JP2006252490A - Portable telephone/electronic dictionary linking system and method for supporting mail preparation and browse, program, portable telephone and electronic dictionary - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To support the preparation and browse of mail in a foreign language in a portable telephone. <P>SOLUTION: A portable telephone/electronic dictionary linking system for supporting mail preparation and browse comprises: short distance transmission/reception parts 101, 102, 201 and 202 for performing short distance communication between the portable telephone 200 and the electronic dictionary 100; a reception buffer part 212 of the portable telephone for preserving the words of the foreign language and inserting them into the mail under preparation; a transmission buffer 122 of the electronic dictionary for translating words which can not be understood in the mail under preparation from a native language to the foreign language and preserving them; a transmission button 106 for transmitting the words of the foreign language to the reception buffer part of the portable telephone from the transmission buffer part of the electronic dictionary; a transmission buffer part 215 of the portable telephone set for preserving the words whose meaning can not be understood in the received mail of the foreign language; a reception button 105 for receiving the words of the foreign language from the transmission buffer part of the portable telephone to the electronic dictionary; and a display part 103 of the electronic dictionary for translating the received words of the foreign language to the native language and displaying them. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a mail function of a mobile phone. In particular, the present invention relates to a mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage system, method, program, mobile phone, and electronic dictionary that support creation and browsing of foreign language mail.

In recent years, when Japanese people go abroad to study, travel or work and stay in foreign countries for a short or long term, it has become possible to make calls and emails from foreign countries to Japan using mobile phones.
On the other hand, Japanese who go abroad for studying, traveling or working and staying abroad for a short or long term use a foreign-made mobile phone in the country of stay when communicating with foreigners in the country of stay. In some cases, you may call or email in a foreign language other than Japanese.

Naturally, it is assumed that the Japanese who make phone calls and e-mails with foreigners staying in the country are studying the foreign language of the country they stay to some extent, especially on the keypad on foreign-made mobile phones when making e-mails. You can enter the foreign language of the country you stay with.
The first problem is that the keypad size of the mobile phone is small and the number of keys is small, so the operability of the keypad for character input is generally not good, but depending on the type of foreign language, There is a problem that character input becomes difficult.

The second problem is that when you create an e-mail in a foreign language other than Japanese, which is your native language, on a foreign-made mobile phone, if you do not know the word, There is an inconvenience that this must be newly input into the mobile phone.
In particular, when inputting Chinese using a mobile phone made in China, a Japanese-Chinese dictionary is used to first select an appropriate translation from Japanese translations and use the pinyin ( It is inconvenient because it requires a long work of inputting to a mobile phone using notation and selecting an appropriate Chinese character converted from pinyin input on the mobile phone.

  The third problem is when there is an unknown word when receiving a foreign language mail other than Japanese, especially when using a Chinese mobile phone to receive a Chinese mail. You have to check this with a Chinese-Japanese dictionary, but if you don't understand Pinyin reading or Japanese reading, you have to check with the radical index and the total number of strokes. Since the number of display dots is limited, characters are inaccurate and it may be difficult to determine the number of strokes. In this case, it is extremely difficult to look up a dictionary.

In the above explanation, a mobile phone made in China was taken as an example. However, when a Japanese stays in a country in the United States, United Kingdom, South Korea, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Arabic-speaking countries, it is made in the United States, made in the United Kingdom, South Korea The same problem occurs when using mobile phones including French, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Arabic-speaking foreign phones.
Conversely, Chinese, American, British, Korean, French, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic-speaking foreigners stay in Japan, use Japanese mobile phones, and Japanese If there is a Japanese word that you do not know, the foreigner needs to translate using a dictionary from Japanese to Japanese and a dictionary from Japanese to native language. Is inconvenient as well.

  Furthermore, in general, not only Japanese staying abroad, foreigners staying in Japan, but Koreans staying in the United States use American mobile phones, Americans staying in South Korea are made in Korea The same problem occurs when an American who stays in China uses a Chinese-made mobile phone, or a Chinese who stays in the US uses an American-made mobile phone. There is.

There are the following conventional techniques related to such problems.
Conventionally, the present invention provides a operability of character input using a full keyboard, workability at the time of document creation, portability of a mobile phone terminal and an external input device, battery life of a mobile phone terminal, and handleability of created character data. In order to provide a mobile phone system that secures the mobile phone, the mobile phone terminal and the external character input device are used when inputting characters into a mobile phone terminal such as a mobile phone and a simple mobile phone. Circuits and programs that enable the exchange of character data between both mobile phone terminals and external character input devices, and the display unit, document creation function, and input character data are stored in the external character input device. A memory unit for storing is provided (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

However, in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1, the keypad of the cellular phone is small and the handling property due to the small number of keys is ensured, but the handling property is not ensured for the input of a foreign language. It does not solve the inconvenience of inputting and reading foreign language words when creating and viewing foreign language mails on a mobile phone.
Conventionally, an electronic device having a communication function with an electronic dictionary can be used to search for a desired character string very easily without having to input a search target character string by key operation on the electronic dictionary. When a desired word is specified as a search target word on the English text screen displayed on the display unit, the range is highlighted X, and a search of the dictionary is instructed by operating the search instruction area, the search target word data Is transmitted to the electronic dictionary by the infrared data communication IrDA, and the dictionary content of the search target word received from the personal computer is searched by the English-Japanese dictionary data stored in the electronic dictionary, and is displayed on the display unit of the electronic dictionary. Some of them are displayed or sent as response data to a personal computer and displayed on the display unit as a window W That (for example, see Patent Document 2).

However, in Patent Document 2 described above, a desired word contained in an English sentence displayed on a personal computer is transferred to an electronic dictionary to be searched, but when a foreign language mail is created and viewed on a mobile phone. It does not solve the inconvenience of entering and reading unknown foreign language words.
Conventionally, in order to save the trouble of acquiring necessary information from the Internet and creating a document, when creating a mail with a mobile phone, a desired character string is selected with the cursor key and the dictionary server connection key is pressed. The phone calls the dictionary server URL from the ROM and is connected to the dictionary server. When the set key is pressed, the URL of the server website is called from the RAM and the mobile phone is connected to the server via the dictionary server. In some cases, necessary content information is acquired from a dictionary server or a server and added directly to a document being created (see, for example, Patent Document 3).

  However, in Patent Document 3 described above, a desired word in a mail on a mobile phone is acquired from the Internet, but a foreign language word that is not known when a foreign language mail is created or viewed on a mobile phone is input. However, it does not solve the inconvenience of reading.

