JPH1040245A - Kanji input device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a KANJI (Chinese character) input device which enables retrieving KANJI desired to retrieve if a user knows its part of speech, radical, total number of the strokes or either of phonetical reading or Japanese reading and reduces the number of the candidates of retrieving KANJI data by retrieving each dictionary and leaving common KANJI to make them common, by adding a part of speech input means. SOLUTION: When the 'kan' of the input by phonetical and Japanese readings and the 'noun' of the input by the part of speech, etc., are respectively inputted from the ponetical and Japanese reading inputting means 14 and the part of speech inputting means 11 of a KANJI input part 1, this data is inputted to a selection part 4 through a buffer part 3. The selection part 4 executes the retrieving operation of the phonetical and Japanese reading dictionary 24 and the part of speech dictionary 21 of a dictionary part 2 and the processing of leaving only the common characters of respective candidate KANJI. Then these character KANJI are displayed on a display part 6 through a display control part 5.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a kanji input device, and more particularly to a kanji input device in a kanji conversion device for converting and outputting candidate kanji based on data input from kanji input means.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a kanji conversion apparatus of this kind, when searching for one-character kanji, the kanji is read by inputting one of the kanji reading of the kanji, the radical or the total number of strokes, or one of the groups. A method of narrowing down candidate kanji to be output and displayed by inputting by matching has been used.

As an example of the prior art, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-18 / 1990
No. 661, "Japanese input device" can be mentioned.

This Japanese input device is provided with a character-shaped component dictionary indicating the correspondence between character-shaped components and one-character kanji, and character-shaped component input means. By using the character-shaped component inputting means simultaneously with at least one of the means and the number of strokes inputting means, the character to be candidate is limited.

[0005]

However, in this conventional kanji conversion device, when searching for a one-character kanji character such as "kan", the candidate kanji character by the onn input means is "1".
65 "(" 167 "including Kunomi)
The radical input means is about "355", which means that the number of candidate kanji is large, so that searching for one kanji requires a lot of time and key operations, and also increases the number of input work steps. was there.

Further, in the Japanese input device described in the above-mentioned publication, there is a problem that it is necessary to know the structure of the kanji itself because "Kamae" is input by the character-shaped component input means.

An object of the present invention is to provide a part-of-speech input means so that a search can be performed if the part-of-speech, radical, total number of strokes, or honkun of a kanji to be searched is known, and each dictionary can be searched. It is an object of the present invention to provide a kanji input device which can reduce the number of candidates for search kanji data by searching and leaving a common kanji and making it common.

[0008]

According to the present invention, a kanji input means for inputting a kanji to be searched by a kanji reading, a radical input means for a radical input, and a total stroke number input means for a total stroke number input. A kanji conversion device for displaying kanji of candidate kanji data searched by data input from kanji input means having kanji input means, wherein the kanji input means comprises a part of speech input means for inputting kanji in the part of speech. Is obtained.

A kanji input unit including the part of speech input means, the radical input means, the total stroke number input means, and the onnism input means; the POS input means, the radical input means, the total stroke number input means, A buffer unit for temporarily storing data input by the on-speech input means, a part-of-speech dictionary indicating correspondence between data obtained from the part-of-speech input means and search kanji, obtained from the radical input means A radical dictionary indicating the correspondence between the data and the search kanji, a total stroke count dictionary indicating the correspondence between the data obtained from the total stroke input means and the search kanji, and the correspondence between the data obtained from the onn input means and the search kanji A dictionary unit having an on-dictionary dictionary indicating
According to which input means in the kanji input unit the data output from the buffer unit is selected and referred to a dictionary in the dictionary unit corresponding to the input unit and converted to one-character kanji data is received from the dictionary unit and searched for kanji. A kanji input device characterized by comprising a selection unit for sifting data candidates.

A display control unit for converting data input from the kanji input unit temporarily stored in the buffer unit and common data of a search kanji candidate output from the selection unit into display data; And a display unit for displaying the display data output from the unit.

