Claims
- 1. An electronic language interpreter device wherein a first word represented in the Japanese language is translated into a translated word in a different language but equivalent in meaning to the first word, comprising:
- alphabetized Japanese word input means for entering said first word in the Japanese language into said device in the form of alphabetical characters, wherein said alphabetized Japanese word input means comprises an alphabetical keyboard containing a plurality of alphabetical key switches for introducing said first word into said device;
- memory means for storing a plurality of words in said different language, wherein said different language is English;
- converting and display means responsive to the alphabetized Japanese word input means for altering said first word in alphabetized Japanese into its corresponding representation in Japanese phonetic symbol characters and displaying said phonetic symbol representation thereof, wherein the converting and display means includes
- first converting means for providing information representing a syllabic nasal,
- second converting means for providing information representing an assimilated sound,
- third converting means for providing information representing a long vowel, and
- means for combining the information provided by said first, second and third converting means to form the phonetic symbol representation of said first word; and
- access means, responsive to the first word entered into said device by said alphabetized Japanese word input means, for retrieving from said memory means one of said plurality of words to develop said translated word having the same meaning as said first word.
- 2. The device according to claim 1, wherein said converting and display means is further responsive to the alphabetized Japanese word input means for displaying said first word in alphabetized Japanese.
- 3. The device according to claim 2, wherein said converting and display means comprises;
- a first display portion responsive to said alphabetized Japanese word input means for displaying said first word of Japanese in alphabetical characters; and
- a second display portion responsive to said converting means for also displaying said first word in Japanese "Katakana" characters.
- 4. An electronic language interpreter device wherein a first word represented in a first language but having more than one meaning is translated into at least one translated word in a different language having a meaning equivalent to at least one meaning of the first word comprising:
- input means for entering said first word in said first language wherein said input means includes an alphabetized word input means for entering said first word into said device in the form of alphabetical characters and wherein said first language is Japanese;
- converting means, responsive to said first word entered into the alphabetized word input means, for converting the alphabetical character form of said first word into its representation in Japanese "Katakana" characters
- memory means for storing a plurality of words in said first language and corresponding words having the same meaning in said different language, at least one word in said first language corresponding in meaning to more than one of said corresponding words in said different language;
- access means, responsive to said first word entered by said input means, for retrieving from said memory means at least one translated word having a first same meaning as said first word, said access means retrieving all translated words corresponding to said first same meaning of said first word;
- means for displaying two translated words, when existing, corresponding to said first word; and
- voice synthesizer means, responsive to the entry of said first word in said input means, for developing an audible pronunciation of said first word in said first language.
- 5. An electronic language interpreter device wherein a first word represented in the Japanese language is translated into a translated word in a different language but equivalent in meaning to the first word, comprising:
- alphabetized Japanese word input means for entering said first word in Japanese into said device in the form of alphabetical characters;
- memory means for storing a plurality of words in said different language;
- access means, responsive to said first word entered into said alphabetized Japanese word input means, for retrieving from said memory means said translated word having the same meaning as said first word;
- converting means, responsive to the entry of said particular Japanese word by said alphabetized Japanese word input means, for converting said first word in alphabetized Japanese into its corresponding representation in Japanese "Katakana" characters; and
- display means responsive to said converting means and said input means for simultaneously displaying said first word both in said alphabetical characters and in said "Katakana" characters.
- 6. The device of claim 5 wherein said display means displays said translated word in response to retrieval by said access means.
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Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of copending application Ser. No. 125,456, filed on Feb. 28, 1980, which is now abandoned.
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