KR20070044232A - Method for operating communication terminal having electronic dictionary function and communication terminal of enabling the method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of operating a communication terminal having an electronic dictionary function and a communication terminal employing the above method, and more particularly, identify the character by scanning two-dimensional data including a character in the communication terminal, A method of operating a communication terminal having an electronic dictionary function for displaying descriptive data on words composed of letters on a predetermined display means, and a communication terminal employing the method. By using a predetermined camera means according to the present invention to scan a character to generate a scanned image, to identify the character recorded in the generated scan image, to search for a word corresponding to the identified character, according to the searched word The commentary can be displayed on predetermined display means.

Communication Terminal, Electronic Dictionary, Scanning, Text, Input

Description

A method of operating a communication terminal having an electronic dictionary function, and a communication terminal employing the above method.

1 is a flowchart illustrating a method of operating a communication terminal having an electronic dictionary function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating an example of an electronic dictionary database according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a user interface for receiving a selection for any one character according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of identifying a character corresponding to an area by receiving a predetermined area of a scan image according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen displaying descriptive data about a word according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of character input according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen displaying a character recorded in a storage means and receiving one character among the displayed characters, according to an embodiment of the present invention.

8 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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800: communication terminal

810: electronic dictionary database 820: camera means

830: scanning performing unit 840: character recognition management unit

845: User interface 850: Description data provider

The present invention provides a method of operating a communication terminal having an electronic dictionary function and a communication terminal employing the above method, and more particularly, identify the character by scanning two-dimensional data including a character in the communication terminal, A method of operating a communication terminal having an electronic dictionary function for displaying descriptive data on words composed of letters on a predetermined display means, and a communication terminal employing the method.

Today's remarkable development of information and communication technology has rapidly promoted the popularization of communication terminals (mobile devices), so that most ordinary people always have communication terminals such as mobile phones and PDAs. The communication terminal enables smooth communication between users of the communication terminal due to the advantage that can be used even when moving, and users are gradually increasing.

The services provided by such communication terminals gradually diversified from the basic voice call services and text services that have been provided with the development of communication technology and the increasing use of users, such as games, wireless Internet, camera photography, MP3. Music offerings, electronic dictionaries, etc.).

In the electronic dictionary function provided in the conventional communication terminal, a user directly inputs a predetermined character, searches for a word composed of the character, and displays descriptive data on the searched word on predetermined display means. However, the electronic dictionary function provided by the conventional communication terminal has a hassle that a user must input a predetermined character one by one, and the electronic dictionary function for one or more languages (for example, Japanese dictionary, French dictionary, Chinese character dictionary, etc.) ), There was a problem that character input is difficult.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, by using a predetermined camera means to scan a character to generate a scanned image, to identify the character recorded in the generated scan image, It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of operating a communication terminal having an electronic dictionary function for searching for a word corresponding to a letter and displaying a commentary corresponding to the found word on a predetermined display means, and a communication terminal employing the method.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide convenience to a user by inputting a character by scanning two-dimensional data including the character without directly inputting the character.

In order to achieve the above object and to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, an operation method of a communication terminal having an electronic dictionary function according to an embodiment of the present invention, one or more words corresponding to a predetermined language and the Maintaining an electronic dictionary database for recording descriptive data for words; Maintaining predetermined camera means for scanning two-dimensional data comprising text; When a scan request for the two-dimensional data is input from a user, performing scanning on the two-dimensional data by using the camera means, and generating a scanned image according to the scanning; Identifying a character corresponding to the generated scanned image through a predetermined character recognition module; Searching for the word composed of the letters by referring to the electronic dictionary database; And reading the description data of the searched word and displaying the description data on a predetermined display means.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a communication terminal includes: an electronic dictionary database for recording one or more words corresponding to a predetermined language and description data for the words; Predetermined camera means for scanning two-dimensional data comprising text; A scanning execution unit configured to scan the two-dimensional data by using the camera means when a scan request of the two-dimensional data is input from a user, and generate a scan image according to the scanning; A character recognition manager for identifying a character corresponding to the generated scanned image through a predetermined character recognition module and searching for a word composed of the character by referring to the electronic dictionary database; And an explanatory data providing unit which reads out the explanatory data of the searched word and displays it on a predetermined display means.

The communication terminal used in the present invention is a computer terminal, a public switched telephone network (PSTN) terminal, VoIP, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Megaco, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), cellular phone, PCS (Personal Communication Service) phone, hand Hand-Held PC, CDMA-2000 (1X, 3X) Phone, Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) Phone, Dual Band / Dual Mode Phone, Global Standard for Mobile (GSM) Phone, MBS (Mobile Broadband System) phones, or satellite / terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) phones.

1 is a flowchart illustrating a method of operating a communication terminal having an electronic dictionary function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, in step 101, the communication terminal maintains an electronic dictionary database that records one or more words corresponding to a given language and description data for the words. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the language may be any one of languages that can be represented by letters such as Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, Chinese, or French. In addition, the electronic dictionary database may record one or more words and descriptive data for the words for each language.

2 is a diagram illustrating an example of an electronic dictionary database according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the electronic dictionary database 200 may include a field of words 201 and description data 202, and record description data 202 corresponding to the word 201. For example, the description data 202 corresponding to the word 201 "abaculus" may be written "[architecture] mosaic tile; small abacus."

In step 102 the communication terminal maintains predetermined camera means for scanning two-dimensional data comprising text.

In step 103, the user inputs a scan request of the two-dimensional data through a predetermined menu of the communication terminal. For example, the user may find a word that is difficult to interpret in a document including an English letter, and input a scan request for the word through the menu of the communication terminal to request descriptive data about the word. .

In step 104, the communication terminal receives an input of the scan request from the user, and performs scanning of the two-dimensional data using the camera means.

In step 105, the communication terminal generates a scanned image according to the scanning.

In step 106, the communication terminal identifies a character corresponding to the generated scanned image through a predetermined character recognition module. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the identified character may be recorded in a predetermined storage space.

The character recognition module may include a memory device, a recognition processing device, and an output device. The memory device may store an operation control program for controlling the recognition processing device and a character for identifying a character included in a scanned image. The recognition processing device recognizes a character having the highest match by comparing a character included in the scan image with the character stored in the memory under the control of the arithmetic control program stored in the memory device. The output device may output the recognized character as an American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) code, a Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) code, or an Extended Binary coded Decimal Interchange (EBCDIC) code that can be read by the communication terminal. Can be.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the identified characters may include one or more characters, and the communication terminal provides the user with a user interface for receiving a selection of any one of the words consisting of the characters, Any word may be input from the user through the user interface.

3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a user interface for receiving a selection for any one character according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the user may select and input one of the words “Nominated” which is one of the words “Persident Bush today nominated Whith House counseling harriet miers to replace retiring” through the user interface of the communication terminal. .

Further, according to another embodiment of the present invention, the communication terminal may receive a predetermined area of the scan image from the user and identify a character corresponding to the area. It will be described below with reference to FIG.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of identifying a character corresponding to an area by receiving a predetermined area of a scan image according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In step 401, the communication terminal provides the user with a user interface for receiving an area corresponding to the text included in the scan image.

In step 402, the user inputs an area corresponding to the text included in the scanned image through the user interface. For example, the user may input an area including the character “nominated” in the scanned image through the user interface.

In step 403 the communication terminal receives an input of the area from the user via the user interface.

In step 404, the communication terminal identifies the character corresponding to the area through the character recognition module. For example, the communication terminal may identify a character “nominated” corresponding to the area of the scan image through the character recognition module.

Referring back to FIG. 1, in step 107, the communication terminal searches for a word composed of the letters by referring to the electronic dictionary database. In one example, the communication terminal searches for a word consisting of the character "nominated" by referring to the electronic dictionary database.

In step 108, the communication terminal refers to the electronic dictionary database, reads description data of the searched word and displays it on predetermined display means.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen displaying descriptive data about a word according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in Fig. 5, the communication terminal nominates [recommend] the description data "[namaneit / nom] 1. [person] according to the retrieved word" nominate ". Can be displayed on the display means and provided to the user.

According to the present invention, when the communication terminal receives a text input from the user, the communication terminal can provide the user with the text recorded in the storage means. It will be described below with reference to FIG.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of character input according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, in step 601, the user inputs text through a user interface provided from the communication terminal to receive text. The user interface may be a user interface for text input such as a short message service (SMS), a multi message service (MMS), a schedule, or the like.

In step 602, the communication terminal receives an input of the text from the user via the user interface.

In step 603 the user enters a text request query requesting text stored in the storage means. As described above, the storage means may record one or more characters identified through the character recognition module. The text request query may be a query for requesting the text recorded in the storage means.

In step 604, the communication terminal receives the text request query from the user, reads one or more characters recorded in the storage means and displays them on the display means.

In step 605, the user selects and inputs any one of the displayed characters.

