JPH07105201A - Japanese syllabary to chinese character converting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain the KANA(Japanese syllabary) KANJI(Chinese character) converting device having a means which reduces trouble in data exchange between different kinds of equipment by substituting font data on a extracted different type for font data on a character having a different type in a KANA- KANJI conversion result. CONSTITUTION:This device consists of an input device 10, a display device 20 such as a CRT, an auxiliary storage device 40 which is used to store a created document, and a control unit 30. In a ROM 32 in this control unit 30, a dictionary 32a to which different type reference flags are granted and font data 32b are stored and in a RAM 33, a process result storage area 33a is provided. When a different type reference flag is set in KANA KANJI conversion, it is confirmed whether a different type of a character is present in the font data. When the different type is present in the font data, the different type of the character is extracted and substituted for a character in a character string, so that the character string is displayed as a KANA KANJI conversion candidate. When there is no different type present, the character string having its original characters is displayed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a kana-kanji conversion device for converting an input kana character string into a kanji-kana mixed sentence.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a system that handles Japanese Kanji, a unique code is assigned to each Kanji character form,
By referring to that code, you can view, document,
It was printed. In addition, with the spread of digital computers, data exchange between different models has been performed. Furthermore, as the above-mentioned code, a JIS code kanji table based on a code system commonly called a JIS code has been widely used. This JIS code kanji table is arranged based on the social conventions of the times, and has been revised several times up to now. But,
The glyphs listed in the JIS code kanji table were different from those in the Kanji dictionary, or there were no glyphs used for personal names. In such a case, the user allocates the codes in the JIS code table, creates a so-called external character, and uses a necessary character shape.

[0003]

However, in the conventional system for handling Japanese kanji as described above, there is no particular regulation on how to allocate codes in the external character area, and it is at the discretion of the manufacturers of the Japanese kanji system. Since different glyphs are assigned to the same code between different models, or the glyphs are not defined, it has been an obstacle to data exchange. The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a kana-kanji conversion device having means for reducing obstacles in data exchange between different models.

[0004]

In order to achieve this object, a kana-kanji conversion device of the present invention uses an input means for inputting a kana character string and a kana character for the kana character string input by the input means. A kana-kanji conversion means for performing kanji conversion processing to convert kanji-kana mixed sentences, a glyph data storage means for storing glyph data of a character, and a character output based on the conversion result of the kana-kanji conversion means. A kana-kanji conversion dictionary having a display means for displaying glyph data, a kana-kanji conversion dictionary having a flag indicating whether or not a variant character exists with respect to the reading of the character, and the kana-kanji conversion dictionary. When there is a variant character in the kana-kanji conversion result by, the inquiry means for inquiring whether or not the glyph data exists in the glyph data storage means and the inquiry means If it is confirmed that the shape data of the variant character is present in the shape data storage means,
And a glyph extracting means for extracting the glyph and a glyph data of a character having a glyph in the kana-kanji conversion result and a glyph replacing means for replacing the glyph data of the glyph extracted by the glyph extracting means. .

[0005]

In the kana-kanji conversion device of the present invention having the above structure, for example, "Yoshikawa" is input by the input means,
When the conversion candidate is output as "Yoshikawa" by the kana-kanji conversion means, if "yoshi" is accompanied by the information that there is a variant, the character shape data storage means used by the inquiry means together with the kana-kanji conversion is "yoshi". Inquires about whether or not you have glyph data for variants, and when it is confirmed that there is glyph data for "yoshi", it is extracted by the glyph extraction means and the "yoshikawa" The instruction to output the character shown in FIG. In this way, if the desired glyph exists, it will be displayed as a kana-kanji conversion candidate without depending on the code.
It is possible to provide a kana-kanji conversion device that is easy for variant character selection.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the arrangement of the document processing apparatus of this embodiment. The document processing apparatus is the input device 10.
A display device 20 such as a CRT, an auxiliary storage device 40 used for storing a created document, and a control device 30. The control device 30 includes a CPU 31 that controls the overall program, a ROM 32 that stores the control processing program here, and a working RAM 33.
And an input / output interface (I / O) 34 for exchanging data between the input device 10, the display device 20, the auxiliary storage device 40 and the CPU 31, and a bus line 35.

The input device 10, the display device 20, and the auxiliary storage device 40 are connected to the control device 30 by (I / O) 34. Further, the ROM 32 and the RAM 3 in the control device 30
3 and (I / O) 34 are connected by a bus line 35 to a CPU 31 which controls the entire program. R
The dictionary 32 with the variant reference flag added to the OM 32
a and glyph data 32b are stored. RAM3
3 has a processing result storage area 33a.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the configuration of the dictionary 32a and the variant character reference flag. As for its composition, there is a possibility that there are variant characters for each character of <Yomi>, which is used to compare with the input character string during Kana-Kanji conversion, <Notation>, which is an output candidate during Kana-Kanji conversion, and <Notation>. There is a <variant character reference flag> that indicates characters that have sex, and as a result of Kana-Kanji conversion,
The inquiry means is activated when the notation having this flag is converted. Although the dictionary is expressed by characters such as hiragana or kanji here, it should be added that the data originally contains numerical data such as JIS code instead of characters. The character string of <notation> is JIS-X02.
Contains the code specified in 08. FIG. 4 shows the character shape data 32b. It stores glyph data of variant characters corresponding to the kanji code according to the JIS code kanji table that is normally used. Here, to help understanding, the original character is J
The IS-X0208 division mark code and the glyph are put in parentheses.

