JPH02181211A - Word registering system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To contrive the shortening of a word registration time of a KATAKANA (square form of Japanese syllabary) word by converting a KANA (Japanese syllabary) inputted until immediately before to a KATAKANA and registering a word as a KATAKANA word, when a key for instructing to convert a KANA to a KATAKANA is depressed. CONSTITUTION:A processor 2 waists for an input from a keyboard 1, and when a key input is executed, whether its input is a KATAKANA conversion key or not is checked up. In the case of the KATAKANA conversion key, a KANA character-string inputted before that time is converted to a KATAKANA. Subsequently, whether this KATAKANA character-string exists already in a KANA to KANJI (Chinese character) converting dictionary or not is checked up, and unless it exists in this dictionary, this KATAKANA character-string is brought to word registration. When this KATAKANA character-string exists already therein, the word registration is not executed, and the input processing until that time is ended.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a Japanese input method, and more particularly to a word registration method for a kana-kanji conversion dictionary.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, a common word registration method in Japanese language processing is to specify a range of characters that have been input in advance on a screen, input their pronunciation, and register the word.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In the conventional word registration method described above, if you want to register a katakana word, you have to enter the word you want to register in katakana, and then register the katakana word again. The disadvantage is that the word registration operation takes time.

[Means to solve the problem]

The word registration method of the present invention has a keyboard including a key that instructs to convert hiragana to katakana, and when the key is pressed, the hiragana input just before is converted to katakana, and the katakana is converted to katakana. It is configured so that words are registered as katakana words.

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, a processing device 2 has a microprocessor having a program for processing input from a keyboard 1, displaying it on a display 4, and storing text in a storage device 3. The storage device 3 includes a kana-kanji conversion dictionary for kana-kanji conversion processing.

FIG. 2 is a processing flowchart of the present invention.

First, the processing unit is waiting for input from the keyboard (
In step 11), if there is manual key input, it is determined whether the input from the keyboard is a katakana conversion key (step 12). If it is a katakana conversion key, the hiragana character string input up to that point is changed to katakana (step 13). Next, check whether this katakana character string already exists in the kana-kanji conversion dictionary or not in step 14.1.
5) If it does not exist in this dictionary, register this katakana character string as a word (step 16). If the word already exists, the input processing up to that point is ended without registering the word (step 17).

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention provides a keyboard having a key for instructing the conversion of hiragana to katakana, and when this key is pressed, the input hiragana is converted to katakana, and at the same time the character string is converted into a katakana word. By having means for registering words as katakana words, it is possible to easily register katakana words.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing method. 1...Keyboard, 2...Processing device, 3...Storage device, 4...Display.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A keyboard including a key for instructing to convert hiragana to katakana, and when the key is pressed, converts the hiragana input just before to katakana, and registers the katakana as a katakana word. A word registration method featuring: