JP2640340B2 - Document creation and editing device - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a document creation / editing apparatus, and more specifically, to a document creation / editing apparatus for creating a target sentence corresponding to an input original sentence.

2. Description of the Related Art Such a document creation and editing device includes, for example, an automatic translation device and a document creation device. In particular, in pre-editing (pre-editing) and post-editing (post-editing) of these devices, it is required to be able to easily grasp whether or not an appropriate object sentence has been created.

For this purpose, it is desirable that the object sentence be output in a form as compact as possible, that is, for example, displayed on a CRT display device or printed out by a printing device. Taking a translation device as an example, for example, figures, tables,
If frames or lines, such as columns, are included in the translated document, if the parts corresponding to those frames, lines, etc. are left blank or output as they are, including frames, lines, etc. May interfere with proper understanding. Therefore, it is desirable to output a simple translated document.

Further, the operator is required to clearly grasp the correspondence between the original sentence and the translated sentence when processing the sentence. Therefore, it is desirable that the original sentence and the translated sentence have a clear correspondence relationship, and the translated sentence is displayed in the same order as the order of the sentences in the original document.
For this purpose, examples of the translation device that simultaneously displays the original sentence and the translation on one screen of the display device include ALTAS-I and ALTAS-II by Fujitsu Limited, and a computer translation system by Bravis Corp.

Purpose It is an object of the present invention to provide a document creating / editing apparatus which solves such drawbacks of the prior art, outputs a target document in a simple form, and can easily grasp the correspondence with the original document.

Configuration In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides at least one
Input means for inputting data of an original document including one frame, conversion means for creating a target sentence corresponding to the original text included in the frame, storage means for storing data of the original document and data of the target document, and an original document And display means for visually displaying the target document on the display screen, and control means for controlling the conversion means, the storage means, and the display means in response to the input means, and one display screen comprises a first and a second display screen. When the original document data is input, the control unit stores the original document data in the storage unit, sends the original text from the storage unit to the conversion unit in units of frames, causes the conversion unit to create the target sentence, and stores the original text in the storage unit. The present invention is characterized by a document creation / editing device that accumulates and displays only a sentence included in an original document in a first display area and displays only a sentence of a target sentence in a second display area. Hereinafter, a specific description will be given based on an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown an embodiment in which a document creation / editing apparatus according to the present invention is applied to an automatic translation apparatus. This embodiment is a Japanese-English automatic translator that translates a Japanese sentence input as an original sentence into a target sentence, in this example, an English sentence. This basically includes a translator 10 for executing the translation function, an editor 12 for editing a document, an image scanner 14 and a keyboard 16 as input devices of the system, an input controller 18 for controlling the input device, and image information. The processing system includes a display device 20 for performing visual display, a display control unit 22 as a control device thereof, a document file storage unit 24, and a translation temporary storage unit 26.

The scanner 14 is a scanning device that is controllably connected by the input control unit 18 and optically reads image information recorded on a document 28 and inputs image data to the system. This image data is input to the system in the form of data representing pixel dots.

The keyboard 16 is also connected so as to be controllable by the input control unit 18, and is an input device having character keys 52 such as kana, alphanumeric characters and symbols, and control keys, as shown in FIG. It accepts a character string in the form of a character code by operating a character key 52 and a control command in the form of a control code by operating a control key.

Character keys 52 include a space bar 52a. The control keys include normal function keys 54 such as a shift key, a page shift key 56, a sentence selection key 58, a character selection key 60, and a translation execution key 62.

The page move key 56 is a control key for giving an instruction to scroll the page of the document displayed on the display screen 50 of the display device 20. The sentence selection cursor key 58 is used to move two cursors, a cursor that specifies the original sentence in the original document displayed on the display screen 50 and a cursor that specifies the target sentence in the target document displayed on the display screen 50. Cursor control keys for moving the cursor while keeping them one by one on the corresponding original sentence and object sentence. The character selection cursor key 60 is a control key for moving a cursor for inputting and operating a character, such as insertion or overstrike. The translation execution key 62 is a control key for instructing the translation of the original text to be translated.

This keyboard 16 differs from that of a normal document editing device in that it has a translation execution key 62 and a sentence selection cursor key 58. In this embodiment, a mouse 64 is connected to the keyboard 16 in order to create graph data by a simple operation.