JP 2001-142614 A JP 2001-188895 A JP 2004-272520 A

  Therefore, in view of the above problems, the present invention facilitates the input and reading of foreign language words when a foreign language mail is created and viewed on a cellular phone, and supports the creation and browsing of foreign language emails. An object is to provide an electronic dictionary linkage system, method, program, mobile phone, and electronic dictionary.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage system that supports the creation and browsing of emails, and transmits and receives foreign language emails in foreign languages other than the native language of the user of the mobile phone. A display unit of a mobile phone that displays a foreign language mail created by a keypad operation on the screen or displays a foreign language mail received by the mail transmission / reception unit, and a display unit of the mobile phone A reception buffer unit of a mobile phone that stores foreign language words or short sentences that are not understood by a foreign language mail created on the screen and that is inserted into a foreign language creation mail displayed on the screen of the display unit of the mobile phone; Input to mobile phone transmission buffer and electronic dictionary to save words or short sentences that are not understood by foreign language received mail displayed on the screen of the phone display A foreign language dictionary part that translates a word or short sentence from the native language into a foreign language, or a foreign language dictionary part that translates the foreign language into the native language; When a native language word or short sentence for a word or short sentence that is not understood during the creation of a foreign language mail is entered into the electronic dictionary by keyboard operation, the native language word or short sentence is displayed, and the displayed native language word or short sentence is displayed. When translated into a foreign language word or short sentence by the foreign language dictionary part, a foreign language word or short sentence translated part is displayed, and the foreign language word displayed on the electronic dictionary display part or An electronic dictionary transmission buffer for storing short sentences, and an electronic dictionary reception buffer for receiving and storing foreign language words or short sentences from the transmission buffer of the mobile phone via the short-range transmission / reception section A transmission button for transmitting a foreign language word or short sentence from the transmission buffer unit of the electronic dictionary to the reception buffer unit of the mobile phone via the short-distance transmission / reception unit, and via the short-distance transmission / reception unit Receiving from the electronic dictionary that the foreign language word or short sentence is received from the transmission buffer unit of the mobile phone, and storing the foreign language word or short sentence received by the request in the reception buffer unit of the electronic dictionary Provided is a mobile phone / electronic dictionary cooperation system that supports creation and browsing of mail, characterized by comprising a button.

Furthermore, the mobile phone is provided with a foreign language mail creation screen insertion unit, and the foreign language mail creation screen insertion unit is located on the screen of the display unit of the mobile phone at the cursor position during the creation of foreign language mail. Insert foreign language words or short sentences from the receive buffer.
Further, the mobile phone is provided with a foreign language word / short sentence storage unit, and the foreign language word / short sentence storage unit displays the foreign language mail received by the mail transmission / reception unit on the screen of the display unit of the mobile phone. When a word or short sentence whose meaning is unknown is specified by moving the cursor, the specified foreign word or short sentence is stored and stored in the transmission buffer unit of the mobile phone.

The electronic dictionary further includes a transmission foreign language word / short sentence detection unit, and the transmission foreign language word / short sentence detection unit displays a foreign language word or short sentence on the screen of the display unit of the electronic dictionary. When a foreign word or short sentence is selected in the movement, the selected foreign language word or short sentence is stored in the transmission buffer unit.
The electronic dictionary further includes an input field insertion unit, and the input field insertion unit inserts a foreign language word or short sentence from the reception buffer unit of the electronic dictionary into the input field of the foreign language dictionary unit. A word or a short sentence is translated, and the native language word or short sentence translated into a foreign word or short sentence is displayed on the display unit of the electronic dictionary.

  Further, the input field insertion unit is provided with a “transfer input” input field, and the “transfer input” input field is not able to directly input a foreign language or native language by the foreign language dictionary unit. When reading is input, if a foreign language is directly delivered from the reception buffer unit, the delivered foreign language is input, and the foreign language dictionary unit converts the reading and converts it. The read is inserted into the input field of the foreign language dictionary section.

  The electronic dictionary further includes a request signal generation unit, the request signal generation unit generates a request signal by the reception button and transmits the request signal to the mobile phone via the short-range transmission / reception unit. A signal decoding unit is provided, the request signal decoding unit receives the request signal from the request signal generation unit, decodes the request signal, and when recognized, transmits a foreign word or short sentence to the transmission buffer unit of the mobile phone To do.

Further, when there are a plurality of foreign language words or short sentence candidates displayed on the display unit of the electronic dictionary, one candidate is selected by moving the cursor and stored in the transmission buffer unit of the electronic dictionary.
Further, the short-range transmission / reception unit is an infrared transmission / reception unit or a Bluetooth transmission / reception unit.

Further, when the foreign language mail is created on the mobile phone, the foreign word or short sentence is input to the electronic dictionary by keyboard operation and converted into the foreign language, and the foreign language converted into the cellular phone is converted by the send button. Send and insert into foreign language mail you are composing.
In addition, for each mobile phone including Japanese, Chinese, American, British, Korean, French, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic foreign, Spanish, Portuguese An electronic dictionary having at least one dictionary function from a national language to a foreign language and from a foreign language to a native language supports creation of foreign language mail and browsing of foreign language received mail of the mobile phone. Supports the creation and browsing of emails described in 1.

  In addition, it has a mail function in its own language, and it includes foreign languages including at least one of Japanese, Chinese, English, Korean, French, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese For a mobile phone having a language mail function, an electronic dictionary having at least one dictionary function from a native language to a foreign language and from a foreign language to the native language is used to create a foreign language mail of the mobile phone and receive a foreign language. Support email browsing.

  Furthermore, the present invention provides a mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage method that supports the creation and browsing of emails, and displays foreign language emails created in a foreign language other than the native language of the user of the mobile phone by a keypad operation on the screen. A step of inputting a native language word or short sentence to a word or short sentence that is not understood during creation of the foreign language mail created on the screen of the display unit of the mobile phone into the electronic dictionary by a keyboard operation, and the electronic dictionary A step of translating the native language word or short sentence entered into the above into a foreign language word or short sentence, a step of storing the translated foreign word or short sentence, and a foreign language word or short sentence saved by the send button of the electronic dictionary Is transmitted to the mobile phone from the electronic dictionary by short-range communication, and received before the foreign mail being created displayed on the screen of the mobile phone. Characterized in that it comprises a step of inserting a foreign language of the word or short, mail creation, to provide a mobile phone / electronic dictionary cooperation method to support the view.

  Furthermore, the present invention provides a mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage method for supporting creation and browsing of mail, the step of receiving a foreign language mail other than the native language of the user of the mobile phone, and the received foreign language mail. A step of displaying on the screen of the mobile phone; a step of identifying and storing a foreign language word or short sentence not understood by a foreign language mail displayed on the screen of the mobile phone; Sending a request signal from the information to the mobile phone by short-range communication; receiving the request signal by the mobile phone; storing the foreign language word or short sentence stored in the electronic dictionary by short-range communication; Transmitting the foreign language word or short sentence received in the electronic dictionary into a native language word or short sentence, and translating the native language word or short sentence into the native language Characterized in that it comprises a step to be displayed on the screen of the child dictionary, mail creation, to provide a mobile phone / electronic dictionary cooperation method to support the view.

  Further, the present invention provides a program for executing a mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage with a computer for supporting mail creation and browsing in a foreign language created in a foreign language other than the native language of the user of the mobile phone by keypad operation. To the electronic dictionary by the keyboard operation of the native language word or short sentence for the procedure to execute the display of the mail on the screen and the word or short sentence that is not understood during the creation of the foreign language mail created on the screen of the mobile phone A procedure for executing a translation of a native language word or a short sentence input to the electronic dictionary into a foreign language word or a short sentence, and a procedure for executing a storage of the translated foreign word or a short sentence And a method for executing transmission from the electronic dictionary to the mobile phone by short-range communication of a foreign word or short sentence stored by the transmission button of the electronic dictionary. And a procedure for inserting the received word or short sentence of the foreign language into the foreign mail being created displayed on the screen of the mobile phone, and a mobile phone / electronic for supporting the creation and browsing of the mail A program for executing dictionary linkage on a computer is provided.

