JPH0351957A - Electronic dictionary - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate the need to re-input a character or character string and to improve the operability by inputting the character or character string displayed on the screen of a display means as it is and retrieving another dictionary. CONSTITUTION:A display buffer 8 stored with the character or character string displayed on the display part 5, registers 9 and 10 stored with cursor coordinates when a cursor is specified, registers 11 and 12 stored with the head character coordinates of the character string when a specified character is inputted, registers 13 and 14 stored with final character coordinates, a buffer 15 stored with the inputted character string, etc., are connected to a processing part 3. When some character or character string is obtained as a retrieval result of one dictionary, the character or character string is specified by a specifying means to input the character or character string regarding the specification and a specification varying means changes the selection of the dictionary. Consequently, another dictionary can be retrieved with the character or character string which is obtained by the last retrieval.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an electronic dictionary that searches a dictionary containing textual linguistic information using characters or character strings.

[Prior Art] Generally, electronic dictionaries include a dictionary that stores textual and linguistic information, and
An input means such as a keyboard for inputting characters or character strings for searching this dictionary, a search means for searching the dictionary using the characters or character strings input by the input means, and a liquid crystal display or the like for displaying the search results. It consists of a display means.

Further, as conventional electronic dictionaries, there are electronic dictionaries that can be equipped with a plurality of different types of dictionaries. That is, for example, in an electronic dictionary that has one dictionary permanently built in and another removably mounted, multiple dictionaries can be selectively searched as needed using a dictionary specifying means such as a switch key. Then, the search results obtained by this search are displayed on the screen of the display means.

In this way, in conventional electronic dictionaries, by specifying one of the multiple dictionaries installed and inputting the desired character or character string, the desired dictionary selected from among the multiple dictionaries can be used. It is possible to perform a search.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in conventional electronic dictionaries having such a configuration, it is difficult to search in other dictionaries by using the search results from one of the multiple dictionaries installed. In this case, there is a problem in operability in that the characters or character strings obtained by the previous search must be input from the input means.

The present invention has been made with the aim of solving such problems, and it is possible to directly import characters or character strings displayed on the screen of a display means as data, and use the imported characters or character strings to generate data. , the purpose is to provide an electronic dictionary that allows searching of other dictionaries.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a designation means for designating a desired character or character string from the display screen of a display means, and a character or character string designated by the designation means. It has an importing means for importing a character string, and a specification changing means for instructing the dictionary specifying means to change the selection specification of the dictionary as necessary. It is characterized by searching for.

[Operation] In the electronic dictionary of the present invention, when a first dictionary search is performed and a certain character or character string is obtained as a search result, the specified character or character string can be specified by the specifying means. Such characters or character strings are captured by the capturing means. On the other hand, since the selection of the dictionary is changed by the specification change means, it becomes possible to search other dictionaries using the characters or character strings obtained in the previous search.

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

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an electronic dictionary according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In this figure, an input section 1 for inputting characters or character strings to be searched, and an input buffer 2 for temporarily storing the characters or character strings input by the input section 1 are provided.

A processing section 3 according to a feature of the present invention is connected to the input section 1, and a display control section 4 for controlling the display of search results and a display section 5 for displaying the search results are sequentially connected to the processing section 3. has been done. That is, the processing unit 3 specifies one of the plurality of dictionaries based on the character or character string input by the input unit 1, and performs a search using the specified dictionary. Then, supplying the text language information obtained as a result of the search to the display unit 5 via the display control unit 4,
The search results are displayed on the display section 5 under the control of the display control section 4 . Regarding the operations of specifying the cursor, importing specified characters, and changing dictionary selection, which are the features of this invention,
This will be explained in detail later.

A plurality of dictionaries having character language information for searching by desired characters or character strings are connected to the processing unit 3, and in the figure, these multiple dictionaries store Japanese information for English information. A stored English-Japanese dictionary w6 and a kanji dictionary 7 that stores the pronunciations, compound words, etc. of kanji information are employed.

Further, a display buffer DISPBUFl3 that stores characters or character strings displayed on the display section 5 is connected to the processing section 3, and the characters or character strings displayed on the display section 5 are at least displayed. While this D
Stored in ISPBUF8.

The processing unit 3 further includes registers 9 and 10 for respectively storing the X value CX and Y value CY of the cursor coordinates when specifying the cursor according to the feature of the present invention, and registers 9 and 10 for respectively storing the X value CX and Y value CY of the cursor coordinates according to the feature of the present invention. Register 1 that stores the X value PX1 and Y value PYI of the first character coordinates of the specified character string.
1 and 12, a register 1 that stores the X value PX2 and Y value PY2 of the final character coordinates of the character string specified by the cursor.
3 and 14, and a buffer getstr15 for storing the character string obtained by importing the specified character. In addition, a register 16 is connected to the processing unit 3 to store an FLG representing the operating state of the search.

