JPH0252389A - Key touch practicing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make an efficient practice with small fatigue by setting colors corresponding to fingers for keying previously and displaying practice characters in the color or displaying numbers corresponding to the fingers for keying nearby, for example, right below or above the practice characters. CONSTITUTION:A keying display 11 is made so that a practicing person can see the correspondence between the fingers and colors when forgetting it; and the names of the fingers are displayed at the lower part of a color display 4a in the same colors with the practice characters 10 to be keyed in. Thus, information indicating fingers to be used for keying is displayed additionally on or nearby the individual practice characters of practice data, so the practicing person easily know the information on the individual practice characters and fingers for keying without moving the eyes not so much. Consequently, a key-touch practice is made smoothly and the fatigue is reduced.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a kittouch practice method for a finger keying device, and more particularly to a method for displaying correspondence between practice characters and fingers to be keyed.

[Conventional technology]

Traditionally, word processors have been used to speed up document creation,
There is a desire to speed up the input of source programs and other various data in a terminal device having a keyboard connected to a personal computer or large-sized computer heater.

All data input from these devices is performed by pressing keys with the fingers of a human operator.

Therefore, in order to speed up input, it is necessary to press the keys quickly, and for this purpose, it is essential to press the keys with the correct fingers. Traditionally, the following methods have been used to practice the Shiki Touch accurately and quickly.

(1) Display a keyboard layout diagram on the display device, display information indicating the fingers to play corresponding to the keyboard on this layout diagram, and display practice data at a display position different from this keyboard layout diagram. (2) A method of displaying, for example, a diagram of five fingers of one hand on a display device, and displaying each practice character on the fingertips of the finger diagram [Problem to be solved by the invention] By the way, the first conventional method In this case, since the practice characters to be typed and the display position of the fingers are far apart, the practitioner's line of sight moves frequently when typing the keys, making it difficult to see and tiring the eyes, and it takes time to find the position of the fingers.

In addition, in the second method, since the practice data is displayed only one character at a time, it is difficult to clearly see the connections between the entire practice data, and it is difficult to achieve a practice effect when the conditions are different from actual keystrokes. Furthermore, since the practice characters are displayed by moving the finger for each character, the user's line of sight moves from place to place, making it difficult to see and tiring.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above points, and aims to provide a key touch practice method that allows key touch practice to be carried out smoothly and with less fatigue.

[Failure to solve the problem]

In order to solve this problem, in the present invention, the correspondence between practice data and fingers to be pressed is displayed as described below. That is, means for hitting keys using fingers, means for displaying practice data for keystrokes, first storage means for storing practice data, and practice characters used for keystrokes constituting the practice data. a second means for storing data indicating the correspondence with the fingers to be used; Based on the data indicating the fingers to be used for keystrokes, information indicating the fingers to be used for keystrokes is added and displayed on or near each practice character.

[For production]

According to the present invention, information indicating the fingers to be used for keystrokes is added and displayed on each practice character of the practice data, superimposed on or near the practice data, so that the practitioner can You can easily know the information about the correct finger without moving your line of sight, and you can practice key touching smoothly.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of the key touch practice method, Fig. 2 is a schematic flowchart showing the functions of the device according to the present invention, Fig. 3 is a display example of practice data (in the case of a color display), and Fig. 4 is a Figure 5 is an explanatory diagram of the correspondence between practice letters and color codes, Figure 6 is an example of display of practice data (in the case of a monochrome display), Figure 7 is a flowchart of the practice data creation process, Figure 8 9 is a configuration diagram of the device according to the present invention, FIG. 9 is an external view of the device in FIG. 8, and FIG.
The figure is an external view of an electronic musical instrument to which the present invention is applied, and FIG. 11 is an example of displaying practice data in the device of FIG. 10.

The apparatus to which the practice method according to this embodiment is applied is a processor (CP) that controls the entire processing operation, as shown in FIG.
U) 1, a memory 2 which stores programs etc. that instruct the processor to perform various operations, and a floppy disk which stores programs and training data 9. A floppy disk drive device 3 and a display 4 that displays practice data 9 and information indicating which fingers should be pressed.
, a keyboard 5 for pressing keys with a finger, a buzzer 6 for outputting sound, and a timer 7.

