JPH0619768B2 - Japanese input device - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a Japanese input device for inputting a kana character string in a stage prior to kana-kanji conversion used in a Japanese word processor or the like.

(Prior art and its problems) In Japanese, sounds like "sha", "gyo",
It is desirable to be able to input long strokes such as “kyu”, “jo”, etc. with one stroke since they are actually written in one syllable although they are written with multiple characters in the notation. However, if you use a commonly used keyboard such as JIS Kana keyboard, you have to enter it as written, so for the audible sound, it is 2 strokes for the clear sound and for the muddy sound / semi-dumb sound. Requires 3 strokes, and for long tones, it takes 3 strokes for clear long tones, and 4 strokes for long long tones of dull and semi-dumb tones, which makes inputting troublesome. Even if the Romaji input is used, it takes 3 strokes for syllabary and 4 strokes for syllabary. As a solution to this drawback, a method has been devised in which a dial with a single touch is used to input the long sound or the long sound, but since the number of keys increases, It is not always suitable for professionals to make blind touches. Also, hold down the consonant shift key and press k, s.
By making a consonant key such as ky, sy, etc., a consonant for a sound is made, and then by pressing any vowel key of a, u, or o, either the A roman alphabet input method has been devised in which a long sound is input by tapping the long vowel key (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 59-45534).
(Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2000-242200), one stroke is decomposed into a consonant and a vowel, so two strokes are required.

(Object of the Invention) It is an object of the present invention to provide a Japanese input device capable of inputting a long sound and a long sound with one stroke, excluding the conventional drawbacks.

(Structure of the Invention) The present invention relates to kana character keys and vowel elements a, i, u, e, o.
Vowel vowels and vowel long vowels ya, yuu, yu, youu,
A keyboard composed of a long-tone shift key and a dull / semi-voiced shift key so as to have a function of changing to yo, a key-press state detecting means for detecting a key-press state of the keyboard, and a key-press state detecting means. It is composed of a character code generating means for generating a kana character code or a kana character code string in accordance with the pressed state of the key.

(Principle of the present invention) The sound is written in Roman letters as kya, kyu, kyo, but it is decomposed into k + ya, k + yu, k + yo to give a consonant +
You can think of it as a vowel. In other words, the vowel has the vowel elements a, i, u, e, o in the Japanese syllabary as the vowel y.
It can be thought of as being replaced with a, yi, yu, ye, yo. So, the usual vowels a, i, u, e, o are vowels ya, y
If the shift key has the function of changing to i, yu, ye, yo, by pressing the shift key, the Ka- line sound, Sa-line sound, Ta-line sound, Na-line sound, Ha-line sound, Ma-line sound, La-line sound Can be changed into a causative sound, a shaping sound, a chaping sound, a nyaing sound, a hyaing sound, a myaing sound, and a lyaing sound, respectively. Further, the ya-yone, which is usually treated as the Japanese syllabary, can also be input as the shift key + a-yone key. However, except for some sounds such as “Ch” and “Che” used in foreign words, consonant + yi and consonant + ye are used infrequently, so shift key + gojyuon i step sound, shift key + 5 For the ten-tone d-tones, long sounds such as consonants + yuu and consonants + you are used, which are relatively frequently used, such as “shu” and “kyo”. In the old Japanese kana-dukai, "shiu" is written as "shu" and "keu" is written as "kyo", so the above assignment is natural. Thus, the Japanese syllabary key excluding Ya row and the function of replacing the vowel elements a, i, u, e, o in the Japanese syllabary with vowels and long vowels ya, yuu, yu, you, yo respectively It is possible to generate a long-sounding sound and a long-sounding sound by using the shift key.

(Example) Hereinafter, one example of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is a configuration example of the present invention.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 1 is a keyboard.

FIG. 1 shows a configuration example of the keyboard. In the keyboard 1, 2 is a kana character key, 3 is a syllabary / long sound shift key, and 4 is a dull / semi-voiced shift key. As the kana character key 2, 45 of the Japanese syllabary excluding Ya line and "n" and "tsu"
Individuals are prepared. The mechanism of the keyboard 1 may be like a conventional computer input keyboard in which the corresponding switch is turned on when each key is pressed.

The voiced / semi-voiced shift key 4 has a function of changing a pure voice into a voiced voice. When you press the Kana character key while holding down the voiced / semi-voiced shift key 4, the corresponding line noises, line noises, line noises, line sounds Sound can be input. A semi-voiced sound shift key may be used in addition to the voiced sound shift key to input the paranoid sound. However, in the present configuration example, for convenience, the macho sound key is pressed while holding the voiced sound / semi-voiced sound shift key 4. It will be realized. Since there are no voiced or semi-voiced voices in the other lines, special symbols such as parentheses, punctuation marks, and small words for foreign words are assigned instead of voiced voices.

