JP2010160752A - Electronic dictionary device and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To intelligibly display information about a Kanji (Chinese character) specified by a user as the native language when the Kanji does not the native language and is in another language system in an electronic dictionary device. <P>SOLUTION: When a desired Kanji in dictionary information retrieved from an arbitrary dictionary is specified at a state that the dictionary information is displayed on a display part 18, its "reading" is retrieved from a reading dictionary of a language system of the specified Kanji to be displayed. Then, a "cross jump" key 17a is operated, a character code of the language system of the specified Kanji is converted into a unicode by a code conversion table, simultaneously converted into a character code of a language system according to a destination of the device body or a character code according to a parallel translation language system of the dictionary, the Kanji of the converted character code and its reading are retrieved from a reading dictionary of the corresponding language system to be displayed. In addition, attached information such as English corresponding to the specified Kanji is also retrieved from an attached information dictionary from the unicode of the specified Kanji to be displayed as a detailed display screen H. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic dictionary device and a program for searching for information about kanji used between a plurality of languages.

  Usually, a linguistic dictionary is used to learn a language different from the user's home language (native language).

  Kanji is used in different languages such as Japan, China, and Korea. Of course, even the synonymous kanji has different pronunciations in different languages.

  For this reason, even when learning synonymous kanji, it is desirable to display a reading according to the pronunciation depending on what language the user learns.

An information display with a function that, when a user-desired kanji is designated by a cursor on a display screen for explanation information in the electronic dictionary device, the “yomi” is reverse-searched from the headword that matches the designated kanji A control device has been considered (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
JP 2005-293217 A

  The database of kanji as electronic data is stored and managed by associating the actual font pattern with the character code of each kanji. Even if the kanji is synonymous between different languages, the character code unique to each language Are associated and managed.

  For this reason, in the conventional electronic dictionary device, for example, for Chinese characters included in the explanation information searched and displayed in the Japanese-Chinese dictionary, the Chinese characters can be designated and “Yomi” in Chinese can be displayed. However, it is not possible to easily search for and display synonymous kanji existing in other languages such as Japanese from the designated Chinese kanji or its “yomi”.

  The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and when a user-designated kanji is a kanji in another language that is not the native language, the information on the kanji can be displayed as a native language in an easy-to-understand manner. An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic dictionary device and a program.

  The electronic dictionary device according to claim 1 stores a dictionary storage unit that stores dictionary information created for each language system, and a code conversion table that associates the language codes of each language system with a common code. A table storage means; an information display control means for displaying text information on the display; and a kanji in the text information displayed by the information display control means in response to a user operation when the kanji is designated. Is converted into a common code based on the code conversion table stored in the table storage means, and further converted into a language code of a predetermined language system, and the predetermined code converted by the code conversion means Corresponding to the language code of the language system, the dictionary search means for searching the language system dictionary information stored by the dictionary storage means, and the dictionary search means It is characterized in that the retrieved dictionary information and a dictionary information display control means for displaying on the display unit Ri.

  The electronic dictionary device according to claim 2 is the electronic dictionary device according to claim 1, wherein the dictionary storage means stores dictionary information including kanji of the language system and reading thereof for each language system. It is characterized by.

  The electronic dictionary device according to claim 3 is the electronic dictionary device according to claim 2, wherein attached information storage means for storing attached information related to various kanji in association with a common code for each kanji, The dictionary information display control, comprising: accessory information search means for searching for attached information related to the kanji stored by the attached information storage means in correspondence with the common code of the designated kanji converted by the code conversion means. The means is characterized in that the display unit displays the auxiliary information searched by the auxiliary information search means together with the dictionary information searched by the dictionary search means.

  The electronic dictionary device according to claim 4 is the electronic dictionary device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the predetermined language system is preset according to a user's native language. It is characterized by being a language system.

  An electronic dictionary device according to a fifth aspect is the electronic dictionary device according to any one of the first to third aspects, wherein the second language system is associated with an entry word of the first language system. A bilingual dictionary storage means for storing explanatory information is further provided, wherein the information display control means is stored by the bilingual dictionary storage means in response to a first language-related headword input in response to a user operation. The bilingual dictionary searching means for searching for explanation information of the second language system, and the explanation information display control means for displaying the description information searched by the bilingual dictionary search means on the display unit, the predetermined language system is: If the language system of the kanji specified in response to the user operation is the first language system, it is set to the second language system, and if it is the second language system, it is set to the first language system. It is characterized by being set.

