Information displaying apparatus with word searching function and recording medium

• US 8,332,753 B2
• Filed: 04/28/2009
• Issued: 12/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Abe, Takatoshi, Kojo, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Manglesh M
• Application Number:
  US12/431,678
• Publication Number:
  US 20090228787A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,323 Days
• Field of Search: 715/259, 715/260, 715/255, 715/200
• US Class Current: 715/259
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

Plural headwords corresponding to a search character string are searched for through a dictionary-content data memory and displayed in a list form in a left area of a display screen, and heading data included in explanation contents concerning the headwords are read out from a headword table to be displayed in a right area of the display screen. When a headword is designated from among the plural headwords displayed in list form in the left area of the display screen, heading data contained in plural explanation contents concerning the designated headword are read out from an explanation data table and are displayed in list form over the heading data displayed in the right area.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

an information storage device that stores entry words and information on each of the entry words;

an input unit for inputting a series of words;

a judgment unit that judges whether or not any word contained in the inputted series of words is a verb, an adjective, or a noun;

a keyword retrieval unit that sets as a keyword a word in the inputted series of words that is judged to be a verb, an adjective, or a noun, and retrieves each entry word that corresponds to the keyword from the information storage device;

a series-of-words information extraction unit that selectively extracts, from the information stored in the information storage device on each retrieved entry word, each item of information that contains all of the inputted series of words;

a series-of-words information display unit that displays each extracted item of information containing all of the inputted series of words in association with the entry word corresponding to the extracted item of information; and

a series-of-words identification unit which adds an example mark or a phrase mark to each item of information that is extracted by the series-of-words information extraction unit comprising a block of the item of information and the inputted series of words;

wherein the series-of-words information extraction unit replaces placeholder data in the information on each retrieved entry word, with the keyword, and selectively extracts each item of information that contains all of the inputted series of words after the placeholder data is replaced with the keyword; and

wherein the series-of-words information display unit displays each extracted item of information together with the example mark or phrase mark added thereto.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the keyword retrieval unit includes a longest noun keyword setting unit that sets a longest noun as the keyword, when the judgment unit judges that the inputted series of words contains a plurality of nouns.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein when the judging unit judges that inputted series of words contains a verb, the keyword retrieval unit sets the verb as the keyword.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein when the judging unit judges that inputted series of words contains an adjective but no verb, the keyword retrieval unit sets the adjective as the keyword.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein when the judging unit judges that inputted series of words contains a noun but no adjective or verb, the keyword retrieval unit sets the noun as the keyword.

6. The device according to claim 4, wherein when the judging unit judges that inputted series of words contains a plurality of nouns but no adjective or verb, the keyword retrieval unit sets a longest noun in the inputted series of words as the keyword.

7. The device according to claim 1, wherein the series-of-words information display unit displays each extracted item of information in a list.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having a program stored thereon that is executable to control a computer of a device that includes a display, an input unit, and an information storage device that stores entry words and information on each of the entry words, the program controlling the computer to function as units comprising:

a judgment unit that judges whether or not any word contained in a series of words inputted via the input unit is a verb, an adjective, or a noun;

a keyword retrieval unit that sets as a keyword a word in the inputted series of words that is judged to be a verb, an adjective, or a noun, and retrieves each entry word that corresponds to the keyword from the information storage device;

a series-of-words information extraction unit that selectively extracts, from the information stored in the information storage device on each retrieved entry word, each item of information that contains all of the inputted series of words;

a series-of-words information display unit that displays each extracted item of information containing all of the inputted series of words in association with the entry word corresponding to the extracted item of information; and

a series-of-words identification unit which adds an example mark or a phrase mark to each item of information that is extracted by the series-of-words information extraction unit comprising a block of the item of information and the inputted series of words;

wherein the series-of-words information extraction unit replaces placeholder data in the information on each retrieved entry word, with the keyword, and selectively extracts each item of information that contains all of the inputted series of words after the placeholder data is replaced with the keyword; and

wherein the series-of-words information display unit displays each extracted item of information together with the example mark or phrase mark added thereto.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 8, wherein the keyword retrieval unit includes a longest noun keyword setting unit that sets a longest noun as the keyword, when the judgment unit judges that the inputted series of words contains a plurality of nouns.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 8, wherein when the judging unit judges that inputted series of words contains a verb, the keyword retrieval unit sets the verb as the keyword.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 10, wherein when the judging unit judges that inputted series of words contains an adjective but no verb, the keyword retrieval unit sets the adjective as the keyword.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 11, wherein when the judging unit judges that inputted series of words contains a noun but no adjective or verb, the keyword retrieval unit sets the noun as the keyword.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 11, wherein when the judging unit judges that inputted series of words contains a plurality of nouns but no adjective or verb, the keyword retrieval unit sets a longest noun in the inputted series of words as the keyword.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 8, wherein the series-of-words information display unit displays each extracted item of information in a list.