JPH0351958A - Electronic dictionary - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the operability at the time of retrieval by inputting a character or character string which is displayed on the screen of a display means and retrieving an object dictionary. CONSTITUTION:A display buffer 7 stored with character information regarding a display on the display part 5, a buffer 8 stored with the character or character string in a range specified with a cursor as to the character or character string stored in the buffer 7, a register 9 stored with cursor coordinates, and a register 10 stored with the head character coordinates of the character or character string specified with the cursor are connected to a processing part 7. Further, a register 11 stored with the final character coordinates of the character string specified with the cursor and a flag FLG indicating the completion/incompletion state of the cursor specification are connected. When the character or character string displayed on the screen of the display means is specified as a retrieval result, the character or character string regarding the specification becomes an object of the retrieval in the dictionary by a retrieval means. Consequently, when retrieval is performed again by using the retrieval result as an object of retrieval, the trouble of input operation is eliminated and the operability is improved.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an electronic dictionary that searches a dictionary storing character linguistic information based on input characters or character strings.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, electronic dictionaries have been used that search dictionaries that store textual and linguistic information using desired characters or character strings and display the search results.

Such electronic dictionaries have a fixed or removable built-in dictionary that stores text language information, and an input means such as a keyboard for inputting desired characters or character strings, and input means for inputting desired characters or character strings. A search means for performing a dictionary search and a display means such as a liquid crystal display for displaying the search results are provided.

For example, if the dictionary is a so-called English-Japanese dictionary, which has character language information related to conversion from English to Japanese, the search means can be searched by inputting an English word etc. using an input means such as a keyboard. A search of the dictionary is performed, and the search results, for example, linguistic information such as the meaning of the input English word, are displayed on the screen of a display means such as a liquid crystal display.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, in the conventional electronic dictionary having such a configuration, when attempting to search the dictionary using characters or character strings obtained as a search result, There is a problem in that the search results must be input using an input means.

Therefore, the operability during searching was not very good.

The present invention has been made with the aim of solving these problems, and provides an electronic dictionary that eliminates the trouble of inputting data and improves operability when re-searching based on search results. The purpose is to provide

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a designation means for designating a character or character string displayed on the screen of a display means, and a character or character string designated by the designation means. and an importing means for importing a character string, and when a search instruction is given after specification by the specifying means, the character or character string imported by the importing means is searched for, and the retrieval means searches the dictionary. It is characterized by searching.

[Operation] In the electronic dictionary of the present invention, after specifying a character or character string displayed on the screen of the display means as a search result, the character or character string related to this designation is taken in by the taking means. The characters or character strings imported by the importing means are searched in a dictionary by the searching means. Therefore, the search means searches the dictionary for the character or character string specified by the designation means.

[Example] Embodiments of the present invention will be described below based on the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an electronic dictionary according to an embodiment of the present invention.

An input unit 1 such as a keyboard for inputting desired characters or character strings is connected to a human buffer 2 that temporarily stores the characters or character strings input to the input unit 1, and a processing unit 3 according to the characteristics of the present invention. A display control section 4 for controlling screen display and a display section 5 such as a liquid crystal display for displaying search results are sequentially connected to the processing section 3.

A dictionary that stores text language information is connected to the processing unit 3, and in this embodiment, an English-Japanese dictionary 6 that stores Japanese information corresponding to English information is adopted as the dictionary. .

Further, the processing unit 3 includes a display buffer BUF7 for storing character information related to display on the display unit 5, and a display buffer BUF7 for storing character information related to display on the display unit 5.
Among the character strings stored in UF 7, buffer STR8 stores characters or character strings within the range specified by the cursor, register 9 stores cursor coordinates CX, and first character coordinates PXI of the character string specified by the cursor. , and a register 11 that similarly stores the final character coordinates PX2 of the character string specified by the cursor.
, and a flag FLG indicating completion/incomplete of cursor specification
Registers 12 storing the information are connected to each other.

Next, the operation of the electronic dictionary according to this embodiment will be explained using FIG. 2.

FIG. 2 shows the flow of operation of this embodiment.

First, a desired character or character string is input using the input unit 1 (1 0 1). In this embodiment, since an English-Japanese dictionary 6 is installed as a dictionary, the characters or character strings input through the input section 1 are alphabetic characters or character strings.

Next, the English-Japanese dictionary 6 is searched based on the character or character string input by the input unit 1 (1 0
2). The results of this search are stored in the BUF7 (
103), displayed on the screen on the display unit 5 (10
4).

The above is a search operation that is also performed in conventional electronic dictionaries, but following this, a search operation that is a feature of the present invention is performed.

First, the cursor position on the display screen of the display unit 5 is initialized (1 0 5). Initializing the cursor here means setting the cursor coordinate CX to, for example, l,
For example, moving the cursor display to the left edge of the screen. At the same time, a flag FLG related to cursor designation, which will be described later, is also set to 0.

After the cursor initialization 105 is performed, the input waiting state (1 0 6) is temporarily established. This input waiting step 106 continues until a key input of either the cursor key →- or the "execute" key is detected from the input unit 1.

Here, in the input section 1, if "1" is input, it is determined whether the value obtained by adding 1 to the current cursor coordinate CX is less than or equal to the number of digits displayed on the display section 5, for example 10. (1 0 7), if this condition is not met, the process returns to the input holder 106, and only when this condition is met, "1" is added to the current cursor coordinate CX.
'' is added (108), and the cursor display is shifted one digit to the right.

