JPH0275060A - Japanese word processor with back-up function for production of external character - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To designate partial characters and radicals to be used as the parts of the external characters and to retrieve these parts with no duplication of sizes by storing previously the partial characters and the appropriate characters including the radicals serving as the parts of the external characters as the key characters. CONSTITUTION:When the partial characters and the radicals to be used for production of the external characters are supplied from an input means 101, the key characters including the partial characters and radicals are retrieved out of a key character memory 102 by a retrieving means 103. These retrieved key characters are displayed on a display means 104. Thus it is possible to select the partial characters and radicals of the appropriate sizes and forms out of those key characters displayed on the means 104 and to use them for production of the external characters. As a result, the partial characters and radicals can be retrieved as the parts of the external characters with no duplication of sizes. In such a way, the parts of the optimum sizes can be easily selected for production of the external characters.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (a) Field of Industrial Application This invention relates to a Japanese language processing device capable of creating external characters based on pre-stored characters.

(b) Conventional technology Conventionally, in this type of Japanese language processing device, when creating a new character that is not stored in the device and trying to use it, a pre-stored character pattern is called up. , a part of it is extracted and the extracted partial characters are combined to create a new character, which is then registered and used as a custom character.When creating a custom character in this way, it saves the design effort and allows other users to use it. This is useful because it allows you to create characters that are well-balanced with other characters.

(c) Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, when using this type of Japanese language processing device to create, for example, kanji as external characters, it is necessary to use a component to synthesize the kanji. It may be difficult to come up with 4 Kanji characters that include appropriately sized partial characters or radicals as part of the character pattern. For example, if you need a flat partial character for ``earth'', not everyone can easily come up with the kanji for ``wall'' or ``奎''.

Moreover, only some people who know kanji well can think of kanji such as ``塡'' or ``deaf'' one after another in search of the optimal shape and size.

In addition, even for kanji experts, it may take considerable effort to find partial characters and radicals of optimal shape and size. As shown in Figure 13, there are various sizes, and in order to find the optimal size considering the balance of the characters you are trying to create,
It will take a lot of repeated trials.

Furthermore, a method of searching for kanji characters from radicals has been used in the past. However, if the required partial character is not a radical, such as when the radical of ``奎'' is ``大'', the search cannot be performed. In addition, when there are many kanji that contain that radical, such as ``Kiguchi bias'' or ``word'' bias, many kanji containing radicals of the same size are candidates, so the optimal size can be determined. The number of steps required to select radicals is not improved.

This invention was made in consideration of these circumstances, and by storing in advance appropriate characters including partial characters and radicals, which are the parts for creating a custom character, as representative characters, the parts of the custom character can be created. and 1. To provide a Japanese language processing device with an external character creation support function, which allows specifying a partial character or radical to be used and searching for that part without overlapping sizes.

(d) Means to solve the problem FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the present invention.

In this figure, 101 is an input means capable of inputting partial characters and radicals for use in creating external characters; 102;
103 is input means 101 which stores in advance characters including partial characters and radicals used for creating external characters as representative characters so that there is no overlap in size for the same partial characters and radicals; Search means for searching the representative character storage means 102 for a representative character including the partial character or radical based on the partial character or radical input from the input character;
04 is a display means for displaying the representative characters searched by the search means +03.

In addition, in this invention, a partial character refers to a part other than a radical included in one kanji, for example, taking a kanji as an example.
For example, in the Kanji character ``奎'', the radical is the character ``大'', and the partial character is the character ``kei'' or ``±''.

In addition, the input means 101 according to the present invention can search for the character "Kai" even if it is a radical or a partial character, for example, in the case of Kanji, it can search for the character "Kai" from any of the characters "1 Dai", "Kei", and "Sat". It is an input stage that can be used to input data.

Therefore, the input means +01 may be any device that can input radicals and partial characters used for creating external characters as individual kanji, such as those mentioned above. There are those that input data and convert it into kanji, or those that specify the number of strokes and display the characters with that number of strokes, which is usually called stroke count input, and then select the desired kanji from among them. In addition, the so-called two-stroke method, which selects kanji by matching the reading of two sounds to a specific kanji, is commonly used. .

