AUTOMATIC CENTERING OF TEXT COLUMN ENTRIES

Patent №

US 4,457,638

Granted

1984-07-03

Filed 1981

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, A CORP. OF NY

AI components

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nlp

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

06305251

A method for the automatic center tab insertion within a column example line comprising the steps of an operator cursor move to a column margin to define an end position; and responsive to a function key stroke, the machine steps of concurrently moving the cursor to the other column margin and counting the text characters of the example; calculating the distance to the column center position; concurrently moving the cursor to the calculated center position, and inserting a centered tab stop control character therein.

AI classification

Natural language0.99
Vision0.45
AI hardware0.01
Speech0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, A CORP. OF NY

assignment · 39330507

Assignors

HORN, GARY R., SHIPP, KENNETH O. JR.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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