JPS63137359A - Word processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To use the titled word processor also as a dictionary in addition to 'KANA' (Japanese syllabary)/'KANJI' (Chinese character) conversion by displaying a meaning corresponding to a converted 'KANJI' in parallel with the 'KANJI'. CONSTITUTION:The word processor is provided with a meaning storing means 2 for storing 'KANJI' and its corresponding meaning. When a meaning display specification is operated, the meaning corresponding to a 'KANJI' converted by a 'KANA'/'KANJI' converting dictionary 1 is retrieved from the means 2 based on the converted 'KANJI'. The 'KANJI' converted by the dictionary 1 and its corresponding meaning are displayed on a display means 4 in parallel.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Field of Industrial Application J This invention relates to a word processor equipped with a kana-kanji conversion dictionary.

[Summary of the invention] This invention provides a method for using kanji (kanji) in Japanese word processors, etc.
A word meaning storage means is provided to store word meanings (including idioms) and their word meanings in correspondence, and when a word meaning display is specified, the corresponding word meaning is searched based on the kanji converted by the kana-kanji conversion dictionary and is displayed in parallel with the corresponding kanji. By displaying the meaning of the converted kanji, it is possible to know the meaning of the converted kanji as needed.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, a Japanese word processor has a kana-kanji conversion dictionary, and searches for a kanji corresponding to an input kana from the kana-kanji conversion dictionary to display and print it. In this way, the kana-kanji conversion dictionary is used to convert input kana into kanji, and only kanji that have a one-to-one correspondence with kana can be searched.

[Problems to be solved by the invention] As described above, in the conventional Japanese word processor,
Only the kanji that corresponds one-to-one with the input kana can be searched from the kana-kanji conversion dictionary; other searches cannot be performed6. In order to know whether a word is a kanji or not, it is necessary to temporarily stop working on a word processor and look up the meaning of the word in a monolingual dictionary, which is extremely troublesome.

This invention was made against the background of the above-mentioned circumstances, and its purpose is to search for the meaning of the converted kanji as appropriate, in addition to the kana-kanji conversion that word processors are inherently equipped with, and to It is an object of the present invention to provide a word processor that can greatly improve the usage and workability of the word processor by displaying kanji in parallel with other kanji.

[Means for Solving the Problems] Figure 1 is a block diagram of the machine of the present invention. In Figure 1, 1 is a kana-kanji conversion dictionary used to search for a kanji corresponding to an input kana, and 2 is a kana-kanji conversion dictionary. Word meaning storage means 3 stores kanji and their word meanings in correspondence, and word meaning storage means 2 stores two meanings corresponding to the kanji converted by the kana-kanji conversion dictionary l in response to a key operation for specifying word meaning display. A search means 4 is a display means such as a liquid crystal display panel that displays the meaning of the word searched by the search means 3 in parallel with the converted kanji.

Next, the correspondence between each element for solving the problem and each element of the embodiment will be listed.

Word, cL storage means 2... word meaning dictionary 14 search means 3... MPU 12 display means 4... display section 18 [Function] Describe the function of this invention 0 If, for example, a conversion key is operated after inputting kana characters when creating a document, the inputted kana characters are converted into corresponding kanji characters using the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 1. The kanji characters converted in this way are displayed on the display means 4 such as a liquid crystal display panel, but when the user wants to know the meaning of the kanji character, he or she operates a key or the like for operating the one-word meaning display. Then, the search means 3 searches the word meaning storage means 2 for the word meaning corresponding to the Ou Kanji. The searched meaning of the word is then displayed in parallel with the corresponding kanji.

[First Embodiment] Hereinafter, a first embodiment of the present invention will be specifically described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 6. Note that this embodiment shows an example in which the present invention is applied to a portable Japanese word processor using a liquid crystal display panel.

Figure 2 is a basic block circuit diagram of this Japanese word processor. 11 in Figure 2 is the input section of this Japanese word processor, and in addition to character keys and function keys, there are also kana, kanji, and kanji keys on this keyboard. There are a conversion/next candidate key KA used during conversion, a meaning key KB used to display the meaning of a kanji that has been converted to kana-kanji, and a meaning registration key KC used to register the meaning of any kanji. It is being Thus, key human power signals output from the input unit 11 corresponding to the operation keys are sent to an MPU (micro processor unit) 12, and processing is executed according to the input processing program.

