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Electronic dictionary and language interpreter with faculties of examining a full-length word based on a partial word entered and of displaying the total word and a translation corresponding thereto

  • US 4,339,806 A
  • Filed: 11/15/1979
  • Issued: 07/13/1982
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/20/1978
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A portable word information storage apparatus comprising:

  • means for entering a partial word in a specific language, the partial word containing at least one character and at least one blank character;

    first means for storing a plurality of full-length words in the same specific language;

    first means for addressing the storing means so as to search the plurality of full-length words;

    means responsive to the entering means and the storing means for determining a coincidence between the partial word entered by said entering means and corresponding letters of each of the plurality of full-length words stored in the storing means, said means for determining producing a coincidence signal upon detection of each said coincidence;

    second means for storing a plurality of translations corresponding to the plurality of full-length words stored in the first storing means;

    first means responsive to the coincidence signals produced by determining means for indicating the coincident full-length word on a first display;

    second means responsive to the determining means for addressing the second storing means so as to recall each of the plurality of translations corresponding to a coincident full-length word; and

    second means responsive to the second addressing means for indicating the translation corresponding to the coincident full-length word in a second display.

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