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US 4,913,566 AGranted
Spell check device with display
AssigneeBrother Kobyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsToshiyuki Sakai, Yoshio Sugiura, Satoshi Furukawa
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Abstract
Disclosed is a typing device wherein relational data such as correct spelling word may substitute the printed word. When the printed data is substituted by the relational data, the succeeding printed data posterior to said printed data to be substituted is visually represented on a display.
Claims5
A typing device comprises:
- input means for inputting data of characters and/or symbols;
- display means for visually representing the input data;
- print means for printing the input data on a print medium;
- control means for controlling said display means and print means with selection of either a print mode for enabling said print means to print the input data or a display mode for enabling said display means to visually represent the input data, while disabling said print means the data input through said input means being successively printed on said print medium under said print mode while the data being successively represented on said display means under said display mode;
- dictionary memory means for storing spelling information of a multiplicity of words;
- spelling check means for checking the spelling of each input word by retrieving the relational word data in said dictionary memory means;
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- mode changeover means for switching said control means to a display mode in response to detection of any misspelled word by said spelling check means during the operation in print mode.
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