CN1318786A - Intensive Chinese and English keyboard capable of being displayed on screen - Google Patents

Abstract

Intensive Chinese and English keyboards displayed on screen support separately the input modes of Chinese character spelling, Chinese character phonetic alphabet, Chinese character parts, English, etc. The Chinese character spelling keyboard combines the consonants, selected vowel set, four tones of Chinese character, syllable dividing mark and a character and word selecting area into an intensive integral and it may be matched with the "double-spelling multiple-character word searching method" and used in palm computer provided with induction display screen for fast pen-touched mixed Chinese and English text input.

Description

Be shown in the intensive Chinese and English keyboard on the screen

Personal computer and other are that the information appliance that comes is derived (as Web TV in the basis with the computing machine, the palmtop computer notepad web browser of holding concurrently, palm type electronic dictionary, the aerophone of charged postal and function of surfing the Net and game machine) just worldwide obtain application more and more widely.These electronic equipments can be included into two classes basically: the desktop computer (desktop than large display screen (as teletron more than 13 cun or liquid crystal display) is arranged, laptop) with than the palm machine (Handheld Devices) of the small screen (as 1/4th VGA, i.e. 320 * 240 dot matrix).And no matter be desktop computer or palm machine, accept extensively for institute of Chinese society (using Chinese to be master, a small amount of foreign language of dual-purpose), must be equipped with good Chinese character inputting interface (Chinese User Interface).

The invention provides one be enclosed within complement one another on the function be shown in intensive Chinese and English keyboard on the screen (showing keyboard) hereinafter to be referred as screen, fully understand its impayable advantage place, be necessary to make a brief analysis with regard to the excellent person of the Chinese-character input scheme that exists on the current market.

■ QWERTY keyboard input: this is to use the most general Chinese and English input mode on desktop computer.So-called QWERTY keyboard is meant totally 26 English alphabets by A-Z, and 0-9 is totally ten arabic numeral, some punctuation marks, and special character and function key etc. are more than 100 keyboard that mechanical button is formed altogether.The arrangement that one big characteristics of this QWERTY keyboard are its 26 English alphabets determines according to the occurrence frequency of each letter in English, such as alphabetical X and Z occur seldom in English, so these two keys are just come the position at the angle of keeping to the side.Yet x in the Chinese phonetic alphabet, the usage frequency of z and zh is very high, we can say that there is geneogenous defective in the phonetic retrieval input of carrying out Chinese character with Qwerty keyboard.

No doubt, carrying out Chinese character input with QWERTY keyboard is not limited to phonetic and imports a kind of scheme.In fact the Chinese character five-stroke input method is rather popular, and will exceed the phonetic input in the input speed of the higher subordinate five-stroke input method of user of computer skill.But no matter be phonetic input, phonetic symbol input, or five are imported or other what code input scheme that contracts, this is very general in the middle of the days that use a computer long Chinese if the user is familiar with one inadequately to the position of each key on the keyboard, then Chinese character input will be one both time-consuming, make the tired easily process of eyes again: have a look at keyboard earlier and find a key, finger moved past knock, again eye is moved on to the character that affirmation shows on the display screen and be free from mistakes, and then eye is retracted the key that the keyboard removal search next one will knock.

The ■ handwriting input: this is a most popular Chinese character input method on the current palm machine that has been equipped with touch screen, and some desktop computers of Legend Computer Co. then have been equipped with external handwriting pad, and principle is similar.The remarkable advantage of handwriting input is intuitively to economize brain, and for the Chinese of China's Mainland and Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, can surpass the number of accurately grasping phonetic or phonetic symbol by the number of correct order of strokes observed in calligraphy writing of Chinese characters (simplified or traditional font), so market potential is very big.

But Chinese character hand-written inputs to rare two very big defectives, at first is that the habitual band of people connects pen even some hasty and careless handwritten Chinese character can't be the accurately identification of computing machine institute.The user is that the accuracy rate of once importing that reaches about 90% just must very carefully be write according to the order of strokes observed in calligraphy of Chinese character standard by a stroke.This has just brought two problems, and first Chinese character input speed is difficult to improve--and some Chinese character is 20 strokes nearly, in addition must time-consumingly make amendment when computing machine can not correctly be recognized; It two is when the hand-held lettering pen of user writes on screen, for preventing interrupted stroke, just must apply bigger pressure continuously at the tip of the brushstyle of a writing or painting, like this time slightly length will cause the fatigue of the another hand of controlling the palm machine, even involuntary trembling take place, not light as for that hand of holding pen yet--action machinery, pen is very thin usually again.We can say that the Chinese character hand-written input is to have economized brain to have tired out both hands.

Another big defective of Chinese character hand-written input be need be very strong the software and hardware support.The user writes next Chinese character on screen, computing machine will tens be taken advantage of it standard dot matrix of tens dot matrix and several thousand Chinese characters compare and finds out optimal candidate Chinese character (one or more), even adopt various " wisdom " algorithm (such as the stroke of instant analysis handwriting input, nationality is to dwindle in lane database search scope relatively), calculated amount is still very big.In addition Chinese character writes on and has height fat or thin on the screen; the distortion of stroke length for improving computing machine identification success ratio, must be done some the original dot matrix of handwriting input to correct drawing several different editions usually; take away and follow the dot matrix of standard character library to compare again, this has increased several times to calculated amount again.So all palm machines that the Chinese character hand-written input is provided than the English edition palm machine of identical class, all often will be used more high-resolution induction screen, the RAM higher with speed, that capacity is bigger (random access memory) with high one grade CPU (central processing unit).And everything has not only increased cost of products, has accelerated battery consumption again, has also limited the compression of physical dimension and complete machine weight, finally influences product competitiveness.

In view of this Chinese character hand-written input is a kind of WeiLai Technology, and current the application still on the palm machine belongs to reluctantly.Even and in the future computer chip cost and energy consumption further reduce, the handwritten Chinese character input can not substitute the phonetic input fully, because the foreign personage and the overseas second generation find to use the phonetic of being made up of English alphabet more much easier than handwritten Chinese character with the E-AsiaClub of falling.

