JPH01136226A - Device for inputting square form of kana/kanji or the like - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate a KANJI (Chinese character) ROM and a KANA (Japanese syllabary)/KANJI converting program and to reduce a cost by causing the dot displaying form of KANA and KANJI, etc., and the lattice form of a touch sensor to be same. CONSTITUTION:In a display part 12, a touch sensor 15 is arranged with the same framing as the dot display of the KANA and KANJI, etc., which are stored, for example, the display of 16X16 dot. On the screen of the display part 12, this frame or the outer frame, at least, is displayed and traced by a finger, etc. At such a time, when the respective lattices are traced, since the dot is inverted and displayed, an operator can easily recognize whether the KANJI is properly traced or not. A mistaked spot can be deleted and corrected by tracing again the lattice to be inverted in black. When the input of the KANA and KANJI, etc., is completed, the frame of the screen of the display part 12, the KANA and KANJI, etc., are deleted and the inputted KANA and KANJI, etc., are stored to a screen memory 13 in the form of the 16X16 dot as they are.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a simple data input device that includes a touch sensor on a display screen and inputs kana, kanji, etc. from the touch sensor.

[Conventional technology]

Conventional simple data terminals that require input operations such as kana and kanji are equipped with so-called full keys, which have keys that individually correspond to letters of the alphabet A-Z and numbers, and each key can be pressed. It is common to enter the information in . Furthermore, to save space, ABC, DE
Assign multiple characters such as F to one character key,
It is equipped with a designation key that selects any corresponding character in addition to those keys, and by inputting the desired character by combining the character key and the designation key, words and phrases entered with alphabetic characters can be converted into kanji, not converted, The desired words are converted using designated keys such as katakana conversion and hiragana conversion. At this time, if the desired word or phrase is not displayed, the conversion designation key is pressed again.

When entering katakana or kanji, such as product names, in POS systems, the product key is assigned to hiragana, etc., and the product name is first entered in hiragana, and then converted to kanji.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

With conventional devices, even if space-saving improvements have been made, input from the keyboard of a data terminal with a case slightly larger than a telephone is quite limited due to the size and number of keys. Furthermore, the program that converts input words into kanji is extremely complex, requiring many key presses to convert the words into the desired kanji. In other words, it required something similar to a word processor, and could hardly be called a simple input device.

In view of the above circumstances, it is an object of the present invention to provide an input device that does not require complicated programs such as katakana-kanji conversion as a data terminal, and does not use a keyboard for inputting at least kana-kanji. It's about doing.

[Means for solving problems]

The input device of the present invention uses, as a display section, a touch sensor that is provided in a sufficiently large area on a display screen and is capable of identifying each grid of a grid framework. and a means for displaying at least an outer frame of the framework on a display screen when inputting kana-kanji, etc., and manually performing the input by tracing the touch sensor;
The present invention is provided with means for displaying and correcting each grid on the display screen, so that the dot display format of kana-kanji and the like is the same as the grid format of the touch sensor.

[Effect]

The display section has touch sensors arranged in the same frame as the dot display of stored kana-kanji characters, for example, 16x16 dots. This frame or at least its outer frame is displayed on the display screen, and the user traces the frame with a finger or the like. The output of the sensor traced with a finger is shown in Figure 2. 1st line), 51.20 (2nd line), and - as data.At this time, when tracing each grid, the dot is displayed inverted, indicating that the operator has correctly drawn this kanji. You can easily recognize the mistakes.You can correct and correct any mistakes by tracing the black inverted grid again.When you complete inputting Kana-Kanji, etc., the frame of the display screen, Kana-Kanji, etc. Then, the inputted kana, kanji, etc. are stored in the memory in the form of 16×16 dots.

The input kana-kanji characters can be arbitrarily reduced and displayed as kanji characters on the display screen using the usual method. FIG. 2(b) shows an example where the product name is displayed as iron.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows an example in which the kana-kanji input device of the present invention is incorporated into a data terminal that sends data to a telephone line via a modem. As a data terminal, the display section 12 uses a liquid crystal display board, and a touch sensor 15 is provided on the front surface of the liquid crystal display board. Display section 12. Each touch sensor 15 is L.
CD controller 11. Touch sensor controller 14
It is connected to the bus IOA from CPU10. The frame contents of the screen stored in the screen memory 13 are displayed on the display section 12. 19 is a memory section, and data such as kana, kanji, etc. input via the touch sensor 15 is stored in its RAM or ROM.

The key section 16 includes a numeric keypad and function keys for screen operation and input of transmission data, and the input data is sent via the communication section 17 from the modem 18 to the center via the telephone line.

Note that at this time, the kana, kanji, etc. input by the touch sensor 15 are added to the data and sent when this data is transmitted. 20 is a printer section.

The operation of this embodiment will be explained with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. First, a frame of the touch sensor is displayed on the display screen. This framework may be a grid or an outer frame (PI). As the operator falls into this framework,
Input by tracing with your finger (P2). Input in this flowchart can be performed arbitrarily, such as inputting the entire Kana-Kanji character or inputting part of the character. The touched grid is inverted and displayed in black (P3), allowing the operator to check whether it is different from what he or she intended. Then decide whether to correct it or not (P4
), and if you wish to make any corrections, touch the screen again and the display of that part of the grid will disappear and return to its original state (P7). When inputting again, return to P2.

When the input is completed in this way (P5), the function key in the key part 16 is pressed to store the kana-kanji in the memory part 19 in the form of 16×16 dots in the case of FIG. 2(a).

〔Effect of the invention〕

Since kana-kanji and the like are input through a touch sensor on the display screen of the display unit, any character can be input. Keys such as kana-kanji characters are no longer needed in the key part, and the space in the key part can be made smaller. Furthermore, since the framework of the touch sensor is displayed in a large area on the display screen for kana, kanji, etc. input using the touch sensor, it is extremely easy to confirm whether or not the input has been made correctly. Since the framework of the touch sensor on the display screen is the same as the dot display format of kana-kanji stored in the memory, complex-shaped kanji can be displayed using the touch sensor without the need for special conversion (for example, kana ← - kanji conversion). You can input it directly from . No kanji ROM or conversion program is required, which is advantageous in terms of cost.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a circuit block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a situation in which input is performed from a display screen via a touch sensor, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart of an input operation. 10--CPU, 11--LCD controller, 1
2-Display unit (LCD), 13-Single screen memory, 14-Touch sensor controller, 15-Touch sensor, 19-Memory unit (RAM/ROM).

Claims (1)

[Claims] A display section provided with a touch sensor capable of identifying each grid of the grid framework in a sufficiently large area on the display screen, and displaying at least the outer frame of the framework on the display screen when inputting kana-kanji, etc. , an input device comprising a means for inputting by tracing the touch sensor, and a means for displaying kana-kanji, etc. input by the means on a display screen in each grid so as to enable correction. An input device for Kana-Kanji, etc., characterized in that a dot display format for Kana-Kanji, etc. and a grid format of the touch sensor are the same.