The MPU 12 executes input processing, kana-kanji conversion processing, meaning search processing, display processing, etc. according to pre-stored microprograms. And MPU1
2 includes a kana-kanji conversion dictionary 13, a meaning dictionary 14, and a document memory 15. Work RAM 16 and ROM 17 are connected.

The kana-kanji conversion dictionary 13 stores a plurality of kanji candidates corresponding to kana, and is used when converting input kana into kanji. Further, the word meaning dictionary 14 stores the word meanings corresponding to kanji characters, and is constituted by, for example, a RAM, and is capable of registering the word meanings corresponding to any kanji characters.

The document memory 15 is for storing created documents, and can store, for example, an A4 size document of 6 pages. The work RAM 16 stores a candidate register 16-1, a meaning register 16-2, a candidate pointer 16-3. It has a display pointer 16-4.

The candidate register 16-1 is a register to which the kanji candidates read from the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 13 are transferred and stored, and the meaning register 16-2 is a register to which the meanings read from the meaning dictionary J14 are transferred and stored.Candidate pointer 16 -3 is an address pointer for specifying a plurality of kanji candidates stored corresponding to a kana in the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 13, and display pointer 16-4 is a cursor pointer that indicates the cursor position. The ROM 17 is a memory that configures a character generator and stores various control programs.

Further, the MPU 12 sends document data to a display section 18 consisting of a liquid crystal display device, and also to a printing section 19 consisting of a thermal printer to display and print one document data.

The operation of this embodiment will be specifically explained with reference to the display states shown in FIGS. 3(A) to 3(D). First, Figure 3 (A
) is the LB in which the kana ``Kyoha'' is entered using the character keys provided in the input section 11, and the diagonal line displayed on the right side is the cursor position, which is displayed below ``Kyowa''. The horizontal lines shown indicate characters that can be converted into Kanji, that is, characters to be converted.

In this state, when converting kana-written characters into kanji, the conversion/next candidate key KA is operated. Then, the operation according to the flow shown in FIG. 4 is executed. That is, when the conversion/next candidate key KA is operated, step A1
Then, it is determined whether the conversion/next candidate key KA or the meaning key KB was operated immediately before. That is, in the first operation of the conversion/next candidate key KA, the following step A is performed.
The process for converting kana to kanji is executed in Step 2, but after the conversion/next candidate key KA or semantic key KB has already been operated, the process for displaying the next kanji candidate is executed in step A7 below. be done.

In step A2, a search operation is started to search the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 13 for the kanji corresponding to the input kana. Then, an initial value is set in the candidate pointer 16-3 (step A3), and after 1 degree, when a kanji candidate corresponding to the input kana is searched from the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 13, the kana-kanji conversion dictionary 13 to candidate pointer 16
The kanji candidate indicated by -3 is read out, and the candidate register 1 is read out.
6-1 (step A4), and then the display of the word meaning for the previous kanji candidate displayed on the display section 18 is cleared (step A5), and then the position indicated by the 1 display pointer 16-4 Kanji candidates are displayed in (
Step A6) and FIG. 3(B) show the display state in this case. It is sufficient if the kanji candidates displayed in this manner are correct, but if the user wishes to search for another candidate, the user operates the conversion/next candidate key KA again. In this case, since the conversion/next candidate key KA has been operated immediately before, the process advances to step A7 where this is detected in step AI, and the candidate pointer 16
-3 is updated. As a result, the next kanji candidate is transferred to the candidate register 16-1 (step A4), and then the next kanji candidate is displayed (step A6). Kanji candidates can be displayed sequentially.

Here, in order to know whether the kanji converted into kana-kanji is the most suitable kanji for the desired meaning, operate the 1-word meaning key KB while the kanji is displayed. Then, the operation according to the flow shown in FIG. 5 is executed. That is, when the 1 word meaning key KB is operated, the candidate register 16-1
The kanji is read out (step Bl), and the operation of searching the word meaning dictionary 14 for the word meaning corresponding to this kanji is started (step B2). When the corresponding word meaning is retrieved, this word meaning is determined as the word meaning. Register 16-2
(step B3), and word meaning register 1 is transferred to the position of the next line indicated by 1 display pointer 16-4.
The meaning of the word in 6-2 is displayed (step B4). FIG. 3(C) shows the display state in this case, and the meaning of the word corresponding to the converted and displayed kanji is displayed in parallel with the kanji.

In this display state, the kanji candidate ``Kyou'' is determined by inputting the quintic kana ``yo'' and is stored in the document memory 15, as shown in FIG. 3(D). In this case, the 1 word meaning display is cleared.

