JPS6380360A - Phrase display device capable of displaying automatic regression - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To ensure a job such as a sentence generating job including translation and learning or the like by displaying specific phrases of a 1st group automatically for a prescribed time in replacement with the phrase of a 2nd group at the same position in a display picture. CONSTITUTION:When an optional Japanese word is inputted to keys, it is fed to an input word buffer 72, fed to a display controller 66 via a character generator 60 and displayed on a display device 6. When a translation key for converting an English word corresponding to the inputted Japanese word is depressed, the translation word corresponding to the input word is retrieved by an electronic dictionary 57, the translation word stored in the head of the corresponding word data in the dictionary 57 is read and fed to a translation word buffer 74. Moreover, the result is displayed on the display device 6 via the generator 60. The display on the display device 6 is switched as the time set by a timer 71 elapses and the input word and translation are displayed alternately. Thus, the translation or the like is ensured.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] □Field of Industrial Application□ The present invention relates to a phrase display device used for example in translation, learning, etc., and is particularly applicable to displaying specified phrases and related phrases on a display screen. The present invention relates to an improvement in the display form of .

□Conventional technology□ Conventionally, for translation or learning purposes, for example, when a Japanese or English phrase is specified, the corresponding English or Japanese phrase is displayed on the display screen of a display device. Phrase display devices are known.

□Problem to be solved by the invention□ However, conventional devices, for example, based on a Japanese word being specified (usually input using a key), displaying the corresponding English word and then displaying the original Japanese word. The words were no longer displayed or required certain keystrokes to be displayed. Therefore, there has been a problem in that it is not always easy to confirm the identified original phrase.

However, this inconvenience would not occur if the specified word and the corresponding word were displayed simultaneously in different locations on the display screen, but then dedicated display spaces would have to be secured for each.

□Means for solving the problem□ In order to solve this problem, the present invention, as shown in FIG. a second group word storage means for storing a second group of words corresponding to the first group of words in association with the group of words;
Based on the first group of words being identified by the first group of words identifying means, a display device having a display screen; The words of the first group identified above are read out from the second group of phrases and displayed on the display screen of the display device for a certain period of time, and are replaced with the words of the second group at the same position on the display screen. The apparatus is provided with an automatic regression display control means for automatically displaying words for a certain period of time.

Identification of the first group of words is usually done by key operations to enter the word manually and key operations to command conversion to the second group of words. There are also ways in which the device itself is coded and can be identified simply by manually inputting the code, or, if it is mainly for learning purposes, the device itself can identify it randomly or in a certain order just by operating the word recall key. be.

In addition, automatic regression display automatically returns from displaying words in the second group to displaying words in the first group, thereby displaying two different words in the second group and those in the first group. A mode in which words and phrases are automatically displayed alternately for a certain period of time, a mode in which words and phrases in the second group are sequentially replaced although they are displayed alternately,
Alternatively, it is possible to specify a mode in which a plurality of words and phrases in the second group corresponding to the words in the first group are automatically switched and displayed one after another for a certain period of time, and then the display returns to the original display of the words and phrases in the first group. This can be cited as an example.

□Functions and Effects□ In this way, the display automatically returns from the display of words in the second group to the display of words in the first group, so there is no need for any special operation.
It becomes possible to easily confirm what kind of words and phrases are included in the first group, and as a result, it is possible to more reliably perform writing work such as translation, learning, etc.

Moreover, since they are displayed alternately at the same position on the display screen, there is no need to allocate extra space for both the second group of words and the first group of words to be displayed. Therefore, the display screen can be used more effectively, which allows the display screen to be made more compact. In other words, even if the display screen of the display device is relatively small, such as a liquid crystal display with about 10 or so digits, it is possible to
It is possible to provide word information.

□Embodiment□ Next, an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a phrase display device that also serves as a word processor (hereinafter referred to as a word processor) will be described with reference to the drawings.

The device shown in FIG. 2 has an integrated structure including a keyboard 2 and a printer 4, and a part of the keyboard 2 is provided with a liquid crystal display 6 (hereinafter simply referred to as a display). This display 6 has one line and 13 digits (
It has a display screen of 13 characters). The keyboard 2 includes character keys 30 necessary for writing sentences,
Various keys are provided, such as a translation key 32 for converting manually entered words into corresponding translations.

