JPS58191031A - Word processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate an input operation, by feeding a part or whole of a key-in input in KANA (Japanese syllabary) or the alphabet and then coverting the input into a sentence including Chinese characters by means of a conversion key. CONSTITUTION:A keyboard 1 contains the non-conversion, KANA conversion, Chinese character conversion and addreviation keys in addition to the KATAKANA (square from of Japanese syllabary), alphabet, numeric character and various mark keys. The fed signal is decoded and stored in a buffer memory 21 and at the same time converted into a caracter pattern by a character generator 31 to be displayed at a CRT4 with high luminance. With a push of the non-conversion key, theluminance is lowered down to a normal level and also the data of the register 21 is transferred to a text memory 2. Then the Chinese character conversion key is pushed to read out the standard code of each character in a buffer memory 23. Then the KANA is converted into Chinese characters with use of the data of a dictionary part 7. The conversion key is pushed repetitively until a desired Chinese character is displayed. When the conversion is over, the Chinese characters are transferred to the memory 2. This process facilitates an input operation for a sentence including KANA letters and Chinese characters.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention relates to a Japanese word processor, and more specifically, it is capable of converting one input word, one clause, and one sentence into a kana display, a kanji display, or a kana-kanji mixed display even when keys containing alphabetic characters are manually operated. This paper proposes a Japanese word processor that can display and print text.

There are 20,000 known input methods for Japanese word processors, including a full character layout keyboard method and a kana-kanji conversion method. The advantage of the latter method is that it is easier to memorize the character layout of the keyboard compared to the keyboard layout, but for beginners, it is difficult to remember the character layout or the character layout. It is by no means easy to memorize the correspondence between letters and fingers, and at least when it comes to kana input, a keyboard with a full character layout that is arranged regularly in the order of the 50 syllabary is better than a keyboard with a JIS layout that has an irregular layout. This invention seems to be able to input Roman characters and English easily.In particular, it is possible to enter Roman characters and English in the middle of Kana input, that is, input of Kana sentences mixed with Roman characters or English. Even if you are
By making it possible to convert kana and kanji, even if the desired kana key cannot be found, it is possible to input Roman characters and English by using the alphabet keys, thereby increasing the input speed of beginners, and also for English typists and computer users. The present invention is described in detail based on the drawings showing the embodiments of the present invention, which aims to provide the best word processor in Japan that enables high-speed input by operators who are familiar with alphabetic keys.0 Figure 1 shows the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the overall configuration of a word processor according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a layout diagram of its keyboard.The keyboard 1 has keys 11 for inputting characters and symbols according to JIS JIS 1J, and human input characters.

In addition to a function key 12 for symbol selection, a function key 13 for character conversion instructions, a numeric keypad 14, etc., function keys 15 for various collections are provided.

First, input characters are selected in the following manner. That is, for hiragana input, press the illuminated i key 121, and for katakana input, press the illuminated 3 key 122 (used only when kanji conversion is not to be performed as described later). Press the character key 11. In these kana input cases, what about the consonant jt infantile input?
Press the character key 123 while pressing the 0 key.Also, in the case of inputting alphabetic characters, press the illuminated ■ key 124 and then press the character key 11 for F9T.

In the case of inputting uppercase letters, press the desired character key while pressing the Il key 125. In addition, in the case of manual input of numbers, you can also use the same key operations as inputting alphabetic characters.
The signal emitted from is decoded and sent to backup memory 2.
0 is stored in text memory 2 after the input data is subjected to the required conversion by operating various conversion keys to be described later.
The stored data is converted into a character pattern by the character generator 31 and displayed on the CRT 4. The data r/'1 which is input into the buffer memory 21 is displayed in high brightness on the CRT 4. I'm trying to make it happen.

Control of signal transfer, storage to memory, display, etc. as described above is controlled by control i! This is carried out by the control section 5, which performs conversion processing as will be described in detail below.

Each of the function keys 13 for character conversion instructions will be explained below.

1IIF-131 is keyed in and back up memory 21
When there is no need to convert the character data that is stored in the CRT d and therefore displayed in high brightness on the CRT d, press the keys when you want the printer 6 to print the data manually. Keys to operate,
When the control unit 5 receives a key press signal from the key 1310, the data stored in the backup memory 21 is transferred to the text memory 2 for storage.

As a result, the display on the CRT 4 changes from high brightness display to normal brightness display. Furthermore, since the capacity of the backup memory 21 is limited, input exceeding this capacity is disabled. Therefore, it is necessary to press the key 131 at least once for inputting the number of characters corresponding to 8 m.

