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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:
Dec. 15, 1992
Filed:
Feb. 21, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358403 ; 382 61 ; 395118 ; 395156 ; 364D / ; 36494821 ; 3649634 ; 364963 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is an electronic information retrieval apparatus in the apparatus when a retrieval instruction is supplied to the electronic information retrieval apparatus, broad sort names are read from storage (8) and are displayed on a CRT display. Within the displayed sort names, a desired one is designated by a keyboard (1), so that detailed sort names corresponding to the designated sort name are read from the storage (8) and are displayed on the CRT display (2). When an object detailed sort name is displayed and selected by the keyboard (1), corresponding picture information is displayed on the CRT display (2). This allows the user to efficiently retrieve stored information.