JPH0668140A - Electronic translation system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To translate a document text with an excellent job efficiency by using a pointing device so as to pint out a position of a word or phrases or the like in a displayed document text so as to enter newly a word and need of movement of a working place. CONSTITUTION:When the user enters a code requesting retrieval of a translation word, a translation word retrieval program 111 is started and the pattern of a display device indicates the translation word retrieval mode pattern. Then a dictionary 112 corresponding to a kind of a language is loaded by allowing the user to enter a code requesting a kind of a language in which the display document is written. A displayed word on this pattern is selected by a pointing device and the kind of language to be translated is selected similarly by the pointing device, then the word is retrieved from the dictionary and the meaning of the selected word is displayed under the screen on the document display pattern.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is mounted on an electronic computer capable of displaying text, such as a personal computer and a workstation, and searches for translated words such as words and idioms in a document in real time and presents them to the user. Related to the electronic translation method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, in an e-mail operating system running on a workstation or the like, in a conventional translation search in an English document displayed, a dictionary on a desk or a word is searched for. There has been a method in which a device of a different model from the workstation is searched beforehand and the searched result is transferred and displayed on the screen.

[0003]

As described above, according to the conventional technique, the user needs to newly input a word from the keyboard or the like in order to check the translated word such as a word idiom in the document. However, since it is necessary to perform a search operation at a different place apart from a certain position of the document, there is a problem that the user is annoyed and the work is forced to be interrupted.

An object of the present invention is to search and display a translated word corresponding to a word or the like by instructing the position of the word, the idiom or the like in the displayed document text with a pointing device, and newly input the word. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method that enables efficient reading of document texts without the need to do so and without having to move around the workplace.

[0005]

According to the present invention, a multilingual dictionary is provided, a word or the like is selected on a screen using a pointing device such as a mouse, and a character code of a translated word and an item character string in the other language dictionary are selected. Characterized by a direct word search means for performing character string matching between the search result, a search result output means capable of outputting a search result, and a search result iconification means for converting the result display into an icon and calling and displaying at any time. .

[0006]

In the multilingual dictionary search method of the present invention, when the user inputs a code for requesting a translated word search, the translated word search program is activated and the screen enters the translated word search mode. next,
By entering the code that requests the language type in which the display document is written, the dictionary corresponding to that language type is loaded. On this screen, select the displayed word with the pointing device, and select the language type you want to translate with the pointing device as well.This word will be matched with the dictionary and the meaning of the selected word will be displayed in the document. It is displayed at the bottom of the same screen as the screen.

Further, a code for requesting voice output is input in advance before selecting a word, and the result of the meaning search of the selected word is sent from the voice dictionary database attached to the dictionary to the D / A converter, It is also possible to output it as a voice message from the speaker.

[0008]

EXAMPLE FIG. 11 to FIG. 13 show a processing flow according to the method of the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a workstation system showing an embodiment of the present invention. However, the workstation is merely an example for explaining the present invention and does not limit the scope of application of the present invention.

First, as shown in FIG. 11, when the power of the workstation is turned on, the disk is transferred to the main storage device 103.
System program 109, electronic mail operation program
110, translation search program 111, voice output program 1
14 is loaded, then the system program 109 on the main memory 103 is activated, and the system starts up. Next, by inputting a command indicating mail operation from the keyboard 101, the electronic mail operation program 110 on the main storage device 103 is started, and
The email storage file 113 is loaded into the main storage device 103.

When a command for reading a mail is entered from the keyboard 101, the sent document or the specific mail in the electronic mail storage file 113 is displayed on the display 104, as shown in FIG. indicate. However, the display document is an example of a mail document, and the type of the display document may be a document read by a scanner or the like, and is not limited to the mail document. Further, this display screen is assumed to be a text screen, not a graphic screen.

In the screen example, assume that the user does not understand the Japanese translation of the English word "Perception" 201 in the displayed document. When the user inputs a command meaning translation or presses a specific key on the keyboard 101, the translated word search program 111 on the main storage device 103 is started.

The translated word search program 111 includes a display control program 301 and a language type selection program 30 as shown in FIG.
2. A dictionary matching program 303, a character code calling program 304, a search initial screen display program 305, a search result program 306, and an icon program 307. First, the search initial screen display program 305 is activated to display a screen. Is converted to the translated word search mode (FIG. 4).

