JPS6220091A - Handwritten character entry guide - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To write a legible character by providing a center line for dividing the inside of a quadrilateral frame into two in the upper and the lower horizontal directions, and vertical and horizontal direction lines for dividing it into three or more, and entering a character in accordance with these horizontal lines, vertical lines, etc. CONSTITUTION:A handwritten character entry guide 11 is provided on a paper surface 12, and constituted by providing a rectangular entry frame 13, and an entry guide outer frame 14 provided on the inside of this entry frame 13. On the inside of the entry guide outer frame 14, vertical lines 15, 16, horizontal lines 17, 18, a center vertical line 19, and a center horizontal line 20 are provided by a drop-out color. A character is entered by utilizing an intersection and a branch point of each line and four corners of the entry guide outer frame 14, for constituting the handwritten character entry guide 11, for writing each character, and tracing on each line of the entry guide outer frame 14 - the center horizontal line 20. Also, by utilizing the intersection and the branch point of said each line and the corners of the entry guide outer frame 14, for the write end of the character, all handwritten characters in common use can be entered without an error.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a handwritten character writing guide that serves as an auxiliary means for writing handwritten characters read by an optical character reading device or the like without errors.

(Summary of the Invention) The handwritten character entry guide according to the present invention includes a rectangular quadrilateral frame written on a paper surface, a central horizontal line dividing the quadrilateral frame into two in the vertical direction, and a center horizontal line dividing the quadrilateral frame into two in the vertical direction. Provided by at least one of a central vertical line that divides the quadrilateral frame into two parts in the horizontal direction, and a 9-dot line 9M continuous line in at least one of the vertical and horizontal directions to divide the inside of the quadrilateral frame into three or more parts. By simply writing characters along these horizontal lines, vertical lines, etc., anyone can write characters that are easy to read by an optical character reading device.

(Prior Art) When inputting information into a computer using an optical character reader (hereinafter referred to as OCR) that reads handwritten numbers, alphabetic characters, and kasa symbols, OCR is usually used to input this information without errors. Form forms are used.

FIG. 17 is a plan view showing an example of this type of form. As shown in this figure, this form 1 has a reading area (hereinafter referred to as a field) 3 that is the object of OCR reading, which can be set for each form, and this field 3 has a character frame 2 for writing handwritten characters. One character is provided.

In this case, in order to increase the OCR reading rate, the standard font (common handwritten characters) shown in Figure 18 is specified for the font of the characters written in this character frame 2, and
It has been standardized as IS. The person completing the form uses this font as a model when filling in the form, but in this case, a writing guide is often printed as a solid line or a broken line within the writing frame to ensure that the characters are written as close to the standard form as possible.

In the case of the mouth, the entry guide uses a color that cannot be read by OCR (drop-out color).

FIG. 19 is a plan view showing an example of such a writing guide. The writing guide 4 shown in this figure has two round marks 6.7 provided in the center of the writing frame 5, and the person writing the characters uses these round marks 6.7 as a guide as shown in Figure 20 (A). ~
Clean the letters as shown in (F). In addition to this entry guide 4, for example, an entry guide 8 as shown in FIG.
has already been put into practical use. Filling guide 8 shown in this figure
1 has a ``Dou'' mark 10 in the center of the writing frame 9, and the character entry person uses this ``+'' mark 10 as a guide to write the necessary characters.

(Problems to be solved by the invention) By the way, the conventional entry guide 4°8 as described above
Because it is extremely simple, it has the following drawbacks.

(b) There are no guide elements for the inclination of the vertical, horizontal, and diagonal straight lines that make up the characters. For this reason, in handwritten characters, Figure 22 (A
), the letter “I” in 50 people is the letter “T” in the alphabet.
In many cases, the alphabet "L" is misread as the Japanese syllabary "゛" as shown in FIG. 22(B).

(b) There are no guide elements for writing characters regarding the curved lines that make up the characters. For this reason, it is difficult to know what degree of curvature to write, and many deformations occur depending on the person writing. for example,
As shown in FIG. 22(C), there are many cases where the Japanese syllabary "7" is written as the Japanese syllabary "ko".

In other words, handwritten "fupa" is not read as "fupa".
is often misread.

(c) Since there are no guide elements that indicate the relative positions of the vertical, horizontal, and diagonal line segments that make up the characters, it is easy to create confusing characters when the characters have similar original shapes.

For example, as shown in FIG. 22(D), the number "5" may be confused with the alphabet "S".

