JPH04321159A - Kana/kanji conversion method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify an operation to decide the desired one out of the converted KANA (Japanese syllabary)/KANJI (Chinese character) conversion candidates. CONSTITUTION:A fact whether an input character string is identical with a special character string to be decided or not (S2). If not, the KANA/KANJI conversion is carried out and the KANJI string candidates are obtained (S3). Then it is checked whether the character string candidtes are accumulated in a conversion candidate processing part or not (S4). If not, the obtained conversion candidates are accumulated in the conversion candidate processing part (S5). If the candidates are accumulated in the step S4, the input character string is decided as a selected input (S7). If the accumulated conversion candidates show five different types of 'KOSEI' in KANJI to the 'KOSEI' in KANA and if the conversion candidate of the inputted selected input is 'KO' (KANJI) to 'OOYAKE' (KANA), a conversion candidate including the KANJI equal to 'KO' is extracted out of those KANJI conversion candidates and a 'KOSEI' (KANJI) is displayed as the selection result. When an input character string is decided in the step S2, the accumulated candidates of the conversion candidate processing part are cleared away.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

[Industrial Application Field] This invention is a kana-kanji conversion method that is used in front ends of Japanese document creation devices (word processors) and Japanese processing devices, and converts input kana (Roman characters) character strings into kana-kanji characters. Regarding.

0002

[Prior Art] In conventional kana-kanji conversion, when multiple kana-kanji conversion result candidates are obtained due to the presence of homophones, the results are narrowed down or finalized using the next candidate key or by selecting multiple candidates. They are displayed and selected using the cursor or by specifying a number or the like.

[0003] These methods require many key operations when there are a large number of candidates, and it is difficult to search for the desired item from among the many displayed candidates. There are problems in that it is time consuming and it is difficult to know whether or not a desired conversion result is included in the conversion result candidates unless all conversion candidates are examined.

0004

[Means for Solving the Problems] According to the present invention, a kana-kanji conversion process is performed on an input character string to obtain kanji character candidates, and then the input character string is converted into kana-kanji characters,
A Kanji character including the converted Kanji character is selected from the above Kanji character candidates to narrow down the candidates, and from the narrowed down candidates, a conversion candidate for the previously input character string is determined.

[0005]

Embodiment FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention. When a character string input by a user is received from an input means such as a word processor keyboard or its control unit,
S1), it is determined whether the input character string is a special character (or symbol) indicating confirmation (S2). If the character string is not a special character string, the input character string is converted from kana to kanji, and a set of kanji character string candidates is obtained as a conversion result (S3). for example,
If the input character string is the Roman character or katakana character string ``Kousei'', candidates for the kanji character string such as ``organization'', ``justice'', ``welfare'', ``posterity'', and ``rehabilitation'' are obtained as a result of kana-kanji conversion.

Next, it is checked whether or not Kanji character string candidates are stored in the conversion candidate processing section (S4). The conversion candidate processing section is cleared in the initial state. When the character string "Kosei" is input, if no candidates are accumulated in the conversion candidate processing unit, it is determined that the input is not an input for narrowing down, but a kana-kanji conversion, and the result obtained in the previous step S3 is determined. The selected kanji character string candidates are stored in the conversion candidate processing unit in the format shown in FIG. Wait for input.

[0007] For narrowing down, the user inputs a character string such as "Ooyake" through the input means, and when this is received (S1), in step S2, it is determined that this is not a special character string for confirmation. Then, in step S3, the input character string "Ooyake" is converted into kana-kanji. the result,
{Ko} is obtained as a set of Kanji character string candidates (in this example, the set has only one element). Next, in step S4, since kanji character string candidates have already been stored in the conversion candidate processing section, it is determined that the input at this time is a narrowing input, and in step S7, the kanji character string candidates already stored in the conversion candidate processing section are From among the character string candidates, only those candidates containing the same kanji as the kanji in the set of kanji character string candidates just converted {Ko} are selected and taken out, and these are taken as the narrowed down results. In the example shown in FIG. 2, only "fairness" is left as the narrowed down result, which is displayed on the display section (S6) and waits for the user's input for narrowing down or confirmation.

[0008] When the user inputs a special character string for confirmation, it is determined to be a confirmation input in step S2, and the process proceeds to step S2.
Confirm the candidates accumulated in the conversion candidate processing section in step 8, clear the accumulated candidates, and display the confirmed candidates (
S6). As shown in Figure 2, if "ikiru" is input as a narrowing input while kana-kanji conversion candidates are displayed, {raw, live} will be obtained as a set of kana-kanji conversion candidates, and this will result in As a result of narrowing down, "welfare", "rehabilitation", etc. are obtained and displayed. On the other hand, when the user enters a confirmed input using the cursor or number keys, the input character string is determined to be a confirmed input in step S2, the candidate is confirmed in step S8, the accumulated candidates are cleared, and the display is displayed. Display confirmed candidates.

[0009] Furthermore, when the kana-kanji conversion candidates are displayed as shown in FIG. 2, if the user does not feel the need to narrow down the selection, he or she confirms the candidates by using the cursor or by specifying a number, as in the past. For example, in the example shown in FIG. 2, when the number "3" is input, this character string is determined to be a special character string for confirmation in step S2, and in step S8, the third candidate "Welfare ” and display it. Also, input "Kou" as a character string, and through kana-kanji conversion, "Hikari", "Ko", "Kou", "Kou", "Atsushi", etc. are obtained as Kanji character string candidates, and for this, When "Kosei" is input as a narrowing input, {organization, fairness, welfare, posterity, rehabilitation} is obtained as a set of kana-kanji conversion candidates, and "ko" is obtained as a narrowing down result. In this way, when the input character string is a single kanji character, there may be a particularly large number of kana-kanji conversion candidates, and the narrowing down is effective.

0010

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention,
After obtaining the kana-kanji conversion candidates, input a kana character string that includes the desired conversion result kanji as a narrowing input, convert the narrowed-down input string to kana-kanji, and then convert the kanji containing the converted kanji. Since you select from the kana-kanji conversion candidates obtained earlier and display them as narrowed-down conversion candidates, you only need to confirm the narrowed-down small number of conversion candidates. If there are many candidates, fewer operations are required overall, and since the number of displayed candidates is small, you can quickly find what you are looking for.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing an embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of kana-kanji conversion candidates accumulated in a conversion candidate processing unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] [Claim 1] Perform kana-kanji conversion processing on the input character string to obtain kanji character candidates, then convert the input character string into kana-kanji, and convert the kanji containing the converted kanji to the above-mentioned kanji. A kana-kanji conversion method that selects from character candidates, narrows down the candidates, and then determines the conversion candidate for the previously input character string from the narrowed down candidates.