  7. A program according to claim 6, wherein a dictionary storage means for storing dictionary information created for each language system and a table storage for storing a code conversion table in which the language codes of each language system are associated by a common code. And an information display control means for displaying text information on the display section, and the information display control means in response to a user operation. When the kanji in the text information displayed by is designated, the language code of the designated kanji is once converted into a common code based on the code conversion table stored by the table storage means, and a predetermined language Corresponding to the language code of the predetermined language system converted by the code conversion means for converting into the system language code, the code conversion means, A dictionary search unit that searches language dictionary information stored in the dictionary storage unit and a dictionary information display control unit that displays the dictionary information searched by the dictionary search unit on the display unit. Yes.

  According to the present invention, when a user-designated kanji is a kanji in another language that is not a native language, an electronic dictionary device and a program capable of easily displaying information on the kanji as a native language are provided. it can.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an electronic circuit of an electronic dictionary device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  This electronic dictionary device is configured as a portable device (electronic dictionary device 10) dedicated to the electronic dictionary described below, or a PDA (personal digital assistants), a PC (personal computer), a cellular phone, an electronic device having a dictionary function. It is configured as a book, a portable game machine, etc.

  The electronic dictionary device 10 is configured by a computer that reads a program recorded in various storage media or a transmitted program and whose operation is controlled by the read program. The electronic circuit includes a CPU ( a central processing unit) 11 is provided.

  The CPU 11 is a device control program 12P stored in advance in the main storage device (flash memory) 12 or a device read from the external storage medium 13 such as a ROM card into the main storage device 12 via the storage medium read / write unit 14. A device control program read into the main storage device 12 via the communication control unit 15 from a control server 12P or a Web server (in this case, a program server) 30 on the Internet N connected by a user PC (Personal Computer) 20 In accordance with 12P, various work data are stored in a RAM (work area) 16 to control the operation of each part of the circuit.

  The device control program 12P stored in the main storage device 12 is a touch position detection signal corresponding to a key input signal from the key input unit 17 or a user operation from the touch panel 19 provided on the display screen of the display unit 18. Or a communication signal from the communication control unit 15 to each Web server 30 on the Internet N connected via the user PC 20 or a memory such as EEPROM, RAM, ROM, etc. externally connected via the storage medium read / write unit 14 It is activated in response to a connection communication signal with the card (storage medium) 13.

  The CPU 11 is connected to the main storage device 12, storage medium read / write unit 14, communication control unit 15, RAM 16, key input unit 17, display unit 18, and touch panel 19.

  As the device control program 12P stored in the main storage device 12, a system program that controls the overall operation of the electronic dictionary device 10 and a communication program for data communication with a user PC or the like via the communication control unit 15 are stored. In addition to the entry word search process according to the key input of the search character string, various dictionary information corresponding to the selected entry word (translation word, meaning content, example sentence (example)), and the like, the designation in the display text Display processing of “Yomi” corresponding to kanji, search processing of corresponding kanji in other languages from the specified kanji, search processing of attached information such as English, new and old fonts, simplified / traditional characters corresponding to the specified kanji, etc. Various processing programs for controlling the overall processing based on the dictionary databases 12a to 12d stored in the main storage device 12 are stored.

  As the dictionary databases 12a to 12d in the main storage device 12, various language bilingual dictionaries 12a, a code conversion table 12b, various language reading dictionaries 12c, an attached information dictionary 12d, and the like are prepared.

  The various language bilingual dictionaries 12a associate the headwords of the first language with the explanation information of the second language, such as “Japanese-Chinese dictionary” 12a1, “English-Japanese dictionary” 12a2, “Japanese-Korean dictionary” 12a3,. Different types of dictionary data are stored in advance or downloaded and stored in a plurality of dictionaries. In these various language bilingual dictionaries 12a, the collected headwords and the characters of each language described as corresponding explanation information are managed in association with the character codes unique to the respective languages.

  Examples of the various language reading dictionaries 12c include a Japanese reading dictionary 12c1 acquired by associating Japanese kanji and their readings, a Chinese reading dictionary 12c2 acquired by associating Chinese kanji and their readings, and Korean. The dictionary data of kanji readings of each language system in the language system reading dictionary 12c3, which are collected in association with the kanji characters and their readings, are stored in advance or downloaded. In these various language reading dictionaries 12c, the collected kanji of each language is managed in association with the character code unique to each language.

  The code conversion table 12b has Unicode (Unicode) which is a uniform character code between languages, and character codes (Japanese code JP / Chinese code ZH) which are synonymous between languages based on the Unicode. / Korean code KO). According to the code conversion table 12b, it is possible to search for a character in the other language corresponding to a character in one language.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram showing functions of the code conversion table 12b stored in the main storage device 12 of the electronic dictionary device 10. As shown in FIG.

  According to the code conversion table 12b, for example, synonymous Japanese kanji and Korean kanji corresponding to Chinese kanji searched and displayed on the display unit 18 are retrieved from the Japanese reading dictionary 12c1 and the Korean reading dictionary 12c3. You can search easily.

  The attached information dictionary 12d includes an English attached information dictionary 12d1 in which English is associated with each Unicode included in the code conversion table 12b, a new and old font attached information dictionary 12d2 in which new and old fonts are associated, and simplified and traditional Chinese characters. Each dictionary data of the font switching auxiliary information dictionary 12d3 associated with the characters is stored in advance or downloaded.

  The RAM (work area) 16 is a storage area for display data corresponding to the display screen of the display unit 18, entry words and dictionary information subjected to dictionary search processing, kanji and their readings, attached information, and the like. Accordingly, various storage areas for storing various data input / output to / from the CPU 11 as required are provided.

  The key input unit 17 displays a dictionary specifying key for specifying an arbitrary dictionary, a character input key for inputting a search character string, and dictionary information such as a translation from a headword corresponding to the search character string. In addition to the translation / decision key for causing the cursor to be displayed and the cursor key for instructing the moving direction of the displayed cursor, other language systems are used by using the code conversion table 12b from the dictionary information of the language system currently displayed. A “cross jump” key 17a for searching and displaying the corresponding information is provided.

  Next, a function for searching and displaying kanji information by the electronic dictionary device 10 having the above configuration will be described.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing kanji reading display processing by the electronic dictionary device 10.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display operation (part 1) corresponding to a user operation associated with the kanji reading display process of the electronic dictionary device 10.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a display operation (part 2) corresponding to a user operation associated with the kanji reading display process of the electronic dictionary device 10.

  Note that the electronic dictionary device 10 whose operation is described in the present embodiment will be mainly described as a device intended for Japan when the user's native language is Japanese.

  When the “daytime dictionary” 12a1 is designated by the dictionary designation key of the key input unit 17, a search character string input screen G1 is displayed on the display unit 18 as shown in FIG.

  In this search character string input screen G1, for example, when “ya” or “ma” is input by a character input key, as shown in FIG. The matching headwords “Yama [mountain]” “Yama-yama [Yamama]”... Are searched and displayed in the headword list area M, and the headword “yama [mountain]” is selected by the cursor Cu. The explanation information “Yama [mountain] about mountain…” corresponding to the selected headword “Yama [mountain]” is read and displayed in the dictionary information preview area P.

When the translation / decision key of the key input unit 17 is operated in the display state of the dictionary information preview area P, as shown in FIG. 4C, the explanatory information “Yama [mountain] mountain displayed in the preview is displayed. Is displayed on the display unit 18 as a description information display screen G2 (step S1).

  Then, in accordance with the code-converted Japanese character code (JP), the corresponding Chinese character “love” and its reading “eye” are searched from the Japanese-based reading dictionary 12c1 (step S8).

Further, according to the Unicode of the search target Chinese character “Ai”, the auxiliary information corresponding to the Chinese character “Ai” is searched from the auxiliary information dictionary 12d, and for example, the parallel translation “love” is read from the English auxiliary information dictionary 12d1 (step S9). .

  For example, when the user's native language is Korean and the electronic dictionary device 10 is intended for Korea, the search string “Yama” is input by designating the Japanese-Korean dictionary 12a3, as shown in FIG. When the corresponding explanation information is retrieved and the explanation information display screen G2 is displayed on the full screen (step S1), the Japanese kanji “kai” in the explanation information is touched and designated (step S1). S2 (Yes)), the designated kanji “kai” is displayed surrounded by the designated frame S (see FIG. 5D), and its character code (JP) is acquired and stored in the RAM 16 (step S3). ).