For this reason, in order to increase the reading rate of OCR, handwritten characters for OCR (common handwritten characters) are
S'' is written as shown in Figure 22 (E). However, because the guide elements in entry guide 4.8 are too rough, many people write the alphabet S'' as shown in Figure 22 (D). I often write about For this reason, the expression becomes insufficient, and the shape is not much different from the free handwritten character shape described above. In other words, these characters cannot be read correctly by OCR or may be read incorrectly.

As another example, as shown in FIG. 22(F), the alphabet "B" is easily misread as the number "8".

(d) Since there are no id elements in the length of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal line segments, it is easy to polish confusing characters. If you look closely, the Japanese syllabary ``me'' and the operational symbol ``x'', the Japanese syllabary ``ku'' and the alphabet ``I'', and the Japanese syllabary ``nipa'' and the operational symbol ``na'' are typical examples. This is a typical example. In this case, the only distinguishing factor is the relative length of the line segment, and it is important to note whether the written character is the Japanese syllabary ゛me'' or the arithmetic symbol °゛×''. This results in glyphs that are difficult to decipher even for the average person.

In other words, to summarize (a) to (d) above, the conventional entry guide 4.8 has simple expressions, so it is insufficient as a guide to old glyph shapes that OCR can reliably read. . For this, look at the standard glyphs and OC
Even when writing characters to be read in R, the degree of freedom for the person writing them is too large, and it is easy for each person's name to be the same. Therefore, in the conventional entry guides 4 and 8, even if fillers are thoroughly trained in order to increase the OCR correct reading rate and reduce the erroneous reading rate, it is difficult to obtain the expected results.

In view of the above-mentioned circumstances, the present invention has been devised to provide a method that can extremely reduce individual differences between fillers and fill in handwritten characters that are easy to read for OCR by following the rules for using a fill-in guide. The purpose is to provide a written writing guide.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to solve the above problems, the handwritten character entry guide according to the present invention includes a rectangular quadrilateral frame written on a paper surface,
A central horizontal line that divides the inside of this quadrilateral frame into two in the vertical direction, a central vertical line that divides the inside of the quadrilateral frame into two in the horizontal direction, and a vertical line that divides the inside of the quadrilateral frame into three or more parts; It is characterized by having a line provided by at least one of a nine-dotted line and a continuous line in at least one of the horizontal directions.

(Embodiment) FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a first embodiment of a handwritten character entry guide according to the present invention. The two-person handwritten character guide 11 shown in this figure is provided on a paper surface 12, and includes a rectangular entry frame 13 and an entry guide outer frame (quadrilateral frame) provided inside this entry frame 13. 14.

The entry guide outer frame 14 is composed of a rectangular frame line (color is a drop-out color), and inside it is a vertical line 15.1 in a drop-out color.
6, horizontal line 17.18, center vertical line 19, center horizontal line 2
0 is provided.

The vertical line 15 is located at a distance (
1 to the right and to the left of the center vertical line 19, its upper and lower ends coincide with the upper and lower ends of the writing guide outer frame 14, respectively, and its center portion is cut off. This vertical line 15 serves as a guide when handwriting a vertical line shifted leftward from the center.

Further, the vertical line 16 is located to the left by a distance of 12 (-J!1) from the right end of the writing guide outer frame 14, and the center vertical line 1
It is provided on the right side of the frame, and its upper and lower ends are similar to the vertical line 15 and the upper end of the writing guide outer frame 14,
Each corresponds to the lower end and is cut in the middle. This vertical line 16 serves as a guide when handwriting a vertical line shifted to the right from the center.

In other words, these vertical lines 15 and 16 are the Japanese alphabet “O+Z”
It serves as a guide for drawing vertical lines such as ``II'' and ``SE''.

Further, the horizontal line 17 is provided a distance z3 below the upper end of the entry guide outer frame 14 and above the center horizontal line 20, and this horizontal line 17 is a horizontal line shifted upward from the center. Become a guide in time.

Further, the horizontal line 18 is provided above the lower end of the writing guide outer frame 14 by a distance N4 (13) and below the center horizontal line 20, and this horizontal line 18 and the left and right ends of the horizontal line 17 coincide with the left end and right end of the writing guide outer frame 14, respectively, and are cut at their central portions. And these horizontal lines are the 50 syllabary “ku′°,”
“O”.

“Power”, “K”, numbers 4’, “5”, symbol “#”
This will serve as a guide when filling in the following information.

