Patent Document ID: 4724285
Application ID: 06942068

Base Claim:
1. A steno translator system for translating lexical stroke symbols into language format in accordance with a predefined stenographic methodology, each lexical stroke symbol defined by at least one character from a character set comprising consonants and vowels, the system comprising: stroke symbol means for providing a sequence of lexical stroke symbols, each lexical stroke symbol defined by at least one of a left consonant part comprising at least one consonant character, a vowel part comprising at least one vowel character, and a right consonant part comprising at least one consonant character; processor means coupled for receiving the lexical stroke symbols from the stroke symbol means, comprising: a scan chart memory for storing a selected list of chart entries, the list comprising a left consonant sublist, a vowel sublist and a vowel/right consonant sublist, each chart entry having stored in association therewith a language part defining a translation of the chart entry; and translator means comprising comparing means for comparing the left consonant part of selected lexical stroke symbols having a left consonant part against the left consonant sublist to find a match, the language part associated with the matched member of the left consonant sublist defining a a left consonant translation, comparing the vowel part of selected lexical stroke symbols having a vowel part but no right consonant part against the vowel sublist to find a match, the language part associated with the matched member of the vowel sublist defining a vowel translation, and comparing the combined vowel part and right consonant part of selected lexical stroke symbols having a right consonant part against the vowel/right consonant list to find a match, the language part associated with the matched member of the vowel/right consonant sublist defining a vowel/right consonant translation; and means for combining the left consonant, vowel and vowel/right consonant translations to define a stroke symbol translation from the scan chart memory; and means for combining the stroke symbol translations of the lexical stroke symbols according to a predefined identifier rule set to define complete words in the language format.

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Claim 10:
10. The steno translator system of claim 1 wherein the stroke symbol means comprises means for generating a series of stroke symbols, the series including the sequence of lexical stroke symbols, each being from a defined set of lexical stroke symbols, and at least one control stroke symbol, each from a defined set of control stroke symbols, different from the set of lexical stroke symbols, defining an instruction set for controlling operation of the steno translator system; and the processor means further comprises means for identifying the stroke symbols as either lexical stroke symbols or control stroke symbols and applying the control stroke symbols for controlling operation of the translator system.