JP2007133684A - Sentence conversion device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sentence conversion device converting a sentence sent as an electronic mail on the basis of information stored in an address book including a destination address of the electronic mail. <P>SOLUTION: When converting the sentence set as the electronic mail, a conversion parameter transmitted by control of a mail control part, and produced on the basis of the information stored in the address book is received (step S41b), a kana character is received (step S41c), and the kana character is ordered and converted according to the received conversion parameter (step S41d). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a text conversion apparatus, and more particularly, to a process for converting text sent as an electronic mail.

Electronic mail is transmitted and received using many types of devices including mobile communication terminal devices. Not only sentences sent as e-mails, it is necessary to appropriately use expression forms, that is, dialect expressions, child expressions, honorific expressions, etc., when preparing sentences. Therefore, a process of converting a sentence into a target expression form is known (for example, see Patent Document 1).
Japanese Patent Laying-Open No. 2002-297581 (page 2-3, FIG. 3)

  However, in the method disclosed in Patent Document 1 described above, there is a problem that a sentence sent as an e-mail is not considered to be converted into an appropriate expression form depending on the person receiving the e-mail. there were.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and provides a text conversion device that converts text sent as an e-mail based on information stored in an address book including an e-mail destination address. With the goal.

  To achieve the above object, a text conversion device of the present invention includes a mail address, address book storage means for storing attribute information registered corresponding to the mail address, and the mail address and mail text. A mail creating means for creating a sent mail; and searching the address book storage means based on a mail address included in the sent mail created by the mail creating means, and creating the mail based on the obtained attribute And a character converting means for converting the text of the mail body created by the means.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the text conversion apparatus which converts the text sent as an email based on the information memorize | stored in the address book containing the destination address of an email can be provided.

  Embodiments of a text conversion device according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(First embodiment)
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a mobile communication terminal device to which a text conversion device according to a first embodiment of the present invention is applied. The mobile communication terminal device includes a control unit 11 that controls the entire device, an antenna 12a that transmits and receives radio waves to and from a base station (not shown), a communication unit 12b, a transmission and reception unit 13, and a speaker 14a. , Microphone 14b, call unit 14c, display unit 15, input device 16, address book control unit 21, address book data 22, mail control unit 31, destination information analysis unit 32, editor control A unit 41 and dictionary data 42 are included.

  FIG. 2 shows an example of the address book data 22. The address book data 22 includes information of a set of a name 22a, a telephone number 22b, a mail address 22c, an address 22d, a date of birth 22e, and a group 22f. The name 22a, the telephone number 22b, the mail address 22c, the address 22d, and the date of birth 22e are well-known information stored in the address book, and are attribute information of a person identified by the name 22a. The group 22f is arbitrary information that is given to a set of information and stored by the user of the apparatus.

  FIG. 2 shows the name 22a as “Taro XX”, the telephone number 22b as “06125345678”, the mail address 22c as “aaa@bb.cc.jp”, the address 22d as “Osaka Prefecture”, and the date of birth 22e. It is shown that the address book data 22 includes one set of information “January 1, 1995” and “child” as the group 22f.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of the dictionary data 42. The dictionary data 42 is composed of a set of information of a kana character 42a, a character 42b including a Chinese character, and an expression form 42c. The kana character 42a is information composed of phonetic characters, for example, hiragana character information, but is not limited thereto, and may be, for example, Roman character information. The character 42b including the kanji is not limited to the kanji but is information including characters including ideograms, but is not limited thereto. A phonetic character may be included, a symbol character may be included, or only a phonetic character may be included.

  For example, by searching the dictionary data 42 using the kana character 42a as a search key, a character 42b including one or a plurality of kanji characters that are candidates for converting the kana character 42a is obtained. The expression form 42c shows the expression form of the character 42b including a Chinese character, and consists of zero or more expression types. Here, the types of expression of the expression form 42c include “honorifics”, “children”, and “xx dialect” (where xx is a local name such as “Osaka”, for example). The character 42b including kanji indicates whether it is honorific expression, child-oriented expression, or xx local dialect expression.

  FIG. 3 shows a pair of information of a kana character 42a, a character 42b including a kanji character, and an expression form 42c, a pair of “Like”, “Good”, no expression type, “Like”, and “Ena ”And“ Osaka dialect ”,“ Like ”and“ Like ”pairs with no expression, and“ Like ”,“ Eyeone ”, and“ Osaka dialect, children ”pairs The data 42 is stored.

  The operation of each part of the mobile communication terminal apparatus configured as described above according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. First, the communication unit 12b outputs the high-frequency signal received by the antenna 12a to the transmission / reception unit 13, and transmits the high-frequency signal output from the transmission / reception unit 13 from the antenna 12a.