Next, the operation of the electronic dictionary according to this embodiment having such a configuration will be explained using FIG. 2.

FIG. 2 shows the flow of operation of this embodiment.

First, a character or character string related to a search is input from the input section 1 (1 0 1). Based on this input character or character string, one of the installed dictionaries, for example, the English-Japanese dictionary 6, is searched (102). This search result is stored in the DISPBUF8 (1 0 3),
The screen is displayed on the display unit 5 (1 0 4).

The above is the same flow as a normal search performed in a conventional electronic dictionary.Next, the characteristic operation of the present invention will be explained.

After the screen display 104 is performed, the cursor displayed on the display unit 5 is initialized (1 0 5).
. The display screen of the display unit 5 is a display screen that can display characters in a predetermined number of rows and columns, and by assigning an X coordinate to a column and a Y coordinate to a row of this matrix-like display screen, this It is possible to specify coordinates on the screen. The cursor specifies one display unit specified by the X and Y coordinates.

In addition, the above-mentioned cursor initialization refers to the cursor's X and Y
The coordinate values CX and CY are both set to "1", and the cursor is moved to display units of X-1 and Y-1. Also, at this time, the FLG representing the state of the search operation is also r
Initialized to OJ.

Next, input from the input unit 1 is waited for (1 0
6).

The cursor designation according to the feature of the present invention is performed by detecting a cursor movement instruction inputted from the input section 1.

For example, if there is a key input of 1° in the input holding state 106, the amount obtained by adding 1 to the cursor coordinate X value CX initialized in the cursor initialization 105 is It is determined whether the number of display columns is less than or equal to the number of display columns (1 0 7). In this diagram,
The number of display columns of the display section 5 is set to ten. That is, in this determination 107, it is determined whether or not the cursor will protrude from the display screen of the display unit 5 when the cursor is moved one character to the right.

In the determination 107, if it is determined that the cursor can be moved to the right, 1 is added to the X coordinate CX of the cursor.
is added (so-called incremented) (1 0 8)
, the process returns to input waiting 106. This increment shifts the cursor display one place to the right.

If the input from the input unit 1 is "←" in the input waiting 106, 1 from the cursor's X coordinate CX
It is determined whether the value subtracted by is greater than or equal to 1 (1
09). That is, it is determined whether or not the cursor does not protrude from the display screen of the display section 5 when the cursor is moved one character to the left.

In the determination 109, if it is determined that the cursor can be moved to the left, the X value of the cursor coordinates is 1.
(so-called decremented) (110), L
After a while, the process returns to the input holder 106. This decrement shifts the cursor display one digit to the left.

Note that although only the movement of the cursor in the X direction is shown in this figure, it is also possible to move the cursor in the Y direction of the display screen, that is, in the vertical direction of the screen.

If an input of the "execute" key from the input unit 1 is detected during the input waiting step 106, it is determined whether the FLG is 0 (111). This FLG is
This flag is used to determine whether the first character coordinates of a character or character string have already been set. That is, this FLG is 0 before the coordinates of the first character of a desired character or character string are stored in step 112, which will be described later.

If it is determined in the determination 111 that FLG is 0, the process moves to step 112, and the current cursor coordinates CX and CY are set to the first character coordinates P of the desired character or character string.
Stored as XI and PYI. After this storage is performed, 1 is set in the FLG (1 1 3), and the process returns to the input waiting step 106. Said steps 112 and 113
If the process moves to the determination 111 after being executed at least once, since the FLG is set to 1 in step 113, it is determined that the FLG is not O, and the process moves to step 114. In this step 114,
The current cursor coordinates CX and CY are stored in the registers 13 and 14 as the final character coordinates PX2 and PY2 of the desired character or character string. After that, the FLG
O is reset (1 1 5), and after the "execute" key is input again (116), the process moves to determination 117. In this determination 117, X! of the first character coordinates is determined. PXI
and the X value PX2 of the final character coordinates are compared, and the X value PXI of the first character coordinates is the X value PX of the final character coordinates.
If it is determined that the value is greater than 2, the input waiting 1
Return to 06. That is, the cursor designation of a desired character or character string is conditioned such that the X value PXI of the first character coordinate is less than or equal to the X value PX2 of the final character coordinate.