The character data that has been keyed in and stored in the buffer memory 21 and therefore displayed in high brightness on the CRT 4 is converted into kana characters and CR
This is the key to be pressed when you want to display the image on T4 and print it out using the printer 6.
If you press only 32, the conversion to hiragana will be changed to F.
If the Σh key 126 is pressed and the E key 132 is pressed, the conversion to katakana will be performed.0 Figure 3 shows the basic system for character conversion control for uninvented products - Uchitani. This is a flowchart.When the key 132 is pressed, the control unit 5 first performs a conversion process to a standard code.

The product of the present invention is capable of displaying and printing half-width characters (thin vertical characters with a standard width of 172) for numbers and symbols, and after pressing the Eljl key 127, press the character key 11 for numbers or When the numeric keypad 14 or the like is pressed, half-width character data is stored in the buffer memory 21.

In the conversion process to the standard code, first the data in the backup memory 21 is read into the control unit 5 and the data of full-width characters and half-width characters is converted into the standard code. In the standard code, each character is full-width for numbers.

There are two types of half-width characters, but hiragana and katakana are the same codes and there is no distinction between full-width and half-width characters. The same applies to uppercase and lowercase letters.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the conversion processing routine to the standard code, in which control 11fl<5 reads the data of the id buffer register 21 one character at a time, and reads the bits included in this data that identify half-width and full-width characters. is examined and identified, and then converted into standard codes for each full-width character and half-width character, and this is stored in the buffer memory 21.
The number of data in the 0 buffer memory 21, which is repeated until there is no unconverted data in the memory 21, is managed by a pointer that is increased or decreased accordingly. The data thus converted into standard code is stored in the buffer memory 22. For numbers, etc., standard half-width codes are prepared, so half-width and full-width characters are handled separately.

Then, the standard code in this buffer memory 22 is converted into alphabetic characters and kana characters. This process converts Romaji input into Hiragana or Katakana! This process also translates and converts the content input in English into the corresponding Japanese hiragana or katakana. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the routine of this alphabetic character-kana conversion process, in which three characters are read out from the buffer memory 22 as one unit to a predetermined register in the control unit 5, and whether the first character among them is an alphabetic character or not is determined. If it is not an alphabetic character, it is written to another buffer memory 23 and the pointer contents of the backup memory 22 are updated. If it is an alphabetic character, Romaji-kana conversion processing begins. This conversion is performed by a dictionary section 7 consisting of a ROM into standard Hiragana or Katakana codes and stored in a buffer memory 23KI. It is preferable that the dictionary unit 7 is configured so that it can perform slight conversions regardless of whether the Roman character input is in the Hepon style or the Kunrei style. In the romaji-kana conversion process, the first alphabetic character is r a J riJ
If it corresponds to a vowel, like "a", "i"... (or "
% rh, aJrkIJ
When the first letter is a consonant and the second letter is a vowel, as in
...) In the case of combinations of two consonants followed by one vowel, such as sazetta, cha, and shi, the consonant ``chinaka'' is used as in ``rita'' (or ``tsuta''). (or "cha") or special romaji notation such as "shi" (or "shi") is converted into kana, and the standard code of the converted kana is written to the buffer memory 23. Then, the contents of the pointer in the buffer memory 22 are updated by the number of alphabetic characters that have been converted, and the next three characters for the unconverted characters are read into the register and the same process is repeated. Of course, the conversion to hiragana and the conversion to katakana are distinguished depending on whether or not the EΣ engineer three feather keys 126 are pressed.

The dictionary section 7Fi also has data for English-Japanese (kana) conversion, for example at the level of English words, and for English characters that do not correspond to the above-mentioned Romaji-kana conversion, Japanese converted into words. For example, if there is an input such as "1ist1", there is no Roman alphabet notation that starts with "Fil", so processing for English-Japanese conversion is performed.
If "list" is a word prepared in the dictionary section 7, it is converted into "#irlist" (or "list") and written into the buffer memory 23.

Things that cannot be converted even if the process to convert from Roman letters or English to kana is executed, such as isolated one or two consonants (for example, before and after are kana), which are not prepared in the dictionary section 7. For English words and the like that are not available, they are transferred to the backup memory 23 and stored without being converted. The data stored in the buffer memory 23 is then hidden in the text memory 2, and the CRT displays it in that area instead of the pre-conversion data. As a result, the display on the CRT 4 becomes a display containing a mixture of hiragana (or katakana) and K numbers. Here, the alphanumeric data stored in the backup memory 23 is a standard code corresponding to the input character if it is a half-width character, so it is transferred from here to the text memory 2, stored, and then displayed on the CRT 4.
The characters displayed are still half-width characters.

