JP2002222053A - Japanese syllabary input method using liquid crystal touch panel - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a KANA (Japanese syllabary) input method which increases coexistence with other information pictures to be displayed at the same time as a method for performing plain KANA input based upon a Japanese syllabary table by using a liquid crystal touch panel. SOLUTION: A character string 'a ka sa ta na ha ma ya ra wa' is superimposed in a single horizontal row on the screen of a liquid crystal touch panel; when one character in the string is touched, the remaining character string of one of the 'a' series to the 'wa' series which includes the touch-inputted character is superimposed in a single vertical column below the touched character and one character in the display characters in the single vertical column including the one character in the single horizontal row is touched and inputted, so that the character is inputted.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a kana input method using a liquid crystal touch panel, and more particularly to a technique suitably applied to, for example, a music selection reservation device attached to a karaoke performance device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to reserve a requested song to a karaoke performance apparatus, a target song is found from a book-form table of contents, and a song ID attached to the song is searched.
Has been registered in a karaoke performance device using a remote control device or the like. Recently, as a device that replaces this reservation procedure, a device that is a music selection reservation device that has been devised so that a user can perform a reservation operation more enjoyably and easily has appeared.

[0003] This music selection reservation device is generally configured using an operation input device such as a keyboard or a touch panel, a display, a notebook personal computer having a hard disk device and the like. The karaoke performance device is RS-2.
The connection is made by an interface such as a 32C interface. The hard disk device has a database in which the song IDs of the respective karaoke songs are classified and arranged by predetermined search keys such as song title, singer name, lyricist, and composer. The music selection reservation device uses these to provide the user with various search functions. For example, in a search for a song title, a karaoke song in which a character string in kana notation input by the user is included in the song title is searched and displayed in a list on a display.

[0004]

In the case where the above-described music selection reservation device is configured using a small notebook computer, palmtop computer, or the like, a liquid crystal touch panel may be used as a user interface. As can be seen on other information devices, as a way to make it easy for people who are not used to keyboard operations to enter kana characters with a small number of characters easily, the screen of the LCD touch panel displays "Aioe, Kakikukeko, Sashisuseso, ..." Is displayed, and characters are input one by one by touching characters in the table with a pen or a fingertip. This method is not suitable for inputting sentences at high speed.
Because he is familiar with the sound table, even a person who has never operated a computer can find and input a desired character.

[0005] However, when the screen of the liquid crystal touch panel is small, displaying the Japanese syllabary in a size that is easy to see, occupies most of the area of the screen with the Japanese syllabary, making it difficult to coexist with other information displays. There was a problem.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problem, and is a method for performing a clear kana input based on a Japanese syllabary using a liquid crystal touch panel, which is compatible with other information screens simultaneously displayed. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for inputting kana with a higher Kana.

[0007]

According to the kana input method using the liquid crystal touch panel according to the present invention, a character string "Akasutana yamayawa" is superimposed and displayed in a horizontal line on a screen of the liquid crystal touch panel. In response to a touch input for one character of, the remaining character string of any one line of "A line" to "Wa line" including the touch character is arranged below the touch character in one column. The superimposed display is performed, and a character is input by touch input of one of the display characters arranged in one column including the one character in one horizontal line.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION As one embodiment of the present invention, a karaoke song selection reservation apparatus employing a kana input method of the present invention will be described in detail. FIG. 1 shows the configuration of a system including the music selection reservation device and the karaoke performance device.

=== Karaoke Performance Apparatus 3 === The Karaoke Performance Apparatus 3 has a display 7, a speaker 9,
A microphone 11, a main computer 13 for overall control of the entire apparatus, karaoke data including karaoke accompaniment data as the origin of the karaoke accompaniment music, and lyric rendering data as the origin of the lyric image displayed on the display 7 in synchronization with the karaoke accompaniment music. HDD 15 storing DVDs, DVD-R for reproducing and outputting DVD-ROM images
A video processor 19 for displaying and outputting the reproduced video of the OM device 17 and the DVD-ROM device 17 and the lyrics video generated based on the lyrics rendering data to the display 7, based on the sound input from the microphone 11 and the accompaniment data. An audio processor 21 for outputting the generated karaoke accompaniment music to the speaker 9;
S-232C interface 23, operation display panel 2
4 and the like.

=== Song Selection Reservation Device 5 === The song selection reservation device 5 is connected to a main processor 31 including a CPU, a ROM, a RAM, etc., a hard disk device 33, and an RS for connecting to the karaoke performance device 3. 23
It comprises a 2C interface 35, a TFT color liquid crystal touch panel 37, an image control device 39 for controlling display of a liquid crystal portion of the TFT color liquid crystal touch panel, a touch panel controller 41 for controlling the touch panel portion of the TFT color liquid crystal touch panel 37, and the like.