Next, kana-kanji conversion using the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. The characters included in the character string FIG. 5 are shown in FIG. 8, and the characters included in the character string FIG. 6 are shown in FIG. The character shape used in JIS-X0208 is shown in FIG. 7, and the variant character used in the present invention is shown in FIG.

First, in order to convert as shown in FIG. 5, "Sabaeshi" is input (S100). Although the characters are converted into those shown in FIG. 6 by the kana-kanji conversion (S101), since the characters shown in FIG. 7 have a variant reference flag (S103; Y), the inquiry means includes the variant of the characters shown in FIG. 7 in the glyph data. Inquire whether or not (S105). If there are variants in the glyph data, the (S107; Y) glyph extraction means extracts variant glyphs 8 of the characters shown in FIG. 7, and the characters shown in FIG. The characters shown are replaced (S111), and the character string diagram 5 is displayed as a kana-kanji conversion candidate (S113). If there is no variant of the character shown in FIG. 7 in the glyph data (S107; N), and if there is no character having the variant reference flag in the kana-kanji conversion result (S103; N), the original The characters shown in FIG. 7 are displayed as they are, as shown in FIG.

In the present invention, the kanji in the variant reference table are described with the same display method, but the display method may be changed according to the content of the variant. If the variant character data has the correct glyph, for example, when inputting "Moriougari" for conversion, and if the glyph data exists as shown in FIG. 11, only the candidate replaced with the variant glyph that is the correct character It may be displayed as a kana-kanji conversion candidate. In addition, in order to avoid auspiciousness with the company name, there are times when deliberate use of variant characters is used. For example, in a company that handles iron, the company name includes the word "iron", but since the part of this character is associated with "money" for "money", the purpose is to create a variant as shown in Figure 4-4. This is the case when using letters. In such a case, the word "iron", which is used for the company name in the kana-kanji conversion dictionary, should be marked with the <Alterative character reference flag>, and only in the case of using it for the company name, as shown in FIG. You may

Further, since both the family name “Yoshikawa” and FIG. 10 are character shapes that can be registered in the family register, candidates for when the character shape data exists when “Yoshikawa” is input are as shown in FIG. Both the original candidate and the candidate replaced with the variant are considered as conversion candidates. Similarly, there is a surname "Takasaki",
Both the high character variant figure 4-3 and the "saki" variant figure 4-6 are character shapes that can be registered in the family register. In such a case, four candidates from "Takasaki" may be displayed as shown in FIG.

In addition, Chinese character shape data may be obtained. For example, enter “Uroncha” and enter “Oolongcha”
When there is a conversion candidate, the variant characters of “crow” and “dragon” are extracted from FIGS. 4-7 and 8. If there is information that "crow" and "dragon" have Chinese variants, the whole character string converted as shown in FIG. 15 may be a candidate with Chinese variants.

[0015]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the kana-kanji conversion device of the present invention, obstacles in data exchange between different models are reduced and a conventional system for handling Japanese kanji characters. In the above, since the number of character shapes that can be displayed or printed is abundant, it becomes possible to create a document that is simple in character shape selection operation and that is more accurate and expressive.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an outline of a kana-kanji conversion device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment embodying the configuration of a kana-kanji conversion device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a dictionary used in the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration example of glyph data used in the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a “Sabaeshi” character shape desired by a user.

6 is a diagram showing a character shape of a kana-kanji conversion result of "Sabaeshi" when the character shape data shown in FIG. 5 does not exist.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a kanji shape of “Saba”.

8 is a diagram showing a shape of a variant of the Kanji shown in FIG. 7.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing variant character replacement processing according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a character shape of “Yoshikawa” after a variant character replacement process.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a comparison of display examples of kana-kanji conversion candidates of “Moriugai” in the present embodiment, with and without glyph data.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a comparison of display examples of kana-kanji conversion candidates of “XX Tekko” in the present embodiment with and without glyph data.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a display example of kana-kanji conversion candidates of “Yoshikawa” in the present embodiment in comparison with the presence or absence of glyph data.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a display example of kana-kanji conversion candidates for “Takasaki” in the present embodiment in comparison with the presence or absence of glyph data.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a comparison of display examples of kana-kanji conversion candidates of “Uroncha” in the present embodiment, with and without glyph data.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 input device 20 display device 30 control device 40 auxiliary storage device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An input means for inputting a kana character string, a kana-kanji conversion processing for performing kana-kanji conversion processing on the kana-character string input by the input means, and a kana-kanji conversion means for converting kana to kana. In a kana-kanji conversion device having glyph data storage means for storing glyph data and display means for displaying glyph data for outputting characters based on the conversion result of the kana-kanji conversion means, in addition to reading the characters, If there are variants in the Kana-Kanji conversion dictionary that has a flag that indicates whether or not there are variant characters for that character, and if there are variants in the Kana-Kanji conversion result obtained by the Kana-Kanji conversion dictionary, the glyph data is Inquiry means for inquiring whether or not it exists in the data storage means, and by the inquiry means, the glyph data of the variant character is stored in the glyph data storage means. When it is confirmed that the character exists, glyph extracting means for extracting it, glyph data of the character in which the glyph in the kana-kanji conversion result exists, and glyph data of the glyph extracted by the glyph extracting means, A kana-kanji conversion device, characterized in that it comprises means for replacing variant characters.