JPH0327910B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention is an invention that allows vertically or horizontally written upright characters to be displayed on the same surface without moving the display frame in a display device such as a word processor.

Figure 1 shows an example of a conventionally known display for a word processor, etc., in which data is displayed by typing on a CRT 1 with a keyboard 2, and printed with a printer 3, but the CRT is large, bulky, and expensive. . Therefore, as shown in Figure 2, instead of CRT, LCD4
In other words, by typing on the keyboard 2 of the word processor 5, 8 characters x 1 line of characters are displayed from left to right on the narrow display 4 screen that can display only one horizontal line, and the characters are displayed upwards. A 24×24 dot printer 7 was moved from left to right to sequentially print on roll paper 6 to create a document.

As shown in the figure, all characters on the display 4 and printed by the printer 7 are horizontally written characters,
When printing vertical characters, display them horizontally on the display 4 as shown in Figure 2. To print, press the vertical writing designation key on the keyboard 2 to print characters 8 that can be read from the side as shown in Figure 3. By turning it 90 degrees, I obtained a vertically written 9 document as shown in Figure 4.

In this case, horizontally written characters appeared on the display 4 where vertically written characters should have appeared, which was different from the actual character arrangement and was very inconvenient.

The present invention eliminates the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art.

FIG. 5 shows an embodiment of the present invention, in which a vertically oriented or vertically elongated display 1 displays a required part of a vertical line of characters.
0 and a horizontally or horizontally long display 4 for displaying a required part of a horizontal row of characters are fixed in an inverted L shape and can be switched to either display by a designated key.

FIG. 6 shows another embodiment of the present invention in which the vertical display 10 and the horizontal display 4 are arranged in an inverted L shape.

FIG. 7 shows an embodiment of the present invention in which the vertical display 10 and the horizontal display 4 are combined in a T-shape.

FIG. 8 shows an embodiment of the present invention in which a display 10 and a display 4 are combined in an L-shape.

FIG. 9 shows an embodiment of the present invention in which the display 10 and the display 4 are combined in an inverted L shape.

A liquid crystal display, a plasma display, or the like is used as the display, and the vertical/horizontal conversion of the character display is based on a known electric circuit conversion, so it will not be described in detail.

In the present invention, when creating characters in either horizontal or vertical writing, the display device that represents the characters to be printed is fixed;
In addition to the required line of vertical writing, headings of other lines are also displayed, and a keyboard etc. can be placed in the empty space within the L-shape, making it easy to operate, making the entire device more compact, and significantly improving office efficiency. The present invention is an extremely significant invention.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

1 to 4 show conventionally known examples; FIG. 1 is a front view, FIGS. 2 to 4 are top views, FIG. 5 is a top view of the first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. Figures 7, 8, and 9 are the second, third, fourth, and third embodiments of the present invention, respectively.
5. Top view of the example. 4,10...display device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A display device for a word processor, etc., which has a combination of vertical and horizontal shapes such as L-shape, and is capable of displaying only required portions of vertical and horizontal lines.