  Then, according to the character code (JP) of the Japanese kanji “kai”, the reading data “Kai / E / A” of the Japanese kanji “kai” is searched from the Japanese-based reading dictionary 12c1 (step S4). It is displayed in a reading display frame Y (see FIG. 5D) with a Korean headline associated with the designated frame S of the kanji “kai” (step S5).

Here, when the “cross jump” key 17a is operated in order to know the Korean kanji corresponding to the Japanese kanji “kai” (kai) designated by the user and other attached information (step S6 (Yes). )), The character code (JP) of the Japanese kanji “kai” is once converted to Unicode according to the code conversion table 12b (see FIG. 2), and further the Korean character code (KO) corresponding to the Unicode. (Step S7).

  In the above-described embodiment, when the user designates an arbitrary display kanji and operates the “cross jump” key 17a, the character code of the language of the designated kanji is associated with the destination that is the user's native language. The code conversion table 12b converts the character code into the native language code, and the corresponding kanji, its reading, and additional information such as English translation are also retrieved and displayed.

  On the other hand, it is good also as a structure which determines the language of the conversion destination which should be searched / displayed according to the parallel language system of a designated dictionary. That is, for example, when a Japanese kanji is specified on the explanation information display screen G2 searched and displayed from the daytime dictionary, the Chinese conversion dictionary 12b reads the Chinese kanji that is a translation and its reading. When searching from 12c2 and conversely, Chinese kanji is specified, it is only necessary to search the Japanese translation dictionary 12c1 for Japanese kanji and their readings, which are parallel translations, using the code conversion table 12b.

  Therefore, according to the kanji information search / display function by the electronic dictionary device 10 having the above-described configuration, the dictionary information searched from the arbitrary dictionary 12an is displayed on the display unit 18 and is displayed in the displayed dictionary information. When a desired kanji is designated, the “reading” is retrieved from the language-based reading dictionary 12 cn of the designated kanji and displayed. When the “cross jump” key 17a is operated, the language character code of the designated kanji is converted into Unicode by the code conversion table 12b, and the language character code or the dictionary corresponding to the destination of the apparatus main body is converted. It is converted into a character code corresponding to the 12an bilingual language system, and the kanji of the converted character code and its reading are searched from the corresponding language system reading dictionary 12cn 'and displayed. Further, additional information such as English and other fonts corresponding to the designated kanji is retrieved from the attached information dictionary 12d from the Unicode of the designated kanji and displayed as a detailed display screen H. For this reason, when the user-designated kanji is a kanji in another language that is not the native language, the information related to the kanji can be displayed as a native language in an easy-to-understand manner, and the designated kanji can be more easily understood. You can also search for and display additional information.

  It should be noted that each processing method by the electronic dictionary device 10 described in the above embodiment, that is, a dictionary database composed of various language-based bilingual dictionaries 12a, various language-based translation dictionaries 12c, an attached information dictionary 12d, and a code conversion table 12b are used. The kanji reading display processing method shown in the flowchart of FIG. 3 is a program that can be executed by a computer, such as a memory card (ROM card, RAM card, etc.), magnetic disk (floppy disk, hard disk, etc.), optical disk, etc. (CD-ROM, DVD, etc.) can be stored and distributed in an external storage medium 13 such as a semiconductor memory. Then, the computer of the electronic device (10) reads the dictionary data, table, and program stored in the external storage medium 13 into the storage device (12), and the operation is controlled by the read program. The kanji information search and display function described in the embodiment can be realized, and the same processing can be executed by the method described above.

  In addition, the program, data, and table for realizing each method can be transmitted on the network N in the form of a program code, and the program, data, and table are transmitted to the network N. By incorporating the information into the computer (10) by the communication control unit 15, the above-described kanji information search and display function can be realized.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention at the stage of implementation. Further, each of the embodiments includes inventions at various stages, and various inventions can be extracted by appropriately combining a plurality of disclosed constituent elements. For example, even if some constituent elements are deleted from all the constituent elements shown in each embodiment or some constituent elements are combined in different forms, the problems described in the column of the problem to be solved by the invention If the effects described in the column “Effects of the Invention” can be obtained, a configuration in which these constituent requirements are deleted or combined can be extracted as an invention.

