JPH0117185B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a character processing device that converts kana characters into kanji, and in particular, is capable of smoothly converting kana to kanji when there are homophones.

In conventional character processing devices of this kind, when homophones are found, the homophone display keys on the keyboard are operated to display the kanji of the homophones one after another at the corresponding positions in the sentence to be created and displayed. When the correct kanji is displayed, the user operates the selection key to select that kanji, so the user must keep their eyes on the display screen until the correct kanji is displayed. , it has the disadvantage that it is complicated and requires a significant amount of time to process homophones.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a character processing device that eliminates the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks and can smoothly process homophones when creating sentences by performing kana-kanji conversion.

That is, the character processing device of the present invention is equipped with a character processing system called a monitor line, displays multiple homophone kanji to be processed at once, and selects a desired appropriate kanji at a glance, thereby allowing homophone kanji to be processed. This allows processing to be carried out extremely smoothly and quickly.

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

First, an example of the overall configuration of the character processing device of the present invention is shown in FIG. In the illustrated configuration, 1 is a microprocessor that processes data for the entire device;
is an address bus that transmits address signals specifying storage addresses of each input/output memory. Also,
3 is a data bus, which is a bidirectional bus used to transfer various types of data between each component; 4 is a control bus, which is used for writing, reading, and accepting interrupts for each memory device, etc. , data set timing, and other control signals.

Further, numeral 5 is a keyboard, and as shown in FIG.
A, cursor key group 5B for operating the cursor on the text display screen, monitor line shift key group 5 having the function of shifting the homophone display on the monitor line
It is provided with CA, 5CB, and a selection key 5D for selecting and extracting desired characters. The monitor line shift key is the "" key 5CA that shifts the display to the left for multiple homophones displayed all at once on the monitor line display surface of a CRT display device.
and the "" key 5CB, which shifts to the right.

Next, a keyboard controller 6 encodes data input from the keyboard 5 and sends an interrupt signal to the control bus 4. A CRT controller 7 controls a CRT display device 8, a character generator 9, a refresh memory 10, a refresh memory controller 11, and the like. 8 is a CRT display device, which can perform a display similar to a normal television receiver, and 9 is a character generator, which inputs codes such as character codes and line addresses of character patterns. 10 is a refresh memory that stores the character code of the character to be displayed on the CRT display device 8, and outputs the pattern of the corresponding line of those character patterns one after another. It outputs the repeatedly read character code according to instructions, and 11 is a refresh memory controller which performs a refresh cycle for CRT display and writes data to the microprocessor 1 according to instructions from the CRT controller 7. , controls reading.

Next, 12 is a read-only memory, that is,
This is a so-called ROM that stores the control procedure shown in FIG. 7 and also stores various processing procedures. 13 is a controller for the ROM 12. Further, 14 is a random access memory, or so-called RAM, which is used for temporary storage of various data, and as shown in the figure, for example, a sentence buffer memory for storing input sentences.
SB, homophone table memory ST that stores multiple homophones generated during kana-kanji conversion, input data register INDR that stores key signals input from the keyboard 5, cursor register CR that stores the cursor position. , a display register that stores the position of the beginning of a sentence displayed on a CRT display device
It consists of a DR, a monitor register MR that stores the beginning position of the homophone string displayed on the display surface of the monitor line, and the like. Furthermore, 15 is a controller for the RAM 14, 16 is a floppy disk, 17 is a floppy drive device for driving the floppy disk 16, and 18 is a floppy drive controller. Further, 19 is a printer, and 20 is a printer controller that controls the printer 19.