  Furthermore, the present invention relates to a program for executing a mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage with a computer for supporting mail creation and browsing, a procedure for receiving a mail in a foreign language other than the native language of the user of the mobile phone, The procedure for executing the display of the foreign language mail on the screen of the mobile phone, and the identification and storage of a foreign language word or short sentence not understood by the foreign language mail displayed on the mobile phone screen A procedure for performing transmission of a request signal by short-range communication from the electronic information to the mobile phone by a reception button of an electronic dictionary;

  Upon receiving the request signal by the mobile phone, a procedure for transmitting the stored foreign language word or short sentence to the electronic dictionary by short-range communication, and the foreign language word or short sentence received by the electronic dictionary are automatically transmitted. A procedure for executing translation of a Japanese word or short sentence, and a step of displaying the translated word or short sentence on the screen of the electronic dictionary, which supports the creation and browsing of mail, Provided is a program for executing a mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage on a computer.

  Furthermore, the present invention provides a short-distance communication between a foreign language mail transmitting / receiving unit that transmits and receives mail in a foreign language other than the native language of the user of the mobile phone and an electronic dictionary in a mobile phone that creates and browses mail. A close-range transmission / reception unit, a foreign language mail created by keypad operation displayed on the screen or a foreign language mail received by the mail transmission / reception unit on the screen, and the display unit A word or short sentence in a native language corresponding to a word or short sentence that is unknown during word mail creation is input into the electronic dictionary and translated into a foreign word or short sentence, and the translated word or short sentence is translated into the short-distance transmission / reception unit A reception buffer unit that is received from the electronic dictionary, stored, and inserted into a foreign language creation mail displayed on the display unit screen, and a foreign language displayed on the display unit screen Save a word or short sentence whose meaning is not understood in the received mail, send it to the electronic dictionary via the short-range transmission / reception unit, translate a foreign word or short sentence into a native language word or short sentence, and store it in the electronic dictionary Provided is a mobile phone comprising a transmission buffer unit to be displayed.

  Further, the present invention provides an electronic dictionary that supports e-mail creation and browsing, a word or short sentence input to the electronic dictionary from a native language to a foreign language, or a foreign language dictionary part that translates a foreign language into a native language, and a mobile phone A short-distance transmission / reception unit that performs short-distance communication between a telephone and the electronic dictionary; A transmission buffer unit that stores a foreign language word or short sentence translated by a word dictionary unit, and the foreign language word or short sentence stored from the transmission buffer unit via the short-distance transmission / reception unit; A send button for inserting into the foreign language mail being sent to and creating a foreign language word or short sentence not understood by the foreign language received mail from the mobile phone, A reception button for receiving via the short-distance transmission / reception unit; a reception buffer unit for storing the received foreign language word or short sentence; and a foreign language word or short sentence stored in the transmission buffer unit. An electronic dictionary comprising: a display unit for displaying and displaying the foreign language word or short sentence stored in the reception buffer unit and displaying the translated native language word or short sentence in the foreign language dictionary unit I will provide a.

  As described above, according to the present invention, a foreign language mail created in a foreign language other than the native language of the user of the mobile phone is displayed on the screen by the keypad operation, and the screen of the display unit of the mobile phone is displayed. Enter the native language word or short sentence to the electronic dictionary by keyboard operation to the unknown word or short sentence while composing the foreign language mail to be created, and convert the native language word or short sentence entered into the electronic dictionary to the foreign language word or short sentence Translated, translated foreign words or short sentences were saved, and the foreign words or short sentences saved by the electronic dictionary send button were sent from the electronic dictionary to the mobile phone by near field communication and displayed on the screen of the mobile phone The received foreign language word or short sentence is inserted into the foreign mail being created, so the foreign language word or short sentence checked using the electronic dictionary remains in the foreign language of the mobile phone. Can be transferred to the screen of mail creation, it is easy to e-mail created in a foreign language.

  In addition, the process of receiving mail in a foreign language other than the native language of the user of the mobile phone, and displaying the received foreign language mail on the screen of the mobile phone, and using the foreign language mail displayed on the mobile phone screen A word or short sentence in a foreign language whose meaning is unknown is identified and stored, a request signal is transmitted from the electronic information to the mobile phone by a short-distance communication using the reception button of the electronic dictionary, and the request signal is received by the mobile phone and stored. Foreign language words or short sentences are sent to the electronic dictionary by short-range communication, and the foreign language words or short sentences received by the electronic dictionary are translated into the native language words or short sentences, and the translated native language words or short sentences are translated into the electronic dictionary. Since it is displayed on the screen of the dictionary, words or short sentences whose meanings are not known can be transferred to the electronic dictionary as they are, and it becomes easy to view received mails in Chinese, which is a foreign language.

  In addition, the mobile phone has a small keypad and a small number of keys, so the input method is cumbersome. By inputting from the keypad of the electronic dictionary, it is difficult to input characters for foreign languages where character input is difficult. The burden is reduced.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is an external view showing a mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage system that supports foreign language mail creation and browsing according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, the mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage system that supports the creation and browsing of foreign language mails comprises a mobile phone 200 and an electronic dictionary 100. The mobile phone 200 and the electronic dictionary 100 perform infrared communication, and a program Operated by control.

In the following description, an example will be described in which a Japanese user of a mobile phone creates and transmits a foreign language mail other than Japanese in his native language, and receives and browses a foreign language mail.
Here, the mobile phone 200 has a normal telephone call and communication function, has a display unit 203 and a keypad 204, and particularly has an infrared receiving unit 201 and an infrared transmitting unit 202. The communication function of the mobile phone 200 is provided with a mail transmission / reception function and a foreign language mail creation and mail browsing support function, and there is no particular difference in appearance from a general mobile phone.

Here, the foreign language mail created by operating the keypad 204 is displayed on the display unit 203, and the foreign language mail received by the communication function is displayed. Note that. In the present invention, the call function itself is not a feature, and thus detailed description thereof is omitted.
The electronic dictionary 100 has functions of an English-Japanese dictionary, a Japanese-English dictionary, a Chinese-Japanese dictionary, and a Japanese-Chinese dictionary as examples of a national language dictionary and a foreign language dictionary, and includes a display unit 103 and a keyboard 104. The keyboard 104 includes a reception button 105, a transmission button 106, and a “translation / decision” button 107.

The reception button 105 has a function of requesting the mobile phone 200 to transmit a foreign language word or short sentence to be translated into Japanese, and the transmission button 106 carries a foreign language word or short sentence translated into a Japanese word or short sentence. The telephone 200 has a function of transmitting.
A translation / decision button 107 determines translation from Japanese to a foreign language, translation from a foreign language to Japanese, and the like.

