Patent Document ID: 4181972
Application ID: 05702676
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. In apparatus for displaying words in lines on a display device, hyphenating control means for automatically controlling the hyphenating of words which will only partially fit at the end of a line, said hyphenating control means comprising: means responsive to the length of an input word and to the number of spaces remaining on a line for detecting the presence of a hyphenate situation with respect to said input word; means responsive to the detection of a hyphenate situation with respect to an input word for digitizing a predetermined portion thereof such that each consonant is represented by one binary value and each vowel is represented by the other binary value, said predetermined portion comprising a consecutive group containing the last characters of the input word which will fit on the line; a memory storing a table of consonant-vowel bit value patterns representing the possible patterns obtainable as a result of digitizing said group, said memory additionally storing an individually selectable hyphenation indication for each pattern of said table indicating how a word which produces the pattern should be hyphenated; and means for comparing the consonant-vowel bit value pattern derived from an input word to be hyphenated with the patterns in said table and providing output hyphenation data based on the stored hyphenation indication corresponding to the pattern for which a match is obtained.