Next, the Convert I key 133 is pressed and stored in the buffer memory 21, so the character data displayed in high brightness on the CRT 4 is converted into kanji and the data is displayed on the CRT 4.
This is the key that should be pressed when the user wishes to display the image on the screen and print it out using the printer 6.

In the product of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 3, when this key 133 is operated, the code of the character entered manually is converted.
The conversion from alphabetic characters to kana characters is processed in the same manner as in the case of the key 132 operation described above. When the m key 133 is operated, the standard code of each character in the panzer memory 23 is read out, and kanji conversion is performed using data prepared in advance in the dictionary section 7. This kanji conversion process itself may be performed using a known method, but in this embodiment, it is performed on a character-by-character or word-by-word basis.

In addition to phrase units, grammatical analysis is also performed to enable slightly longer sentences to be converted into kanji. It also has an automatic slope learning function. The code converted into kanji is stored in the batza memory 24 and written in the area after the character data written earlier in the text memory 2.

If the content displayed on the CRT 4 after conversion into kanji differs from the desired kanji, press the key 133 to sequentially call up the kanji prepared in the dictionary section 7 among the kanji having the corresponding sound (kana). This is the same as in conventional Japanese word processors that use the Kana and Kanji conversion method.

The vero m key 134 is stored in RAM using the m key 128.
After pressing the character key 11 on an abbreviation previously registered in 8, the character key 11 is operated to convert the abbreviation into a sentence registered in association with the abbreviation.

In addition, in FIG. 1, there is a character generator for the 32Vi printer 6, a floppy disk used to record the contents of the 9#i text memory 2, or for storage required in the various data processing processes mentioned above. . A portion of the character generators 31 and 32 may be provided on the floppy disk 9.

The character conversion mode using the product of the present invention will now be explained.

Entering the entire text in hiragana and converting the necessary parts to kanji is the same as in known Japanese word processors, and there are also Japanese word processors that declare Roman characters input from the beginning of input and input the entire text in Roman characters. Since this is well known, a case will be described here taking as an example a case in which mixed alphabetic characters such as Roman characters are input, which is permissible in the product of the present invention.

If you want to display or print the sentence ``The 3rd golf tournament was held here today.'', first operate the keys as follows. Hiragana characters will be displayed in high brightness on the CRT 4 as the keys are operated, and ``Today here'' will be displayed in low brightness on the CRT 4 as the key 133 is operated. In the case of "Today"
Of course, you can display ``Inrorologo I'' to display ``Today here''. ○Next, since the Roman alphabet is easy to read, enter ``Yokuchikokukokuguchi'' and enter this. Minutes are displayed in lowercase letters [dai
3 J), if the mouth is found earlier than the one shown in the figure and the operation is 4 m Kokuguchi Box m, the internal pressure of the buffer memory 23 will be 3 J.
Data is stored in a buffer memory 24. Text memory 2 stores data in the form of "3rd session" 0CRT 4 is ward u lokey 1
The display of ``Today here is the third time'' before the keystroke of 33 is changed from ``Today here is the third time''. Note that the dictionary section 7 may be configured so that display of "third time" can also be selected.

Next, to avoid the hassle of inputting "golf", I keyed in English, and GOLF was not converted to Roman characters, but English - Kana (
(Katakana) will be converted and the message will be displayed as ``4 times here today! 3 times J golf''.

If you press the key next, the message "The 3rd golf tournament will be held here today" will be displayed. However, if "Taikai" is displayed as "Withdraw", the desired "tournament" will be displayed by pressing the box I turn key 133. Press the key repeatedly until After that, input ``RoroInkuLWorkm'' and the display of the desired sentence will be completed.

Next, the correction operation for the input completed as described above will be explained using another sentence as an example.

If you want to convert ``Blue'' to ``Aoi'' after you get the message ``A blue sky was seen on CRT 4'' by operating Roro U21030 (or after further input is possible), use The user operates the cursor movement key 15' to move the cursor under "Blue" and inputs, for example, prison group 151 (of course, kana input is also acceptable).

The code #:I-raJ is input into the buffer memory 21 by the prisoner's keystrokes, as in the case of new input described above, but when the prisoner's keystrokes are entered, the code of #:I-raJ is input into the buffer memory 21 from among the data already stored in the text memory 2. , from this input position, for multiple characters (
For example, the code for the next character (for example, 40 characters) is ``I saw a blue sky.''
. . ” is saved in the backup memory 25. In the subsequent keystrokes, only "0" is stored in the buffer memory 21.

