Global Patent Index - EP 0017739 B1

EP 0017739 B1 19831130 - TEXT PROCESSOR WITH A DISPLAY DEVICE

Title (en)

TEXT PROCESSOR WITH A DISPLAY DEVICE

Publication

EP 0017739 B1 19831130 (DE)

Application

EP 80101028 A 19800301

Priority

DE 2915673 A 19790418

Abstract (en)

[origin: US4408302A] In a word processing machine which operates to provide text in the form of successive lines of characters, and includes an input keyboard for the input of character representations, a data memory connected for storing such representations, a display device connected to receive such representations from the memory and presenting a horizontally-extending plurality of character display locations the right-hand one of which is an entry location, and a control unit connected for controlling the display provided by the display device in a manner to cause the display device to display at least a portion of a line of characters, with each character appearing, in the order of its input to the keyboard, at an entry location of the display and then shifting to the left in the display upon delivery of each subsequent character to the display, the display device is arranged to present at least one further character display location to the right of the entry location, and the control unit is made operable for causing at least a portion of a line of previously inputted characters to be displayed at adjacent ones of the character display locations, including the further location.

IPC 1-7

B41J 3/46

IPC 8 full level

B41J 5/30 (2006.01); B41B 17/00 (2006.01); B41J 3/46 (2006.01); G06F 3/147 (2006.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP US)

B41J 3/46 (2013.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

CH DE FR GB IT

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0017739 A2 19801029; EP 0017739 A3 19810916; EP 0017739 B1 19831130; DE 2915673 A1 19801030; DE 3065744 D1 19840105; JP S55140935 A 19801104; JP S6030987 B2 19850719; US 4408302 A 19831004

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 80101028 A 19800301; DE 2915673 A 19790418; DE 3065744 T 19800301; JP 4576680 A 19800409; US 13911580 A 19800410