JP2000339300A - Method and device for generating basic chinese characters by each school grade and storage medium storing the method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily prepare a sentence consisting of only KANJI (Chinese characters) according to government guidelines for teaching and KANA (Japanese syllabary) by reading only KANJI for learning at a designated school grade and at grades lower than it in accordance with government guidelines for teaching of Ministry of Education from a character storing device by school grade storing basic KANJI of each school grade to prepare a sentence. SOLUTION: This device is provided with a keyboard 111 for inputting characters, etc., a discrimination circuit 112 for discriminating whether characters by each grade are designated or not, a character storing area designating circuit 119, an address generating circuit 120, etc. When it is judged that characters by each grade are designated, whether the designation designates KANJI for the first grade is inspected. At the time of judging Yes, KANJI for the first grade are read from a character storing device for the first grade based on a KANA/KANJI conversion table for the first grade and converted into KANJI. At the time of judging No, the KANJI is converted into KANA and characters are outputted from an outputting device 118. Then, whether the KANJI is for the second grade, whether the KANJI is for the third grade,..., and whether the KANJI is for the sixth grade are successively inspected.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus such as a computer or a word processor.
A method and device for generating grade-specific educational kanji that can accurately write sentences for each grade in accordance with the Ministry of Education's learning guidelines, using kanji learned for each grade of elementary school students, and a method for generating grade-specific educational kanji It relates to a stored storage medium.

According to the present invention, a sentence via an information processing device, a sentence between children, a sentence from an adult to an elementary school student, or a sentence for preparing a book suitable for each grade of an elementary school student conforms to the educational guidelines of the Ministry of Education. The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for generating grade-specific educational kanji created using only Chinese characters, and a storage medium storing a grade-specific educational kanji generation method.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art Kanji learned by elementary school students for six years has a learning guideline for each grade set by the Ministry of Education as an educational kanji. As shown in FIG. 4, the educational kanji are 80 kanji for the first grade, 160 kanji for the second grade, and 2 kanji for the third grade and the fourth grade, respectively.
There are 00 characters, 185 kanji for the fifth grade, and 181 kanji for the sixth grade, for a total of 1006 characters.

[0004] Textbooks or supplementary readings used in elementary schools are described in accordance with the supervision of specialists in educational kanji or according to the above-mentioned Ministry of Education guidelines for learning. However, there are cases where reading materials and study reference books for elementary school students are not strictly described according to the above-mentioned guidelines for study.

[0005]

In recent years, information processing apparatuses such as computers and word processors have been remarkably developed and have been used experimentally even among elementary school children. In particular, if you send e-mail by computer, even if it is between elementary school students of the same grade,
Since kanji conversion is performed without permission, there is a risk that many unreadable characters may appear.

[0006] Also, there are many cases in which e-mails from adults such as grandparents and uncles and aunts do not know at all what elementary school students have learned how much kanji. In such a case, the sentence by the e-mail cannot be sufficiently understood by the child of the other party, so that the value of the e-mail is halved. Further, even if elementary school students can obtain desired sentences via the Internet, the sentences often include unreadable kanji and are often incomprehensible.

[0007] The present invention is intended to solve the above-described problems. By simply designating the grade of an elementary school student, a sentence using only kanji that conforms to the curriculum guidelines of the Ministry of Education is displayed on a computer display. Or a method and apparatus for generating graded educational kanji that can be printed or
It is another object of the present invention to provide a storage medium storing a method of generating educational kanji for each grade.

When writing a text for elementary school students, simply by specifying the grade of the elementary school student, a sentence using only the grade-specific educational kanji corresponding to the grade is created. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for generating grade-specific educational kanji, and a storage medium storing grade-specific educational kanji generation methods, which can eliminate the problem that elementary school students who received the information by mail or the like cannot read. Aim.

[0009]

Means for Solving the Problems (First Invention) The method of generating educational kanji for each grade according to the first invention is created by using a bitmap or an outline font. The method is characterized in that only the kanji of the designated grade or lower are read from the grade-specific character storage device storing the grade-specific educational kanji in accordance with the learning guideline of the Ministry of Education, and a sentence is created.

