Abstract: A liquid crystal light pipe display for direct imaging onto photosensitive materials, having a non-conductive, transparent first sheet and a non-conductive substantially opaque second sheet, each having substantially planar inner and outer surfaces. The non-conductive sheets are disposed adjacent to one another with their inner surfaces opposing one another in spaced-apart relationship separated by a sealed-in, normally transparent, liquid crystal material. The non-conductive sheets each have a transparent conductive electrical coating disposed on their inner surface, of a plurality of discrete character forming segments with means connected thereto for electrically coupling said segments to an external power source. The second non-conductive sheet has a plurality of discrete transparent light pipes formed therethrough, each of which are aligned with one of said character forming segments.

Abstract: A word processing system for displaying and reproducing alphanumeric characters on a photocopy machine capable of scanning an original document, having a housing including an electronic keyboard with keys representing individual alphanumeric characters, the housing including a display for viewing a portion of the information keys, and a memory circuit coupled to said keyboard for storing and spacing the alphanumeric indicia in memory.

Abstract: A word processing system for displaying and reproducing a plurality of alphanumeric characters on a solid state display and capable of printing from that display consisting of a housing containing an electronic keyboard with indicia markings on the keys. There is provided at least one solid state display device disposed adjacent to the housing and having a multitude of segments for reproducing the indicia identified on the keyboard. A logic means is connected to the keyboard and the solid state display, and scans the keyboard upon the depression of one or more keys to find out the identity of the keys depressed. A solid state memory is also connected to the logic means and contains coded information concerning the keyboard indicia so that a character can be generated and reproduced on the solid state display responsive to the keyed indicia.