Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Shintaro Hashimoto

Shigenobu Yanagiuchi

Isamu Washizuka

Masafumi Morimoto

Tosaku Nakanishi

Akira Tanimoto

Hiroshi Tsuda

Kunio Yoshida

Hideo Yoshida

Sadakatsu Hashimoto

Sigeaki Masuzawa

Akitaka Morita

Hisao Morinaga

Yuuichi Sato

Shigeki Komaki

Mitsuhiro Saiji

Yukihiro Inoue

Tetsuo Iwase

Satoshi Teramura

Masaru Kakumae

Kunihiro Kobayashi

Masahiro Nakano

Isao Fujisawa

Akihiko Kunikane

Tomohiro Inoue

Yukihiro Yoshida

Kosuke Nishimura

Toshio Isoe

Toshio Nishimura

Toshio Yamagishi

Yutaka Ikemoto

Mitsuo Ishii

Hirotoshi Matsui

Shinya Shibata

Yoshiyuki Fujikawa

Masuaki Morino

Hisao Kunita

Hirohide Nakagawa

Hiroshi Miyazaki

Yoshio Takeda

Yasuhiro Kotani

Susumu Maetani

Yoshitomo Kitanishi

Junji Aoki

Hidehiko Yamamoto

Saburo Katsui

Mitsuo Tada

Shizuka Hiraike

Shinya Sibata

A paging device with a message display function enables a person who possesses the paging device to register plural calling numbers including an area code in a memory section by operating an attached input section. The paging device is arranged such that upon receiving a calling number, a calling number corresponding to the received calling number is searched in last-to-first sequential character order, from a calling number directory registered in the memory section, and the calling number including the area code is displayed on a display section. In this way, even when a calling person transmits the calling number without the area code, the calling number including the area code which is registered beforehand is displayed on the display section of the paging device.

Paging device having last-to-first sequential character memory search

A dot matrix type liquid crystal display panel is used with a central processor unit for displaying a message longer than the capacity of the display panel. The beginning portion of the message of a length equal to the capacity of the display panel is first displayed at one time and held on the display panel for a limited length of time facilitating the viewers' recognition of the meaning of the message. When the repeated display of the message is desired, the display state where the end of the message is in alignment with the last digit position of the display panel is held for a given length of time. The first and final holdings of the message results in enhancing legibility of the display contents on the panel.

Running character display

An information retrieval system adapted for an electronic dictionary comprises, an input device actuated for entering an entered word, a memory circuit adapted for storing a word equivalent to the entered word and the number of a track related to the word, a video disk for recording information related to the word, the information being random accessed, and an access circuit responsive to the number of the track specified by the memory circuit for accessing the video disk to access the information from the video disk.

Electronic dictionary using a video disk in an information retrieval

An electrode pattern for a liquid crystal display comprises an electrode pattern having at least one dummy scan and/or signal electrode at a region other than a display pattern having true scan electrodes and true signal electrodes for displaying a specific display indicia. A circuit is provided for applying an OFF voltage to the dummy scan and/or signal electrode, the OFF voltage making this dummy electrode erased. The dummy electrodes are positioned and spaced in a manner identical to the true electrodes to simulate the overall appearance of the true electrode display region.

Electrode pattern for a liquid crystal display

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 synthetic-speech calculator includes a calculating circuit inclusive of a plurality of memory locations to allow successive or chain calculations by some calculations equations and calculating numerical data, and voice synthesizer for providing pronunciation of selected calculating information. The calculator further comprises a first circuit for loading the some calculation equations and the calculating numerical data to the selected memory locations, a second circuit for indicating or pronouncing the some calculation equations and the calculating numerical data which have been utilized for the calculation and stored in the memory locations, and a third circuit for repeating the calculation by the some calculation equations and the calculating numerical data all stored in the memory locations.

Playback operation circuit in synthetic-speech calculator

Repeated announcements by a talking timepiece are selectable in two modes: predetermined intervals selected by a selector switch, or arbitrary intervals selected by a keyboard.

Speech synthesizer output device

A dot matrix display device provides both dot matrix display elements and driver circuit substantially on the same circuit board. Display control signals are serially transmitted to the dot matrix display element driver circuit. Such a configuration enables a display panel containing a large number of dots in fine pitches to be easily connected to its driver circuit.

Dot matrix display with driver circuit on the same plane

An electronic translator is featured in which a particular sentence, phrase or idiom is accessed from a memory utilizing at least two key words. The key words are contained with the particular sentence, phrase or idiom. The translator is adapted to identify that a sentence, phrase or idiom stored in the translator contains one of the key words each time one of the key words is inputted.

Key-word retrieval electronic translator

There is disclosed a one-chip speech synthesizer capable of providing synthesized human voices through a new and effective concept of LSI architecture. The synthesizer may execute all of the steps necessary for processing of sample data and enhances the processing speed through a new memory architecture by constructing the one-word length of a control memory (control ROM) longer than the one-word length of a data memory (data ROM). The synthesizer reproduces audible synthesized sounds merely by an added amplifier outside the one-chip LSI semiconductor device without the need to provide a digital-to-analog converter. The LSI device may be used with an expandable external memory as an extension of the data memory (data ROM) whenever a large number of words are to be processed.

One-chip LSI speech synthesizer

An information retrieval system for an electronic dictionary includes the capability of displaying a selected batch of alphabetically-ordered words containing a word entered by a keyboard, and the definitions thereof on the screen of a television set. The entry word and the associated definition thereof is then automatically highlighted on the screen of the television set.

Word information retrieval system using video storage medium

An electronic translator comprising a first memory for providing signals representing a first word or words in a first language, a second memory for providing signals representing a second word or words in a second language, a first connector selectively occupied by at least one of the first and the second memories, a control device for processing the two types of signals, and carry out operations of the translator, and a second connector selectively occupied by the control device. Preferably, either of the first and the second memories is built into the body of the translator. A second control device may be built into the translator for processing the two types of signals and carrying out operations of the translator, in which case the two control devices are operable in the alternative to the exclusion of each other.

Electronic translator having removable data memory and controller both

An electronic translator is characterized in that a new translated sentence is prepared by using at least one word contained in a sentence key inputted those cases where no word corresponding to the word is stored in a memory for storing a plurality of translated words. The translator comprises an input circuit for inputting the sentence, an access circuit for accessing a most equivalent translated sentence, and a detection circuit for detecting whether all of the words contained in the sentence are stored in memory and for inserting such unstored words directly into the translated sentence.

Electronic sentence translator

An electronic translator has the capability of controlling an access circuit so as to retrieve words or sentences stored in a memory in a forward direction or a backward direction, in order that an access time to the words or sentences is reduced.

Electronic translator which accesses the memory in either a forward or

An electronic translator is featured where a particular sentence is accessed from a memory depending on at least one key word entered. The key word is contained in the particular sentence. A subject category may be selected from a plurality of subject categories and only sentences within the selected category may be searched. The translator comprises an input circuit for entering the key word, and subject category an access means for accessing the key word from the subject category within memory so as to specify and access the sentence, and a detection circuit for detecting whether the key word is accessed from the subject category within memory.

Electronic translator for specifying a sentence with at least one key

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Ikoma, Japan

Shintaro Hashimoto