JP2002157073A - Screen key board, method of controlling screen key board, and recording medium recorded with control program for screen key board - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To display ordinary characters and double consonant characters of the cursive kana characters and the square forms of kana, or large letters and small letters of alphabets on the same screen to facilitate inputs for the cursive kana characters and the alphabets. SOLUTION: This screen key board displays the ordinary characters of the cursive kana characters and the small letters corresponding thereto or the double consonant characters on the same screen. Since the each double consonant character is displayed on each key same to the each ordinary character of the cursive kana character, the cursive kana character is easily input.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a screen keyboard which is used in place of a normal keyboard and is displayed on a display device such as a computer or a cash dispenser. Regarding the medium. In particular, a screen keyboard, a method of controlling a screen keyboard, and a screen keyboard capable of displaying hiragana and alphabets on the same screen by displaying normal characters and vowel characters of hiragana or uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet on the same screen. The present invention relates to a recording medium on which a control program is recorded.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a cash dispenser of a bank, a touch panel type screen keyboard is displayed on a screen in order to input characters for designating a transfer destination and a transfer person.

In order to transfer money or the like using this cash dispenser, the transfer destination or the person who transfers the money must be specified by touching the screen keyboard displayed on the touch panel type screen with a finger. Is available.

[0004]

Here, in a screen keyboard used in a conventional cash dispenser or the like, the characters "@", "@", and "ょ" indicating the sound of the prompt sound are different from other characters. Are displayed at independent locations, for example, when instructing the character of “ki”, the user needs to touch the character of “ゃ” after touching the character of “ki”.

[0005] At this time, the character of "ゃ" indicating a prompt is
Because it is displayed in a location away from the letter "ki", it is difficult to find, and when pointing to the letter "ki",
Since two touches of the character "" and the character "" are required, it takes a long time to input characters.

Also, a screen showing uppercase letters and a screen showing lowercase letters of the alphabet are separately prepared, and inputting uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet by switching screens has a problem that it takes time.

[0007] In a PC (Personal Computer) or the like, when the installation place is small, a space for a keyboard cannot be secured, and the keyboard may not be used in some cases.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and has as its object to provide normal and hiragana characters of hiragana,
Alternatively, a screen keyboard, a method for controlling a screen keyboard, and a recording medium on which a program for controlling a screen keyboard are recorded, in which uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet are displayed on the same key to easily input hiragana and alphabets. That is.

[0009]

In order to solve the above problems, a screen keyboard according to a first aspect of the present invention is a screen keyboard displayed on a display device such as a computer or a cash dispenser for inputting hiragana and katakana. And “ゃ”, “ゅ” and “ょ”, which indicate the characters of the prompting sound,
Or display means for displaying the characters "ャ", "ュ" and "ョ" in the vicinity of the corresponding normal character, and "ゃ", "ゅ" or "cho" or "ャ" from the display means. Signal output means for outputting a signal corresponding to the prompting of a character in the vicinity thereof in response to an instruction of the character of “,” “u” or “ョ”.

In order to solve the above problem, a screen keyboard according to a second aspect of the present invention is a screen keyboard displayed on a display device such as a computer or a cash dispenser for inputting alphabetic characters,
It is characterized by comprising display means for displaying a lowercase letter of the alphabet near the corresponding uppercase letter of the corresponding alphabet, and signal output means for outputting a signal corresponding to the lowercase or uppercase letter of the alphabet from the display means.

Here, the designation of a character from the display means can be performed by a pointer displayed on the display means controlled by a mouse or the like. In addition, the display means,
Can be a touch panel.

In order to solve the above problems, a method of controlling a screen keyboard according to a first aspect of the present invention provides a screen keyboard displayed on a display device such as a computer or a cash dispenser for inputting hiragana and katakana. A control method of a screen keyboard for controlling, wherein "ゃ", "ゅ", and "」 "or"」" or "ャ",
The characters "u" and "yo" are displayed near the corresponding normal characters, and the indication of the characters "、", "ゅ" or "yo", or "ya", "yu" or "yo" And outputs a signal corresponding to the prompting sound of the character in the vicinity.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of controlling a screen keyboard which is displayed on a display device such as a computer or a cash dispenser for inputting alphabetic characters. The method is characterized in that lowercase letters of the alphabet are displayed near uppercase letters of the corresponding alphabet, and a signal corresponding to the indication of lowercase letters or uppercase letters of the alphabet is output.

Here, the designation of a character can be performed by a pointer controlled by a mouse or the like. The display of the characters may be displayed on the touch panel.