The character processing device of the present invention, which is composed of the above-mentioned components, is operated by input data from the keyboard 5. When data is input from the keyboard 5, an interrupt signal is transmitted to the microprocessor 1 and stored in the ROM 12. Various character processing operations are performed according to stored control procedures.
The operation of the apparatus of the present invention will now be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

It is assumed that a roughly constructed sentence has already been input into the sentence buffer memory SB in the RAM 14 in the configuration shown in FIG. 1, and is being displayed on the CRT display device 8. At this time, if a homophone exists but is not confirmed, it is displayed with low brightness. It is also assumed that the cursor on the CRT display screen is positioned at the beginning of the word for which the homophone is to be searched. The homophone display process carried out in such a state first searches for the homophone indicated by the cursor from the stored contents in the sentence buffer memory SB in step 20 of the flowchart shown in FIG. A homophone table is created, and then, in step 21, a pointer MR indicating the beginning position of the homophone string to be displayed is
is set to “1”. Next, in step 22, the homophone table is transferred to the refresh memory 10, and starting from the position indicated by the pointer MR on the display surface of the monitor line, the homophone table is read at once and the homophone string is read. Displayed together with the sequence number, the sequence number indicated by the MR.
blink. CRT display device 8 at that time
FIG. 4 shows an example of the display mode on the display screen.

In the display mode shown in Figure 4, first, a sentence consisting of the contents stored in the sentence buffer memory SB is displayed starting from the position indicated by the data register DR indicating the beginning position of the displayed contents, and the sentence is If a homophone is included in a sentence consisting of the memory contents of the buffer memory SB, the memory address where the homophone table is stored is also stored at that storage location, so it can be read using that memory address. The first word in the homophone table is displayed at that position with low brightness. In addition, the homophone of the word indicated by the cursor is displayed on the display surface of the monitor line.
The pronunciation is displayed as No. 0, and then, starting from the word indicated by the marker MR indicating the first position displayed on the monitor line in the homophone table, for example, five words are set as homophones and each sequence number of the homophone string is displayed. ., and the sequence number of the homophone indicated by the marker MR is displayed at the cursor position (in this example, underlined under "Ki"), which is the same as the currently selectable homophone. blink to indicate that it is. The rectangular frame with the number 2 in the figure indicates the blink state. Also, if there is a homophone string following the currently displayed homophone string, a “” mark will be displayed, and if there is not, a “” mark will be displayed.
Do not display mark. Next, when new data is input from the keyboard 5, the data is read from the keyboard controller 6 and written to the input data register INDR in the RAM 14 in step 23.

Next, in step 24, it is determined whether the data stored in the input data register INDR is monitor line shift key data or not, and data other than the monitor line shift key, such as kana and English characters, various control data, etc. If,
Proceeding to step 30, various input data processing is performed, for example, control processing such as input of ordinary English characters, kana characters, etc., input of kana-kanji conversion by input of kana characters, and input of character codes. Note that such normal input data processing is similar to that realized by a normal word processor or the like, and detailed explanation thereof will be omitted.

The monitor line cursor is provided with a "" key to shift the homophone displayed on the monitor to the left and a "" key to shift it to the right. If the input data is
Proceeding to step 25, it is first determined whether or not the "" key was used. If the "" key was used, then in step 26, the sequence displayed on the monitor line display surface of the CRT display device 8 is displayed. It is determined whether the blinking homophone No., that is, the homophone indicated by the marker MR, is the last homophone in the homophone table.

If it is not the last homophone in the homophone table, the data stored in the monitor register MR is incremented by "1" in step 27, and if it is the last homophone, the process directly proceeds to step 22. When this step is made, the homophone data in the homophone table is transferred to the refresh memory 10 from the next position of the reading display, the monitor line display screen is updated, and the word at the cursor position is marked as a marker.
Update to the homophone specified by MR. At this time, if a homophone string following the homophone string on the monitor line display screen exists, a "" mark is displayed; if there is not, a
Do not display the “” mark. in such a state
FIG. 5 shows an example of the display mode on the CRT display screen.
That is, as can be seen by comparing FIG. 4 and FIG. 5, the data stored in the monitor register MR is set to "1".
As a result, the display surface of the monitor line is displayed in a mode shifted by one compared to the display mode shown in Figure 4, and at the same time, the sequence number of the monitor line is displayed at the position indicated by the cursor. . is replaced with the blinking word, that is, the homophone pointed to by MR.

