JPH0732409B2 - Video text equipment - Google Patents

Description

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a videotex device such as a so-called captain device. [Summary of the Invention] The present invention relates to a videotex device, and a device for converting kana-kanji characters or the like is provided on the main body side so that a document mixed with kanji characters can be input even from a terminal having no kanji input function. Is. [Prior Art] So-called e-mail using a videotex device has been put into practical use. That is, in e-mail, videotex subscribers register documents from their terminals in image files of the main body (database) so that these images can be read by other specified or unspecified subscribers. Is. However, in such a videotex device, for example, in the terminal of the captain device which is popular in Japan in general, the signal system that can be sent from the terminal to the main body is only 7 bits, and therefore the transmitted data is in English or numeric.・ Limited to kana and symbols. Therefore, when a general subscriber makes an e-mail by using the captain device, conventionally, only a very difficult-to-read document containing only kana characters can be registered. A special input device was used to register a document containing mixed kanji characters in the conventional captain device. [Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As described above, in the related art, when a terminal of a device having a high penetration rate is used, a problem that general subscribers cannot register a good document There was a point. [Means for Solving Problems] The present invention comprises a main body and a plurality of terminals connected to the main body by respective lines, and each of the terminals is provided with a kana or Roman character input means. In the videotex device, the main body stores the first conversion means (module (7)) for converting from kana to kanji and romaji to kanji, and all kanji obtained by the conversion processing by the first conversion means. Storing means (buffer area (B)) and second converting means (personal computer (personal computer (Personal computer (Personal computer ( 4) = step [10]) is provided to transmit information in Kanji from the first terminal of the plurality of terminals to the second terminal. Equipment. [Operation] According to this, since the kana-kanji and romaji-kanji conversion module is provided on the main body side, it is possible to easily register a kanji mixed document even from a terminal that does not have a kanji input function. . [Embodiment] In FIG. 1, a plurality of bidirectional lines (1) such as telephones are controlled by a communication control unit (3) through a line connection unit (2),
The control unit (3) is connected to the personal computer (4). Further, a hard disk device (5) for storing a registered document, a floppy disk device (6), and a kana-kanji or romaji-kanji conversion module (7) described later are bidirectionally connected to the computer (4). To be done. Thus, when a document is registered, a signal supplied from a terminal (not shown) through the line (1) is input to the personal computer (4) through the connection unit (2) and the control unit (3), and the formed document is displayed. It is stored in the hard disk device (6). When reading the registered document, the personal computer (4) judges the read request from the line (1), and the requested document is read from the hard disk device (6) according to this judgment. The document is sent to the requested line (1) through the control unit (3) and the connection unit (2). On the other hand, in the above-mentioned device, a terminal (not shown) is provided with a keypad of English, numeric, kana and symbols in a so-called captain terminal, for example. When the above-mentioned document is registered, a document in Kana or Romaji is input by using the English / Numeric / Kana keys and, for example, the "#" and "*" keys among the symbol keys are the above Kana-Kanji or Roman time. −
It is used as a conversion key for the Kanji conversion module (7) and its completion key. Further, the address configuration of the above-mentioned personal computer (4) is provided with a program area (P) first and a program corresponding to the above-mentioned conversion module (M) as shown in FIG. The conversion module may have a pure hardware configuration or a software configuration, and these may be used together. After that, a work area (W) and a buffer memory (B) area described later are provided. The buffer memory (B) is provided with independent areas ((B1) to (B8)) corresponding to the number of lines (e.g., 8) connected as shown in the figure. The operation of the personal computer (4) described above is
For example, as shown in the flowchart of FIG. That is, this device is put in a standby state if any signal from the line (1) is input, and the operation is started when a key is pressed at the terminal and the signal is input. First, in step [1], the number of the line to which the signal is input is detected, and according to this number, the operator, memory, etc. used for the operation are selected, and the operation is performed for each line thereafter. . Further, it is determined whether or not the signal input in step [2] is the above-mentioned conversion key, and then it is determined whether or not the signal input in step [3] is the above-mentioned completion key. If both are no, it means that other English characters, numbers, kana, etc. have been input, so those processes are performed in step [4] and the operation is terminated. If the above conversion key is pressed and YES is determined in step [2], the process proceeds to step [5]. Whether or not the conversion key is pressed for the first time in step [5] is determined. Is judged by a register or the like. Then, at the first time, the conversion module (7) is called in step [6], and the conversion of kana-kanji or romaji-kanji is performed by the so-called word processor procedure, and the converted kanji is converted in step [7]. Buffer memory (B1) ~
Written in one of (B8) (BN). Here, the conversion module (7) may output a plurality of Kanji with the same sound, but in that case as well, all the Kanji are written in the buffer memory (BN) at one time. Therefore this buffer memory (BN)
The storage capacity of is corresponding to the maximum number output in one conversion in the conversion module (7). After this writing is completed, the first address of the buffer memory (BN) is set in step [8], and the step

[9]
Then, the data of this address is read out, this data is converted into a PLPS code for transmission in step [10] and is output to the line connected to the corresponding terminal in step [11] to end the operation. When the conversion key is pressed for the second time or more in step [5], the next address in the buffer memory is set in step [12]

Go to [9]. When the completion key is pressed and YES is determined in step [3], the hard disk device (5) in which the kanji read from the buffer memory (BN) at that time becomes the image memory in step [13]. Is written in a predetermined part of the above, and the operation is finished. At this time, the register etc. of the number of times the conversion key is pressed are reset. On the other hand, in the Videotex device, a document is registered from a terminal, but since the device described above is provided with a kana-kanji conversion module on the main body side, it does not have a kanji input function, for example. It is possible to easily register documents with mixed Kanji characters using a captain terminal. Further, according to the apparatus described above, the operation of the above-described flowchart can be performed by providing the buffer memory, and thus it is possible to deal with the case where there are inputs in parallel from a plurality of lines. That is, when the conversion module is provided on the main body side, for example, the operation of the flowchart shown in FIG. 4 can be considered. In this figure, when the operation is started by the input from the line (1), the line number is first detected in step [41], and then the signal input in step [42] is the conversion key or not. Is judged. If yes, the conversion module (7) is called in step [43], the converted first Chinese character is PLPS converted in step [44], and output to the terminal in step [45]. In this state, the process waits until key input is made in step [46]. When the key input is made, it is judged again in step [47] whether or not the conversion key, and then in step [48] the completion key is input. Is determined. If both are negative, the process returns to step [46], and if yes in step [47], the process returns to step [43], and the conversion module in step [43] extracts the next kanji, It is output to the terminal at [44] and [45]. In addition, step [4
If YES in step 8), the kanji extracted from the conversion module (7) at that time is written in the image memory in step [49], and the operation ends. Further, when the result is NO in step [42], other processing is performed in step [50] to end the operation. Therefore, according to this operation, there is an advantage that it is not necessary to provide a special buffer memory or the like. However, in this operation, when a conversion key input is made from an arbitrary terminal, the operation is transferred to a system including the conversion module (7), and this system cannot be escaped until the completion key input is finally made. For this reason, input from other terminals is disabled during this period, and since the user performs the key input determined in step [46], the period during which other terminals cannot be used during this period becomes extremely long, which is not practical. It was inconvenient. In this respect, if the device uses the buffer memory described above, it is possible to adopt an operation mode in which the operation is completed without delay after each key input as shown in the flowchart, and especially when applied to a device using a plurality of lines. It is preferable that signals from a plurality of terminals can be processed in parallel. [Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, the main body side has a kana-kanji and romaji-
By providing a Kanji conversion module, it is now possible to easily register documents containing Kanji even from a terminal that does not have a Kanji input function.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an example of the present invention, and FIGS. 2 to 4 are diagrams for explaining the same. (1) is a line, (4) is a personal computer,
(5) is a hard disk device, (7) is a conversion module, and (B) is a buffer memory.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A videotex device comprising a main body and a plurality of terminals each connected to the main body by a line, wherein each of the terminals is provided with a kana or roman character input means. To Kanji and Romaji to Kanji, first conversion means, storage means for storing all the kanji characters obtained by the conversion processing by the first conversion means, and contents of the storage means converted to PLPS codes And a second conversion means for transmitting to a desired terminal among the plurality of terminals via the line, and transmitting information in Kanji from the first terminal of the plurality of terminals to the second terminal. A videotex device characterized by being transmitted.