JPH05314096A - Character conversion method and character conversion device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] To provide a character conversion method and a character conversion device capable of selecting a target Kanji to be converted in a short time and efficiently performing character input. [Structure] Tablet 18 from the kana characters listed
When you create a phrase with kana characters specified by
The kanji conversion means 10 converts a word in a word clause into a target kanji and inputs characters into a character input device, and by inputting the word clause in kana characters, the first candidate of the word in the word clause is selected. First display means for displaying a word clause including a converted kanji character;
If the Kanji character displayed by the first display means is not the target Kanji character, a list of word clauses containing all other candidate Kanji characters of the word is displayed in place of the Kana character displayed in the list.
And a display means of the above are provided in the CPU 10. As a result, it is possible to provide a character conversion device that can quickly search for a word clause that includes a target conversion kanji and that can perform character conversion quickly by a simple operation.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a character conversion method and a character conversion device for converting a word in a word clause made of kana characters into kanji and inputting the kanji.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a title input device of a video tape recorder or the like, a word clause is created by designating a character from a kana character displayed in a list on a display unit using a tablet or the like, without using a keyboard or the like. A conversion method for converting the words in the word clause into kanji and inputting them is known, and a character conversion device for inputting characters in this way has been proposed. This type of character conversion device allows you to specify the kana characters displayed on the display screen of the display device using a position specification input means such as a tablet, and input characters, so even if you are unfamiliar with keyboard operation, you can easily enter characters. It is convenient because you can enter.

[0003]

In the above character conversion device for inputting characters by designating the kana characters listed on the display device by the position designating means, most of the display screen of the display device is for input. Since it is used to display a list of Kana characters, it is necessary to display a plurality of Kanji candidates for conversion at the same time on the display screen of the display device when converting the Kanji characters in the words specified by the position specification means. I couldn't. For this reason, it is necessary to display candidate kanji one after another and repeat the selection until the target kanji is displayed, which may increase the number of operation steps for converting the phrase containing the desired kanji and take time. there were. The present invention has been made in view of the current situation of character conversion of this kind as described above, and the purpose thereof is to select a target Kanji to be converted in a short time and efficiently perform character input. It is to provide a character conversion method and a character conversion device.

[0004]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The above-mentioned object is to create a word clause by a specified kana character from the kana characters displayed in a list, convert the words in the word clause into the target kanji, and input characters. In the character conversion method to be performed, by inputting the word clause, a word clause including the converted Kanji character of the first candidate of the word in the word clause is displayed, and the converted Kanji character of the first candidate is not the target Kanji character. This is achieved by displaying a list of word clauses containing the converted Kanji characters of all the other candidates of the word, instead of the listed Kana characters. Further, as is apparent from FIG. 1 showing the configuration of the present invention relating to the apparatus, the above-mentioned object is designated by the position designation input means 4 from the kana characters listed on the display device 3 by the kana list display means 1. When a word clause is created with characters, the kanji conversion means 5 inputs the word clause in the kana character to a character conversion device that converts the words in the word clause into target kanji characters and inputs the characters. First display means 6 for displaying a word clause including a conversion candidate kanji character of a word in a clause, and if the kanji character displayed on the first display means 6 is not the intended kanji, the above list display This is achieved by providing second display means 7 for displaying a list of word clauses containing all other candidate Kanji characters of the above-mentioned word, in place of the Kana character.

[0005]

