JPS6118064A - Electronic device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce the load on an operator by providing a conversion key on a character producing machine together with a key which divides the reading of KANJI (Chinese characters) and converting the KANJI having unknown reading KANA (Japanese syllabary) without designating a reading KANA part. CONSTITUTION:A control part 1 of an electronic device having a document producing function contains a ROM storing programs, a RAM storing KANJI, parameters, etc. obtained through retrieval and an ALU that performs the logical decision, the logic operations. Thus the overall control is secured for the electronic device. A division key 3 which divides the reading of KANJI and a conversion key 4 which executes the KANJI conversion processing are connected to a key input device 2 connected to the part 1. Furthermore a display device 5, a printer 6, a document memory part 7, a conversion dictionary 8 and a reading input buffer 9 are connected to the part 1. The KANJI conversion system is different between a case where the key 4 is operated after the KANJI reading is supplied during the input of KANJI reading and a case where the key 4 is operated after the input of the reading of KANJI to be converted. Thus, the conversion of KANJI is performed without designating a reading KANA part.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Technical Field) The present invention converts the reading of kanji input from an input means etc. into kanji, edits the inputted document containing kanji and kana, and prints it as necessary. The present invention relates to an electronic device having a document creation function.

(Prior Art) One of the kanji input methods for electronic devices having a Japanese document creation function is the kana-kanji conversion method.

This converts the reading input from an input means into kanji, and is currently the mainstream kanji input method.

This method further includes a phrase conversion method in which the unit of conversion is a phrase, a kanji input method in which the unit of conversion is a kanji, etc. The former method imposes fewer input restrictions on the input operator than the latter method, but the conversion program becomes complex, so the latter method is often mainly adopted in small-scale systems.

In this case, the conversion process is performed after specifying the reading of the kanji by separating the front and back of the reading to be converted using the reading of the kanji. However, when using this method to convert characters with Okigana, the operator needs to input the Kanji part of the reading and the Okigana part separately, especially when inputting while thinking about the sentence. This method has the drawback that it is necessary to consider the pronunciation and okurigana of the kanji before inputting them, and then input them separately, which tends to place a mental burden on the operator, and it is not possible to convert kanji for which the okurikana is not known.

([Object 1]) Another object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device having a kana-kanji conversion function, a key for specifying the pronunciation of a kanji to be converted;
A key for instructing execution of the conversion process, a case in which the reading unit specification key is input while inputting the reading of the kanji to be converted, and then the conversion key is input; To provide an electronic device that changes the kanji conversion method depending on when a conversion key is input.

The other purpose of the unissued J is to set up a kanji part separation key and a conversion key on the document creation machine, and use the separation key to separate the reading of the kanji and input the kanji reading part and the kanji part, and then press the conversion key. If input, the normal kanji part specification conversion process is performed, and if the conversion key is input without specifying the reading part of the kanji with the delimiter key, the kanji with the input reading is first searched and displayed. , a search is performed in which a part of the input pronunciation is automatically regarded as an okurigana, such as searching for a kanji whose last character is an okurigana.

In this way, Kanji 1) <'! By changing the kanji conversion process depending on whether or not to input I+rekey manually, you can improve the conversion rate when you know the length of the kanji you want to convert, and when you don't know the length of the kanji you want to convert, the document creation machine can Since conversion is automatically performed taking into account Okigana, the desired Kanji can be obtained immediately, which improves document input efficiency for the operator.

(Explanation of Examples) Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the overall configuration of a document creation machine to which the present invention is applied.

Reference numeral 1 indicates a control unit, which includes a ROM that stores a program that performs control as described below, a RAM that stores kanji obtained by searching a dictionary and parameters N, and A, I, and U that perform logical judgments, calculations, etc. Control the entire water device, including. Reference numeral 2 indicates a key manual device, and the operator uses this key to input documents, commands, etc..Reference 3
The symbol shown is a delimiter key, which is used to separate the readings of the kanji to be converted. Reference numeral 4 indicates a conversion key, which instructs execution of a kanji conversion process using manual pronunciation. Reference numeral 5 indicates a display device, and the created sentence, 1
), response to Operation 1/-Yu, and ;/iaudkasa of the created document are displayed. Reference numeral 6 indicates a printing device, which prints a document created by a user. Reference numeral 7 denotes a document storage section, which stores created documents. Reference numeral 8 indicates a conversion dictionary, which stores information for converting manually written readings into kanji. Reference numeral 9 indicates a reading input buffer that stores input readings.

The devices indicated by numerals 2 to 9 are connected to the control section 1 and are controlled by it.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the control procedure for Kana-Kanji conversion on the Kino-style side.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the reading buffer 9.

Here, we will show the case where the kanji with the reading ``Iku'' and the kanji with the reading ``i'' are followed by a ``<''.