(Second Invention) A method for generating educational kanji by grade according to the second invention is created by using a bitmap or an outline font, and displays or prints a sentence stored in a storage device of an information processing device. In doing so, by specifying the grade of elementary school, from the grade-specific character storage device in which the educational kanji for each grade is stored, only the kanji of the grade less than or equal to the grade specified in accordance with the educational guidelines of the Ministry of Education are read out, It is displayed or printed.

(Third Invention) The grade-specific educational kanji generator according to the third invention is created by using a bitmap or an outline font. The grade-specific designating means for designating each grade of an elementary school student, and the grade-specific designation described above. A discriminating circuit for discriminating the grade specified by the means, character storage means for each grade in which kanji to be learned by each grade of elementary school student are stored, and a grade specified by the above-mentioned grade-specific designating means in accordance with the learning guidelines of the Ministry of Education Character conversion means for converting data stored in the following grade-specific character storage means into kanji.

(Fourth Invention) The outline font in the educational kanji generator for each grade according to the fourth invention is composed of a point, a vertical bar, a horizontal bar, a halley,
It is characterized in that one character is constituted by partially overlapping elements consisting only of splashes and the like.

(Fifth invention) The character storage means for each grade in the educational kanji generation device for each grade according to the fifth invention is a character storage means for the first grade, a character storage means for the first grade and a second grade,
··· It is characterized in that it is divided into first grade + second grade character storage means + · · · sixth grade character storage means.

(Sixth invention) The character storage means for each grade in the educational kanji generation device for each grade according to the sixth invention is a character storage means for the first grade, a character storage means for the second grade, and a character storage means for the third grade. ,... Are stored in the character storage means for the sixth grade, and are read from the character storage means for the designated grade or less.

(Seventh Invention) The storage medium storing the method of generating educational kanji for each grade according to the seventh invention is to specify the grade of an elementary school student, and to specify the grade of an elementary school student. It is characterized in that a program for reading out characters and creating sentences is stored.

[0016]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS (First Invention) A first invention is a character generation method in which an information processing device such as a computer or a word processor can create a sentence using only educational kanji for each grade of an elementary school student. May be either a bitmap or an outline font.
When creating a sentence, specify the target grade of elementary school students. The information processing device is provided with a grade-specific character storage device that stores educational kanji for each grade. Based on the designated grade, only the kanji of the designated grade or less are read from the above-mentioned grade-specific character storage device in accordance with the teaching guidelines of the Ministry of Education to prepare a sentence. Therefore, since the prepared text is composed only of the kanji of the specified grade or less, any elementary school student of the grade can easily read the textbook, supplementary reader, reference book, and grade-specific reading. Further, even if the sentence is from an adult to a child or between children, a sentence suitable for the grade of the child to receive can be easily created.

(Second Invention) The first invention creates sentences using educational kanji for each grade, while the second invention provides
This is a method of generating educational kanji for each grade, which converts a sentence created by the information processing device into a sentence using educational kanji for each grade. That is, a sentence created in advance by the information processing device is converted into educational kanji of the designated grade or lower, and then the sentence is displayed or printed by the information processing device. For example, sentences downloaded on the Internet or the like have many characters that cannot be understood by lower grades of elementary school students. Therefore, the second invention specifies a grade of an elementary school for a sentence once stored in a storage device of an information processing device, and from a grade-specific character storage device storing educational kanji for each grade, Only the kanji of the grade below the grade designated according to the educational guidelines of the Ministry of Education can be read and displayed on a display device or printed by a printer.

(Third invention) A third invention is an apparatus for implementing the method of the first invention and the second invention. The grade-specific designating means for designating each grade of the elementary school student inputs a symbol or a combination of symbols, or a key designated in advance such as "first grade". The discrimination circuit discriminates the designated grade by inputting the key, and designates each grade-specific character storage means in which the kanji learned by each grade of the elementary school student is stored. In accordance with the character input or character code, only the kanji of the grade below the grade designated by the grade designation means in accordance with the learning guidelines of the Ministry of Education are output from the grade-specific character storage means, and the other characters are Convert to

(Fourth Invention) The outline font according to the fourth invention is composed of only one closed outline having no inner outline. Therefore, in the outline font according to the fourth aspect of the present invention, one character is formed by partially overlapping elements consisting only of dots, vertical bars, horizontal bars, horizontal lines, vertical lines, and the like. The element in the fourth invention does not mean a commonly used knit or side as described above.

