JPH0991293A - Dictionary display method and device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Problem] To enable good use of the dictionary function even in the document display function. SOLUTION: A stroke entered in an input means 2 is detected by a discriminator 6, and its position information and data from a document memory 5 are supplied to a character string discriminator 7, and a word of a designated character string and its word are output. The position is determined. The determined word is supplied to the dictionary management unit 8. Further, information on the determined position is supplied to the operation menu display unit 9, and the image memory 1
A signal from 0 is supplied to the display drive unit 3, and a menu image representing an operation item is displayed on the display means 1 in correspondence with the instructed character string. Then, when the "dictionary" item on the display is pressed, the dictionary 11 is searched according to the word supplied to the dictionary management unit 8.
Is retrieved and the data is supplied to the display drive circuit 3 through the dictionary item display section 12. By this, the display means 1
Then, the dictionary item of the search result is fitted into the image for displaying the dictionary item from the image memory 10 and the window display is performed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dictionary display method and device suitable for use in, for example, a portable information terminal device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, in a portable information terminal device, an input means such as a so-called touch panel is provided in close contact with a display means such as a liquid crystal display, and these are used to display and input information. There is.

In such a device, a dictionary function is further incorporated. So, in such a device, for example, when an arbitrary document is displayed,
When the meaning of a word in the document is unknown, the meaning of the word can be displayed on the display means by using the built-in dictionary function.

However, in such a conventional device, the document display function and the dictionary function are generally separated. Therefore, in order to know the meaning of a word, it is necessary to activate the dictionary function and then input the word whose meaning you want to know again, and it is not possible to display the meaning of the word easily. .

On the other hand, it is possible to select a word on the display function of the document and search the dictionary function with the selected word. However, in this case, in the conventional device, when the dictionary function is activated, the entire display is switched to the display of the dictionary function, and the dictionary cannot be drawn while referring to the document.

Further, when the dictionary function is used, it is necessary to set the type of dictionary such as a Japanese dictionary or an English-Japanese dictionary in the conventional device first. However, for example, when the selected word is formed by kanji and kana, or when it is formed by alphabet, the type of dictionary used is naturally limited.

[0007]

This application was made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and the problem to be solved is that the conventional device has a good dictionary function in the document display function. It was that they could not be used.

[0008]

Therefore, in the present invention, a window is opened by designating a word in a displayed document, and a display relating to a dictionary item of the designated word is performed in this window. It was done,
According to this, the dictionary function can be satisfactorily used even in the document display function.

[0009]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION That is, according to the present invention, a document is displayed and means for designating a word in the document is provided. The display is related to the item.

In the present invention, display means for displaying a document and input means for inputting an arbitrary instruction are provided.
A detection unit that determines an instruction input to the input unit to detect a word in a document displayed on the display unit, a window forming unit that forms an arbitrary window by detecting the word and displays the window on the display unit, and a dictionary. And a search means for searching the dictionary according to the detected word, and the dictionary items of the search result are displayed in the window.

The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an example of a portable information terminal device to which the dictionary display method and device according to the present invention are applied.

In FIG. 1, an input means 2 such as a so-called touch panel is provided in close contact with a display means 1 composed of, for example, a liquid crystal display. Also, this display means 1
Is driven by a display drive unit 3 including a window control means described later to perform display. Then, the display driving circuit 3 is supplied with data for forming an arbitrary document from the document memory 4 through the document display unit 5, so that the arbitrary document from the document memory 4 can be displayed, for example, as shown in FIG. It is displayed on the display unit 1.

The stroke is entered on the input means 2 by using a pen as shown in FIG. 2B, and the stroke is detected by the discriminating section 6. Then, the information on the position where the above-mentioned stroke is discriminated by the stroke discriminating unit 6 is supplied to the character string discriminating unit 7. Further, the character string discriminating unit 7 is supplied with data from the above-mentioned document memory 5, for example. by this,
The word of the character string displayed at the position where the stroke is entered and the display position thereof are determined. The words detected by the character string discriminating unit 7 are supplied to a dictionary management unit 8 described later.

Further, information on the position of the character string judged by the character string judging section 7 is supplied to the operation menu display section 9. Here, the operation menu display unit 9 is provided with an image memory 10 that stores a display image such as an arbitrary menu image for an interface with the user, and displays an image required according to each function. It is supposed to be done.
Then, by supplying a signal from the operation menu display unit 9 to the display drive unit 3, for example, a menu image representing an operation item as shown in A of FIG. 3 corresponds to the character string in which the stroke is written. And displayed on the display unit 1.