Screen shows keyboard: this class keyboard is along with the palm machine popularizes and tachytelic evolution, and current (in March, 2000) is common with phonetic (or phonetic symbol) keyboard and radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries keyboard.

Screen shows the phonetic keyboard has two kinds to become example again, and the first is directly used 26 letter layouts of QWERTY keyboard, and it is very low to show phonetic Chinese characters for keyboard inputting speed with this screen, and for example will import " river " must be j, i, a, n, five letter points of g one time.

Second kind of screen shows the phonetic keyboard and constitutes (the hand held PC that sees association and many complete two companies) by the picture of two width of cloth Alternation Display, enumerated all possible first syllable phonetic of Chinese character on first breadth, as ang, b, e, zh or the like chooses top one in case the user clicks, the phonetic keyboard just enters second width of cloth and shows, what show is all possible last syllable phonetic, as a, and iu, iang, ueng or the like.The user clicked and chose a syllable this moment, enumerated out for selecting for use at some Chinese characters that have in a rectangular candidate Chinese character district that are independent of outside the phonetic viewing area.As if this second kind screen show the phonetic keyboard and at first glance can improve input speed, only need to click the j of first width of cloth demonstration and the iang in the middle of its two width of cloth such as input " river ", but in fact because the pinyin syllable that every width of cloth picture shows is all too many, it is quite time-consuming and easily cause eye fatigue therefrom to choose desired syllable, in addition switch demonstration first and last syllable with two breadths, the vision in the handoff procedure is jumped and has further been increased the weight of user's eye fatigue again.

As for Chinese character radicals searching input,, see on the speed usually less than hand-written, phonetic or five inputs because user's total in input process goes out the stroke number of each Chinese character.But for little educational user, or at Chinese character input quantity very (such as only providing several key words) under the condition of limited, a kind of simple and direct input scheme of can yet be regarded as to internet search engine.The author only met a kind of screen and showed the radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries keyboard on desktop computer, in a rectangular frame bigger, more than 200 radicals are enumerated out completely than palm, look dazzled, search quite and be not easy, and this scheme obviously can't be grafted directly on the palm machine.

Existing screen is shown the phonetic keyboard in the present invention and the radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries keyboard has been made significant improvement, and screen wherein shows the integral body that the phonetic keyboard creatively organically is combined into all initial consonants, selected simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable collection, four tones, syllable-dividing mark and candidate character area (can show tens candidate Chinese characters or other character) intensification especially.Be equipped with desktop computer and palm machine that screen provided by the present invention shows keyboard, can lower software and hardware configuration provide than handwriting input Chinese character input faster, its input speed also may be higher than the QWERTY keyboard input for the computing machine beginner.The text that input Chinese and English and arabic numeral mix, of the present invention especially one big strong point-because the present invention intermittently is shown in some English alphabets and arabic numeral in the candidate character area in Chinese character input, Chinese and English can mix input and need not lose time and switch Chinese and QWERTY keyboard back and forth.The present invention also provides a kind of model essay letter disk that can be revised content by the user arbitrarily for the desktop computer user, and the user can intercept the model essay segment easily and copy input; The present invention is the words keyboard self-editing commonly used that palm machine user provides, and then is fit to very much deposit the words that the proper noun commonly used that varies with each individual or other people use always.These back two kinds of input modes also can have very great help to little educational user--and they import Computer Storage in advance at the Chinese character (speech) that oneself is commonly used of can asking someone, its operation simple, intuitive as the traditional printing workman picks type in the typecase outward just when in the future needing these words.

Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing is that example illustrates main points of the present invention with desktop computer (accompanying drawing 1-16) that is equipped with Genius mouse and the palm machine (accompanying drawing 17 and 18) that is equipped with point-touch pen respectively.Because phonetic symbol (more commonly used in Hong Kong and Taiwan) is to concern one to one with phonetic (more universal in the China's Mainland), the complex form of Chinese characters (general in Hong Kong and Taiwan) also is to concern one to one with simplified Chinese character (general in the continent), be example only in the following description, and do not provide the example that uses the phonetic symbol and the complex form of Chinese characters with phonetic and simplified Chinese character.1. the application on desktop computer

When the present invention is applied to desktop computer, a master menu is arranged, also be first order menu, see accompanying drawing 1.

Accompanying drawing 1 screen shows the keyboard master menu.

Five kinds of keyboards and letter disk that master menu is used for pointing out the user to select Level-2 menu from left to right are followed successively by among the figure: phonetic keyboard, phonetic symbol keyboard, radical keyboard, QWERTY keyboard (comprising arabic numeral and punctuation mark) and practical model essay letter disk." X " square frame of low order end is in order to cut out this menu, so that the user selects other literal input scheme for use.This long narrow menu always " floats " on other form (windows) when showing on computer screen, and size is advisable can see displaying contents clearly and not take too many screen display space again.1.1 phonetic keyboard (accompanying drawing 2 is to accompanying drawing 9)

User in a single day point touches the rectangular frame of accompanying drawing 1 master menu first left with " pinyin ", promptly shows the original state of the phonetic keyboard shown in the accompanying drawing 2 on the screen.

Screen shows the original state of phonetic keyboard on accompanying drawing 2 desktop computers

(length) square frame of tape character is just as the font under the traditional printing mode one by one, and the type that different is on this keyboard can repeat to take many times.The display format of accompanying drawing 2 also is simultaneously that the phonetic keyboard display format when the phonetic searching of next Chinese character does not begin is as yet finished in last Chinese character input.

This phonetic keyboard floats on its application software form of serving, and can " be dragged " (drag, phonetic keyboard that grey topmost is rectangular to be exactly to make this purposes) optional position to the screen, in order to avoid cover the text of editing input.This keyboard is supported simplified and two kinds of input modes of unsimplified Hanzi, as long as a some beating keyboard upper left " letter " and " numerous " can be changed between dual mode, is simplified input mode shown in the figure.

