JPH03116266A - electronic dictionary - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an electronic dictionary, and more particularly to an electronic dictionary in which variable information areas are provided for all words existing in the dictionary.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, electronic dictionaries have converted kana character strings into kanji or words in other languages.

Or, kanji or words in other languages were converted into kana character strings.

[Problem to be solved by the invention] However, such electronic dictionaries only replace strings of characters, and cannot provide information about the word, that is, whether or not the word has been used before. .

As a result, he would repeat the same words over and over again.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and displays the number of usages stored for each word during word conversion, so that the operator can pay attention to the converted word by looking at the number of usages. The purpose is to avoid using the same word repeatedly.

[Means for Solving the Problem] In order to achieve this object, the electronic dictionary of the present invention, as illustrated in FIG. input means M2 for
It includes word conversion means M3 for converting the word, and storage means M4 for storing the number of times the conversion has been performed.

[Operation] The electronic dictionary of the present invention having the above configuration has an input means M2.
The input character string is converted by the word conversion means M3, and along with the number of times stored in the storage means M4,
The display means M1 displays the characters and the number of times.

[Example] Hereinafter, an example embodying the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram showing the configuration of the electronic dictionary.

As shown in the figure, the electronic dictionary of this embodiment includes a character input device 3 (for example, a keyboard, etc.) for inputting characters to be converted;
It includes a display screen 2 (for example, a liquid crystal screen, CRT, etc.) for displaying input and converted characters, and an electronic control device 10 for controlling character input and conversion 1 display.

The electronic control device 10 is configured as an arithmetic and logic operation circuit, and includes a well-known CPU II, ROM 12, and RAM 1B, as well as a display control circuit 14 that displays characters, etc. on the display screen 2.
A character input control circuit 15 for capturing characters input from the character input device 3 is also incorporated.

The character input device 3 connected to the character input control circuit 15 includes a part 3 for manually inputting characters and numbers (for example, a keyboard, handwritten input, images, etc.), a function key 32 for converting character strings, etc. There is.

Regarding the character conversion operation of the electronic dictionary having the above configuration,
The explanation will be made according to the control program stored in the ROM 12 in advance.

As shown in FIG. 3, words supported by the electronic dictionary are given numbers by a table in the ROM 12 (word number table 121).

Further, in the RAM 13, there is a table showing the number of times the word has been drawn in the order of the number.

Next, the process will be explained according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

When the character string to be converted is input (step 50
1. Hereinafter, step will be abbreviated as S. ) CPUI 1 is
A conversion table in the ROM 12 is searched for the same character string (S502). If there is no matching string (
350B), display the input characters as they are (S
509) Finish.

If a matching string is found, the ROM shown in Figure 3 mentioned above
Extract the word number from the word number table 121 in I2 (
S504). RAM1B information table 1 from the retrieved number
Extract the number of times drawn so far from 31 (S 505
). The converted words are output to the display screen 2 via the display control circuit 14 shown in FIG. 2 (S506). Next, in the same manner, the retrieved usage count is output to the display screen 2 (S 5
07).

After the display ends, the number of times in the converted word column of the information table 131 in the RAM 13 is incremented by 1 and written (S508). FIG. 4 is an example of a screen display, FIG. 4A is an example of a display on an electronic dictionary dedicated machine, and FIG. 4B is an example of a display on a general personal computer.

[Effects of the Invention] As is clear from the detailed description above, according to the present invention, by displaying the number of times a word has been drawn, attention is paid to the word drawn, so there is a learning effect, and it is possible to learn the same word repeatedly. This reduces the amount of time it takes to replace characters when translating sentences.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

1 to 5 show embodiments embodying the present invention. FIG. 1 is a diagram corresponding to the claims of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram of this embodiment, and FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example table, FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a screen display of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
The figure is a flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 2 is a display screen, 3 is a character input device, and 11 is a CPU.
, 12 is ROM, 13 is RAM, 121 is word number table,
131 is an information table. Figure 3 Figure 5 696-

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Input means for inputting kana characters, English words, or kanji; and converting input kana character strings into English words or kanji, or converting English words or kanji into kana character strings. a converting means; a display means for displaying a character; a use count storage means for storing the fact that the converted word has been used; and a use count storage means for storing the converted word at the same time when the converted word is displayed by the use count storage means. An electronic dictionary comprising a number display means for displaying the number of times that has been stored.