Next, according to the flow of FIG. 12, the mouse 1
Using a pointing device such as 06, "Document language" 406 is selected from the menu on the upper right of the screen as shown in FIG. 5, and a pull-down menu is brought out. As a result, the Japanese-English-French-German dictionary 112 with voice database in the disc of FIG. 1 is loaded into the main storage device 103.

The data structure of the dictionary is as shown in FIG. 8. For example, the content of the language information number 1 is a character code string representing a Japanese word idiom, and the word number 0035 of this string.
The content corresponding to 2 is a character code representing "perception" in Japanese. The content of the language information number 11 is a character code string indicating the detailed meaning of the content of the language information number 1. Further, the content of the language information number 111 is a voice waveform data string corresponding to the content of the language number 1. The content of the language information number 2 is a character code string representing an English word idiom and the like, and the content corresponding to the word number 00352 of this string is the English "perc".
It is a character code that represents “eption.” Also, language information number 2
The content of 2 is a character code string indicating the detailed meaning of the content of the language information number 2. Further, the content of the language information number 221 is a voice waveform data string corresponding to the content of the language information number 2. However, here, the dictionaries of four language types of Japanese, English, French, and German are used, but this is an example, and other language types can be installed.

Next, the language type corresponding to the document displayed from the pull-down menu, "English" 50 in this embodiment.
Item 51 is picked using a pointing device. As a result, in the example of FIG. 5, the language information number 2 indicated by 4061 is substituted for the document language type identification code i and stored in the main storage device 103.

Next, using the pointing device, as shown in FIG. 6, "translated language" 407 in the menu on the upper right of the screen.
Pick and pull down the pull-down menu. Next, from the pull-down menu, the language type to be translated, that is, "Japanese" 4074 in this embodiment, is selected using the pointing device. As a result, in the example of FIG.
The language information number 1 corresponding to 64 is assigned to the translated language type identification code j and stored in the main storage device 103. Also,
If the user wants to output the result as a voice as well, when the "voice output" menu 404 in the menu item at the upper left of the screen is picked with a pointing device, the display identification code "f" is assigned with the display identification value 1, and "f" is It is stored in the main storage device 103.

Next, when the character string of the word "perception" 201 is dragged from the first character "p" to the last character "n" with a pointing device such as a mouse, the character string portion is inverted as shown in FIG. By further clicking the inverted portion with a pointing device, the selection of the character string is confirmed, and the character code calling program 304 in the display control program 301 is activated. Further, in the case of erroneous selection, by clicking on a part other than the highlighted part, the selection is canceled and the state before the selection is restored.

The position information of the character string on the selected screen is obtained from the reverse position of the screen, and the character code calling program 304 calls the character code of the selected character string.

Further, here, the display method identification code f previously stored in the main memory 103 is called, and the content of f is 0.
If so, the search result is displayed only, the dictionary matching program 303 of the translated word search program 111 is activated as in the flow of FIG. 13, and the document language type identification code i previously stored in the main storage device 103 is 2 in this case. Is called to compare and collate each character code in the column of language information number 2 with the character code of the previously selected character string. The completely matched character code obtained as a result is set to the character array P.
Stored in, and the word number corresponding to this character code 00352
Is stored in k. Next, the translation language identification number j, here, 1 is called, and the word number 003 in the data string of the language information number 1
The content corresponding to 52, that is, the character string code of "perception" here is stored in the character array S.

Next, the search result display program 306 is started, and the character array P is displayed as characters in the lower left portion 901 of the screen and the contents of the character array S is displayed as characters in the lower left portion 90 of the screen.
Display on 2. Further, if the user wants to know the detailed meaning of the translated word, by picking the “detail” menu 405 with a pointing device, the content corresponding to the word number 00352 in the data string of the language information number 11 in the dictionary 112 is obtained. The character string code is called, stored in the character array Q, and the contents of Q are displayed in the lower right portion 903 of the screen.

Further, when it is necessary to display the search results many times, by picking the "iconize" menu 403 from the menu at the upper left of the screen with the pointing device, as shown at 1001 in FIG. It is also possible to display the search result as an icon on the translated word search mode screen. As for iconification, various methods that have been conventionally used can be used, and thus the details thereof will be omitted.

Next, an "end display" menu 402 on the screen
When is selected, the display screen before selecting the document language type is returned to FIG. If you want to end the search, click the "End" menu here
Picking 401 returns the screen to the mail display screen of FIG.

When the content of f is 1, voice output and display are performed. In this case, as shown in FIG. 14 and FIG. 15, the dictionary matching program 303 of the translated word search program 111 is activated, and the document language type identification code i previously stored in the main storage device 103 is called 2, and the language information Each character code in the column of number 2 is compared and collated with the character code of the previously selected character string. The resulting completely matched character code is stored in the character array P, the word number 00352 corresponding to this character code is stored in k, and the word number 00352 of this character code is stored in k.