As shown in FIG. 3, the control circuit of this device includes a central processing unit (CPU) 50. Program memory 52. Text memory 56. Electronic dictionary 57° RAM (random)
access memory)58. character generator 60
．． It includes a keyboard driver 62, a printer driver 64, a display controller 66, and a common path line 68 that connects them.

A clock generating device 70 consisting of a combination of a crystal oscillator and a clock generator that converts the amplified vibration of the crystal oscillator into a pulse signal is connected to the CPU 50. A timer 71 that measures accurate timing with an arithmetic circuit
It consists of

The electronic dictionary 57 stores a predetermined number of Japanese words and their corresponding English words in association with each other, and stores the spellings of the English words and the meanings of the Japanese words as word data, for example, in alphabetical order.

The RAM 58 includes an input word display buffer (hereinafter referred to as input word buffer) 72. Translation display buffer (hereinafter referred to as
(referred to as translation word buffer) 74. Mode flag register 76
In addition, a necessary work register 78 is incorporated. The input word buffer 72 stores key input Japanese words (
(hereinafter referred to as input words) -temporally memorizes
The translated word buffer 74 temporarily stores English words (hereinafter referred to as translated words) read from the electronic dictionary 57 in correspondence with the input word. The mode flag register 76 is used to set or clear a flag for an alternate display mode in which an input word and its corresponding translation are displayed alternately.

The keyboard 2 is connected to a keyboard driver 62, and data input by operating the various keys on the keyboard 2 is supplied to the text memory 56 and RAM 58 via the keyboard driver 62. Then, the document data stored in the text memory 56, the word data stored in the electronic dictionary 57, the word data supplied to the input word buffer 72 and the translated word buffer 74 in the RAM 58, etc. are sent to the character generator 60. Based on the transfer, character generator 60 supplies pattern data representing each character of the word to printer driver 64 and display controller 66 to operate printer 4 and display 6.

The above-described word processing and alternating display processing of input words and their translations are carried out by the CPU 50 executing the program stored in the program memory 52 with the help of the work register 78 of the RAM 58, etc. It will be done.

FIG. 4 shows a flowchart of programs stored in the program memory 52, mainly consisting of an alternate display program closely related to the present invention.

First, it is initialized in step Sl (hereinafter referred to as Sl; the same applies to other steps), and enters a state of waiting for key human power in S2, and from S2 to S3. S23. S2
By going through the loop of 5, normal word processor input is performed.

Then, when an arbitrary Japanese word, for example "Hana", is input by key, "Hana" is supplied to the input word buffer 72 in S25, and is also supplied to the display controller 66 via the character generator 60, and is displayed on the display. 6
will be displayed. Therefore, when the translation key 32 for converting the input Japanese phrase into its corresponding English translation is pressed, the determination at S3 becomes YES and the process moves to 34.

In this S4, it is determined whether the Japanese character string to call the translation word has been input, but since it has already been input, the determination is YES, S5 is executed, and the RA
A flag in mode flag register 76 in M58 is set. That is, by setting the content to "1", the alternate display mode is set.

Subsequently, S6 is executed to search the electronic dictionary 57 for a translation corresponding to the input word, and the process further advances to S7, in which it is determined whether the input word is stored in the electronic dictionary 57. If this determination is YES, the process moves to S8. In this S8, if multiple translations corresponding to the input word are stored in the electronic dictionary 57, it is determined whether all the translations have been displayed on the display 6, but at this stage, even one translation has not been displayed yet. Since there is no input word, the process moves to S9, and it is determined whether the input word and its corresponding translation are currently being displayed alternately. However, since the alternating display has not yet been made, the judgment is NO and step 310 is executed, and the translated word stored at the beginning of the corresponding word data in the electronic dictionary 57 corresponding to the input word is read out. , are supplied to the translated word buffer 74. It is also supplied to the display controller 66 via the character generator 60.
The translated word is displayed on the display 6. 311 more
is executed, the timer 71 that sets the display time of the translated word on the display 6 is set, and after starting to measure the display time from this point, the process returns to S2.

