WO2004107211A1

WO2004107211A1 - Electronic dictionary

Info

Publication number: WO2004107211A1
Application number: PCT/JP2004/006573
Authority: WO
Inventors: Shinobu Ishigame
Original assignee: Seiko Instruments Inc.
Priority date: 2003-05-28
Filing date: 2004-05-10
Publication date: 2004-12-09
Also published as: JP2004355248A; CN1795449A

Abstract

An electronic dictionary that allows the user to jump to the same characters whether they are Japanese or Chinese language. There are provided selection means for selecting or designating any Chinese character in text displayed on a display device, and check means for checking whether the same Chinese character exists in Japanese or Chinese language. Whether the Chinese character selected by the selection means is a character of Japanese or Chinese language, when the check means determines that the other language includes the same Chinese character, the contents of the entry words of both languages including the same Chinese character are displayed.

Description

Specification

Electronic dictionary

Technical field

The present invention relates to an apparatus for displaying a translation corresponding to a word and contents related to the word, and relates to an electronic dictionary including at least a Japanese dictionary and a Chinese dictionary.

Background art

Conventionally, in an electronic dictionary having a plurality of types of dictionaries, a user can arbitrarily select a word to be further searched from character strings such as translated words and example sentences displayed by searching for a word using one type of dictionary. Some have a so-called jump function that allows you to select and specify the same type or another type of dictionary to specify and search words. For example, if the word selected from the translated string of the result of a word search using a Japanese dictionary is Japanese, jump to a Japanese dictionary, Japanese-English dictionary or Kanji dictionary, and select the English word. If so, you can jump to an English-Japanese dictionary or an English-English dictionary. (See, for example, JP-A-11-184854 (FIG. 7)).

In the above-mentioned conventional electronic dictionary, when jumping, it is determined whether the selected word is Japanese or English, and if it is Japanese, a headline that has the same character code as the selected word from a Japanese language dictionary, Japanese-English dictionary, etc. The word and the contents of the translation corresponding to this word were displayed on the screen. Therefore, if the Chinese dictionary data is input in a character code unique to Chinese kanji, even if characters of the same shape exist in both Japanese and Chinese, they have different character codes, so It is regarded as a character and cannot be jumped.

Disclosure of the invention In order to achieve the above object, an electronic dictionary according to the present invention has at least a Japanese dictionary and a Chinese dictionary as dictionary data having information corresponding to a headword, a display device for displaying the dictionary data, Selecting means for selecting and specifying an arbitrary character from the dictionary data displayed on the display device; and searching for the headword corresponding to the character selected by the selecting means from a plurality of the dictionary data. An electronic dictionary having a jump function for displaying on the display device, wherein the jump function further includes collation means for collating whether there is a kanji having the same shape in Japanese or Chinese, and Regardless of the language of Japanese or Chinese, the kanji selected by the selection means from among the characters of the dictionary data displayed on the device is the reference character. If the combining means determines that the other language has the same kanji, it has a function of displaying the contents of the headword in both languages having the same kanji on the display device. Things.

Furthermore, when the electronic dictionary of the present invention selects Japanese or Chinese kanji of the dictionary data displayed on the display device by the selection means, the jump function performs It is characterized in that it has a function of displaying, on the display device, kanji of another language which is partly deformed and has the same meaning and the contents of the translation.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the electronic dictionary of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view showing the appearance of the electronic dictionary of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a part of the contents of the Japanese-Chinese comparison table in the electronic dictionary of the present invention.

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

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

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

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing the content displayed on the display device in the electronic dictionary of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing contents displayed on the display device in the electronic dictionary of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing the content displayed on the display device in the electronic dictionary of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart for explaining the operation and operation of the electronic dictionary of the present invention.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described 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 26, a Japanese dictionary key 21, and a Chinese dictionary key 22 of FIG. The input means 11 is connected to a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU) 12, and a signal from the character input key 26 is temporarily stored in a memory (RAM) 13 connected to the CPU 12. A read-only memory (hereinafter referred to as ROM) 14 is further connected to the CPU 12. The ROM 14 stores dictionary contents, such as translations, example sentences, explanations, and a Japanese-Chinese comparison table 15. Have been. Further, a display device 16 is connected to the CPU 12, and the characters input from the character input keys 26, that is, the contents stored in the temporary RAM I 3 are displayed on the screen of the display device 16.

By operating the selection means 17 on this displayed screen, the translation of the word is displayed. The selection means 17 includes a jump key 23, a scroll key 24, and an enter key 25. The Japanese-Chinese comparison table 15 is a one-to-one correspondence between the character codes of the two languages when there are kanji of the same shape in Japanese and Chinese kanji as shown in Fig. 3. The code of the word selected by the selecting means 17 is compared with the Japanese-Chinese comparison table 15. If the code of the selected word exists in the Japanese-Chinese comparison table 15, the code The selected word and the other language via the matching means that determines that the kanji of the language different from the language of the selected word having the character code corresponding to the word code is the same shape kanji By displaying a list of words having the same shape in, selecting, and determining, the contents of the translation corresponding to the word can be displayed.