Further, the center vertical line 19 is provided at a position that vertically divides the inside of the writing guide outer frame 14 into two (or approximately two halves), and its upper and lower ends are the upper and lower ends of the writing guide outer frame 14. are in agreement with each other. This center vertical line 19 is the 50-syllabary character "A".

゛I'', ``TS'' and alphabet digits'', ゛Y
This will serve as a guide when drawing vertical lines such as ”.

Further, the center horizontal line 20 is provided at a position that horizontally divides the inside of the writing guide outer frame 14 (or approximately 2 minutes), and its left and right ends are located at the left and right ends of the writing guide outer frame 14, respectively. Match.

This center horizontal line 20 is the alphabet "B", "l [E H, 11F 11, 1181
1 and the symbol ml + +? This will serve as a guide when drawing horizontal lines such as.

Note that in this case, the distance [1, f! 2 or distance J3. ρ
4 may be of any size as long as it does not look particularly unnatural, and does not necessarily have to be Fl-12, f13-(4).

In this way, in this embodiment, the writing guide outer frame 14.
1 line 15.16, horizontal line 17.18, center vertical line 19, and center horizontal line 20 constitute the handwritten character entry guide 11, as shown in FIGS. 2(A) to 2(D), respectively. The intersections and branching points of the lines constituting this handwritten character writing guide 11 and the four corners of the writing guide outer frame 14 are used to write each character, and each line from the writing guide outer frame 14 to the center horizontal line 20 is Trace and write the letters,
By using the intersections and branch points of these lines and the corners of the writing guide outer frame 14 to finish writing characters, all commonly used handwritten characters can be written without errors.

In other words, the shapes of commonly used handwritten characters specified by JIS are such that similar characters can be easily identified by OCR, as shown in Figure 18, but among these shapes, the 3rd
If the characters shown in the figure are insufficiently filled in for the protruding keys necessary for OCR to identify them (the part surrounded by O in Figure 3), the person writing them may have to write the letterforms according to the model. Even if you intend to write it, it becomes difficult for OCR to read it correctly. However, in this embodiment, the length of the protrusion and the key is a distance of 1 to f! Enter the letter O to make it 4.
It is possible to have CR recognize it correctly.

In addition, if the protrusion is written in accordance with the standard handwritten character model, there will be no problem, but as shown in Figure 4, this is not sufficient in the conventional handwritten character entry guide, so it may be misread by other characters. , there are many cases where it is not possible to continue correctly, but this example handwritten character entry guide 1
In the case of 1, such misreading does not occur because the distance is 1 to (4) is the protrusion length.

Furthermore, even if the protrusions, keys, etc. were written correctly, the conventional, old-fashioned character entry guides were unable to adequately guide the inclination of the line segments of the written characters, as shown in Figure 5. In the example, since it is possible to determine from which position and in which direction the line segment should be placed for these characters, such inconvenience does not occur.

Furthermore, in the handwritten character entry guide 11 shown in this embodiment, the handwritten character entry guide 11 is also configured for characters that can be distinguished from other characters only by the length of a line segment, such as characters shown in FIG. Since these lengths are regulated by each line segment, even these characters can be read correctly by OCR.

FIG. 7 is a plan view showing a second embodiment of the present invention. The difference between the handwritten character entry guide 11-2 shown in this figure and the old-fashioned character entry guide 11 shown in FIG.
; At the same time as providing a line in the center part of 16-2, cut out a part slightly away from this center part, and add a horizontal line 17-
2. I made the cut of 18-2 a little more interesting.

This makes it possible to clarify the mutual relationship between the vertical lines 15 and 16 and the horizontal lines 17 and 18, making it easier to write characters. Even with this configuration, characters can be written in the same manner as in the first embodiment described above.

FIG. 8 is a plan view showing a third embodiment of the present invention. The handwritten character entry guide 11-3 shown in this figure is different from the handwritten character entry guide 11 shown in FIG.
．． 16-3, horizontal line 17-3, area 21 of '18-3
The part inside was deleted. Even in this case, accurate characters can be entered using the same entry procedure as in the first embodiment described above.

FIG. 9 is a plan view showing a fourth embodiment of the present invention. The difference between the handwritten character entry guide 11-4 shown in this figure and the handwritten character entry guide 11 shown in Fig. 1 is that the horizontal line 17-4
．． 18-4 is shown as a dashed line. Even in this case, entries can be made in the same manner as in each of the embodiments described above.

FIG. 10 is a plan view showing a fifth embodiment of the present invention. The handwritten character entry guide 11-5 shown in this figure is different from the handwritten character entry guide 11 shown in FIG.
5.16-5 and the horizontal line 17-5.18-5 are changed to dashed lines.

