JP2000148743A - Data acquiring method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the data acquiring method which can impart high display capability to even a small-sized system like a data base of a large-sized system. SOLUTION: When a representative code is inputted to a 1st device, the inputted code is converted into an encoded code string (1-1) and matched against a data base on a 1st device according to a check list to find the data that the encoded code string specifies (1-2); when the data is found, the 1st device acquires the data (1-3). When the data is not found, a 2nd device different from the 1st device is connected to find the data specified according to the encoded code string (1-4) and the found data is transmitted to a temporary storage area provided on the 1st device (1-5). The 1st device introduces the data in the temporary storage area and makes a display based upon the data (1-6).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for capturing data in a network, and more particularly to a method for capturing font display data of a computer system connected to a network.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Since a computer was invented by the English state, the communication between a user and the computer initially had only an interface with an English keyboard as an input means. When computers were introduced to the eastern state, which used kanji, it was difficult for users to use them because of the different fonts used. Therefore, many font processes cannot be performed. For the above reasons, a method of inputting Chinese characters was invented. To date, many different Chinese character input methods have appeared on the market, and Chinese character input methods have become indispensable for national computer systems using Chinese characters, and tools that users must study and Become.

Also, hieroglyphic characters, for example, Chinese characters used in China, Japan, and Korea, English characters, European characters, and font construction mechanisms are different from each other. For example, English is 2
It is composed by combining six Roman characters. In other words, all English words can be constructed simply by combining 26 Roman letters. On the other hand, in the case of Chinese characters, not all Chinese characters can be constituted by a small number of basic character symbols. Therefore, in digital processing, graphic data for display must be created in the database for each Chinese character. That is, each Chinese character requires an independent data storage magnetic area. When creating a system database, in order to provide the system with the ability to display predetermined Chinese characters, it is necessary to have a storage space for storing display graphic data of Chinese characters to be displayed in the database.

As described above, in the case of an English input interface, it is sufficient to simply create 26 Roman character display graphic data in a database. By combining these 26 Roman letters, all English words can be constructed. Therefore, the space required by the created database is small. On the other hand, the input interface for Chinese characters has a large memory space for storing Chinese characters in a database, and thus does not have such a large space in a database of a small system, so that it is difficult to use. Thus, for small systems, the amount of Chinese characters for which a database can be created or displayed cannot include all Chinese characters. At most some or only common Chinese characters are acceptable. In such a case, unusual or special Chinese characters (for example, human names or local names) cannot be displayed because the data is not stored in the database of the small system, which is the present invention. Is the problem to be solved.

[0005] The number of common standard fonts or graphics in a small system database is less than the number of located addresses. That is, the database of the small system reserves a part of the storage space, so that the system contractor can create the font or graphic data required by himself / herself. A self-determined database of this part may be a foreign character group or a non-standard area (ie, a non-national standard code area or other non-industrial standard code storage area, eg, EUC, B
IG5, external character area other than the CCC II standard code). Therefore, the conventional technique employs the following method to solve the above-mentioned problem. In addition to the standard Chinese character fonts already created in the database of the small system, a part of the space of the database is used to make the fonts or graphics required for the user's free use. That is, all Chinese characters set in the database of the small system are divided into two parts. One is an existing standard character group in the system font database, and the other is a proprietary character group established by the user on demand.

[0006]

However, in the case of the prior art, a user has to build a character group by himself in order to increase the number of Chinese characters that can be processed by a small system. This method cannot completely solve the above problem. The total number of Chinese characters is 80,000, and it is increasing continuously. In the case of a small system, for example, in the case of a BIG5 font database, there are only 10,000 Chinese characters created, so there is a considerable difference from the total number. Since the number of characters in the character group that the user can set up is limited, the difference cannot be compensated, and the effect that the prior art can achieve is limited.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a data capturing method that can provide a high display capability even in a small system as in a large system database.

[0008]

According to the data capturing method of the present invention, when a representative code is input to a first device, a first step of converting the input representative code into an encoded code sequence; A second step of checking whether or not the data specified by the encoding code string exists in the database of the first device based on the checklist; if there is data, the first device captures the data; a third step; Does not exist, a fourth step of connecting the second device that exists separately from the first device to find the specified data based on the encoding code string, and temporarily storing the found data in the first device A fifth step of transmitting the data in the temporary storage area to the first device, and a seventh step of performing processing based on the acquired data. And a flop. In the second step, it is determined whether or not the data exists. If the data exists, the process proceeds to the third step. If the data does not exist, the process proceeds to the fourth step. The fifth and sixth steps are performed when the data does not exist. Is done. When the third and sixth steps are completed, the process proceeds to the seventh step to perform final processing. By using the above method, even if information does not exist in the database of the first device, by connecting to another second device having information,
Necessary information can be supplemented. Therefore, even a small system such as a personal computer having a small amount of stored information can be provided with a high display capability by acquiring information from a database of a large system such as a server computer.