The main body of phonetic keyboard (is removed two words of above-mentioned " letter " and " numerous ", that drags rectangular that keyboard uses, and that the band * square frame) be divided into four zones: initial consonant is on top, simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable and syllable-dividing mark and tone are on the right side, candidate character area on the left side and middle part also have some function keys to keep left in the bottom.It is to comply with the Chinese phonetic alphabet to arise from initial consonant mostly that the apparent phonetic keyboard of screen of the present invention adopts this arrangement mode, simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable accompanies, or have only simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable and do not have initial consonant, be that (have only a counter-example: phonetic er is first rhythm imperial mother initial consonant, but with the Chinese character of this phonetic seldom for the rule of tone at last.The Wu Jinglong chief editor, Commercial Press 1986 version " Chinese-English Dictionary " includes surplus the Chinese character 6000,12 this phonetics of word are only arranged), the user can move mouse basically and drawing the director circle circle and move according to clockwise single direction when Chinese character is imported, and one the tunnel puts successively and touches initial consonant (if that phonetic contains initial consonant), simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable, tone and candidate Chinese character.And and then need not lose time after the finishing mouse that moves around of Chinese character input can begin the input of next Chinese character, the invalid mouse that influences input speed is moved be reduced near the limit.And the tone of coordinating collocation adds between the initial consonant, in picturesque disorder leaving a blank in the candidate character area, not only can improve the speed of naked eyes searching character, can also easing eyes tired and alleviate the muscular tone of that hand of operation mouse.

Below describe (referring to accompanying drawing 2) in detail with regard to the formation and the function of four major parts of phonetic keyboard.■ initial consonant district: 1/4th spaces that account for whole phonetic keyboard.Putting in order of initial consonant according to the custom of teaching of Chinese pin yin, bpnf, gkh etc. or four, three or two one group, group with organize between leave blank.Though y wherein and w are not proper initial consonants, upward practical and initial consonant has identical function, so this phonetic keyboard is with they income initial consonant districts.■ simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable district (containing tone and syllable-dividing mark): 1/3rd spaces that account for whole phonetic keyboard.The arrangement of simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable also is the teaching custom according to the Chinese phonetic alphabet, connects together as three of aoe.Be not difficult to find out that 15 single vowels have all taken in, some compound vowels have also been taken in as ie and ue.But some composite vowels such as iang are income not, and this is because they are the simple combination of single vowel, can combine with the single vowels of having taken in fully during the phonetic input.The foundation that this phonetic keyboard is included compound vowel is: the pronunciation of ie and ue not exclusively is phonetic i and e also, u and e's is simple synthetic, and in, ing, iu, un and ui are respectively ien, ieng, iou, (in fact un has two kinds of pronunciations in the abbreviation of uen and uei, represent two compound vowels of un and ü n respectively, but owing to practical go up the latter only and j, and q, x and y make up, above the ü 2 always save and form un like this), these 7 compound vowel incomes can be reduced in the composite vowel input process and may obscure because of equivocal the generation.So by the selected simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable collection of forming by 22 single compound vowels shown in the accompanying drawing 2.In the middle of these 22 simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable, it is comparatively special that i and u seem again, and they also occupy bigger rectangular frame than other simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable with the bigger italics of font among the figure, and be in first the most powerful and the most influential in the simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable district row.This is because other is not presented at 11 combination simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable ia on this phonetic keyboard, iao, ian in the Chinese phonetic alphabet, iang, iong, ua, uo, uai, uang, ueng and uan (in fact uan has two kinds of pronunciations, has represented uan and ü an under the single-row state respectively, but owing to practical go up the latter only and j, q, x and y make up, 2 above the ü always save form uan), all combining with other single vowel headed by i or the u, thereby usage frequency is very high in the Chinese phonetic alphabet.I and u amplified be placed on simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable district top line (when point has touched an initial consonant, when then main points are touched a simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable, here be the only way which must be passed that cursor or point-touch pen move), can show the point that improves the combination simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable on the phonetic keyboard at screen and touch input speed, and can guarantee to realize aforesaid " folk prescription moves to clockwise mouse " principle to the full extent, thereby improve the overall rate of Chinese character input.

Simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable district Far Left is near the place of candidate character area, be syllable-dividing mark and high and level tone, the rising tone vertically arranged from top to bottom, go up sound and four kinds of tones of falling tone (outside these four tones of standard Chinese pronunciation not only occurrence probability is very low softly, the many again and high and level tone of the daily use of people is equal to, former Chinese character database can all be worked as the high and level tone processing with the Chinese character of sending out softly fully, and this phonetic keyboard is not also just incited somebody to action single-row marking softly).Toned phonetic searching is of the present invention one big characteristic, can narrow down to 1/4th to the range of search of single Chinese character because see to statistics a simple tone input, effect is more remarkable when using the word input function, and circumflex can work to be equivalent to syllable-dividing mark when the phonetic input of some words.The input of certain tone is looked the individual subscriber hobby and is existed as optional function, and in fact the point one by one along with the initial and the final touches input, and the demonstration of candidate Chinese character is also brought in constant renewal in, and does not wait until the input tone under many situations, and the Chinese character that needs finds already.In addition also have page turning key to can be used for ransacing candidate Chinese character more than a frame, so if the user does not import tone, take some twists and turns is to retrieve the Chinese character of needs equally.■ candidate characters viewing area: four lines is totally 40 characters, accounts for 1/3rd spaces of phonetic keyboard.Candidate character area in the accompanying drawing 2 shows is that original state before phonetic searching input does not begin as yet (hereinafter will be mentioned, input at a Chinese character or word is finished already, and touch initial consonant and simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable with point is-so-called " the Chinese character input intermittently " that the demonstration of candidate character area is identical with the original state shown in the accompanying drawing 2 in the next Chinese character input of mark does not begin as yet).First row is ten arabic numeral of 0-9, and second is that 26 small letter English alphabets add: the conventional characters of four internet search engines of/@. to four lines.The user presses the options button of Genius mouse and does once " point touches " as long as the sliding mouse device moves on to the cursor on the screen above any one of these 40 characters, and corresponding characters has been gone among just being imported into the text of editing.

Subsidiary arabic numeral, English and other character of showing of candidate character area that shows phonetic keyboard (also having) at screen hereinafter with the radical keyboard that illustrates, so that intermittently carry out the input of other character and need not switch keyboard, be another big characteristic of the present invention in the input of two Chinese characters or word.

On QWERTY keyboard, carry out the Chinese character index input now in fact, support that equally Chinese and English mixes input with the phonetic mode.At the intermittence that has just entered the phonetic input pattern or imported at two Chinese characters, though its candidate Chinese character shows that rectangular is blank, but at this time many keys all are ready on the keyboard, the user can withdraw from spelling mode, directly from keyboard input arabic numeral 0-9, capitalization English letter A-Z (could import lowercase a-z), and some punctuation marks and special character but must withdraw from spelling mode.

Be that currently marketed screen shows the phonetic keyboard, lost this and need not switch keyboard and carry out the function that Chinese and English mixes input.Currently marketed screen shows the phonetic keyboard, one of being separated in its candidate character area and the initial and the final or English alphabet a-z place " Master Keyboard " is rectangular, and once multipotency shows 10 Chinese characters and is blank (this approximately is a tradition of having followed the input of QWERTY keyboard phonetic) under original state.This moment, the user can do on can only touch screen initial consonant, simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable or English alphabet begin Chinese character index, and desire will be imported arabic numeral or English alphabet, must withdraw from the phonetic keyboard mode earlier.

Screen in view of this provided by the invention shows the phonetic keyboard at first just to be revealed the whole truth 0-9 and a-z, is to have remedied the big defective that existing screen shows the phonetic keyboard, imports similar Chinese and English with QWERTY keyboard phonetic and mixes input function and provide.Different is, and to show what can directly import on the phonetic keyboard at this screen be small letter English alphabet a-z (being different from the capitalization A-Z that can directly import on the QWERTY keyboard), this be consider in the conventional English except beginning of the sentence and proper noun with the upper case character, lowercase character is a main body, and usage frequency is higher.Need import capitalization English letter as for the user, a main points is touched accompanying drawing 2 bottoms and is represented the arrow key of downward page turning by that of centre position, and the candidate character area of the apparent phonetic keyboard of this screen promptly becomes the display format of accompanying drawing 3.

The capitalization English letter of accompanying drawing 3 phonetic keyboard candidate character area and other character

Under the display format of accompanying drawing 3, can not only import capitalization English letter A-Z, can also import addition subtraction multiplication and division symbol and some other punctuation mark commonly used.This screen shows that the phonetic keyboard need not switch to other keyboard and the input that realizes the capital and small letter English alphabet, even more even better than the phonetic input pattern of QWERTY keyboard.

Have in addition below candidate character area that six of big hemistich are available at any time (has for example imported initial consonant just, when simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable is still waiting to import) function key, they be delete left, Tab key (Tab), space bar, carriage return key and candidate characters page turning key (each up and down).Chosen in case one of preceding quadruple linkage of this six key puts to touch, editing the text of input and just doing corresponding change.Two candidate characters page turning keys are looked candidate characters number at that time and effectively or lost efficacy, are represented effectively as Page Down key gray under accompanying drawing 2 states, and page up key fade out be white in color represent invalid.3 in accompanying drawing is just in time opposite.

Screen of the present invention show demonstration general layout that its candidate character area of phonetic keyboard will keep accompanying drawing 2 or accompanying drawing 3 up to one of initial consonant or simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable put touch choose till.This phonetic keyboard enters Chinese character input mode at that time, the example of accompanying drawing 4 are initial consonant zh by point touch display format after choosing (in the practical application priority ordering of concrete candidate Chinese character look adopt static or dynamically " high frequency goes out earlier " pattern and can be different).

The situation of accompanying drawing 4 phonetic keyboards after initial consonant zh input

In accompanying drawing 4, the display format of initial consonant, simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable, syllable-dividing mark and tone all keeps the initial format of phonetic letter disk constant, but the candidate Chinese character district narrows down to and has only triplex row.The top line of candidate character area becomes the rectangular frame (hereinafter to be referred as " phonetic frame ") of a band " left side deletion " arrow now in the accompanying drawing 2, in order to show the phonetic of importing (also can temporarily be used to show Chinese character in the process of online group of speech).That arrow on phonetic frame the right is in order to delete initial consonant, simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable, syllable-dividing mark or the tone in the phonetic display box left.Under the shown position, the user has just imported initial consonant " zh ", has shown some Chinese characters in the candidate Chinese character district.Chinese character if desired therein, the desktop computer user can move cursor it " is picked up " in text.In case input chosen in a Chinese character, this phonetic keyboard just recovers the demonstration of accompanying drawing 2.This moment, the operator can choose character input from its candidate character area, perhaps ignored those characters and put and touch initial consonant or simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable begins the input of next Chinese character or word.

Accompanying drawing 5 usefulness phonetic keyboards are to a text editing form input Chinese character

Accompanying drawing 5 is to utilize the phonetic keyboard to carry out an example of Chinese-character text input, can see that the phonetic keyboard floats on the text editing form.The user imports " in the first month of the lunar year, every household " (being shown in the text zone), and existing first word that is about to input " hanging up lanterns and coloured festoons " four words " is opened ".So user's order point in this screen shows the phonetic keyboard touches " zh ", " ang " and "-" three square frames, finishes a complete phonetic input.At this moment zbang-is shown in the phonetic frame, simultaneously eight therewith the corresponding Chinese character of phonetic appear at candidate Chinese character the viewing area in and (be as the criterion with that " Chinese-English Dictionary " mentioned above, always have eight these phonetics of Chinese characters use zhang-).The user only need just can be input to " opening " in the middle of the text with the square frame that Genius mouse commands cursor point to touch " opening " word place now, has only used four points to touch the input of finishing " opening " word altogether.In accompanying drawing 5, because eight candidate Chinese characters all show altogether, those two candidate characters page turning keys all fade out and inoperative.