The block diagram which shows the structure of the electronic circuit of the electronic dictionary apparatus which concerns on embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows the function of the code conversion table 12b memorize | stored in the main memory unit 12 of the said electronic dictionary apparatus 10. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing kanji reading display processing by the electronic dictionary device 10; The figure which shows the display operation (the 1) corresponding to the user operation accompanying the Chinese character reading display process of the said electronic dictionary apparatus. The figure which shows the display operation (the 2) corresponding to the user operation accompanying the Chinese character reading display process of the said electronic dictionary apparatus.

10: Electronic dictionary device 11: CPU
12 ... Main memory 12a ... Various language bilingual dictionary 12a1 ... Japanese-Chinese dictionary 12a2 ... English-Japanese dictionary 12b ... Code conversion table 12c ... Various language reading dictionary 12c1 ... Japanese reading dictionary 12c2 ... Chinese reading dictionary 12c3 ... Korean reading Dictionary 12d ... Attached information dictionary 12d1 ... English attached information dictionary 12d2 ... Old / old font attached information dictionary 12d3 ... Font switching attached information dictionary 12P ... Device control program 13 ... External storage medium 14 ... Storage medium read / write unit 15 ... Communication control unit 16 ... RAM (Work area)
17 ... Key input part 17a ... "Cross jump" key 18 ... Display part 19 ... Touch panel 20 ... User PC
30 ... Web server N ... Communication network (Internet)
G1… Search character string input screen G2… Explanation information display screen M… Headword display area P… Dictionary information preview area Cu… Cursor S… Character designation frame Y… Reading display frame H… Detail display screen

Claims (6)

Dictionary storage means for storing dictionary information created for each language system;
Table storage means for storing a code conversion table in which the language codes of each language system are associated with each other by a common code;
Information display control means for displaying text information on the display unit;
When a kanji in the text information displayed by the information display control means is designated in response to a user operation, the language code of the designated kanji is temporarily stored based on the code conversion table stored by the table storage means. Code conversion means for converting into a common code and further converting into a language code of a predetermined language system;
Dictionary search means for searching language system dictionary information stored by the dictionary storage means in correspondence with the language code of the predetermined language system converted by the code conversion means;
Dictionary information display control means for displaying the dictionary information searched by the dictionary search means on the display unit;
An electronic dictionary device comprising:   2. The electronic dictionary device according to claim 1, wherein the dictionary storage means stores dictionary information including kanji of the language system and reading thereof for each language system. Attached information storage means for storing associated information about various kanji in association with a common code for each kanji,
Corresponding to the common code of the designated kanji converted by the code conversion means, and attached information search means for searching for additional information related to the kanji stored by the attached information storage means,
The dictionary information display control means causes the display section to display the accessory information searched by the attached information search means together with the dictionary information searched by the dictionary search means.
The electronic dictionary device according to claim 2.   4. The electronic dictionary device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined language system is a language system set in advance according to a user's native language. A bilingual dictionary storage means for storing the explanation information of the second language system in association with the first language system headword;
The information display control means searches for bilingual dictionary explanation information stored in the bilingual dictionary storage means corresponding to the first linguistic headword input in response to a user operation. A search means, and explanation information display control means for displaying the explanation information searched by the bilingual dictionary search means on the display unit,
The predetermined language system is set to the second language system when the kanji language system specified in response to the user operation is the first language system, and is set to the second language system. 4. The electronic dictionary device according to claim 1, wherein is set to a first language system. An electronic device having dictionary storage means for storing dictionary information created for each language system, table storage means for storing a code conversion table in which the language codes of each language system are associated with a common code, and a display unit A program for controlling a computer of a device,
The computer,
Information display control means for displaying text information on the display unit;
When a kanji in the text information displayed by the information display control means is designated in response to a user operation, the language code of the designated kanji is temporarily stored based on the code conversion table stored by the table storage means. Code conversion means for converting into a common code and further converting into a language code of a predetermined language system;
Dictionary search means for searching the language system dictionary information stored by the dictionary storage means in correspondence with the language code of the predetermined language system converted by the code conversion means;
Dictionary information display control means for displaying the dictionary information searched by the dictionary search means on the display unit;
A computer-readable program designed to function as

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