6(A) and CB) show the display state when the meaning of an arbitrary kanji is registered in the meaning dictionary 14. Here, FIG. 6(A) shows a state in which kanji candidates are displayed by operating the conversion/next candidate key KA. In this state,
When the meaning registration key KC is operated, the user enters a state of waiting for the input of the meaning of the displayed kanji candidate. Figure 6 CB)
indicates the display state in this case, and the meaning-input canilia is displayed at the line position next to the kanji candidate, and a cursor is first displayed at the first digit to indicate the input digit. In this state, if the meaning of a kanji is input in the same way as normal text input using kana-kanji conversion, the inputted meaning will be displayed in the meaning entry box. After inputting the word meaning, when the execution key is operated, the word meaning is registered in the empty area of the word meaning dictionary 14. In this way, since the meaning of a kanji can be arbitrarily registered, it is possible to create a dictionary tailored to the user.

[Second Embodiment] FIGS. 7 and 8 show a second embodiment of the present invention. In addition, in the first embodiment described above, when converting kana to kanji, the meaning of the displayed kanji candidate is displayed during the process of searching for a kanji candidate, but in this embodiment, the meaning of the word in the document is displayed after the document is created. This allows users to arbitrarily specify and display kanji that they want to know about, or to specify and register kanji whose meanings they want to register in a document. Here, Fig. 7 (A
), CB), and (C) are for displaying the meaning of the word.

FIGS. 8A and 8B are display state diagrams showing assumptions when registering word meanings.

First, as shown in FIG. 7(A), with an arbitrary document displayed, a kanji character whose meaning is desired to be known is specified in the document. In this case, shallow learning is specified by operating the cursor keys. FIG. 7(B) shows the display state when "Today" is specified. In this state, when the word or a key is operated, the meaning of the specified kanji is searched and displayed in parallel with the specified kanji (see Figure 7 (C)). By specifying any kanji, its meaning can be displayed. Note that when the cancel key is operated, the original display state can be restored.

Next, when registering a word meaning, specify any kanji in the sentence displayed as shown in Figure 8 (A), and then operate the word meaning registration key KC, as shown in Figure 8 (A). The display state as shown in B) (i.e.

In this state, when the execution key is operated after inputting the meaning of a word, the input meaning of the word is registered and the display returns to the original display state.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained in detail above, this invention stores shallow learning (including compound words) and their word meanings in correspondence: a five-word storage means is provided, and when one word meaning is specified, the kana-kanji conversion dictionary is used to Based on the converted kanji, the corresponding meaning is searched and displayed in parallel with the corresponding kanji, so the meaning of the converted kanji can be known as needed. When you want to know the meaning of a kanji that has been converted in this way, you can display the meaning as appropriate, so it can be used not only for kana-kanji conversion but also as a dictionary, and moreover, it can be displayed in parallel with the converted kanji. Therefore, it has various advantages such as being easy to read visually and not interrupting the kana-kanji conversion work by a word processor during the creation of the five documents.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of this invention, FIGS. 2 to 6 show a first embodiment of this invention, and FIG. 2 is a basic block circuit diagram of a Japanese word processor to which this invention is applied. Figures 3 (A) to (D) are display state diagrams, Figure 4 is conversion/
A flowchart showing the operation when the next candidate key is operated, Fig. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation when the word meaning key is operated, and Figs. 6 (A) and (B) are display states when registering the word meaning. 7 and 8 show a second embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 7 (A), (B), and (C) are for displaying word meanings, and FIG. 8 (A). (B) is a display state diagram when registering word meanings. 11...Input section, 12...MPU, 1
3...Kana-kanji conversion dictionary, 14...Word meaning dictionary, 16...Work RAM, 18...
...Display section. Patent Applicant Casio Computer Co., Ltd. Agent Patent Attorney Machi 1) Masa Toshi: CB) C) Figure 3 Figure 4% 5 Figure CB) Figure 6 CB) Figure S

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A word processor that has a kana-kanji conversion dictionary and searches for and displays and prints kanji corresponding to input kana, comprising: a word meaning storage means for storing kanji and their word meanings in correspondence; and a word meaning display. a search means for, in response to a specified operation, searching the word meaning storage means for a word meaning corresponding to a kanji converted by the kana-kanji conversion dictionary; 1. A word processor comprising: a display means for displaying information on a word;