The syllabary / long-sound shift key has a function of changing the Japanese syllabary into a long sound or a long sound. By pressing the Japanese syllabary / long syllabary shift key 3 and pressing the Japanese syllabary key such as “sa” and “ta”, the corresponding syllabic sounds such as “sha” and “cha” can be input. You can enter the corresponding U-tone sounds such as "Shu" and "Kyu" by pressing the Japanese syllabary / Y-song shift key 3 and pressing the Japanese syllabary key such as "su" and "ku". . When you press the Japanese syllabary / long syllabary shift key 3 and press the Japanese syllabary key such as “ko” or “so”, you can enter the corresponding syllabic stage sound such as “kyo” or “sho”. . If you press the Japanese syllabary / long-sound shift key 3 while pressing the Japanese syllabary key such as “ki” or “shi”, you can input the corresponding long-sound u step sound such as “kyu” or “shu”. If you press the Japanese syllabary / long chord shift key 3 while pressing the Japanese syllabary key such as “ke” and “se”, you can input the long syllabic dandan such as “kyo” and “sho”. In addition, as for ya line, you can press “a”, “i”, “u”, “e”, and “o” while holding down the Yo-On / Y-On long shift key 3. You can enter "Yu,""Yo," and "Yo." To enter a dumb sound, a semi-voiced sound such as "Ju" or "Pyo", or a dakuyo or semi-voiced long sound, such as "Ju" or "Pyo", press the voiced / semi-voiced sound shift key 4. However, it is sufficient to perform the sound / long sound input operation as described above.

The following table shows examples of character input.

In the table above, Press the shift key 3 at the same time. Indicates that the voiced / semi-voiced shift key 4 is simultaneously pressed.

In FIG. 2, 5 is a key pressing state detecting means, and 6 is a character code generating means. The key press state detecting means 5 is like a keyboard interface used in a general computer system. The character code generation means 6 comprises a CPU 7, a ROM 8 and a RAM 9. ROM8
Includes a character code generator 10 and a character code table 11. Further, the RAM 9 includes a key press state reference buffer 12 and a character code output buffer 13.

When a key on the keyboard 1 is pressed, the key-pressed state detection means 5 detects the pressed state of the kana character key 2 and the dull / semi-voiced shift key 4 and the audible / long-tone shift key 3 on the keyboard 1, and strikes a key. Information such as the number of the kana kana character key 2, the ON / OFF state of the dull / semi-voiced shift key 4 and the audible / long-tone shift key 3 is sent to the key press state reference buffer 12 in the character code generation means 6. In the character code generation means 6, the character code generation program 10
Checks the key press status by referring to the key press status reference buffer 12, generates the character code or character code string corresponding to the key press status by referring to the character code table 11, and outputs this character code. Store in buffer 13.

As an example, the procedure for inputting the word "kyojuchu" is shown. First, on the keyboard 1, the "K" key is tapped while the YOU / YOU long shift key 3 is being pressed.
The key press state detecting means 5 detects that the audible / long-tone shift key 3 and the "ko" key are pressed, and sends this information to the key press state reference buffer 12 in the character code generating means 6. . In the character code generation means 6, the character code generation program 10 refers to the key press state reference buffer 12 to confirm the key press state, and refers to the character code table 11 to refer to the character code string “ki” “yo”. Is generated and stored in the character code output buffer 13. Next, on the keyboard 1, the "shi" key is pressed while pressing both the audible / long-tone shift key 3 and the dull / semi-voiced shift key 4. The key-pressed state detecting means detects that the syllable / long sound shift key 3 and the dull / semi-voiced shift key 4 and the “shi” key are pressed,
This information is sent to the key press state reference buffer 12 in the character code generation means 6. In the character code generation means 6,
The character code generation program 10 refers to the key press state reference buffer 12 to check the key press state, and refers to the character code table 11 to refer to the character code string “shi” “〃” “yu”.
"U" is generated, and this is additionally stored in the character code output buffer 13. Next, on the keyboard 1, "chi"
Type the key. The key press state detecting means 5 is "Chi".
Key is pressed, but neither the audible / long-tone shift key 3 nor the dull / semi-voiced shift key 4 is pressed, and this information is sent to the character code issuing means 6
It is sent to the key press state reference buffer 12 inside. In the main character code generation means 6, the character code generation program 10
The key-pressed state reference buffer 12 is referred to confirm the key-pressed state, the character code table 11 is referred to, a character code "C" is generated, and this is additionally stored in the character code output buffer 13. Thus, the character code output buffer 13 stores the character code strings “ki” “yo” “shi” “〃” “yu” “u”.
"Chi" is stored.

(Effects of the Invention) By using the present invention, it is possible to input a syllabary sound and a long syllabary with one touch, and the input operation of the syllabary sound and the long syllabary is simplified as compared with the conventional case. Compared to the JIS Kana keyboard, one stroke for clear sounds such as "shu" and "kyo",
2 strokes for muddy sounds such as "Ju" and "Gyo", 2 strokes for clear sounds such as "Shu" and "Kyo", and 3 for muddy sounds such as "Ju" and "Gyo". The number of strokes and the number of strokes were saved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a keyboard, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration example of the present invention. In the figure, 1 ... keyboard, 2 ... kana character keys, 3 ... sound / long sound shift key, 4 ... dull / semi-voice shift key, 5 ... key pressing state detection means, 6 ... character code generation means , 7 ... CPU, 8 ... ROM, 9 ... RAM, 10 ... Character code generation program, 11 ... Character code table,
12 …… Indicates the key press state reference buffer and 13 …… character code output buffer.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Kana character keys and vowel elements a, i, u, e,
o is a vowel, is a long vowel ya, yuu, yu, yo
A keyboard composed of a sound / long-tone shift key and a dull / semi-voiced shift key so as to have a function of changing to u and yo respectively, a key pressing state detecting means for detecting a key pressing state of the keyboard, and detection by the key pressing state detecting means A Japanese input device comprising character code generation means for generating a kana character code or a kana character code string in accordance with the pressed state of a key.