In this embodiment, other input devices such as a communication line 30, a floppy disk device 32, and a magnetic tape device can be connected to the input control unit 18 in addition to the above.

The input control unit 18 is a control device that is connected to the editor 12, identifies and organizes input data received by these input devices, and sends the input data to the editor 12.

The display device 20 is connected to the display control unit 22 and has a display screen 50 (FIG. 2) for visually displaying image information including characters (characters) and graphics (images, graphs, etc.). A device is advantageously used.
The display control unit 22 is a control device that controls the display device 20, receives texts, images, graphs, and the like from the editor 12, and displays them on the screen 50. Thus, in the present embodiment, a bitmap display is possible. Text is code data composed of character codes, and images are
The data represents pixel dots, and the graph is image data created by the graph creation function of the editor 12, for example.

In addition to the display device 20 and the display control device 22, a printing device for printing out a target document and its control device are edited by an editor.
You may comprise so that connection to 12 is possible. That is, in the present invention, the target document (and, as described later, the original document)
In addition to the display device 20, it is also possible to use a printing device or the like as an output device for outputting the original document and the target document. In this case, the original document and the target document can be visually output to a predetermined output area of the output device in a broad sense. Can be considered as something to be done. Further, a target document may be output to a file storage device such as a floppy disk or a magnetic tape, or to a communication line.

The editor 12 is a document editing device that responds to an operator's instruction command input from the keyboard 16.
This creates the document file 34,
Data such as text, images, and graphs transferred from 18 are stored in the document file storage unit 24, the contents are updated, and the target sentence text stored in the translation temporary storage unit 26 is stored in the frame content record of the document file 34. House in 40.

The translation unit 10 is a functional unit serving as a center of the present apparatus. The translation unit 10 is connected to the editor 12 and has a translation function of converting an original text received from the editor 12 into a target sentence text and returning it to the editor 12. This embodiment has a Japanese-English translation function for converting the original sentence Japanese into the target sentence English.

Stored in the document file storage 24 is a document file 34, which includes a document chapter page information table 36, a frame profile table 38, and a frame content record 40. As will be described later, in the translation execution processing, a bilingual display original document file 41 is created in the document file.

Here, referring to the structure of the document data, one document or document is composed of one or more chapters or chapters, each chapter is composed of one or more pages, and each page is composed of one or more frames. A “frame” includes one of a character (character), an image, and a graph, or a combination thereof, and is a single unit of processing in the present apparatus. Therefore, one page itself constitutes one frame. Also, part or all of the frame may be included in another frame.

There are seven types of frames, types 1 to 7, depending on any one of characters, images, and graphs, or a combination of two or three of them. Type 1 is a frame with only the character (C), type 2
Is a frame containing only the image (I), type 3 is a frame containing only the graph (G), type 4 is a frame containing C and I, type 5 is a frame containing I and G, type 6 is a frame containing C and G, Type 7 is a frame including C, I, and G.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the original document. Frame 0 is of type 1 and an example of its frame content record 40 is shown in FIG. Frame 1 is of type 2 and an example of its frame content record 40 is shown in FIG. This is image data, and pixel dots are shown in an array of hexadecimal numbers.
Further, frame 2 is of type 7, and an example of the frame content record 40 is shown in FIG.

The document chapter page information table 36 contains document information such as the total number of chapters of the document, the number of pages for each chapter, and the number of frames for each page. An example is shown in FIG. Document Chapter Page Information Table 36 is for Document Descriptor 12
0, a chapter list 122 and a page list 124.

The document descriptor 120 includes document information such as the number of chapters, the total number of pages, and the number of frames, and a pointer of a chapter list. The pointer specifies the chapter list 122.

The chapter list 122 is prepared for each chapter,
Information on all chapters in the document, and a page list
Contains 124 pointers. The page list 124 is designated by this pointer.

In the page list 124, information of all pages of each chapter and a pointer of the frame profile table 38 are recorded.

The frame profile table 38 shows the position (coordinate), size, type, and frame number (N
o.). An example is shown in FIG. The frame profile table 38 has a page list 124
The frame information and the contents can be accessed using the frame number (ID) as a key.

