KR100728753B1 - Method for inputing HANGUL into mobile phone and keyboard - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a Hangul input method of the wireless terminal and a dial that implements the method, and to a method for enabling convenient and rapid input of Hangul using a limited button in a wireless terminal such as a mobile phone or a PCS phone.

The present invention comprises 10 numeric buttons ranging from '0' to '9' in which 14 Korean consonants are displayed; Up, down, left and right direction buttons displaying a Hangul vowel located at the center of the upper end of the number button; Consists of a conversion button and a special character button to switch between Korean / English / numeric mode.

According to the present invention, when the character is input, there is an advantage that the character can be input simply and quickly. In addition, when an individual or a company advertises itself or promotes the corporate product, etc., it is possible to make it remembered and easily remembered by the other party or the consumer by using a telephone number corresponding to the product, etc., thereby having an excellent advertisement and promotion effect.

Wireless terminal, Korean input, number button, direction button, special character button

Description

Hangul input method of wireless terminal and character board embodying the method {Method for inputing HANGUL into mobile phone and keyboard}

1 is a block diagram showing a Hangul input device of a typical wireless terminal,

2 is a view showing a dial of a mobile phone for the Hangul input method of the conventional 'Cheonjiin' of Samsung,

3 is a view showing a dial according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a view showing a dial according to another embodiment of the present invention.

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10: central processor 20: input unit

30: liquid crystal display 40: memory

100: dial of the present invention

The present invention relates to a Hangul input method of a wireless terminal and a dial that implements the method, and to a method for enabling convenient and rapid input of Hangul using a limited button in a wireless terminal such as a mobile phone or a PCS phone. .

Due to the development of mobile communication technology, the number of users of wireless terminals such as mobile phones and PCS phones is increasing rapidly. Accordingly, various services available through wireless terminals are being provided. Accordingly, the necessity of inputting a character, particularly convenient Hangul, in a wireless terminal is increasing.

In particular, unlike the second generation mobile communication (2G, cellular and PCS), which are voice-oriented mobile communication, it is called next generation mobile communication or third generation mobile communication system (3G), and is a multimedia mobile communication person that can transmit and receive voice and video data. If IMT-2000 is commercialized, character input function through wireless terminal will become more important.

1 is a block diagram showing a Hangul input device of a typical wireless terminal. As shown in FIG. 1, a Korean input device of a general terminal includes a central processor 10 for controlling a system of a wireless terminal; An input unit 20 connected to the central processor 10 and composed of a plurality of buttons such as direction buttons and numeric buttons; A liquid crystal display unit 30 connected to the central processor 10 and the input unit 20 to display a result processed by the central processor 10 and to display a value input from the input unit 20; The memory 40 is connected to the central processor 10 and includes a Korean font.

In the general wireless terminal configured as described above, when a user inputs a number or Korean through the input unit 20, the central processor 10 processes the input value and displays the input number on the screen 30 as it is. The Hangul is searched for the input value using the Hangul font embedded in the Hangul font memory 40, and converted from the Hangul combination code to the Hangul completion code according to the Hangul input internal autometer by the Hangul input button. Mark it.

The Korean input method of the conventional wireless terminal may include Samsung's 'Cheonjiin' or LG Information Communication's 'Naratgle 2000'.

2 is a diagram showing a dial of a mobile phone for the Hangul input method of the conventional 'Cheonjiin' of Samsung. 'Cheonjiin' consists of all vowels in the combination of thousand (·), ji (ㅡ), and phosphorus (ㅣ). The vowel 'ㅏ' combines 'ㅣ' and '·', and 'ㅑ' is 'ㅣ' , The combination of '·' and '·' is inputted.

Consonants are assigned two consonants to a button, press the button once or twice to enter the consonants, and 'ㄲ', 'ㄸ', 'ㅃ' and the like sound is entered by pressing three times in a row.

'Naratgle 2000' is a basic consonant of 'ㄱ', 'ㄴ', 'ㄹ', 'ㅁ', 'ㅅ' and 'ㅇ', and the 'overwrite' function allows input of other consonants. For example, the consonant 'ㄷ' is entered as a combination of 'b' and 'overwriting', and 'ㅈ' is entered as a combination of 'ㅅ' and 'overwriting'.