The foreign language dictionary unit 128 is provided with an input field 128A and an output field 128B. Japanese and the like to be translated are input to the input field 128A, and the translated foreign language and the like are output to the output field 103B and displayed. The part 103 displays the input and output states.
Note that the display unit 203 of the mobile phone 200 and the display unit 103 of the electronic dictionary 100 display a screen of a state when a Chinese mail is created as an example.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the mobile phone 200 in FIG. As shown in the figure, the infrared receiving unit 201 inside the mobile phone 200 receives foreign language words or short sentence data or request signal data from the electronic dictionary 100. Here, the request signal data is data requesting a word or a short sentence to be translated.
A demodulating unit 211 is connected to the infrared receiving unit 201, and the demodulating unit 211 demodulates the received foreign language word or short sentence data and the request signal data.

A reception buffer unit 212 is connected to the demodulation unit 211, and the reception buffer unit 212 temporarily stores the demodulated foreign language received words or short sentences.
The reception buffer unit 212 is connected to the display unit 203 via a foreign language mail creation screen insertion unit 213. The foreign language mail creation screen insertion unit 213 inserts the foreign language received word or short sentence temporarily stored in the reception buffer unit 212 into the foreign language mail sentence being created on the display unit 203 by the keypad 204.

A foreign language mail transmission / reception unit 218 is connected to the display unit 203, and the foreign language mail transmission / reception unit 218 transmits the foreign language mail created on the display unit 203.
Here, the modulation unit 214 of the mobile phone 200 modulates the baseband signal in a modulation format suitable for the transmission method, and the demodulation unit 211 demodulates the received signal to form a baseband signal.
On the other hand, the foreign language mail transmission / reception unit 218 displays the received foreign language mail on the display unit 203.

A foreign language word / short text storage unit 216 is connected to the display unit 203. The foreign language word / short text storage unit 216 is a foreign language received mail displayed on the display unit 203 and is designated by the cursor by the user's keypad 204 operation. Stores foreign language words or short sentences.
A transmission buffer unit 215 is connected to the foreign language word / short sentence storage unit 216, and the transmission buffer unit 215 temporarily stores a foreign language word or short sentence from the foreign language word / short sentence storage unit 216.

A request signal decoding unit 217 is connected to the demodulation unit 211, and the request signal decoding unit 217 decodes and recognizes a request for a word or a short sentence to be translated from the request signal data demodulated from the demodulation unit 211.
A transmission buffer unit 215 is connected to the request signal decoding unit 217, and the transmission buffer unit 215 outputs a temporarily stored foreign language word or short sentence when the request signal data is input from the request signal decoding unit 217.

A modulation unit 214 is connected to the transmission buffer unit 215, and the modulation unit 214 modulates foreign language words or short text data input from the transmission buffer unit 215.
An infrared transmission unit 202 is connected to the modulation unit 214, and the infrared transmission unit 202 transmits the modulated foreign language word or short sentence data by infrared communication.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the electronic dictionary 100 in FIG. As shown in the figure, the infrared receiving unit 101 in the electronic dictionary 100 receives foreign language words or short sentence data from the infrared transmitting unit 202 of the mobile phone 200.

A demodulator 125 is connected to the infrared receiver 101, and the demodulator 125 demodulates the received foreign language word or short sentence data.
A reception buffer unit 126 is connected to the demodulation unit 125, and the reception buffer unit 126 temporarily stores foreign language received words or short sentence data demodulated by the demodulation unit 125.
The reception buffer unit 126 is connected to the display unit 103 via the input field insertion unit 127, and the input field insertion unit 127 stores received foreign words or short sentences temporarily stored in the reception buffer unit 126 in the foreign language dictionary unit 128. The state inserted into the input field 128A is displayed on the display unit 103.

  In the input field 128A of the foreign language dictionary unit 128, when there is a reading in a word or short sentence of a normal or native language, a reading of the word or short sentence is input instead of the word or short sentence itself. The input field insertion unit 127 is provided with a “transfer input” input field 127A. When a foreign language is directly transferred from the reception buffer unit 126 to the “transfer input” input field 127A, the transferred foreign language is input. Then, the foreign language dictionary unit 128 converts the reading into a reading, and inserts the converted reading into the input field 128 A of the foreign language dictionary unit 128.

A foreign language dictionary unit 128 is connected to the display unit 103. The foreign language dictionary unit 128 translates the received foreign language words or short sentences inserted and displayed in the input field 128A into Japanese and outputs them to the output field 128B. The state output to 128B is displayed on the display unit 103.
In addition, when there is an input to the “transfer input” input field 127A of the input field insertion unit 127, the “transfer input” input field screen is displayed on the display unit 103.

On the other hand, a word or a short sentence such as Japanese is input to the input field 128A of the foreign language dictionary unit 128 by operating the keyboard 104, the state is displayed on the display unit 103, and is translated into a foreign language by the foreign language dictionary unit 128. The state output to the output field 128 </ b> B is displayed on the display unit 103.
A transmission foreign language word / short sentence detection unit 123 is connected to the display unit 103, and the transmission word / short sentence detection unit 123 transmits a foreign language word or a word to be transmitted from the output field of the foreign language dictionary unit 128 via the display unit 103. Detect short sentences.

A transmission buffer unit 122 is connected to the transmission foreign language word / short sentence detection unit 123, and the transmission buffer unit 122 temporarily stores a foreign language word or short sentence to be transmitted detected by the transmission foreign language word / short sentence detection unit 123. The foreign language word or short sentence to be transmitted is output by operating the transmission button 106 of the keyboard 104.
A modulation unit 121 is connected to the transmission buffer unit 122, and a request signal generation unit 124 is connected to the modulation unit 121. The request signal generator 124 generates the above-described request signal data, that is, data for requesting a word or a short sentence to be translated by operating the reception button 105 of the keyboard 104.

The modulation unit 121 modulates the foreign language word or short sentence data to be transmitted from the transmission foreign language word / short sentence detection unit 123 and the request signal data of the request signal generation unit 124.
An infrared transmission unit 102 is connected to the modulation unit 121, and the infrared transmission unit 102 transmits a foreign word or short sentence to be transmitted and request signal data to the infrared reception unit 201 of the mobile phone 200 by infrared communication.

Here, similarly to the mobile phone 200, the modulation unit 121 of the electronic dictionary 100 modulates the baseband signal in a modulation format suitable for the transmission method, and the demodulation unit 125 demodulates the received signal into a baseband signal. .
Note that other communication methods such as Bluetooth communication can be used instead of the infrared communication of the mobile phone 200 and the electronic dictionary 100.

The operation of the mobile phone / electronic dictionary cooperation system that supports the foreign language mail function will be described in detail below. In this case, when sending and receiving mail with a Chinese mobile phone as the foreign mobile phone 200, the electronic dictionary 100 is a Japanese-Chinese dictionary that translates Japanese into Chinese and a Chinese-Japanese dictionary that translates Chinese into Japanese. Suppose that
In this description, the Chinese part should originally use Chinese simplified characters, but if Chinese simplified codes are used, characters may not be displayed correctly, so they are replaced with the corresponding Japanese characters. .

FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining an operation example for supporting the foreign language mail creation function. As shown in the figure, in step 301, Chinese mail is input with the keypad 204 on the Chinese mail creation screen of the display unit 203 in the mobile phone 200 made in China. For example, when it is desired to create an email with the content “I feel ~” in Chinese, it is assumed that “I (Japanese)” = “I (Chinese)” has been input.
In step 302, if the word or short Chinese to be input is not known, the process proceeds to the next step 303. If there is no unknown Chinese, the process is terminated and the creation of the mail is continued as it is.

  In step 303, Japanese for a Chinese word or short sentence that is unknown to the electronic dictionary 100 is input. That is, if you do not know what “feel (Japanese)” means in Chinese, use the dictionary selection key 111 of the electronic dictionary 100 to select a daytime dictionary and input “feel (Japanese)”. In this case, by operating the keyboard 104 of the electronic dictionary 100, “Kanji (Japanese)” is input to the input field 128A of the foreign language dictionary unit 128 and the state input to the input field 128A is displayed on the display unit 103. As for the input to the electronic dictionary 100, actually, the alphabet key 110 is used to use the Roman character input function to input “kanjiru” and convert it to “feel”. Normally, the keyboard 104 of the electronic dictionary 100 is larger in size than the keypad 204 of the mobile phone 200, so that the input operation becomes easy. This makes it possible to contribute to the solution of the first problem.

In step 304, the Japanese word or short sentence entered in the Japanese-Chinese dictionary of the foreign language dictionary unit 128 is translated into Chinese. That is, after inputting “Kanjiru (Japanese)”, the translation / decision button 107 is pressed, so that the screen of the display unit 103 in the electronic dictionary 100 on the left side of FIG. Are output and displayed in the output field 128B.
In step 305, a Chinese word or short sentence candidate is selected. If you want to use “sense” from three types of Chinese translations of “feel”, “sense”, and “acquisition” for “Kanjiru (Japanese)”, press the jump key 108 of the electronic dictionary 100. The cursor is displayed (indicated by an underline in FIG. 1), and the cursor is moved using the cursor movement keys (“→”, “←”, “↑”, “↓”) 109, and moved to “Sense”. In FIG. 1, the cursor is displayed only under the word “feel”, but it is recognized as the idiom “sense”.

  In step 306, the transmission foreign language word / short sentence detection unit 123 detects the Chinese word “sense” of the portion where the cursor is present as a Chinese word or short sentence data to be transmitted to the mobile phone 200, and detects this. As soon as possible, the data is transferred to the transmission buffer unit 122. Only one type of word or short sentence data can be temporarily stored in the transmission buffer unit 122 at the same time. When the cursor moves, new data is overwritten, and the previous data is discarded. In this state, when the transmission button 106 is pressed, the transmission buffer unit 122 delivers the stored Chinese word data to the modulation unit 121. The modulation unit 121 modulates the Chinese word data and sends it to the infrared receiving unit 101 and the infrared transmitting unit 102. An infrared signal of Chinese word data is emitted from the infrared transmitter 102 into the air.

  In step 307, the infrared signal from the infrared transmitter 102 is received by the infrared receiver 201 of the mobile phone 200. The reception signal of the Chinese word data is demodulated by the demodulator 211, temporarily stored in the reception buffer 212, and immediately delivered to the foreign language mail creation screen insertion unit 213. Foreign language mail creation screen insertion unit 213 inserts the Chinese word “sense” after “I” into the Chinese mail creation screen of display unit 203. In the state where “I” is input in step 301, the input cursor “I” on the Chinese mail creation screen of the display unit 203 is displayed in a state of “I”, and the received character “sense” is displayed. As a result of the insertion, a display state of “I Sense I” is obtained.

Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to transfer a foreign language word or short sentence examined using an electronic dictionary to a foreign language mail creation screen of a mobile phone as it is, making it easy to create a mail in a foreign language, The second problem is solved.
If Chinese also knows the pronunciation of Chinese, it may be input directly on the keypad 204 of the mobile phone 200, but the input method is troublesome because the keypad 204 is small and the number of keys is small. Therefore, by inputting from the keypad 104 of the electronic dictionary 100, the burden of character input is reduced in the case of Chinese where character input is difficult. This makes it possible to contribute to the solution of the first problem.

  FIG. 5 is a modified example of FIG. 1, and is an external view showing a mobile phone / electronic dictionary cooperation system in which a screen at the time of mail reception is displayed on the display unit 203 of the mobile phone 200 and the display unit 103 of the electronic dictionary 100. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example in which the state of the input field 128A and the output field 128B of the foreign language dictionary unit 128 of FIG. 5 is displayed on the display unit 103, and FIG. 7 is an operation example for supporting the received mail browsing function for foreign languages. It is a flowchart figure explaining these.

As shown in FIG. 7, in step 311, Chinese mail is received by the mobile phone 200 made in China on the right side of FIG. It is assumed that a Chinese received mail “Chinese times have come!” Is displayed on the screen of the display unit 203 of the mobile phone 200 in Chinese.
In step 312, if the received Chinese mail contains a Chinese word or short sentence whose meaning is unknown, the process proceeds to the next step 313, and if the Chinese word or short sentence whose meaning is unknown is not included, the process is performed. finish.

  In step 313, if a Chinese word or short sentence whose meaning is unknown is included, a request signal is transmitted to the mobile phone 200 when the reception button 105 of the electronic dictionary 100 is pressed. Here, it is assumed that the meaning of “return” included in the Chinese received mail is unknown. A cursor is displayed on “Circle” on the screen of the display unit 203 of the mobile phone 200. To move the cursor, when the “MENU” key 207 of the mobile phone 200 is pressed while the received mail is displayed, several menus are displayed. When “Copy” is selected from the menu, the display unit 203 is displayed. The character string on the screen can be copied.

In this state, use the cursor movement key 205 to move the cursor to the position of the character “times”, press the “decision” key 206, move the cursor again with the cursor movement key 205, and move the cursor to the character “coming”. And press the “OK” key 206. At this time, the Chinese word or short sentence data on the cursor is stored in the foreign language word / short sentence storage unit 216 of FIG. The stored Chinese word or short sentence data is immediately transferred to the transmission buffer unit 215. Only one type of word or short sentence is stored in the transmission buffer unit 215 at the same time. When the cursor moves, new data is overwritten and previous data is discarded.

When the cursor is displayed on the Chinese word “Mairai” whose meaning is unknown, when the reception button 105 on the electronic dictionary 100 in FIG. 5 is pressed, it is transmitted to the request signal generation unit 124 in FIG. Then, a request signal for transferring the Chinese word “turn” on the cursor to the electronic dictionary 100 is generated.
This request signal is modulated into a signal suitable for transmission by the modulation unit 121 and transmitted from the infrared transmission unit 102 to the air.

  In step 314, a Chinese word or short sentence whose meaning is unknown is transmitted from the mobile phone 200 to the electronic dictionary 100 upon reception of the request signal received by the infrared receiver 201 of the mobile phone 200. That is, when the received request signal is decoded and recognized as a request signal by the request signal decoding unit 217 as a baseband signal demodulated by the demodulation unit 211, the transmission buffer unit 215 is instructed to transmit the contents of the transmission buffer. . The content of the transmission buffer, that is, the Chinese word “return” data in the display portion of the cursor of the received mail is modulated by the modulation unit 214 into a signal suitable for transmission, and is transmitted from the infrared transmission unit 202 to the air.