Prior to the display operation of the practice data 9 according to this embodiment, the operation of creating the practice data 9 will be explained.

This creation operation is performed by the apparatus shown in FIG. The operation will be explained according to the flowchart in FIG.

This operation is performed by a program. Is this program Flora 1 from the floppy disk? - Read by the disk drive device 3 and stored in the memory 2 in advance.

The practice data creator uses the key 8 to press the data that he/she wants to use as the practice data 9 from the key date 5, for example, one line of the display 4 (for example, 40 characters).

The program inputs the keystroke data for each character by pressing one key five.
Read and store sequentially in memory 2 (step 02
01).

Next, the program reads the keystroke data stored in the memory 2 character by character in the order in which the creator pressed the keys (step @202), and matches the character (i.e. practice character 10) with the finger to be pressed. Check by referring to the table shown in FIG. 4, which is composed of pigs showing correspondence (this table is stored in advance in the memory 2 together with the program for creating the practice data 9) (@203) , extracts the color code corresponding to this finger. For example, the letter A
, P, Z, Q, etc., it is correct to type this letter with the little finger, so take out the color code ``'3'', which is a pig corresponding to the color ``purple'', and memorize it in correspondence with practice letter 10. (Step @2o4).

If the letter is O, L, S, W, X, etc., it is correct to type this letter with the ring finger, so extract the color code ``4'', which is the data corresponding to the color ``green'', and use it as practice letter 10. The information is stored in correspondence (step @205). Similarly, the letters I, E, etc.

If the letter is D, C, etc., use the color code ゛5'' corresponding to the color "light blue" which means the middle finger (step @206), and if the letter is N, M, F, G, H, J, etc., use the index finger. The color code ``'6'''' corresponding to the meaning color ``yellow'' (step @
207), the color code 117 ++ corresponding to "fair-skinned" meaning thumb if the character is "pass space" is stored in the memory in correspondence with the practice character 10 (step @208).

The above steps are performed for all characters in one line (40 characters in the above example) (step @1209).

An example of how these practice characters 10 and color codes are stored is shown in FIG. Next, the above-mentioned practice character 10 and color code are written to the floppy disk pre-loaded in the FDD 3 (step @20, step @202).

Repeat the above steps for the number of lines you want to create as practice data 9. In addition, when finishing the creation of practice data 9,
For example, by pressing the “ESC” key (step @20
1).

As a result, practice data 9 is created and stored on the floppy disk.

Next, before explaining the key touch practice method in detail, an outline of the functions of the main line practice device will be explained. The main training device is the device shown in FIG. 9 (that is, in this embodiment, the training device and the practice chart creation device are the same. Of course, they may be separate devices).

As shown in FIG. 2, this device has the functions of key touch practice, key touch method learning, and key touch practice history. Each of these functions is executed by a program. This program is preloaded into the memory 2 from a floppy disk mounted on the FDD 3.

When the apparatus starts operating, a menu selection screen is displayed on the display 4 for inquiring the operator which of the above three processes to select (step 0101).

Next, the operator presses a numerical key corresponding to the corresponding function from the keyboard 5 (step @1 o2). When the operator presses the key 1110, it means that the learning machine network key touch method has been selected, and the program performs the corresponding process (step @1oa). When the process is completed, display the menu selection screen again on display 4 (step @
101). Thereafter, when the operator presses II 2 II in the same manner, the key touch practice function is activated (step @104).
If you press 3″′, the history display function (step @10
5) Since they have been selected, perform the corresponding processing, and after the processing is completed, display the menu selection screen again on the display 4 (step @101). When II OII is pressed, this means the end of the entire process, for example, a message indicating the end of the process is displayed on the display 4, and the process is ended (step 0106).

Next, the key touch practice flowchart shown in FIG. 1 will be explained in detail. This process is the process selected when the operator presses II 2 '1 from key date 5 in FIG. 2 described above.