In step 606 the communication terminal receives a selection input of the text from the user and displays it on the display means.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen displaying a character recorded in a storage means and receiving one character among the displayed characters, according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in Fig. 7, the communication terminal displays one or more characters " nominated, counsel, terminal, bunch, …… " recorded in the storage means according to the text request query received from the user on the display means. (Refer to (a) of FIG. 6), and receives a selection input for "bunch" among the characters displayed from the user, and displays the selected character "bunch" on the display means (see FIG. 6 (b)). can do.

8 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 8, the communication terminal 800 includes an electronic dictionary database 810, a camera means 820, a scanning execution unit 830, a character recognition management unit 840, a user interface 845, and description data. Study 850.

The electronic dictionary database 810 of the communication terminal 800 records one or more words corresponding to a predetermined language and description data of the words. The language may be any one of languages that can be represented by letters such as Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, Chinese, or French.

Camera means 820 scans two-dimensional data comprising text.

When the scan request of the two-dimensional data is input from the user, the scanning execution unit 830 performs scanning on the two-dimensional data by using the camera means 820, and generates a scanned image according to the scanning.

The character recognition management unit 840 identifies a character corresponding to the generated scanned image through a predetermined character recognition module, and searches for a word composed of the identified characters with reference to the electronic dictionary database 810. The identified letter may comprise one or more letters.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the character recognition management unit 840 includes a user interface 845, the user interface 845 may receive a selection of any one of the words consisting of the letter from the user.

The description data providing unit 850 reads description data of the searched word and displays the description data on predetermined display means.

The operating method of the communication terminal according to the present invention can be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer means and recorded in a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic disks, such as floppy disks. Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. The medium may be a transmission medium such as an optical or metal wire, a waveguide, or the like including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal specifying a program command, a data structure, or the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

As described above, although the present invention has been described with reference to limited embodiments and drawings, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains various modifications and variations from such descriptions. This is possible.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined not only by the claims below but also by the equivalents of the claims.

By using a predetermined camera means according to the present invention to scan a character to generate a scanned image, to identify the character recorded in the generated scan image, to search for a word corresponding to the identified character, according to the searched word The commentary can be displayed on predetermined display means.

In addition, the present invention may provide convenience to a user by inputting a character by scanning two-dimensional data including the character without directly inputting the character.

Claims (7)

In the operating method of a communication terminal having an electronic dictionary function, Maintaining an electronic dictionary database that records one or more words corresponding to a given language and descriptive data for the words; Maintaining predetermined camera means for scanning two-dimensional data comprising text; When a scan request for the two-dimensional data is input from a user, performing scanning on the two-dimensional data by using the camera means, and generating a scanned image according to the scanning; Identifying a character corresponding to the generated scanned image through a predetermined character recognition module; Searching for the word composed of the letters by referring to the electronic dictionary database; And Reading the description data of the searched word and displaying it on predetermined display means Method of operation of a communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 1, The identified character corresponding to the generated scanned image through the character recognition module includes one or more characters, Providing a user interface for receiving a selection of any one of the words composed of the letters to the user, and receiving one word from the user through the user interface Method of operation of a communication terminal further comprising. The method of claim 1, And the language is one of Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, Chinese, and French. The method of claim 1, The step of identifying a character corresponding to the generated scan image through the character recognition module, Recording the identified characters into a predetermined storage means More, Receiving text from the user through a second user interface for text input; Receiving a text request query for requesting text stored in the storage means from the user, and displaying one or more characters recorded in the storage means on the display means; And Receiving a selection input for any one of the texts from the user Method of operation of a communication terminal comprising a. A computer-readable recording medium in which a program for executing the method of any one of claims 1 to 4 is recorded. In a communication terminal having an electronic dictionary function, An electronic dictionary database for recording one or more words corresponding to a given language and descriptive data for the words; Camera means for scanning two-dimensional data comprising text; A scanning execution unit configured to scan the two-dimensional data by using the camera means when a scan request of the two-dimensional data is input from a user, and generate a scan image according to the scanning; A character recognition manager for identifying a character corresponding to the generated scanned image through a predetermined character recognition module and searching for a word composed of the character by referring to the electronic dictionary database; And Description data providing unit for reading out description data of the searched word and displaying the description data on a predetermined display means. Communication terminal comprising a. The method of claim 6, The identified character corresponding to the generated scanned image through the character recognition module includes one or more characters, The character recognition management unit, And a user interface for receiving a selection of any one of the words consisting of the characters from the user.

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