Abstract: A voice reproduction device including a voice data accumulation unit, a voice data editing unit for editing and outputting voice data accumulated at the voice data accumulation unit and a voice reproduction unit for reproducing voice from voice data output from the voice data accumulation unit and outputting the voice, the voice data accumulation unit including a common voice data memory for storing voice data of a voice piece common to every user and an individual voice data memory for storing voice data prepared individually for each user. A branch code including information designating voice data of utterances to be read from the individual voice data memory is inserted between voice data of utterances stored in the common voice data memory, with voice data editing unit controlling switching between operation of reading voice data from the common voice data memory and that of reading voice data from the individual voice data memory to sequentially output read voice data to the voice reproduction unit.

Abstract: A sequential access type memory medium of a large memory capacity is composed of a number of semiconductor memory modules, each including a semiconductor memory device and necessary peripheral circuits accommodated in a square package. The same number of terminals are provided on each of four sides of the square package. The terminals on the four sides are so wired that the same kind of signal is transferred through positionally corresponding terminals of four sides of the square package, and the terminals on one side are of a plug type and the terminals on the remaining three sides are of a socket type which can be fitted and connected with the plug type terminal so as to interconnect corresponding signal lines. In addition, positionally corresponding socket type terminals of three sides of each memory module are interconnected so as to interconnect the terminals for the same signal.

Abstract: A display pattern preparing system for forming picture element series data for formation and display of picture images by raster scanning. "Figure" or "Configuration" of a pattern is disassembled to be normalized. An fixed pattern memory stores, as a registered configuration data, the length of a segment by which a fixed pattern of a prescribed configuration and area crosses a scanning line in the primary direction of scanning. An analogous pattern memory stores, as parameters, a reference position data representative of a reference point for a portion of an analogous pattern through which the analogous pattern overlaps the scanning line, the analogous pattern being defined as a pattern whose configuration is analogously variable, a distance data representative of the length of the portion of the analogous pattern, and a change ratio data representative of a ratio at which the reference point changes in the auxiliary direction of scanning.

Abstract: A character recognizing system for recognizing an input pattern of a character by comparing with a plurality of standard patterns is disclosed. The standard patterns are classified into a plurality of groups, and each group has a common standard pattern and a plurality of non-common standard patterns. The non-common standard patterns represent differences between the standard patterns and the common standard pattern. An input pattern read out by scanning a printed character is first compared with the common standard pattern of any group. When the difference between the input pattern and the common standard pattern is less than a predetermined value, the input pattern is compared with the non-common standard patterns in the same group.