[0015] In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a recording medium in which a control program for a screen keyboard according to the first aspect of the present invention is recorded is displayed on a display device such as a computer or a cash dispenser for inputting hiragana and katakana. A computer-executable screen keyboard control method for controlling a screen keyboard to be controlled by a computer, the control method of the screen keyboard includes:
Displaying the characters “ゅ” and “ょ”, or “ャ”, “ュ” and “ョ” near the corresponding normal characters, and “ゃ”, “ゅ” or “ょ”, or "C",
Outputting a signal corresponding to a prompt of a character in the vicinity thereof in response to an instruction of a character of “u” or “」 ”.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a recording medium in which a control program for a screen keyboard according to a second aspect of the present invention is displayed on a display device such as a computer or a cash dispenser for inputting alphabetic characters. A computer-executable program for controlling a screen keyboard, the method comprising the steps of: displaying a lowercase letter of an alphabet near a corresponding uppercase letter of the alphabet; And outputting a signal corresponding to an instruction of a lowercase or uppercase letter of the alphabet.

Here, the designation of a character can be performed by a pointer controlled by a mouse or the like. The display of the characters may be displayed on the touch panel.

[0018] The normal character and the sounding character of the hiragana, or the capital letter and the small letter of the alphabet are displayed on the same screen,
Hiragana and alphabet can be easily input.

[0019]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a screen keyboard according to the present invention will be described.
A screen keyboard control method and a recording medium storing a screen keyboard control program will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of the screen keyboard of the present invention. This screen keyboard is a screen keyboard for inputting hiragana, and is displayed on a screen of a display device such as a PC (Personal Computer) or a cash dispenser.

Here, "A", "I", "U",
The keys that indicate "E", "O", "Ya", "Yu" and "Yo" are "ぁ", "ぃ", "ぅ", "ぇ",
The characters “ぉ”, “ゃ”, “ゅ” and “ょ” are displayed.

Also, "ki", "shi", "chi", "ni",
Keys indicating “HI”, “MI”, and “RI” display characters “文字”, “ゅ”, and “ょ”, respectively.

The keys indicating "fu" include "@",
The characters “ぃ”, “ぇ” and “ぉ” are displayed.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the screen keyboard of the present invention. This screen keyboard is a screen keyboard for inputting alphabets, and is a personal computer (PC).
ter) or a cash dispenser.

Here, the capital letter "A" of the alphabet,
The keys indicating “B”, “C”,..., “X”, “Y”, “Z” correspond to lowercase letters “a”, “b”,
“C”,..., “X”, “y”, “z” are displayed.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the configuration of a computer device such as a PC or a cash dispenser to which the screen keyboard of the present invention is applied. 3, the computer device 10 is used in a display unit 11 for displaying a screen keyboard as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a character conversion processing unit 14 having a word processor function, and a character conversion processing unit 14. Dictionary DB 15 for storing character conversion dictionaries
And character conversion corresponding to a keyboard signal corresponding to an arbitrary key of the screen keyboard (FIGS. 1 and 2) displayed on the display unit 11 and a character signal corresponding to a character used in the character conversion processing unit 14. Conversion table DB that stores tables
13 and an input of a keyboard signal corresponding to an arbitrary key of the screen keyboard (FIGS. 1 and 2) displayed on the display unit 11 based on a character conversion table stored in the conversion table DB 13. And a control unit 12 that converts the input keyboard signal into a character signal and outputs the character signal to a character conversion processing unit 14.

Hereinafter, character input using the screen keyboard of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. Here, the computer device 10 is described as a cash dispenser installed in a bank or the like. The character conversion processing unit 14 performs character conversion processing of a general word processor.

The user of the cash dispenser (computer device 10) touches a predetermined key of the screen keyboard (FIG. 1) displayed on the display unit 11 when, for example, inputting the address of the transfer destination "Tokyo Co., Ltd." I do.

That is, when inputting the characters "Tokyo Co., Ltd.", the user must input "?"
"Fu", "゛", "shi", "ki", "ka", "i",
"(Shi) ゃ", "conversion", "to", "u", "(ki)
Touch the “U”, “U”, and “Convert” keys. here,
“(し) ゃ” indicates that the “ゃ” displayed on the “「 ”key is touched, and“ (（) ”indicates“ ki ”.
This indicates that the "yo" portion displayed on the key is touched.

The control unit 12 displays “KA”,
"Fu", "゛", "shi", "ki", "ka", "i",
"(Shi) ゃ", "conversion", "to", "u", "(ki)
Upon receiving the keyboard signals corresponding to the "u", "u", and "conversion" keys, based on the character conversion table stored in the conversion table DB 13, the input keyboard signals are respectively processed by the character conversion processing unit 14. Character signals that can be processed (“ka” —> “ka”, “fu” + “゛” —> “b
u "," shi "->" si "," ki "->" ki ",
"Ka"->"ka","i"->"i","(shi)@"
->"Sya","conversion"->"conversion","to"->
"To", "u"->"u","(ki)cho"->"ky"
o "," u "->" u "," conversion "->" conversion ").

These character signals are sent to the character conversion processing unit 14.
And the character conversion processing unit 14 uses the dictionaries stored in the dictionary DB 15 to “ka”, “bu”, “s”
“Company” is displayed on the display unit 11 according to the character signals of “i”, “ki”, “ka”, “i”, “sya”, and “conversion”. Similarly, "to", "u", "ky"
“Tokyo” is displayed on the display unit 11 according to the character signals of “o”, “u”, and “conversion”.

