Electronic translator
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsIkuo Kanou, Shigenobu Yanagiuchi, Takuro Omori
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Abstract
An electronic translator is characterized in that similarity detection circuit is provided for detecting similarity between letters within a first word and those within a second word in the same language as the first word, with the object of locating a second word stored in memory having letters which are similar to the letters of the first word. In another form of the present invention, the first word is entered containing at least one Arabic numeral to obtain a translated word in a different language. For this purpose, the memory has a plurality of translated words containing the at least one Arabic numeral.
Claims6
An electronic language interpreter device wherein a first word represented in a first language is entered to obtain a translated word in a second language equivalent to the first word, comprising:
- input means for entering the first word;
- memory means for storing a plurality of second words in the first language;
- access means responsive to the first word entered by said input means for addressing said memory means for retrieving the second words;
- similarity detection means responsive to said access means for detecting similarity between letters of the first word and letters of the second words;
- means responsive to said similarity detection means for displaying a translated word corresponding to a determined one of the second words when the determined second word is the same as the first word;
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- means responsive to said similarity detection means for displaying a selected one of the second words which is most similar to the first word when none of the second words are the same as the first word.
An electronic language interpreter device wherein a first word represented in a first language is entered to obtain a translated word represented in a second language equivalent to the first word, comprising:
- input means for entering the first word;
- memory means provided for storing a plurality of second words in the first language;
- access means responsive to the first word entered by said input means for addressing said memory means for retrieving the second words;
- means for determining if any second word is the same as the first word;
- means for displaying a translated word equivalent to a second word determined to be the same as the first word;
- said input means comprising at least one Arabic numeral key for entering a first word containing at least one Arabic numeral;
- said memory means storing a plurality of second words having the at least one Arabic numeral at particular addresses;
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- said access means being responsive to said entered Arabic numeral for addressing said memory means at said particular addresses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.