Here, if there is no key human power, the process moves to 312 based on a NO determination in S2. In this S12, it is determined whether or not the alternate display mode is set. At this stage, the determination is YES, and the process moves to S13, where the timer 71 sets the time for displaying the translated word corresponding to the input word. It is determined whether a period of time (hereinafter referred to as a set time) has elapsed. If this set time has not yet elapsed, the process returns to S2 based on a NO determination in S13, and if no key is pressed in S2, this 52-313-32
This cycle is repeated until the set time elapses, that is, until the time amplifier of the timer 71 is reached. When the set time of the timer 71 has elapsed, the determination in S13 is YES.
Then, the process moves to S14. In this S14, it is determined whether or not the input word is currently displayed on the display 6, but since the translated word is displayed at this stage, the S
14 is No, the original Japanese is read from the input word buffer 72 and displayed on the display 6 316
is executed. By executing step 316, the input word is displayed in place of the translated word that has been displayed up to this point, and then step S17 is executed. That is, by setting the timer 71 again, the timer 71 starts counting the set time for the input word to be displayed in place of the previously displayed translated word. This setting time is usually the same for displaying the input word and the translated word, but it can also be set to be different. Then, when this set time by the timer 71 has elapsed, the judgment in S14 becomes YES after passing through S13.
S15 is executed to display the translated word again at the position where the input word was displayed. Thereafter, the steps of displaying the Japanese input word and the English translation at the same location on the display 6 for a certain period of time are repeated in the same way, and as a result,
For example, the words "hana" and "flower" are displayed alternately.

When the translation key 32 is pressed again, the process moves to S4 based on the YES determination in S3, but in this case, the new Japanese character string has not been input manually, and the alternate display mode has been set. Therefore, the judgment of S4 is No.
The determination at 318 is YES and the process moves to 86. This S
After the search in step 6, the process moves to S7, and it is determined whether the corresponding word/phrase data in the electronic dictionary 57 includes a translated word that should be displayed next and corresponds to the input word. For example, if "hana" is input in Japanese, this input word will include "flower".
, "nose", etc., so the presence or absence of the next translated word is determined. This judgment is Y
ES, and if there is a translated word that is not yet displayed in the electronic dictionary 57, S8. S19 is executed after S9,
The next stored translated word in the corresponding word/phrase data is transferred to the translated word buffer 74 and displayed on the display 6 in the same manner as described above. Then, S11 is executed in which the timer 71 is set again to measure the set time for displaying the translated word.

That is, when multiple translations correspond to one input word, the translation stored at the beginning of the electronic dictionary 57 is first read out and supplied to the translation buffer 74 and the display controller 66. , thereby displayed on the display 6. When the next stored translated word is read out, it is stored in the translated word display buffer 74, replacing the previous translated word, and is temporarily held until the next translated word is supplied. This operation is performed sequentially until the translation is finalized.

Further, after all the translated words corresponding to the input word are read out from the electronic dictionary 57 and each translated word is displayed alternately with the input word, the determination in S8 becomes YES.

Therefore, step 320 is executed and the display returns to the translated word stored at the beginning of the corresponding word data in the electronic dictionary 57.

Note that if the translation word corresponding to the input word is not stored in the electronic dictionary 57, that is, if the input word is not in the electronic dictionary 57, the determination in S7 is No, and S22 is executed.
A message indicating that there is no translation is displayed. In addition, if the translation key 32 is pressed even though the Japanese word has not been entered manually, and the alternate display mode is not set, the determinations in steps 34 and 318 are both NO, and step 321 is executed, and the buzzer etc. alarm processing is performed.

Then, while the input word or its corresponding translation is being displayed alternately on the display 6, a predetermined key other than the translation key 32 (for example, the character key 30 for inputting the next Japanese word) is operated. Then, S3. S2
3, S24 is executed, and the mode flag register 76 is
By clearing the flag, the alternate display mode is canceled and the normal state returns. Then, S26 is executed to finalize the translated word displayed on the display 6 and store the translated word in the text memory 56, and S27 is executed to clear the input word buffer 72 and translated word buffer 74.

As is clear from the above explanation, in this example,
The Japanese words and phrases that are the input words are set as the first group of words and phrases, and the English words (translated words) corresponding to the input words are set as the second group of words and phrases. The character key 30 for inputting Japanese words and the translation key 32 for confirming the Japanese words and instructing the conversion to English form the first group word specifying means, and the electronic dictionary 57
constitutes the first group word identification means. Furthermore, a memory area in the program memory 52 that stores the alternate display routine, a CPU 50 that executes the routine, a timer 71 that sets the display time, and a mode flag register 76 of the RAM 58 that sets the alternate display mode, The liquid crystal display 6 and the display controller 66 constitute an automatic regression display control means, and the liquid crystal display 6 and the display controller 66 constitute a display device.

