JPS624749B2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

The present invention has a storage means for storing a plurality of pairs of a word and information related to the word, and when the word is input by operating a character input key, the information associated with the input word is determined based on the input content. The present invention relates to an electronic dictionary configured to output information about a selected word, and in particular, the electronic dictionary includes a selected word storage means and an arbitrary word from among the plurality of words stored in the storage means. means for selecting a word and storing information in one-to-one correspondence with the selected word in the selected word storage means; and a word corresponding to the information stored in the selected word storage means or information related to the word. The present invention provides an electronic dictionary characterized by being provided with means for instructing output. An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The embodiment described below is an example in which the present invention is implemented in an electronic English-Japanese dictionary. FIG. 1 is a plan view showing the external appearance of this embodiment, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the main circuit configuration of the same embodiment. In the figure, 1 is a key input device, and 2 is a display section. Reference numeral 3 denotes an alphabet key provided for inputting an English word, and 4 a Japanese translation instruction key for instructing display of the translation of the English word input by operating the alphabet key 3. 5 is based on the operation of alphabet key 3,
A key encoder circuit outputs a corresponding character code, and 6 is an input English word storage register that sequentially stores the character codes output from the key encoder circuit 5 on its output side. The contents of the input English word storage register 6 are displayed on the display section 2 via the display control circuit 7. On the other hand, 8 is
(1) an English word, (2) a Japanese word or phrase (translation) that is synonymous with the English word, and (3) a declension of the above English word (past of an irregular declension verb, past participle, etc.). , a word information storage unit 9 that stores a plurality of sets, is an address selection circuit of the word information storage unit 8. Reference numeral 10 denotes a search circuit that operates based on the operation of the Japanese translation instruction key 4 and searches for an area in which information regarding the English word inputted into the input English word storage register 6 is stored. The operation causes the address selection circuit 9 to be set with an address specifying an area where information regarding the input English word is stored.
11, 12, and 13 are words provided for temporarily storing English words, translations, and variations of the English words output from the word information storage section 8 after the search operation by the search circuit 10 is completed, respectively. This is a register for temporarily storing information, and 14 is a control circuit that performs control to input the word information output from the word information storage section 8 into the corresponding register. 15 is the register 11, 12 or 13
This gate circuit controls which one of the outputs is transmitted to the display control circuit 7. The gate circuit 1
5 is configured to be controlled to transmit the output from the translated word storage register 12 to the display control circuit 7 based on a signal output by operating the Japanese translation instruction key 4. On the other hand, the Japanese translation instruction key 4
Based on the signal output from the display control circuit 7
is controlled to output a display signal based on the content output from the gate circuit 15 instead of a display signal based on the content output from the input English word storage register 6. 16 is the word information temporary storage register 1
This is a display information selection key provided for specifying which of the English words, translations, or variation words input in 1, 12, or 13 is to be displayed. That is,
When the spell key 17 is operated while the respective information is temporarily stored in each register, the English words stored in the register 11 are displayed on the display section 2. Further, when the translation key 18 is operated, the translation stored in the register 12 is displayed on the display section 2. Furthermore, inflectional word key 1
9 is operated, the change word stored in the register 13 is displayed on the display section 2. Reference numeral 20 denotes a control signal generation circuit that outputs a control signal corresponding to the operated key based on the operation of the display information selection key 17, 18 or 19. Based on the control signal, control is performed to transmit the contents of the register corresponding to the operated display information selection key to the display control circuit 7. On the other hand, 21 is a selected word storage register, and in this embodiment, address information specifying an area where information related to the selected word is stored is stored.
The selected word is stored by storing it in the selected word storage register 21. 22 is a mark key for instructing storage of address information of a selected word. Based on the operation of this mark key 22, the control signal generation circuit 23
Since the control signal _C1 is generated and the gate circuit 24 is turned on by this signal _C1 , the contents of the address selection circuit 9 at that time (the address of the word currently being displayed) are stored in the selected word storage register 21. will be forwarded to. The selected word storage register 21 is a shift register having a capacity to store n pieces of address information, and when the mark key 22 is operated, the stored contents are shifted to one higher address and the gate circuit 24 is activated. The address information inputted via the address information is stored at address 1. Therefore, the number of input address information is n
When the number of addresses exceeds 1, old address information is sequentially deleted. In this way, each time the mark key 22 is operated, address information specifying the area where information regarding the word being displayed is stored is input and stored in the selected word storage register 21 (hereinafter, this will be referred to as the mark key 22). mark the word). On the other hand, 25 is a mark scanning key provided for sequentially displaying marked words, and each time the key is operated, the marked words are sequentially displayed. When the mark scanning key 25 is operated, the control signal generation circuit 23 outputs a control signal C ₂ to the address designation/transfer circuit 26 of the selected word storage register 21, and the content of the register 11 is output to the gate circuit 15. A control signal C ₃ for transmitting the information to the display control circuit 7 is output. Address designation and transfer circuit 2
6 is the first control signal from the control signal generation circuit 23
When C ₂ is given, the selected word storage register 21
First, address 1 is specified, and the address information of the address 1 is transferred to the address selection circuit 9. and,
The information output from the word information storage section 8, that is, the English words, translated words, and modified words, are input and stored in the registers 11, 12, and 13, respectively. As mentioned above, the gate circuit 15 uses the control signal C ₃ provided from the control signal generation circuit 23 to
Since the output from the register 11 is set to be transmitted to the display control circuit 7, the spelling of the marked English word is displayed on the display section 2. Hereafter, the address designation and transfer circuit 26 will be operated by the mark scanning key 25.
Each time the control signal C2 is operated and the control signal _C2 is supplied, the designated address is advanced by one address. Therefore, each time the mark scanning key 25 is operated, the spelling of the marked English word is sequentially displayed. It should be noted that the display information selection key 16 functions effectively even during this mark scanning, and when the key is operated, the registers 11 and 12 storing the information corresponding to the operated display information selection key 16 are activated. or 1
3 is supplied to the display control circuit 7, and the information corresponding to the operated display information selection key 16 is displayed on the display section 2. For example, an example of the key operation when the four words "break", "able", "cat", and "baby" are marked in this order and the display that is performed based on the key operation are shown in the first example below. Shown in the table.

