JPH1185782A - Information processor and dictionary retrieval history display method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable efficient retrieval when an item to be retrieved is already retrieved in the past to be retrieved again by displaying such an item as a history. SOLUTION: An input device 101 is composed of a pointing device and performs character inputs or the input of selection at a retrieved result display processing part 108 and a retrieval history display processing part 109. A control part 106 performs program control with a CPU 104 or microprocessor and an input/output interface 105. A storage device 103 is composed of a memory such as ROM or RAM, stores and manages data through respective kinds of processing at the control part 106. A display device 102 is composed of CRT or plane display device and displays contents processed by the retrieved result display processing part 108 and retrieval history display processing part 109.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to an information device,
In particular, the present invention relates to a means for a user to increase the efficiency of a dictionary search and enhance a learning effect in an information processing apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional search operation method in an information processing apparatus, a search is performed after using a phrase set by a system or a user in advance, or after a user newly inputs.

[0003]

In the conventional dictionary search operation method, there are cases where a user may search for an item that has been searched several times in the past without notice.

[0004] An object of the present invention is to provide an environment in which a search has already been performed by specifying the history of an item searched in the past, and an efficient search can be performed by selecting an item when searching again. It is in.

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus having a dictionary function, comprising a switch for displaying a history of search items,
Provided is an information processing apparatus having means for displaying a history in a desired mode.

The information processing apparatus has a button for displaying a history on a screen for displaying a search item. When this button is selected with a pointing device, items for which search results have been obtained are displayed in descending order of search frequency. This display screen has a history display mode switching button. When these buttons are selected with a pointing device, items with search results with the highest search frequency are sorted in descending order and ascending order, and those with no search results are sorted in descending order and ascending order. ,
You can select whether to display all the items searched in the past.

[0007]

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 101 is an input device, 102 is a display device, 10
3 is a storage device, 104 is a CPU, 105 is an input / output interface, 106 is a control unit according to the present invention, 107 is a dictionary search processing unit,
108 is a search result display processing unit, 109 is a search history display processing unit,
110 denotes a history management processing unit.

The input device 101 is composed of a keyboard and a pointing device such as a mouse or a pen input device, and is used for input such as character input and selection in a search result display processing unit 107 and a search history display processing unit 109. .

The display device 102 is constituted by a CRT or a flat display device or the like.
It is used to display the content processed by the search history display processing unit 107 or 107.

The storage device 103 includes a memory such as a ROM and a RAM, and a hard disk device.
It is used to store and manage data in each process of 106.

The control unit 106 is realized by program control by a well-known CPU 104 or microprocessor and input / output interface 105.

FIGS. 2 and 3 show display screens according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 201 denotes a dictionary search button;
Denotes a history display button, 203 denotes a search word display area, 204 denotes a search result display area, 205 denotes a scroll bar, and 206 denotes an operation input device (pointing device such as a pen, hereinafter referred to as a pen).

The dictionary search button 201 is used to perform a dictionary search for a specified phrase. History display button
Reference numeral 202 is used to shift to a screen displaying a history searched in the past. The search phrase display area 203 is used to display a phrase to be searched. The search result display area 204 is used to display search results. The scroll bar 205 is used to scroll and check the search result when the search result cannot be displayed on the screen.

In FIG. 3, reference numeral 301 denotes a return button, 302 denotes an adoption button, 303 denotes a history display area, 304 denotes a history display mode switch, and 305 denotes a scroll bar.

A return button 301 is used to shift to a search result display screen. The adoption button 302 is in the history display area 3
The item selected from 03 is used as a search term and used to shift to a search result display screen. History display area 30
Reference numeral 3 is used to display a target item in accordance with the history display mode switch 304. The history display mode selection changeover switch 304 is an item having a history of obtaining a search result in the past, an item having no history of obtaining a search result,
It is used to display results sorted in descending or ascending order based on the number of search operations performed on each of them, or to switch to display all items that have been previously searched. The scroll bar 305 is used for confirming by scrolling that an item to be displayed cannot be displayed in the history display area 303.

FIG. 4 shows a management table used by the history management processing unit 110 in the configuration diagram (FIG. 1) of one embodiment of the present invention.

The management table 401 includes a header section 402 and a data section 403. The header unit 402 includes a storage unit for the number of registrations used at the time of new addition and the like, and n data management position storage units. The data section stores n search times, a character string used as a search term, a flag indicating whether or not a search result has been obtained, and the like.

FIGS. 5 and 6 show flow charts of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram (FIG. 1) of an embodiment of the present invention.
8, a flow chart of a search process in the history management processing unit 110 is shown.

At 501, it is determined whether or not the search target phrase has already been registered in the management table.
Perform the new registration addition process of 2. If the search term is already in the management table, the matching search data is acquired at 503, and the number of searches is added at 504.

At 505, if the data is new or the data has a search candidate, a known search process is performed at 507, and the search result is copied to a display buffer at 508. If the condition is not satisfied in 505, the search result display buffer is cleared in 506. Finally, in 509, the management table is updated for the data.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention (FIG. 1).
2 shows a flowchart of the display processing in FIG.

At step 610, a display buffer and a work buffer used for sort processing and the like are cleared. In 601, it is determined whether the mode is the all history display mode, and if the condition is satisfied, in 602, items for all the search data from the management table are added to the display buffer, and the process ends.

If it is determined in 601 that the mode is not the all history display mode, it is determined in 603 whether or not the mode is the search candidate mode. Add to buffer. 60
If it is determined in 3 that the mode is the no-search-candidate mode, a search result is obtained from the management table in 604 to the work buffer for which no search results have been obtained.

At 606, it is determined whether the order is descending or not.
In 08, a descending sort process is performed on the work buffer, and in the ascending order, an ascending sort process is performed in 607.

Finally, the contents of the work buffer are copied to the display buffer, and the processing ends.

[0029]

According to the present invention, the user can proceed to a search operation without newly inputting an item which has been searched in the past, and can recognize that he or she already has a search record and store it in the memory. This makes it easier to search and not only enhances search efficiency, but also enhances learning effects.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a search screen of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a history display screen of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a management table of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a flow of a history creation processing unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a flow of a history display processing unit according to one embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

101 input device, 102 display device, 103 storage device, 104 CPU, 105 input / output interface,
106: control unit, 107: dictionary search processing unit,
108: search result display processing unit, 109: search history display processing unit, 110: history management processing unit.

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An information processing apparatus having a dictionary function, wherein an item searched in the past is displayed as a history. 2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said information processing apparatus searches in the descending order for the frequency of search results obtained in the past,
2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the histories are displayed in ascending order. 3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the history is displayed in descending order or in ascending order, in a case where the retrieval result was not obtained in the past in a search. Information processing device. 4. A method for displaying a dictionary search history, wherein an item searched in the past is displayed as a history in an information processing apparatus having a dictionary function. 5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a search result obtained in the past by a search is frequently searched in descending order or
A dictionary search history display method characterized by displaying histories in ascending order. 6. A dictionary search history display method according to the information processing apparatus, wherein a history is displayed in descending order or in ascending order, in a case where a search result is not obtained in a past search.