Sharp PW-AC920 Quick Reference Manual

QUICK REFERENCE

PW-AC920

PRINTED IN JAPAN

10G C

Global search function

You can search for a word in multiple contents/dictionaries.

Enter a word into any of the “

日本語

” (Japanese), “

スペル

” (English spelling),

“

中国語

” (Chinese), and “

ピンイン

” (Pinyin) fields to search within the target

dictionary.

As you type, the candidates for matching narrow (filter search). If there are still
many candidates after entering the whole word, you can switch to “exact search”
to browse only the exact word you wish to have defined (Except for the search
using Pinyin).

• Japanese kanji and Chinese (Simplified characters) characters have to be
entered by hand.

Example: Global search for the word “advantage.”

1

Press

一括検索

.

The global search entry screen
appears.
Select the text field according the
entry character type by using
or .

2

Press and enter

“advantage” in the “

スペル

?”

field.

As you type, the candidates for
matching narrow.

3

Press

to search by

“exact search”.

The list of words corresponding to
your entry appears.

To change the entry, press to return to the filter search screen and enter
again.

4

Select the desired word using or and press

検索/決定

.

The details screen of the word appears along with its definitions.

• To return to the previous screen, press

戻る

.

Preview display function

If many candidates are listed for a word and it is difficult to decide which word is
the correct one, the preview display will help you by providing a brief note about
each word.

Each time you press

機能

“

プレビュー

” (preview) while
candidates are listed, the preview
display will be shown on the bottom,
shown on the right, or turned off in
this order.
(The preview display is turned off in
this screen example.)

Using the PW-AC920 for the first time

Be sure to charge the battery before using the unit.

1

Connect the (EA-80A) AC adapter in the order of ① and then ②.

When the charge lamp lights red, the charging has started.

Ԙ

ԙ

AC adapter connector

Charge lamp

Power outlet
(AC)

2

When charging is complete, the charge lamp will turn off.

• A complete charge will normally take approximately 5.5 hours (the
charging time can change depending on operating temperature and
conditions).

3

Remove the AC adapter from the connector and the outlet.

4

Open the unit and press

入/切

to turn on the power.

After a while, the calibration screen
for the touch pad appears on the
display (main display).

5

Pull out the stylus and use it to accurately touch each center

of the four “+” characters displayed on the touch pad on
the display. Then do the same to the four “+” characters
displayed on the handwriting pad (small screen).

Stylus

Pull out the
stylus to use.

Back of
the unit

• When calibration is finished the LCD contrast adjustment screen is displayed.

6

Adjust the LCD contrast of the handwriting pad by touching

or on the pad.

7

After these adjustments, press

検索/決定

.

The key sound (beep) on/off screen appears.

8

Press Y or N to turn the key sound on/off.

The kana entry screen appears.

9

Press Y to select alphabet character input or press N to

select Japanese input.

The date/time settings screen is displayed.

10

Select the date items using or , and then enter “年”

(year), “月” (month) and “日” (day) (e.g. March 12th, 2011 →
11 03 12) using the number buttons on the handwriting pad.

Confirm that the cursor is on “AM (午前)” or “PM (午後)”,

and then select one of them using or .

Press

, select the time items using or and then

enter “時” (hour) and “分” (minute) (e.g. 9:00 → 09 00).

11

Confirm that the information entered is correct and press

検索/決定

.

The Home screen appears.

Selecting a content in the dictionary menu screen

Press

辞書

メニュー

.

The dictionary menu screen appears.

Dictionary menu screen

(contents/functions selection display)

Select an item by pressing

or .

Category menu

Select an item by pressing

or and then press

検索/決定

.

Or, select an item by typing

1

to 9.

Individual menu

Selecting a menu item

1

Press

辞書

メニュー

.

2

Use or to select a category menu item.

Or, use the numeric keys to enter the category number to

select the item.

The individual menu for the selected category menu item is displayed

.

3

In the individual menu, use or to select the content/

function and then press

検索/決定

.

Or, use the numeric keys (

1

to 9) to enter the number in

front of the content/function (1 to 9).

The selected content/function screen is displayed

.

•

The selected content/function screen can also be selected by touching the

relevant menu item.

Selecting a function in the Home screen

Press

Home

to display the Home screen. You can select and use unit functions

from the Home screen.