In the frame profile table 38, "Attribute of parent and child"
Indicates that "0" indicates that the frame has no child frame, and "1" indicates that there is a child frame. Also,
“Type” indicates the type of the frame described above. “Position / size” indicates the start and end points of the frame in millimeters. The “frame line attribute” indicates the attribute of the line forming the frame, 1 is a standard solid line, 2 is a thick solid line, 3 is a very thick solid line, 4 is a thin solid line, and 5 is a standard broken line.

The frame content record 40 contains data on the contents of the frame such as a cursor possession flag, a flag, a starting point, a pitch, a character code, and font information for each frame. The original sentence and the purpose sentence are also stored in this.
An example is shown in FIG. This illustrates frame 0 shown in FIG. 3, which is a type 1 frame.

As shown in FIG. 12, the starting point coordinates of a sentence in one frame are the starting point of the character font 102a at the head of the sentence.
Described in millimeters by the ordinate of the frame 106 relative to the starting point 100 of the frame. Also font 102
The pitch 104 between them is also described in millimeters. Note that the number of dots may be specified instead of the millimeter unit. In this embodiment, the dot density is 12 dots per 1 mm. The starting point and the maximum of the pitch are "FE". Also 16
The hex code "FFFF" indicates the end of the character.

The translated sentence temporary storage unit 26 is a storage device that temporarily stores the target sentence text sequentially transferred from the translation unit 10 under the control of the editor 12. The content is ultimately transferred to the document file storage and the frame content record
Stored in 40.

The operator operates the keyboard 16 to input an original document according to the operation flow shown in FIG. First, an original document is defined by inputting data defining the original document, such as giving the name of the original document (200). Next, define chapters, pages, and frames according to the above-mentioned rules (202, 204,
206), enter the original text. Thus, frames, pages, and chapters are sequentially input, and one original document is completed. In accordance with this, the editor 12 creates a document file 34 for the document and registers it in the storage unit 24. The input original text is temporarily stored in the frame content record 40. In addition, as will be described in detail later, it is displayed on the display screen 50 in response to an instruction from the keyboard 16.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the original document thus input. As can be seen, in the original document 140, one page constitutes frame 0, which includes original sentences 1 to 9. The frame 0 further includes an image frame 1, a graph / image frame 2, and original texts a to c.
Is included. In this embodiment, these frame numbers indicate the priority of the frames as well as the identification of the frames.

When the translation execution key 62 is operated, the editor 12 executes the translation process in accordance with the operation flow shown in FIG. At this time, a bilingual display original document file 41 is created. That is, first, a frame of the bilingual display original document file 41 is created (230), and the contents of the document chapter page information table 36 in the original document file are copied to the bilingual display original document file 41 (232). Next, the original text chapter number pointer and the original text page number pointer are set to 1 (234, 236). Further, an original document frame profile table for displaying a bilingual document is created in the original document file for bilingual display 41 (238). This is the size of the display screen 5
A frame corresponding to a size of 0 and having a frame type of “1” is created.

The translation process is sequentially performed on a character string included in the frame in accordance with the priority order. The frame pointer 231 (FIG. 9) points to a frame to be translated (240, 242). The editor 12 first determines (243, 24) the frames whose frame type is 1, 4, 6, or 7.
4) The character portion is extracted from the original document of the frame content record 40, and the character portion is transferred to the translation unit 10 together with the frame number in text units (246). Translator 1
In 0, the text sent from the editor 12 is sequentially translated and returned to the editor 12 as a target sentence. This purpose statement is
The translation is temporarily stored in the translation temporary storage unit 26 by the editor 12.

At this time, the editor 12 copies the frame content record 40 containing the text and creates a frame content record for display in the bilingual display original document file 41 (246). The start point information therein is corrected so that the second and subsequent texts are displayed following the previous text, respectively. Such processing is sequentially executed for the original text frames (247, 250), further executed sequentially for the original text pages (248, 251), further executed for the original text chapters (249, 252), and the processing of the original document ends.

As described above, in the present embodiment, only the text of the original document is sent to the translation unit 10 and converted into the target document. Therefore,
As shown in FIG. 4 partially showing an example of the target document 142, the target document includes only the text of the translated sentence, and has no frame or line. This will be described later in detail.

The target document in the translation temporary storage unit 26 is stored in the document file 34 by the editor 12 according to the flow shown in FIG. In this flow, a target document, that is, a translated document is defined (260), and then chapters and pages are defined (262,264). The translated sentence, that is, the target sentence is stored in the area where these are defined (266).

Here, the entire page is regarded as one frame of the type 1 described above, and each page is regarded as consisting of only one frame, and the translation is stored in the frame content record 40.

In this embodiment, the position coordinates (X, Y) of the start point of such a translated sentence are set as follows. The abscissa X is set to a predetermined constant value for the first sentence of the translated sentence page. For the second and subsequent sentences, the value is set to the value of the abscissa of the last character of the preceding sentence plus the width and pitch of that character. However, if the value obtained by adding the width of the first character of the sentence to the value exceeds the right end of the frame, a line feed process is performed. The ordinate Y is set to a predetermined constant value for a sentence in the first line of the translated page. In the present embodiment, the ordinate of the sentence on the line relative to the ordinate Y1 of the sentence on the previous line is used for the sentence in the second and lower lines.
The ordinate Y2 is set so that the difference Y2-Y1 of Y2 is 1 / 1.58 times the difference between those ordinates in the corresponding original text.

The pitch of the characters in the translation is set to satisfy the following equation.

(Average value of character width in font type used in translated text + Pitch of translated text) = (Average value of character width in original font type + Pitch of original text) /1.58 In this embodiment, the value of this conversion coefficient is 1 The value /1.58 is an empirically selected value that takes into account the rate of increase in the number of characters when translating Japanese into English, so that the translated text is accommodated in a format of the same size as the original text. Therefore, in this case, the translated page contains about 2.5 times as many characters as the original page.

Although this embodiment is a Japanese-English translation device, when performing translation between other languages, the initial coordinates and pitch of appropriate values are set according to the rate of change in the number of characters in the conversion in the initial setting of this device. Select and set the conversion coefficient of.

By giving an instruction from the keyboard 16, the target document is displayed in the lower half area 50b of the display screen 50 in this embodiment. An example of this document display is shown in FIG. At this time, a part of the original document 140a for displaying the translation is displayed in the upper half area 50a. That is, only the text included in the original document 140 is displayed without a frame in the order of the original document.

In this example, the bilingual display original document 140a includes the original 1 in the area corresponding to the upper half of frame 0 in FIG.
To 9 and the text "sales" in the original frame 2
The target document 142 displayed in the area 50b includes the translations 1 to 9 and the characters “sales” “mot”.
h "and the like. At this time, the target document 142 has a line spacing of the target sentence which is 1/1.
Displayed at 58x. However, there are no frames or lines.

On the display screen 50, a sentence selection cursor is displayed in an upper half area 50a and a lower half area 50b, respectively. When the sentence selection cursor key 58 of the keyboard 16 is operated, the display control unit 22 and the editor 12 respond to the operation by operating the cursor key 58.
One sentence selection cursor is moved while maintaining the correspondence between the original sentence and the translated sentence.

The movement of the sentence selection cursor in the bilingual display original document and the target document displayed on the display screen 50 is controlled by the display control unit 22 and the editor 12 according to the flow shown in FIGS. 8A to 8C.

When the user selects the sentence selection cursor key 58 of the keyboard 16 (332), if it is the cursor up key (334), the first one of the frame contents record 40 of the frame of the first page among the pages displayed on the display screen is displayed. Check the cursor possession flag in the statement (336). If it is off, it is checked whether the statement whose cursor possession flag is on is the first statement in the frame (340). If it is the first sentence, of the pages displayed on the display screen of the original document for translation display and the target document, the page of the page one page before the page containing the sentence where the sentence selection cursor is currently placed is displayed. The cursor-owning flag of the last statement in the frame content record of the frame is turned on, and the cursor-owning flag that was on is turned off (344). Next, with respect to the original document for translation display and the target document, the cursor is displayed at the position indicated by the start point information of the line in which the cursor possession flag of the frame content record 40 is "1" (352). In step 340, if the sentence whose cursor possession flag is on is not the first sentence in the frame, one of the sentences whose cursor possession flag is currently on in the frame contents record 40 of the original document for translation display and the target document. The cursor-owning flag of the previous statement is turned on, and the cursor-owning flag that has been on is turned off (348), and the routine goes to step 352.

