Patent Document ID: 8489389
Application ID: 12892015

Base Claim:
1. An electronic apparatus comprising: an input device; a display device; a storage which includes dictionary information which stores entry words and explanatory information on the entry words in such a manner that the former and the latter correspond to one another, a conjugation chart database which stores conjugation charts for a language stored in the dictionary information so as to cause the charts to correspond to conjugation chart numbers, an ending-based verb storing unit which stores the conjugation chart number so as to cause the number to correspond to the spelling of a verb with an n-letter ending by the number of letters n in the ending of the verb, and an exception verb storing unit which stores the conjugation chart number so as to cause the number to correspond to the spelling of a verb; and a processor which causes the display device to display letter strings stored in the dictionary information, accepts the specification of an arbitrary word from the letter strings displayed on the display device via the input device, when the specified word is a verb, refers to the exception verb storing unit and determines whether the exception verb storing unit stores a spelling coinciding with the specified verb, when it has been determined that the exception verb storing unit stores no spelling coinciding with the specified verb, sequentially refers to the ending-based verb storing units and determines whether the ending-based verb storing units store a spelling coinciding with the n-letter ending of the specified verb, reads one of the conjugation charts from the conjugation chart database, based on the conjugation chart number corresponding to the spelling which has been determined to coincide with the specified verb or the n-letter ending of the specified verb by the determination, and displays the conjugation chart.

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Claim 2:
2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor, when the specified word is a verb, displays a selection screen which causes a user to select referring to another dictionary or causing the conjugation chart to be displayed for the word, and when causing the conjugation chart to be displayed is selected on the displayed selection screen according to a user operation, executes an operation of determining presence of the spelling by referring to the exception verb storing unit and the ending-based verb storing unit.