Apparatus and method for recording characters so as to enable reading thereof in a feed direction of a recording sheet therefor

Apparatus for recording characters so as to enable reading thereof in a feed direction of a recording sheet comprising:

• refresh memory means for storing data on one picture frame to be displayed on a display screen;
• first storage means for storing the data derived from said refresh memory;
• dot-forming means for forming patterns of discrete dots on a recording sheet orthogonally to a feed direction of the recording sheet;
• character-generating means for converting input data thereof into dot-forming data for selectively driving said dot-forming means such that characters developed by said dot-forming means according to the dot-forming data are recorded so as to enable reading thereof in a feed direction of said recording sheet;
• second storage means for storing the above-mentioned converted dot-forming data derived from said character-generating means, selecting means for selecting patterns of discrete dots formed by said dot-forming means according to the dot-forming data derived from said second storage means and according to characters to be displayed on the picture frame and recorded on said recording sheet so as to enable reading thereof in a feed direction of said recording sheet, said first storage means comprising two kinds of storage means comprising one storage means for data derived from said refresh memory and corresponding to each row from among data to be displayed on one picture frame and another storage means for storing data derived from the stored data in said one storage means and corresponding to each column from among data to be displayed on the one picture frame.