Even in this case, entries can be made in the same manner as in each of the embodiments described above.

Handwritten character entry guides 11-a and 11-b shown in the plan views of FIGS. 11(A) and 11(B) are examples considered as derivatives of the handwritten character entry guide 11 not shown in FIG. 1, respectively. These handwritten character entry guides 11-a, 11-b
are obtained by adding a diagonal line 24-8°24-b to the handwritten character entry guide 11 shown in FIG. 1, respectively.

In addition, the handwritten character entry guides 11-2a and 11-2b shown in the plan views of FIGS. 12(A) and 12(B) are examples considered as derivatives of the handwritten character entry guide 11-2 shown in FIG. 7, respectively. It is. These handwritten characters entry guide 1
1-2a and 11-2b are the handwritten characters shown in FIG. 7, with diagonal lines 24-2a and 24-2b added to the id 11-2.

Furthermore, the old-fashioned character entry guides 11-3a and 11-3b shown in the plan views of FIGS. Here is an example: These handwritten characters entry guide 1
1-3a and 11-3b are obtained by adding diagonal lines 24-3a and 24-3b to the handwritten character entry guide 11-3 shown in FIG. 8, respectively.

The handwritten character entry guides 11-4a and 11-4b shown in the plan views of FIGS. 14(A) and 14(B) can be considered as derivatives of the handwritten character entry guide 11-4 shown in FIG. 9, respectively. These handwritten character entry guides 1l-4a,
1l-4b is obtained by adding diagonal lines 24-4a and 24-4b to the old-fashioned character entry guide 11-4 shown in FIG. 9, respectively. In addition to the diagonal lines 24-48 and 24-4b, characters can be written in the same manner as in each of the above-described embodiments.

Further, the handwritten character entry guides 1l-5a and 11-5b shown in FIGS. 15(Δ) and 11-5b are considered as derivatives of the handwritten character entry guide 11-5 shown in FIG. 10, respectively. These handwritten characters entry guide 1l-5a,
11-5b is obtained by adding diagonal lines 24-5a and 24-5b to the handwritten character entry guide 11-5 shown in FIG. 10, respectively. In this way, diagonal lines 24-5a, 24-5b
In addition, characters can be written in the same manner as in each of the above-mentioned embodiments.

And in the case where these diagonal lines 24-a to 24-5b are provided, the 50-syllabary letter ゛o'' is used.

゛゛IZII゛゛゛゛′,゛ノ゛゛゛゛, alphabet 1
-(7) Diagonal lines such as "Mn,""X,""Y,""Z," the number 1171+, and the symbol *" can be easily written.

As described above, in each of these embodiments, the writing guide outer frame 14, the vertical lines 15 to 15-5, 16 to 16-5, the horizontal lines 17 to 17-5, 18 to 18-5, and the center vertical line 19 and a center horizontal line 20. Therefore, when handwritten characters written using the handwritten character entry guides 11 to 11-5b of this embodiment are read by OCR, it is different from that using the conventional handwritten character entry guide. The following effects and features can be obtained when compared to when the entry guide is not used at all, or when the entry guide is not used at all.

(1) It is possible to greatly reduce the variation for each filler. In particular, the vertical and horizontal straight lines that make up the letters are traced over the guide, including their relative positions and lengths, so individual differences in writing are less likely to occur.Next, let's look at the diagonal lines that make up the letters. Also, the elements of deformation are small because the character shape is written using the vertical and horizontal intersections and branching points as key points.

(2) Misreading during OCR reading can be drastically reduced.

This will be explained below in relation to the main causes of misreading.

(b) Misreading caused by writing vertical and horizontal straight lines as diagonal straight lines as shown in Figure 16 (A).

As mentioned above, the handwritten character entry guide 11-11 of the present invention
~ 5b is written by tracing on the vertical and horizontal straight lines, so unless the person writing ignores the writing guide, there will be no misreading.

(b) Misreading caused by mixing horizontal line components into diagonal lines as shown in FIGS. 16(B) and (C).

This handwritten character entry guide (11-1l-5t) provides examples of how to bend diagonal line segments at guide positions and where to end them, so it is possible to thoroughly learn this through simple writing training. can.

(c) Misreading due to short line segments as shown in FIGS. 16(D) and (E).

In this handwritten character entry guide 11 to 11-5b, vertical lines or horizontal lines (however, vertical lines) are used next to the beans.

(excluding each horizontal center line) is the minimum unit of a short line segment. Therefore, line segments below this do not exist unless the entry guide is ignored, so misreading as in the above example does not occur.