  The transmission / reception unit 13 amplifies, frequency-converts and demodulates the high-frequency signal from the communication unit 12b, and sends the digital voice signal obtained thereby to the call unit 14c and the control signal to the control unit 11. Further, the digital voice signal output from the communication unit 14c and the control signal output from the control unit 11 are modulated, frequency converted and amplified to obtain a high frequency signal, which is sent to the communication unit 12b.

  Next, the calling unit 14c converts the digital audio signal output from the transmission / reception unit 13 into an analog audio signal, amplifies it, and sends it to the speaker 14a. The analog audio signal output from the microphone 14 b is amplified, converted into a digital audio signal, and transmitted to the transmission / reception unit 13.

  Next, the operation of the display unit 15 will be described. The display unit 15 is controlled by the control unit 11 to display characters / numbers and image data including a cursor, and the displayed data responds to an input operation or an incoming signal from the input device 16. In response to an instruction from the control unit 11, switching is performed.

  The input device 16 designates the telephone number of the communication partner, and is a numeric key for inputting alphabetic characters that are addresses of e-mail recipients, hiragana characters that are e-mail texts, etc. by a toggle type input method And a plurality of function keys including a cursor movement key. When the key of the input device 16 is operated, the identifier of the key is notified to the control unit 11 and displayed on the display unit 15 as characters or controlled by the control unit 11.

  Next, the operation of the address book control unit 21 will be described. The address book control unit 21 is a device that stores information in the address book data 22 and searches for information stored in the address book data 22. That is, the address book control unit 21 is activated by the control unit 11 when the user operates a predetermined key of the input device 16 and starts an operation of storing information in the address book data 22. Subsequently, the address book control unit 21 uses a name 22a, a telephone number 22b, an e-mail address 22c, an address by a character input by the input device 16 or a character converted by the editor control unit 41. Information of 22d, date of birth 22e, and group 22f is created, and a set of these information is stored in the address book data 22.

  The address book control unit 21 is activated by the control unit 11 when the user operates a predetermined key of the input device 16, and starts an operation of searching for information stored in the address book data 22. Subsequently, the address book control unit 21 follows the predetermined key operation of the input device 16 so that the name 22a, the telephone number 22b, the mail address 22c, the address 22d, the date of birth 22e, and 1 in the group 22f. The address book data 22 is searched using information of one or a plurality of items as a search key. Here, sequential access may be performed in a predetermined order without using the search by the search key.

  The address book control unit 21 displays the retrieved set of information on the display unit 15 and transmits it to each unit of the apparatus. For example, the telephone number 22b is transmitted to the control unit 11, and the control unit 11 is caused to make a call to the telephone number 22b. Further, as will be described later, the mail address 22c is transmitted to the mail control unit 31, and an electronic mail is transmitted to the mail address 22c.

  Furthermore, the address book control unit 21 is activated by the control unit 11 in accordance with an instruction from each unit of the apparatus, and searches the address book data 22 by using a search key transmitted from each unit that activated the address book control unit 21. Then, the retrieved set of information is transmitted to each unit.

  Next, the operation of the mail control unit 31 will be described. The mail control unit 31 is a device that transmits and receives electronic mail. That is, the mail control unit 31 is activated by the control unit 11 when the user operates a predetermined key of the input device 16 and starts an e-mail transmission operation.

  Subsequently, the mail control unit 31 creates a destination mail address of the e-mail according to a predetermined key operation of the input device 16 or causes the address book control unit 21 to search for the destination mail address. Then, by creating a title and body data of an e-mail composed of characters input by the input device 16 or characters converted by the editor control unit 41, a destination email address, a title, and body data Create an e-mail (outgoing mail) consisting of Then, the created title and / or text data is converted to the editor control unit 41 in accordance with a predetermined key operation of the input device 16. Note that before the editor control unit 41 converts characters, the mail control unit 31 activates the partner information analysis unit 32 to perform the second operation, and controls the conversion operation.

  Next, the mail control unit 31 transmits the created transmission mail or the transmission mail created and further converted by the editor control unit 41 to the transmission / reception unit 13 via the control unit 11. This transmitted mail is further transmitted to a mail server device (not shown) via the communication unit 12b, the antenna 12a, and the base station.

  Further, the mail control unit 31 receives an e-mail (received mail) sent from the mail server device via the base station, the antenna 12a, the communication unit 12b, and the transmission / reception unit 13 via the control unit 11, and the received reception is received. The mail is stored in a storage unit (not shown) in the mail control unit 31, and the operation ends. The mail control unit 31 is a display unit that displays a list of received mails that are activated by the control unit 11 and stored in the storage unit in the mail control unit 31 when the user operates a predetermined key of the input device 16. 15 to display. When an identifier of a predetermined key transmitted from the input device 16 is received, one of the received mails is selected, and the selected received mail is sent to the display unit 15 for display.