According to the data capturing method of the second aspect of the present invention, since the data is an encoded font code or graphic symbol code, information on characters and graphics can be supplemented.

According to the data capturing method of the third aspect of the present invention, since the representative code is an encoding code of a character input method, the input can be performed by characters, and the input is easy.

According to the data acquisition method of the present invention, since the data acquisition method can be used between systems, it is possible to execute data acquisition between all devices.

[0012]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The present invention provides a font database for a small system (for example, a font code, a graphic symbol, JIS I / II,
The number of characters in SHIFT JIS, UNICODE, etc. is small. Therefore, by connecting a small system to a large system that has enough other Kanji fonts according to the network connection method, it expands its own Kanji font database. I do. The method checks whether the input Chinese character exists in the font database of the small system,
If there is font display data of Chinese characters input by the user in the font database of the small system, the font display data is directly displayed on the screen. if,
If the display data of the kanji input by the user does not exist in the font database of the small system, introduce the font display data of the kanji from the font database of the large system into the database of the small system and save it in the small system. And display it on the screen.

The present invention increases the number of available fonts in a small system by connecting the small system to a larger system where other font databases are more sufficient, taking advantage of the connectivity of the network. In the processing method, first, a user inputs an arbitrary character by an arbitrary font input method via an input interface of a small system. For example, in the case of Japanese kanji, the kanji is input by inputting the hiragana of the pronunciation of the kanji or the hiragana of the pronunciation of the kanji spelled in Roman characters and then performing conversion. Then, the small system encodes the data received by the input interface and checks whether there is display data of the input Chinese character in the font database in the small system. If there is, the corresponding Chinese character is displayed on the screen using the display data. If it does not exist, it connects to the font database of another large system via the network, downloads the font display data of the corresponding kanji, and displays the kanji on the screen of the small system according to the display data of the kanji. Displays characters on the screen. The steps of the method are described in detail below.

Step 1-1: Input a representative code of a Chinese character to be displayed. The user inputs a representative code of Chinese characters using an input interface of a small system connected to the network, such as a keyboard, an optical pen, or a handwriting input device. In the embodiment of the present invention, when inputting a kanji, the user can input any kanji (for example, in the case of Japanese kanji, spelling kanji in hiragana or romaji) Chinese characters can be input to a small system by adopting a handwriting input method.

A checklist is created in the small system, and the checklist is created by a code page sorting method (for example, a character arrangement, a flow number, or another sorting method). The checklist contains the representative code entered by the user and the data address (ad) in the large database in other systems.
dress).

Step 1-2: The small system uses the check list to check whether the input Chinese character exists in the font database. The small system encodes the representative code input in step 1-1, and the encoded code data represents the kanji input by the user. If the corresponding font exists in the database of the small system corresponding to the encoded code data and the representative code of the Chinese character in the database of the small system, go to step 1-3, otherwise go to step 1-4.

Step 1-3: Obtain display data from the font database of the small system. Since the font display data specified by the encoding code data exists in the font database of the small system, the small system can catch the font display data from its own database and display it on the screen. Step 1-4: Search the information of the corresponding Chinese character from the database of another large system connected to the network.

If there is no font display data of the kanji corresponding to the checklist in the database of the small system, the small system connects to the font database of another system via the network, and then connects to the font database of the other system. Search the font display data of the specified kanji. In this embodiment, according to the setting of the Chinese character input environment, the small system specifies the font display data of the Chinese character to be searched for in the database of another predetermined system, downloads the font display data directly from the database of the large system, and The data is displayed on the screen of the small system using the data. This avoids searching without targets in the network.

Step 1-5: Download the found font display data to the small system. The corresponding font display data in the database of the other system specified by the setting of the small system is returned to the small system, and is stored in the temporary storage area in the database of the small system.

Step 1-6: The font display data is extended from the temporary storage area and displayed. The small system retrieves font display data corresponding to the encoded code data obtained from another system from the temporary storage area, and displays the corresponding Chinese characters on the screen.