=== File Configuration === The hard disk device 33 of the music selection reservation device 5 has a search file and a music table of contents file. (A) Search File The search file stores the following types of tables. FIG. 2 schematically illustrates the concept of the data structure of each table. [Song Name Search Table] A song name of each karaoke song indicated by kana is defined for each song ID. [Lyricist search table] ... with the lyricist name written in kana,
Song ID of the karaoke song written by the lyricist
Is defined. [Composer search table] A correspondence relationship between a composer name written in kana characters and a music ID of a karaoke music piece composed by the composer is defined. [Singer name (artist name) search table] A correspondence relationship between the singer name written in kana characters and the song ID of the karaoke song sung by the singer is defined. [Song selection frequency search table] ... Song ID of each karaoke song
For each karaoke song, the past song selection frequency (best) of each karaoke song is defined. [Genre Search Table] A genre (rock, pop, etc.) to which each karaoke song belongs is defined for each song ID of each karaoke song. [Tie-up search table] ... Music ID of karaoke music
Defines the brand name of the tie-up product that uses the karaoke song. [Age Search Table]... The age at which the karaoke song was announced is defined for each song ID of each karaoke song. [Theme song search table] ... In the song ID of the karaoke song,
Title names of TV programs and radio programs using the karaoke song as the theme song are defined.

(B) Music Table of Contents File The music table of contents file stores a display name table and a pointer reference table. Of these, the display name table includes display song name data, display singer name data, display singer name data, and display singer name data described in kana-kanji characters used for displaying search results by the song selection reservation device 5 prepared for each karaoke song. Composer name data, display composer name data,
The lyrics data for display and the lyrics reading data in which the lyrics of the karaoke song for each karaoke song are written in single-byte kana characters are used for song name pointer, singer name pointer, lyricist name pointer, composer name pointer, and It is described in association with a lyrics pointer and a lyrics reading pointer.

The lyric character strings in the display lyric data and the lyric reading data are described in common and appropriate phrase units, and a phrase delimiter code (for example, a line feed code “0A”) is inserted between the respective phrases. ]) Is inserted, and each phrase is provided with a phrase ID for specifying each phrase. In addition, a predetermined music division code (for example, “00”) is inserted at the division position of each music. The phrase referred to here includes a case of a so-called multiple phrase.

On the other hand, in the pointer reference table, the music I
For each D, the song name pointer, the singer name pointer, the lyricist pointer, the composer pointer, the lyrics pointer, the kana notation lyrics pointer, and the genre name of the karaoke song and the age at which the karaoke song was announced are defined. Have been. FIG. 3 shows the data structures of the display name table and the pointer reference table, and the correspondence between them. FIG. 4 shows the lyrics reading pointer and the display lyrics pointer in the pointer reference table;
The correspondence between the lyrics reading data and the lyrics data for display in the display name table is shown.

=== Operation of Music Selection Apparatus === Next, a procedure for reserving a requested music piece to the karaoke performance apparatus by the music selection reservation apparatus 5 will be described. FIG. 5 shows a screen displayed on the TFT color liquid crystal touch panel 37 by the music selection reservation device 5 in a standby state of a search input operation.
A search key input field 51 is provided at the top of the screen, and a search result display area 53 is provided at the center of the screen. At the bottom of the screen, various search menus 55 are arranged. The music selection reservation device 5 has a variety of search functions according to a song name, singer name, best, genre, etc. as a standard search menu.
The user can use an arbitrary search function by selecting one of the search menus 55 (touching that portion). FIG. 6 shows a screen in the search function based on the song title.

The music selection reservation device 5 includes a TFT color liquid crystal touch panel 3 as an input interface for a user.
7, a character input panel 57 is displayed, and the kana character code at the position touched by the user on this list is acquired. As shown in FIG. 5, the character input panel 57 is in a state of accepting the input of kana characters, and the character string "Akasana yamayawa" is superimposed and displayed in one horizontal line on the screen. The music selection reservation device 5 detects that the user has touched the “na” part, and superimposes and displays the “ninane no” part of the “na” line. As described above, the character input panel 57 displays only necessary parts on the screen so that other information (search results and the like) displayed in the display area 53 is not hidden by the character input panel 57. ing.

=== Narrowing Search Function === The song selection reservation device 5 has a narrowing search function. With this function, attributes such as genre can be added to the search result based on the “song name” and “singer name” described above. You can narrow down the target by giving a search key. When performing a refined search,
The user selects the "refine" button in the search menu 55. FIG. 7 shows a screen displayed when the “narrow down” menu is selected. On this screen, item panels 65 such as best, genre, tie-up, singing lyrics, age, theme song, composer and lyricist are displayed. The user selects an item from these. FIG. 8 shows a state in which “genre” is selected from the item panel 65 and the music selection reservation device 5 displays a genre list 67. In this state, when the user selects, for example, “Enka”, the music selection reservation device 5 refers to the genre search table and selects a music ID classified as “Enka” from the music IDs already searched. Then, the result is displayed again in the display area 53.

=== Search Function Using Lyric Character String === Next, a search function using a lyrics character string, which is a characteristic search function of the music selection reservation device 5 according to the present invention, will be described.
The search function by the lyrics character string is started when the user selects the search function by the lyrics from the search menu 55 as described above. This is shown in FIG. When the search function based on lyrics is selected, the music selection reservation device 5 displays the above-described kana character input panel 57 on the screen. Then, the user selects the character input panel 57 on the music selection reservation device 5.
Each time a new kana character is input into the search key input field 51 or a character string that has already been input is corrected or deleted, the following search sequence is executed.

The character string entered in the search key input field 51 is temporarily stored in an input register of the main processor 31. A search is made to see if the lyrics reading data contains a phrase including a character string that matches the kana character string in the input register. If there is a phrase containing a character string that matches the kana character string in the input register as a result of the search, the display lyrics data of the same phrase of the song to which the phrase belongs and the song name and singer name of the song are displayed from the display name table. The acquired lyric data for display to which the acquired song name and singer name are added are sorted according to the song name in the order of “aiueo” (if the song name is the same, the singer name is further used as the second key and the singer name is “aiueo”)
), And only the number of tunes that can be displayed from the top are listed in the display area 53.

FIG. 10 shows an example of a screen during execution of the above search sequence. In this example, the character string “Motto Beibi” entered in the search key entry field 51 in the display area 53
Is displayed in the lyrics of the song "Laughing More Baby Innocently On Mine", and the line below it is accompanied by the name of the song and the name of the singer.

The user repeats the search sequence until the desired karaoke song is displayed in the display area 53. Of course, the portion that cannot be displayed in the display area 53 can be displayed by using a page feed button (not shown) or the like. When a target music is found in the display area 53, the user touches the display position of the music on the TFT color liquid crystal touch panel 37 to select the music ID. The music selection reservation device 5 transfers the music ID corresponding to the selected music to the karaoke performance device 3 as the reserved music ID. In response, the karaoke performance device 3 registers the music ID transferred from the music selection reservation device 5 in the reservation table of the requested music, and plays the karaoke music registered in the reservation table in the order of reservation.

As described above, the music selection reservation device is configured to be connected to the karaoke performance device via the RS-232C which is a wired interface.
It may be configured to connect to a karaoke performance device by a wireless method such as Data Association) standard.

[0023]

As described above in detail, according to the kana input method using the liquid crystal touch panel according to the present invention, since the method is almost the same as selecting characters from the Japanese syllabary, the keyboard operation is performed. Even for those who have never, finding the characters to type can be quite straightforward, easy and accurate. In particular, in the method of the present invention, unlike the conventional method in which the entire syllabary is displayed at once, ten characters of "Akasutana yamayawa" forming the skeleton of the syllabary are displayed in one horizontal line. ,
In this method, only one line from "A line" to "Wa line" is displayed in one vertical column, and one character is selected from the one vertical column and touch input is performed. The area occupied by the display characters is not so large, it is less likely to obscure other information elements displayed on the screen of the liquid crystal touch panel, and coexistence with other information display is enhanced,
An easy-to-read and easy-to-understand display can be realized.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a karaoke system including a music selection reservation device to which a kana input method of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a data structure of each search table in a search file of the karaoke system.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a data structure of a pointer reference table and a display name table in a music table of contents file of the karaoke system.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a correspondence relationship between the lyrics reading pointer and the display lyrics pointer in a pointer reference table and the lyrics reading data and display lyrics data in a display name table in the karaoke system.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a screen displayed on the TFT color liquid crystal touch panel by the music selection reservation device in a standby state of a search input operation in the karaoke system.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a search screen based on a song name in the karaoke system according to the first embodiment.

[FIG. 7] In the same karaoke system, “refine”
It is a figure showing the screen displayed when a menu is selected.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a screen displayed when a user selects “genre” from a “narrow down” menu in the karaoke system.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a screen on which a search function based on lyrics is selected from a search menu in the karaoke system.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a state in which a search key is input to a search key input field 51 in a search using lyrics in the karaoke system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 3 Karaoke playing device 5 Song selection reservation device 33 Hard disk device 37 TFT color liquid crystal touch panel 51 Search key input field 53 Display area 55 Search menu 57 Character input panel 65 Item panel 67 Genre list

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A superimposed display of a character string "Akatama yamayawa" in a horizontal row on a screen of a liquid crystal touch panel, and in response to a touch input for one of the characters, the touch character is displayed. The superimposed display of the remaining character strings of any one line of “A line” to “Wa line” including the touch character is displayed in one column vertically, and the vertical one including the one character in one horizontal column A kana input method using a liquid crystal touch panel, wherein a character is input by touch-inputting one of display characters arranged in a line.