[0011]

Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the kanji input device of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, a kanji input device according to the present embodiment includes a part-of-speech input unit 11 for inputting a kanji to be searched in its part of speech, and a radical input unit 1 for inputting in a radical.
2, a kanji input unit 1 including a total stroke number input means 13 for inputting with the total stroke number and a sound instruction input means 14 for inputting with the sound reading
A buffer unit 3 for temporarily storing data a, b, c, and d input by the part-of-speech input unit 11, radical input unit 12, total stroke number input unit 13, and on-student input unit 14, and part-of-speech input Part-of-speech dictionary 21 indicating the correspondence between the data obtained from means 11 and the search kanji, and radical dictionary 2 indicating the correspondence between the data obtained from radical input means 12 and the search kanji
2. Total stroke number dictionary 23 and onnun input means 14 indicating the correspondence between the data obtained from total stroke number input means 13 and the search kanji
The dictionary unit 2 including the on-dictionary dictionary 24 indicating the correspondence between the data obtained from the kanji and the search kanji, and the input e of the kanji input unit 1 corresponding to the data e output from the buffer unit 3 A selection unit 4 that receives data f, g, h, and i converted to one-letter kanji by selectively referring to a dictionary in the dictionary unit 2 and screens search kanji data candidates, and output from the selection unit 4 The display control unit 5 converts the common data j of the search kanji candidate and the data m stored in the buffer unit 3 into display data, and the display unit 6 that displays the display data k output from the display control unit 5. It is configured.

Next, FIGS. 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D show a part of the structure of the part-of-speech dictionary, the radical dictionary, the total stroke count dictionary and the on-diction dictionary in FIG. 1, respectively. is there.

The part-of-speech dictionary 21 is, as shown in FIG.
It is composed of an index A indicating the part-of-speech name of the kanji and a notation B indicating the kanji itself belonging to each part-of-speech name.

As shown in FIG. 2B, the radical dictionary 22 is composed of an index C indicating the radical of the kanji and a notation D indicating the kanji belonging to each radical.

Further, as shown in FIG. 2C, the total stroke count dictionary 23 is composed of an index E indicating the total stroke count of kanji and a notation F indicating the kanji itself belonging to each total stroke count.

Further, as shown in FIG. 2D, the kanji dictionary 24 is composed of an index G indicating kanji readings and kanji readings and a notation H indicating kanji belonging to each kanji reading.

From the kanji input unit 1, for example, the input of "On"
And the part-of-speech input “noun” are input, respectively.
1 is performed, and the kanji candidates shown in FIG. 2D and FIG.

Further, the selecting section 4 performs a process of leaving only the common kanji of the candidate kanji, and the candidate kanji is displayed on the display section 6 through the display control section 5.

By such an operation, the number of candidate kanji when "kan" is searched is "165" (167 if kun reading is included) by onion reading by onion input means 14, but the part of speech input means 11 "6" by using
Is limited to

Similarly, the number of candidate kanji when searching for “between” is “160” only in the onnun input unit 14, but is limited to “7” by using the part of speech input unit 11.

Next, the processing flow of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the flow of the normal process in FIG. 1, FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of the process in the search mode in FIG. 3, FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the flow of the process in the part of speech search mode in FIG. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the flow of the determination process in FIG.

During execution of the normal function (step S31),
The search mode conditions are checked (S32), and when the search mode is selected (Y in S32), the process of the search mode is started (S33).

In the search mode (S33), first, the display unit 6
Is displayed (S34), and the user inputs menu selection data (S35).

If the menu selection data is "1", the process enters a part of speech search mode (S36).

Then, the process of the part of speech search mode (to be described later with reference to FIG. 5) is completed, the selection condition is checked, and if the selection is completed (Y in S310), the finalization process is performed after the execution of the common process (S311). (S312) to end the process.

If N in S310, that is, if the selection has not been completed, the flow returns to S35 and the processing is again executed from the menu selection data input processing.

At S35, the menu selection data is "2",
When they are "3" and "4", the processing enters the radical search mode (S37), the number of strokes search mode (S38), and the sound training search mode (S39), respectively. Therefore, the description is omitted.

In the part-of-speech search mode of S36, as shown in FIG. 5, first, search data is input from the part-of-speech input means 11 (S361), and the selection unit 4 outputs candidate kanji by referring to the part-of-speech dictionary 21 (S362). ).

In the determination process of S312, as shown in FIG. 6, candidate kanji characters are scrolled and displayed (S31).
3) If the determination conditions are checked and determined (Y in S314)
The determined kanji is displayed on the display unit 6 through the display control unit 5, and the mode is terminated.

