Patent Document ID: 4420816
Application ID: 06089236

Base Claim:
1. A word information storage and retrieval apparatus comprising: a plurality of character keys for entering first word information representing a desired word in original form; search means responsive to said plurality of character keys for searching second word information representing said desired word in a variant form, said search means including; an original form memory for containing original forms of a plurality of words; at least one variant form memory for containing variant forms corresponding to said plurality of words; a counter for producing an incremental count upon the initiation of searching; a coincidence detector for sequentially comparing said desired word with the original forms of said plurality of words stored in said original form memory; said coincidence detector comparing said desired word with the original form of a new one of said plurality of words with each increment of said counter, a detected coincidence stopping the incremental count of said counter to thereby allow said counter to produce a signal representative of the original form of the word corresponding to said desired word; said signal generated by said counter being used to address and recall the variant form of said desired word from one of said at least one variant form memories; and a display responsive to said variant form of said desired word for indicating said second word information.

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Claim 2:
2. The apparatus as specified in claim 1, which further comprises a control switch for controlling the searching means coincidence detector to thereby search the second word information.