  Next, the operation of the partner information analysis unit 32 will be described. The counterparty information analysis unit 32 is an apparatus that controls the operation of the editor control unit 41 by reading the address book data 22, creating a conversion parameter, which will be described later, of the type of expression, and sending it to the editor control unit 41. The operation is composed of a first operation and a second operation.

  The first operation of the counterparty information analysis unit 32 is an operation for storing a setting for creating the conversion parameter from which attribute of the address book data 22, and a predetermined function key of the input device 16 is operated. Is started by the control unit 11 and starts operating. Then, user settings are entered.

  FIG. 4 shows an example of contents displayed on the display unit 15 by the first operation of the counterparty information analysis unit 32 in order to input the user's settings. That is, in the pictogram column 15a at the top of the display unit 15, the control unit 11 includes a pictograph (not shown) composed of an antenna shape indicating the intensity of received radio waves and 0 to 3 vertical lines, a rechargeable battery ( A pictograph (not shown) having a battery shape indicating the remaining amount of power stored in the battery (not shown) is always displayed.

  In the processing unit display column 15b whose display is controlled by the counterparty information analysis unit 32, a processing display column 15c, a dependency item 15d, and an instruction display column 15e are displayed in order from the top to the bottom. In the process display field 15c, a character “● expression form setting menu” is displayed, which indicates that the display by the first operation of the counterparty information analysis unit 32 is being performed. In the dependency item display field 15d, items in which three attribute names “address”, “age”, and “group” and a character string “cancel” are displayed are sequentially displayed vertically. In the instruction display field 15e, “setting” and “end” indicating the instruction are displayed.

  When the display shown in FIG. 4 is displayed, an item displayed in the dependent item display field 15d is selected by a predetermined function key operation of the input device 16 that moves the cursor up and down. The selected item is displayed differently from the other items, for example, a different color.

  When a predetermined function key of the input device 16 corresponding to the “setting” instruction displayed in the instruction display field 15e is operated while an item is selected, the counterpart information analysis unit 32 selects the selected item. Indicates an attribute name, that is, “address”, “age” or “group”, the attribute name is stored in the counterparty information analysis unit 32. Here, when the attribute name is repeatedly selected, it is stored that the previously selected attribute name is prioritized. When the selected item is a line made up of a character string “cancel”, the counterparty information analysis unit 32 deletes the attribute name stored in the counterparty information analysis unit 32.

  Further, when a predetermined function key of the input device 16 corresponding to “END” displayed in the instruction display field 15e is operated, the counterpart information analysis unit 32 ends the first operation.

  The second operation of the partner information analysis unit 32 is started by the mail control unit 31 with the destination mail address of the transmission mail as an argument when the mail control unit 31 creates the transmission mail. Then, the partner information analysis unit 32 instructs the address book control unit 21 to search the address book data 22 for a set of information in which the mail address 22c equal to the destination mail address given as an argument is stored.

  Subsequently, the counterpart information analysis unit 32 creates a conversion parameter from the retrieved set of information and the attribute name stored in the counterpart information analysis unit 32 by the first operation, and the created conversion parameter Is transmitted to the editor control unit 41 via the mail control unit 31. If the attribute name is not stored in the counterparty information analysis unit 32 by the first operation, the counterparty information analysis unit 32 does not create a conversion parameter. As a result, the conversion parameter is not transmitted.

  Here, the conversion parameters will be described. FIG. 5 shows an example of the conversion parameter. The conversion parameter 32a includes one or more and three or less parameters of the first parameter 32b1, ..., the third parameter 32b3. Here, the n-th parameter 32bn is an expression stored in the expression form 42c of the dictionary data 42 created according to the attribute name stored as the n-th priority in the opponent information analysis unit 32 by the first operation. (Where 1 ≦ n ≦ 3). The conversion parameter 32a shown in FIG. 5 includes a first parameter 32b1 “Osaka dialect” and a second parameter 32b2 “child”, and does not include the third parameter 32b3.

  The counterparty information analysis unit 32 creates the nth parameter 32bn from the attribute name stored as the nth priority as follows. That is, when the attribute name is “address”, the counterparty information analysis unit 32 uses the area code of the telephone number 22b of the information set retrieved from the address book data 22 and / or the address 22d of the set. The residence of the recipient of the transmission mail is searched, and the dialect of that residence is set as the nth parameter 32bn. For example, if the place of residence is Osaka, the editor control unit 41 is controlled by setting “Osaka dialect” to give a higher rank to the Osaka dialect expression.