[Table] Reference numeral 27 is a mark Japanese scanning key provided for sequentially displaying the translations of the marked words.Each time the key is operated, the translations of the marked words are sequentially displayed. When the mark Japanese scanning key is operated, the control signal C ₃ is supplied to the gate circuit 15.
However, except that the output from the register 12 is used as a signal to be transmitted to the display control circuit 7, other operations are the same as when operating the mark scanning key described above. When scanning this mark in Japanese, if you input an English word corresponding to the displayed Japanese word or phrase using the alphanumeric key 3 and operate the collation instruction key 28, the correctness of the input word will be detected. The results are displayed on the display section 2. That is, by operating the alphanumeric key 3 to input an English word into the register 6, and then operating the collation instruction key 28, the control signal generation circuit 23 sends the operation instruction signal C ₄ to the match detection circuit 29.
is output. The circuit 29 detects the match/mismatch between the English word stored in the register 11 and the input word input to the register 6 based on the signal _C4 . 30 is a pattern generation circuit that is controlled based on the detection output from the coincidence detection circuit 29, and if the above-mentioned two match,
A signal for displaying the sentence ISRIGHT〓〓 on the display section 2 is output to the display control circuit 7, and if the above two do not match, the sentence 〓〓IT IS WRONG〓〓 is displayed on the display section 2. A signal for displaying the display is output to the display control circuit 7. With the above configuration, when scanning a Japanese mark, it is possible to input an English word corresponding to a displayed Japanese word or phrase by operating the alphanumeric keys 3, and display whether the word is correct or incorrect. For example, ``break'', ``able'', ``cat'', ``baby''.
Table 2 below shows an example of key operations when words are marked in this order and the display performed based on the key operations.

[Table] With the above configuration, each time the mark scanning key 25 or the mark Japanese scanning key 27 is operated, the spelling of the marked English word or the translation of the marked English word can be sequentially displayed. Next, a configuration provided for automatically displaying the spelling of the marked English word or its translation one by one at predetermined time intervals will be described. Reference numeral 31 denotes an automatic scanning key that is operated to sequentially display the spelling of a marked English word or its translation one word at a predetermined time interval. When the key 25 or mark Japanese scanning key 27 is operated, the control signals C ₂ and C ₃ are applied to the address designation/transfer circuit 26 and the gate circuit 15, and a count operation start instruction signal C ₅ is applied to the time counter circuit 32. Output. When the time counter circuit 32 is supplied with the count operation start instruction signal _C5 , it starts counting operation and outputs the signal S every predetermined time period (for example, 5 seconds). When the control signal generation circuit 23 receives this signal S,
The address designation/transfer circuit 26 and Output to gate circuit 15. Thereby, the spelling of the marked English word or its translation can be automatically and sequentially displayed at the predetermined time intervals. Note that 33 is an automatic scanning stop key provided to stop the counting operation of the time counter circuit 32. Based on the operation of this key 33, the counting operation in the time counter circuit 32 is stopped, and the automatic scanning is stopped. ends. In the above embodiment, the present invention is implemented in an electronic English-Japanese dictionary, but the present invention has a storage means for storing a plurality of pairs of words and information related to the words, and has a character input key. It goes without saying that the present invention can be implemented in all electronic dictionaries configured to output information related to the input word based on the input contents when the word is input by the operation. As explained in detail above, the electronic dictionary of the present invention allows the operator (learner) to mark words that require special attention and later selectively retrieve the marked words. That is. By marking words, the operator (learner) can focus on studying the marked words, or can perform more efficient searches by marking frequently used words. There is an advantage.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a plan view, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram. code, 1: key input device, 2: display section, 3: alphanumeric key, 4: Japanese translation instruction key, 5: key encoder circuit, 6: input English word storage register, 7: display control circuit, 8: word information storage section,
9: address selection circuit, 10: search circuit, 11,
12, 13: Word information temporary storage register, 1
4: Control circuit, 15, 24: Gate circuit, 16:
Display information selection key, 17: Spell key, 18: Translation key, 19: Variation word key, 20, 23: Control signal generation circuit, 21: Selected word storage register, 2
2: Mark key, 25: Mark scanning key, 26:
Address designation and transfer circuit, 27: Mark Japanese scanning key, 28: Verification instruction key, 29: Match detection circuit,
30: Pattern generation circuit, 31: Auto scan key,
32: Time counter circuit, 33: Automatic scan stop key.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A storage means for storing a plurality of pairs of a word and information related to the word, and when the word is input by operating a character input key, the input data is processed based on the input content. In an electronic dictionary configured to output information related to a word, a selected word storage means, a selected word is selected from among the plurality of words stored in the storage means, and the selected word is selected from the plurality of words stored in the storage means. means for storing information in a one-to-one correspondence with the selected word storage means; and means for instructing output of a word corresponding to the information stored in the selected word storage means or information related to the word. An electronic dictionary characterized by: