JPS6376055A - Original word/translated word display system in document forming device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To contrive to improve the maneuvarability of a document forming device by determining an original word on the basis of a cursor position at the time of its translation and displaying its translated word on a position immediately after the original word independently of the cursor position. CONSTITUTION:A document inputted from a keyboard 10 is sequentially stored in a data memory as original word data 41 through a CPU 20 and displayed on a display device 60. In case of executing translation, a cursor is set up on a word concerned and a translated word conversion key on the keyboard 10 is depressed, so that a word inclurding the character concerned is extracted from the original word data 41. A dictionary memory 50 is accessed on the basis of the extracted word, a translated word of the word concerned is read out from the memory 50 and the translated word is written immediately after the word concerned in the original word data 41 in the data memory 40. The original word in the memory 40 and the translated data 41 are outputted to the display device 50 through the CPU 20. Consequently, the translated word can be displayed immediately after the original word concerned independently of the cursor position, so that the convenience and maneuvarability of the document forming device can be sharply improved.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to an original language/translation display method in a document production device, and is particularly suitable for a document production device having only one line or less display area. and how to display translated words.

[Conventional technology]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, document creation devices have been proposed that have a so-called dictionary lookup function that is capable of preparing a word translation dictionary and displaying translations corresponding to words in a document.

However, conventional document creation devices of this type.

Generally, it is limited to those equipped with a large display section, and the original and translated words are displayed on a divided screen. On the other hand, in so-called pocket electronic translators, the original and translated words are simply switched and displayed by key operations.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

If a method that switches between displaying the original language and the translated word is applied to a document creation device that only has a display area of one line or less, it is very difficult to create or edit a document using the translated word that corresponds to the original language. It is inconvenient. For this reason,
It is conceivable to display the translated word following the original word, but the cursor position has a great meaning in creating a document, and generally nine characters of kana-kanji conversion are inserted at the cursor position. Therefore, if this rule is applied as is to display the translated word following the original word, it is necessary to move the cursor by -4 to the +1 position at the end of the original word, causing a problem that the operation is cumbersome.

An object of the present invention is to improve operability by displaying a translated word immediately after the original word regardless of the cursor position.

[Means for solving problems]

The present invention provides a document creation device with a dictionary lookup function that is equipped with a display section of only one line or less, and the translation (dictionary lookup) determines the corresponding original language based on the cursor position.
The translated word is displayed immediately after the original word regardless of the cursor position.

[For production]

The original word to be translated is determined by placing the cursor on a part of the original word, but the translated word corresponding to the M word is displayed immediately after the original word regardless of the cursor position.
There is no need to place the cursor at the last +1 position of the original word, and the operability of the document creation device is improved.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of an embodiment of a document creation device equipped with a translation (dictionary lookup) function, which is the object of the present invention.9 This document creation device includes a keyboard 10 for inputting characters and various operation instructions. A central processing unit 20 that executes various processes, a program memory (ROM) 30 that stores programs necessary for processing in the central processing unit 20, and a data memory (RAM) that stores input/output data or data in progress, etc.
40, a dictionary memory 50 for translating words, and a display device 60 for displaying the original and translated words. and a printing device 70 that prints the created document. 25, as a configuration related to the present invention, a translation (dictionary lookup) program 31 is prepared in the program memory 30, and an original language,
Translated word data 41 is stored.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the translation (dictionary lookup) program 31, and FIG. 3 shows a specific example of operation according to the present invention.

Documents input from the keyboard 10 are sent to the central processing unit 20
The data is sequentially stored in the data memory 40 as original language data 41 and simultaneously displayed on the display device 60. 201 in FIG. 3 is an example of the display at this time, and 200 indicates the cursor position. Next, when translating, the cursor is placed on the corresponding word. 202 in FIG. 3 is an example of the display at this time, which shows the case where the cursor 200 is placed on r, J in "haveJ".Then, press the translation conversion key on the keyboard 10. This figure shows the processing flow after the translation conversion key is pressed. When the translation conversion key on the desk keyboard 10 is pressed, it is determined whether or not there is a character at the cursor position. Step 101
), if there is a character at the cursor position, the word containing that character is extracted from the original language data 41 (step 10).
2), [The word data 41 has a cursor bit set in one-to-one correspondence with the display, and by searching left and right centering on the character with the cursor bit set until a space code appears, the original word data can be retrieved. 4. The target word (have in the example of FIG. 3) can be easily extracted from above.

Next, the dictionary memory 50 is accessed based on the retrieved word (Step 103), and it is determined whether or not the corresponding word exists in the dictionary memory 50 (Step 104). Read the translation of the word from the dictionary memory 50, write the translation immediately after the corresponding word in the original language data 41 in the data memory 40 (step 105), and centrally process the original word and translation data 41 in the data memory 40. Through the device 20, the display device 6
0 (step 1.06), 203 in Figure 3 is an example display at this time, and "have" is output immediately after rhaveJ.
is displayed.

At this time, the cursor 200 is moved to the raJ position by the original function of the document creation device.

Next, the process waits for the user's operation (step 107), and if the process is completed, the processing of the translation (dictionary lookup) program 31 is exited (step 108). If not finished, step 10
Return to 1.

On the other hand, if the character is not on the cursor in step 101, a warning buzzer is sounded (step 109), and then the user's response is waited for (step 110), and the process returns to step 101.

Further, if the corresponding word is not in the dictionary memory 50 in step 104, an error message is displayed on the display device 60, a warning buzzer is sounded (step 111), and then the user's response is waited (step 112).
Return to

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the present invention, in a document creation device equipped with a translation (dictionary lookup) function, a translated word can be displayed immediately after the corresponding original word regardless of the cursor position.
This has the effect of greatly improving the convenience and operability of this type of document creation device.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a document creation device targeted by the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the processing flow of a translation program, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the operation of the present invention. 10...Keyboard, 20...Central processing unit. 30...Program memory, 31...Translation C'n
W pull) program, 40...data memory, 4
1... Original language translation data, 50... Dictionary memory 60
...Display device, 70... Printing device. Figure 1 Figure 2 D

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) In a document creation device that is equipped with a display unit and a word-translation dictionary, and has a function of reading the translated word corresponding to the specified source word from the word-translation dictionary and displaying it on the display unit, the word containing the character specified by the cursor is displayed. An original language/translation display method characterized in that a translated word corresponding to the original word is read from a word translation dictionary and displayed immediately after the word on a display unit.