Note that in this embodiment, Japanese words are input and the corresponding English translations are displayed alternately, but conversely, when an English word is input, this English word and its corresponding Japanese translation are displayed alternately. It is also possible to create a program for alternate display.

In other words, the words in the first group are English words, and the words in the second group are translated into Japanese. Furthermore, the display is not limited to alternate display between Japanese and English, but alternate display between any other two languages is also possible. Similarly, it is also possible to alternately display hiragana and the corresponding kanji, or to alternately display a specified word and its synonym or antonym.

The above explanation is a mode in which two words are alternately displayed for a certain period of time by automatically returning from displaying the words of the second group to displaying the words of the first group, and repeating this process. It is also possible to automatically and sequentially replace the words and phrases of the second group that are to be alternately displayed with respect to the words and phrases of the first group. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, if multiple translations corresponding to "hana" are read out one by one from the electronic dictionary 57,
After displaying all the translated words by changing them every cycle (one regression), the first translated word “flowe” is displayed.
r'' display, and by performing a predetermined key operation while the corresponding translation is being displayed,
Programming is done so that the translated word is determined.

In this way, the input word and the translated word can be immediately associated with each other, and there is no need to operate the translated word key 32 each time to call up the next translated word.

Furthermore, when multiple translations correspond to an input word, instead of displaying the input word and the translation alternately, each translation is displayed one by one for a certain period of time, and after all translations are displayed, It is also possible to return to displaying the original input word. For example, as shown in Figure 6, “Hana” corresponds to “Hana”.
flower”.

After automatically and sequentially displaying translated words such as “nose”,
The program automatically returns to the original display of "hana" and allows key operations to confirm the translated word while the corresponding translated word is being displayed. In this way, even if there are a considerable number of translations for one input word, you can read through all the translations in a relatively short time without having to perform tedious key operations for conversion. Can be done.

In addition, if it is used for learning purposes, it is not necessarily necessary to determine the translated words even in the examples shown in FIGS. 5 and 6.

Furthermore, as an application of the embodiments illustrated in Figures 5 and 6, for one input word in Japanese (for example, "hana"), multiple languages such as English, French, German, Spanish, etc. The translated words are stored in the electronic dictionary 57, and the translated words are sequentially read out and displayed alternately with the input word, or after the translated words are sequentially displayed for a certain period of time, the display returns to the original input word display. You can also do it like this. In this case, Japanese words and phrases correspond to the first group of words and phrases, and non-Japanese words and phrases correspond to the second group of words and phrases.

Further, the present invention is particularly effective for devices with narrow display screens, such as the liquid crystal display 6, and can display satisfactory information within the limited display screen. Even if it is applicable to devices with a relatively large display screen such as a CRT display, the remaining area of the display screen can be used more effectively, since less area is used for display. Can be done.

In addition, the present invention can be modified in various ways based on the knowledge of those skilled in the art, such as application to a dedicated device rather than a device that can be used with a word processor.
It can be implemented in an improved manner.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of a word processor/phrase display device which is an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing its control circuit. FIG. 4 is a flowchart mainly showing steps for alternately displaying the program stored in the program memory of FIG. 3, which is closely related to the present invention. FIG. 5 and FIG. 6 are explanatory diagrams showing different aspects of automatic regression display, respectively. 4: Printer 6: Liquid crystal display 30: Character keys 32: Translation key 50: Central processing unit (CPU) 52 Niprogram memory 57: Electronic dictionary 58: RAM 60: Character generator 66: Display controller 71: Timer 72: For input words Display buffer 74: Translation display buffer 76: Mode flag register

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A first group word specifying means for specifying a first group of words; and a second group for storing a second group of words corresponding to the first group of words in association with the first group of words. a display device having a display screen; and based on the first group of words being identified by the first group of words and phrases specifying means, at least one second group of words corresponding to the first group of words is identified. Words are read from the second group word storage means, each word is displayed for a certain period of time on the display screen of the display device, and the specified words are read out from the second group word storage means and displayed on the display screen of the display device for a certain period of time, and at the same position on the display screen, they are replaced with the second group words. and automatic regression display control means for automatically displaying the first group of words for a certain period of time.