That is, in this case, the menu image from the operation menu display unit 9 is displayed as a window in the display of an arbitrary document from the document memory 4 described above. Here, the menu image representing the operation item from the operation menu display unit 9 includes an image signal forming a display and a signal indicating the display range. Then, by supplying these signals to the display drive unit 3, the display of an arbitrary document from the document memory 4 corresponding to the above-mentioned display range is deleted on the display means 1, and the display of this document is deleted. A so-called window display is performed by inserting the menu image in the portion.

Further, in the display of the menu image, when the item "dictionary" is pressed with a pen as shown in FIG. 3B, the so-called dictionary function is activated. That is, in this dictionary function, the character string discriminating unit 7 described above is used.
The dictionary 11 is searched according to the word supplied from the dictionary management unit 8 to the display drive circuit 3 through the dictionary item display unit 12 with the meaning and reading of the word in the search result, data such as a word corresponding to another language. . In addition, although the respective functions are executed in the items of "Search" and "Marker",
These functions are well known and will not be described.

As a result, in the display means 1, for example, an image for displaying a dictionary item as shown in A of FIG. 4 is taken out from the image memory 10 and displayed at the position where the above-mentioned menu image was displayed. It Then, in the display image of the dictionary item, as shown in, for example, B and C of FIG. 4, the part of speech, the reading, the meaning of the word, the word corresponding to another language, and the like of the search result are displayed. Even in this case,
The display image of the dictionary item is embedded in the deleted portion of the display of the document to display the window. Further, “Δ ▽” on the right side of the image is for scrolling the dictionary item being displayed.

That is, in the above-mentioned example, a sentence "... A 21st century world wide depression ..." in an arbitrary document displayed on the display means 1, for example, as shown in FIG. 2B, for example, when a stroke is written in the word "world" as shown in B of FIG. 2, the operation item as shown in A of FIG. 3 is corresponding to the character string in which the stroke is written. The menu image of is displayed.

In this menu image, when the item "dictionary" is pressed with a pen as shown in FIG. 3B, for example, an image for displaying dictionary items as shown in A of FIG. 4 is displayed. It is displayed, and further in this image, for example, FIG.
As shown in No. B, part of speech "noun", reading "sekai",
Meaning of word Dictionary items such as "everything in the world, the world" are displayed.

When the (English) display in this image is pressed with a pen, for example, as shown in FIG. 4C, the part of speech "noun", the reading "sekai", and the word "corresponding to another language" are displayed. the world; <earth> the earth; <universe> the univers
Dictionary items such as "e" are displayed. In addition, when the display of (Country) is pressed with the pen in the image of C of FIG. 4, the original image of FIG.
The display is returned to B.

Therefore, in this apparatus, it is possible to open a window by designating a word in the displayed document and perform a display relating to the dictionary item of the designated word in this window. Then, according to this, it is possible to solve the problem that the dictionary function could not be properly used in the document display function.

That is, in this apparatus, by selecting a word on the display function of the document, the dictionary item of the word is displayed in a window in the document. As a result, the dictionary can be looked up while referring to the document, so that the dictionary function can be used very well in the document display function.

In the above-mentioned device, the reading "sekai" in the dictionary item is displayed as so-called ruby along with the word in the document as shown in A of FIG. 5, for example, and the remaining dictionary items are displayed on the opposite side. Can also be displayed in a window.
Further, in this case, the positions of the ruby and the dictionary item window display may be turned upside down as shown in FIG. 5B.

Further, also in the above-mentioned embodiments of FIGS. 2 to 4, the position of the window display may be turned upside down. The positions of these window displays may be arbitrarily selected by the user, or may be automatically moved in accordance with the displayed position of the selected word in the document.

Further, the stroke for selecting a word in the above-mentioned document is not limited to the method of drawing a straight line as shown in A of FIG. 2 described above, and is selected as shown in FIG. 6, for example. The selection may be performed by surrounding the word with a line drawn with a pen.

Further, in the above-mentioned device, even when the document is an English sentence, by instructing a word in the same manner as described above, a menu image is displayed in a window as shown in A of FIG. 7, and a "dictionary" operation is performed. By pressing an item with a pen, an image of the dictionary item can be displayed in a window as shown in FIG. 7B.

In this case, the dictionary searched by the dictionary function is, for example, an English-Japanese dictionary when the designated word is English. That is, in this case, it is possible to determine whether the designated word is Japanese or English and select the type of dictionary to be searched according to the determination result.

Therefore, FIG. 8 shows an example of a flow chart of the processing for selecting the type of the above-mentioned dictionary. This Figure 8
First, in step [1], the output language (O) is determined. This output language is, for example, a global variable specified in the initial setting of the device, and can be discriminated from the setting items. Next, the attribute of the word designated in step [2] = input language (I) is determined.

Here, the input language (I) can be discriminated by the processing of the flowchart shown in FIG. 9, for example. That is, in step [11] of FIG. 9, the ratio of each character forming the designated word is calculated.
Next, in step [12], the ratio occupied by each character is added for each language to calculate the heuristic for each language.

In Japanese, the heuristic of Japanese is the sum of the proportion of kanji, the proportion of hiragana and the proportion of katakana. Also, in English, the proportion of the alphabet becomes an English heuristic. Then, in step [13], the language in which these calculated heuristics are maximum is determined as the attribute of the designated word = input language (I).

Further, based on the input language (I) and the output language (O) discriminated in step [3] of FIG. 8, a list of dictionaries selected using a dictionary database as shown in FIG. 10 is created. To be done. That is, in this dictionary database, the corresponding input language, output language, and frequency of use are described for each selectable dictionary name. Therefore, in step [3], a list of dictionaries having the same input language and output language is created.

Then, the dictionary selected in step [4] of FIG. 8 is sorted according to the frequency of use described later, and the dictionary items are displayed according to the list sorted in step [5]. Further, the frequency of use of the dictionary displayed in step [6] is increased. As a result, the type of dictionary to be searched is selected according to the determination result, and the most effective dictionary item at that time is displayed.

When the document is formed by so-called Unicode, the calculation of the ratio of each character forming the word can be performed for each language determined by the code. Also, the attributes of words are not limited to language,
For example, in the case of a word with only katakana, it is possible to perform processing so as to search a dictionary of foreign words. Further, the attribute discrimination and dictionary selection processing can be performed by the attribute discrimination unit 13 and the attribute database 14 in the apparatus shown in FIG.

Thus, according to the above-mentioned dictionary display method and apparatus, the document is displayed and means for designating a word in the document is provided, and a window is opened by designating the word, and at least the word is displayed in this window. By performing the display related to the dictionary item, the dictionary function can be satisfactorily used even in the document display function.

[0035]

According to the present invention, a window is opened by designating a word in a displayed document, and a display of the document is performed by performing a display related to the dictionary item of the designated word in this window. You can now make good use of the dictionary function even when you are working.

Therefore, according to the present invention, by selecting a word on the display function of the document, the dictionary item of the word is displayed in a window in the document. As a result, the dictionary can be looked up while referring to the document, so that the dictionary function can be used very well in the document display function.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an example of a mobile information terminal device to which a dictionary display method and device according to the present invention are applied.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining this.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining this.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining this.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining this.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining this.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining this.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining another example of the dictionary display method and device according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining the explanation.

FIG. 10 is a diagram for the explanation.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Display means including, for example, a liquid crystal display 2 Input means such as a touch panel 3 Display drive section including window control means 4 Document memory 5 Document display section 6 Stroke determination section 7 Character string determination section 8 Dictionary management section 9 Operation menu display section 10 Image Memory 11 Dictionary 12 Dictionary item display unit 13 Attribute determination unit 14 Attribute database

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A document is displayed and has means for indicating a word in the document. By indicating the word, a window is opened, and a display relating to at least the dictionary item of the word is displayed in the window. A dictionary display method characterized by performing. 2. The dictionary display method according to claim 1, wherein an arbitrary operation item including at least selection of a dictionary item of the word is displayed in the window, and the dictionary of the word is selected by selecting the operation item. A dictionary display method characterized in that items are displayed. 3. The dictionary display method according to claim 1, wherein in the window, the dictionary item of the word is directly displayed and any operation item other than selection of the dictionary item of the word is displayed. A dictionary display method characterized by the above. 4. The dictionary display method according to claim 1, wherein the attribute of the designated word is discriminated, and the type of the displayed dictionary is changed according to the discriminated attribute. Method. 5. A display means for displaying a document and an input means for inputting an arbitrary instruction are provided, and an instruction input to the input means is discriminated to detect a word in the document displayed on the display means. And a window forming means for forming an arbitrary window by detecting the word and displaying it on the display means, a dictionary, and a searching means for searching the dictionary according to the detected word, A dictionary display device, which displays dictionary items as search results in the window. 6. The dictionary display device according to claim 5, further comprising a determination unit that determines the attribute of the detected word, and the type of the dictionary is changed according to the attribute of the determined word. Dictionary display device.