Initially, the training data has already been created in advance by the training data creation process, and the F
Transfer the first line of practice data 9 and color code to be displayed on the display 4 (more specifically, the color display 4a) stored on the floppy disk installed in the DD 3 to the 7o disk. 2, and the color code corresponding to each practice character 1o that constitutes the practice data 9 is retrieved from the memory 2 (
Step @oo1). Next, create 10 practice letters according to the color code corresponding to each of the 1° practice letters for one line.
(Table showing the correspondence between the color code and the color to be displayed (see Figure 4. This table is composed of data showing the "color code" and "color".) The color is displayed on the color display 4a (preloaded in the memory 2 together with the program, and the program refers to the table and selects a color corresponding to the color code) (step @002).

This process will be explained by way of example with reference to FIG.

That is, in FIG. 3, the keying finger display 11 is displayed so that the practitioner can see it immediately when he or she forgets the correspondence between fingers and colors. , °°" means the ring finger, "pachu" means the middle finger, "person" means the index finger, and °゛parent means the thumb), and it is the same as practice character 10 that should be pressed with the corresponding finger. It is colored and displayed below the color display 4a.

Next, practice data 9 A, B, C, D, E.

An example of displaying F, G, . . . in one line will be explained.

First, the practice character 10, A, and the color code stored in the memory 2 in pairs with this practice character 10 are taken out. Since the color code is '3'', the program refers to the table shown in FIG. 4, which is stored in memory 2 in advance.

The color code '3'' corresponds to the color 'purple'', so
The program colors the practice letter 1o, A, in the color °'purple, which is information indicating the finger to be used for typing (i.e.,
(overlapping the practice characters 10) is displayed at a predetermined position on the color display 4a. Next, the program extracts B, which is the practice character 10, and the color code stored in the memory 2 in pairs with this practice character 10. Since this color code is °'6#, the program refers to the table stored in the memory 2, colors B, which is the practice character 1o, in "yellow" and places it in a predetermined position on the color display 4a. Similarly, C, which is the practice letter 10, is displayed.
is "light blue", D, which is the practice letter 1o, is "pa light blue", E, which is the practice letter 1θ, is "'light blue", F, which is the practice letter 10, is "pa yellow", G, which is the practice letter 1o, is "yellow", and so on. are sequentially colored and displayed at predetermined positions on the color display 4a.

As described above, one line of practice letters 10 is displayed on the display 4, so that the practitioner can select the corresponding practice letters 10 on the keyboard 5 one by one from the practice letters 1θ on the left side of one line. Press key 8 corresponding to (step @oos).

If the key 8 pressed by the practitioner is the °'ESC key'' (step @oo4), this means that the key touch practice has ended, so the key touch practice process is ended and the menu selection screen shown in Figure 2 is displayed. Display on 4.

If the key 8 pressed by the practitioner is not the "" ESC key''', the key 8 corresponding to the practice character 1o is determined to be the key 8. Step @oo5) If it does not correspond to the key 8, it is a wrong key press, and the buzzer 6 sounds. Wait for the keystroke corresponding to the same line calligraphy character 10 to be pressed again.

If they match, it is determined whether or not there is the next practice character 10 in one line, and the process moves to step @003 to wait for the key 8 corresponding to the next practice character 10 to be pressed (step @003).
009, step @o10).

If there is no next practice character 10, the practice for one line has been completed, so in order to display the practice data for the next line, enter 7'@
Move to 001 (step @009, step @ox
o).

If there is practice data 9 in the next row, the above-described process is repeated again. If there is no practice data for the next line, it means that all practice has ended.

In order to check the proficiency level of practice, etc., the subsequent processing is performed to check the keystroke time required for one line of practice data 9 measured by timer 7 in FIG. 8, the character keystroke speed also measured by timer 7, and The number of inputs, the next goal (i.e., an instruction to select practice data with more advanced content, etc.) are displayed on the display 4 (Step @OOV), and the past history information is printed, for example, on a printer (not shown) (Step @OOV).
oos), the key touch practice process ends and the process moves to step @1o1 in FIG. 2, which is the step of displaying the menu selection screen.

