JPH02176967A - Electronic reading device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To start reading immediately without any failure in reading a 1st sentence by starting automatic sentence advancing operation a certain time after switching to an automatic sentence advance mode. CONSTITUTION:When a power switch 2 is turned on, a control circuit 5 reads sentence data out of a storage medium in order and a 1st page is displayed on a display part 7. Then when an automatic sentence advance switch is turned on, a control circuit 6 allows a timer circuit 3 to count up. If the automatic sentence advance switch 1 is already turned on before the power switch 2 is turned on, the timer circuit 3 starts counting up at the same time with the turning-on operation of the power switch 2. When the certain time is counted, the control circuit 6 reads the sentence data out of the storage medium 5 in order according to a feed speed set by a speed setting means 4 in advance and displays them on the display part 7 in order. Consequently, there is no failure in reading a head sentence.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to an electronic reading machine.

[Prior Art] A conventional electronic reading machine switches to an automatic text forwarding mode and starts automatically forwarding the text as soon as the text is displayed on the screen.

[Problem to be solved] In the conventional system described above, automatic text advance starts immediately after a text is displayed on the display in automatic text advance mode, so the text is erased before the first sentence is finished reading. Sometimes it happens. In this case, it is necessary to manually redisplay the text that the user failed to read, which is time-consuming.

An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic reading machine that does not fail to read the first sentence when switching to automatic text feed mode.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention performs counting when the power switch is on and the automatic text feed mode is set, or when the automatic text feed switch is on and the power switch is turned on. A timer circuit that starts and generates an output after a certain period of time, and a control circuit that reads text data from a storage medium storing text data at a preset feeding speed using the output from the timer circuit. This solves the above problem.

[Example] Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the drawings.

In FIG. 1, 1 is an automatic text feed switch for setting the automatic text feed mode, 2 is a power switch, 3 is a timer circuit, and 4 is a feed speed setting means for setting the text feed speed in the automatic text feed mode. It is. Reference numeral 5 represents a storage medium such as a TC card in which text data is stored, and 6 represents a control circuit that performs various controls. The storage medium 5 and the control circuit 6 are removable. Reference numeral 7 denotes a display unit that performs display based on text data read from the storage medium 5.

Next, the operation will be explained along the flowchart of FIG. First, when the power switch 2 is turned on, the control circuit 6 sequentially reads out text data from the storage medium 5 and displays the first page on the display section 7 (step 2).

Next, when the automatic text feed switch is turned on, the control circuit 6 causes the timer circuit 3 to start counting. In addition,
If the automatic text feed switch 1 is already turned on before the power switch 2 is turned on, the timer circuit 3 starts counting at the same time as the power switch 2 is turned on (step ).

The timer circuit 3 outputs a signal after counting a certain period of time.

This signal causes the control circuit 6 to preliminarily control the feed rate setting means 4.
The text data is sequentially read out from the storage medium 5 according to the feed speed set in step 2, and the text data is sequentially displayed on the display section 7 based on the read text data (step 2).

By the above operation, automatic text forwarding is started after a certain period of time after switching to the automatic text forwarding mode.

[Effects] According to the present invention, automatic text forwarding is started a certain period of time after switching to automatic text forwarding mode, so reading can be started promptly without missing the first sentence.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of FIG. 1. 1...Automatic text feed switch 3...Timer circuit 6...Control circuit 7...Display section Figure 1 Figure 2 Above

Claims (1)

[Claims] An automatic text feed switch for setting the automatic text feed mode; and when the automatic text feed mode is entered with the power switch on, or when the automatic text feed switch is on and the power switch is on. There is a timer circuit that starts counting when the timer reaches 0, and generates an output after a certain period of time, and the output from this timer circuit allows text data to be read from a storage medium storing text data at a preset feed speed. An electronic reading machine comprising: a control circuit for reading; and a display section for displaying text data based on text data read from the storage medium.