JPH0743709B2 - Kanji input processing device - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a kanji input processing device for coding and inputting kanji, and according to this, kanji is sent to an electronic computer, telex, teleprinter, or the like, or It is also used for indexing Kanji dictionaries.

To date, there are more than 400 ways to encode Kanji, and British Patent No. 2100899 describes and claims that Kanji is encoded using numerical notation, but there are few practical ones. . Generally speaking, there are five categories of kanji encoding and input methods.

1. Phonetic Alphabet System This type of system is only applicable to professional computer operators who are good at alphabetizing Kanji. 100% alphabetical notation
Characters can only be identified when they are correct.
Since there are many homonyms in kanji, it is extremely difficult or almost impossible for those who do not know the alphabetical representation of kanji or who lack knowledge about it. It is impossible.

2. Large keyboard method In this method, all characters are fed to the computer by only one key. Only the letters on the keyboard will be sent to the computer. A very large keyboard is needed, which takes up a lot of space. Furthermore, it takes a lot of time to become familiar with such a keyboard. For those who do not have that intention, they are not interested in the practice and cannot use it for typing or feeding to a computer without seeing it.

3. Partial Method In this method, the kanji is divided into several parts, one part of which is given a code (or digit), which is then fed to a computer. The advantage of this method is that it can be easily divided into kanji, for example, Is quickly delivered to the computer. Such feeding relies on 100% accurate segmentation of characters, otherwise character identification is not possible. For example For some characters such as, splitting them into several parts is almost impossible, especially for those who are not familiar with kanji. To make this even more difficult, there are no strict rules for such division, and the division of characters varies from person to person,
It is not easy to make an accurate division of characters.

4. Numerical code method This is a better method, which is relatively easy to practice. However, it usually contains a long code, and one character has the same code as another character. The coding procedure under this scheme is such that the character is first divided into several parts and then each part is given a digit. There is no strict rule for dividing a character into several parts, and different characters are given different digits in one stroke, so There is a hesitation in adding a code to a character.

5. Word, Phrase and Sentence Method This encoding method has a high degree of logicality about Kanji. In this method, the kanji that form up to 200,000 clauses and sentences are coded and all the clauses or sentences are sent to the computer. This scheme is only suitable for computers with good execution performance and large storage space.

In summary, it can be seen that each of the above five schemes has its own serious drawbacks. Dividing a Kanji into several parts and then encoding them can be extremely difficult. In addition to this, it is inconvenient to code the kanji for each stroke, and the code is extremely long. What constitutes a kanji is a making part as a first part and a main body part (that is, a stroke) as a second part.
The first part (hereinafter also referred to as "making part") corresponds to the deviation of Japanese kanji, and the second part (hereinafter also referred to as "main part") corresponds to that of Japanese kanji. .
How to divide them is extremely difficult.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a kanji input processing device based on simple coding of kanji, and in particular,
An object of the present invention is to provide a kanji input processing device capable of encoding characters in an appropriate format for easy and quick input to an electronic computer.

A kanji input processing device according to the present invention includes a keyboard, a central processing unit, and a display device.
The key arrangement is of the ordinary Roman alphabet type, the central processing unit has a kanji dictionary, and the kanji dictionary provides kanji for each code corresponding to the first or second part of each kanji. The first part is stored as a whole, the first part is coded as a whole, the second part is coded for each stroke, and the central processing unit has the first part input separately from the keyboard. The corresponding kanji having the first and second parts are specified and input from the code of each of the strokes and the code of each stroke of the second part, and the code of each stroke of the second part input from the keyboard. From the above, the corresponding kanji that does not have the first part is specified and input processing is performed.

Also, the kanji dictionary has 82 basic first parts,
The central processing unit has a second stroke with at most four strokes.
Can be entered, and each of the four strokes is 10
One of the basic strokes, the display is provided with two rows of windows of interest on the bottom of the screen.

In addition, the keyboard can input the Kanji coded by extracting the first part, and the first part is input through only one key, and each of the three parts of the three columns can be input.
Keys represent 82 basic first parts, two or three first parts are entered by pressing one key, and one row of keys to select different input modes. A function key is provided, and further, a key corresponding to the second portion of the one row is arranged at the position of the highest frequency of use, that is, the position where the operator's hand is normally placed.

According to the invention, each Chinese character is considered as a plan view and is divided into two parts, a make part and a body part.
The making portion is represented by one code element, and the main body portion is represented by four code elements (digits).
First, the code elements for the make part are fed to the computer, then the code elements for the body part are fed, and the entire Chinese character is fed to the computer.

Since the method in the kanji input processing device of the coded invention is not based on the phonetic alphabet or the stroke order of handwriting, it is particularly suitable for those who are not familiar with kanji. The encoding system of the present invention allows anyone to send kanji to a computer without difficulty, whether or not they know the phonetic alphabet for kanji and the rules for handwriting kanji.

The keyboard applied in this invention is used for Kanji and Roman alphabet characters,
It can be used anywhere in the world. In addition, the keyboard is touch-enabled, that is, it allows typing without looking at the keyboard.