CRT40 was seen at this stage... It becomes.

u<I]wa [The content of the buffer memory 21 is converted into kanji by the operation of the Nagi key 133, as described above, and the dictionary section 7 converts the contents of the buffer memory 21 into kanji characters, and the dictionary unit 7 converts the contents of the buffer memory 21 into kanji characters, and the dictionary section 7 converts the contents of the buffer memory 21 into kanji characters, and the dictionary section 7 converts the contents of the buffer memory 21 into kanji characters, and the dictionary section 7 converts the contents of the buffer memory 21 into kanji characters, and the dictionary unit 7 converts the contents of the buffer memory 21 into kanji characters by using the nagi key 133.
is read out and entered into the backup memory 24, and the CRT display will read something like ``A blue sky was seen...'' (underlined is the cursor position) overwriting the buffer memory 24.25, and at the same time the contents of the text memory 2 will also be displayed. Can be rewritten. The contents of the buffer memories 21 to 25 in this state are as follows.

Buffer memory 21 [aoJ Back memory 22 ``AO standard code'' Back memory 23 ``Ao'' Buffer memory 24 ``Blue'' Back memory 25 ``I saw a blue sky...'' So this ``Blue'' was changed to ``Blue.'' If you want to change to
Press key 131. If "Ao" is prepared next to "Ao" in the dictionary section 7Kr, this operation will cause "Ao" to be stored in the backup memory 24, and the CRT display will show "Ao was seen" with the contents of the buffer memory 24.25 superimposed. ...'' and the contents of text memory 2 are also rewritten at the same time.

Also, if you want to change the hiragana display from "Ao" to "Ao", use u! Press -132. As a result, the contents of the buffer memory 23 are transferred as they are to the backup memory 24, and the contents of the backup memories 24 and 25 are overwritten, resulting in a display of "A blue was seen...", and at the same time, the text memory 2 is also rewritten.

"Empty" insertion according to the general insertion procedure. To convert to katakana, press the n key 132 and the i>cl-t& key 126 together.

If you want to cancel the rewrite to ``Aoi'', press [11 key 135
Press the key. As a result, the display is) Kurafua Memory 21.
The contents of the text memory 25 are overwritten, resulting in a state of ``Ward] was found...'', and the contents of the text memory 2 are restored to the contents of the backup memory 25.

Furthermore, if it is necessary to convert to ``Aso was seen...'', press the cursor movement key 15', the Tomoe key 129, and the mouth key 15'. In this case, the display continues to be overwritten in the buffer memories 21 and 25, and the message is ``Y/N...''. In this state, 匡■! When the 3 key 133 is pressed, the contents of the buffer memory 21 are converted to "Aso",
The display overwrites the backup memories 24 and 25 and becomes ``Aso was seen...'' and the text memory 2 is also rewritten with this content. In this state, when any character key 11 is pressed, the contents determined by the previous conversion are fixed, and the contents of the backup memory 25 are changed to "I saw..." for example 40 characters after that. becomes. On the other hand, if any function key is pressed, conversion from the buffer 23 to the buffer 24 is prohibited, that is, the conversion is fixed.

In this way, by the function of the backup memory 25, even if there is a change in the number of characters before and after conversion due to correction, or if conversion is canceled, these can be handled without any inconvenience.

Note that the printing of the contents of the text memory 2 by the printer 6, the writing to the 70-piece disk 9, etc. are performed in the same manner as known processes.

As described above, in the case of the present invention, it is possible to input Roman characters and English using alphabetic characters at any time, and it is possible to input sentences containing pinched alphabetic characters, so it is possible to increase the input speed of beginners, and it is possible to improve the input speed of beginners. English typists, computer operators, etc. can freely use alphabetic keys or kana keys to input data at extremely high speeds.

Also kanji as understood from the above.

According to the present invention, a Japanese word processor with extremely excellent operability can be realized, since there are no restrictions on the operating procedures of 133 and 132.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of the product of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a keyboard layout diagram, and FIGS. 3 to 5 explain processing contents. This is a flowchart for 1...Keyboard 2...Text memory 4...
・CRT 5...Control unit 6...Printer 7.
...Dictionary section 21 to 25... Buffer memory patent applicant Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. agent Patent attorney Noboru Kono Figure 3 Figure 4

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A Japanese word processor using a kana-kanji conversion system, characterized in that it is equipped with means for converting alphabetic key manual data that occupies part or all of key-in input data into data related to kana and/or kanji.