  In step 315, the signal from the mobile phone 200 is received by the infrared receiving unit 101 of the electronic dictionary 100. The electronic dictionary 100 translates and displays received Chinese words or short sentences whose meaning is unknown. That is, in the electronic dictionary 100, the received signal is demodulated by the demodulating unit 125, temporarily stored as a baseband signal in the receiving buffer unit 126, and then immediately delivered to the input field inserting unit 127. On the other hand, in the electronic dictionary 100, when the Chunichi dictionary is selected by operating the dictionary selection key 111, when the reception button 105 is pressed in the Chunichi dictionary function of the foreign language dictionary unit 128 as shown in FIG. A “transfer input” screen of the display unit 103 that is not in the electronic dictionary is displayed.

Normally, in the Chinese-Japanese dictionary, if you want to translate Chinese into Japanese, you do not enter Chinese directly, but you do it with Pinyin, which is a Chinese reading, but Chinese is entered directly from the mobile phone into the electronic dictionary. Because.
The data delivered to the input field insertion unit 127 is automatically input to the “transfer input” input field 127A and displayed on the “transfer input” screen of the display unit 103 at the same time. In FIG. 5, the display unit 103 displays a state in which “return” is input in the “transfer input” input field 127 A of the input field insertion unit 127. When the “translation / decision” key 107 of the electronic dictionary 100 is pressed in this state, the conversion of “Pinyin” “huilai” of “Circle” is performed, and the input field 128A of the foreign language dictionary unit 128 is directly displayed as shown in FIG. “Huilai” is input and displayed on the display unit 103, the Japanese translation by the foreign language dictionary unit 128 is output to the output field 128 B, and the state of the output field 128 B is “returned. Is displayed.

In the case of a Chinese-Japanese dictionary, there is usually no method for directly inputting Chinese. In the present invention, the input field insertion unit 127 is provided with a “transfer input” input field 127A, and the display unit 103 has a transfer input screen. Provided.
Therefore, according to the present invention, words or short sentences whose meanings are not known can be transferred to the electronic dictionary as they are, and it becomes easy to view received mails in Chinese, which is a foreign language, and the third problem is solved.

  In the case of an English-Japanese dictionary, the alphabet is directly input into the input field 128A of the foreign language dictionary unit 128, and the input to the “transfer input” input field 127A of the input field insertion unit 127 is as in the case of a Chinese-Japanese dictionary. There is no need to provide a transfer input screen on the display unit 103.

If you want to use the Chinese word “understanding” when composing mail on the mobile phone 200, even if the mail creator knows Pinyin (lijie: equivalent to Japanese romaji as described above) It is possible to input from the keyboard 104 of the electronic dictionary 100 instead of from the keypad 204 of the mobile phone 200 as follows.
FIG. 8 is a modified example of FIG. 1 and is an external view showing an example of an electronic dictionary 100 that is actively used when creating a Chinese mail on the mobile phone 200. As shown in the figure, in the electronic dictionary 100, the dictionary is selected by the operation of the dictionary selection key 111 of the keyboard 104, and “understanding” pinyin is input by the operation of the alphabet key 110. 103 is displayed in the input field 103A, and the “translation / decision” button 107 is pressed to convert it into a Chinese translation. In the output field 103B, five types of the words “dissolution”, “respect”, “understanding”, You can find “force command” and “notification”. Among these, “understand” is selected by the cursor movement key 109. In FIG. 7, the cursor is placed over the entire “understanding” line. In the transmission foreign language word / short sentence detection unit 123 of FIG. 3, only the “understanding” portion selected by the cursor is extracted and delivered to the transmission buffer unit 122.

  In this way, “understanding” is inserted into the mail creation screen of the mobile phone 200. In other words, when the Chinese mail is created, the Chinese reading is converted into Chinese by the electronic dictionary 100, and the converted Chinese can be input from the electronic dictionary 100 to the mobile phone 200. In this way, the size of the keypad of the mobile phone is small and the number of keys is small, so the operability of the character input keypad is generally not good, but depending on the foreign language such as Chinese Further, it is possible to contribute to solving the first problem that the character input property becomes difficult.

  When creating a mail in English as a foreign language, when inputting from the keyboard 104 of the electronic dictionary 100 instead of from the keypad 204 of the mobile phone 200, an English-Japanese dictionary is selected by operating the dictionary selection key 111, and the alphabet By operating the key 110, an English spelling is input to the input field 128A of the foreign language dictionary unit 128 via the display unit 103, and when it is displayed on the display unit 103, it is handed over to the transmission buffer unit 122 as it is. In other words, translation into Japanese is not performed. In other words, English can be input from the electronic dictionary 100 to the mobile phone 200 when an English mail is created. In this way, it is possible to contribute to the solution of the first problem.

  The above description has been mainly made on the mobile phone 200 made in China, but the mobile phone 200 made in China is made in the United States, United Kingdom, Korea, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Arabic-speaking countries. For each mobile phone 200 including foreign, Spanish and Portuguese, the electronic dictionary 100 includes a Japanese-English dictionary, an English-Japanese dictionary, a Japanese-Korean dictionary, a Korean-Japanese dictionary, a Japanese-French dictionary, a French-Japanese dictionary, and a Japanese-German dictionary. Dictionary, German-Japanese dictionary, Japanese-Italian dictionary, Italian-Japanese dictionary, Russian-Japanese dictionary, Russian-Japanese dictionary, Japanese-Japanese dictionary, Japanese-Japanese dictionary, Japanese-Japanese, Japanese-Japanese, Japanese-Japanese, Japanese-Japanese In cooperation with the mobile phone 200 and the electronic dictionary 100, Japanese is input to the electronic dictionary 100 for words or short sentences that are not understood in the creation of foreign language mail, the translated foreign language is transmitted to the mobile phone 200, and the mail composition is made. Foreign language emails to be inserted Support, further, to send the word or short do not know the meaning in a foreign e-mail received by the electronic dictionary 100, to enable the mail receiving and viewing support of foreign language to be displayed translated into Japanese.

  In the above explanation, Japanese-made mobile phones were used by Japanese people to support the creation and browsing of emails in foreign languages other than Japanese, but conversely, Japanese-made mobile phones were used by foreigners. When a mail is created and viewed in Japanese other than its own language, the “mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage system supporting mail creation and viewing” of the present invention can be implemented. In this case, foreigners need to have some proficiency in Japanese.

In addition, foreigners use mobile phones made in foreign languages to create and browse emails in foreign languages other than Japanese, and foreigners use Japanese mobile phones to create emails in foreign languages. In addition to browsing, American mobile phones are used by Koreans to create and read emails in English other than their own language, Korean mobile phones are used by Americans to create and read emails in Korean other than their own, China Americans use Chinese mobile phones to create and read emails in Chinese other than their home country, Chinese mobile phones used by Americans to create and read emails in English outside their home country, Korean mobile phones made in China If you use a Korean mobile phone and create or view a mail in Korean other than your home country, you can use the , It is possible to carry out the mobile phone / electronic dictionary cooperation system "to support the view.
In this case, Americans, Chinese, and Koreans need to have some proficiency in English, Chinese, and Korean other than their own languages.