This phonetic keyboard is also supported retrieval input and online group of speech of current current Chinese terms, accompanying drawing 6,7, and 8 and 9 is examples of online group of speech function of realization.The writer of pseudonym's farming an inferior horse will form phrase so that conveniently call in the future with this name.So he moves cursor with Genius mouse and prepares to touch input of character string nong/nu/ma ν successively, the demonstration situation of accompanying drawing 6 is to have imported nong/nu/, remains to be imported the apparent phonetic keyboard of screen of ma ν.

Accompanying drawing 6 usefulness phonetic keyboards carry out online group of speech, have just imported the situation of two complete phonetics

Because this keyboard has hereinafter the multiword word search function of introducing, serf's one speech that phonetic is checked the number and be that serf owner and two words of serf system of initial two words are also enumerated out in the lump with the serf.These three speech are respectively in the different rectangular frame of three length, are shown in first row in the candidate Chinese character district, simultaneously at second five Chinese characters that row has shown and phonetic nong/ checks the number, have shown three Chinese characters of checking the number with phonetic nu/ at the third line.Note between interior phonetic nong/ that shows of accompanying drawing 6 the inside phonetic frames and the nu/ space being arranged, that is that based on context software add automatically, and writer need not close labor.

Import two phonetics and computing machine is also enumerated out in candidate character area to the above word of three relevant words, it also is the new technology that this patent phonetic keyboard provides, be called " Two bors d's oeuveres sound multiword word descriptor index method ", can improve the input speed of Chinese multiword word effectively.Current phonetic input scheme always only searches for and points out the word of two words when the user imports two phonetics.This patent uses statistical law based on the phonetic of Chinese character by words, those words (prerequisite be its phonetic of playing first two words with two phonetics of input conform to) above three words show in the lump, and the situation of candidate's word too many (time-consuming the wearying the eyes of page turning search like that) not too can occur.The statistical law of this relevant Chinese phonetic alphabet is:

" Chinese-English Dictionary " that above mention 6000 surplus in the middle of the Chinese character, pronounce for the individual character of yi (falling tone) is maximum, totally 51, it is 48 that xi (high and level tone) takes second place, and that is to say respectively to account for about 0.8% all no more than 40 of the Chinese character of all the other phonetic correspondences; Word surplus this dictionary includes 50000 in addition that is to say and sees that on average a Chinese character can constitute about 8 words as playing lead-in.Certainly the different dictionaries words of including can be variant, but that scope included in the words of this this dictionary is rather extensive, sees from the statistics angle and can work as an individual believable typical case.So estimate the Chinese character ratio of single complete phonetic representative in any general Chinese word database with " no more than 1% ", see it is believable from the probability statistics angle; We can say that equally it has been two words more than the word of lead-in with it that a Chinese character on average constitutes " no more than 10 ".

Based on this statistical law, reasonable assumption has the Chinese character by words database of an information appliance to include 6000 individual character entries again, and include 60000 words (with average 3 words of each speech with 1: 10 ratio, a Chinese character takies 2 bytes of storage space and calculates, 60000 words take the 360K byte altogether, be not difficult matter on present information appliance), this patent remakes following inference.In the time of two complete phonetics inputs, computing machine removes to retrieve the database of 6000 individual characters with first complete phonetic, meets probability by 1% and will obtain the Chinese character that 60 phonetics conform at the most.Next step computing machine is expected to find 600 with these 60 words that Chinese character has been a lead-in at the lane database of 60000 words by 1: 10 ratio.Last computing machine takes second complete phonetic of input and the second word phonetic of these 600 words to compare one by one again, and same 1% meets probability, on average sees to filter out in the middle of 6 words-can totally be presented at frame of candidate character area.Just be based on such statistical law, this patent has proposed " Two bors d's oeuveres sound multiword word descriptor index method ".In practicality because an average complete phonetic is only represented Chinese character about 10 (above reasoning process used a complete phonetic to represent the extreme example of 60 Chinese characters), even input is that two incomplete phonetics are (as tonal not, or shortcoming simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable), use the word that " Two bors d's oeuveres sound multiword word descriptor index method " retrieval comes out (two words or more multiword) also can be not too many.As for how retrieving the Chinese character by words database fast, exceeded the scope of this patent, the author will propose discrete patented claim.

Accompanying drawing 7 usefulness phonetic keyboards carry out online group of speech, and three complete phonetics are all imported

Return now on the topic of online group of speech, see accompanying drawing 7.Writer's farming an inferior horse touches input Pinyin ma ν again on the basis of accompanying drawing 6, the demonstration of this moment in the candidate character area delegation that scrolls up, first row that originally shows word disappears, corresponding six candidate Chinese characters of delegation and phonetic ma ν have newly appearred in the bottom, meanwhile the arrow of that page turning that makes progress transfers grey to by white, also has one page candidate characters above indicating.

Accompanying drawing 8 usefulness phonetic keyboards carry out online group of speech, have imported first of three Chinese characters

In accompanying drawing 8, " farming " word has been touched by point and has chosen, original phonetic nong/ is promptly replaced by " farming " in the phonetic frame, that row disappears automatically with the corresponding candidate Chinese character of phonetic nong/ in the candidate Chinese character frame, meanwhile the arrow of that page turning that makes progress goes back to white by grey, and being illustrated in does not have other candidate characters again outside this viewing area.Like this and past, writer then finishes the second and the 3rd word of importing he pseudonym.To deposit original dictionary in standby with being about to " agricultural an inferior horse " these neologisms for desktop computer, and whole online group of speech process quietly finished.

Four candidate word in 9 two non-complete phonetics of accompanying drawing and the new dictionary are to last number

The pseudonym of oneself is called in writer's decision in the accompanying drawing 9, he prepares to import as in the previous three phonetics completely, just find to have found own pseudonym but just imported two very not complete phonetics (nu still lack tone), and the square frame at " agricultural an inferior horse " place come several words foremost-suppose that the word frequency of utilization of newly making is higher common.Below as long as touch the input together that once just can realize " agricultural an inferior horse " three Chinese characters again.In this example, if import with handwritten Chinese character, then " agricultural an inferior horse " three words are 17 strokes, whenever write a word and must choose correct word in the candidate collection, touch so must add three points; This phonetic keyboard is because had online group of speech function and " Two bors d's oeuveres sound multiword word descriptor index method ", only need point touch input n, ong ,/, n, u, add once to touch again and promptly imported three Chinese characters, need only touch screen 6 times altogether, which scheme input word is more convenient to be self-evident.1.2 phonetic symbol keyboard

Several from left to right second lattice are represented the phonetic symbol keyboard in the apparent keyboard master menu of desktop computer screen of accompanying drawing 1.The Chinese phonetic notating symbol and the Chinese phonetic alphabet are to concern one to one, and for example phonetic symbol ㄛ is equal to " o " of the Chinese phonetic alphabet fully on function, and different just phonetic symbols will use bigger dot matrix to show than phonetic is common.Yet this does not obviously cause the function difference of phonetic symbol keyboard and phonetic keyboard, so this instructions no longer provides the example application of phonetic symbol keyboard.1.3 radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries keyboard (accompanying drawing 10,11 and 12)

Accompanying drawing 10 screens show the initial demonstration of radical index keyboard

Accompanying drawing 10 is to be that the screen that means are carried out Chinese character index input shows radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries keyboard (being called for short the radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries keyboard) with the radical indexing system of Chinese Characters on desktop computer, just appears on the desktop computer screen during the 3rd pane on the left of user's point touches accompanying drawing 1 master menu.Radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries keyboard upper end is the radical and stroke options button, and the right side is a surplus stroke options button beyond the radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries.And simplified and traditional body switches and the function of left deletion, Tab key (Tab), space, carriage return key and candidate characters page turning key is identical with function in the phonetic keyboard.Also consistent at candidate's arabic numeral, English alphabet and other symbol that the Chinese character input intermittently shows with the phonetic keyboard.

Accompanying drawing 11 screens show the radical index keyboard, and the user has selected three strokes radical

Accompanying drawing 11 is to touch radical and stroke " three " radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries keyboard afterwards at user point to show (it is three pictures that 40 radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries are arranged altogether, and for only listing 10 among the figure for simplicity, but this does not hinder the expression of the meaning).Do not resemble delegation that the phonetic keyboard will take candidate character area in order to show a spelling sound of importing, the radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries keyboard still has the candidate character area of four lines under the Chinese character input state.But candidate character area is dual-purpose in this radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries letter disk, and those radicals that taken candidate character area can not directly enter in the text of being edited in the accompanying drawing 11, " the alternative radical " that they just play a transition role.Find real candidate Chinese character, also need put to touch and choose some in the alternative radical, select desirable surplus stroke number of input again.Following as shown in the figure two keys: " Http " (candidate's radical) and " five " (surplus stroke number) are touched successively to be chosen, and can obtain 12 candidate Chinese characters of accompanying drawing 12.

Accompanying drawing 12 is to search engine input " cosmos " word-Bao headkerchief, and surplus is five strokes

Accompanying drawing 12 is to show the radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries keyboard is imported Chinese character on the search engine of internet example with screen of the present invention.This example assumes is with retrieving with regard to " universe " two words on the internet, and " space " word is imported already, imports " cosmos " word now.The relevant input order that touches to be in the preceding paragraph explanation that falls, only poor now once touch just can be input to Chinese character " cosmos " in the search engine gone.1.4 QWERTY keyboard (attached Figure 13 and 14)

Accompanying drawing 13 screens show lowercase and other character of QWERTY keyboard

Accompanying drawing 14 screens show capitalization and other character of QWERTY keyboard

Accompanying drawing 13 is that the screen of several the 4th lattice representatives in a left side in the master menu shows QWERTY keyboard (English alphabet, arabic numeral and other symbol are provided), the reference standard QWERTY keyboard arranged in character in this keyboard, increased the character that does not have in addition subtraction multiplication and division, Chinese punctuation marks used to enclose the title and the Qwerty keyboards such as Chinese pause mark, fullstop again.All characters that are shown in card only need once to touch just to finish input.There is a key to be decorated with hollow arrow upwards in the accompanying drawing 13, " shift " key that is equivalent to Qwerty keyboard, point touch this key then the small letter English alphabet in the accompanying drawing 13 all become capitalization English letter in the accompanying drawing 14, the hollow arrow that makes progress simultaneously becomes downwards (in order to become demonstration again lowercase), and other character remains unchanged on the QWERTY keyboard and screen shows.1.5 practical model essay letter disk (accompanying drawing 15,16)

Accompanying drawing 15 is taken a word from shielding to show the practical model essay

Accompanying drawing 16 reorganization screens show practical model essay

Practical model essay letter disk is an another big characteristic of the present invention, has had it can intercept word, speech, sentence and even whole section Sino-British literal from one piece of model essay and has done disposable copy input, especially is fit to both to be ignorant of the personage that phonetic can radical index yet and uses.Accompanying drawing 15 is that state taken in the words of this practical model essay letter disk.Having visibly different with aforesaid phonetic, radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries and English three kinds of keyboards is that the candidate character in the practical model essay letter disk (length) of no use square frame fences up one by one and is " font " shape (also Just because of this, it is letter disk and non-keyboard).This is to go in order to allow the user can select for use the model essay segment of random length to be input in the text flexibly.The user has done heavy coloured silk (highlight) processing with the options button of Genius mouse with the model essay segment on the accompanying drawing 15, and next step touches with Genius mouse moving cursor point in heavy color district again, and the input of " amiable " speech is just accused and finished.What user's point touched else if is that heavy color district is outer Anywhere, and heavy coloured silk is promptly accused disappearance, is transfused to without any words.

Model essay letter disk provided by the invention also has the function of model essay reorganization so that different user (as the pupil, the businessman) has the everyday character word set of oneself.When practical model essay letter disk was in " model essay reorganization " state, this letter disk can select for use phonetic provided by the invention, phonetic symbol, radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries and English letter disk to carry out the input and the change of new words sentence as the text input window of a routine.Accompanying drawing 16 is to show the example that the phonetic keyboard carries out the model essay reorganization with screen of the present invention, be about to input be Chinese character " as ".