However, such a conventional Hangul input method has a problem in that it is difficult to use vowels and consonants by dividing the vowels and consonants with both hands because they divide the number buttons from '0' to '9' and allocate vowels and consonants.

 The present invention is to solve the above problems, the object of the present invention is to display only the consonants in the number button, the vowel in the directional buttons without displaying both the consonants and vowels of the Hangul on the number button The consonant can be used clearly. It is still another object of the present invention to provide a Hangul input method in a wireless terminal that enables the number and consonant to be connected one-to-one so that the number of the mobile phone can be used for advertisement.

In the present invention for achieving the above object in the method for inputting Hangul in a wireless terminal, 14 Hangul consonants are displayed divided into 10 number buttons of 0 ~ 9 located at the bottom of the dial, Hangul vowel in the center of the upper end of the dial It is displayed by 4 direction buttons up, down, left and right, '*' button is used as a switching button of Korean / English / numeric mode, and '#' button is used as a special character button to input Korean characters.

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In more detail, the 14 Korean consonants display consonants' ㄱ 'and consonants' ㅋ' together on one number button, and likewise consonants' ㄷ 'and consonants' ㅌ', consonants' ㅈ 'and consonants' ',' Consonant 'ㅍ' and consonant 'ㅎ' together on one number button, and the remaining consonants 'ㄴ', 'ㄹ', 'ㅁ', 'ㅂ', 'ㅅ', 'ㅇ' You can input Hangul by displaying each one on a different number button.

In the up, down, left, and right arrow buttons, the vowel 'ㅡ' is displayed on the top button, the vowel 'ㅗ' and the vowel 'TT' on the lower button, the vowel 'ㅣ' on the right button, and the vowel 'ㅏ' and the vowel 'ㅓ' on the left button. Hangul can be entered.

The dial of the wireless terminal for realizing the method of inputting the Hangul of the wireless terminal of the present invention is located at the bottom of the dial 10 number buttons for displaying the Hangul consonants; Four direction buttons located in the center of the upper end of the dial and displaying Korean alphabet up, down, left and right; It is characterized by consisting of a special character button having a function for inputting a special character by using a switch button and a '#' button to switch to Korean / English / numeric mode using the '*' button.

The direction button is configured such that when the boundary between the adjacent buttons is pressed, two Hangul vowels displayed on both adjacent buttons are combined and input together.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. 3 is a view showing a dial according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 4 is a view showing a dial according to another embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in Figure 3, in one embodiment of the present invention, the dial is divided into an upper end and a lower end. The upper part places the menu button, the call button, the direction button, the end button, and the lower part places the number buttons 0-9, the special character * and the special character # button.
That is, the number buttons for displaying the Korean consonants are arranged at the lower end of the letter board, and the Korean vowels are arranged in the shape of the letter direction buttons.
In the up, down, left, and right directional buttons, the upper button (▲) is a vowel 'ㅡ', the lower button (▼) is a vowel 'ㅗ' and a vowel 'TT', and the right button (▶) is a vowel 'ㅣ'. ), The vowel 'ㅏ' and the vowel 'ㅓ' can be displayed to input Korean characters.
'*' Button is used as a switching button of Korean / English / numeric mode and '#' button is used as a special character button.

Here '모음', 'ㅕ', 'ㅛ', etc. '은' is entered by pressing the two buttons 'ㅏ' and 'ㅡ', 'ㅕ' is the two '개의' and 'ㅡ' Input by pressing button, 'ㅛ' is input by pressing two buttons, 'ㅗ' and 'ㅣ'.

However, when entering a vowel such as 'ㅚ' or 'ㅟ', the '모음' button once and the 'ㅣ' button 2 Press to enter. In case of 'ㅟ', if you press 'TT' and 'ㅣ' button, 'vo' will be input. So, press 'TT' button and 'ㅣ' button 2 times.

When entering a vowel of 'ㅞ', press the 'TT' button once, the 'ㅓ' button once, and the 'ㅣ' button once.

Some examples of Hangul input by the Hangul input method of the wireless terminal according to the present invention are as follows.