  Furthermore, when there is a foreign language mail function in addition to the native language mail function of the mobile phone, when sending / receiving mail in a foreign language with a foreigner who is in his / her own country, The mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage system that supports browsing ”can be implemented.

  Although the above description has been given for a mobile phone, the present invention is not limited to this and can be used for a PDA (personal digital assistant) and a PHS (simple mobile phone).

1 is an external view showing a mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage system that supports foreign language mail creation and browsing according to the present invention. It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure which concerns on the mobile telephone 200 in FIG. It is a block diagram which shows schematic structure which concerns on the electronic dictionary 100 in FIG. It is a flowchart figure explaining the operation example which supports the mail preparation function of a foreign language. FIG. 8 is a modified example of FIG. 1, and is an external view showing a mobile phone / electronic dictionary cooperation system in which a screen at the time of mail reception is displayed on the display unit 203 of the mobile phone 200 and the display unit 103 of the electronic dictionary 100. It is a figure which shows the input field 103A and the output field 103B of the electronic dictionary 100 of FIG. It is a flowchart figure explaining the operation example which supports the received mail browsing function of a foreign language. FIG. 6 is an external view showing an example of an electronic dictionary 100 that is a modification of FIG. 1 and is actively used when creating a Chinese mail on the mobile phone 200;

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 ... Electronic dictionary 101 ... Infrared receiving part 102 ... Infrared transmitting part 103 ... Display part 104 ... Keyboard 105 ... Receive button 106 ... Send button 107 ... "Translation / decision" button 108 ... Jump key 109 ... Cursor movement key 110 ... Alphabet key 111 ... Dictionary selection key 121 ... Modulation unit 122 ... Transmission buffer unit 123 ... Transmission foreign language word / short sentence detection unit 124 ... Request signal generation unit 125 ... Demodulation unit 126 ... Reception buffer unit 127 ... Input field insertion unit 127A ... "Transfer input""Input field 128 ... Foreign language dictionary 128A ... Input field 128B ... Output field 200 ... Mobile phone 201 ... Infrared receiver 202 ... Infrared transmitter 203 ... Display 204 ... Keypad 205 ... Cursor key 206 ... Enter key 207 ... MENU Key 211 ... demodulator 212 Reception buffer unit 213 ... foreign language mail creation screen insert 214 ... modulating portion 215 ... transmission buffer section 216 ... foreign language words or short storage unit 217 ... request signal decoding unit 218 ... foreign language mail transceiver

Claims (18)

