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Text processing device for stenographic typing

  • US 4,893,238 A
  • Filed: 02/17/1988
  • Issued: 01/09/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/19/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A text processing device comprising:

  • input means for entering into the text processing device alphabetic information in the form of complete words or as abbreviated words defined by one or more syllabic word parts of given individual complete words of said alphabetic information,a display device for displaying in legible form a text represented by a series of words,a read/write memory for storing words represented by a sequence of letters and having an output coupled to an input of said display device, anda translation device coupled to said input means and to said read/write memory thereby to apply an abbreviated word identified by a sequence of keystrokes to said read/write memory in a complete form by supplementing missing letters, said translation device comprising;

    means for storing a plurality of abbreviated words made up of syllabic word parts corresponding to said syllabic word parts of said abbreviated input words, said plurality of stored abbreviated words made up of syllabic word parts comprising a majority of the words to be processed by the text processing device, and wherein each sequence of letters of an abbreviated word does not occur as a valid word in a standard text,a control device coupled to said input means for detecting a received control signal indicative of the reception of an abbreviated word,means controlled by said control device and responsive to abbreviated words received by said input means and to abbreviated words stored in said storing means for determining coincidence thereof and, upon coincidence, supplementing one or more missing letters between successive letters of said abbreviated words to form a complete word corresponding to said abbreviated word,a storage device controlled by said coincidence determining means for storing said complete word which corresponds to the abbreviated word, andmeans for selectively transferring a complete word in said storage device to said read/write memory.

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