TRANSLATION DEVICE, TRANSLATED WORD DISPLAY METHOD THEREFOR AND MEDIUM FOR STRONG TRANSLATED WORD DISPLAY PROGRAM

• Main Author: SAKAMOTO MORIHIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 28.09.1999
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To display the word and phrase of a first language and their translated counterparts in correspondence at all times without changing the layout of the text by retrieving from a display area an area where the text is not displayed within a prescribed distance from the word and the phrase, defining it as the display area of a translated word and displaying it therein. SOLUTION: A translated result selection part 2 selects a translated word to be displayed at all times from a translated word list displayed as the result of translation. That is, in the case that plural translated words corresponding to an English word are present, all of them are tentatively displayed as a translated word list and a user selects one required translated word. When one translated word is selected by the operation, the result is sent through a control part 4 to a display area retrieval part 6 and a selected result preservation part 7. The display area retrieval part 6 retrieves a displayable area which is a rectangular area where no character strings or diagrams are displayed on a screen. The displayable area is constituted of plural pieces of one-character area.