  When the attribute name is “age”, the counterparty information analysis unit 32 calculates the age of the recipient of the transmitted mail from the date of birth 22e of the information set retrieved from the address book data 22, and the age is When the first predetermined age is not reached, the editor control unit 41 is controlled by setting “child” as the n-th parameter 32bn so that, for example, difficult words are avoided, and simple words are ranked higher.

  If the age is equal to or higher than the first predetermined age and is not lower than the second predetermined age, the counterpart information analysis unit 32 controls the editor control unit 41 by setting “young man” as the nth parameter 32bn. Thus, for example, a high ranking is given to unique endings according to generations. Further, when the age is equal to or higher than the third predetermined age, the editor control unit 41 is controlled by setting “honorific” as the n-th parameter 32bn so that the honorific expression is ranked higher.

  When the attribute name is “group”, the counterpart information analysis unit 32 includes the type of expression stored in the expression form 42 c of the dictionary data 42 in the group 22 f of information retrieved from the address book data 22. If so, the type of the expression included is set as the nth parameter 32bn. Further, if “relative” is included in the group 22f, the same operation as the case where the attribute name described above is “address” is performed. Further, if “company” is included in the group 22f and the age calculated from the date of birth 22e of the set is equal to or greater than a fourth predetermined age, “honorific” is set as the nth parameter 32bn.

  The conversion parameter 32a shown in FIG. 5 is the first in the counterparty information analysis unit 32 when the outgoing mail addressed to the mail address 22c of the person whose name 22a in the address book data 22 shown in FIG. When the attribute name stored as the priority is “address”, the attribute name stored as the second priority is “age”, and the attribute name is not stored as the third priority, the counterpart information analysis unit 32 Is to be created. In other words, the counterparty information analysis unit 32 controls the editor control unit 41 so that the child 32 is placed in the Osaka region and the child is given a high ranking on the characters 32c including appropriate kanji.

  Next, the operation of the editor control unit 41 will be described. FIG. 6 shows a flowchart of the first operation of the editor control unit 41. Here, the first operation is a process performed by the editor control unit 41 for a unit shorter than a sentence, such as a word or a phrase. The editor control unit 41 follows the request of the address book control unit 21 or the mail control unit 31 when the address book control unit 21 stores information in the address book data 22 and when the mail control unit 31 creates an outgoing mail. When the control unit 11 is activated, the operation is started (step S41a).

  And the editor control part 41 receives the conversion parameter 32a transmitted from the other party information analysis part 32 (step S41b). If the control unit that has requested activation of the editor control unit 41 (hereinafter referred to as activation request control unit) is the address book control unit 21, the conversion parameter 32a is not transmitted. When the activation request control unit is the mail control unit 31, the conversion parameter 32a may be transmitted or not transmitted. When the conversion parameter 32a is not received, the editor control unit 41 performs processing that does not use the conversion parameter 32a as described below.

  Subsequently, the editor control unit 41 receives a kana character from the activation request control unit (step S41c). Then, a set of information in which the received kana character and the kana character 42a are equal is searched from the dictionary data 42, and the character 42b including the searched kanji is ranked and displayed (step S41d). Here, this order is determined by the following two criteria. If the editor control unit 41 does not receive the conversion parameter 32a in step S41b, the following first criterion is not used.

  The first criterion is that when the conversion parameter 32a is received in step S41b, the nth parameter 32bn gives a higher ranking to the character 32c including the set of Chinese characters included in the expression form 42c. Furthermore, a high ranking is assigned to the character 32c including a set of Kanji characters including a parameter having a high priority. For example, the character 32c including a set of kanji characters including only the p-th parameter 32bp having a higher priority than the character 32c including a set of kanji characters including only the q-th parameter 32bq having a lower priority. Give a high ranking. Here, 1 ≦ p <q ≦ 3.

  On the other hand, the second standard first stores information (not shown) to that effect in the expression form 42c paired with the character 42b including the previously selected Chinese character, as will be described later. The character 42b including the kanji in which the information is stored is ranked higher. Secondly, as will be described later, the number of times selected in the past is stored in an expression form 42c paired with the character 42b including kanji (not shown), and the character 42b including kanji that has been selected many times in the past. Rank high.

  The editor control unit 41 is not limited to searching the dictionary data 42 for a set of information in which the received kana character and the kana character 42a are equal. A set of information in which the received Kana character and the first partial character of the Kana character 42 a are equal may be searched from the dictionary data 42. For example, when the character “OK” and the character “I” are received in step S41c, the dictionary data 42 is searched, and the character 42b including Kanji characters, that is, “Good”, “Eena”, “Like” ”And“ Eyeone ”may be searched and displayed with the order determined according to the above criteria.

  Then, the editor control unit 41 receives the identifier of the predetermined function key of the input device 16 and thereby selects one of the characters 42b including the kanji displayed in step S41d, and selects the selected kanji. Information indicating that it was selected immediately before is stored in the expression form 42c that forms a pair with the character 42b that includes it, and the character 42b that includes the kanji stored in the expression form 42c that forms a pair with the character 42b that includes that character is selected 1 is added to the number of times updated and stored (step S41e), and the character 42b including the selected kanji is transmitted to the activation request control unit (step S41f). And the operation | movement after the operation | movement which receives the kana character from the starting request | requirement control part of step S41c is repeated. The editor control unit 41 ends the operation by receiving an identifier of a predetermined function key of the input device 16 during an arbitrary operation.

  If the Kana character is received without receiving the identifier of the predetermined function key of the input device 16 in step S41e, the editor control unit 41 returns to the operation of step S41c, and the kana character has already been received in step S41c. After the received Kana character is connected, the operation returns to the operation after step S41d.

  FIG. 7 shows a flowchart of the second operation of the editor control unit 41. Here, the second operation is processing performed by the editor control unit 41 for one or a plurality of sentences. The editor control unit 41 starts operation when the control unit 11 is activated in accordance with a request from the mail control unit 31 when the mail control unit 31 creates a transmission mail (step S41h).

  Then, the editor control unit 41 receives the conversion parameter 32a from the mail control unit 31 (step S41i). Here, the conversion parameter 32a is the same as that described in step S41b of the first operation. Subsequently, the editor control unit 41 receives one or a plurality of sentences from the mail control unit 31 (step S41j), and divides the received sentences into words (step S41k).

  Here, the word division is performed by morphological analysis processing, and the dictionary data 42 may be referred to as a word dictionary for morphological analysis processing. By referring to the dictionary data 42, characters registered in the dictionary data 42 by the user can be handled as words. In addition, word division is not limited according to morphological analysis processing. For example, words may be divided by paying attention to the change of the character type such as Japanese kanji and hiragana, and the kana character 42a stored in the dictionary data 42, the utilization form of the kana character 42a, the character 42b including kanji In addition, a character string that is equal to one of the utilization forms of the character 42b including the Chinese character may be cut out from the received sentence. Alternatively, syntax / semantic analysis processing or semantic understanding processing may be used.

  Then, the dictionary data 42 is searched for information of a set in which the reading of the obtained word is equal to the kana character 42a or the utilization form of the kana character 42a, and the character 42b including the searched kanji is ranked, The word is converted according to the utilization form of the character 42b including the kanji as the ranking or the character 42b including the kanji. Here, the order is the same as that described in step S41d of the first operation.

  Furthermore, the editor control unit 41 displays the word in a display form different from other words so that the converted word can be easily identified (step S41m). Here, the different display forms include, for example, displaying the background color of the portion where the word is displayed in a different color, and displaying the word in a different color, but are not limited thereto. For example, a blinking display may be performed.

  Then, the editor control unit 41 transmits the sentence received in step S41j and converted to an arbitrary number of words including zero to the mail control unit 31 (step S41n), and ends the operation. (Step S41o). In step S41m, the editor control unit 41 receives the identifier of the predetermined function key of the input device 16 and replaces the character 42b including the searched kanji character having the highest rank for each converted word. It is also possible to select one of the characters 42b including the searched kanji that is not the highest rank.

  The first operation of the editor control unit 41 is a process performed on a unit shorter than a sentence, such as a word or a phrase, and the second operation of the editor control unit 41 is one or more sentences. However, the two operation targets are not necessarily exclusive. The first operation may be performed on a sentence, and the second operation may be performed on a word.

  Next, an example will be described in which the mail control unit 31 operates by making an activation request to the editor control unit 41 when creating a transmission mail. First, an example of requesting the first operation from the editor control unit 41 will be described. FIG. 8 shows an example of contents displayed on the display unit 15 when the mail control unit 31 creates a transmission mail. The display unit 15 includes a pictogram column 15a which is an upper row, and a processing unit display column 15b whose display is controlled by the mail control unit 31.

  In the processing part display field 15b, the mail control part 31 displays a processing display field 15c, a destination address field 15f, a title field 15g, a mail text field 15h, and a function display field 15e in order from the top to the bottom. ing. In the processing display column 15c, a character string “● Mail creation” is displayed, indicating that the outgoing mail is being created. In the destination address field 15f, a character string “Taro XX” is displayed, and the mail address 22c “aaa@bb.cc.jp” input by a predetermined key operation of the input device 16 is used as an address for the search key. The name 22a obtained by searching the book data 22 indicates "Taro XXX". In the title column 15g, a character string “title” is displayed to indicate that the title of the transmitted mail is “title”.

  Furthermore, no character string is displayed in the mail body column 15h, indicating that the body data of the outgoing mail has not been created. In the function display column 15e, two function displays, that is, “confirmation” and “menu” are displayed. When the function keys corresponding to these function displays are operated, the mail control unit 31 performs an operation of transmitting the outgoing mail indicated by the destination address field 15f, the title field 15g, and the mail text field 15h, respectively. And a predetermined pop-up menu is displayed in the processing section display field 15b.

  When the display shown in FIG. 8 is displayed on the display unit 15, when the cursor is moved to the mail text field 15h by the operation of the predetermined cursor movement key of the input device 16, the predetermined function key of the input device 16 is operated. Thus, the mail control unit 31 performs an operation for creating mail text data. When creating the mail text data, the mail control unit 31 performs, for example, the display shown in FIG. That is, the mail control unit 31 replaces the processing display field 15c, the destination address field 15f, the title field 15g, and the mail text field 15h shown in FIG. 8 with the mail text input field 15i and the conversion candidate display field 15j. Is displayed. The function display column 15e displays a function display “menu”.

  In the mail text input field 15i, there are a character string “● mail text” for identifying this field and a text string “I hope the weather tomorrow is fine ■” that is the mail text data being input. The partial character string “Like” of the character string is underlined. The character “■” is a character indicating a cursor position, and indicates that a character newly input by operating a key of the input device 16 is added to the cursor position. When the partial character string “Like” is underlined, the mail control unit 31 indicates that the editor controller 41 has requested the first operation for the partial character string.

  Prior to the request for the partial character string of the mail text data, the mail control unit 31 activates the second operation of the counterpart information analysis unit 32. Then, the partner information analysis unit 32 searches the address book data 22 using the mail address 22c “aaa@bb.cc.jp” as a search key, and the address 22d of the search result is “Osaka Prefecture. And the telephone number 22b of the search result starts from “06” which is the area code of Osaka, it is obtained that the recipient of the outgoing mail resides in Osaka, and further, the group 22f of the search result is Since it is “child”, the recipient of the outgoing mail is obtained as a child. It should be noted that the second operation of the hand information analysis unit 32 may be performed once in response to the above request for a partial character string of a certain mail body data.

  As already described, the attribute name stored as the first priority in the counterparty information analysis unit 32 is “address”, the attribute name stored as the second priority is “age”, and the attribute name is the third priority. Is not stored, as a result of obtaining information about the recipient of the outgoing mail, the destination information analysis unit 32 sets the conversion parameter 32a shown in FIG. 5 as an example, that is, the first parameter 32b1 to “Osaka dialect”. By setting the second parameter 32b2 to “children” and transmitting the conversion parameter 32a not including the third parameter 32b3 to the editor control unit 41, the editor control unit 41 is given the highest priority on dialect expression in the Osaka region. And then give priority to children's expressions.

  In the conversion candidate display field 15j, a character string “predictive conversion” for identifying this field is displayed, and is further stored by the editor control unit 41 in combination with the “like” kana character 42a. The character 42b including the kanji that has a high ranking is at the top, and the one with the low ranking is at the bottom, that is, "Eye yo", "Eena", "Good" and "Good" from the top. “Ne” is displayed, and among these, “YeYone” is hatched, indicating that the editor controller 41 has given the highest ranking.

  When the display shown in FIG. 9 is displayed on the display unit 15, when a predetermined function key is operated, the editor control unit 41 performs mail control on the character 42 b “Ee Yone” including the highest-ranked Chinese character. It transmits to the part 31, and the display of the character 42b containing the Chinese character of the conversion candidate display column 15j is deleted. Then, the mail control unit 31 deletes the partial character string “Like” that is displayed when the first operation is requested from the editor control unit 41 displayed in the mail body input field 15i, and the character string is changed to the character string. Instead, the character string “YeYone” transmitted from the editor control unit 41 is displayed. When a predetermined function key is operated, the editor control unit 41 sets an arbitrary character string displayed in the conversion candidate display column 15j to the character 42b including the kanji that has the highest ranking and is hatched. Change to

  Next, an example in which the mail control unit 31 requests the editor control unit 41 for the second operation when creating the outgoing mail will be described. FIG. 10 shows the contents displayed on the display unit 15 when the mail control unit 31 creates a transmission mail. The display shown in FIG. 10 is “I hope the weather tomorrow is fine” in the mail body column 15h, compared to the display when the editor control unit 41 shown in FIG. 8 requests the first operation. A character string is displayed and is the same except that the text string “Tomorrow's weather is fine” is entered as the text data of the outgoing mail. Therefore, the description is omitted.

