JPH07239858A - Electronic equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To improve the operability by adding specified information at the time of retrieval operation when idiom information is retrieved from retrieved kanji (Chinese character) data to make it possible to narrow the enumeration of the idiom data which numerously exist according to kind of kanji. CONSTITUTION: This equipment retrieves kanji data through a 1st retrieval means of a control means 1 from data of a dictionary of kanji explained in Japanese for the data inputted through an input means 3 which inputs data and functions to be executed. Also, for the kanji data, the equipment retrieves data of a Japanese-language dictionary and retrieves the idiom data which use the kanji through a 2nd retrieval means of the control means 1. Then, it adds specified conditions through a specified condition addition means of the input means 3 when it retrieves the idiom data through the 2nd retrieval means, extracts only the idiom data that match the specified conditions in all data of retrieval objects and outputs and shows them in a display means 2. Thereby, it can extract desired idiom data without offsetting its processing ability for input data.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic device of an electronic dictionary capable of searching dictionary data for input data and displaying desired data. More specifically, it relates to input data. The present invention relates to an electronic device capable of searching and displaying kanji that matches input conditions and idiom data for the kanji from a kanji dictionary and a Japanese language dictionary.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in electronic equipment capable of searching and displaying dictionary data from a character string input using an input means such as a keyboard, the input data is
Reading, radical and stroke count, Kanji code (JIS / SJIS /
When you search the idiom data (accessory information) for the Kanji searched for by inputting one or more data, you can pay attention to the selected Kanji itself. By searching and displaying all the idiom data using the kanji from the data in the Japanese dictionary, consideration is given so that the usage of the kanji (idiom information) can be easily understood.

In these electronic devices, the Kanji data and the idiom data generally have the data structure shown in FIG. In the figure, (a) is a Hanwa dictionary, and (b) is a national language dictionary.

The Hanwa dictionary (a) is composed of a phonetic reading 1001, a Chinese character code 1002, related information, and idiom information (serial number) 1003 for the Chinese character. In addition, the Japanese dictionary (b) has a serial number 2001, reading 2
002, Kanji 2003, and related information 2004. In FIG. 6, the reading “ai” and the kanji “sorrow”
The structure of the Hanwa dictionary (a) and the Japanese language dictionary (b) for is shown.

With the reading string "ai" input and the kanji "sorrow" selected, in order to retrieve the idiom information at high speed,
As shown in FIG. 6, serial number of national language dictionary (b) (numbered to all registered words, sorted and numbered in the order of “aiueo”) 200
1 is also included in the Hanwa dictionary (a).

[0006]

However, in an electronic device that searches for kanji in the input data as described above and searches for idiom data using the searched kanji data, after searching the kanji data, When the operator searches the idiom data using the kanji, by instructing to search the idiom data, all the idiom information including the previously selected kanji will be searched.
Depending on the type of kanji, there may be nearly 300 idiom information for one kanji.

A large number of key operations are required in order to search such a large amount of information, which is close to 300 pieces, in a casual manner. In addition, it is easy to perform high-speed search processing all at once with a single operation using current technology, but considering the limited display capacity, all the information obtained by the search is
It is impossible to display on the screen at once, and it takes a considerable amount of time and key operation to reach the desired idiom, and it has the drawback of halving the processing capacity. there were.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device capable of extracting desired idiom data without canceling the processing capability for input data. .

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides input means for inputting data and a function to be executed, and kanji data from kanji dictionary data for the data input by the input means. First to search
Search means, second search means for searching the Japanese dictionary data for the kanji data, and searching for idiom data using the kanji, kanji data searched by the first and second search means, and In an electronic device having display means for displaying phrase data, specific condition adding means for adding a specific condition when searching the phrase data by the second searching means, and specific condition by the specific condition adding means Accordingly, a control means is provided for controlling so that only the idiom data that meets the specific condition is extracted from all the data to be searched and displayed and output on the display means.

Further, in order to achieve the above object, the specific condition adding means is means for specifying compound word information from all compound word data with respect to the kanji data searched by the first searching means. It is preferable that the position information in which the Chinese character data searched by the first searching means is used is input and designated by the input information from the input means.

