JPH02288977A - Multi-language display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily extract a correspondent sentence by an operator when an original sentence is compared with a translated sentence by displaying the original sentence and translated sentence in the same display starting position in a display frame for each sentence. CONSTITUTION:A value SP for the number of lines in the leading position of the original sentence to show in which line of the frame the original sentence is positioned and a value SL for the number of lines occupied by the original sentence in the display frame are obtained from a line number calculator 13 and a display controller 15 calculates a value TL for the number of lines occupied by the translated sentence in a translated sentence display frame from the line number calculator 13. The display controller 15 calculates a maximum value MAXL out of the SL and TL from a maximum line number detector 14 and afterwards, the (MAXL-TL)-pieces of paragraphs are inserted in the position of a translated sentence buffer corresponding to the leading point in the SP-th line of the translated sentence display frame. Afterwards, the paragraph in the translated sentence buffer corresponding to the TL-pieces of paragraphs is replaced from the SP-th line of the translated sentence display frame to the translated sentence. Further, the end of the original sentence in an original sentence buffer, namely, to a part corresponding to the (SP+SL+1)-th line in the original sentence display frame, the (MAXL-SL)-pieces of the line shifts are inserted. Thus, the correspondent sentence can be speedily found out.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a multilingual display device, such as a machine translation system display device, that simultaneously displays an original text and translated texts in multiple languages.

Conventional Technology In recent years, technologies related to artificial intelligence have attracted attention, and many have been applied in various fields of industry, and many have been put into practical use. As one such technology, various machine translation systems using computer systems have been developed. Generally, a CRT, a printer, etc. are used as the output display device.

An example of the conventional multilingual display device mentioned above will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 4 shows the configuration of a conventional multilingual display device, and FIG. 5 shows an example of a display screen having a plurality of display frames, an example having two display frames.

In FIG. 4, 41 is a sentence buffer management device, and 42 is a sentence display device. In Fig. 5, 51 is the original text display frame;
52 is a translation display frame.

The operation of the multilingual display device configured as described above will be described below.

First, the original text display frame 51 on the display screen of the text display device 42
The original text is displayed. The contents of the original text exist in the original text buffer of the sentence buffer management device 41. The main translation processing device of the machine translation system inputs the first original text in the original text buffer, performs translation processing, and outputs the translation result to the translation buffer of the sentence buffer management device 41 as the first translated text. Then, the contents of the translation buffer are displayed at the beginning of the translation display frame 52 on the display screen of the text display device 42. Next, the second original text in the original text is similarly translated and output as a second translated text to the translated text display frame 52. In this case, it is output immediately after the first translation mentioned above. In this way, the original text is translated sequentially,
The translated text is output while the contents of the translated text buffer change.

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Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, in the above structure, the length of the original text and the translated text are usually different, and even though there is a difference in the number of lines occupied within the display frame, they can be read independently and sequentially. Since the positions of the corresponding original text and translated text do not match within each display frame, when comparing the original text and translated text, the translation system operator must: The problem is that it is difficult to immediately find a translated text that corresponds to a certain original text.

In view of the above problems, the present invention displays the original text and the translated text at the same display start position in the display frame for each sentence, so that when comparing the original text and the translated text, the operator can immediately select the corresponding sentence. It provides a searchable multilingual display device.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the multilingual display device of the present invention includes a sentence buffer management device that collectively manages a plurality of Japanese sentence buffers, and a multilingual display device that collectively manages a plurality of Japanese sentence buffers, and a multilingual display device that a sentence display device that is divided into display frames and simultaneously displays the contents of the national language sentence buffer in the sentence buffer management device in each display frame;
-1- A line number calculation device that calculates the number of lines that the content of each sentence buffer of the writing buffer management device occupies in each display frame of the text display device; a maximum number of lines detection device that detects the longest line value among them, and a maximum number of lines calculated by the line number calculation device and the maximum number of lines calculated by the line number calculation device at appropriate positions of each statement buffer in the statement buffer management device The system is equipped with a display control device that inserts line feeds as many times as the difference from the maximum number of lines detected by the line count detection device.

Effect of the Invention With the above-described configuration, the present invention displays the original and translated sentences at the same display start position in the display frame, and when comparing the original and translated sentences, the operator can immediately select the corresponding sentence. can be searched for.

Embodiment Hereinafter, a multilingual display device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of a multilingual display device in an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, 11 is a sentence buffer management device, 12 is a display device, 13 is a line number calculation device, 14 is a maximum line number detection device, and 15 is a display control device.

The operation of the multilingual display device configured as described above will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3 when processing bilingual information.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the flow of the display processing operation in FIG. 1.