In the input waiting state 106, if “←1” is input in the input unit 1, the current cursor coordinate C
It is determined whether the number obtained by subtracting 1 from X is 1 or more (109), and if this condition is not met, the process returns to the input waiting step 106, and here it is determined that the condition is met. , the current cursor coordinates CX
After "1" is subtracted from (1 1 0) and the cursor display is shifted one digit to the left, the input holder 106
Return to

In the input waiting state 106, “
If ``execute'' is input, it is determined whether FLG is 0 (1 1 1), and if O is set in FLG, the first character coordinates are subsequently set.

This setting of the first character coordinates is performed by storing the current cursor coordinate Cx in the register 10 as the first character coordinate PXI (1 1 2), and then the flag FL
1 is set in G (1 1 3).

After this, the process returns to the input waiting step 106 again.

After the first character coordinates are set, the input section 1
When “execute” is input from , the flag FLG
is 1, and it is determined in the determination 111 that FLG is not O. In this case, the final character coordinates PX2 are subsequently set. To set the final character coordinates PX2, the current cursor coordinates CX stored in the register 9 are transferred to the register 1l, and the final character coordinates PX2
(1 1 4).

Then, O is set in the flag FLG (1 1
5).

In this way, the first character coordinate PXI and the last character coordinate PX
After the settings in step 2 are completed, “Execute” is input (1
1 6), the dictionary 6 is searched based on the first character coordinates PXI and the last character coordinates PX2. Prior to this search, the first character coordinate PXI is set to the final character coordinate PXI.
It is determined whether it is less than or equal to X2, and as a result of this determination,
If it is determined that the first character coordinate PXI is greater than the final character coordinate PX2, the process returns to the input holder 106 and the final character coordinate PX2 is re-inputted.

In other words, this determination conditions the size relationship between the first and last character coordinates PX1 and PX2, and within this range, this first character is determined only when it is determined that the first character coordinate PXI is less than or equal to the last character coordinate PX2. Coordinate PX
The English-Japanese dictionary 6 is searched using the character or character string specified by 1 and the final character coordinates PX2.

That is, the first character coordinate PXI and the last character coordinate P
The character or character string on BUFT specified by X2 is stored in STR8 (1 1 8), and the processing unit 3
searches the English-Japanese dictionary 6 (1 1 9).

According to the electronic dictionary according to the present embodiment having such a structure, it is possible to use the characters or character strings displayed on the screen of the display unit 5 as search results without having to input the characters or character strings again. It is possible to search the English-Japanese dictionary 6.

For example, when the English word "get" is input in the input 101, the English-Japanese dictionary 6 is searched based on this English word "get" and the search results obtained are stored in the BUF etc. and displayed on the display section 5. It is displayed on the display screen as shown in FIG. 3 (a). In this case, the search results include the Japanese translation of the input English word "get" and English information such as similar words, antonyms, and example sentences. Among these, when re-searching with a similar word, for example "win", cursor 1
3 as appropriate using the cursor keys 1, 1, -”,
First, position the cursor 13 on the first character "W",
Input the “Execute” key, move the cursor 13 further, and “
Position the cursor 13 on "n" and click "Execute" in the same way.
Press the key.

Then, the cursor coordinates CX related to the position of "W" are set as the first character coordinates PXI, and the cursor coordinates CX of "n" are set as the final character coordinates PX2, and specified by these first character coordinates PX1 and final character coordinates PX2. character or string of characters, i.e. “win”,
It is stored in the STR8. Therefore, when the "execute" key is pressed to specify a search, the English-Japanese dictionary 6 is searched for the character string "win" stored in the STR 8, and the display on the display section 5 is The search results are displayed on the screen as shown in FIG. 3 (b).

In this embodiment, the installed dictionary is the English-Japanese dictionary 6, but it may be another type of dictionary. In addition, although the display screen of the display unit 5 is a one-dimensional display screen, it may also be a two-dimensional display screen. In this case, the cursor coordinates are set in the y direction in addition to the cursor coordinates CX in the X direction. The cursor coordinates CY are used to display the first character coordinates and the last character coordinates are displayed using the y-direction coordinates P.
It is sufficient to represent it using Y1 and PY2 and add corresponding registers. In this case as well, effects similar to those of this embodiment can be obtained.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the electronic dictionary of the present invention, a character or character string obtained in a search can be specified and a dictionary can be searched using the specified character or character string as a search target.
There is no need to newly input the displayed search results from the input means, and operability is significantly improved.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing the structure of an electronic dictionary according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of this embodiment, and Fig. 3 is a diagram showing an example of display in the embodiment. be. Input section processing section display section English-Japanese dictionary BUF STR O, 11.12

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A dictionary for storing textual and linguistic information, an input means for inputting characters or character strings, a search means for searching the dictionary, and a display means for displaying the search results by the search means. , an electronic dictionary that searches the dictionary for characters or character strings input by the input means, comprising: a designation means for designating characters or character strings displayed on the screen of the display means; and the designation means and an importing means for importing characters or character strings specified by, when a search instruction is given after specification by the specifying means, searching for the characters or character strings imported by the importing means. An electronic dictionary characterized in that the dictionary is searched by the search means.