Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Toshiaki Fujiwara

Masataka Nakasuji

Shigeo Yoneda

Yoshiro Kihara

Shigeru Shindoh

Chieji Katoh

Ryuji Miyazaki

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

The information searching apparatus in accordance with the present invention comprises: a memory device having a plurality of banks and containing a plurality of types of information data to be searched, as arranged in block; a table memory device containing, in table, the banks serving as the basis of the information to be searched, the number of changed banks and address data; and a table reading device for reading tabled information from the table memory device. This information searching apparatus is so arranged as to search the target information to be searched by obtaining the base bank information based on the tabled information from the table memory device, and by obtaining the number of changed banks and the address data of the base bank information. Further, this apparatus is arranged such that the user may learn synonyms and antonyms, or the translated terms, the phonetic symbols or the like of index words in dictionary data. Such data may be searched in a short period of time without any complicate operations, thereby to improve the learning efficiency.

Electronic device/dictionary with improved information storage: memory

A rotary encoder having first and second slit disks are disposed between a light emitting diode and a light sensor coaxially in proximity to each other, the two slit disks each having a large number of slits formed radially at equal intervals in a peripheral edge portion of the disks, the first slit disk being connected to and rotated by a rotational shaft, and the second slit disk being rotated by interlocking gears in a direction opposite to that of the first disk.

High resolution rotary encoder having appositely rotating disks

An image reading device includes a light emitting element, a light receiving element, a liquid crystal shutter array, and a circuit for driving the shutter array in a timesharing manner. The light reflected from a document is prevented from passing by the shutter array which is driven in the timesharing manner, so that the light receiving element can receive the light in the timesharing manner.

Image reading device for facsimile system

A manual-scanning image reader which optically reads image such as characters and figures from a written surface by a manual scanning over said written surface, which consists of the following parts; a sensor for detecting the amount of movement of the image reader in the scanning direction as a linear movement sensor, a sensor for detecting the amount of deviation of the image reader in the direction perpendicular to the scanning direction as a deviation sensor and a device for reading in image data synchronously with output signals from the linear movement sensor in order to correct the input image data according to the output signals from the deviation sensor before eventually storing it in memory.

Manual-scanning image reader

A single function key is provided for selectively conducting a fixed amount discount (premium) calculation or a fixed rate (%) discount (premium) calculation in an electronic cash register. A preset system is associated with the discount (premium) calculation system so that the fixed amount discount (premium) calculation mode or the fixed rate discount (premium) calculation mode is preset before initiating the normal registration operation.

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Toshiaki Fujiwara