As a result, "Tokyo Co., Ltd." is displayed in the transferee name column on the display unit 11.

Similar processing is performed for characters such as "@" and uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

Although the screen keyboard and the method of controlling the screen keyboard according to the present invention have been described above, the present invention can be applied to a screen keyboard for katakana in addition to a screen keyboard for hiragana and alphabet.

Further, the above-described method for controlling the screen keyboard may be a computer-executable screen keyboard control program, and the program may be recorded on a recording medium.

In the above description, the computer device 1
0 has been described as a cash dispenser, but the screen keyboard and the method of controlling the screen keyboard of the present invention can also be applied to a general PC. In this case, key designation (character designation) on the screen keyboard can be performed by controlling the pointer with the mouse. That is, the pointer is moved to the character of the key to be displayed, and the character is input by clicking the mouse button.

[0037]

As described above, according to the screen keyboard, the method of controlling the screen keyboard, and the recording medium in which the control program of the screen keyboard is recorded, the lowercase characters and the vocal characters corresponding to the normal characters of hiragana and katakana are provided. Or, since uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet are displayed on the same key, it is possible to easily input hiragana, katakana, and the alphabet.

In the case of a computer device such as a PC, a normal keyboard is not required for inputting characters, so that a computer device capable of inputting characters can be installed even in a small place.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a screen keyboard according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an embodiment of a screen keyboard according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a computer device to which a screen keyboard according to the present invention is applied.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 10 Computer device 11 Display unit 12 Control unit 13 Conversion table DB 14 Character conversion processing unit 15 Dictionary DB

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Claims (12)

[Claims] 1. A screen keyboard displayed on a display device such as a computer or a cash dispenser for inputting hiragana and katakana characters, wherein “ゃ”, “ゅ” and “ょ” or “ょ” or “ょ” or “ょ” or “ょ” or “促”, which indicates a sound of a sound, is used. Display means for displaying the characters "", "" and "" near the corresponding normal characters; and "", "", "", "", or "" from the display means. , A signal output means for outputting a signal corresponding to a prompt of a character in the vicinity thereof in response to an instruction of a character of "u" or "yo". 2. A screen keyboard displayed on a display device such as a computer or a cash dispenser for inputting alphabetic characters, comprising: display means for displaying lowercase letters of an alphabet near a corresponding uppercase letter of the alphabet; A signal output means for outputting a signal corresponding to the lowercase or uppercase instruction of the alphabet from a display means. 3. The character indication from the display means is performed by a pointer displayed on the display means controlled by a mouse or the like.
Screen keyboard described. 4. The screen keyboard according to claim 1, wherein said display means is a touch panel. 5. A screen keyboard control method for controlling a screen keyboard displayed on a display device such as a computer or a cash dispenser for inputting hiragana and katakana characters, wherein “ゃ” indicating a sound of a sound, The characters “ゅ” and “ょ”, or “ャ”, “ュ” and “ョ” are displayed near the corresponding normal characters, and the “ゃ”, “ゅ” or “ょ”, or “「 ” "
A method for controlling a screen keyboard, comprising: outputting a signal corresponding to a prompt of a character in the vicinity in response to an instruction of a character of “u” or “yo”. 6. A method for controlling a screen keyboard displayed on a display device such as a computer or a cash dispenser for inputting alphabetic characters, wherein a lowercase alphabetic character is displayed near a corresponding uppercase alphabetic character. A method for controlling a screen keyboard, comprising: outputting a signal corresponding to a lowercase or uppercase instruction of an alphabet. 7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the instruction of the character is performed by a pointer controlled by a mouse or the like. 8. The method according to claim 5, wherein the display of the character is displayed on a touch panel. 9. A screen keyboard control program capable of executing on a computer a screen keyboard control method for controlling a screen keyboard displayed on a display device such as a computer or a cash dispenser for inputting hiragana and katakana. The method of controlling the on-screen keyboard according to claim 1, wherein the character corresponding to the prompting sound is “ゃ”, “ゅ”, and “ょ”, or “ャ”, “ュ”, and “」 ”. Displaying the character in the vicinity of a normal character; and the “ゃ”, “ゅ” or “ょ”, or “ャ”;
A step of outputting a signal corresponding to a prompt of a character in the vicinity of the character in response to an instruction of a character of “u” or “。”. 10. A recording medium recording a control program of a screen keyboard capable of executing a method of controlling a screen keyboard displayed on a display device such as a computer or a cash dispenser for inputting alphabetical characters by a computer. The method of controlling the screen keyboard includes: displaying a lowercase letter of an alphabet near a corresponding uppercase letter of the alphabet; and outputting a signal corresponding to an instruction of the lowercase letter or the uppercase letter of the alphabet. Recording medium. 11. The recording medium according to claim 9, wherein the instruction of the character is performed by a pointer controlled by a mouse or the like. 12. The recording medium according to claim 9, wherein the display of the characters is displayed on a touch panel.