JPH0610808B2 - Similar word display system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of use] The present invention relates to a similar word display system, and more particularly, to an automatic search and display of words having similar meanings in two languages.

[Conventional technology]

For example, an English word (hereinafter referred to as an English word) is designated as a word in the first language, and a Japanese word corresponding to this English word (hereinafter referred to as a Japanese word) is read as a word in a second language from an English-Japanese dictionary, When the English word corresponding to the read Japanese word is read again in the Japanese-English dictionary, a similar word (of an English word) for one English word can be known.

Conversely, if you read the English word corresponding to one Japanese word from the Japanese-English dictionary and read the Japanese word corresponding to this read English word with the English-Japanese dictionary, you can know similar words for the Japanese word. it can.

In this way, knowing the similar words from the corresponding words in the first and second languages is meaningful for knowing the relation of words between the two languages, but conventionally, the corresponding words in the two languages are automatically searched and displayed. There was no suggestion of what could be done, and it was troublesome and time consuming for a person to find similar words by reading the English-Japanese dictionary and the Japanese-English dictionary.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above points, and is intended to propose a similar word display system capable of automatically searching and displaying corresponding words in two languages.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to solve such a problem, the present invention provides an input device 3 for inputting a word in a first language (for example, Japanese) (or a second language (for example, English)) and a second language corresponding to the word in the first language. First dictionary memory area 4A for storing word data of
And a memory 4 having a second dictionary memory area 4B for storing word data of the first language corresponding to words of the second language
And a display 5 for displaying word data in the first language and the second language, and signal processing according to input word data consisting of words in the first language (or second language) input from the input device 3. The device 1 searches the first dictionary memory area 4A (or the second dictionary memory area 4B) and reads the first search word data consisting of the corresponding word in the second language (or the first language), Subsequently, the signal processing device 1 receives the second dictionary memory area 4B according to the first search word data.
(Or the first dictionary memory area 4A) to retrieve the corresponding second search word data consisting of the word in the first language (or the word in the second language), and then the signal processing device 1 outputs the second search word data.
The search word data of is displayed on the display 5 as a similar word.

[Action]

When the word of the first language is input from the input device 3, the signal processing device 1 searches the first dictionary memory area of the memory 4 and reads the second language corresponding to the input word of the first language, The second dictionary memory area 4B is searched by the read second language word to read the corresponding first language word. The signal processing device 1 displays the read first language as a similar word on the display 5. By doing so, the similar word can be immediately known by an operation of inputting word data using the signal processing device 1.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings in the case where Japanese and English are bilingual. FIG. 1 shows a similar word display system as a whole, in which a signal processing device 1 made up of a microcomputer is provided with an input device 3 made up of a keyboard connected via a bus 2 and input word data of English words (or Japanese words). Memory 4 via bus 2 when received
While searching the word data, the word data is converted into image data and given to the display 5 via the bus 2 and displayed on the display screen.

The memory 4 has an optical disk (comprising, for example, a compact disk (CD)) as a recording medium, and has a first dictionary memory area 4A forming an English-Japanese dictionary and a second dictionary memory area 4B forming a Japanese-English dictionary. Have. In this embodiment, the English-Japanese dictionary memory area 4A and the Japanese-English dictionary memory area 4B each have a memory capacity of about 30 megabytes.

The compact disk has a memory capacity of 550 [megabytes] on one side, and thus has a sufficient memory capacity as an English-Japanese dictionary and a storage medium for configuring the Japanese-English dictionary, and is therefore suitable for being applied to the memory 4. .

Thus, the signal processing device 1 can search the English-Japanese dictionary memory area 4A of the memory 4 to read the Japanese word corresponding to the English word, and can search the Japanese-English dictionary memory area 4B to read the English word corresponding to the Japanese word. Can be read, and thus, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, corresponding words in two languages can be automatically retrieved and displayed.

For example, when an English word is input as a word in the first language and the similar word is to be displayed, the signal processing device 1 uses the second word.
In step SP1 of the figure, input word data of an English word is received from the input device 3 via the bus 2. At this time, the signal processing device 1 moves to the next step SP2, converts the input word data into image data, transfers the image data to the display 5 via the bus 2, and displays the input English word on the display 5.

The display on the display 5 at this time displays the word "Input: word" as shown in FIG. 3 (A).

After such a display, the signal processing device 1 proceeds to step SP.
The address data assigned to the English word which is moved to 3 and is input via the bus 2 to the English-Japanese dictionary memory area 4 of the memory 4.
Search the English-Japanese dictionary by giving it to A. The sum word data thus retrieved and read is taken into the signal processing device 1 via the bus 2 as the first retrieval word data.

At this time, the signal processing device 1 moves to the next step SP4 and converts the summed word data into an image signal, which is given to the display 5 via the bus 2 and displayed on its front screen.

