JPS61229161A - Documentation and editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To execute easily the correspondence of an original sentence and a translated sentence by displaying translated sentence by the shape of a frame (character, image and graph) having the same style as that of the original sentence and displaying simultaneously both sentences on a displaying screen. CONSTITUTION:First, a keyboard 16 is operated and a chapter, page and the frame (single or combination of character, image and graph) of the original sentence are defined. An editor 12, in accordance with this, prepares a document file 34 concerning the document and registers it to a memory part 24. Next, when the translation executing key is operated, a translating part 10 successively translates the text at the frame unit in accordance with the priority order and returns it to the editor 12. The editor 12 accumulates this to a translated sentence temporary memory part 26 and thereafter, the editor stores it to the file 34. Thus, when indication is given from a keyboard 16, original sentence is displayed at the upper half of a displaying screen 20 and translated sentence is displayed at the lower half in accordance with the defined frame contents.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a document creation and editing device, and more specifically to a document creation and editing device that creates a target sentence corresponding to an input original text.

Examples of such document creation and editing devices include automatic translation devices and document creation devices. In particular, in the pre-editing and post-editing of these devices, it is required to be able to easily understand whether or not an appropriate objective sentence has been created.

To this end, it is desirable that the target sentence be output in a format as similar to the original as possible, that is, for example, displayed on a CR7 display device or printed out on a printing device. For example, if the original document contains frames such as Figure 1, tables, columns, etc., the parts corresponding to those frames may be blank in the translated document, or
If the frame is omitted when the document is output, it may be difficult to quickly understand the content of the translated document. Therefore, it is desirable that the translated document be output in a format that corresponds to the original document.

Further, when processing a sentence, the operator is required to clearly understand the correspondence between the original text and the translated text. Therefore, it is desirable that the original text and the translated text be displayed in a clear correspondence relationship, and in the same order as the sentences in the original document.For this purpose, the original text and the translated text should be displayed simultaneously on one screen of the five display devices. For example, ALTAS-I by Fujitsu Limited, ALTAS-I, 11. and a computer translation system by Plavis Co., Ltd.

Wataru-ichito The present invention overcomes these drawbacks of the prior art.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a document creation/editing device which outputs a target document in a format corresponding to an original document and allows the correspondence with the original document to be grasped by a simple operation.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention includes an input means for inputting data of an original document including at least one frame, a conversion means for creating a target sentence corresponding to the original text included in the frame, and an input means for inputting data of an original document containing at least one frame, a storage means for accumulating the data of the original document and the data of the target document; a display means for visually displaying the original document and the target document on a display screen; and a display means for controlling the conversion means, the storage means and the display means in response to the input means. the display screen includes first and second display areas, and the control means stores the input original document data in the storage means and reads the frames included in the original document from the storage means. The original sentence is sent to the converting means according to a predetermined frame priority order, the converting means creates a target sentence and stores it in the storage means according to the frame, the original sentence is displayed in the first display area, the target sentence is displayed in the i2 display area, The present invention is characterized by a document creation/editing device that displays frames by a display means in correspondence with each other. Hereinafter, a detailed explanation will be given based on one embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, there is shown an embodiment in which a document creation/editing device according to the present invention is applied to an automatic translation device. This embodiment is a Japanese-English automatic translation device that translates a Japanese sentence input as an original sentence into a target sentence, in this example an English sentence. It basically consists of a translation unit 10 that performs its translation functions, an editor 12 that edits the document, an image scanner 14 and a keyboard 18 as input devices for the system.
, an input control section 181 that controls the input device; a display device 20 that visually displays screen information; and a display control section 2 that is a control device thereof.
2, a processing system including a document file storage section 24 and a translation temporary storage section 2B.

The scanner 14 is a scanning device that is connected so as to be controllable by the input control section 18 and that optically reads image information recorded on the document 28 and inputs the image data to the present system. This image data is input to the system in the form of data representing pixel dots.

The keyboard IB is also connected so as to be controllable by the input control section 18, and is an input device having, for example, character keys 52 such as kana, alphanumeric, and symbols, and control keys, as shown in FIG. This receives a character string in the form of a character code by operating the single character key 52, and receives a control command in the form of a control code by operating the control key.

The character keys 52 include a space bar 52a.

In addition, the control keys include normal function keys such as the shift key.
4, a page movement key 56, a sentence selection cursor key 58, a character selection cursor key 80, a translation execution key 62, and the like.

