Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiro Nose

Nobuhiro Inoue

Katsunari Sasaki

Toshihiko Nannichi

Kazuhiro Kisaichi

Jitsu Iwaki

John Riley

Yukio Tsuda

Akira Nakano

Masayoshi Aihara

Yoshio Hatate

Texts including required message are entered with a small number of keys such as those of a cellular telephone. In this case, a conversion table is unnecessary and the number of key operations is reduced. The number of input characters or input character strings composed by sequentially selecting one from a plurality of alphabets distributed to sequentially entered keys is relevant to the number of operation keys (N) raised to the number of distributed character (M) power (&equals;NM) including meaningless characters or character strings and, with respect to these, character conversion is executed by referring to a dictionary means, through the operation of the conversion/next candidate key. The dictionary means stores numeric strings and words of meaningful characters or character strings among the said characters and character strings.

Character input device and method

The present invention concerns a coordinate input device for entering coordinate values by superposing on a display device (LCD or CRT). The device is comprised of a coordinate input section wherein a first conductive sheet for x-coordinate detection provided with electrodes on a pair of end edges and a second conductive sheet for y-coordinate detection provided with electrodes on a pair of end edges are superposed through a spacer so that respective electrodes intersect orthogonally. In a low power consumption mode of operation; a predetermined voltage is applied between one of the electrodes of the first conductive sheet and one of electrodes of the second conductive sheet for detecting a variation of the voltage. When the voltage varies the device switches, a predetermined voltage is applied between one electrode x1 of the first conductive sheet and one electrode y2 of the second conductive sheet. When the voltage does not vary, no current flows between the pair of electrodes x1, x2 (or y1, y2) of either of the first conductive sheet or the second conductive sheet, therefore the low power consumption is maintained.

Coordinate input device

Texts including required message are entered with a small number of keys such as those of a cellular telephone. In this case, a conversion table is unnecessary and the number of key operations is reduced. The number of input characters or input character strings composed by sequentially selecting one from a plurality of alphabets distributed to sequentially entered keys is relevant to the number of operation keys (N) raised to the number of distributed character (M) power (=NM) including meaningless characters or character strings and, with respect to these, character conversion is executed by referring to a dictionary means, through the operation of the conversion next candidate key. The dictionary means stores numeric strings and words of meaningful characters or character strings among the said characters and character strings.

Character input terminal device and recording apparatus

A thermal head comprises a plurality of parallelogrammatic resistors for generating heat formed on an insulated substrate made of, such as ceramics or alumina. The resistors are aligned at regular intervals, and one pair of opposite sides of each resistor are connected individually to lead electrodes. These opposite sides are equal to or longer than the other opposite sides, and an acute angle formed between each two intersecting sides is 45.degree. or less. The resistor is heated by various electric currents to record printing dots of various sizes.

Thermal head including at least one paralellogrammatic resistor

A thermal head is used on a thermal transfer recording apparatus which can record a continuous, fine line or curve by recording many dots, by a thermal transfer system, on a recording sheet. The thermal head comprises a one-dimensional array of heat generation element groups each comprised of a plurality of heat generation elements, such as heat generation resistors of, for example, a parallelogram, a diamond or an elliptic configuration, continuously arranged in a direction perpendicular to that in which recording is made on a recording sheet and lead electrodes connected adjacent to each other in predetermined positions, in which the longitudinal sides of the heat generation resistors are made oblique at a predetermined angle.

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Toshiro Nose