(Fifth invention) The character storage means for each grade in the fifth invention is a character storage means for the first grade, a +
Character storage means for the second grade,..., Character storage means for the first grade + character storage means for the second grade + ... Character storage means for the designated grade only It is only necessary to read out the character concerned from, and the program is simplified.

(Sixth invention) The character storage means for each grade in the sixth invention is a character storage means for the first grade, a character storage means for the second grade, a character storage means for the third grade, ..., the sixth grade. It is divided into character storage means for grades, and all character storage means under the specified grade are read out, so the overall storage capacity is reduced, but Kanji must be read from all character storage means under the specified grade. .

(Seventh invention) A seventh invention is a storage medium storing a program according to the second invention and the method for generating graded educational kanji of the second invention. The storage medium may be any storage medium such as a magnetic medium, an optical medium, and a magneto-optical medium.

[0023]

[Embodiment] FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a first embodiment of the present invention for creating a sentence using only educational kanji to be learned for each grade of elementary school students. In FIG. 1, an information processing apparatus includes a keyboard 111 for inputting characters and processing, a discriminating circuit 112 for discriminating whether or not there is designation of a grade-specific educational kanji by the keyboard 111; If no kanji is specified, an address generation circuit 113 for generating an address for the input character, and a character storage device 1 in which the character is stored in an area based on the address generated by the address generation circuit 113
14 and a buffer circuit 115 for one character or one element for temporarily storing characters read from the character storage device 114 by a control device (not shown), and character information stored in the buffer circuit 115. An arithmetic circuit 116 for blacking out the elements or the outline font, or assembling the elements into characters, and a one-character buffer circuit 117 for temporarily storing the characters after the characters have been created for output by a display device or a printing device. And an output device 118 that displays or prints characters together with a display control circuit or a print control circuit (not shown).

The above information processing apparatus for creating a sentence
This is different from the conventional one in that it includes a determination circuit 112, a character storage area designation circuit 119, and an address generation circuit 120. The information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes the determination circuit 112
In the case where there is a designation of a grade to create a sentence using grade-specific educational kanji, a character storage area designating circuit 119 for designating a character storage area for each grade provided in advance, and a kanji stored in the designated area And an address generating circuit 120 for generating only addresses.

FIG. 2 is an example of a flowchart for carrying out the first embodiment in FIG. Figure 3 shows the Kana-Kanji conversion (IME-Input Method Editor)
r) It is a figure for explaining a table. FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining an example of educational kanji learned in the first to sixth grades and the number of kanji learned in each grade. In FIG. 3, a normal word processor does not specify each grade, so that kanji is converted based on a normal kana-kanji conversion table.

For example, with the keyboard 111,
When “rojin” is input, “4723” which is the code of “ro” and “3145” which is the code of “jin”
(People), "3146" (jin), "3147" (blade),
... However, since there are no words "old man" and "old blade", they are converted to "old man" and output.

Next, when the first grade is designated, only the kana-kanji conversion table for the first grade shown in FIG. 3 is displayed. Is done.
When the fourth grade is designated, the user enters "Rojin" to view the first grade Kana-Kanji conversion table to the fourth grade Kana-Kanji conversion table shown in FIG. Is output as "old man".

An embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. In FIG. 2, first,
Characters are input by the keyboard 111 (step 211). Before inputting characters, it is checked by a control unit (not shown) whether or not there is designation of a grade-specific character (step 212). If it is determined that the character for each grade has not been designated, the character at the address generated by the character input from the keyboard 111 is read from the character storage device 114 (step 213).

Next, it is determined whether the read character is a Chinese character (step 214). If it is determined that the character is a kanji, it is converted into a kanji and output from the output device 118 (steps 215 and 216). If it is determined in step 214 that the character is not a kanji, it is converted to kana and the character is output (steps 217 and 216).

