JPH0243673A - Electronic equipment display system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily compare and refer to words in plural languages and to improve convenience by displaying words corresponding to a noun or data related to them in the plural languages in parallel. CONSTITUTION:When a guide key 15 is pushed, characters 'Nichi Kan' (Japanese to Korean) in KANJI (Chinese character) are displayed on a screen 1, for example, when a sport key is pushed by the instruction of a category key group 12, 'Acheri' (archery) in KATAKANA (square form of Japanese syllabary) is displayed on a display part 2 as the screen 2. Further, when a translation key 33 is pushed, a screen 13 is displayed on the display part 2. That is, Korean or English expression in Korea corresponding to Japanese 'Acheri' (archery) in KATAKANA are displayed. Thus, Korean and the corresponding English expression in Korea can be simultaneously displayed in parallel. Thus, the words in the plural languages can be easily compared and referred to, and the convenience can be improved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of Industrial Application The present invention relates to a method in which, for example, synonymous words or sentences are stored in correspondence across a plurality of languages, and these words or sentences can be translated by reading out the words or sentences as appropriate. The present invention relates to a display method for an electronic device that is suitably implemented in a portable translation device or the like.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Portable translation devices include, for example, devices capable of translating between three languages: Japanese, Korean, and English. With such a device, for example, in the Japanese-Korean translation mode for translating from Japanese to Korean, first select the word you want to translate by pressing the key f? Select by. This will display the desired Japanese word. After this, by pressing the translation key, the corresponding Korean language will be displayed. Similarly, from Korean to English
In the Korean-English translation mode of \, translation into English can be performed by manual key operations similar to those for Korean selected by key manual operation ftE.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention Although such a translation device can translate a selected word into a desired language, it is not possible to display mutually corresponding words in two languages at the same time without performing a translation operation. (In other words, if you want to compare and contrast words and phrases in a specific language with the corresponding words in another language, you must always perform translation operations, which are complicated.)
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An object of the present invention is to provide a display method for electronic equipment that can improve the operability (11) when comparing and referencing noun equivalent words or phrases in multiple languages or data related thereto.

Means for Solving the Problems The present invention provides a storage means for storing mutually synonymous noun-equivalent words and phrases in a plurality of languages and data related thereto, and for storing desired characters in a selected language. This is a display method for an electronic R-device, which is used in an electronic device equipped with a display section for displaying, and is characterized in that the noun-equivalent phrase or data related thereto is displayed in parallel in a plurality of languages.

According to the present invention, noun equivalent words or phrases or data related thereto are displayed in parallel in a plurality of languages.

As a result, it is possible to easily compare and refer to noun equivalent words or phrases or data related thereto between a plurality of languages without performing conversion processing operations on noun equivalent words or phrases or data related thereto across a plurality of languages.

Embodiment FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the electrical configuration of a translation device 1 to which an embodiment of the present invention is applied, and FIG.
FIG. The translation device tl includes a display unit 2 realized by, for example, a liquid crystal display device (LCD) or the like.
, a central control unit (CPU) 3 and a key human power unit 1 for controlling the entire device.

The display section 2 is connected to the central control section 3 via a drive circuit 5.
connected to. Read-only memory (ROM) 6 has
A program for operating the translation device 1 and words or sentences in multiple languages for realizing the translation operation are stored, and the read-only memory 6 has a gate array 7 for switching the memory bar. is connected to the central control unit 3 via the central control unit 3.
A random access memory (RAM>8) is connected to temporarily store a pointer flag to be described later and is used as a working head for the display M2.

The translation device 1 of this embodiment has a function of translating between three languages: Japanese, Korean [II and English], and words and sentences related to these three languages are stored in the read-only memory 6 in advance. Next, the configuration and functions of the key manpower section 4 will be explained with reference to FIG.

The key input unit 4 is comprised of a translation function key group 11, a category key group 12, and a number key group 13. In the translation function key group 11, an electric translator key 14, a guide key 15
The calculation/currency conversion key 16 is a mode setting key for selectively setting conversation/word; translation mode, Korean guide information electronic translation mode (hereinafter referred to as guide mode), and total/currency conversion mode, respectively. be. The search key 17 is used, for example, to search for a desired noun equivalent phrase in any category selected by the category key group 12. That is, a desired word or phrase can be searched from among a series of words and phrases stored cyclically by using the reverse key 17a and the forward key 17b.

