METHOD FOR HOLDING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT INFORMATION OF CHINESE-CHARACTER AND JAPANESE-SYLLABARY MIXED SENTENCE, ITS DISPLAY DEVICE AND PROCESSOR, AND ELECTRONIC INFORMATION AUTOMATIC VENDING MACHINE

• Main Authors: OGATA TAKUSANE, NAOMURA MEGUMI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.08.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and a device which can switch a KANJI(Chinese character)-KANA(Japanese syllabary) mixed sentence displayed on the monitor screen of an electronic device to a KANA sentence through converting operation and put it back to the original KANJI-KANA mixed sentence. SOLUTION: The electronic device adds data of a KANJI-KANA mixed sentence to original KANJI-KANA mixed sentence data (121) and holds KANA sentence data (122). Further, information (123) which makes a display of a KANA sentence easy to read and information (123) on intonation properties, etc., for reading it aloud are held. For the distribution service of an electronic document, an automatic vending machine with a key is used to write the document on a user's storage medium. Further, it is made easy to read the KANJI- KANA mixed sentence aloud and output Braille by the electronic device. The electronic document is vended through an automatic vending machine as well as the Internet and the storage medium.