JPH1097503A - Electronic equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic equipment without the need of worrying about the naming way of a document name and without a trouble for calling by providing a function activation means for driving a schedule function or a sentence generation function from a recognized keyword. SOLUTION: When schedule display is activated, a content input column to which a specific content is inputted with the items of 'date', 'time' and 'alarm'. Then, display 5, time input 6 or content input 7 are activated by the generation instruction of a schedule table 4 and by the instruction of an operator. When the content of the block 7 is inputted, the recognition processing of the keyword of a block 8 is executed by the instruction of the operator. When the recognition of the keyword is succeeded, the other function activation processing of a block 9 is executed. Thus, association with data on the other function can be executed by inputting the simple keyword to the content of the schedule table. Then, data can be read and referred to only by inputting sufficient data and instructing the keyword.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic apparatus, and more particularly to an electronic apparatus suitable for a portable electronic apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is a portable electronic device represented by a device called an electronic organizer.

[0003]

A small portable information terminal cannot have a large screen like a personal computer because of its small size. Therefore, it is impossible to display a large amount of information on other functions.

Therefore, when inputting long sentences or table data related to a schedule, such as a business trip report, meeting materials, minutes, etc., a document name that can be determined by the user is attached to a memo pad or report.

[0005] For this reason, it is difficult to give a document name to a schedule, and it takes time to call the document.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device which does not require a user to have trouble in giving a document name or to call a document.

[0007]

The object of the present invention is to provide a storage unit for storing schedule data and text data for creating a schedule, a control unit for editing input text, and a content input or edited. An electronic device having a display unit for displaying a keyword, a keyword recognizing unit for recognizing a specific character string input to the contents of the schedule as a keyword, and a schedule function or a sentence creating function from the keyword recognized by the recognizing unit. This is achieved by providing a function activating means for activating the function.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows an example of a schedule table input screen, FIG. 2 shows a functional block diagram of schedule table processing, FIG. 3 shows a processing flow of a keyword recognition unit, and FIG. 4 shows a startup function table.

Before describing the embodiment of the present invention, an example of a schedule table input screen will be described with reference to FIG.

When the schedule display is activated, a content input field 1 for inputting specific contents together with items such as "date", "time", and "alarm" is displayed. In this example,
In the first line of the content input column 1, "material submission" is input, and in the second line, "[report: scheduled for H8]" is input.

In the activation function table shown in FIG. 4, the number of associated functions and their function names are registered. If a function name is registered in this table, even a function having no document data can be registered if only the function is activated.

Then, as shown in FIG. 2, the display 5, the time input 6, or the content input 7 is activated by the operator's instruction in response to the instruction to create the schedule 4.

When the contents of the block 7 are input, the keyword recognition processing of the block 8 is executed in accordance with an instruction of the operator. When the recognition of the keyword is successful, another function activation processing of block 9 is executed.

Hereinafter, the detailed processing of the keyword recognizing unit in block 8 will be described with reference to the processing flow of FIG. 3 using the screen of FIG. 1 as an example.

As shown in FIG. 1, contents are usually entered in an input column of 2. "[Report: scheduled to be under H8]" in the second line
A character string surrounded by "["]] "is used as a keyword and described as" function name: document name ".

"[""]" Is a symbol for making it easy to see, and may be another character.

[0017]

":" Is a delimiter between the function name and the document name, and may be other characters. For example, ",", ";"
There is also. In addition, it is possible to omit the delimiter depending on how the function name is recognized. Furthermore, if the function to be associated is limited to one function, the function name can be omitted.

As shown in the screen example of FIG. 1, when the cursor is positioned at the first digit of the second line, if the same digit position is designated, the character at the cursor position is checked. Recall the attached document.

First, in block 20, it is searched for a function name between "[" and ":".

In the example of FIG. 1, "report" is the designated function. The function names that can be specified are registered in the activation function table, and can be determined by character string matching. If the character string between "[" and ":" is not found in the activation function table, the processing is not performed because the specification was incorrect.

In block 30, it is searched for a document name between ":" and "]".

In the example shown in FIG. 1, "H8 scheduled" is designated. Further, here, it is necessary to check whether the designated document is registered in the designated function.

The check is performed by comparing with the registered document name of the designated function. In this case, it is necessary to check whether “H8 scheduled” exists in the “report”. If there is no specified document, no processing is performed.

If there is a designated document, information for calling the designated document is passed to the designated function in block 40, and the document is activated.

When the reference of the designated document is completed, the function of the schedule can be returned again by terminating the designated function.

By the above processing, the designated document can be easily called by inputting the name of the document to be related to the contents of the schedule.

By using the following search method in the search method of the search character string, it becomes possible to relate a plurality of documents.

If the cursor position is designated twice, the search is performed starting from the cursor position. Look for "[" is the first one found and matches it with "]".

When the keyword is recognized, the document is called. If the document is not intended by the operator, the called document is closed. At this time, the cursor is set after the character recognized earlier. Therefore,
When the position of the cursor is pointed again, it is possible to search for the one following the keyword and call another associated document.

The number of associated functions and their function names are registered in the activation function table shown in FIG.

If function names are registered in this table,
Even if the function has no document data, it may be registered as long as the function is only activated.

An outline of the schedule table processing will be described with reference to FIG.

When the schedule table is activated, the schedule table main processing unit 5 displays the schedule table input data.

In FIG. 1, "[" indicated by the cursor 2
The subsequent characters "]" are searched for (step 10).
If no keyword is found, no processing is performed because there is no keyword.

When a keyword is found, the processing of steps 11 to 13 is executed, the keyword is analyzed, a designated task is started, and a designated document is called.

[0037]

As described above, according to the present invention, by inputting a simple keyword to the contents of the schedule, it is possible to associate with data of other functions, and sufficient data can be obtained. You can easily read and refer to them simply by inputting and specifying a keyword. In addition, by storing a plurality of documents in association with each other, long documents can be created and documents of different types can be managed as one document, so that an electronic device with good handleability can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a view showing a schedule table input screen.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of schedule table processing.

FIG. 3 is a processing flow of a keyword recognition unit.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an activation function table.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... schedule input field, 2 ... cursor, 3 ... keyword input example, 4 ... schedule processing main processing unit, 5 ... schedule table display unit,
6: Time input unit, 7: Content input unit, 8: Keyword recognition unit, 9: Other function activation unit, 10 to 13: Keyword analysis processing unit.

Claims (2)

[Claims] A storage unit for storing schedule data and text data for creating a schedule; a control unit for editing input text; and a display unit for displaying input or edited content. In the electronic device, a keyword recognition unit for recognizing a specific character string input to the contents of the schedule as a keyword, and a function activating unit for activating a schedule function or a text creation function from the keyword recognized by the recognition unit are provided. Electronic equipment. 2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the keyword recognizing unit searches for a character after the cursor,
An electronic device that allows specification of a plurality of keywords by setting a cursor at the end of the keyword, and can associate or call a plurality of documents.