The language selection key 21, the translation direction key 22, and the conversation/word key 23 are the same as the electronic translator key 14 or the guide key 1.
This key is used to select the language of the conversation/word to be translated and the guide information, and to selectively set the translation direction between the languages in the conversation/word 1 translation mode or guide mode set in step 5. . Conversation 7/Word key 23
A pair of power on/off keys 24 are provided on the right side of FIG. , usually a key for controlling the key touch sound on/off. Previous screen key 27 and next screen key 28
A clear key 30 is provided on the second [21] right side of the 0 function key 26 used when scrolling the display screen.

The category key group 12 has 14 categories classified into predetermined usage R-sama towns, from which a desired category key can be selected. Category 8i includes "Basic conversation", "Greetings", "Immigration tax", "Telephone/mail", "Sickness", 5 "Inside the airport plane", "
"Hotels", "Restaurants", "Vehicles", "Sightseeing", "Shopping/Currency Exchange", "Entertainment", "Sports", and "Emergencies", and in conversation/word teletranslation mode, "Basic Conversation" to "Emergency" All categories (14 types) are valid, and in the guide mode, nine categories from "inside the airport" to "emergency" are valid.

The information key 31 is a key used in the guide mode, and the 1 example sentence key 32 is used to display telephone numbers, addresses, explanations, etc. related to Korean guide information such as hotel names and cuisine names. When the Korean guide information (hereinafter referred to as title data) such as the hotel name and cuisine name mentioned above is displayed on the display section 2, frequently used sentences are combined with this title data as the subject to create a conversation sentence. Used when composing sentences. Translation key 3
3 is a key for translating the conversation/words in the -language and the title data into another language.

The pronunciation key 34 is used to display the pronunciation in katakana when a foreign language (for example, Korean) is displayed. Each key in the numeric key group 13 is used in calculation/currency conversion mode.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining an example of an operation when translating from Japanese to Korean, and FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a display corresponding to this.

When the guide key 15 is pressed in step a1, the display section 2 displays FIG. 4 <1) [! The following screen is displayed, indicating that the Japanese-9i translation mode is in effect for translating from Japanese to Korean. Category key group 1 in Stella 7 a 2
When the "Sports" key is pressed from the instruction No. 2, for example, "Archery" is displayed on the display section 2 (No. 41).
(See 1Z(2)).

If you press the translation key 33 here, step EL3),
The display section 2 displays the screen shown in No. 4121(3). That is, the Hangul word corresponding to the Japanese word "archery" and 9! The English notation in country J is displayed. Here, Hangul, which is the first language, is displayed in the upper display area 2a of the display unit 2, and English notation in Korean, which is the second language, is displayed in the lower display area 2b. In this way, Hangul and its Korean equivalent in English are displayed side by side at the same time, making it easy to compare and contrast these words at a glance. is convenient.

When the pronunciation key 34 is pressed in step a4, the display unit 2 displays the pronunciations corresponding to the first and second languages in katakana (see Fig. 4 (4)). When checking the pronunciations between the two languages, since the pronunciations of the first and second languages are displayed simultaneously and in parallel, it is very easy to compare and contrast, which is very convenient.

FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically showing a data format for realizing such dual language display.

51121(1) shows the Korean data format 50, and FIG. 51121(2) shows the Japanese data format 60. The Korean data format 50 is the first language, Korean 1 (
a first language code 51 related to (Hangul), a language separation code 52, a second language code 53 related to English notation in Korea, which is the second language, a pronunciation start code 54, and a first language related to the pronunciation of the first language. The pronunciation code 55, the pronunciation delimiter code 56, the second language pronunciation code 57 regarding the pronunciation of the second language, and the end code 58 are arranged in this order. That is, a language delimiter code 52 and a pronunciation start code 54 are added to data questions related to a specific word.
and control codes such as pronunciation delimiter code 56 are inserted to form data format 5o. language separator code 5
2 and the pronunciation delimiter code 56 are code 1 indicating a line break, and the pronunciation start code 54 is code 1 indicating that the data code after this is a data code related to pronunciation.1 The Japanese data format 6o is Japanese. It consists of a code 59 and an end code 58.