Move the cursor to the desired
icon using , , , or
and press

検索/決定

or touch

the icon to select it.

Touch operations

The PW-AC920 can be operated by touching the main screen with the stylus.
The following touch operations are
supported.

①

②

Single touch:

This is the operation of lightly touching or
pressing an item or button on the screen
and releasing it.

①

②

Double touch:

This is the operation of touching the same
place twice on the screen.
On the dictionary list screen, for example, a candidate is selected by the first touch
and the screen is switched by the second touch.

ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY

Display (main display)/
touch pad

Charge lamp

Example/explanation
key

Global search key

Power ON/OFF key

Function key

Earphone jack (side)

Page scroll keys

Speaker

Volume control keys
(volume up/down)

A

udio key

Content selection keys

Character size change keys

Handwriting pad

Escape key

Clear key

AC adapter connector (side)

Stylus holder (side)

Utility keys for
dictionaries/functions

Search/enter key

Cursor keys

Terminal cover (side)

S-jump key

Back space key

Home key

Dictionary menu key

Layout

Entering characters using the frameless pad

Example: Enter the word “clump” in an English-Japanese dictionary

1



Before entering the word in an English-Japanese dictionary,
touch

枠数

to switch the pad to the frameless pad. *

* You can only switch to the frameless pad when entering alphabet characters.

2



Use the stylus to write the word “clump” in the handwriting area.

If automatic recognition is set, the character will be

recognized and a candidate character will appear in
the character entry display area 1 to 2 seconds after
the stylus has been removed.

If manual recognition is set, write the final character

and then touch 認識 to let it be recognized. For
longer words, enter up to twelve characters and
touch 採用 to transfer them to the entry area.

3



If the word is correctly recognized, touch 採用 to transfer it
to the entry area.



Points on writing handwritten characters

Paying attention to the following points will ensure that handwritten characters are
easily recognized.

• Write each individual stroke clearly. Ensure that characters have the correct
number of strokes.

• Write clearly and do not use short or conventional forms. Avoid writing
sloping characters.

• On the single-frame or dual-frame pad, write lower case characters smaller
to distinguish between identical-looking upper and lower case characters
such as upper case “C” and lower case “c”. Small characters such as the
small “っ” should also be written smaller.

• Write English letters in block form and do not attach ornamentation to the
ends of strokes.

• When using frameless entry, write English characters separately, one at
a time. You cannot write in cursive style or return to previously formed
characters to add dots or crosses.

• When using frameless entry, write words on a single line. You cannot write
on two lines.

• When writing letters, do not press hard; always write lightly.

Entering in

漢字源

by writing large characters

Draw the kanji on the touch pad.

1

Press

辞書

メニュー

and select “

漢字源

” from “

国語Ⅰ

” .

The criteria entry screen for

漢字源

appears.

2

At the criteria entry screen for “

漢字源

”, touch “

大きく書

いて漢字を調べる

” on the touch pad.

The handwriting recognition screen appears.

3



Draw the kanji to search (Eg.
“福”), in the handwriting
area on the touch pad
displayed in Step 2.

The candidates for the kanji appear

in the candidate list area.

• When using manual recognition, or to have the dictionary recognize

immediately after you finish writing the kanji, press 認識.

4



Select the desired kanji and
press

検索/決定

.

The details screen shows

information about the kanji, as well

as its pronunciation and definition.

Using the mark on the screen

Appearance of the



例, 

解説

,

NOTE

,

図, 

表

, or

動画

mark on the details screen indicates more information related to the entry is
available, such as example sentences, explanations, notes, illustrations, diagrams,
tables, and videos.
By pressing

例/解説

in screens where this mark is displayed, the mark will
display inverted.
When there are multiple marks, move to the desired mark by using

, ,

, or

. By pressing

検索/決定

, the contents are displayed.

To exit, press

戻る

twice.

Listen to audio

When the mark appears, audio of the displayed information can be played
back.

Press to select the first mark, and the color of the mark is inverted.
Press

, , , or

to move the highlight to the desired mark and

press

検索/決定

(or touch the mark) to play back the contents.

Example: Play back the audio using “

英会話とっさのひとこと

辞典

”.

1



Press

辞書

メニュー

, use to select “

英語Ⅰ

”, and then

use to select “

英会話とっさのひとこと辞典

”.

Press

検索/決定

until the details screen is displayed.