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the operation of the present invention. In step S1, kana characters are displayed in a list, and in step S2, kana characters designated from the kana characters listed are used to create word clauses. When the kana character phrase is created in this way, kanji conversion is performed in step S3, and in step S4, the word phrase including the converted first candidate kanji character is displayed. If the first converted Kanji character is not the target Kanji character, step S
Instead of displaying a list of kana characters in 6, a word clause including the conversion kanji characters of all other candidates is displayed, and the target kanji character is included from the displayed word clauses including the conversion kanji characters by the position specifying means. Character conversion is performed by selecting and specifying a word clause. In the conversion Kanji character display of the second stage, the second
In addition to displaying the converted characters after the candidate, the character conversion result of the first candidate may be displayed in a list. In this list display, when the conversion character results of all candidates cannot be displayed on the display device,
It can be scrolled.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings based on an embodiment of a character conversion device. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the embodiment. As shown in FIG. 3, a CPU 10, a ROM 12, a RAM 13, a video display processor (hereinafter referred to as VDP) 14 and an I / O are provided via a bus B.
The controller 17 is connected, the I / O controller 17 is connected to the tablet 18, and the VDP 14 is a videoram (hereinafter referred to as VRAM) 15 and the display device 3.
The display 16 of is connected. Where C
The PU 10 includes a kana list display means 1, a kanji conversion means 5, a first display means 6 and a second display means 7 and has a function of controlling the overall operation of the embodiment. The program for the operation is stored in the RAM 13, and the kana character data and the corresponding converted Chinese character data are stored in the RAM 13. Further, the VDP 14 has a function of displaying kana character data and converted kanji data on the display display 16 in accordance with a command from the CPU 10, and the VRAM 15 is
It has a function of storing kana character data and converted kanji character data read from the RAM 13. Then, the tablet 18 has a function as the position designation input means 4 to designate and select kana characters or word sections listed on the display display 16 by pointing the position on the pad with a pen, and the I / O controller 17 Has a function of controlling the operation of the tablet 18. 5 to 8 are explanatory diagrams of the display by the display display 16 of the embodiment. The display display 16 designates a list display surface 20 on which kana characters are normally displayed and a word clause including a word to be converted into kanji. A selection display surface 21 to be selected is provided.

Next, the operation of the embodiment having such a configuration will be described with reference to FIG. Here, FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment. In step S11 of FIG. 4, the list display surface 20 of the display display 16 is displayed as shown in FIG.
A list of Japanese syllabary of kana characters as shown in is displayed, and the kana characters on the list display surface 20 are specified by operating the tablet 18 to create a word clause "Kyoha".
Kana character data corresponding to the designated character signal from the I / O controller 17 is read from the RAM 13 by the instruction of the PU 10 and stored in the VRAM 15. Then, the relevant kana character data read from the VRAM 15 by the VDP 14 is displayed on the selection display surface 2 as shown in FIG.
The word section "Kyoha" is displayed in 1. Step S
It is determined in step 12 whether or not to convert kanji, and if the determination is YES, the process proceeds to step S13, and the CPU 1
The kanji conversion means 4 of 0 performs kanji conversion processing on the word portion of the word section, and the converted kanji data is VRAM.
It is stored in 15. Then, in step S14, the CPU1
In response to a command from the first display means 6 of 0, VDP 14
The first candidate converted Kanji character data is read from the RAM 15, and the word section “Kyowa” containing the first candidate converted Kanji characters is displayed on the selection display surface 21 of the display 16 as shown in FIG.

Therefore, in step S15, "Today" is
It is determined whether or not it is a word clause including a target Kanji character. In this case, the determination is NO. Therefore, in step S16, the VDP 14 is stored in the VRAM 15 according to a command from the second display means 7 of the CPU 10. Read the other candidate's converted Kanji data stored, step S
At 16, the word clauses containing the respective converted Kanji characters are displayed as shown in FIG. In this case, if all the word clauses including other candidate converted Kanji characters cannot be displayed on the list display surface 20 at one time, the scroll button 25 is displayed on the side of the list display surface 20. By operating the scroll button 25 with 18, it is possible to search for all word sections. If there is no word section including the target converted Kanji character in this search, it is determined in step S17 to stop and the process returns to step S11. If the decision in step S17 is NO, the word clause "Kyoha" containing the target converted Chinese character is selected in step S18 by the processing of the tablet 18 and displayed on the selection display surface 21. Then, in step S19, a confirmation process is performed, and the word clause "Kyoha" is input.