Note that N in S314, that is, if not determined, the flow returns to S313 to execute again from the scroll display.

[0033]

As described above, according to the present invention, there is provided a key input unit for inputting a kanji to be searched by a key reading, a key input unit for a radical input, and a total stroke number input unit for inputting a total stroke number. In a kanji conversion device that displays kanji of candidate kanji data searched by data input from provided kanji input means, the kanji input means includes part-of-speech input means for inputting kanji in the part of speech, and as an embodiment thereof, A kanji input unit including the part-of-speech input means, radical input means, total stroke count input means, and sound training input means; and temporarily stores data input by the part-of-speech input means, radical input means, total stroke count input means, and sound training input means. , A part-of-speech dictionary indicating the correspondence between the data obtained from the part-of-speech input means and the search kanji, and the data obtained from the radical input means and the search kanji. A dictionary unit comprising a radical dictionary indicating correspondence, a total stroke count dictionary indicating the correspondence between data obtained from the total stroke count input means and the search kanji, and a honkun dictionary indicating the correspondence between the data obtained from the honkun input means and the search kanji. According to which input means of the kanji input section the data output from the buffer section is selected and referred to the dictionary in the dictionary section corresponding to the input section, receives the data converted into one-character kanji from the dictionary section, and retrieves the candidate kanji data candidate. And a display unit for converting the common data of the search kanji candidate output from the selection unit and the data input from the kanji input unit temporarily stored in the buffer unit into display data. By providing a control unit and a display unit for displaying the display data output from the display control unit, it is possible to read the part of speech, radicals, total strokes, and onon reading Since the kanji search is performed using one or more of them, the kanji can be searched if you know any of the part of speech, radical, total stroke count, and onon reading of the kanji you want to search. Has the effect that it becomes possible to reduce

Further, since the selection is possible by using the part of speech and the onon reading as the objects of the input means, there is an effect that the number of candidate kanji can be reduced without knowing the structure of the kanji to be searched.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a kanji input device of the present invention.

2 (a), (b), (c), and (d) are diagrams each showing a part of the configuration of a part of speech dictionary, a radical dictionary, a total stroke count dictionary, and a pronunciation dictionary in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a flow of a normal process in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing in a search mode in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing in a part of speech search mode in FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a flow of a determination process in FIG. 4;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Kanji input part 2 Dictionary part 3 Buffer part 4 Selection part 5 Display control part 6 Display part 11 Part-of-speech input means 12 Radical input means 13 Total stroke number input means 14 Onon input means 21 Part-of-speech dictionary 22 Radical dictionary 23 Total stroke number dictionary 24 Onkun Dictionary A, C, E, G Index B, D, F, H Notation

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A kanji input means for inputting a kanji to be searched for by using a kanji reading, a radical input means for inputting a radical, and a total stroke number input means for inputting a total stroke number. A kanji conversion device for displaying a kanji character of a searched kanji data candidate, wherein the kanji input means includes a part-of-speech input means for inputting a kanji in the part of speech. 2. The part of speech input means, the radical input means,
A kanji input unit including the total stroke number input unit and the on-train input unit; and temporarily storing data input by the part-of-speech input unit, the radical input unit, the total stroke count input unit, and the on-train input unit. A buffer part, a part-of-speech dictionary indicating the correspondence between the data obtained from the part-of-speech input means and the search kanji, a radical dictionary indicating the correspondence between the data obtained from the radical input means and the search kanji, and the total number of strokes A dictionary unit including a total stroke count dictionary indicating the correspondence between the data obtained from the input means and the search kanji, and a kanji dictionary indicating the correspondence between the data obtained from the kanji input means and the search kanji; and a dictionary output from the buffer unit. Depending on which input means in the kanji input section the input data is, the corresponding dictionary in the dictionary section is selected and referred to, and data converted into one-character kanji is received from the dictionary section. Claim 1, characterized in that it comprises a selection unit for performing screening search graphic data candidates taking
The described kanji input device. 3. A display control unit for converting data input from said kanji input unit temporarily stored in said buffer unit and common data of a search kanji candidate output from said selection unit to display data, and said display control unit 3. The kanji input device according to claim 2, further comprising: a display unit that displays the display data output from the unit.