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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:
Aug. 01, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 11, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark Henry Krueger, Fukuoka, JP;
Kevin Daniel Neeson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
WebTV Networks, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707535 ; 707501 ; 707101 ; 707102 ; 707200 ;
Abstract
A Japanese character processing system containing a roman character keyboard containing a plurality of keys arranged in one or more rows. A first set of roman character consonants is provided in one row, a second set of roman character consonants is provided in a second row, and a set of roman character vowels is provided in a third row. The processing system converts a valid consonant-vowel combination into a corresponding Japanese character upon the entry of a valid consonant vowel combination and displays the Japanese character on a display device coupled to the processing system.