Electronic device, display method, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9639603-B2
Application number	US-201414312047-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 23, 2014
Priority date	Jun 27, 2013
Publication date	May 2, 2017
Grant date	May 2, 2017

Abstract

An electronic device includes a receiving unit, a searching unit, a storing unit, and a displaying unit. The receiving unit receives a search character string. The searching unit searches a dictionary database according to the received search character string. The storing unit stores headwords which are obtained by the searching unit in a memory as search history data. The displaying unit displays a search history graph based on the search history data. Marks are arranged in the search history graph. The marks show positions of headwords searched for in past times, within a range of headwords collected in the dictionary data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:
a processor that performs processes of:
receiving a search character string;
searching a dictionary database according to the received search character string;
storing headwords which are retrieved by searching dictionary data of the dictionary database in a memory as search history data; and
displaying, based on the search history data, a search history graph having a narrow range along a direction in which marks are arranged at different positions from each other along the direction, each of the marks on the search history graph showing a relative position of a respective one of the headwords which are stored in the memory as at least a part of an entirety of a search history within a range of an entirety of headwords collected in the dictionary data;

wherein the process of displaying the search history graph by the processor, when receiving the search character string, and before displaying the search history graph, narrows a range of the headwords, wherein headwords that are right-truncated to the received search character string are retrieved from among the entirety of the headwords collected in the dictionary data.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a dictionary database storing unit which stores the dictionary data in which a plurality of headwords are collected,
wherein the process of searching the dictionary database by the processor searches for the headwords from the stored dictionary data.

3. The electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein:
the processor further performs a process of acquiring image data, and storing the acquired image data in association with the searched headwords, and
the process of displaying the search history graph adds a thumbnail image corresponding to the stored image data at a periphery of the marks in accordance with the marks.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor further performs processes of:
receiving designation of a range specified by a user in the search history graph displayed on the display device;
modifying the positions of the marks on the search history graph, each of the modified positions of the marks on the search history graph showing a modified relative position of each of the headwords stored in the memory as at least a part of an entirety of the search history data within the designated range, the at least the part of the entirety of the search history data corresponding to the designated range; and
redisplaying the search history graph in which the positions of the marks are modified.

5. A display method of an electronic device having a dictionary function, the method comprising steps of:
receiving a search character string;
searching a dictionary database according to the received search character string;
storing headwords which are retrieved by searching dictionary data of the dictionary database in a memory as search history data; and
displaying, based on the search history data, a search history graph having a narrow range along a direction in which marks are arranged at different positions from each other along the direction, each of the marks on the search history graph showing a relative position of a respective one of the headwords which are stored in the memory as at least a part of an entirety of a search history within a range of an entirety of headwords collected in the dictionary data;
wherein the step of displaying the search history graph, when receiving the search character string, and before displaying the search history graph, narrows a range of the headwords, wherein that headwords that are right-truncated to the received search character string are retrieved from among the entirety of the headwords collected in the dictionary data.

6. The display method according to claim 5 , wherein:
the electronic device includes a dictionary database storing unit which stores the dictionary data in which a plurality of headwords are collected, and
the step of searching the dictionary database searches for the headwords from the dictionary data stored in the dictionary database storing unit.

7. The display method according to claim 6 , further comprising a step of acquiring image data and storing the acquired image data in association with the searched headwords,
wherein the step of displaying the search history graph adds a thumbnail image corresponding to the stored image data at a periphery of the marks in accordance with the marks.

8. The display method according to claim 5 , further comprising steps of:
receiving designation of a range specified by a user in the search history graph displayed on the display device;
modifying the positions of the marks on the search history graph, each of the modified positions of marks on the search history graph showing a modified relative position of each of the headwords stored in the memory as at least a part of an entirety of the search history data within the designated range, the at least the part of the entirety of the search history data corresponding to the designated range; and
redisplaying the search history graph in which the positions of the marks are modified.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein instructions which, when executed by a device, control the device to:
receive a search character string;
search a dictionary database according to the received search character string;
store headwords which are retrieved by searching dictionary data of the dictionary database in a memory as search history data; and
display, based on the search history data, a search history graph having a narrow range along a direction in which marks are arranged at different positions from each other along the direction, each of the marks on the search history graph showing a relative position of a respective one of the headwords which are stored in the memory as at least a part of an entirety of a search history within a range of an entirety of headwords collected in the dictionary data;
wherein the instruction which controls the device to display the search history graph controls the device to, when receiving the search character string, and before displaying the search history graph, narrow a range of the headwords, wherein headwords that are right-truncated to the received search character string are retrieved from among the entirety of the headwords collected in the dictionary data.

10. The storage medium according to claim 9 , wherein:
the device includes a dictionary database storing unit which stores the dictionary data in which a plurality of headwords are collected, and
the instruction which controls the device to search the dictionary database controls the device to search for the headwords from the dictionary data stored in the dictionary database storing unit.

11. The storage medium according to claim 10 , further comprising an instruction which controls the device to acquire image data and store the acquired image data in association with the searched headwords, and
wherein the instruction which controls the device to display the search history graph controls the device to add a thumbnail image corresponding to the stored image data at a periphery of the marks in accordance with the marks.

12. The storage medium according to claim 9 , further comprising instructions which control the device to:
receive designation of a range by a user in the search history graph displayed on the display device;
modify the positions of marks on the search history graph, each of the modified positions of the marks on the search history graph showing a modified relative position of ea

Assignees

• Casio Computer Co Ltd

Inventors

• Mashimo Yoshinori

Classifications

• G06F16/338 Primary

  Presentation of query results · CPC title

• G06F40/242

  Dictionaries · CPC title

• G06F16/374

  Thesaurus · CPC title

• G06F16/34

  Browsing; Visualisation therefor (browsing or visualisation for clustering or classification G06F16/358) · CPC title

• G06F17/2735

  Physics · mapped topic