# US 2021/0279415 A1 · Word registration device, word registration method, and word registration program stored on computer-readable storage > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2021/0279415 A1 - Document ID: US20210279415A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/174,368 - Filed: 2021-02-12 - Published: 2021-09-09 - Earliest claimed: 2020-03-09 - Assignees: OMRON Corporation - Applicants: OMRON Corporation - Inventors: Kei ICHIKAWA - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210279415A1 ## CPC - G06F 3/04886: by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus - G06F 40/242: Dictionaries - G06F 3/0482: Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus - G06F 40/211: Syntactic parsing, e.g. based on context-free grammar [CFG] or unification grammars - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract A character string selection detector may detect selection of a character string appearing on a screen of a display in accordance with an application program. The selection may be performed with an operation with an input device. A registration screen controller may cause a word registration screen for registering, to a dictionary, the character string selected and detected by the character string selection detector to appear on the display in response to a registration operation detector detecting a registration operation. A word registration unit may register, to the dictionary, a word in accordance with data appearing on the word registration screen in response to an enter operation detector detecting an enter operation. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A word registration device, comprising a controller configured to perform operations comprising operations as: a character string selection detector configured to detect selection of a character string appearing on a screen of a display in accordance with an application program, the selection being performed with an operation with an input device; a registration operation detector configured to detect a registration operation performed with the input device; a registration screen controller configured to cause a word registration screen for registering, to a dictionary, the character string selected and detected by the character string selection detector to appear on the display in response to the registration operation detector detecting the registration operation; an enter operation detector configured to detect an enter operation performed with the input device on the word registration screen caused to appear on the display by the registration screen controller; and a word registration unit configured to register, to the dictionary, a word in accordance with data appearing on the word registration screen in response to the enter operation detector detecting the enter operation. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The word registration device according to claim 1, wherein the input device includes a touchscreen panel attached to the screen of the display. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The word registration device according to claim 1, wherein operation as the registration operation detector comprises causing a request button for determining whether a word registration is to be performed to appear on the screen of the display in response to the character string selection detector detecting selection of the character string, and detects an input operation on the request button performed with the input device as the registration operation. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The word registration device according to claim 1, wherein operation as the registration screen controller comprises causing the word registration screen containing the character string selected and detected by the character string selection detector or a reading for the character string to appear on the display. ### Claim 5 A word registration method implementable by a computer, the method comprising: detecting selection of a character string appearing on a screen of a display in accordance with an application program, the selection being performed with an operation with an input device; detecting a registration operation performed with the input device; causing a word registration screen for registering, to a dictionary, the character string selected and detected to appear on the display in response to the detection of the registration operation; detecting an enter operation performed with the input device on the word registration screen caused to appear on the display; and registering, to the dictionary, a word in accordance with data appearing on the word registration screen in response to the detection of enter operation. ### Claim 6 A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a word registration program, which when read and executed, causes a computer to perform operations comprising: detecting selection of a character string appearing on a screen of a display in accordance with an application program, the selection being performed with an operation with an input device; detecting a registration operation performed with the input device; causing a word registration screen for registering, to a dictionary, the character string selected and detected to appear on the display in response to the detection of the registration operation; detecting an enter operation performed with the input device on the word registration screen caused to appear on the display; and registering, to the dictionary, a word in accordance with data appearing on the word registration screen in response to the detection of enter operation. ### Claim 7 (depends on 2) The word registration device according to claim 2, wherein operation as the registration operation detector comprises causing a request button for determining whether a word registration is to be performed to appear on the screen of the display in response to the character string selection detector detecting selection of the character string, and detects an input operation on the request button performed with the input device as the registration operation. ### Claim 8 (depends on 2) The word registration device according to claim 2, wherein operation as the registration screen controller comprises causing the word registration screen containing the character string selected and detected by the character string selection detector or a reading for the character string to appear on the display. ### Claim 9 (depends on 3) The word registration device according to claim 3, wherein operation as the registration screen controller comprises causing the word registration screen containing the character string selected and detected by the character string selection detector or a reading for the character string to appear on the display.