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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 14, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364419 ; 235472 ; 382 59 ;
Abstract
A portable electronic dictionary capable of translating an objective word in a source language into an equivalent in a target language. A read unit provided in a portion of a case is surrounded by transparent walls. In reading the objective word, the electronic dictionary is held stationary on the document with the read unit located on the objective word, the pushbutton of a start switch is depressed to actuate an optical character scanning head for scanning, and then the optical character scanning head moves within the read unit to scan the characters of the objective word.