a plurality of terminal devices for providing information to a plurality of operators, respectively. The fire alarm system is provided with a fire detecting sensors. If a fire is detected, a predetermined signal is transmitted to a controller. The controller controls each of the plurality of terminal devices to indicate an alarm information to the operator when the predetermined signal is received.

Fire alarm system

An electronic dictionary comprising an input device, a display, a dictionary memory, a searching device, and an indicator device. The memory consists of plural divisions of equal storage capacity and stores multiple sets of word data representative of different words in an alphabetical order. Each set of word data is stored in one of the plural divisions such that each of the divisions has at its end a waste portion storing no part of any of the multiple sets of word data, if the number of characters of the first set of word data stored in the following division is larger than the number of characters which may be stored in the waste portion. In response to input data entered through the input device, the display displays the input data, and the searching device finds, in a binary search process, one of the plural divisions of the memory which is assigned to store the set of word data representative of the input data, and scans the found division to search the set of word data representative of the input data. The indicator device indicates whether the set of word data representative of the input data has been found or not.

Electronic dictionary

An electronic dictionary in which a plurality of word data each representing an English word are stored in a predetermined order and each word data comprises a data division and an additional division. Each data division includes a combination of one or more parts among a first compressed part, a second compressed part and a third compressed part; the first compressed part being a code indicating the number of first characters that are common between an English word represented by the corresponding word data and the English word whose corresponding word data is stored just before the word data in the electronic dictionary; the second compressed part being a code indicating a suffix which appears in English words, and the third compressed part being a sequence of codes each representing each alphanumerical character not represented by a first or second part code. Each additional division includes a code for identifying the combination of the compressed parts of each word data; and a delimiter division which includes a delimiter code for indicating the ending place of the word data.

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Aichi-ken, Japan

Seiko Ishikawa