Patent Document ID: 4462703
Application ID: 06333336

Base Claim:
1. Apparatus for producing electrical signals corresponding to Chinese characters, said Chinese characters being formed of one or more form-strokes with each individual form-stroke being represented by a unique form-stroke identification element, said apparatus comprising: first memory means for storing information pertaining to a plurality of individual first form-stroke identification elements corresponding to horizontal line, vertical line, sloping line and dot form-strokes respectively corresponding twin form-stroke identification elements, and respectively corresponding subsequent form-stroke identification elements, corresponding ones of the first form-strokes, said twin form-strokes and said subsequent form-strokes having a predetermined relationship with respect to relative dimension and location within a predetermined character zone, whereby said first horizontal line form-strokes begin at the upper left portion of said predetermined character zone and are higher than said horizontal line twin form-strokes, said first vertical line form strokes extending vertically for a distance greater than one-half of a height dimension of said predetermined character zone, while said vertical line twin form-strokes extend vertically for a distance shorter than one-half of said height dimension, said first sloping line form-strokes extending slopingly downwardly in said predetermined character zone, said first dot form-strokes being selectively arranged above, below and beside said first horizontal and said horizontal twin form-strokes and said respectively corresponding subsequent form-stroke identification elements selectively appearing in a different location within said predetermined character zone than said first form-stroke identification elements; serial storage means for combining selected ones of said individual form-stroke identification elements, twin form-stroke identification elements and subsequent form-stroke identification elements which correspond to a selected Chinese character into a form-stroke address, said serial storage means including means for generating a unique form-stroke address dependent upon an entry sequence for said form-stroke identification elements, said corresponding twin form-stroke identification elements and said corresponding subsequent form-stroke identification elements, and second memory means responsive to said form-stroke address for producing a signal corresponding to said selected Chinese character, said signal corresponding to information stored in a memory location identified by said form-stroke address, there being included within said second memory means a large number of memory locations containing information pertaining to a corresponding number of respective Chinese characters.

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Claim 2:
2. Apparatus in accordance with claim 1 wherein there is further provided a plurality of form-stroke and twin form-stroke keys for controlling said first memory means, each of said keys having a symbol thereon representing an associated one of said form-strokes and said twin form-strokes, said first memory means being responsive to actuation of one or more of said form-stroke and twin form-stroke keys for transmitting said information pertaining to said plurality of individual form-stroke and twin form-stroke identification elements to said serial storage means.