The flowchart of FIG. 2 will be explained below along with the example of FIG. 3.

In FIG. 2, a key is input in step S1. In step S2, it is checked whether the input key is the delimiter key 3, and if it is the delimiter key 3, the process proceeds to step S3. Step S
In step 3, a key is input, and in step S4 it is determined whether or not it is a kana key. If it is a kana key, the input key is assumed to be a kanji reading part and the process proceeds to step S8, where the kana code is read and stored in the input buffer 9. After storing the key, the process advances to step S3 and further keys are input. If the input key is not a kana key, the process advances to step S5. In step S5, it is determined whether the input key is the delimiter key 3, and if it is the delimiter key, the process advances to step Sll.

In step 311, the reading input buffer 9
Store the delimiter code inside. In step S12, a key is input, and in step S13, it is determined whether the input key is a kana key.

If it is a kana key, the process advances to step 316, and after the inputted kana code is read and stored in the human power buffer, the process advances to step S12 to input another key. If it is not a kana key in step S13, the process proceeds to step S14, and it is determined whether the conversion key is 4. If the conversion key is 4, the process proceeds to step S15.

In Step S15, the contents of the reading buffer 9 are referred to, the kana before the delimiter key code is read, the kana after the delimiter key code is read and the conversion dictionary 8 is searched. Then, the obtained kanji characters with okurigana are stored in the RAM, and the stored kanji characters are displayed one by one in time division or all of them are displayed in parallel on the display device 5.

Then, in step S20, a desired kanji is selected from among the kanji displayed on the display device 5 by some means, such as by selecting a specified kanji by cursor operation, by selecting a number given to the kanji with a key, or by using a selection key. select. After that, the character string selected in step S17 is stored in the document storage unit 7.
is input, the reading manual buffer 9 is cleared in step S22, and the process returns to step St.

With the processing up to this point, the kanji reading ``i'' and the okurikana ``＜
The state of the reading buffer 9 when inputting ” is 3.
- Indicated by (a). Here, "ko" is a Kanji delimiter code. In step S15, "i" is read using the kanji conversion dictionary 8 using the contents of the reading buffer 9 as a key.
Search for something that uses <'' as an okuniga and get ``go''. The character string searched in step 317 is input into the document storage section 7.

If it is determined in step S6 that the conversion key 4 was input without inputting the delimiter key, the process proceeds to step S7. Step S
In step 7, an initial value of 0 is set for the length N of the character string that is considered to be Okugana among the input pronunciations. In step S8, a search for kanji is performed using N characters from the end of the input character string as kanji characters. Searched kanji one by one in time division,
Alternatively, all of them are displayed on the display device 5 in parallel. In step S9, it is determined whether or not to select the kanji for which the kanji conversion dictionary 8 has been searched. That is, it is determined whether the desired kanji is displayed on the display device 5 and the kanji is selected by the means described in the explanation of step S20, or whether the desired kanji is not displayed and the conversion key 4 is operated.

If no selection is made, proceed to step SIO, and increment the length N of the portion of the input reading for which feed is determined by one.

Then, in step S21, the reading input buffer 9
It is determined whether or not the number of characters within matches the length N of the portion where the feed is performed. If they match, step S
Clear the reading input buffer 9 in step S12.
If they do not match, the process returns to step S8.

Here, as shown in 3-(b), if you enter the pronunciation of ``Iku'' and search, the length of Okigana will be set to O, and the result will be ``Iku''.
Obtain "Iku, Iku, Iku". Now, if we do not search for one of these kanji, we will change the length of okurikana to 1, that is, 3-(a
), use "<" as an okigana to get "go". In other words, here, if you want to convert the kanji ``go'' but don't know the okrigana, you can get the necessary kanji and okrigana just by inputting the character string ``ikuku'' without specifying the okigana part. .

(Effects) As explained above, according to the present invention, while using a conversion method that targets the pronunciation of kanji, it is possible to convert even kanji whose okurikana is unknown without specifying the okurigana part. Efficient document creation can be performed without causing mental fatigue to the operator.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a control procedure of the invention, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a manual reading buffer in the invention. 1. Control section 2, key input device 3, separator key 4, conversion key 5, display device 6, printing device 7, document storage section 8, conversion dictionary 9, reader buffer (α) (b) - Go to one school shoulder, country

Claims (1)

[Claims] In an electronic device that has a kana-kanji conversion function, a key to specify the reading of the kanji to be converted, a key to instruct execution of the conversion process, and a key to specify the reading of the kanji to be converted, after inputting the reading part specification key in the middle of inputting the reading of the kanji to be converted. An electronic device comprising means for changing kanji conversion depending on when the conversion key is input and when the conversion key is input after inputting the reading of a kanji to be converted.