As shown in FIG. 3 (B), the display at this time is the display of the input English words in FIG. 3 (A), along with an arrow indicating that the English words are converted to Japanese words, and the input English words. Word "wo
Three sum words "word, word, command" corresponding to "rd" are displayed.

Subsequently, the signal processing device 1 moves to the next step SP5 and moves to the next search SP3, which is the three sum words “word”,
"Word" and "instruction" are converted into address data respectively, and via the bus 2, the Japanese-English dictionary memory area 4B of the memory 4
To sequentially search the Japanese-English dictionary and sequentially read corresponding English words as second search data.

Then, the signal processing device 1 converts the English word data read from the Japanese-English dictionary memory area 4B in the next step SP6 into image data and gives the image data to the display 5, thereby displaying similar words on the display screen of the display 5. .

As shown in FIG. 3 (C), the display on the display 5 at this time is “(similar word)” together with the display in FIG. 3 (B).
, The three sum words, and the English word corresponding to each word are displayed. That is, first, a set of three English words “word”, “term”, and “language” is displayed for “word”, and secondly, two English words “word” for “word”,
A set of "vocabulary" is displayed, and thirdly, a set of two English words "order" and "command" is displayed for "command".

According to the display of FIG. 3 (C), there are three sum words corresponding to the input English word "word", that is, "word", "word", and "command", and these sum words respectively correspond to these three sum words. English words,
That is, "word", "term",
For "language" and "word", "word" and "vocabula"
It is possible to read at a glance that “order” and “command” are similar words to “ry” and “command”.

According to the above configuration, when one English word is input using the input device 3, the corresponding Japanese word is automatically searched and displayed, and the English word corresponding to the Japanese word is also searched and displayed based on the searched Japanese word. By automatically displaying the words in the Japanese-English dictionary, it is possible to easily know the English words that have a similar word relationship with respect to one English word.

In the above description, an example in which an English word is input from the input device 3 has been described, but when a Japanese word is input from the input device 3, as shown in () in FIG. The processing device 1 can automatically search the corresponding English word as the first search word data and the Japanese word corresponding to this English word as the second search word data, and display it on the display 5.

That is, in FIG. 2, when the signal processing device 1 receives the input word data of the sum word input in step SP1, it converts it into image data in step SP2 and displays it on the display 5, and the next step is displayed. S
Address data corresponding to the Japanese word data input in P3 is given to the Japanese-English dictionary memory area 4B of the memory 4 and the corresponding English word data is read as the first search word data. In the next step SP4, the signal processing device 1 converts the English word data obtained as the first search word data into image data and displays the image data on the display 5,
The corresponding English word is searched by converting the English word data searched in step SP5 into address data and giving it to the English-Japanese dictionary memory area 4A, and the read Japanese word data is used as the second searched word data. In step SP6, it is converted into image data and displayed as a similar word on the display 5.

Thus, even when a Japanese word is entered, the corresponding English word is automatically searched and read from the Japanese-English dictionary memory area 4B, and the Japanese word corresponding to the searched English word is automatically searched in the English-Japanese dictionary memory area 4A. It can be read as a similar word by searching.

In the above description, the case of searching for corresponding words in English and Japanese has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and can be widely applied to the case of automatically searching for corresponding words in two languages. The same effect as the case can be obtained.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, corresponding words spanning two languages are stored in a memory having memory areas forming two sets of dictionaries, and the word data can be automatically searched by a signal processing device as needed. By doing so, it is possible to easily search and display corresponding words in two languages by a simple operation.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a similar word display system according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the processing procedure of the signal processing device, and FIG. 3 is a display mode of the display 5 of FIG. It is an approximate line figure shown. 1 ... Signal processing device, 2 ... Bus, 3 ... Input device, 4
…… Memory, 4A …… English-Japanese dictionary memory area, 4B ……
Japanese-English dictionary memory area, 5 ... Display.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An input device for inputting a word in a first language (or a second language), a first dictionary memory area for storing word data in a second language corresponding to a word in the first language, and a second language. A recording medium having a second dictionary memory area for storing word data of the first language corresponding to the word, a display for displaying the word data of the first language and the second language, and the input device. First language (or second language)
The first dictionary memory area (or the second dictionary memory area) according to the input word data consisting of one word
To retrieve the first search word data consisting of a plurality of words in the corresponding second language (or the first language), and to retrieve the first search word data corresponding to the plurality of words from the first search word data. Second dictionary memory area (or the first dictionary memory area) is searched, and second search word data consisting of the corresponding word in the first language (or word in the second language) is read out, and the second search is performed. A signal processing device for displaying word data on the display, the signal processing device comprising a first language (or a second language) input from the input device.
Of the first language as an input word, a plurality of words of a second language (or a first language) corresponding to the word as translation words, and a word of a first language corresponding to each of the plurality of words (Or a word in a second language) as a similar word to the input word, and is displayed on the display at the same time.