International Morse Code number generator

An apparatus for generating an encoded selected number having a plurality of significant digits comprising:

• means for serially generating an encoded most significant digit of the number and subsequently serially generating encoded progressively lesser significant digits of the number;
• said serial generating means including a selectively addressable memory having a plurality of exclusively addressable segments each containing an encoded digit, each of said segments having a plurality of individually addressable bit locations;
• means for sequentially addressing those memory segments which correspond to the digits of the number;
• means for sequentially addressing the bit locations of the addressed memory segment, and means responsive to the generation of an encoded digit for resetting said bit location address means and for advancing said segment address means to the address of a next lesser significant digit of the selected number whereby the selected number is translated into a serially generated code;
• means related to each of said segments for providing a digit completion signal indicating the completion of the generation of the digits contained in the corresponding memory segment;
• each of said memory segments generates an inter-digit code space prior to the generation of the digit encoded therein and wherein one of said segments contains an encoded zero digit;
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• means related to said memory segment containing an encoded zero digit for providing a zero delete signal generated during the space code generated by said zero digit memory segment thereby deleting the generation of an encoded zero digit by said zero digit memory segment.

An apparatus for generating an encoded selected number having a plurality of significant digits comprising:

• means for serially generating the encoded most significant digit of the number and subsequentially serially generating the encoded progressively lesser significant digits of the number;
• means for deleting the serial generation of encoded leading zero digits preceding the most significant non-zero digit in the number;
• said serial generating means includes a memory having a plurality of segments with at least one segment containing each encoded digit and at least one of said segments contains a continuous space code;
• means for sequentially selecting those memory segments which correspond to the digits of the selected number;
• means responsive to the selection of a memory segment other than zero digit segment for disabling said zero digit deleting means whereby the encoded equivalent of the selected number is translated into a serially generated code with leading zero digits being deleted;
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• means for selectively addressing said space code segment when the first significant digit of the number is zero thereby generating one less significant digit than the total number of digits in the selected number.

An apparatus for generating an encoded selected number having a plurality of significant digits comprising:

• means for serially generating the encoded most significant digit of the number and subsequentially serially generating the encoded progressively lesser significant digits of the number;
• means for deleting the serial generating of encoded leading zero digits preceding the most significant non-zero digit in the number;
• said serial generating means includes a memory having a plurality of segments with at least one segment containing each encoded digit and each segment includes a plurality of bit locations;
• means for sequentially selecting those memory segments which correspond to the digits of the selected number;
• means responsive to the selection of a memory segment other than the zero digit segment for disabling said zero digit deleting means thereby the encoded equivalent of the selected number is translated into a serially generated code with leading zero digits being deleted;
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• a counter for sequentially addressing the bit locations of a selected memory segment, said zero delete signal disabling means being responsive to the address of said bit location counter.

An apparatus for generating an encoded selected number having a plurality of significant digits comprising:

• means for serially generating a Morse encoded significant digit of the selected number and subsequentially serially generating Morse encoded progressively lesser significant digits of the number said serial generating means including a selectively addressable memory having a plurality of exclusively addressable segments each having a plurality of individually addressable bit locations, each of said segments containing a complete Morse encoded digit;
• means for sequentially addressing those memory segments which correspond to the digits of the selected number;
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• selectively operable means for abbreviating the Morse code equivalent of the digit contained in at least one of said memory segments to that the segment will generate an abbreviated digit when addressed.