Next, the operation of the present invention will be described with reference to the display screens of FIGS. 4 to 9 displayed on the display device 16 for each step and the flowchart of FIG. The numbers in parentheses in the text indicate the numbers of each step in FIG. In the flow chart of FIG. 10, the operation by the user is indicated by a solid line frame, and the processing in the electronic dictionary main body is indicated by a broken line frame. In this state, the type of the Japanese language dictionary is selected (step S1001), indicating that the word to be searched can be input from the position of the cursor 41. Explaining this operation in the block diagram of Fig. 1, the CPU 12 selects the Japanese dictionary by operating the input means 11 and the initial screen of the Japanese dictionary mode is displayed on the display device 16. become. Here, using the character input keys 26, for example. When "I" rs "rij is input in Romaji (step S1002), the state shown in FIG. 5 is obtained.

In FIG. 5, “Ishi” 51 entered by operating the character input key 26 in FIG. 1 is displayed on the display device 16, and a list 52 of headwords corresponding to this input and This indicates that a partial translation 53 has been displayed. When the enter key 25 is pressed to see the translation of “Ishi” displayed at the top of the list of headwords (step S1003), as shown in FIG.訳 The translated content 62 is displayed (step S1004). This operation is described with reference to the block diagram of FIG. 1. The selected word matches the word stored in the ROM 14 and a headline is displayed. Will be displayed on the display device 16.

Next, we will explain when we want to further search for the words 63 included in the translation screen, for example, “sand”. First, when the jump key 23 is pressed (step S1005), the first word in the translation is distinguished from other words by blinking, inversion, and the like. When this is moved to the desired word by the scroll key 24 (step S1006), the word 71 "sand" after the movement is distinguished as shown in FIG. Then, in the state shown in FIG. Pressing —25 checks whether the word “sand” is also present in Chinese through the Japanese-Chinese comparison table 15 shown in FIG. 3 (step S 1007). In this example, the Japanese character code 0x8DBB and the Chinese character code 0x4930 shown in the dashed frame in FIG. Therefore, as shown in Fig. 8, [sand [sa]] of the jumped word 81 and [sand [sha] of the isomorphic Chinese kanji 82 (* is attached to the letter a in the drawing) Is displayed as a))] is displayed (step S1008).

If you want to see a further translation of this "sand", for example, if you want to see the translation of [sand [sha]] that exists as a Chinese dictionary entry, use the scroll key 24 to select [sand [sha]]. When the enter key 25 is pressed in the state (step S1009), as shown in FIG. 9, [sand [sha]] is set as the heading 91, and the translation content 92 is displayed (step S1004).

In the above embodiment, the jump function in the case where Japanese kanji and Chinese kanji have the same shape has been described. It is also possible to set and register one-to-one correspondence between the character codes of kanji that have different shapes and have the same meaning. By registering the settings in the Japanese-Chinese comparison table 15, it is possible to realize a jump function between kanjis that are partly variant and have the same meaning.

For example, radicals such as "Hen" and "Tsukuri" that are part of Japanese kanji are slightly different from Chinese kanji radicals, but have the same meaning. There are many characters. By making it possible to search for kanji comrades that have the same meaning in some variants using the jump function, the user of the electronic dictionary of the present invention can reduce the difference between Japanese kanji and Chinese kanji having the same meaning. It is easy to learn the difference between different forms.

In the above, the case of jumping from the headword translation screen has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this. In addition, the above operation can be performed by jumping from a dictionary such as a Chinese dictionary or a Kanji dictionary in addition to the Japanese dictionary mode. Industrial applicability

According to the present invention, a user can select an arbitrary kanji, and display a translation of a headword using the kanji regardless of whether the kanji is Japanese or Chinese. By using this jump function, the user can obtain information such as the presence or absence of the isomorphic kanji between the two languages and the difference in meaning.Also, it is difficult to search for Chinese kanji using electronic dictionaries. You can easily do this by searching for Japanese kanji and jumping from that kanji to the Chinese dictionary.

Claims

The scope of the claims

1. A display device that has a Japanese dictionary and a Chinese dictionary as dictionary data having information corresponding to the headword and displays the dictionary data, and any one of the dictionary data displayed on the display device And a jump function of searching the plurality of dictionary data for the entry word corresponding to the character selected by the selection unit and displaying the entry on the display device. In an electronic dictionary,

The jump function includes matching means for checking whether or not there is a kanji of the same shape in Japanese or Chinese, and is selected by the selecting means from the characters of the dictionary data displayed on the display device. Regardless of whether the kanji is a Japanese kanji or a Chinese kanji, if the matching means determines that the other language has the same kanji in the other language, the display device displays the same kanji. An electronic dictionary having a function of displaying the contents of headwords in both languages having kanji.

2. When a Japanese or Chinese vague character of the dictionary data displayed on the display device is selected by the selection means, the jump function is partially modified and the same as the selected Kanji character. 2. The electronic dictionary according to claim 1, wherein the electronic dictionary has a function of displaying, on the display device, kanji in another language having a meaning and the contents of the translation.