On the other hand, in step 25, if the data is not generated by the ``'' key, that is, the data is generated by the ``'' key, so the process moves to step 28 and checks whether the data stored in the monitor register MR indicates the beginning of the homophone table. If it does not indicate the beginning, the data stored in the monitor register MR is decremented by "1" in step 29, and if it indicates the beginning, the process proceeds to step 22 and the refresh memory is stored. 10, the homophone data in the homophone table is transferred from the position next to the reading display, the monitor line display surface of the CRT display device 8 is updated, and the word displayed at the cursor position is transferred to the marker MR. Update to the homophone that is used. At this time, the "" mark processing is performed in the same manner as described above. Therefore, character processing is performed in the completely opposite manner to the case where data is processed using the "" key as described above. For example, if the "" key is operated while the display shown in FIG. 5 is being displayed. Then, the display changes to the mode shown in FIG. However, the display processing is performed so that the display of the leftmost reading remains even if the homophones on the monitor line display surface are shifted. If you want to select the reading display, press the "" key while the homonym sequence No. 1 is blinking in the display shown in Figure 4, as shown in Figure 6. The display changes to a different mode. Marker MR becomes 0, homophone sequence No. 0 blinks, and the word at the cursor position is replaced with its pronunciation. Conversely, if the "" key is operated in this state, the display returns to the mode shown in FIG. 4. In other words, the monitor line display function can be used to open a search window for, say, 5 words in a homophone table to be displayed on the monitor line display screen, and then use the "" or "" keys to right or left. At the same time, the cursor is moved to the left, and the blinking word of the homophone string sequence number on the monitor line display screen is replaced and displayed at the cursor position. Therefore, the appropriate homophone character in the homophone table displayed all at once on the monitor line display screen is searched and retrieved by operating the "" and "" keys, and the homophone character is placed at the cursor position displayed on the CRT display screen. By replacing the characters, desired and appropriate homophone characters are appropriately replaced and displayed. At this time, by operating the selection key, a desired appropriate homophone character is selected, the low-intensity display changes to a high-intensity display, the monitor line display disappears, and the homophone selection process on the current cursor ends.

As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, when selecting homophones when displaying a sentence through kana-kanji conversion, etc., arbitrary consecutive examples in the homophone table can be displayed on the monitor line display surface. 5
Sequence of homophone kanji with their readings and homophone strings
It can be displayed together with the No., and the homophone kanji in the table are displayed one after another, and it is also displayed whether there is a homophone string following the currently displayed homophone string. Therefore, anyone can quickly and easily find the desired appropriate homophone kanji, and character processing for homophone selection can be performed extremely smoothly.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of the character processing device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration and layout of the keyboard, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the data storage mode in the random access memory. Diagrams illustrating examples; FIGS. 4 to 6 are diagrams illustrating examples of display modes on the display surface, respectively;
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing an example of the mode of operation. 1... Microprocessor, 2... Address bus, 3... Data bus, 4... Control bus, 5... Keyboard, 6... Keyboard controller, 7... CRT controller, 8... CRT
Display device, 9...Character generator, 10
... Refresh memory, 11 ... Refresh memory controller, 12 ... Read only memory (ROM), 13 ... ROM controller, 14
...Random access memory (RAM), 15...
...RAM controller, 16...Floppy disk, 17...Floppy drive device, 18...Floppy drive controller, 19...Printer, 20...Printer controller, SB...Sentence buffer memory, ST...Homophone table memory , DR...display register, CR...cursor register, MR...monitor register, INDR...
...Input data register, 5A...Character key group, 5
B...Cursor key group, 5CA, 5CB...Monitor line shift key group, 5D...Selection key.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. An input means for inputting kana data, a conversion means for converting the kana data input from the input means into a sentence containing kana and kanji, and a sentence containing kana and kanji obtained by the conversion means. a display means for displaying, an instruction means for instructing to change a homophone in a part where a homophone exists in a sentence containing mixed kana and kanji displayed on the display means, and a homophone in a part indicated by the instruction means; display control means for displaying a plurality of words at a predetermined position of the display means different from the position where the kana-kanji mixed sentence is displayed; and a cursor for one of the plurality of homophones displayed by the display control means. cursor indicating means for instructing, and in response to instructions from said cursor indicating means, converting a homophone at a location indicated by said indicating means into a homophone indicated by said cursor; A control means for erasing one homophone that is already displayed among the homophones, shifting the remaining homophones, and further adding and displaying a homophone that has not yet been displayed. Characteristic character processing device.