In the initial state, the original text exists in the original text buffer in the sentence buffer management device 1. First, the display control device 15 obtains the number of lines occupied by the original text in the original text display frame on the display screen of the text display device 12 from the line number calculation device 13, and calculates the number of lines occupied by the original text in the sentence buffer management device j1 by the number of lines. Insert a line break in the translation buffer. The line number calculation device 14 calculates the number of lines occupied by the text from the length of the text, the size of the font used, and the width of the display frame.

Next, a line value SP of the first position of the original text indicating which line in the frame the original text to be translated is located,
The line number SL that the original text occupies in the original text display frame is obtained from the line number calculation device 14.

The translation processing main device (single-sentence buffer management device) performs translation processing by inputting the original text in the original text buffer in the sentence buffer management device 1, and outputs the amount of translated text to the translation buffer in the sentence buffer management device 11.The display control device 15 The number of lines TL that the translation amount occupies in the translation display frame is obtained from the line number calculation device 14.

Then, the display control device 15 receives the S from the maximum number of lines detection device 14.
Obtain the maximum value MAIL between L and TL.

Thereafter, (MAIL - TL) line feeds are inserted at the position of the translation buffer corresponding to the beginning of the SP line of the translation display frame. Thereafter, the line feeds in the translation buffer corresponding to TL line feeds from the SP line of the translation display frame are replaced with the amount of translated text.

Furthermore, the end of the original text in the original text buffer, that is, the part corresponding to the (SP SL + 1)th line in the original text display frame, is (M
Insert AIL-8L) line breaks.

The text display device 11 reflects the contents of the text buffer in the display frame, and the changes within the display frame are as follows.

1) When TL>SL, that is, MAXI, =TL This is a case where the number of lines in the translated text is larger than the number of lines in the original text. In other words, it is necessary to redisplay the sentences after the original sentence to be translated by moving the beginning of the sentence down a line.

In the translated text display frame, TL line breaks starting from the SP line are replaced with the translated text amount.

In the original text display frame, (TL-8L) line feeds are inserted immediately after the original text. This causes all subsequent text to be moved down.

2) SL>TL, that is, MAIL=SL This is a case where the number of lines in the original text is larger than the number of lines in the translated text. In other words, in order to display the amount of translated text, it is necessary to insert line breaks so that the translated text display frame occupies the same number of lines as the original text.

In the translation display frame, first, from the SP line (SL-T
L) line breaks are added. This will move all subsequent translations down the line. Thereafter, TL line breaks starting from the SP line are replaced with the translated text.

No change occurs in the original text display frame.

3) When SL=TL, that is, MAIL=TL=SL This is a case where the number of lines of the original text and the number of lines of the translated text have the same value. In this case, there is no need to control the number of lines.

In the translation display frame, the translation is displayed from the SP line to the TL line.

No changes occur in the original text display frame.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a display screen having a plurality of display frames when the number of lines of the present invention is controlled, and is an example having two display frames.

Effects of the Invention As described above, the present invention provides a sentence buffer management device that collectively manages a plurality of Japanese sentence buffers, and a sentence buffer management device that divides one screen into a plurality of display frames corresponding to a plurality of Japanese languages and displays the above sentences in each display frame. A text display device that simultaneously displays the contents of the national language sentence buffers in the buffer management device, and a number of lines for calculating the number of lines that the contents of each sentence buffer of the sentence buffer management device occupy in each display frame of the sentence display device. Calculation equipment A maximum line number detection device that detects the longest line number among the line numbers calculated by the line number calculation device, and a line number calculation device that detects the longest line number among the line numbers calculated by the line number calculation device, and a line number calculation device that By providing a display control device that inserts line breaks equal to the difference between each line value calculated by the device and the maximum number of lines detected by the maximum number of lines detection device, it is possible to insert line breaks in each sentence in multiple languages. When comparing sentences in different languages by displaying them at the same display start position in each display frame, the operator can immediately find the corresponding sentence.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a multilingual display device in an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the flow of display processing in an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is an example of a display screen in an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the configuration of a conventional multilingual display device, and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen with the conventional configuration. 11... Sentence buffer management device, 12... Text display device, 13... Line number calculation device, 14... Maximum number of lines detection device, 15... Display control device. Name of agent: Patent attorney Shigetaka Kurino Haka 1 Master engineer 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] A sentence buffer management device that collectively manages multiple Japanese language sentence buffers, and a screen that is divided into multiple display frames corresponding to multiple Japanese languages, and the contents of the national language sentence buffers in the sentence buffer management device are displayed in each display frame. A text display device that simultaneously displays a text, a line number calculation device that calculates the number of lines that the contents of each sentence buffer of the sentence buffer management device occupy in each display frame of the text display device, and a number of lines calculated by the line number calculation device. a maximum line number detection device that detects the longest line number among the line numbers calculated; and a maximum line number detection device that detects the longest line number among the line numbers calculated by the line number calculation device; A multilingual display device comprising: a display control device that inserts line feeds by the number of lines that are different from the maximum number of lines detected by the maximum number of lines detection device.