2



Press and the mark
becomes inverted (

).

Each time you press

検索/決定

, the audio plays.

If several marks appear, press or to move the cursor to
the desired mark and press

検索/決定

.

By highlighting an English word and pressing

検索/決定

, you can look up

the word in English-Japanese dictionary and play back the audio.

◆

Press

戻る

to stop the audio during play. Press

戻る

and the color

of reverts to non-inverted.

◆

Use

音量小

or

音量大

to first set the volume to low, then adjust it

to the desired level.

S-jump function

You can search through the contents for the definition or meaning of a word on the
details screen.

Example: Use S-jump from the

ジーニアス和英辞典

screen.

1



Press

英和/和英

.

T

he entry/select screen for

ジーニアス英和&和英辞典

is displayed.

2



Press to select Japanese entry field, type “

あいさつ

/

aisatsu” and then press

検索/決定

.

The “

あいさつ

” screen of the Japanese-English Dictionary is displayed.

3



Press

Sジャンプ

.

The cursor ■ appears.

• Instead of pressing

Sジャンプ

, if you touch or highlight words by
dragging, the function selection screen appears.
If you select “S

ジャンプ（語句を別の辞書で調べます）

”, the

jump window appears.

4



Move the cursor using , , , or to the desired
word.

• English words or the word indicated by the jump mark ( ) are selected
in whole. Each time you press

Sジャンプ

, you can jump to an English

word, skipping Japanese.

• To select a Japanese word, you must first mark the start and end points
using the cursor or by touching the screen, or by dragging over the words
to highlight them.

Example: Marking the word “言葉”

Move the cursor “■” to the starting point “言” and press

検索/決定

. Then

press to move the cursor “■” to the end point “葉”. (If you wish to mark a

one letter word, you do not have to mark the end point.)

• To do this through touch operation, touch the starting point “言” and drag
the stylus until the end point “葉” is highlighted.

5



Press

検索/決定

.

A list of candidates appears in

the jump window.

•

If the word is indicated with or

there is only one match, the details

screen appears in the jump window.

6



Select the desired word and then press

検索/決定

.

The details screen appears in the jump window.

7



Press

検索/決定

to jump the screen.

The details screen of the selected word appears.

• To return to the previous screen, press

戻る

.

Selecting functions by touching

You can select various functions by touching the screen with the stylus, (or highlighting
by dragging).

1



Press

英和/和英

.

2



Enter the word (Eg.: “header”) in the “

スペル？

” field, and

press

検索/決定

.

3



Touch the starting point “文”
and drag to highlight the
words up to the end point “ど”.

4



Touch the function to execute (Eg.: “

マーカー (マーカーを

引きます

)” (mark user-selected words).

The marker color selection window appears.

5



Select the marker color to use (green, yellow, pink, orange,
purple).

The words are registered in the word dictionary and marked in the selected color.

• To select a different function such as Audio or S-jump, select the desired
function in Step 4 by touching it.

Entering characters using the handwriting pad

Parts and functions

The handwriting pad is set to enter characters when the cursor is in any part of
the character entry area.

[

Single-frame pad

]

• Touching the 枠数 button switches the single-frame pad to the dual-frame
pad or frameless pad.

認識

button

枠数

button

自動/手動

button

書き直し

button

拡大

button

手書/50音

button

Backlight button

Handwriting area (frame)

Candidate list display area

スペース



button

Character entry type
indicator

Automatic/manual
recognition indicator

Entering characters using the single-frame pad

Example: Enter a Japanese word “持つ” from a Japanese-English dictionary.

1



Press

英和/和英

and then to move the cursor to the

Japanese entry area.

The handwriting pad is now switched to enter kanji and kana.

2



Use the stylus to write “持” in the handwriting area.



3



If the character in the entry area is not the one you desired,
use the stylus to touch and select the desired character in
the list.

The character in the entry area changes.

• If you cannot find the character in the list, touch

書き直し

or press

後退

to erase it and redraw it on the pad.

4



Likewise, enter “つ” in the entry area.

5



Press

検索/決定

.

The details screen appears.

The character shown in the candidate list display area
is also placed in the entry area so that the dictionary
search can proceed.

• When the manual recognition is used or when you
want to have the entry recognized soon after you
finished writing, press 認識.

•

When you start drawing, the previous entry is confirmed
and then erased.

Handwriting area