Next, a second embodiment will be described below. In the above embodiment, each practice character 1o created as the practice data 9 was stored on a floppy disk in association with a color code (i.e., as shown in FIG. 5), but in this embodiment, This is a case where the practice character 1o is stored alone without being associated with a color code.

In the practice data creation process in this embodiment, the processes from step @2o3 to step @2o8 in FIG. 7 are unnecessary.

Instead, step @00 and step @o02 of the process in FIG. 1 need to be changed as follows. That is, in step @001, one line of practice data 9 is read, and in step @002, for each practice character 1o, the table shown in FIG. The corresponding "color code" is displayed.

In the above embodiment, the color display 4a is used as the display means, and the practice characters 1o are displayed in colors corresponding to the fingers to be pressed.

The case where the monochrome display 4b is used as a display means will be explained below. monochrome display 4b
, it is not possible to color the practice letters 10 because of the inability to display them in color, so the practice letters 10 may be blinked or reversed to distinguish the keying fingers, or the practice letters 10 may be placed near the bottom of the practice letters 10 as shown in FIG. For example, the "color code" itself, which is a component of the table shown in FIG. 4, is displayed as the keying finger code 12. Note that the display position of the keying finger code 12 is not limited to near the bottom of the practice characters 10, but may be near the bottom.

Further, when the practice characters 10 are displayed vertically, the keying finger code 12 may be displayed near the left or right of the practice characters 10. That is, the keying finger code 12 may be displayed near the practice character 10.

It goes without saying that this embodiment may be applied to the color display 4a, and may also be used in combination with displaying the colors of the practice characters 10.

By the way, the above explanation assumes that the device to be practiced is a terminal device connected to a computer processor, an internal computer, or a large converter.
The invention is not limited to these devices. For example, the key 8 of an organ or piano as shown in FIG. 10 is used, a speaker is used instead of the buzzer 6 shown in FIG. 8, and the practice data 9 is a musical score as shown in FIG. 11. It can also be applied when used. That is, the practice data 9 is not limited to alphanumeric characters and numbers, but may be any data that can be pressed on the keys 8 using fingers.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained in detail above, according to the present invention, a color corresponding to the finger to be pressed is set in advance, and practice characters are displayed in the corresponding color, or numbers, etc. corresponding to the finger to be pressed are displayed for practice. Since the symbols are displayed near the letters, such as directly below or above them, the practitioner can smoothly move his or her line of sight when looking at multiple connected practice letters, and can see at a glance which fingers are typing, reducing fatigue. You can practice efficiently.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a flowchart of the key touch practice method, Figure 2 is a schematic flowchart showing the functions of the device according to the present invention, Figure 3 is a display example of practice data (in the case of a color display), and Figure 4 is a diagram of the finger touch practice method. Figure 5 is a diagram explaining the correspondence between practice characters and color codes, Figure 6 is an example of displaying practice data (in the case of a monochrome display), Figure 7 is a flowchart of the practice data creation process, Figure 8 is a configuration diagram of the device according to the present invention, FIG. 9 is an external view of the device shown in FIG. 8, FIG. 10 is an external view of an electronic musical instrument to which the present invention is applied, and FIG. 11 is a practice using the device shown in FIG. This is an example of data display. 1... Zorosesa (CPU) 1. ? ...Memory, 3
...Floppy disk drive device (FDD),
4... Display, 4a... Color display, 4b... Monochrome display, 5... Keyboard, 6... Buzzer, 7... Timer, 8... Key 9
... Practice data, 10... Practice characters, 11... Keying finger display, 12... Keying finger code. Patent applicant: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Claims] Means for hitting keys using fingers, means for displaying practice data for keystrokes, first storage means for storing practice data, and practice forming the practice data. and a second storage means for storing data indicating correspondence between letters and fingers to be used for typing, reads practice data from the first storage means and displays it, and displays each exercise of the displayed practice data. Data indicating the fingers to be used for keying a character is read from the second storage means, and information indicating the fingers to be used for keying is added and displayed superimposed on or near each of the practice characters. Features a key touch practice method.