JPH04133167A - Kana/kanji converter - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the operability of KANA (Japanese syllabary)/KANJI (Chinese character) converter by providing a dictionary part in which a reading KANA is stored, and providing a candidate display means for displaying in the lump candidates, in the case plural pieces of candidates of the same sound word exist in said dictionary part. CONSTITUTION:In a reading KANA storage part 15, a reading KANA dictionary is stored. When a key input is a reading KANA conversion key, the reading KANA dictionary is refered to by an input character-string, and the number of reading KANAs is derived. When the number of reading KANAs is one, its reading KANA is inserted into a character-string in a text. When two or more reading KANAs exist, candidates of the reading KANAs are displayed in the lump. Subsequently, the reading KANA selected by a user is inserted into the character-string in the text. For instance, a KANJI notation of 'KANNO' is registered in the reading KANA dictionary by three reading KANAs of 'SUGANO', 'SUGENO' and 'KANNO'. Thereafter, the KANJI notation of 'KANNO' is selected, and when the reading KANA key is depressed, the above mentioned three reading candidates are displayed altogether.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a kana-kanji conversion device having a kana-kanji conversion function and a reading-to-kanji conversion (re-conversion) function for converting confirmed kanji back into kana.

[Conventional technology]

BACKGROUND ART Conventionally, kana-kanji conversion devices have been known that have a kana-kanji conversion function that converts input kana character strings into kanji, as well as a reading conversion function that converts determined kanji back into kana. For example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 64-50165 has a pronunciation conversion function in this type of device, which registers kanji notation converted into a pronunciation dictionary and its corresponding pronunciation, and converts multiple pronunciations into a pronunciation dictionary. In some cases, a technique has been disclosed in which the pronunciations are displayed sequentially.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, with the above-mentioned conventional device, it is inconvenient that it cannot be immediately determined whether there are multiple readings or only one reading. Also, since multiple reading candidates are displayed in sequence, if the reconverted reading is different from the originally converted reading, you will need to repeat key operations many times until you return to the desired reading. There was a problem with poor operability when inputting documents.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a kana-kanji conversion device that can refer to a plurality of readings at once and directly select a desired reading.

[Failure to solve the problem]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, in the kana-kanji conversion device according to the present invention, when a user issues a re-conversion request, if there are multiple homophone candidates in the reading dictionary, the kana-kanji conversion device It is equipped with candidate display means for displaying candidates all at once.

[Effect]

According to the above configuration, even if there are multiple homophone candidates for readings, the readings are displayed all at once, so you can quickly check whether there are multiple readings or only one. can do. Furthermore, since the displayed pronunciation can be directly selected, the effort of searching for pronunciations can be greatly reduced.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the kana-kanji conversion device according to the present invention will be described below.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining the functions of the kana-kanji conversion device according to the present invention.

In the figure, when kanji reading information is input from the input unit 1, the document creation unit 2 instructs the word processing unit 5 to read out, convert, etc. the word. The word processing unit 5 reads out words stored in the pronunciation storage unit 6 and the dictionary storage unit 4 and sends them to the document creation unit 2. The read words are further sent from the document creation section 2 to the output section 3 and output. At that time, the selected kanji notation and its reading are registered in the reading storage section 6 by the word processing section 5.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a specific configuration of the kana-kanji conversion device shown in FIG.

This kana-kanji conversion device is composed of a keyboard 11, a character input section 12, a CRTlB, a CRT control section 14, a kana storage section 15, a dictionary storage section 16, a disk device 17, a disk device control section 18, and a CPU 19. .

Keyboard] 1 is an input means for inputting reading information, and includes character keys such as hiragana, alphabet letters, and numbers, and function keys such as a kanji conversion key. The keyboard 11 also has a function as a selection means for selecting pronunciation candidates displayed on the display unit, which will be described later. The reading information input through the keyboard 11 is converted into a predetermined code by the character input section 12, and sent to the CPU 19, which will be described later.

Note that a pointing device such as a mouse may be used as the selection means.

The CRTlB is a display section that displays data such as manually inputted reading information and candidates for homophone readings, and the data to be displayed is inputted via the CRT control section 14.

The reading storage unit 15 is composed of a memory and a device such as a RAM, and stores data of converted kanji or phrases and their corresponding plural or single readings as a reading dictionary.

The dictionary storage unit 16 is comprised of a storage device such as a ROM, and stores a Japanese dictionary for kana-kanji conversion.

The disk device 17 is an external storage device that stores document files, various control programs, etc., and data input/output is controlled by a disk device control section 18.

The CPUI 9 includes the document creation section 2 and the word processing section 5 shown in FIG.
, reads the control program stored in the disk device 17, and executes various processes to be described later.

The CPU 19 performs a kanji conversion process that searches the dictionary storage unit 16 for kanji candidates corresponding to the input kana character string, displays them on the CRTlB, and determines the kanji to be converted based on the user's instructions. A reading conversion process is performed in which readings corresponding to the already determined kanji are searched in the reading memory 15 and converted into a kana character string, and when the kanji corresponding to the inputted kana character string is determined. There is a registration process for registering a kana character string in the pronunciation storage unit 15 as a pronunciation corresponding to the kanji, and a registration process for registering a kana character string in the pronunciation storage unit 15, and a process for registering the kana character string in the pronunciation storage unit 15 if there are multiple homophone candidates in the pronunciation storage unit 15. The candidate display process is being performed to display the candidates.

Next, CP when performing kana-kanji conversion and reading-gana conversion
The processing procedure of U19 will be explained based on the flowchart of FIG.

First, when a key is input manually from a state of waiting for input (step 101), the CPU 19 determines whether the input key is a conversion key (step 102). Here, if the input key is not a conversion key, it is determined whether it is a pronunciation key or not (Step 103), and if it is not a pronunciation key, the input character string corresponding to the input key is displayed (Step 104). Return to the state of waiting for human help.

In step 102, when the manually entered key is a conversion key, the word stored in the kanji dictionary in the dictionary storage unit 16 is read out, converted into a sentence containing kana and kanji, and kanji candidates are displayed (step 105). ). Then, when the user manually presses the candidate selection key (step 106), the CPU 19 updates the pronunciation dictionary with the determined character string (step 107).

In addition, if the key is a manually entered key or a reading conversion key in step 103, look up the reading dictionary with the manually written character string,
Find the number of readings (Sute Tsubu 108). continue,
It is determined whether the number of readings obtained is one (step 109). Here, if there is only one reading, insert that reading into the character string in the main text (step 110), and if there are two or more readings, select the candidate reading. Display them all at once (step 111). When the user selects one of the candidates (step 112), the selected pronunciation is inserted into the character string in the text (step 113).

Next, an example of the operation when performing the above-mentioned reading/kanana conversion will be explained.

Now, the kanji notation for ``Sugano'' is ``Sugano'' and ``Sugeno.''
, ``Cancer'' are read and converted. In this way, when converting with the three readings "Sugano", "Sugeno", and "Ganno", the system converts the reading into a dictionary (Sugano-〉 (Sugano), (Sugeno)). , (cancer)). When the user selects the kanji notation for ``Sugano'' and presses the reading key, the system searches the dictionary for the kanji notation for ``Sugano'' and reads ``Sugano.''
, "Sugeno", and "Kanno" are read out. Here, since there are two or more candidates, the reading candidates are displayed all at once on the screen, as shown in FIG.

By pressing the tincture or function key with the number corresponding to the desired pronunciation, the user can incorporate the pronunciation into the text string.

In addition, in this embodiment, the collective display of pronunciation candidates is executed by pressing the pronunciation key.
It may also be executed using a cancel key or the like. Also,
The pronunciation candidates may be displayed in a window as shown in FIG. 5, or on a virtual keyboard as shown in FIG. 6.

In this case as well, candidates can be selected using a tinkey or function keys, but a pointing device such as a mouse may also be used to select the candidates.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, in the kana-kanji conversion device according to the present invention, when there are multiple reading candidates, all the readings are displayed at once, so the user can see how many readings there are. Not only can you check it at a glance, you can also directly select the desired pronunciation, which further improves the operability when inputting documents.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the specific configuration of the kana-kanji conversion device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the functions of the kana-kanji conversion device according to the present invention, and FIG.
CPU when performing figure-hana-kanji conversion and reading-kana conversion
FIGS. 4 to 6 are explanatory diagrams showing display examples of pronunciation candidates. 2... Document creation section, 4.16... Dictionary storage section, 5.
...Word processing section, 6.15...Yomikana storage section, 11
...keyboard, 13...CRT, 17...disk device, 19...CPU (central processing unit). 1 Figure 2

Claims (1)

[Claims] A first dictionary section storing a kanji dictionary for kana-kanji conversion;
A second dictionary section that stores a pronunciation dictionary for reconversion and a kanji candidate corresponding to the input kana character string are retrieved from the first dictionary section and displayed, and the conversion is performed based on the user's instructions. a first conversion means that determines a kanji that has already been determined; a second conversion means that searches the second dictionary section for a reading corresponding to an already determined kanji in a character string and converts it into a kana character string; When the kanji corresponding to the input kana character string is determined,
In a kana-kanji conversion device comprising a registration means for registering a kana character string as a reading corresponding to the kanji in the second dictionary section, when a plurality of homophone candidates exist in the second dictionary section, A kana-kanji conversion device characterized by comprising a candidate display means for displaying candidates all at once.