JPH0512260A - Word processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To supply a word processor which can immediately recognize the difference of the fine meaning of KANJI(Chinese character) at the time of executing KANJI conversion and whose user interface is satisfactory. CONSTITUTION:Conversion candidate KANJI (a) outputted from a KANJI conversion part 1 is inputted and displayed in a display part 3. Furthermore, conversion candidate KANJI (a) outputted from the KANJI conversion part 1 is inputted to a meaning analysis part 2 and the meaning (b) of conversion candidate KANJI is displayed in the display part 3.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a word processor in the field of computers.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A word processor is a computer document creation / editing apparatus, and is usually composed of an input device, a display device, a storage device, a printing device and the like. Characters can be input using katakana, hiragana, or romaji, and if they are to be converted to kanji, they can be converted using a conversion key.

[0003]

However, the conventional word processor does not have the function of displaying the meaning of the conversion candidate kanji or the example sentence using the conversion candidate kanji when performing the kanji conversion. For this reason, when selecting the most suitable kanji from the content of the sentence by performing kanji conversion, in order to know the subtle difference in the meaning of kanji, we had to look up books such as a kanji dictionary and a Japanese language dictionary.

In view of the above point, the present invention has an object to provide a word processor having a good user interface capable of instantaneously grasping a subtle difference in meaning of kanji when performing kanji conversion.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a word processor having a function of displaying a meaning of a conversion candidate Chinese character. A word processor according to a second aspect of the present invention has a function of displaying an example sentence using conversion candidate Chinese characters.

[0006]

According to the configuration of claim 1, by displaying the meaning of the conversion candidate kanji, it is possible to instantly grasp the subtle difference in the meaning of the kanji in detail. According to the configuration of claim 2, by displaying the example sentence using the conversion candidate kanji, it is possible to instantly grasp the subtle difference in the meaning of the kanji in more detail.

[0007]

【Example】

[First Embodiment] FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a word processor (corresponding to claim 1) of a first embodiment of the present invention.
In this word processor, the conversion candidate Chinese character a output from the Chinese character converting unit 1 is input to the display unit 3 and displayed. Further, the conversion candidate Chinese character a output from the Chinese character conversion unit 1 is input to the meaning analysis unit 2, and the display unit 3 also displays the meaning b of the conversion candidate Chinese character. An example of the display screen of the display unit 3 displayed in this way is shown in FIG. In FIG. 2, 3a
Is a Chinese character display window for displaying the conversion candidate Chinese character a, and 3b is a meaning display window for displaying the meaning b of the conversion candidate Chinese character.

As described above, according to this embodiment, the conversion candidate kanji a and the meaning b of the conversion candidate kanji are input to the display unit 3,
By displaying on the Chinese character display window 3a and the meaning display window 3b, the user can instantly grasp the subtle difference between the conversion candidate Chinese character a and its meaning b in detail. [Second Embodiment] FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a word processor (corresponding to claim 2) of a second embodiment of the present invention.

In this word processor, the Kanji conversion unit 1
The conversion candidate Chinese character a output by the above is input to the display unit 3 and displayed. Further, the conversion candidate Chinese character a output from the Chinese character conversion unit 1 is input to the example sentence analysis unit 4, and the display unit 3 also displays the example sentence c using the conversion candidate Chinese character. An example of the display screen of the display unit 3 thus displayed is shown in FIG.
In FIG. 4, 3a is a Chinese character display window for displaying the conversion candidate Chinese character a, and 3c is an example sentence display window for displaying an example sentence c using the conversion candidate Chinese character.

As described above, according to this embodiment, the conversion candidate kanji a and the example sentence c using the conversion candidate kanji are input to the display unit 3 and displayed in the kanji display window 3a and the example sentence display window 3c. The user can instantly grasp the subtle difference between the conversion candidate kanji a and its meaning in more detail.

[0011]

According to the word processor of the first aspect, by displaying the meaning of the conversion candidate kanji, it is possible to instantly grasp the subtle difference in the meaning of the kanji in detail, and the user interface is improved. According to the word processor of the second aspect, by displaying the example sentence using the conversion candidate kanji, the subtle difference in meaning of the kanji can be instantly grasped in more detail, and the user interface is improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a word processor according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of a display unit in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a word processor according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of a display unit in the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Kanji conversion unit 2 Semantic analysis section 3 Display 3a Kanji display window 3b Meaning display window 3c Example sentence display window 4 Example sentence analysis part a Conversion candidate kanji b Meaning of conversion candidate kanji c Example sentence using conversion candidate Kanji

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A word processor comprising a Kanji conversion unit for converting an input character into Kanji and a display unit for displaying the conversion candidate Kanji output from this Kanji conversion unit, wherein the meaning of the conversion candidate Kanji is displayed. A word processor having a function of performing. 2. A word processor comprising a Kanji conversion unit for converting an input character into Kanji and a display unit for displaying a conversion candidate Kanji output from this Kanji conversion unit, wherein an example sentence using the conversion candidate Kanji is provided. A word processor having a function of displaying.