Patent Document ID: 4623985
Application ID: 06253663

Base Claim:
1. An electronic translator wherein a first word or words represented in a first language are entered to obtain a second word or words represented in a second language equivalent to the first word or words, comprising: input means for entering the first word or words; first electronic read only memory means for storing a plurality of the first words; second electronic read only memory means for storing a plurality of the second words; access means responsive to said input means for addressing the first memory means for retrieving the input first word or words and for addressing the second memory means for retrieving the second word or words equivalent to the input first word or words; detection means responsive to said access means for detecting that no second word or words in said second memory means corresponds to a particular input first word or words; and holding means responsive to the detection means for holding said particular first word or words without translation or alteration even after addressing said first memory means by said access means.

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Claim 5:
5. The electronic translator of claim 1 further comprising: display means, responsive to said input means, for displaying said first word or words, said display means being further responsive to said access means for subsequently displaying said retrieved equivalent second word or words, said display means being further responsive to said holding means for displaying said particular first word or words in the form originally introduced by said input means.