W-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅓ' (ㅏ button 2) + 'ㅡ' (ㅡ button once)

Example-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅓ' + 'ㅡ' (ㅡ button once) + 'ㅣ' (ㅣ button once)

On-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅓ' + 'ㅣ' (ㅣ button once)

Hey-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅏ' (ㅏ button once) + 'ㅡ' (ㅡ button once)

Ah-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅏ' + 'ㅣ' (ㅣ button once)

This-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅏ' + 'ㅡ' (ㅡ button once) + 'ㅣ' (ㅣ button once)

Yo-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅗ' (ㅗ button once) + 'ㅣ' (ㅣ button once)

Etc-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅗ' + 'ㅣ' (ㅣ button 2)

Why-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅗ' + 'ㅏ' + 'ㅣ' (ㅣ button once)

U-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅜ' (ㅗ button 2) + 'ㅣ' (ㅣ button once)

Up-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅜ' + 'ㅣ' (ㅣ button 2)

Web-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅜ' + 'ㅓ' + 'ㅣ' (ㅣ button once)

This-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅣ' (ㅣ button once)

U-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅡ' (ㅡ button once)

Consonant input is done by the following method. The consonant 'ㄱ' and the consonant 'ㅋ' together on the number '3' button, the consonant 'ㄷ' and the consonant 'ㅌ' together on the number '9' button, and the consonant 'ㅈ' and the consonant 'ㅊ' Is displayed together with the number '0' button, and the consonant 't' and the consonant 'ㅎ' are displayed together with the number '7' button, and the remaining consonants 'b', 'ㄹ', 'ㅁ', 'ㅂ', 'ㅅ' and 'ㅇ' are displayed on the numbers '6', '2', '1', '4', '5' and '8' buttons respectively.

'된', 'ㄸ', 'ㅃ', etc., 'ㄲ' press the number '3' button three times in a row, 'ㄸ' press the number '9' button three times in a row, 'ㅃ' Is entered by pressing the number 4 button twice in succession.

On the other hand, the input of the consonant according to the present invention to avoid having to press the button three times when the input of the sound as described above 'b' and 'ㅌ', 'ㅇ' and 'ㅋ', ' ',' And 'ㅊ' and 'ㄷ' and 'ㅎ' are displayed together on one button, and other consonants, including consonant consonants, are displayed on one button for each consonant. It is also possible to enter it by pressing it once.

On the other hand, in the present invention, the direction button is configured to be input together by combining the two Hangul vowels displayed on both adjacent buttons when pressing the boundary between the adjacent buttons, input the vowel 'ㅢ' with reference to the dial of FIG. An example will be described below. If the upper part of the direction button and the right part of the button is pressed, the upper button and the right button are input with minute time interval. At this time, if two buttons are pressed within the set time by setting a certain time interval of 0.2 to 0.3 seconds, one vowel can be displayed by combining the vowels displayed on the two buttons. You can display the vowel 'ㅢ' by pressing the border of the and right buttons. That is, when pressing the boundary portion, two adjacent buttons are pressed with a small time interval, so that two vowels displayed on two adjacent buttons are combined and displayed as one vowel.

In this way, the vowel 'ㅑ' presses the boundary between the top and left buttons on the direction button, and the vowel 'ㅕ' presses the border between the top and left buttons and then presses the left button once more. Press the lower part of the border button and the right button, the vowel 'ㅠ' press the lower part of the button and the right button, then press the lower button once more.

In the case of the vowel 'ㅚ', press the border between the bottom and right buttons, and then press the right button again to enter.

The present invention can be implemented in other ways in addition to the above embodiments. 4 is a view showing a dial according to another embodiment of the present invention. According to FIG. 4, a vowel 'ㅖ' and a vowel 'ㅒ' can be inputted with a button indicating the vowel '|'. In other words, if you press the 'ㅣ' button twice after the consonant, the 'ㅖ' vowel will be input. If you press the 'ㅣ' button three times, the 'ㅒ' vowel will be input. In addition, the vowel 'ㅡ' button displays the vowel 'ㅙ' and the vowel 'ㅞ'. That is, if you press the 'ㅡ' button twice after the consonant, the 'ㅙ' vowel will be input, and if you press the 'ㅡ' button three times, the 'ㅞ' vowel will be input. Some examples of Hangul input according to the embodiment are as follows.