If it is determined in step 212 that a grade-specific character is designated, it is checked whether the designation is a kanji for the first grade (step 218). If it is determined that the first grade kanji has been designated, the first grade kanji is read from the first grade character storage device based on the first grade kana kanji conversion table shown in FIG. Conversion (step 219).

If it is determined in step 218 that the character is not a kanji for the first grade, it is converted to kana and the character is output from the output device 118 (step 2).
17, 216). If it is determined in step 218 that the character is not a kanji for the first grade, whether or not it is a kanji for the second grade, whether or not a kanji for the third grade, and so on for the sixth grade are sequentially set. To see if they are Chinese characters (step 2
20).

If it is determined that the kanji is for the second grade, the kana-kanji conversion tables for the first grade and the second grade are checked as shown in FIG. That is, in the case of the kanji for the sixth grade, all the kana-kanji conversion tables for the first grade to the sixth grade are to be viewed. Kanji characters not shown in this table are output from the kana output device 118.

As shown in FIG. 3, the kana-kanji conversion table is six times for the first grade, five times for the second grade, and four times for the third grade.
Times ... Dubling the 6th grade one time at a time
Alternatively, in the case of the second grade, it is possible to look at the first grade and then watch the second grade. Whichever method is used, the number of kanji is 1006, so that it does not affect the capacity of the memory.

The present invention also includes the following outline fonts having no inner contour, in addition to the characters composed of bitmaps or the characters composed of outline fonts. For example, it is a character for each element which constitutes one character by partially overlapping an element consisting of only a point, a vertical bar, a horizontal bar, a horizontal bar, a vertical bar, etc., which is composed of only one closed contour. The details of the character by element are described in, for example, Japanese Patent Application No. 80490/1998 proposed by the present applicant.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart for explaining a method for generating grade-specific educational kanji according to a second embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 5, a character string is stored in a character storage device 114 of the information processing apparatus (step 51).
1). The character string may include an image or the like. Then, this character string is stored as a character code (step 512). When outputting this character code to the output device 118 such as a display device or a printing device, a control device (not shown) checks whether or not a grade-specific educational kanji has been designated (step 513).

If no grade-specific educational kanji is specified,
The character code is read as it is (step 5).
14). It is checked whether or not the character code is a Chinese character (step 515). If the character code is determined to be a kanji, it is converted to a kanji (step 51).
6). If it is determined that the character code is not a kanji, it is converted to kana (step 518). Thereafter, the character string is output from the output device 118 as a kana-kanji character string (step 517).

If it is determined in step 513 that the grade-specific educational kanji is designated, it is checked whether the designation is for the first grade (step 519). Designation is first
If it is determined that the character code is for the first grade, it is checked whether or not the character code is a kanji for the first grade (step 52).
0). If it is determined to be a kanji for the first grade,
The kanji for the grade is read from the character storage device 114 (step 521).

If it is determined in step 520 that the character code is not a kanji character for the first grade, the character code is not converted to a kanji character, but converted to kana and the characters are output (steps 518, 517). In step 519, it is determined that the grade-specific educational kanji is not for the first grade, and if the kanji for the second grade is designated, similarly, only the kanji for the first grade and the second grade are converted to kanji, Convert other characters to kana and output the characters. Third grade: The same applies to the fifth grade.

In step 522, it is checked whether the designation is for the sixth grade. If it is determined that the designation is for the sixth grade, it is checked whether the character code is a kanji for the first grade to a kanji for the sixth grade. If it is determined that the kanji is for the first grade to the sixth grade, the kanji for the first grade to the sixth grade is read out from the character storage device 114 and converted into a kanji. Other character codes are converted to kana and output from the output device 118. As described above, according to the present embodiment, by repeating the above-described processing for each character string, it is possible to convert the character string into a Kana-Kanji-mixed sentence suitable for each grade.

In the second embodiment, after an adult prepares a normal sentence, it can be sent to a child after performing kanji conversion according to the school year of the destination child. Also, after an adult prepares a normal sentence and sends it to the child, the child can perform kanji conversion according to his / her ability.

