Weather forecasting apparatus
First Claim
1. Apparatus for producing weather forecast information in response to supplied information, said apparatus comprisinga housing dimensioned so that it can be held in the hand,keyboard means disposed in said housing and includinga first plurality of manually operable keys upon which current weather information may be entered by operation of keys appropriately designated and representing different types of weather,a second plurality of manually operable keys upon which current wind speed information may be entered by operation of keys appropriately designated and representing different wind speeds,a third plurality of manually operable keys upon which current wind direction information may be entered by operation of keys appropriately designated and representing different wind directions,a fourth plurality of manually operable keys upon which current season of the year information may be entered by operation of keys appropriately designated and representing diffferent seasons of the year,first address means responsive to the operation of said first plurality of keys for producing a first partial address,second address means responsive to the operation of said second plurality of keys for producing a second partial address,third address means responsive to the operation of said third plurality of keys for producing a third partial address,fourth address means responsive to the operation of said fourth plurality of keys for producing a fourth partial address,display means carried by the housing for producing a visual display of weather forecast information in response to receipt of weather forecast data,read only memory means having a plurality of memory locations for storing weather forecast data and for supplying weather forecast data to said display means from memory locations each specified by an input address, andmeans for combining the partial addresses to produce an input address for application to said read only memory to identify a location in the memory from which weather forecast data is to be read.
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Abstract
Weather forecasting apparatus for producing a visual indication of a weather forecast in response to supplied information, with such supplied information including current weather conditions, current wind speed and wind direction, geographical region information, and season of the year information. The apparatus includes a keyboard upon which such information may be entered, encoders for encoding the information, a display section for lighting one of a plurality of lamps to indicate forecasted weather, and read only memory elements having a plurality of memory locations for storing weather forecast data and for supplying the weather forecast data to the display section from memory locations specified by the coded data. Temperature and relative humidity detecting circuitry may also be included in the apparatus for providing a visual indication of the current temperature and current relative humidity.
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9 Claims
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1. Apparatus for producing weather forecast information in response to supplied information, said apparatus comprising
a housing dimensioned so that it can be held in the hand, keyboard means disposed in said housing and including a first plurality of manually operable keys upon which current weather information may be entered by operation of keys appropriately designated and representing different types of weather, a second plurality of manually operable keys upon which current wind speed information may be entered by operation of keys appropriately designated and representing different wind speeds, a third plurality of manually operable keys upon which current wind direction information may be entered by operation of keys appropriately designated and representing different wind directions, a fourth plurality of manually operable keys upon which current season of the year information may be entered by operation of keys appropriately designated and representing diffferent seasons of the year, first address means responsive to the operation of said first plurality of keys for producing a first partial address, second address means responsive to the operation of said second plurality of keys for producing a second partial address, third address means responsive to the operation of said third plurality of keys for producing a third partial address, fourth address means responsive to the operation of said fourth plurality of keys for producing a fourth partial address, display means carried by the housing for producing a visual display of weather forecast information in response to receipt of weather forecast data, read only memory means having a plurality of memory locations for storing weather forecast data and for supplying weather forecast data to said display means from memory locations each specified by an input address, and means for combining the partial addresses to produce an input address for application to said read only memory to identify a location in the memory from which weather forecast data is to be read.
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9. A method for producing weather forecast information comprising
storing weather forecast data in a read only memory, providing a keyboard means having a first, second, third and fourth plurality of keys, operating a first plurality of keys appropriately designated and representing different types of weather to thereby specify current weather information, operating a second plurality of keys appropriately designated and representing different wind speeds to thereby specify the current wind speed, operating a third plurality of keys appropriately designated and representing different wind direction information to thereby specify the current wind direction, operating a fourth plurality of keys appropriately designated and representing different seasons of the year to thereby specify the current season of the year, producing a first partial address in response to the operation of said first plurality of keys, producing a second partial address in response to operation of said second plurality of keys, producing a third partial address in response to operation of said third plurality of keys, producing a fourth partial address in response to operation of said fourth plurality of keys, combining said first, second, third and fourth partial addresses to produce an input address which indentifies a location in the read only memory, applying the input address to the read only memory to read therefrom the weather forecast data stored in the location identified by the input address, and producing a visual display of weather forecast information in response to the reading of the weather forecast data.
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