JP3144328U - Portable electronic English-Japanese / English-English dictionary that can be operated with one hand - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is a portable electronic English-Japanese / English-English dictionary that allows a person who inputs characters mainly using an English type keyboard to operate with one thumb like a mobile phone while maintaining the sense of the key layout.
A vertically long external shape simulating a cellular phone is used, and a key arrangement of 3 characters per line × 10 lines is used. The alphabet is assigned to each key in the form of the English type array rotated 90 ° to the right. This enables a one-handed thumb operation with the same input feeling as a personal computer or a conventional electronic English-Japanese / English-English dictionary.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a combination of an external shape of a portable electronic English-Japanese / English-English dictionary and a character input key arrangement structure.

As shown in Fig. 2, the external shape of the conventional portable electronic English-Japanese / English-English dictionary and the character input key arrangement structure are arranged in a horizontally long vertical opening type character input key in English type arrangement or ABC order arrangement. Its use is made on the premise that it can be operated with one hand on a desk or with two hands.
Although the English-Japanese dictionary function attached to the conventional mobile phone is premised on a one-handed thumb operation, as shown in FIG. 3, 2 to 9 numeric keys are used, and 2 = A, B, C 3 = D, E, F This is an array structure in which a plurality of characters are assigned to and a combination of eight character input keys.

However, according to the above technology, in the conventional portable electronic English-Japanese / English-English dictionary, you can look up the dictionary while reading English, specifically, operate the dictionary with the other hand while holding the document in one hand. I can't. With the English-Japanese dictionary function attached to a conventional mobile phone, the above operation is possible, but since three or more characters are assigned to one key, input is very complicated and there are many input mistakes. Not practical.
Therefore, this device is a portable type that can be operated with one thumb like a mobile phone while maintaining an input method in which input keys and input characters correspond 1: 1 with a conventional electronic English-Japanese / English-English dictionary. The subject is to provide an electronic English-Japanese / English-English dictionary.

  A device for solving the above problems is a portable electronic English-Japanese / English-English dictionary characterized by a combination of a folding mobile phone type outer shape and a character input key arrangement structure consisting of 10 characters per line and 3 characters. It is.

According to the present invention, it is possible to perform a thumb operation with one hand by securing the same outer shape as that of a folding mobile phone that is currently popular. Moreover, since the character input keys have an array structure consisting of 10 characters per line and 3 characters, the keys correspond to the alphabet in a 1: 1 ratio, so that the operation feeling is the same as a mobile phone consisting of 3 characters per line. In addition, the complexity of character input caused by assigning a plurality of characters to one key as in a dictionary function attached to a conventional mobile phone is eliminated.
As an additional convenience, if you assign a character input key to the English type array rotated 90 ° rightward, a person who routinely inputs characters using the keyboard of the English type array will Character input operation can be performed with the same input feeling as a conventional portable English-Japanese / English-English dictionary.

One embodiment of this device is shown in FIG.
The external shape of the portable electronic English-Japanese / English-English dictionary is the same as that of a general folding mobile phone, and the display is arranged on a double-sided surface. The character input keys, together with the other keys, are arranged within the range that can be operated with the thumb.

It is a front view showing one embodiment of this device. It is a front view which shows an example of the external shape in a portable English-Japanese / English-English dictionary and an input key arrangement structure among prior arts. It is a front view which shows an example of the external shape and input key arrangement structure in a mobile telephone among prior arts.

Claims (3)

A portable electronic English-Japanese / English-English dictionary shape, character input key arrangement, and character assignment, which enables English typing users to input easily with one thumb. 2. The character input key arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the convenience that can be input with one thumb is obtained by arranging character input keys on a mobile phone type outer shape in one line by three characters by ten lines. 2. The alphabetic character input key according to claim 1, wherein the convenience provided to the English typing user is realized by rotating the English type array 90 degrees clockwise and arranging it vertically. Assignment to.