Note that in this figure, although no determination is made regarding the Y value PY2 of the first character coordinates and the Y value PY2 of the final character coordinates, it is also possible to provide similar determinations.

If it is determined in the determination 117 that the X value PX1 of the first character coordinate is less than or equal to the X value PX2 of the last character coordinate, the character string on the display screen specified by the first character coordinate and the last character coordinate is It is read into the getstrl5 from the DISPBUF8 (1 1 8). Next, in order to perform a search using the characters or character strings stored in the get s t '15, dictionary selection is performed (
1 1 9).

In this embodiment, since an English-Japanese dictionary 6 and a Kanji dictionary 7 are installed as dictionaries, this dictionary selection is also performed automatically or manually by selecting one of them. Then, the dictionary selected in the dictionary selection 119 is searched based on the character or character string stored in the getstrl5 (1 2 0). For example, if the Kanji dictionary 7 is selected in the dictionary selection 119, this Kanji dictionary 7 is searched using the characters or character strings stored in the getstrl5.

For example, the electronic dictionary according to this embodiment can be used to
When searching the English-Japanese dictionary for "t", the search result corresponding to "get" is displayed on the display section 5 as shown in FIG. 3(A), and character information with the same content is stored in the DISPBUF 8. Here, the search results are, for example, the display of information such as the spelling, phonetic symbols, meanings, idioms, similar words, antonyms, etc. of "get".As explained in FIG. 2, by specifying the cursor 17, When the character "to" in the meaning "arrival" is specified, the coordinates of this character "to" are specified in step 112 as the first character coordinates PXI and P
Stored as Y1. In this case, if you want to search the kanji dictionary 7 for only this one character "to",
By pressing the “Execute” key again, the same “arrival” is executed.
The coordinates of the character are also set as the final character coordinates PX2 and PY2. The first character coordinates PXI, PY set in this way
I and the final character coordinates PX2, PY2, the above DIS
The information related to the character “to” from PBUF8 getst
The kanji dictionary 7 is then transferred and stored in rl5, and the kanji dictionary 7 is searched by selecting the kanji dictionary 7 in step 119. In this way, it is possible to search another dictionary again using the characters or character strings that were the result of one search, and in this case, it is not necessary to input the characters or character strings.

By the way, the present invention can also be applied to a case where three or more types of dictionaries are provided. For example, in a case where an English-Japanese dictionary, a Japanese-English dictionary, and an obsolete dictionary are provided, the dictionary selection in step 119 in the flowchart of FIG. This may be done as shown in FIG. 4 or FIG. 5.

In other words, if you determine the type of character marked in getstrl5 and select the English-Japanese dictionary if it is English, the Japanese-English dictionary if it is Kana, and the Kanji dictionary if it is Kanji, the cursor will It becomes possible to automatically search a predetermined dictionary using a specified character or character string as a search target.

In this case, to determine the type of characters stored in getstrl5, you can directly detect the code of these characters, or you can use the fact that the display position is determined by the type of character, The above determination can also be made indirectly by detecting the display coordinates on the display screen where these character strings are displayed.

Also, as shown in Fig. 5, after storing the character string in getstrl5, display the dictionary selection screen that displays the name of each dictionary on the screen, specify one of the dictionaries on the screen with the cursor, and select the specified dictionary. Alternatively, a dictionary may be selected.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the electronic dictionary of the present invention, it is possible to search other installed dictionaries using the characters or character strings obtained by the search, and the characters or character strings can be searched. This eliminates the need for input, thus improving operability.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing the configuration of an electronic dictionary according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of this embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a display example in this embodiment. 4 is a flowchart showing a dictionary selection operation in another embodiment, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a dictionary selection operation in still another embodiment. 1... Input section 3... Processing section 5... Display section 6... English-Japanese dictionary 7... Kanji dictionary 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16... Register 15...・
getstr Display example in the embodiment Fig. 3 Operation of another embodiment Fig. 4 Operation of another embodiment Fig. 5

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A plurality of dictionaries storing character language information, an input means for inputting characters or character strings for searching the dictionaries, and a dictionary for selecting and specifying one dictionary from the plurality of dictionaries. a specifying means, a search means for searching the dictionary specified by the dictionary specifying means, and a display means for displaying the search results by the search means; An electronic dictionary for searching a dictionary, comprising: a designation means for designating a desired character or character string from the display screen of the display means; an importing means for importing the character or character string designated by the designation means; A specification change means for instructing the dictionary specification means to change the selection specification of the dictionary as necessary, and a search in other dictionaries is performed using characters or character strings obtained by the search. Electronic dictionary.