Furthermore, the representative character storage means 102 may be of any type as long as it can store characters.
For example, for fishing on a boat, external storage media such as floppy disks and hard disks, which are used as storage media for kana-kanji conversion dictionaries, and non-volatile RAM can be used. Using an external storage medium is convenient and economical.

In addition, the representative characters stored in the representative character storage means +02 are classified according to the size and shape of the target partial character or radical.
Try to limit your suggestions to one letter or less. for example,"
Regarding representative characters including partial characters and radicals such as ``目'',
In addition to the characters with an ``eye'' bias as shown in Figures 6 to t3, the size of the ``eye'' part of characters such as ``ao'', ``tears'', ``profanity'', ``eyebrows'', and ``aiko'' are also used. Choose from items with different sizes and memorize them. In this case, it is not necessary to prepare one character candidate for all the characters that have different shapes and sizes, and characters with small differences may be omitted.

As the search means 103 in this invention, a micro combi coater consisting of a CPU is usually used.
As the display means 104, for example, a display device such as a CPT display or an LC (liquid crystal) display is used.

(E) Operation In FIG. 1, when partial characters or radicals to be used for creating external characters are input from the input means 101,
03, a representative character including input partial characters and radicals is searched from the representative character storage means 102, and the searched representative character is displayed on the display means +04.

Therefore, it is possible to select partial characters or radicals of appropriate size and shape from the representative characters displayed on the display means 104 and use them for creating external characters.

(f) Examples Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on examples shown in the drawings. Note that this invention is not limited by this.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

In this figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a control unit, which is equipped with an onkun dictionary for searching for partial characters and kanji as radicals based on their readings, and a stroke number dictionary for searching for kanji as partial characters and radicals based on the number of strokes. 2 is CRT display or LC (liquid crystal)
A display section consisting of a display, 3 an input section such as a keyboard, equipped with short keys and numeric keys.

5 is a dictionary memory that stores kanji codes of representative kanji, which are kanji including partial characters and radicals that are used as parts when creating external characters; 4 is an index memory for searching representative kanji; and 6 is a kanji coat. It is a conversion memory, such as a CG (character generator), that converts into a character pattern.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing the relationship between the index memory 4 and the dictionary memory 5.

As shown in the figure, the index memory 4 is a bare set of kanji codes 4a and pointers 4b when partial characters and radicals that are parts for creating external characters are individual kanji characters, and the pointers 4b of the index memory 4 are indicates the address of the dictionary memory 5 where representative kanji characters including specific partial characters and radicals are stored.

For example, in the case of the partial character or radical ``1 in Figure 3,'' the index memory 4 moves from the pointer corresponding to ``me'' to the pointer corresponding to ``naru'' that follows ``moku.'' is the storage location of the representative kanji including "me" in the dictionary 5.

The representative Chinese characters in the dictionary memory 5 are stored in groups for each partial character or radical (in this case, "me") that is a search target as a component for creating external characters.

In other words, it is stored for each kanji group that includes the same partial character or radical, and for kanji groups that include the same partial character or radical, the size and shape of the partial character or radical will differ within the group. There are no duplicates, and they are all different.

For example, in the case of a group of representative kanji that includes the partial character or radical ``eye'', only the kanji that include all different sizes and shapes for ``eye'' are preselected and stored as representative kanji. .

Then, the representative kanji in the same group, that is, the representative kanji that include partial characters and radicals as search target characters, are arranged in descending order of the width of the partial characters and radicals.
If they have the same width, they are arranged in ascending order of height.

The conversion memory 6 stores, for example, character patterns as shown in FIGS. 6 to 13 in the order of kanji codes, and it is possible to convert kanji codes into character patterns.

The operation in such a configuration will be explained based on the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, the user selects the partial character (
or radical) is selected from the input unit 3 (step 201).

Here, if Onkun input is selected, the reading is input (step 202L) The Onkunjikata included in the control unit 1 is searched, and the code of the kanji corresponding to the reading, that is, the partial character (or radical) is input. ) is used as a single kanji character, the kanji code is obtained.