In the third embodiment, when an elementary school student prepares a sentence or when an adult prepares a normal sentence, normal kanji conversion is performed. To be attached. For example, in the third embodiment, if the kanji is less than the designated grade, it is converted to kanji as it is, and if the kanji is more than the designated grade, the storage means in which the kanji and the reading are paired in advance. These are read from. As in the case of ordinary kana, there are cases where the kana is written above the kanji, and where the kanji is enclosed in parentheses after the kanji.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. And
The present invention is capable of various design changes without departing from the scope of the claims. For example, the blocks used in this embodiment are:
It can be achieved by well-known or known techniques.

The information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention
It mentions the minimum means related to the creation of characters for achieving the object of the present invention, and naturally also has means provided in ordinary computers and word processors. Needless to say, the method and apparatus for generating grade-specific educational kanji of the present invention, and the storage medium storing the grade-specific educational kanji generation method are compatible with various character creation software. It is.

[0044]

According to the present invention, in the exchange of sentences from adults to elementary school students and between elementary school students, or in the preparation of documents for elementary school students, sentences composed of only kanji and kana according to the curriculum guidelines of the Ministry of Education. Can be easily created.

According to the present invention, a sentence obtained by the information processing device can be converted into a sentence composed of only kanji and kana according to the curriculum guidelines of the Ministry of Education. Can be easily accessed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a first embodiment of the present invention for creating a sentence using only educational kanji learned for each grade of an elementary school student.

FIG. 2 is an example of a flowchart for implementing the first embodiment in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 Kana-Kanji conversion (IME-Input Meth)
FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining an (or "Editor") table.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining an example of educational kanji learned in the first to sixth grades and the number of kanji learned in each grade.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of generating a graded educational kanji according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

111 ... keyboard 112 ... discrimination circuit 113 ... address generation circuit 114 ... character storage device 115 ... one-character or one-element buffer circuit 116 ... arithmetic circuit 117 ... one character Minute buffer circuit 118 ... Output device 119 ... Character storage area designation circuit 120 ... Address generation circuit

Claims (7)

[Claims] In a character generation method created by a bitmap or an outline font, by specifying a grade of an elementary school, a learning instruction of the Ministry of Education is provided from a grade-specific character storage device in which educational kanji for each grade is stored. A method for generating educational kanji for each grade, which reads out only kanji of the grade specified in accordance with the guidelines and prepares sentences. 2. A method for generating a character created by a bitmap or an outline font, comprising the steps of: specifying a grade of an elementary school when displaying or printing a sentence stored in a storage device of an information processing apparatus; The generation of grade-specific educational kanji by reading out and displaying or printing only the kanji of the grade specified or less according to the educational guidelines of the Ministry of Education from the grade-specific character storage device in which another educational kanji is stored. Method. 3. A character generator created by using a bitmap or an outline font, comprising: a grade-specific designating means for designating each grade of an elementary school student; a discriminating circuit for distinguishing the grade designated by the grade-specific designating means; The character storage means for each grade in which the kanji learned by each grade is stored, and the data stored in the character storage means for each grade of the school year or less designated by the above-mentioned grade-specific designation means in accordance with the learning guideline of the Ministry of Education. A character conversion means for converting a character into a kanji; 4. The outline font is formed by partially overlapping a point composed of only one closed contour line, an element composed of only a vertical bar, a horizontal bar, a horizontal line, a vertical line, and the like to form a single character. 4. The method according to claim 3, wherein
Educational kanji generator for each grade shown. 5. The grade-specific character storage means includes first grade character storage means, first grade + second grade character storage means,... First grade + second grade character storage. Means +
The educational kanji generator for each grade according to claim 3, which is divided into character storage means for the sixth grade. 6. The grade-specific character storage means includes first grade character storage means, second grade character storage means, third grade character storage means,..., Sixth grade character storage means. 4. The educational kanji generator according to claim 3, wherein the kanji is divided and read out from character storage means of a designated grade or less. 7. The program according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a program for reading out characters under the designated grade and creating a text by designating the grade of an elementary school student in accordance with the curriculum guidelines of the Ministry of Education is stored. A storage medium storing the method of generating educational kanji for each grade according to claim 2.