In addition, since there are many Chinese character input methods that can be used by the user in step 1-2, the representative code data of the input Chinese character may include only one or a plurality of font display data of the specified Chinese character. For example, when the user inputs the Chinese character “Hana” by handwriting, the character representative code data specifies only that character, so that only that Chinese character is displayed. On the other hand, in the case of inputting the pronunciation of the Chinese character, “Hana”, the designated Chinese character may be, for example, “flower”, “nose” or “flower”. These characters are further specified and the required Chinese characters are displayed. FIG. 1 shows a Chinese character input method using only one input representative code. In the case of a method of inputting a kanji character of a plurality of representative codes which can be selected, it can be understood by the following description.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing another embodiment of the present invention. This is described in detail in the figure below. Step 2-1: Input a required representative code of Chinese characters (Hiragana and Roman characters). The user inputs a representative code such as a keyboard or an optical pen, for example, an input interface of a small system connected to the network. In the embodiment of the present embodiment, when limiting to input of Chinese characters,
Various Chinese character representative code input methods can input Chinese characters into a small system. A checklist is created in the small system, and it is checked whether the representative code of the kanji to which the checklist was input and the corresponding kanji data exist in the database in the small system. Step 2-2: The small system checks whether the corresponding Chinese character data exists in its own database based on the checklist, and if found, displays it on the screen of the small system.

The small system encodes the data entered in step 2-1 and the encoded code data is representative of all possible Chinese characters that the user intends to enter. The small system draws out all possible font display data in its font database according to the encoding code data and displays it on the screen for user selection.

Step 2-3: The database of another system is accessed via the network to search for font display data of Chinese characters that cannot be displayed by the small system. The small system searches the font display data in its own database based on the encoding code data and the checklist, but if it does not find it, connects the font database of another system via a network, and searches for fonts that do not exist in the small system. Find display data.
In this step, the font display data that the small system has already found in its own database does not catch the same font display data as the large system. It simply downloads display data for fonts that can be displayed on large systems but not on small systems. This can reduce the number of font display data transmission processes from a large system.

Step 2-4: Return the found font display data to the small system. The small system stores all the font display data found in step 2-3 in a temporary storage area set in the small system via a network connection.

Step 2-5: The font display data is drawn from the temporary storage area and displayed on the screen. In step 2-3, the small system downloads the font display data to the temporary storage area, then draws out possible Chinese character data from the temporary storage area and displays it on the screen for user selection. According to the data catching method of the flowchart shown in FIG. 2, the small system can achieve the effect of selecting and using more fonts.

As will be understood by describing the embodiments of the present invention in detail, those skilled in the art can make various modifications, but all modifications and improvements included in the claims and spirit of the present invention. Will be described in advance to be within the scope of the present invention. Of course, the present invention is not limited to the embodiment described in the above embodiment. For example,
The present invention is not limited to the mode described in the above embodiment. For example, the present invention can be used to catch Chinese characters such as Chinese characters, Japanese characters, and Korean characters. Regardless of whether the data catch method of the present invention catches data from its own database or catches font display data from a database of another system via a network, the input representative code by any input method used by the user is Everybody is converted into the only encoding code string corresponding to the database.

According to the data catching method of the present invention, when a user uses a small system, more selectivity can be provided when processing characters and graphic symbols, and the shortage of the database of the small system can be supplemented. . As mentioned above, the present invention has a number of advantages and can eliminate the disadvantages and inconveniences of the practice and application of the prior art and create a practical and reliable device by providing an effective solution New and economic benefits.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a flowchart of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a flowchart of another embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A data capturing method for capturing specific data by a user inputting a representative code between a plurality of devices connected to a network, wherein the first device inputs the representative code. A first step of converting the representative code into an encoded code string, and a second step of collating, based on a predetermined checklist, whether a specific data designated by the encoded code string exists in a database provided in the first device. And a third step in which the first device captures the specific data when the specific data exists; and a second device that exists separately from the first device when the specific data does not exist. A fourth step of connecting to a database and finding specific data specified based on the encoded code sequence; A fifth step of transmitting the specific data found in the fourth step to a temporary storage area provided in the first device; a sixth step of introducing the specific data of the temporary storage area by the first device; And a seventh step in which, when the processing in the third step and the processing in the sixth step are completed, the first apparatus performs processing based on the acquired specific data. 2. The data capturing method according to claim 1, wherein the specific data is an encoded font code or a graphic symbol code. 3. The data capturing method according to claim 1, wherein the input representative code is an encoding code of a character input method. 4. A data capturing method for capturing specific data by a user inputting a representative code among a plurality of systems connected to a network, wherein a system for inputting a representative code includes an inputting method. A first step of converting the representative code into an encoded code sequence; and a second system that checks whether there is a specific data specified by the encoded code sequence in a database of the certain system based on a checklist.
A step in which, if the specific data is present, the third system captures and processes the specific data; and, if the specific data is not present, the certain system is connected to another system. A fourth step of capturing the specific data by connecting to a database of a system, storing the data in a temporary storage area provided in the certain system, and performing processing based on the stored data. A data capturing method, comprising: