Three-Language Ideographic Composing Machine

Abstract

Details the development of a photocomposing machine for Chinese, North Korean, and Japanese ideographic characters for the preparation of printed propaganda, orientation literature, and other materials. This development was found feasible in 1954 when studies revealed constants in the composition of Chinese ideographs. By the use of advanced concepts of electric circuitry, video, and photography, a practical electronic Chinese ideographic photocomposing machine was developed. An early prototype had a vocabulary of 2,500 ideographs, and the machine's capacity could be expanded to 10,000 ideographs. The current version of the machine permits composing in Chinese, North Korean, and Japanese by using a vocabulary of 9,615 ideographs. It operates at 600 strokes per minute. Provision is made for kinescopic verification of characters, precomposed ideographs (entities), and ambiguous characters.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0828574

Entities

Organizations

  • University of Pittsburgh

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Camera Tubes
  • Cameras
  • Chinese Language
  • Electrical Equipment
  • English Language
  • Hard Copy
  • Japanese Language
  • Keyboards
  • Kinescopes
  • Language
  • Machines
  • Magnetic Drums
  • Materials
  • Photographic Film
  • Photographic Materials
  • Photographs
  • Photography

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Educational Psychology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems