JPS55103675A - Electronic translator - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To obtain a translator where a sentence can be transformed only by knowledge of the first language, by storing electronically a required sentence example with correspondence between the first language and the second language and by storing insertion and substitution words separately.

CONSTITUTION: Respective keys included in key group 1 of a translator designate items such as meal and illness, and, for example, a sentence example concerning meal is displayed on display part 4 in Japanese by these keys, and other sentence examples are displayed successively when key 21 is depressed. In this case, if the substitutable part is displayed with lack or is displayed with a general term or all substitutable words are displayed for the part above and a substitution word is inputted in Japanese by key 3 to complete the Japanese sentence, a corresponding English sentence is displayed by depression of English translation key 22. This translation is performed by reading English sentence memory part 10, where English sentences corresponding to Japanese sentences in Japanese sentence memory part 9 are stored, to display control part 17 according to the designation operation of address counter 7, and Japanese parenthese and English words corresponding to them are stored in memory parts 9 and 10 and are read out properly.

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