The page movement key 58 is a control key that gives an instruction to scroll the pages of the document displayed on the display screen 50 of the display device 20. Place two cursors, one for specifying the original text and the other for specifying the target sentence in the target document displayed on the display screen 50, one over the original text and the target sentence where the cursors correspond to each other. The 0 character selection cursor key 60 is a cursor control key that moves the cursor while keeping the cursor positioned at the same position as the 0 character selection cursor key 60.

The translation execution key 62 is a control key that instructs execution of translation of the original text to be translated.

This keyboard IB differs from that of a normal document editing device in that it includes a translation execution key 82 and a sentence selection cursor key 58. In this embodiment, a mouse B4 is connected to the keyboard 16 in order to create graph data with a simple operation.

In this embodiment, other input devices such as a communication line 30, a floppy disk device 32, and a magnetic tape device can also be connected to the input control section 1B.

The input control unit 1B is a control device that is connected to the editor 12, identifies and organizes input data received by these input devices, and sends the data to the editor 12.

The display device 20 is connected to the first display control section 22, and has a second display screen 50 that visually displays image information including characters and graphics.
The display controller 22 controls the display device 20 and receives text, images, graphs, etc. from the editor 12 and displays them on the screen 50. It is a control device that allows This allows bitmap display in this embodiment. The text is code data composed of a one-character code, the image is data indicating pixel dots, and the graph is image data created, for example, by the graph creation function of the editor 12.

In addition to the display fa 20 and the display control device 22, a printing device for printing out the target document and its control device may be configured to be connectable to the editor 12, and a file storage device such as a floppy disk or magnetic tape may be configured. The target document may be configured to be outputtable to the device or one communication line.

The editor 12 is a document editing device that responds to an operator's instruction commands input from the keyboard 1B. This creates a document file 34, stores data such as text, images, graphs, etc. transferred from the input control section 18 in the document file storage section 24, updates the contents, and stores the data in the translation temporary storage section 26. The purpose sentence text contained in the frame content record 40 of the document file 34 is stored in the frame content record 40 of the document file 34.

The translation unit 10 is a functional unit that forms the core of this device, is connected to the editor 12, and has a translation function that converts the original text received from the editor 12 into a target text and sends it back to the editor 12. In this example, it has a Japanese-English translation function that converts the original Japanese text into the target English text.

A document file 34 is stored in the document file storage unit N24, which includes a document file chapter/page information table 36, a frame profile table 38,
and a frame content record 40.

Here, referring to the structure of document data, one document consists of one or more chapters, each chapter consists of one or more pages, and each page consists of one or more frames. What is a “frame”?
It includes characters, images, graphs, or a combination thereof, and is one unified processing unit in one device. Therefore, one page itself constitutes one frame. Further, part or all of a frame may be included in another frame.

There are seven types of frames, types 1 to 7, consisting of characters, images, and graphs, or a combination of two or three of them. 0 types are frames with only characters (C), types 2 is a frame with only image (1), type 3 is a graph CG)
type 4 is a frame that includes C and I, type 5 is a frame that includes engineering and G, type 6 is a frame that includes C and G, type 7 is a frame that includes C and! This is a frame containing G.

An example of the original document is shown in FIG. 3. Frame 0 is of type 1, and an example of its frame content record 40 is shown in FIG. An example is shown in FIG. 14, which is image data in which pixel dots are shown in a hexadecimal array. Furthermore, frame 2 is of type 7, and an example of its frame content record 40 is shown in FIG.

The document dispute chapter Φ page information table 38 stores document information such as the total number of chapters in the document, the number of pages per chapter, and the number of frames per page. The document chapter page information table 38, an example of which is shown in FIG. Chapter list 122 and page list 1
Consists of 24.

The document descriptor 120 includes document information such as the number of chapters, total number of pages, and number of frames, and a chapter list pointer, and the chapter list 122 is specified by this pointer.

The chapter list 122 is prepared for each chapter,
It includes information on all chapters of the document and a pointer to the page list 124. The page list 124 is specified by this pointer.

In the page list 124, information on all pages of each chapter and a pointer to the frame profile table 38 are recorded.

The frame profile table 38 includes the frame position (coordinates), size, type, frame number (N
It accommodates frame information such as o, ). An example of this is the 11th
The frame profile table 38 shown in the figure is indicated by the pointer in the page list 124, and the frame number (
Frame information and contents can be accessed using the ID) as a key.