Next, the translated language identification number j, here, 1 is called, and the word number 00352 in the data string of the language information number 1
The content corresponding to, that is, the character string code of “perception” here is stored in the character array S. Next, the voice output program 114 is activated, and the language information number here, language information number 1
By passing the contents of the voice waveform data corresponding to the word number 00352 in the column 11 through the D / A converter 107, the voice is output from the speaker 116.

Further, the search result display program 306 is activated, and the character array P is displayed as characters in the lower left portion 901 of the screen and the contents of the character array S is displayed as characters in the lower left portion 90 of the screen.
Display on 2. Further, if the user wants to know the detailed meaning of the translated word, by picking the “detail” menu 405 with a pointing device, the content corresponding to the word number 00352 in the data string of the language information number 11 in the dictionary 112 is obtained. The character string code is called, stored in the character array Q, and the contents of Q are displayed in the lower right portion 903 of the screen. When it is necessary to display the search results many times, by selecting the “iconize” menu 403 from the menu at the upper left of the screen with the pointing device,
As shown by 01, the display of the search result can be iconized on the translation search mode screen. For iconification, various conventionally used methods can be used. Next, the “display end” menu 402 on the screen
When is selected, the display screen before selecting the document language type is returned to FIG. When the user wants to end the search, the screen is returned to the mail display screen of FIG. 2 by picking the "end" menu 401 here.

[0027]

According to the dictionary search method of the present invention, when the user inputs a code for requesting a translated word search, the translated word search program is started, the screen enters the translated word search mode, and the multilingual dictionary is loaded. Then, select the language type in which the displayed document is written and the language type that the user wants to translate from the pull-down menu on the screen, and then select the word displayed on this screen with the pointing device. It becomes a character code, matching with the dictionary is performed, and the meaning of the selected word is displayed at the bottom left of the same screen as the document display screen, so the user can free the trouble of searching the dictionary for the same word as the searched word. Was done.

Also, voice output is possible, and if the voice output menu is selected in advance before selecting a word, the translation word search result of the selected word is D / A from the voice dictionary database attached to the dictionary. As it is sent to the converter and output as a voice message from the speaker, the user can recognize the search result not only visually but also audibly, eliminating fatigue due to overuse of a single modality. It was one of the ways. Further, since the search result display can be iconized, the user is relieved of the trouble of performing the same search operation when the search result needs to be viewed multiple times.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a workstation system showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of an electronic mail display screen.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a module showing an example of a translated word search program.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a translated word search mode screen.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an embodiment in which a pull-down menu of “document language” is drawn on the translated word search mode screen.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an example in which a pull-down menu of “translated language” is drawn on the translated word search mode screen.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a screen in which a word to be searched is fixed on the translated word search mode screen.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a data structure of a Japanese-English French-German dictionary with a voice database.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a search result display on a translated word search mode screen.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an embodiment in which the search result display is iconized on the translated word search mode screen.

FIG. 11 is a first flowchart showing an embodiment of the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a second flowchart showing an embodiment of the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing the operation of an embodiment of a search result display process.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing the operation of one embodiment of a voice output process.

FIG. 15 is a flowchart for connecting to FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

101 ... Keyboard, 102 ... Information processing device, 103 ...
Main storage device, 104 ... Display, 105 ... Display control device, 106 ... Mouse, 107 ... D / A conversion device, 10
8 ... speaker, 109 ... system program, 110 ...
E-mail operation program, 111 ... Translation search program, 112 ... Japanese-English French-German dictionary with voice database, 113
... E-mail storage file, 114 ... Voice output program.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. Position information input means for inputting position information,
In an information processing apparatus having a storage unit for storing document information and a display unit for displaying the document, a part of the document displayed by the display unit is designated by the position information input unit, An electronic translation method that translates a specified character string into another language and displays it on the display screen. 2. The electronic translation method according to claim 1, wherein the character string designated at the position is translated into another language and output by voice. 3. The electronic translation system according to claim 1, wherein the translation result display is converted into an icon, the icon is stored in the storage means, and the display can be called at any time. 4. The electronic translation system according to claim 1, wherein the contents of the dictionary are multilingual and can handle all typical languages. 5. The electronic translation method according to claim 1, wherein the meaning of the details of the translated word can be known by selecting the details menu.