  When the display shown in FIG. 10 is displayed on the display unit 15, when a function key corresponding to the function display “menu” is operated, a pop-up menu is displayed in the processing unit display field 15 b by the mail control unit 31. FIG. 11 shows an example of a pop-up menu. From the display shown in FIG. 10, in the command display field 15k displayed instead of the title field 15g and the mail text field 15h, “(1) Confirm contents”, “(2) Save”, “(3) Conversion” And character strings indicating other commands are displayed. The character string “(3) conversion” is hatched to indicate that this command is selected.

  When a predetermined function key is operated while the “(3) conversion” command is selected, the mail control unit 31 requests the editor control unit 41 for a second operation. Before the request, as described in the case of requesting the first operation to the editor control unit 41, the second operation of the partner information analysis unit 32 is started, and the conversion parameter shown in FIG. 32a is transmitted to the editor control unit 41. Then, the mail text data “I wish the weather tomorrow is fine” is transmitted to the editor control unit 41 to convert a predetermined word in the mail text data.

  FIG. 12 shows an example in which the display by the editor control unit 41 is displayed on the display unit 15 when a predetermined word is converted by the editor control unit 41. That is, the editor control unit 41 displays a processing display column 15c, a converted mail text display column 15m, and a function display column 15e in the processing unit display column 15b. In the processing display column 15c, a character string “● mail text” is displayed, indicating that the text data of the transmitted mail is displayed.

  In the converted mail text display column 15m, text data of the transmitted mail in which a predetermined word is converted by the editor control unit 41, that is, a character string “If the weather tomorrow is fine, is displayed.” Is displayed. Here, the partial character string “YeYone” is hatched, which indicates that the partial character string is a word converted by the editor control unit 41. In the function display column 15e, two function displays, that is, “confirmation” and “menu” are displayed. These function displays are as described above.

(Second Embodiment)
The second embodiment differs from the first embodiment in the first operation of the counterparty information analysis unit 32 and the editor control unit 41. Therefore, a second embodiment of the counterparty information analysis unit 32 and the editor control unit 41 will be described. In addition, about the same part as 1st Embodiment, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected and the description is abbreviate | omitted.

  FIG. 13 shows an example of contents displayed on the display unit 15 by the first operation of the counterparty information analysis unit 32 according to the second embodiment in order to input a user setting. In the dependency item display field 15d, in addition to the three attribute names “address”, “age”, “group” and “cancel” displayed in the first operation according to the first embodiment, Items in which character strings “used immediately before” and “number of times of use” are displayed are sequentially displayed vertically. Then, when the selected item is other than “cancel”, the opponent information analysis unit 32 stores the selected item name in the opponent information analysis unit 32. Here, when an item is repeatedly selected, the previously selected item is stored with priority.

  Here, “used immediately before” means that the editor control unit 41 according to the first embodiment does not depend on the conversion parameter 32a, and the character 42b including the kanji that is stored in the expression form 42c is stored. Corresponds to the highest ranking criteria. In addition, the “usage count” is higher than the character 42b including the kanji characters that have been selected in the past and stored in the expression form 42c without depending on the conversion parameter 32a by the editor control unit 41 according to the first embodiment. Corresponds to the ranking criteria.

  An example of the conversion parameter 32a according to the second embodiment is shown in FIG. The conversion parameter 32a includes one or more and five or less parameters of the first parameter 32b1, the second parameter 32b2,..., The fifth parameter 32b5, and the conversion parameter 32a shown in FIG. It consists of a parameter 32b1 “Osaka dialect”, a second parameter 32b2 “used immediately before”, a third parameter 32b3 “children”, and a fourth parameter 32b4 “number of times of use”. The fifth parameter 32b5 is included. Not.

  Here, when the item stored as the n-th priority in the counterparty information analysis unit 32 according to the second embodiment is “used immediately before”, the n-th parameter 32bn is “used immediately before”. When the item is “number of times of use”, the nth parameter 32bn is “number of times of use”.

  Next, the operation of the editor control unit 41 according to the second embodiment will be described. The first reference explained in the operation of the editor control unit 41 according to the first embodiment when ranking the characters 42b including the kanji searched in step S41d of the editor control unit 41 according to the second embodiment Only by. That is, the reference based on whether or not it has been selected immediately before and the number of times selected in the past as described as the second reference is included in the conversion parameter 32a according to the second embodiment. The editor control unit 41 according to the embodiment ranks only by the first reference.