In frame profile table 38, "parent and child attributes"
"0" indicates that the frame has no child frame, "1" indicates that there is a child frame, and "
``Type'' indicates the type of frame mentioned above, ``Position/Size'' indicates the starting point and end point of the frame in millimeters, ``Frame work line attribute'' indicates the attribute of the work line forming the frame, and 1 indicates a standard solid line, 2 indicates a thick solid line, 3 indicates a very thick solid line, 4 indicates a thin solid line, and 5 indicates a standard broken line.

Further, the frame content record 40 stores data regarding the content of the frame, such as a cursor ownership flag, flag, starting point, pitch, character code, and font information for each frame. The source text and target text are also stored here. An example is shown in FIG. 12, which illustrates frame 0 shown in FIG.

, : t* is a frame of class m.

As shown in FIG. 13, the starting point coordinates of a certain sentence in one frame are described in millimeters by the vertical and horizontal coordinates of the starting point 10B of the first character font 102a of the sentence with respect to the starting point 100 of the frame. Furthermore, the pitch 104 between character fonts 102 is described in millimeters. Note that it may be specified not in units of millimeters but in terms of the number of dots.

In this embodiment, the dot density is 12 dots per layer. The starting point and pitch maximum is r FEJ. Also 1
The B-adic code rFFFFJ indicates the end of the character.

Under the control of the editor 12, the translation temporary storage unit 2B
This is a storage device that temporarily stores the target sentence texts sequentially transferred from the translation unit 10. Its contents are ultimately transferred to document file storage and stored in frame content records 40.

The operator operates the keyboard 1B and inputs the original document according to the operation flow shown in FIG. First, define the source document by inputting data that defines the source document, such as assigning a name to the source document (20G).Next, define each chapter, page, and frame according to the above conventions.202
．． 204.208), enter the original text. In this way, frames and pages and chapters are input in sequence, and one original document is completed.

In accordance with this, the editor 12 creates a document file 34 for the document and registers it in the storage unit 24. The input original text is temporarily stored in the frame content record 40. In addition, as detailed later, the keyboard IB
is displayed on the display screen 50 in response to an instruction from.

An example of the original document input in this way is shown in Figure 3.
As will be seen from now on, in this original document 140, one page constitutes frame 0, which includes original texts 1 to 9. Furthermore, this frame 0 has an image frame 1. Graph image frame 2. A character frame 3 consisting of original text a-C is included. In this embodiment, these frame numbers indicate not only the frame identification but also the priority order among them.

When the translation execution key 82 is operated, in response, the editor 12 executes translation processing according to the operation flow shown in FIG. Translation processing is performed sequentially on the strings included in each frame according to its priority order (2
34.238), frame pointer 231 (Fig. 1θ)
indicates the frame to be translated (230.23
2.242.244).

The editor 12 first extracts a character part from the original document of the frame content record 40, and transfers the character part in text units together with a frame number to the translation unit 10 (238.240).
The text sent from the editor 12 is translated one by one and sent back to the editor 12 as a target sentence. This target sentence is temporarily stored in the translation temporary storage section 2B by the editor 12. In this manner, in this embodiment, only the text of the original document is sent to the translation unit 10 and converted into the target document.

The target document in the translation temporary storage unit 2B is stored in the document file 3 by the editor 12 according to the flow shown in FIG.
It is stored in 4. In this flow, the target document, that is, the translated document is defined (2[10), and then the document chapter Φ page information table 3B and frame profile table 3 of the original document file are defined.
8 is copied (282).

Therefore, the frame content record 40 of the original text document file is copied while replacing the original text therein with the translated text (284). The details of this process are shown in FIG.

Referring to FIGS. 8A and 8B, the frame number pointer 231 is first set to "0" (265), and the frame profile table 3 indicated by the pointer 231 is set to "0" (265).
8 (28B), if the type is 1, 4.6 or 7 (2B?), the work area reserved in the editor's memory for creating the frame content record 40 of the target document. , set the record pointer to the first record, that is, “0” (28
8), proceed to step 269. In step 283, the flag column of the frame content record 10 in the work area is set to "0" (Fig. 12), the start point information of the translated text is calculated and set from the start point information of the original text, and the first character code of the translated text is set. Enter it in the character code field and set the font type.

Next, increment the record pointer in the work area for creating the frame content record 40 of the target document.
), if the character code of the translated text is not the end code (271
), set the flag field of the frame content record 40 in the work area to rlJ, put the next character of the translation into the character code field, and set the pitch and font type (272
).

