GB2008818A - Electronic dictionary with plug-in module intelligence - Google Patents

Electronic dictionary with plug-in module intelligence

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GB2008818A
GB2008818A GB7841112A GB7841112A GB2008818A GB 2008818 A GB2008818 A GB 2008818A GB 7841112 A GB7841112 A GB 7841112A GB 7841112 A GB7841112 A GB 7841112A GB 2008818 A GB2008818 A GB 2008818A
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microcomputer
stored
keyboard
sequence
plug
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GB7841112A
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GB2008818B (en
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M Levy
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Lexicon Corp
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Lexicon Corp
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Priority claimed from US05/848,527 external-priority patent/US4158236A/en
Priority claimed from US05/941,050 external-priority patent/US4218760A/en
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Publication of GB2008818B publication Critical patent/GB2008818B/en
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F40/00—Handling natural language data
    • G06F40/20—Natural language analysis
    • G06F40/237—Lexical tools
    • G06F40/242—Dictionaries
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F40/00—Handling natural language data
    • G06F40/40—Processing or translation of natural language
    • G06F40/58—Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation

Abstract

A portable electronic dictionary in a hand-held housing has a plurality of alpha-numeric displays and a keyboard. A plug-in module 300 contains a microcomputer 238 and a ROM 320 which stores a plurality of pairs of sequences of alpha-numeric characters and is searched by a central processing unit in the microcomputer under instructions stored as firmware in another ROM 232 forming part of the microcomputer. One sequence of each stored pair is compared with a sequence which is entered into the keyboard and stored in a RAM 234 also forming part of the microcomputer until a match is found. After one or more sequences have been entered into the keyboard and locations of matching pairs are stored in the microcomputer RAM, the pairs of stored sequences can be rolled across the display. Either sequence of each pair can be compared with a sequence entered into the keyboard to enable translations to be performed, e.g. between English and Spanish and vice versa. The plug-in module 300 may be replaced to deal with different languages. <IMAGE>
GB7841112A 1977-11-03 1978-10-18 Electronic dictionary with plug-in module intelligence Expired GB2008818B (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US05/848,527 US4158236A (en) 1976-09-13 1977-11-03 Electronic dictionary and language interpreter
US05/941,050 US4218760A (en) 1976-09-13 1978-09-11 Electronic dictionary with plug-in module intelligence

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GB2008818A true GB2008818A (en) 1979-06-06
GB2008818B GB2008818B (en) 1982-03-31

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JP (1) JPS54109352A (en)
AU (1) AU4133978A (en)
BR (1) BR7807237A (en)
DE (1) DE2847615A1 (en)
ES (1) ES475168A1 (en)
FR (1) FR2408177A1 (en)
GB (1) GB2008818B (en)
GR (1) GR67259B (en)
IT (1) IT1192588B (en)
NL (1) NL7810934A (en)
SE (1) SE7811367L (en)

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4481607A (en) * 1980-12-25 1984-11-06 Casio Computer Co., Ltd. Electronic dictionary
GB2121574A (en) * 1982-05-17 1983-12-21 Fuji Xerox Co Ltd Sentence displaying device
GB2170371A (en) * 1984-12-21 1986-07-30 Mitsumi Electric Co Ltd Superimposing apparatus
GB2179772A (en) * 1985-07-26 1987-03-11 Sharp Kk Word processing apparatus
GB2188176A (en) * 1986-03-21 1987-09-23 Dr Alireza Ghazi Hessami A simple information display device (SIDD)

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NL7810934A (en) 1979-05-07
FR2408177A1 (en) 1979-06-01
JPS54109352A (en) 1979-08-27
ES475168A1 (en) 1979-05-16
IT7829438A0 (en) 1978-11-03
DE2847615A1 (en) 1979-05-10
GB2008818B (en) 1982-03-31
SE7811367L (en) 1979-05-04
GR67259B (en) 1981-06-26
BR7807237A (en) 1979-05-15
AU4133978A (en) 1979-05-17
IT1192588B (en) 1988-04-20

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