JPS6072013A - External character generating method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To generate easily a special external character by registering in advance a pattern of a constituting element of a Chinese character of ''Hen'' (a left-hand radical of a Chinese character), etc., in a memory, generating a desired Chinese character pattern by reading out said pattern, and correcting it partially. CONSTITUTION:A lot of patterns which has divided a Chinese character into each constituting element, for instance, ''Hen'', ''Tsukuri'' (a right-hand radical of a Chinese character), etc. are registered in advance in a memory. In case of generating an external character, a cursor 19 is moved to a prescribed position of a display 11, and a device is set to an external character resistering mode. For instance, in case of registering one Chinese character, the cursor 9 is aligned with the command area by a pointing device 15, and an operating button 17 is pushed. Also, each constituting element of the Chinese character is read out of said memory,and displayed in accordance with a keyboard 13. For example, upper radical and lower radical 24 of said Chinese character 32 as shown in a figure are selected from in said elements, and pattern information is displayed on an external character generating erea 32 in the shape of OR. After this character pattern is completed, it is sent to an external storage device and registered.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a method for creating external characters that is not registered in an image information processing device such as a word processor.

[Prior art]

For example, many Japanese word processors are 3000 to 6
It can print 1,000 types of kanji and special characters, allowing you to create everyday documents without any problems. However, there are far more than 10,000 types of kanji, and it is necessary to create new character patterns in order to print special names of people or places.

Character patterns have traditionally been created on the screen using a cursor and specific keys. That is, a method is adopted in which predetermined squares corresponding to dots in the print area are displayed on the display, and the print dots (black dots) are specified using keys while moving the cursor. In this method, it is necessary to repeat the cursor and key operations at least as many times as the total number of print dots. Therefore, while it is possible to use the widely used 16x16 dot or 24x24 dot character patterns, relatively high-grade image information processing devices that use 40x40 dots or more detailed character patterns require a lot of time to create external characters. There was a problem with putting it away. Furthermore, as the number of dots forming a character pattern increases, the degree of freedom in pattern creation increases, but at the same time it becomes difficult to create a character pattern in the same font as the font used in the image information processing device. There were also problems.

[Purpose of the invention]

In view of the above circumstances, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method for creating external characters that can easily create external characters in the same font as other kanji characters registered in the image information processing device.

[Structure of the invention]

In the present invention, patterns of constituent elements of kanji such as ``bakuben'' and ``tsukuri'' are registered in memory, and necessary ones are read out from these to create the desired kanji or a pattern similar to it on the screen. do. The created pattern or a partially modified pattern is then set as the pattern of the external character to be registered.

〔Example] The present invention will be described in detail with reference to Examples below.

FIG. 1 shows the external appearance of an image information processing apparatus that employs the external character creation method of this embodiment. A control unit main body 12 integrated with a display 11 and a keyboard 13 are connected by a connection cord 14.

A pointing device 15 placed on the desk is connected to the keyboard 13 by another connection cord 16.

FIG. 2 is a top view of the pointing device.

The pointing device 15 has two operating buttons 17.1.
8 is placed. These operation buttons 17 and 18 are used, for example, to cause the control unit main body 12 to start processing data at the stop position of the cursor 19 on the display 11 (FIG. 1). The pointing device 15 has a ball rotating body inside thereof, and this is always in contact with the surface of the desk. When the operator holds the pointing device 15 by hand and moves it on the desk, the ball rotating body rotates, and the amount of movement in the X and Y directions is detected in association with the XY coordinates. The amount of movement is converted into electrical signals in each of these directions and sent to the control unit main body 12.

FIG. 3 shows the main part of the circuit configuration of the image information processing device. The control unit has a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 2.
1 is listed. The data bus 22 of the CPU 21 includes a keyboard 13, first and second ROMs (read-only memories) 23 and 24, and a refresh memory 2.
5 and RAM (Random Access Memory) 26
is connected. The first ROM 23 is a memory that stores various programs for controlling this device.

The second ROM 24 is a memory that stores the constituent elements of kanji. The refresh memory 25 is a memory for synthesizing character patterns and supplying this to the display 11. The RAM 26 is a memory used for temporarily storing data during program execution. These memories are connected to the CPU 21 via an address bus 27. The address bus 27 and data bus 22 are also connected to an external storage device (not shown), so that external characters can be registered.

The manner in which external characters are created using such an image information processing apparatus will be described below. The operator first moves the cursor 19 to a predetermined location on the initial screen displayed on the display 11 after turning on the power, and sets the device to the external character registration mode. FIG. 4 shows the display area of the display in this mode. At the top of the display 11, a virtual keyboard 31 area is displayed. Below the virtual keyboard 31, a custom character creation area 32 and a command area 33 are displayed. The external character creation area 32 is displayed in squares corresponding to the number of dots constituting one character.

In the command area 33, as shown in Figure 6, "RE" is displayed.
Various commands such as ``A D'' and ``W RI T E'' are displayed.

Now, it is assumed that the kanji character "ma" is not registered in this image information processing device, and that it is registered as a non-standard character. The operator first operates the pointing device 15 to move the cursor 1
9 to the letters "REΔD'" in the command area 33, and press one of the operation buttons, for example, button 17.

Then, the CPLJ 21 reads the contents of the second ROM 24 and transfers them to the refresh memory 25. - As a result, each component of the kanji is displayed in the area of the virtual keyboard 31 in correspondence with the keyboard 13, as shown in FIG.

Here, the handler searches for hemp and hands, and presses the corresponding key on the keyboard 13.

Along with this, the pattern information of these configuration patterns is
The logical sum is written from the ROM 24 to the RΔM 26 in the form of a logical sum, and the contents are displayed in the external character creation area 32. FIG. 7 shows this situation. The operator operates the pointing device 15 to move the cursor 1 if necessary.
9 to a predetermined position in the external character creation area 32 and operate the operation button 17 or 18 to partially modify the character pattern. The modified contents are written into the RAM 26 each time. When the character pattern for the kanji "Ma" is completed, move the cursor 19 to "W" in the command area 33.
RI T E'', for example, the operation button 17 is pressed.As a result, the final character pattern in the RAM 26 is sent as a custom character pattern to the external storage device described above and registered.

With the same operation as above, for example, instead of the hand (dehen), the stone (
If you select ``Ishihen'', you can create the kanji ``calendar''. Also, if you select Itohen, you can create the kanji ``Kin''.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, not only can kanji be created in an extremely short time, but if shapes such as circles and mouths are prepared as constituent elements, kanji with circles and kanji with frames can be created. Special external characters can also be easily created.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings are for explaining one embodiment of the present invention, of which Figure 1 is a layout diagram of an image information processing device that creates external characters;
Fig. 2 is a plan view of the pointing device, Fig. 3 is a block diagram of the circuit portion of the image information processing device, Fig. 4 is a layout explanatory diagram showing the arrangement of display contents, and Fig. 5 is a plan view of the command area. , FIG. 6 is a plan view of the heart keyboard, and FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a method of creating the kanji character "Ma". 11... Display, 21... CPU. 24...Second ROM, 25...Refresh memory, 26...
・RAM. 32...External character creation area. Applicant Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. Representative Umeo Yamauchi Patent Attorney 1 Figure 3 Open Figure 2 Figure 1

Claims (1)

[Claims] Reads the pattern of the desired component from a memory in which many patterns of kanji are broken down into each component are registered in advance,
Create a character pattern by combining these on the screen,
A method for creating external characters characterized in that this character pattern or a character pattern obtained by partially modifying this character pattern is set as a character to be newly registered.