If the character code of the translated text is the end code and there is a translated text in that frame (275), search for the next rQJ in the flag field of the frame content record 40 of the original document.2
7B), return to step 28B. If there is no translation in that frame, that frame is the end, so set the flag to 1, the start point tank to hexadecimal rFFFFJ, and write the contents of the work area into the document file of the target document277), Search next frame (
273).

In step 287, if the frame type is neither 1%4.6 nor 7, copy the frame content record of the frame pointed to by the frame number pointer into the document file of the target document1. (278), and searches for the next frame (273).

In this way, the frame number pointer is sequentially incremented for each frame to proceed with the process of creating the target document and storing it in the document file 34 (273.274
), thus, the translated sentences for each frame included in one chapter are sequentially stored in the frame content record 40.

In this embodiment, the positional coordinates (X, Y) of the starting point of such a translated sentence are set as follows. Regarding the abscissa X, for the first sentence in the translation frame, " is set as it is in the original sentence. For the second and subsequent sentences, the width and width of the last character in the previous sentence are set to the abscissa value of the last character in the previous sentence. The pitch is added to the value.However, if this value plus the width of the first character of the sentence exceeds the right edge of the frame, a line break is processed, and the ordinate Y is set to the frame of the two translated sentences. For sentences that enter the first line of the text, the original text is set as is.For sentences that enter the second and subsequent lines, in this embodiment, the sentence of that line is set for the ordinate Yl of the sentence of the previous line. The ordinate Y2 is set such that the difference Y2 - Yl between the ordinates Y2 of is 1/1.58 times the difference between the ordinates in the corresponding original text.

The pitch of characters in the translated text is set to satisfy the following equation.

(Average value of character width in font type used in translation + pitch of translated text) = (Average value of character width in font type of original text + pitch of original text)/1.58 Note that in this embodiment, this conversion coefficient is The value 1/1.58 is
This value was empirically selected so that the translated text can be accommodated in a format of the same size as the original text, taking into account the rate of increase in the number of characters when translating Japanese to English. Therefore, in this case, the translation frame accommodates approximately 2.5 times as many characters as the original frame.

This embodiment is a Japanese-English translation device, but when performing translation between other languages, in the initial settings of the device, start point coordinates and pitch of appropriate values depending on the rate of change in the number of characters in the conversion. Select and set the conversion coefficient for .

In this embodiment, the target document is displayed in the lower half area 50b of the display screen 50 by giving an instruction from the keyboard 1B. A part of the original document 140 is displayed in the upper half area 50a. In this case, the line spacing of the target sentence in the target document is 171.1 mm higher than that in the original document, as described above.
Displayed at 58x. An example of this document display is shown in FIG.

As can be seen by comparing Figure 4 with Figure 3, 1 display screen 5
In the upper half area 50a of frame 0, the upper half of the original document, that is, the upper half of frame 0, all of frame 1, and part of frame 2 are displayed together with the original text, images, and graphs.

Further, in the lower half area 50b, the upper half of frame O, the entire frame 1, and the upper half of frame 1 correspond to the upper half of this original document 14G.
and a portion of frame 2 are displayed together with the translation of the original text in substantially the same arrangement. Therefore, in this display example, the target document 142 includes translated texts 1 to 4 corresponding to original texts 1 to 4. Furthermore, the characters '5ales' corresponding to the characters 'sales' in frame 2 of the original text are displayed at the corresponding position.

On the display screen 50, sentence selection cursors are displayed in an upper half area 50a and a lower half area 50b, respectively. When the sentence selection cursor key 58 on the keyboard 1B is operated, the display control unit 22 and the editor 12 are activated in response.
moves the two sentence selection cursors while maintaining the correspondence between the original and translated sentences.

Movement of the sentence selection cursor in the original document and target document displayed on the display screen 50 is controlled by the display control unit 22 and the editor 12 according to the flow shown in FIGS. 9A to 8D.

When the sentence selection cursor key 58 on the keyboard 1B is operated (302), if it is the cursor up key (30
4) Check whether there is a sentence previous to the sentence in the part displayed on the display screen of the frame containing the sentence where the sentence selection cursor is currently placed (30
8, 307), if the previous sentence does not exist, it is determined whether there is an earlier frame 308), and if the result is positive, the current frame content record 40 for the source document and the target document is checked. Turn off the cursor ownership flag (Figure 12), which is on, and display on the display screen the frame content record 40 of the frame immediately before the frame where the current sentence selection cursor is placed in the displayed frame group. Turns on the cursor ownership flag of the last sentence in the frame contents record 40 (314), then displays the cursor at the position indicated by the start point information of the line whose cursor ownership flag is "1" in the frame content record 40 (314). 322)
.

