JPH11184854A - Electronic dictionary - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly retrieve an idiomatic phrase, etc., by designating an optional range on a screen of the displayed contents, defining a designated Japanese character string as a keyword and displaying the contents of the translated keyword. SOLUTION: When 'NORYOKU (capability)' of KANJI (Chinese character) is translated into English in the contents of the Japanese translation, a jump key 26, i.e., a selection key is operated and a cursor is displayed on a screen. Then ▵NO' (KANJI) is designated by a scroll key 27 as the head character and fixed by a translation key 28, and 'RYOKU' (KANJI) is designated by the key 27 as the last character and a range is fixed by the key 28. It's decided whether or not the distinguished word is a Japanese or English and the key 28 is pushed to jump to a Japanese-English mode where 'NORYOKU' of HIRAGANA (cursive form of Japanese syllabary) of a keyword 61, KANJI 62 and an English equivalent 63 are displayed. In such a way, an idiomatic phrase, etc., can be quickly retrieved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic dictionary such as English-Japanese or Japanese-English which displays a translation corresponding to a certain word and contents related to the word.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in an electronic dictionary of this kind, for example, in an English-Japanese dictionary, it was possible to select and specify an English word in a displayed translated word or an example sentence and to immediately display a translated word of the English word. . Hereinafter, this immediate display operation is called a jump. When the displayed information was in Japanese, the information of the jump destination was provided in the data, and the specific data having the information could be displayed in a jump. That is, for example, when the reference destination is already specified for the headword in the Japanese-English mode, the user can jump.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional electronic dictionary, it is possible to jump only from a specified specific Japanese language, and to jump from an arbitrary range of Japanese or a group of Japanese. The translation could not be displayed.

The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic dictionary for displaying a translation by jumping from an arbitrary range of Japanese character strings. It is something to offer.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, an electronic dictionary according to the present invention comprises character input means for inputting a word, and word storage means for storing the contents of the word input by the character input means. And an electronic dictionary having translation storage means for storing the contents of the translation corresponding to the input word, and display means for displaying these contents, and designates an arbitrary range from the displayed screen of the contents. The designated Japanese character string is used as a headword, and the contents of the translation of the headword are displayed. In this configuration, the range may be specified by specifying the first character and the last character of an arbitrary range.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a plan view showing the appearance of the embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, the input means 11 includes a character input key 29, an English-Japanese key 21, a Japanese-English key 22, and a spell key 23 in FIG. The input means 11 is connected to a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU) 12, and a signal from the input means 11 is temporarily stored in a memory (hereinafter referred to as RAM) 13 connected to the CPU 12. The CPU 12 is further connected to a read-only memory (hereinafter referred to as a ROM) 14.
Translations, example sentences, explanations, and the like are stored. A display device 16 is connected to the CPU 12, and characters input from the input unit 11, that is, the contents stored in the temporary RAM 13 are displayed on the screen of the display device 16.

The selection keys 17 include a mark key 24, a list key 25, a jump key 26, a scroll key 27, and a translation key 28. The operation signal of the translation key 28 is read by the CPU 12, and the headword of the selected word and the contents of the translation corresponding to this word are displayed on the screen of the display device 16. Note that in the block diagram of FIG.
Although the ROM 13 and the ROM 14 are shown as individual blocks, these types of devices generally use a one-chip CPU, so that they need not be clearly separated.

Next, the operation of the present invention will be described with reference to the display screens of FIGS. 3 to 6 displayed on the display device 16 for each step and the flow chart of FIG. The numbers in parentheses in the text indicate the numbers of the steps in FIG. First, the CPU 12 is operated by operating the input means 11 shown in the block diagram of FIG.
Selects English-Japanese, and the display device 16 displays that it is in English-Japanese mode. Using the character input keys 29, for example,
When "t", "e", "s", and "t" are input (1102),
The state is as shown in FIG. This indicates that the word “test” 31 has been input to the display device 16 for the word input from the character input keys 29 in FIG.

When the translation key 28 is pressed in order to see the Japanese translation of this "test" 31, as shown in FIG.
est ", phonetic symbols 42, stratified symbols 43 indicating the importance of words, and the contents 44 of their Japanese translations are displayed (110).
3). This operation will be described with reference to the block diagram of FIG. 1. A headline is displayed when the input word matches the word stored in the ROM 14, and at the same time, a translated word corresponding to the headline is extracted from the ROM 14, and displayed on the display device 16. Is displayed. If the Japanese translation content 44 does not fit on one screen, a scroll symbol 45 is displayed (1104), and the hidden screen can be viewed by operating the scroll key 27 (1105).

Next, in the translated contents 44, for example,
If you want to see the English translation of "ability" (1106), first operate the jump key 26 of the selection key 17 to display a cursor on the screen, use the scroll key 27 to specify "ability" as the first character, This is fixed by the translation key 28. Subsequently, “strength” is designated as the last character by the scroll key 27, and the range is fixed by the translation key 28. At this time, as shown in FIG. 5, the "ability" of the selected word 51 is shaded and distinguished from other words by whiteout (1107). Subsequently, it is determined whether the distinguished word is Japanese or English (1108). In this example, since the word is Japanese, the translation key 28 is pressed to jump to the Japanese-English mode (1108).
109), as shown in FIG. 6, the headword 61 "Noiroku", kanji 62, and translation 63 are displayed (110).
3).

In the above, the operation of jumping by designating an arbitrary range according to the present invention has been described in each of the Japanese-English and English-Japanese modes. I can do it. In addition, you can jump to a Japanese dictionary as well as a Japanese-English dictionary. Also, although an example has been described in which a key is used as an input method, it goes without saying that the present invention can be implemented by directly touching the display screen like a pen touch and inputting from the first character to the last character.

[0013]

As described above, according to the present invention, an arbitrary range in the contents of Japanese is designated, and dictionaries such as English-Japanese, Japanese-English, and Japanese are stored in the storage device. Since the user can jump to the dictionary, the following effects can be obtained.

Conventionally, it was possible to jump only to one English word or to a special word whose reference destination was specified. In the present invention, however, it is possible to jump by specifying an arbitrary range in the Japanese contents. You can quickly search for phrases. Because you can jump from words including kanji, the range of search is expanded and useful.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a circuit block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the appearance of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing contents displayed on the display device of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing contents displayed on the display device of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing contents displayed on the display device of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing contents displayed on the display device of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Input means 12 CPU 13 RAM 14 ROM 16 Display device 17 Selection key 21 English-Japanese key 22 Japanese-English key 23 Spell key 24 Mark key 25 List key 26 Jump key 27 Scroll key 28 Translation key 29 Input key

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A character input unit for inputting a word, a word storage unit for storing the content of a word input by the character input unit, and a translation storage for storing a translation content corresponding to the input word. Means, and an electronic dictionary comprising a display means for displaying the contents, wherein an arbitrary range is designated from the displayed screen of the contents, and the designated Japanese character string is used as a headword, and An electronic dictionary wherein the contents of words are displayed. 2. The electronic dictionary according to claim 1, wherein a range is designated by designating a first character and a last character of the arbitrary range.