[0011]

According to the present invention, by adding specific information at the time of a search operation when searching for kanji word information from the searched kanji data, it becomes possible to narrow down the enumeration of many kanji word data depending on the type of kanji. As a result, the user can smoothly draw idioms including kanji and have good operability.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

[First Embodiment] First, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an electronic dictionary which is an electronic device according to a first embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is an electronic dictionary, which is a control means 1, an input means 2,
It has a display means 3.

The control means 1 comprises an input means 2 and a display means 3.
It controls the input / output processing of data by. The control means 1 is, for example, a one-chip LS1 (Large Scale Inte
grated circuit; large-scale integrated circuit), and a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 4 and an RO that stores the operation program shown in FIG.
M (Read Only Memory) 5, RAM (Ra used as work area and static area)
ndom Access Memory (constant speed call storage device) 6 and a display driver 7 for controlling display of the display means 2.

The display means 2 is for displaying various data on a screen or the like, and is composed of an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) or the like, and is provided with a control unit 1 via a data bus 8.
Connected to the display driver 7.

The input means 3 is used for inputting various data, and includes numeric keys 0 to 9, alphabet keys A to Z,
It comprises a keyboard having an idiom key, cursor keys of ▲, ▼, etc., and has a matrix circuit 9 for generating matrix signals S0 to S9 and C0 to C4 for detecting the operation of each key. The output data from the matrix circuit 9 is input to the control means 1 via the data bus 10.

Next, the case of searching for the idiom of the Chinese character "a" for the reading "ai" input from the input means 3 will be described with reference to the data structure diagram of FIG. In the figure, (a) is a Hanwa dictionary, and (b) is a national language dictionary.

In the Kanji dictionary (a), the reading 3001, the Kanji code 3002, other related information, and the sub index (the first and second characters in FIG. 2 are described, and the searched Kanji is the idiom information). 3003 and the serial number 3004 of the idiom information for the searched Kanji.
The Japanese language dictionary (b) is composed of a serial number 4001, reading 4002, kanji 4003, and related information 4004.

When the kanji "sorrow" is determined from the input character string "ai", when searching the idiom information using the kanji "sorrow", the kanji that the user actually wants to search is used. Location (how many letters are used),
By inputting with the input means 3 in FIG.
Simultaneously with the determination of the sub-index for, the serial number of the phrase information to be displayed is searched and the desired phrase information is displayed on the screen of the display means 2 of FIG. 1 using the data.

In the above example, when it is desired to retrieve the idiom information in which the kanji is used as the second character, the kanji dictionary "a" has the reading "ai" and the kanji "sorrow", and the kanji "sorrow". 2 is searched for the idiom used as the second character, the sub-index 3003 is searched for the reading “ai” and the kanji “sorrow”, and when the second character is designated, in FIG. Search the phrase information for serial number 3. Based on this information, the data of the idiom "sorrow", in which the kanji "sorrow" is used as the second character, is retrieved and displayed on the display means 2.

Next, a method of searching the sub-index after the Chinese characters are determined will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

FIG. 3 shows the operation from the state in which the kanji character "sorrow" is selected and decided after the reading character string "ai" is input and the kanji data screen of the kanji dictionary (a) (see FIG. 4 (a)) is displayed. It is a flowchart showing.

In the figure, first, in step S301, C
The PU 4 determines whether or not the display screen of the display unit 2 is the display screen of Hanwa data. If it is a Hanwa data display screen, the process proceeds to step S302. If it is not the Hanwa data display screen, the process proceeds to another processing routine of step S310.

In step S302, the CPU 4 determines a flag (FN) for determining whether or not the specific information for searching the idiom has been input before the idiom key of the input means 3 is operated for the decided Chinese character. Reset in advance. next,
The process advances to step S303 to enter a key input waiting state on the kanji data display screen. Here, if the key is pressed, the process proceeds to step S304, and if the key is not pressed, the process loops here.