Example-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅖ' (ㅣ button 2)

This-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅒ' (ㅣ button 3)

Why-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅙ' (ㅡ button 2)                     

Web-> 'ㅇ' + 'ㅞ' (ㅡ button 3)

The input method of vowels and consonants other than vowels in the above example is the same as in the above embodiment.

On the other hand, according to the Hangul input method of the present invention by connecting the number and the consonant one-to-one can achieve the advertising effect using the mobile phone number. Referring to FIG. 3, for example, when a name such as' Seocho-dong Korea Telecom 'or' Seocho-dong Korean Meat 'or' Korea Telecom Freetel 'is to be indicated by a number, only the first consonant of each letter is followed by' Seocho-dong Korea Telecom. '5' corresponding to 'ㅅ', '0' corresponding to 'ㅊ', '9' corresponding to 'ㄷ', '9' corresponding to 'ㅎ', '7' corresponding to 'ㅎ' , By the number '3' corresponding to 'ㄱ' and '9' corresponding to the number 'ㅌ'

Seocho-dong Korea Telecom -----> 5 0 9-7 3 9 5

In the case of Seocho-dong spiny meat,

Seocho-dong Spiny Meat -----> 5 0 9-3 5 3 3

In the case of KT Freetel,

Korea Telecom Freetel -----> 7 3 9 5 7 2 9

Can be expressed as:

Or 8 letters of Hangul like Seocho-dong Far East Car Rental

Seocho-dong Far East Rental Car -----> 5 0 9 3 9 2 9 3

It can also be represented numerically as

As described above, in the present invention, by displaying only 14 consonants without displaying a vowel on the number buttons from '0' to '9', a specific word or a trade name or a product is represented by a phone number corresponding to only the first consonant of the letter. Made it possible.

On the other hand, the detailed description of the present invention has been described with respect to specific embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention. In particular, the present invention can be used not only for wireless terminals but also for Korean input methods in general landline telephones.

According to the present invention, when a character is input in a wireless terminal, the number of times of inputting a button can be reduced compared to the case of Korean input by a conventional method. In addition, by displaying all the consonants on the 10 number buttons and the vowels on a separate button, it is possible to represent a specific word or trade name or product as a number phone number, so that an individual or a company advertises itself When promoting, using the phone number corresponding to the product can be remembered for a long time and easily to the counterpart or consumer, it has an excellent advertising promotional effect.

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In the method of inputting Hangul into the dial of the wireless terminal, 14 Korean consonants are displayed by dividing them into 10 number buttons of 0 ~ 9 located at the bottom of the dial, and the Korean alphabet is represented by 4 direction buttons located at the top of the dial. The '*' button is displayed in Korean, English, and numbers. Hangul input method of the wireless terminal, characterized in that using the mode switching button, using the '#' button as a special character button to input Hangul. The method of claim 1, In the number button, one consonant 'ㄱ' and one consonant 'ㅋ', one consonant 'ㄷ' and one consonant 'ㅌ', one consonant 'ㅈ' and one 'son' On the number buttons, The Korean input method of a wireless terminal, characterized in that the remaining consonants 'ㄴ', 'ㄹ', 'ㅁ', 'ㅂ', 'ㅅ', 'ㅇ' are displayed on a different number button. The method of claim 1, The directional buttons display the vowel 'ㅡ' at the top button, the vowel 'ㅗ' and the vowel 'TT' at the bottom button, the vowel 'ㅣ' at the right button, and the vowel 'ㅏ' and the vowel 'ㅓ' at the left button. Hangul input method of a wireless terminal, characterized in that the input. In the dial for realizing a method of inputting Hangul of a wireless terminal, 10 numeric buttons located at the bottom of the dial and displaying Korean consonants; Four direction buttons located in the center of the upper end of the dial and displaying Korean alphabet up, down, left and right; Character board of the wireless terminal, characterized in that consisting of a special character button having a function of inputting a special character using the switch button and the # 'button to switch to Hangul / English / numeric mode using the' * 'button . [5] The dial of claim 4, wherein the direction buttons are inputted as a vowel in which two Hangul vowels displayed on both adjacent buttons are pressed when the boundary between the adjacent buttons is pressed.

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