At step 334, if the operation of the sentence selection cursor key 58 instructs the descending of the cursor, the cursor possession in the last sentence of the frame content record 40 of the frame of the last page among the pages displayed on the display screen Examine the flag (338). If it is off, it is checked whether the statement whose cursor possession flag is on is the last statement in the frame (342). For the last sentence, the frame of the frame of the page following the page containing the sentence where the sentence selection cursor is currently located among the pages displayed on the display screen of the original document for translation display and the target document. Turn on the cursor-owned flag of the first statement in the content record,
Turn off the cursor ownership flag that was on previously,
The cursor possession flag which has been on until that time is turned off (346), and the routine proceeds to step 352. In step 342,
If the statement whose cursor ownership flag is on is not the last sentence in the frame, the cursor ownership of the statement following the statement whose cursor ownership flag is currently on in the frame contents record 40 of the original document for translation display and the target document is Turn on the flag,
The cursor possession flag which has been on until then is turned off (350), and the routine goes to step 352.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the target document has no frames or lines, and therefore, there is no blank space that would otherwise be caused by the presence of the frames or lines in the original document. The target document is displayed in a simple form. Similarly, the original document that is displayed in parallel with the target document is displayed in a compact form with frames and lines removed, and the arrangement of each sentence in the target document corresponds to the order of frames in the original document. Since the original sentence and the target sentence that correspond to each other can be clearly indicated by the sentence selection cursor, the correspondence between the sentence in the original document and the sentence in the target document can be easily grasped. In the processing that does not include a frame or a line in the target document, the processing program is simplified by that much, and the execution speed of the processing is high.

The compact document display described above provides a simple target document and a new original document in which figures and graphs included in the original document are omitted. Further, since the object sentence corresponding to the original sentence and the original sentence corresponding to the object sentence are always indicated at the same time on the same display screen of the display device by the sentence selection cursor, a clear correspondence between the two can be easily grasped.

Effects According to the present invention, the target document has no frames or lines, and therefore, there is no blank space that would otherwise be caused by the presence of the frames or lines in the original document, and the object document has a compact form. The target document is output. Similarly, the original document displayed in parallel with the target document is also displayed in a compact form with the frames, lines, etc. removed. Further, since the object sentence corresponding to the original sentence and the original sentence corresponding to the object sentence are always instructed simultaneously on one display screen of the display device, a clear correspondence between the two can be easily grasped.

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FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment in which a document creating and editing apparatus according to the present invention is applied to an automatic translator, FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an original document applied to the embodiment shown, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of an original document and a target document displayed on a display device in the embodiment, FIGS. 5 to 8A, 8B and 8C are flowcharts showing an example of an operation flow in the embodiment, and FIGS. 9 to 14 are explanatory diagrams for explaining the structure of a document file in the embodiment. Explanation of Signs of Main Parts 10 Translation Translator 12 Editor 20 Display 22 Display Control 34 Document File 50 Display Screen 56 Page Move Key 58 Sentence Selection Cursor Key 60 …… Character selection cursor key

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] An input unit for inputting data of an original document including at least one frame; a conversion unit for creating a target sentence corresponding to the original text included in the original document; and data of the original document and the target document Storage means for accumulating data, output means for visually outputting the original document and the target document to a predetermined output area, and control for controlling the conversion means, storage means and output means in response to the input means. Means, the frame includes at least one of a sentence and a graphic, one output area includes first and second output areas, and the control means includes data of the original document. Is input to the storage means, and when the data of the original document stored in the storage means includes a frame including a figure, the text of the original document stored in the storage means is also stored. Is sent to the conversion means in frame units, and the conversion means performs the conversion processing, creates a target document consisting of sentences only, and stores it in the storage means. The first output area is included in the original document. A document creation / editing apparatus which outputs only a sentence and outputs only a sentence of the target document to a second output area. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said control means assigns priorities to frames of the original document, and converts only the sentences of the original document in frame priority order on a frame-by-frame basis. A document creation / editing device, which sends the document to a computer. 3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said output means is display means, and said first and second output areas have first and second cursors indicating a sentence. Respectively displayed, wherein the input means has operating means for controlling first and second cursors, and wherein the control means responds to the operation of the operating means to control the first and second cursors. A document creation / editing device wherein a sentence corresponding to a sentence instructed by one of them is designated by a second cursor.