As described above, according to the embodiment, if the word phrase containing the first candidate converted Kanji character first displayed on the selection display surface 21 of the display display 16 is not the target word clause, the list display surface 20 is displayed. Instead of displaying a list of kana characters, all word clauses including other converted kanji sentences are displayed in a list. Therefore, it is possible to operate the tablet 18 from the listed word clauses to easily and quickly search for a word clause including the target converted Kanji character with a small number of operating procedures. As described above, since a large number of word clauses including the converted Kanji characters can be displayed at the same time without increasing the screen resolution of the display 16 of the display device 3, the word clauses including the converted Kanji characters can be quickly searched at a low manufacturing cost. It becomes possible to provide a device capable of doing so.

In the above embodiment, when the first candidate is not confirmed, the converted character results after the second candidate are displayed in the second stage list display. However, before or after the second candidate. It is also possible to display the first candidate after the candidate. In this way, for example, when the selection (confirmation) of the first candidate is not made by mistake and the list display of the second stage is performed, it is not necessary to start over again. Alternatively, when there is no suitable one even if the list of the second and subsequent candidates is displayed, and the first candidate has to be decided, there is no need to start over.

[0011]

As described above, according to the present invention, a word clause is created by using a designated kana character from the kana characters displayed in a list, and the word in the word clause is converted into a target kanji character. In the character conversion method of inputting characters, the converted kanji character of the first candidate of the word in the word clause is displayed by inputting the word clause, and the converted kanji character of the first candidate is not the target kanji character. , Instead of the Kana characters listed above, by displaying a list of word clauses containing all other candidate conversion Kanji characters of the above-mentioned words, the operation procedure of the word clauses containing the target conversion Kanji characters is reduced. It will be possible to search quickly. Further, according to the present invention, when a word clause is created from kana characters displayed in a list with kana characters designated by the position designation input means, the kanji conversion means converts the words in the above word clauses into target kanji characters and inputs the characters. In the character conversion device that performs the
The display means displays a word clause including the converted kanji character of the first candidate of the word in the word clause, and if the kanji character displayed by the first display means is not the target kanji character, the second display The means displays a list of word clauses containing all the other candidate Kanji characters of the above-mentioned word instead of the listed Kana characters, so that the word clause containing the target converted Kanji can be obtained without increasing the image resolution. It is possible to provide a character conversion device that can quickly perform character input with a simple operation.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a lock diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of a display screen when a kana character is designated and input on the display according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a display screen on the display display of the embodiment by the first display means of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a display screen on the display display of the embodiment by the second display means of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of inputting a word clause including a target converted Kanji character according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 kana list display means 3 display device 4 position designation input means 5 kanji conversion means 6 first display means 7 second display means 10 CPU 12 ROM 13 RAM 14 VDP 15 VRAM 16 display display 20 list display surface 21 selection display surface

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Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A character conversion method for converting a kanji character corresponding to kana character input, wherein a character conversion result including the first candidate kanji is displayed, and the first candidate character conversion result is not determined as a target conversion result. In this case, the character conversion method is characterized in that the character conversion results after the second candidate are displayed in a list and can be determined from these character conversion results. 2. The character conversion method according to claim 1, wherein when the character conversion after the second candidate cannot be displayed on one screen, scroll display is possible. 3. The kana character input is performed by sequentially selecting the kana characters listed on the display, and the kana character input and the first candidate display are performed in a margin other than the kana character list display. Character conversion method described in 2. 4. The character conversion method according to claim 3, wherein the list of the character conversion results after the second candidate is displayed in the kana character list display area. 5. A means for displaying a character including a first candidate Kanji corresponding to an inputted kana character on a display, and a conversion of the second candidate and thereafter when the converted character of the displayed first candidate is not confirmed. A character conversion device having means for displaying a list of results on a display and making it possible to determine from the displayed list. 6. A means for displaying a character conversion result of a first candidate including a kanji corresponding to an inputted kana character on a display device so that the character conversion result can be confirmed, and a character conversion result of the displayed first candidate is not confirmed. In this case, a character conversion device having means for displaying a list of the character conversion results after the second candidate on a display device so that the result can be confirmed. 7. A kana character list is displayed on a display unit, and kana characters corresponding to these kana characters are sequentially selected to generate an input kana character. The input kana character and the first candidate character are provided. 7. The character conversion device according to claim 6, wherein the conversion result is displayed in a margin portion of the kana character list display area, and the display in the second stage is performed in the kana character list display area.