Further, if input of the number of strokes is instructed in step 201, the number of strokes is input (step 203), and the stroke number dictionary included in the control unit 1 is searched to find the code of the kanji with the number of strokes equal to the number of strokes, that is, the code of the kanji with the number of strokes equal to the number of strokes. Similarly, a Kanji code can be obtained when only a partial character (or radical) is used as a single Kanji character.

Then, the candidate kanji code obtained as described above is converted into a character pattern by the conversion memory 6 and displayed on the display unit 2 (step 204), and the user can
The partial character (or radical) of the Kanji character that is desired to be used as the external character is selected (step 205).

With the above, the partial character or radical that the user wants to use as a custom character has been specified.

Next, the index memory 4 is searched by this partial character (or radical) represented as a single Kanji (step 206), and a dictionary storing the code of the Kanji containing the partial character (or radical) is searched (step 206). The address of memory 5 is obtained.

Then, the dictionary memory 5 is searched based on this obtained address (step 207), the code of the kanji containing the partial character (or radical) that the user wants to use as a foreign character is obtained, and this is stored in the conversion memory. 6 is converted into a character pattern and displayed on the display section 2 (step 208).

This allows the user to use the partial character (
or radicals) will be displayed.

Finally, from among the displayed character pattern candidates, the user selects the candidate with the optimal size of the partial character (or radical) that he or she wishes to use (step 209).
The partial characters and radical patterns of the selected candidates are used to create external characters.

To explain the above-mentioned operation in detail, for example, when a pattern for the kanji "eye" is needed during the creation of external characters, first, in order to specify the kanji "eye" pattern, the reading is input from the input section 3. Enter ``me'' or ``moku'' to convert the syllables, or input the number of strokes r5J to search the stroke number dictionary to obtain ``me''.

Next, we instruct a search for the representative kanji for this ``eye'', starting with the code 4a in the index memory 4.

Search for "eyes".

As a result, as explained in FIG. By converting into , for example, a pattern of kanji including "eye" as shown in FIG. 4 is displayed on the display unit 2.

FIG. 4 shows, as an example, a state in which 10 characters are displayed as the first candidates in the above-mentioned "eye" example.
Use the number keys on input section 3 to select the desired shape and size of eyes.
By selecting a kanji that includes , you can use that character pattern to create a custom character.

In this case, for convenient use in creating custom characters, cutout information for the search target character is added to the code of the representative kanji in the dictionary memory 5, so that character patterns necessary for creating custom characters are automatically cut out. Good too.

In this way, kanji including partial characters and radicals that are parts for creating external characters are stored in advance in the dictionary memory 5 as representative kanji so that the sizes and shapes of the same partial characters and parts 6 do not overlap. , you can specify a partial character or radical to search for and display kanji that include that partial character or radical ("). When creating external characters, you can search for partial characters or radicals of the required size and shape. You can quickly search for kanji that include radicals, and select and use partial characters and radicals of the most appropriate size and shape.

(G) Effects of the Invention According to this invention, by adding partial characters and radicals that are necessary parts for creating external characters, characters including the partial characters and radicals can be combined into partial characters and radicals. Since you can search for characters that contain partial characters or radicals of the same size without duplication, you can avoid the waste of searching for characters that include partial characters or radicals of the same size. It becomes possible to efficiently search for characters that include parts necessary for creation, and easily select and use parts of the optimal size.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of this invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of this invention, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing the relationship between index memory and dictionary memory.
Figure 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a display example of the result of searching for a character pattern containing the kanji character ``J'', Figure 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment, and Figures 6 to 13 are ``eye''-biased characters. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an enlarged character pattern. l...Control unit, 2...Display unit, 3...
...Input section, 4... Index memory,
5... Dictionary memory, 6... Conversion memory.・=, -I M Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4 Fig. 5 Fig. 6 Fig. 7;

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a Japanese language processing device capable of creating custom characters based on pre-stored characters, it is possible to input partial characters and radicals for use in creating custom characters. a representative character storage means that stores in advance, as representative characters, characters including partial characters and radicals used for creating external characters so that the same partial characters and radicals do not overlap in size; a search means for searching a representative character including the partial character or radical from the representative character storage means based on the partial character or radical input from the means;
A Japanese language processing device with a non-standard character creation support function, comprising display means for displaying representative characters searched by a search means.