In step S304, the CPU 4 determines whether or not the information keyed in in step S303 is numeric data. If it is a numeric key, the process proceeds to step S305 and is reset in step S302. After setting the flag FN, the process returns to the key input waiting state in step S303. If it is not a numeric key in step S304, step S3
Proceed to 06. In step S306, the CPU 4 determines whether or not the operated key is a compound word key (specific condition input key) for searching a compound word for a kanji character. If the operated key is not the compound word key, the CPU 4 determines in step S310. Go to another processing routine.

If the phrase key is operated in step S306, the flow advances to step S307 to determine whether or not the numerical information has been input before the phrase key is operated. If numerical information is input in step S307, the process proceeds to step S309 and, for example, without doing anything (NO OPERATION: NO
P) Return to step S301.

In step S307, if the phrase key is operated while the numerical information has already been input, the process proceeds to step S308. This step S
At 308, numerical information has already been input to specify kanji word information using the kanji in the kanji data, as shown in FIG. Although the numerical value is "2"), only the specified idiom information for the Kanji data can be displayed on the screen of the display unit 2.

In this embodiment, step S in FIG.
The data of 308 is not limited to the display example of FIG. 4B, but as shown in FIG. 4C, the first idiom information of the idiom information using the Chinese character “sorrow” as the second character is directly used. It is also possible to display in.

By providing the specifying means for information retrieval as described above, it becomes possible to easily retrieve the idiom information required by the user.

[Second Embodiment] Further, in the data structure of the Hanwa dictionary (a) of the first embodiment described above, for each Kanji, the position information of the Kanji is used as the sub index 30.
However, as shown in FIG. 5A, an index 300 including the position information of the Chinese character and the number information of the idiom corresponding to the position information is separately provided.
By holding 3'on the data, it is possible to easily retrieve the specific phrase information for the decided Chinese character by using the cursor key of the input means 3 in FIG.

Since the other constructions in FIG. 5 are the same as those in the above-mentioned first embodiment shown in FIG. 2, the same parts are designated by the same reference numerals and the description thereof will be omitted.

[Third Embodiment] Further, in the above-described first embodiment, an example based on the operation of the phrase key of the input means 3 as the input information for specifying the phrase to be searched has been described. It is not necessary to use, and the cursor keys can be used instead. In this case, the range of 1 to the maximum number of characters is changed by using the cursor keys by incorporating the maximum number of characters of all the idiom data stored for each kanji into the Kanji dictionary data (for example, ▲ It is also possible to make a transition from the maximum number of characters in the decrement direction with the cursor key, and a transition from 1 with the cursor key in the increment direction.

[0034]

As described above, according to the electronic device of the present invention, when searching for kanji word information in kanji data, instead of simply searching for the kanji word, the position information etc. including the kanji is not searched. By adopting a configuration having a specific condition adding means for adding a specific condition, it becomes possible to quickly search for information necessary for the user from among the idiom information of several hundreds for one word of the search kanji. In addition, it is possible to realize an electronic device that is easy to use and does not cause anxiety.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an electronic device according to a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a data structure diagram of a Hanwa dictionary and a national language dictionary in the electronic device.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of the electronic device.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an input display screen for inputting a specific condition at the time of searching a phrase in the electronic device and a phrase display screen at the time of searching a phrase.

FIG. 5 is a data structure diagram of a Hanwa dictionary and a Japanese dictionary in the electronic device according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a data structure diagram of a Hanwa dictionary and a national language dictionary in a conventional electronic device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 control means (first and second search means) 2 display means 3 input means (specific condition addition means)

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. Input means for inputting data and a function to be executed, first search means for searching kanji data from kanji dictionary data for the data input by the input means, and for the kanji data A second search means for searching the Japanese dictionary data by using the kanji, and a display means for displaying the kanji data and the idiom data searched by the first and second searching means. In the electronic device, the specific condition adding means for adding a specific condition when searching the phrase data by the second searching means, and the specific condition from all data to be searched by adding the specific condition by the specific condition adding means An electronic device, comprising: a control unit that controls to extract only the idiom data that meets the conditions and output the display to the display unit. 2. The specific condition adding means is means for specifying idiom information from all idiom data for the kanji data searched by the first searching means, and the first condition is added to the kanji data.
2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the position information in which the Chinese character data searched by the searching unit is used is input and designated by the input information from the input unit.