According to the invention, 82 fabrications are arranged on 35 keys. On each key in the second row from the top, there are three fabrications arranged (see Figure 1), and on each key in the third and fifth rows, there are two fabrications arranged. ing. With the help of the key of the making part, the operator can easily divide the kanji into the making part and the body part, and also, without the need to think to divide them, it is possible to divide the making part and the body part. It reduces the hesitation between, reduces the memory, reduces the difficulty of thinking, and increases the coding speed.

10 stroke shapes for the body There are two, and these are respectively 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 (ie keys A, S, D, F, G, H, J, K, ten) It is represented. For most Kanji characters, it is necessary to press the body part key 3 or 4 times, so that the body part can be used at a frequently used position so that the frequency of finger movement is reduced and the coding speed is increased. It is appropriate to arrange the keys of.

During encoding, the Chinese character is first divided into a make part and a body part, the corresponding make part key on the keyboard is found and pressed, and then the code representing the make part is fed to the computer. For example, kanji When you try to send your Is divided into “body” and “ward”. The "body" is the making part. Find the maker key for the maker "body" on the keyboard and press it to feed the maker "body" to the computer. However, the lower and right parts of the letter, even if they correspond to fascias, are not called fascias and thus these parts are not fed by the fascia key. For example, Is on the right Has a part. this The part has a key on the keyboard that represents the same thing as the make part, but No part is entered by the key. Thus, the character Is treated only as a combining character. Another example is "plastic". This "plastic" part is not entered by the same making part key. The character "plastic" is entered only as a combining character.

After the work piece is fed to the computer, the body part of the character is subsequently coded. The number of strokes extracted from the main body is 4 at most. The basic rule of taking a stroke is to take the upper part first and then the lower part. For example, the character As for the part, And the first four strokes of the body part are "-",
"|", "|" And "-", the corresponding code elements (digits) of which are 7,3,3 and 7 Code of Is. Another example is kanji Is the making part And the main part is divided into "Ding". The stroke of this body part is "-" and Corresponding to digits 7 and 3, and therefore The code for Is.

Some Chinese characters have a body that is divided into a left part and a right part. For these characters, there are different rules for taking strokes, first left and then right. For example, the character Body part of Is divided into "mat" and "dimensions". In that encoding, first the stroke "mata" for the left part is taken, and then the stroke "dimension" for the right part, according to the rule of first upward and then downward.

For certain Chinese characters that are divided into outer and inner parts, the rules for taking the strokes are first outer and then inner. Of course, for the inner subdivisions as opposed to the outer subdivisions, the rules of first upwards and then downwards still apply. For example, for the character "涵" that has a body part "box", the outer part is "" and the inner part is And the first four strokes of the body are "",
“|”, and Is.

A combined character is a character that does not have a creation part. Therefore, the code for such a character is taken for each stroke. The number of strokes taken from a combined character is at most 5. The rules for coding a combining character are the same as for the body of a character. For example, the code for the character "" is 656,
The code for the letter "neck" is 07547.

The functional configuration of the kanji input processing device according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, in which 1 is a keyboard having a normal key layout as a kanji input means, and 2 is a kanji dictionary.
The central processing unit 3, which includes 2A and constitutes the main part of the Kanji input processing unit, is a display unit 3 which includes the window 3A of interest.

The keyboard applied in the present invention is an ordinary Roman alphabet keyboard (see FIG. 1). The keys in the first row act as function keys,
This selects the feeding mode. For example, what F1 represents is the feed mode of the coding scheme according to the invention. What F2 represents is a phonetic alphabetic feed mode, and so on.

The second, third and fifth lines on the keyboard act as "making part keys". 82 basic pieces are arranged on 35 keys.

In line 4, the ten keys from the left act as "body part keys", each of which corresponds to two similar strokes (see Figure 2).

The bottom bar key on the keyboard acts as the feed key and is used after coding. Of course, this key is also the space key.

In addition, the last two lines on the bottom of the screen of the computer act as the "attention window", allowing the 22 Chinese characters and their codes to be in two columns.
The computer operator can see the kanji and their codes on this screen, the operator can practice the code through “Attention Windu”, and the codes of difficult-to-code characters can be found in the code handbook. There is no need to look for in.

Now, for example, Suppose you are trying to deliver the character "customer" to a computer.

First, the key of the making part Press (that corresponds to "O") to make Or 22 kanji with “Sat” are “Attention Windu”
As shown above, many have a code of 4 digits.

The second step is to press the "5" key on the body part key, because the body part of the "customer" is "each" and its first stroke "no" corresponds to digit 5. Making part Or some letters with "soil" and with the first stroke "no" in the body part of the letter are shown in the "window of interest". These characters are left with a code of at most 3 digits.

The third step is to press the "8" on the body part key, since the second stroke of the body part "each" is the "F" corresponding to the digit 8. Some characters with a second stroke "F" on its body portion are shown in the window of interest. At most 2 digits are left in these letters.

The third stroke of the body portion "each" corresponds to digit 6. Therefore, the fourth step is to use the body part key “6”.
Is to press. A third stroke on its body Some characters with "?" Are shown in the "window of interest".