  According to the text conversion apparatus according to the second embodiment, parameters such as “xx dialect” and “children” depending on attributes stored in the address book 22, “use immediately before” and The parameter “number of times of use” can be included in the conversion parameter 32a with an arbitrary priority. For this reason, when the editor control part 41 ranks the character 42b containing a Chinese character, it can make the rank more suitable for a user's intention of sentence conversion.

(Other embodiments)
In each of the above embodiments, the expression form 42c is “honorifics”, “children”, “young people”, and “xx dialect” (where xx is a local name such as “Osaka”). Although there is, it is not limited to this. For example, “minor”, “male”, “female”, and the like may be included. The second operation of the partner information analysis unit 32 determines whether or not to include “underage” in the conversion parameter 32a based on the date of birth 22e. Also, assuming that the gender is stored in the address book data 22, the second operation of the partner information analysis unit 32 determines whether to include “male” and “female” in the conversion parameter 32a based on the gender. Judging.

  Further, the age may be stored in the address book data 22, and the second operation of the partner information analysis unit 32 may not perform the operation of calculating the age from the date of birth 22e.

  Further, the above description has been made by taking an example in which the present invention is applied to a mobile communication terminal device. However, the present invention is applied to any device that creates outgoing mail, such as a personal computer or a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). Of course it is also possible to do. Here, the apparatus to which the present invention is applied is not necessarily required to have a means for transmitting outgoing mail as mail. The transmission mail data may be transmitted to a device capable of transmitting mail via a removable storage medium or via a short-range wireless communication network, and transmitted as mail from the device.

  In addition, an apparatus for creating a transmission mail to which the present invention is applied does not necessarily have the address book data 22. The address book data 22 may be provided by a different device and accessible by a device that creates outgoing mail via a communication network. The present invention is not limited to the above configuration, and various modifications are possible.

The block diagram which shows the structure of the mobile communication terminal device which concerns on embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the address book data which concern on embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the dictionary data which concern on embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the display performed on a display part, when the other party information analysis part which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention inputs the setting which creates a conversion parameter from which attribute. The figure which shows an example of the conversion parameter which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. The flowchart of the 1st operation | movement of the editor control part which concerns on embodiment of this invention. The flowchart of the 2nd operation | movement of the editor control part which concerns on embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows an example of the display which the mail control part which concerns on embodiment of this invention performs on a display part (the 1). The figure which shows an example of the display which the editor control part which concerns on embodiment of this invention performs on a display part during 1st operation | movement. FIG. 6B is a diagram illustrating an example of display performed on the display unit by the mail control unit according to the embodiment of the present invention (part 2); The figure which shows an example of the display which the mail control part which concerns on embodiment of this invention performs on a display part (the 3). The figure which shows an example of the display which the editor control part which concerns on embodiment of this invention performs on a display part during 2nd operation | movement. The figure which shows an example of the display performed on a display part, when the other party information analysis part which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention inputs the setting which creates a conversion parameter from which attribute. The figure which shows an example of the conversion parameter which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

11 Control section 15 Display section 15a Pictogram field 15b Processing section display field 15d Dependent item display field 15h Mail text field 15i Mail text input field 15j Conversion candidate display field 15m Conversion mail text display field 16 Input device 21 Address book control unit 22 Address book Data 22a Name 22b Telephone number 22c Mail address 22d Address 22e Date of birth 22f Group 31 Mail control unit 32 Counterpart information analysis unit 32a Conversion parameters 32b1 to 32b5 First to fifth parameters 41 Editor control unit 42 Dictionary data 42a Kana characters 42b Characters including kanji

Claims (4)

An address book storage means for storing an email address and attribute information registered corresponding to the email address;
Email creating means for creating a sent email including the email address and email body;
The address book storage means is searched based on the mail address included in the outgoing mail created by the mail creating means, and the text of the mail body created by the mail creating means is retrieved based on the obtained attribute. A text conversion device comprising character conversion means for conversion. A dictionary storage means for storing a dictionary composed of a first type character, a plurality of second type characters, and an expression form of the second type character;
The character conversion means obtains an expression form based on an attribute obtained by searching the address book, sets the character of the e-mail body as a first type character, and sets the obtained expression form as the second type. 2. The sentence conversion device according to claim 1, wherein a set having a character expression form is searched from the dictionary, and the first type character is converted into a second type character of the searched set. . The sentence conversion unit according to claim 1, wherein the character conversion means inputs the sentence of the e-mail body, divides the sentence into words, and converts the characters for each word obtained by the word division. apparatus. It further has display means for displaying characters,
4. The text conversion device according to claim 3, wherein the character conversion means displays on the display means the words of the e-mail text converted from the characters in a display form different from the words that have not been converted. .

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