In a mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage system that supports email creation and browsing,
A foreign language mail sending and receiving unit that sends and receives mail in a foreign language other than the native language of the user of the mobile phone;
A display unit of a mobile phone displaying a foreign language mail created by keypad operation on the screen or displaying a foreign language mail received by the mail transmission / reception unit;
A mobile phone that stores a foreign language word or short sentence that is not understood by a foreign language mail created on the screen of the mobile phone and inserts it in a foreign language created mail displayed on the screen of the mobile phone A reception buffer section;
A transmission buffer unit of a mobile phone for storing words or short sentences whose meaning is not understood in a foreign language received mail displayed on the screen of the display unit of the mobile phone;
Translate a word or short sentence entered in the electronic dictionary from its native language into a foreign language, or translate a foreign language into its own language,
A short-range transmission / reception unit for performing short-range communication between the mobile phone and the electronic dictionary;
When a native language word or short sentence for a word or short sentence that is not known during the creation of the foreign language mail is input to the electronic dictionary by keyboard operation, the native language word or short sentence is displayed and displayed. A foreign language word or short sentence translated by the foreign language dictionary part, and an electronic dictionary display part for displaying the translated foreign word or short sentence;
A transmission buffer unit of the electronic dictionary for storing the words or short sentences of the foreign language displayed on the display unit of the electronic dictionary;
A reception buffer unit of an electronic dictionary that receives and stores a foreign word or short sentence from the transmission buffer unit of the mobile phone via the short-range transmission / reception unit;
A transmission button for transmitting a foreign language word or short sentence from the transmission buffer unit of the electronic dictionary to the reception buffer unit of the mobile phone via the short-range transmission / reception unit;
Requests from the electronic dictionary that a foreign language word or short sentence is received from the transmission buffer unit of the mobile phone via the short-range transmission / reception unit, and the foreign word or short sentence received by the request is stored in the electronic dictionary. A mobile phone / electronic dictionary cooperation system for supporting creation and browsing of mail, comprising a reception button stored in a reception buffer unit. The mobile phone is provided with a foreign language mail creation screen insertion unit, and the foreign language mail creation screen insertion unit is located at the cursor position during the creation of foreign language mail on the screen of the display unit of the mobile phone. The mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage system for supporting mail creation and browsing according to claim 1, wherein a foreign language word or short sentence from the department is inserted. The mobile phone is provided with a foreign language word / short sentence storage unit, and the foreign language word / short sentence storage unit displays the foreign language mail received by the mail transmission / reception unit on the display unit of the mobile phone, and the cursor 2. The mail according to claim 1, wherein when a word or short sentence whose meaning is unknown is specified by moving the mobile phone, the specified foreign word or short sentence is stored and stored in the transmission buffer unit of the mobile phone. A mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage system that supports creation and browsing. The electronic dictionary is provided with a transmission foreign language word / short sentence detection unit, and the transmission foreign language word / short sentence detection unit displays a foreign language word or short sentence on a screen of the display unit of the electronic dictionary. 2. The mobile phone for supporting mail creation and browsing according to claim 1, wherein when a foreign language word or short sentence is selected, the selected foreign language word or short sentence is stored in the transmission buffer unit. / Electronic dictionary linkage system. The electronic dictionary includes an input field insertion unit, and the input field insertion unit inserts a foreign language word or short sentence from the reception buffer unit of the electronic dictionary into the input field of the foreign language dictionary unit, The mobile phone for supporting creation and browsing of e-mails according to claim 1, wherein the mobile phone is translated into a short sentence and a foreign language word or a short sentence translated into a native language word or a short sentence is displayed on the display unit of the electronic dictionary. Telephone / electronic dictionary linkage system. The input field insertion unit is provided with a “transfer input” input field, and the “transfer input” input field is not capable of directly inputting a foreign language or native language by the foreign language dictionary unit, and reads a foreign language or native language. When the foreign language is directly delivered from the reception buffer unit, the foreign language delivered is input, and the foreign language dictionary unit converts the reading and converts the converted reading. The mobile phone / electronic dictionary cooperation system according to claim 1, wherein the mail is inserted into an input field of the foreign language dictionary section. A request signal generator is provided in the electronic dictionary, and the request signal generator generates a request signal by the reception button and transmits the request signal to the mobile phone via the short-range transmitter / receiver. The request signal decoding unit receives the request signal from the request signal generation unit, decodes the request signal, and transmits a foreign word or short sentence to the transmission buffer unit of the mobile phone when the request signal is recognized. The mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage system for supporting creation and browsing of mail according to claim 1, characterized in that: When there are a plurality of foreign language words or short sentence candidates displayed on the display unit of the electronic dictionary, one candidate is selected by moving the cursor and stored in the transmission buffer unit of the electronic dictionary, A mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage system that supports the creation and browsing of mail according to claim 1. The mobile phone / electronic dictionary cooperation system according to claim 1, wherein the short-range transmission / reception unit is an infrared transmission / reception unit or a Bluetooth transmission / reception unit. When a foreign language mail is created on the mobile phone, a foreign language word or short sentence reading is input to the electronic dictionary by keyboard operation and converted to a foreign language, and the converted foreign language is transmitted to the mobile phone by the send button. The mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage system for supporting mail creation and browsing according to claim 1, wherein the mail is inserted into a foreign language mail being created. For each mobile phone, including Japanese, Chinese, American, British, Korean, French, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic foreign, Spanish, Portuguese The electronic dictionary having at least one dictionary function from a foreign language to a native language into a foreign language supports creation of foreign language mail and browsing of foreign language received mail on the mobile phone. A mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage system that supports the creation and browsing of listed emails. It has a native language mail function, and also has foreign languages including at least one of Japanese, Chinese, English, Korean, French, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese For mobile phones with mail functions, create electronic mails in foreign languages on the mobile phone and view foreign language received mails with an electronic dictionary that has at least one dictionary function from native languages to foreign languages and foreign languages to native languages. The mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage system for supporting creation and browsing of mail according to claim 1, characterized in that: In the mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage method that supports mail creation and browsing,
Displaying a foreign language e-mail created in a foreign language other than the native language of the user of the mobile phone by keypad operation on the screen;
Inputting a native language word or short sentence to a word or short sentence that is not understood during creation of the foreign language mail created on the screen of the display unit of the mobile phone into an electronic dictionary by keyboard operation;
Translating a native language word or short sentence entered into the electronic dictionary into a foreign language word or short sentence;
Storing the translated foreign word or short sentence;
Sending a foreign language word or short sentence saved by the transmission button of the electronic dictionary from the electronic dictionary to the mobile phone by short-range communication;
A method of linking a mobile phone / electronic dictionary for supporting mail creation and browsing, comprising the step of inserting the received foreign language word or short sentence into the foreign mail being created displayed on the screen of the mobile phone . In the mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage method that supports mail creation and browsing,
Receiving mail in a foreign language other than the native language of the user of the mobile phone;
Displaying the received foreign language mail on the screen of the mobile phone;
Identifying and storing a foreign language word or short sentence whose meaning is not understood by a foreign language mail displayed on the screen of the mobile phone; and
Transmitting a request signal by short-range communication from the electronic information to the mobile phone by a reception button of an electronic dictionary;
Upon receiving the request signal by the mobile phone, transmitting a stored foreign language word or short sentence to the electronic dictionary by short-range communication;
Translating the foreign language word or short sentence received in the electronic dictionary into a native language word or short sentence;
And displaying the translated native language word or short sentence on the screen of the electronic dictionary. A mobile phone / electronic dictionary cooperation method for supporting mail creation and browsing. In a program that executes a mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage that supports mail creation and browsing on a computer,
A procedure for displaying foreign language mails created in a foreign language other than the native language of the mobile phone user by keypad operation on the screen,
A procedure for executing input to the electronic dictionary by keyboard operation of a native language word or short sentence with respect to a word or short sentence that is not understood during creation of the foreign language mail created on the screen of the display unit of the mobile phone;
A procedure for performing a translation of a native language word or a short sentence into a foreign language word or a short sentence entered in the electronic dictionary;
A procedure for storing the translated foreign words or short sentences;
A procedure for performing transmission from the electronic dictionary to the mobile phone by short-range communication of foreign words or short sentences stored by the transmission button of the electronic dictionary;
Mobile phone / electronic dictionary cooperation for supporting mail creation and browsing, characterized in that it includes a procedure for inserting the received word or short sentence of the foreign language into the foreign mail being created displayed on the screen of the mobile phone A program that runs on a computer. In a program that executes a mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage that supports mail creation and browsing on a computer,
Procedures for receiving emails in foreign languages other than the native language of the user of the mobile phone,
A procedure for displaying the received foreign language mail on the screen of the mobile phone;
A procedure for identifying and storing a foreign language word or short sentence whose meaning is not understood in a foreign language mail displayed on the screen of the mobile phone; and
A procedure for executing transmission of a request signal by short-range communication from the electronic information to the mobile phone by a reception button of an electronic dictionary;
A procedure of executing transmission of a stored foreign language word or short sentence to the electronic dictionary by short-range communication upon receipt of the request signal by the mobile phone;
A procedure for translating the native language word or short sentence received in the electronic dictionary into the native language word or short sentence;
A program for executing on a computer a mobile phone / electronic dictionary linkage that supports mail creation and browsing, comprising: displaying the translated words or short sentences of the native language on a screen of the electronic dictionary. In mobile phones that create and view emails,
A foreign language mail sending and receiving unit that sends and receives mail in a foreign language other than the native language of the user of the mobile phone;
A short-range transceiver for short-range communication between electronic dictionaries;
A display unit for displaying a foreign language mail created by keypad operation on the screen or a foreign language mail received by the mail transmission / reception unit;
The native language word or short sentence for a word or short sentence that is not known during the creation of the foreign language mail on the display unit is input to the electronic dictionary and translated into a foreign language word or short sentence, and the translated word or short sentence is translated A reception buffer unit that is received from the electronic dictionary via the short-distance transmission / reception unit, stored, and inserted into a foreign language creation mail displayed on the display unit screen;
A word or short sentence whose meaning is not understood in the foreign language received mail displayed on the screen of the display unit is stored and transmitted to the electronic dictionary via the short-distance transmission / reception unit, and the foreign language word or short sentence is automatically stored. A mobile phone comprising: a transmission buffer section that translates into a Japanese word or a short sentence and displays it in the electronic dictionary. In an electronic dictionary that supports mail creation and browsing,
Translate a word or short sentence entered in the electronic dictionary from its native language into a foreign language, or translate a foreign language into its own language,
A short-range transmission / reception unit that performs short-range communication between a mobile phone and the electronic dictionary;
A transmission buffer unit for storing a foreign language word or short sentence translated by the foreign language dictionary unit by inputting a native language word or short sentence to the unknown word or short sentence during keyboard creation by the mobile phone; ,
A transmission button for inserting the foreign language word or short sentence stored from the transmission buffer unit into the foreign language mail being created and transmitted to the mobile phone via the short-range transmission / reception unit;
A receive button for receiving a foreign language word or short sentence not understood by a foreign language received mail from the mobile phone via the short-range transmission / reception unit;
A reception buffer unit for storing the received foreign language word or short sentence;
The foreign language word or short sentence stored in the transmission buffer unit is displayed, the foreign language word or short sentence stored in the reception buffer unit is translated in the foreign language dictionary unit, and the translated native word or short sentence An electronic dictionary, comprising: a display unit that displays

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