3 and 4, step a
When the sports key is pressed at 2, Japanese data (5 Japanese codes) according to the Japanese data format 60 is decoded from the read-on memory 6 into the random access memory 8. When the translation key 33 is pressed on this button, data according to the Korean data format 50 is decoded from the read-only memory 6 into the random access memory S.
The data before the pronunciation start code 54 is displayed on the display section 2 (see FIG. 4 (3)), and a line break is made with the language delimiter code 52 in between, as described above. When the pronunciation key 34 is pressed next, the data sandwiched between the pronunciation start code 54 and the end code 58 is displayed (see Figure 4 (4)).
, a new line is inserted with the pronunciation delimiter code 56 in between.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of display when words in two languages are displayed on one screen or more, and FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of display of pronunciation corresponding to this. In No. 611U, the same figure (1)
Words and phrases in two languages are displayed together over three screens from 3) to 3), and each screen is scrolled by operating the previous screen key 27 and next screen key 28. For example, the 6th
By pressing the next screen key 28 in the display state shown in Figure (1), the screen shown in Figure (2) is displayed. For this i% sound, the first language (Hangul) is displayed in the upper part of the display section 2, and the second language (English notation in @ country) is displayed in the lower part. Further, by pressing the next screen key 28, the screen shown in FIG. 6(3) is displayed.

When the sound generation key 34 is pressed in the display state shown in FIG. 6 (1), the screen shown in FIG. 7 (1) is displayed.

Only the pronunciation of the first language is displayed in these four sessions. When the sound generation key 34 is pressed in the display state shown in FIG. 6(2), the screen shown in FIG. 7(2) is displayed. At this time,
The pronunciation of the first language and the pronunciation of the second language are displayed together. When the sound generation key 34 is pressed in the display state shown in FIG. 6 (3), the screen shown in FIG. 7 (3) is displayed, and the 1%
In this case, only the second final pronunciation is displayed. Note that the data format of a place where two languages are displayed on one screen or more is similar to the Korean data format 50 displayed in FIG.
, first language pronunciation code 55 and second language light sound code 5
Code data corresponding to each number 7 is assigned.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of displaying whether the pronunciations of the first language and the second language are the same. In other words, a state in which words with the same pronunciation in the first and second languages are displayed (eighth
121 (1)), when the pronunciation key 34 is pressed,
To display only one pronunciation without displaying pronunciations together. This makes it clear that the two languages have the same pronunciation.

Note that in this thirst data format, code data indicating that nothing is to be displayed is inserted in the second language pronunciation code 57.

In this manner, in this embodiment, words and phrases in two languages can be displayed simultaneously, so that they can be compared and referenced at a glance, improving convenience. In addition, in order to display such two languages simultaneously, you need to switch the translation mode and press t! of the translation key 33 accordingly. There is no need to perform new operations such as f-ya, and the manual operation of the keys is simplified. Productivity is improved.

Effects of the Invention As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to improve the operability and convenience when comparing and referencing words in two languages.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

No. 11121 is a block diagram showing the electrical configuration of the translation device 1 used in one embodiment of the present invention, No. 2 [21 is a plan view of the translation device 1, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an example of manual key operation. Figure 4 (a diagram showing a display example corresponding to this), Figure 5 is a schematic diagram of the data format to realize parallel notation in two languages, and Figure 6 is a table where words in two languages are displayed on more than one screen. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of displaying the pronunciation corresponding to this, and FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of displaying the same pronunciation in the two languages. 1... Translation device , 2...Display section, 3...Central control section, 4...Key human power section, 5...Drive circuit, 6...
Read-only memory, 8--Random access memory, 33... Translation key, 34... Pronunciation key Agent Patent attorney Keiichi Saikyo First prisoner Figure Figure Figure Figure Figure

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A storage means for storing mutually synonymous noun-equivalent words and phrases in a plurality of languages and data related thereto; and a display unit for displaying desired characters in the selected language. A display method for an electronic device, characterized in that the noun equivalent word or phrase or data related thereto is displayed in parallel in a plurality of languages.