In steps 308 and 307, if it is found that the previous sentence exists, the cursor ownership flag of the sentence immediately preceding the sentence whose cursor ownership flag is currently on in the frame content records 40 of the source document and the target document is turned on. and turn off the cursor ownership flag that was previously on (31
8), proceed to step 322.

Similarly, in step 304, the sentence selection cursor key 58
If the operation instructs the cursor to move down, a sentence after that sentence exists in the area displayed on the display screen of the frame that contains the sentence where the current sentence selection cursor is placed. If there is no later sentence, it is determined whether there is a later frame (312), and if the result is positive, the frame is checked for the source document and the target document. The cursor ownership flag that is currently on in the content record 40 is turned off, and the content record 40 of the frame next to the frame where the current sentence selection cursor is placed in the displayed frame group is turned off.
The cursor ownership flag of the first sentence displayed on the display screen is turned on (31B), and the process moves to step 322.

In steps 310 and 311, if it is found that a subsequent sentence exists, the cursor ownership flag of the sentence next to the sentence whose cursor ownership flag is currently on in the frame content records 40 of the source document and the target document is turned on; Turn off the cursor ownership flag that was on until then (32G)
, the process moves to step 322.

In this way, according to this embodiment, the target document is displayed in the same format as the original document, including a frame, and both documents are displayed simultaneously on the same display screen. is easy. Graphical information such as diagrams and graphs included in the original document is output to the target document along with their associated translations of the original language. Therefore, a target document corresponding to the original document can be obtained. Furthermore, since the translated text corresponding to the original text and the original text corresponding to the translated text are always indicated on the display screen, there is no need to search for them on the display screen.

Effects According to the present invention, the target document is displayed in the same format as the original document, including a frame, and both documents are displayed simultaneously on the same display screen, making it easy to associate the original text with the translated text. It is. Figures and graphs included in the source document are displayed in the destination document along with their associated source language translations.

therefore.

A target document corresponding to the original document is obtained. Furthermore, since the translation that corresponds to the original text and the original text that corresponds to the translated text are always indicated on one display screen, the correspondence between the two documents can be easily grasped without having to search for them on the display screen. .

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment in which a document creation/editing device according to the present invention is applied to an automatic translation device, and FIG. 2 is an external perspective view of the device shown in FIG. 1. 3 is a diagram showing an example of an original document applied to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of display of the original document and target document displayed on the display device in the same embodiment. , Figures 5 to 9
Figures A to 8D are flowcharts showing examples of operation flows in the same embodiment. FIGS. 10 to 15 are explanatory diagrams for explaining the structure of a document file in the same embodiment. Theory 10, Translation Department 121. . Editor 20, . . . Display device 226.0 Display control unit 34. Document file 50. 10 Display screen 56. 1 page movement key 58°00 Sentence selection cursor key 80°. . Character selection cursor key - Hon 7 ward Hata aA1\T

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Input means for inputting data of an original document including at least one frame; Conversion means for creating a target sentence corresponding to the original text included in the frame; Data and purpose of the original document storage means for accumulating document data; display means for visually displaying the original document and target document on a display screen; and control means for controlling the conversion means, storage means, and display means in response to the input means. The display screen includes first and second display areas, and the control means stores the original document data in the storage means when the original document data is input, and stores the original document data from the storage means. The original text of the included frames is sent to the converting means according to a predetermined frame priority order, the converting means creates a target sentence and stores it in the storage means according to the frame, and the original text is displayed in the first display area. 2. A document creation/editing device characterized in that said display means causes said display means to display said objective sentences in correspondence with said frames in said display areas. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the frame includes at least one of a sentence and a figure, and the control means sends only the sentence included in the frame to the conversion means. A document creation and editing device. 3. In the device according to claim 1, first and second cursors for indicating a sentence are displayed in the first and second display areas, respectively, and the input means includes:
It has an operating means for controlling the first and second cursors, and the control means responds to the operation of the operating means to control the text indicated by one of the first and second cursors. A document creation/editing device characterized by causing a second cursor to indicate a sentence corresponding to.