The model essay reorganization finishes after deposit, and when state taken in the next words that enters the model essay letter disk again, what be shown in accompanying drawing 15 candidate character districts will be the self-editing model essay of storing in the disk.Since the use of model essay letter disk than other four kinds screens show the keyboard slightly more complicated some, be provided with " operation instruction " key so that offer help on the letter disk to the user.2. the application on the palm machine (accompanying drawing 17,18)

Illustrate again that below screen of the present invention shows the application main points of keyboard on the palm machine.At the viewing area area features of smaller of palm machine, the phonetic keyboard shown in the accompanying drawing 17 is more brief than the phonetic keyboard that is used for desktop computer.

The simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable that it at first is accompanying drawing 17 that the screen that accompanying drawing 17 is used for the palm machine shows the initial demonstration ■ of phonetic keyboard makes a farfetched comparison and has lacked one " ü " among Fig. 2.The usage frequency of this simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable own is not very low, but most situations are all replaced by " u " in practicality, only is left also to keep after being used for l and n the symbol of ü.In fact that this Chinese-English Dictionary of preamble citation 6000 surplus among the Chinese character, only have the phonetic of 28 words to comprise symbol ü.Coincidence be that the probability that is used in after l and the n of u sound is also lower, so phonetics of these trivial several band ü can replace and can not cause the overexpansion of the apparent phonetic keyboard candidate Chinese character collection of screen fully with " u " when touch screen import.Secondly ■ is that the palm machine screen of accompanying drawing 17 shows the keyboard of keyboard than accompanying drawing 2, the compression of laterally leaving a blank in the initial consonant zone, the one row cancellation of simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable district rightmost, original iu, first row that three simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable of ui and ue are moved to the simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable district goes to show that the position of syllable-dividing mark is corresponding to moving left.Do not obtain the display space bigger though these two of i and u are usually used in forming the single vowel of composite vowel than other simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable, but still in the simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable district first row and use italicized character to show than large size, make things convenient for the user to search for the location fast.It is also less that ■ is that the screen that is used for the palm machine shows phonetic keyboard candidate characters zone once more, have only triplex row totally 24 square frames (these square frames might form the rectangular frame that shows that word is used several one group of horizontal merging), be to have shown ten arabic numeral of 0-9 at the intermittence of twice Chinese character or word input among the figure, eight small letter English alphabets of a-h, and other six conventional characters.Two page turning keys that hollow arrow up and down arranged are in order to enumerate other small letter and capitalization English letter and multiword symbol more in candidate character area.When carrying out the Chinese character searching with phonetic, these two arrows show the candidate Chinese character of failing in same picture demonstration in order to page turning equally.

Through above this cutting, the palm machine of being furnished with the display device of 1/4VGA size uses this phonetic keyboard can not have dimensional problem, because the individual character square frame in the candidate character area has laterally reached 17 picture dots, can clearly illustrate any Chinese character fully.

Accompanying drawing 17 keyboard tops do not have grey rectangular (this lath is used for dragging screen and shows the phonetic keyboard in the accompanying drawing 2 on computer screen) in addition, can economize out the demonstration of a block space for other functional module.That rotation shape arrow on the keyboard top has replaced the master menu function of desktop computer: point touches once under the phonetic searching input state shown in the accompanying drawing 17, then enters the phonetic symbol searching function of simplified Hanzi input, and so repetition can realize successively

→ phonetic → phonetic symbol → radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries → English and symbol → words commonly used → wait five kinds of screens to show the circulation switching of keyboard.Claim words commonly used herein but not " practical model essay ", be to consider with the usually only suitable input of point-touch pen to place certain to limit words within interface (such as rectangular frame), weigh the color copy of handling again and import and be difficult for resembling Genius mouse that works the flexible definition passage.Certainly, consider the storage space restriction of palmtop computer notepad, can only support a kind of of these five kinds of Chinese and English input modes or several specific to a certain model, such as only supporting two kinds of input modes of simplified Chinese character phonetic keyboard and radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries keyboard.

Accompanying drawing 18 usefulness screen shows the phonetic keyboard and import " meeting " two words on the palm machine

Accompanying drawing 18 is the examples with phonetic keyboard input text on the palmtop computer notepad.The rectangular frame that is used for showing the phonetic of importing that can see accompanying drawing 4 middle parts does not occur at accompanying drawing 18, because that phonetic frame mainly is to establish for online group of speech, but to can not show a candle to the desktop PC frequent for literal input on the palmtop computer notepad, in general at random and the word storehouse of coming is enough already.As for the name place name commonly used that varies with each individual of limited quantity, can leave standby with the mode of self-editing words commonly used fully.

The user is about to input " meeting " two words among Figure 18.What touch is the initial consonant h simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable ui and the tone fourth sound (falling tone) for his (she) point, and initial consonant y simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable i adds falling tone again, has shown two candidate's words and some individual characters in the candidate characters zone.The user is as long as touch once at point on the rectangular grid of " meeting " speech now, meeting two words just can appear at " Wang is total " two word back, screen shows the demonstration of the candidate character area recovery accompanying drawing 17 of phonetic keyboard simultaneously, waits for the input of next Chinese character or word or other character.

Show phonetic keyboard other several keyboards in addition about palm machine screen, can be small and exquisite in line with profile, programming is simple, travelling speed is fast, save cardinal rules such as memory headroom, the example that shows the phonetic keyboard with reference to the hand held screen, show at the aforesaid desktop computer of this paper screen and make minor modifications on the basis of keyboard and obtain, no longer provide example at this.

In sum, it is very intuitively easy-to-use that a whole set of screen provided by the invention shows Chinese and English keyboard, as long as general user is just can be on top of through the study of minimum, not only will help information appliance popularizing in China, improve the speed of text input, and can be helpful to overseas Chinese and foreign personage's learning Chinese.

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1. The invention provides one and be enclosed within intensive Chinese and English keyboard and the letter disk on the information appliance screen of being shown in that complements one another on the function, they are phonetic keyboard, phonetic symbol keyboard, radical keyboard, English and keyboard symbol and practical model essay letter disk (only being used for desktop computer) and words keyboard commonly used (only being used for the palm machine).Its total characteristics are: apparent keyboard of each screen or letter disk are all with function key, candidate Chinese character, word and character, by certain regularly arranged being shown in the incorporate rectangular frame.All keyboards and letter disk all comprise four function keys that can do corresponding change at any time to the text of editing input, and they are left side deletion, tabulation (Tab), space and carriage return.The user adds the apparent cursor of screen, writing pencil or other facility with Genius mouse and gives me a little phonetic symbol, phonetic symbol, radical, Chinese character (comprising word), English and other character that touches on the apparent keyboard of (click) screen, or the segment of the Chinese and English mixing text on the copy letter disk of heavy color (highlight) back, realize intuitively text input fast.Screen except that English and keyboard symbol shows keyboard or letter disk is all supported simplified Chinese character and two kinds of input modes of the complex form of Chinese characters.

   1. the main body that screen of the present invention shows the phonetic keyboard is divided into four districts: function key area, initial consonant district, simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable district (containing single compound vowel, four tones and syllable-dividing mark), and candidate character area.

   The ■ function key area occupies the left-hand side hemistich position, base, and left side deletion is arranged, tabulation (Tab), space, carriage return, page turning key (being used to search for the interior character more than a frame of candidate character area) up and down.

   ■ initial consonant district occupies top first row all and the second row the left-hand side hemistich, has included all initial consonants of the Chinese phonetic alphabet and with they teaching custom branch group arrangements by the Chinese phonetic alphabet: bpmf, dtnl, jqx, zh ch sh r, zcs, and yw; Leave the space between each group.

   ■ simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable district occupies the phonetic upper keyboard and the lower right corner, and upper end and initial consonant district join, and has included 7 compound vowel ie, ue, in, ing, iu, un, ui and all 15 single vowels (function of ü is functioned in an acting capacity of by u when being used for the palm machine).All the other do not have the composite vowel of income to combine with other simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable by simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable i or u, so i and u are placed in simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable district top line middle position, and use italics demonstration than large size, to make things convenient for the user to locate and to touch input fast.Syllable-dividing mark and tone are vertically arranged at simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable district Far Left.

   The ■ candidate character area is in left side central portion, and the upper end is adjacent with the initial consonant district, and right side and simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable district join.

   So arrange the initial consonant district, the relative position of simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable district and candidate character area, meet the combination of the modal initial consonant+simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable of the Chinese phonetic alphabet+tone, cursor or writing pencil can move by clockwise single direction basically in Chinese character input process, reduce invalid action, improving with the Chinese character is the input speed of the text of main contents.
2. 2. the candidate character area that screen of the present invention shows the phonetic keyboard has two kinds of display modes to realize the input of the Chinese and English mixing text on the single keyboard:

   ■ before Chinese character input beginning original state or at the intermittence of two Chinese characters or word input, show all or part of (can show there be not the lowercase and the A-Z English capitalization that show in original state) of ten arabic numeral of 0-9, some other conventional characters and 26 English lower case of a-z with Page Down key.These characters can be touched by point and be directly inputted in the text of editing.

   ■ is after phonetic input beginning, the content of Chinese character or word carrying out and upgrade constantly in the candidate character area with the phonetic input, whenever can put in this process and touch any one Chinese character of choosing wherein or word and be input in the text and go, the demonstration of candidate character area immediately returns to original state.
3. 3. when phonetic keyboard applications of the present invention is furnished with the information appliance of large-size display in PC etc., Chinese character input Once you begin, form one " phonetic frame " phonetic (may comprise initial consonant, simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable, syllable-dividing mark and tone) at alternative characters district top line, to make things convenient for word search and online group of speech in order to show that group is imported.
4. 4. phonetic keyboard applications of the present invention is when palmtop computer notepad and so on has only the information appliance of small size display window, do not set up delegation and show initial consonant, simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable, syllable-dividing mark and the tone of importing, enumerate alternative Chinese character and word to reserve big as far as possible viewing area.But still the function of support word input.
5. 5. phonetic keyboard of the present invention uses a kind of original creation " Two bors d's oeuveres sound multiword word descriptor index method ": just when two complete or incomplete phonetics of input, not only show the two words language that conforms to two phonetics on the display, also related handle plays the multiword word that first two word phonetics conform to be enumerated out in the lump, to improve the phonetic retrieval speed of Chinese multiword word.
6. 6. screen of the present invention shows its main body of radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries keyboard and also divides four zones: the upper end is that radical and stroke one, two is until nine strokes, and more than ten strokes; The right side is that surplus stroke one, two is until 12 strokes, and more than 13 strokes; Left side central portion is a candidate character area; The base keeps left and is left side deletion, tabulation (Tab), space, carriage return, six function keys (use of function key is identical with the phonetic keyboard) such as page turning key up and down;
7. 7. radicals by which characters are arranged in traditional Chinese dictionaries keyboard of the present invention also supports Chinese and English to mix input, and its candidate character area has three kinds of display modes:

   ■ before Chinese character input beginning original state or at intermittence of two Chinese characters or word input, show ten arabic numeral of 0-9,26 English lower case of a-z (can show the A-Z English capitalization with Page Down key) and some other conventional characters, these numerals, letter and character can touch to be directly inputted in the text of editing and go by point.

   ■ is after a radical and stroke is selected, and this candidate character area is used for showing alternative radical.These radicals can not be directly inputted in the text and go, and remain user's point to touch and choose one, choose a surplus stroke just can finish the index of Chinese character again.

   The candidate Chinese character that touches input can be directly put in being only of ■ candidate character area demonstration at this moment.
8. 8. English of the present invention and symbol letter disk reference standard QWERTY keyboard are arranged 26 English alphabets, and a proprietary key shows capitalization English letter and small letter English alphabet in order to switch on the letter disk.
9. 9. practical model essay letter disk of the present invention has " words is taken " and " self-editing model essay " two states.Take state at words, the word of individual character and random length, sentence or paragraph can be finished the copy input through once touching after being handled by " heavy color ".After the deposit of self-editing model essay, the words that promptly becomes resident (default) model essay support future is taken.

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