(d) Misreading due to insufficient protrusion as shown in Fig. 16 (F), (G), and (H).

In this case, similar to (c) above, the length of the protrusion is
In this handwritten character entry guide 11 to 1l-5b, the interval between vertical or horizontal line segments is set to be greater than or equal to the interval between vertical or horizontal line segments.

Therefore, cases like the above example will not occur as long as the entry guidelines are followed.

(e) Misreading due to characters being too small as shown in Figure 16N).

With the exception of specific characters such as the comma (1), general characters are basically written so that they touch the guides at both the top and bottom and left and right ends of the writing guide both vertically and horizontally. Therefore, in the case of "8 pa" in the above example, the curve of the lower loop can be exemplified so as to be in contact with the guides on both sides, and as long as this is done properly, misreading as "9" will not occur.

From the above examples, it can be seen that by using the hand-written criminal guides 11 to 1l-5b of this embodiment and following the simple entry instructions, the number of misreadings can be drastically reduced and approached zero.

(3) The correct reading rate during OCR reading can be significantly improved.

As a result of (1) above, there is almost no variation in character shape due to individual differences, and written characters are shaped so that OCR can easily read them correctly, so it is expected that the correct reading rate will approach 100%. .

(4) It is easy to ensure thorough training in writing.

When writing each character using the handwritten character entry guides 11 to 1l-5b, it is possible to specifically instruct the writing start point and end point of each line segment using the coordinate position of the guide. In addition, the length and direction of line segments can be similarly defined.

In particular, the vertical and horizontal line segments can be drawn by tracing on the straight lines of this entry guide. From these points, it is possible to provide more specific guidance on simple entry rules, making it easier to ensure thoroughness.

(Effects of the Invention) As explained above, according to the present invention, if the rules for using the entry guide are followed when filling in, it is possible to extremely reduce individual differences between the persons filling out the form, and handwritten characters with a shape that is easy for OCR to read. can be filled in.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 (A
) is a plan view showing an example of writing in 50 syllabary characters using this first embodiment, FIG. 2 (B) is a plan view showing an example of writing numbers using this first example, and FIG. C) is a plan view showing an example of alphabet entry using this first embodiment, and FIG.
D) is a plan view showing an example of symbol entry using this first embodiment, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a character pattern for explaining this first embodiment, and FIG. 4 is a plan view showing an example of writing symbols using this first embodiment. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing yet another example of a character pattern to explain this first embodiment. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing another example of a character pattern to explain this first embodiment. FIG. 7 is a plan view showing the second embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 8 is a plan view showing the third embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 9 is a plan view showing the third embodiment of the present invention. A plan view showing the fourth embodiment of the first embodiment.
Figure 0 is a plan view showing the fifth embodiment of the present invention, and Figure 11 (A
12 (A>, (B) are plan views each showing a modification of the second embodiment, and FIG. 13 (A>, (B) is a plan view showing a modification of the third embodiment, and FIGS.
A plan view showing a modification of the embodiment, FIGS. 15(A) and 15(B)
16(A) is a plan view showing a modification of the fifth embodiment, and FIG.
) to (I) are diagrams each showing an example of a character pattern for explaining each embodiment, FIG. 17 is a plan view showing an example of a form, and FIG. FIG. 19 is a plan view showing an example of a conventional entry guide, and FIGS. 20 (A) to (F) are the first
Plan view showing an example of filling in the filling guide shown in Figure 9, No. 21
The figure is a plan view showing an example of a conventional writing guide, and FIGS. 22(A) to 22(F) are pattern diagrams showing examples of writing with the conventional writing guide. 11...Handwritten character entry guide, 12...Paper, 1
3... Entry frame, 14... Quadrilateral frame (outer entry guide frame), 15.16... Line (vertical line), 17.18... Line (horizontal line), 1... Center Vertical line, 20...center horizontal line. Patent applicant Tateishi Electric Co., Ltd. agent Patent attorney Tetsuji Iwakura (and 1 other person) Figure 3 Figure 4 (and)
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Claims (1)

[Claims] A rectangular quadrilateral frame drawn on the paper, a central horizontal line that divides the quadrilateral frame into two vertically, a central vertical line that horizontally divides the quadrilateral frame into two, and the quadrilateral. 3 inside the frame
1. A handwritten character writing guide, comprising: a line formed by at least one of a dot, a dotted line, and a continuous line in at least one of the vertical and horizontal directions to divide the guide into two or more parts.