The fourth stroke "mouth" of the body portion corresponds to digit 4.

In the fifth step, press the key "4" on the main unit. The character "customer" is the one that remains in the "window of interest" by pressing the bar key, which can then be fed to the computer.

In a similar manner, kanji are delivered to computers by the phonetic alphabet system.

For example, the letter "Hi" with the phonetic alphabet "Fei"
Shall be sent.

Press the key F in the first step, then some letters with the phonetic alphabet F are "notice window"
Shown in. An area far to the right indicates that the alphabet has been delivered to the computer.

Press the second step key "e". Then, many characters are displayed in the “window of interest”.

Press the third step key "i". All letters with the same phonetic alphabet "Fei" and their notes are shown in the "attention window". Here, "fertilizer" is selected from among them.

Another advantage of the present invention is that two characters per character
There are more than one code. This advantage brings great benefits to the operator. When there is only one code for one character, it relies on 100% accurate coding and feeding. Otherwise, the character cannot be found. When there are more than one code for a character, the coding is significantly easier. For example, the character Has two codes, Y0591 and YWI, through which the characters Are delivered to the computer to improve their delivery speed and efficiency.

The kanji character encoding method in the kanji input processing device of the present invention is also used for indexing a kanji dictionary. This is a new development of kanji index. Under the method of the Kanji input processing device of the present invention, characters having the same code are arranged on the same page of the dictionary. This is a new development of kanji index. Under the method in the kanji input processing device of the present invention, the making part code and the body part code are used as the page numbers of the kanji dictionary, which makes it easier to search for words in such a dictionary.

Now, for example, the character Trying to search for this character The procedure for searching is as follows.

(1) First, the production code is determined. From Figure 3, The digit (numerical representation) of the code for is found to be 17, which corresponds to page 17 of the dictionary.

(2) Determine the body part code. In this case, the body part Is.

The first stroke of is a "no" and corresponds to the digit (number) 5 for the made part.

(3) Then, the character Would be on page "17-5" (see chart below).

In this way, when the created part corresponds to one of the many specified created parts, the created part is input as a whole and each stroke of the main body part is input separately, and the created part is specified. If you do not correspond to any of the making parts, you can enter the strokes of the making part and the body part separately, even if people who are not familiar with kanji handle tens of thousands of Chinese characters, It is very easy to perform Kanji encoding and input.

That is, the 82 made-up parts selected according to the present invention can be correctly assigned to the keys of the standard English keyboard, are instantly sensed, and are naturally retrieved from the left, upper left and outer character shapes. Also, the operator
The rest of the characters, excluding fake parts, allow you to smoothly enter into sequential character strokes without having to know the correct meaning of the characters, which can lead to an input speed of 120 characters / min. .

The Kanji coded input method according to the present invention further has another advantage of one character corresponding to two or more codes, which makes it easier for the operator to search characters, speed and efficiency. Improve.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory view showing the arrangement of a kanji input keyboard used by the kanji input processing device of the present invention, and FIG. 2 shows the relationship between the ten basic strokes of the present invention and the corresponding keys on the kanji input keyboard. 3 is an explanatory view showing an index example of an edited kanji dictionary used in the kanji coding and input method by the kanji input processing device of the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a kanji input according to the present invention. It is a functional block diagram which shows a processing apparatus. 1 is a keyboard, 2 is a central processing unit, 2A is a kanji dictionary, 3 is a display device, and 3A is a notice window.

Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. A kanji input processing device comprising a keyboard (1), a central processing unit (2), and a display device (3), wherein the keyboard (1) has a normal key layout of Roman characters. The central processing unit (2) has a kanji dictionary (2A), and the kanji dictionary (2A) is for each code corresponding to the first or second part of each kanji. The kanji is stored, the first part is coded as a whole, the second part is coded for each stroke, and the central processing unit (2) is separate from the keyboard (1). From the code of the first portion and the code of each stroke of the second portion, the corresponding Chinese characters having the first and second portions are specified and input processing is performed, and input from the keyboard (1). From the code for each stroke in the second part
A kanji input processing device that specifies and processes a corresponding kanji that does not have the first part. 2. A kanji dictionary (2A) has 82 basic first words.
The kanji input processing device according to claim 1, further comprising: 3. The kanji input processing device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the central processing unit (2) can input the second part with at most four strokes. 4. The kanji input processing device according to claim 3, wherein each of the four strokes is one of ten basic strokes. 5. The kanji input processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the display device (3) is provided with two rows of notice windows (3A) on the bottom of the screen. . 6. The keyboard (1) is capable of inputting Kanji coded by extracting the first part,
The kanji input processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein each of the first portions is input via only one key. 7. A keyboard (1) wherein 35 keys in 3 rows represent 82 basic first parts, and 2 or 3 first parts press one key. The kanji input processing device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, which is input by inputting. 8. The kanji input processing device according to claim 1, wherein the keyboard (1) is provided with one row of function keys for selecting different input modes. . 9. The keyboard (1) has keys corresponding to a second portion of one row arranged at a position of maximum frequency of use, that is, at a position where an operator's hand is normally placed. The kanji input processing device according to any of the first to eighth ranges.