JPS6120176A - Roman character/chinese character converter - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To identify easily one character and one word and to make simply a Roman character correspond to a Chinese character to index the Chinese character by adding voice tone code to the final character corresponding to one character's share of Roman character display at the time of input. CONSTITUTION:The contents (characters in parentheses of formula I in dicate Roman character expression) of the formula I are inputted by a Roman character expression block 12. During the input of ''wo'' the operation is returned to the input operation through blocks 11-13. When the final character ''3'' is inputted, the input of one character is identified through the blocks 11-14. Then an one- word input end key (any one of a space key or a function key such as a conversion key) is depressed. Although ''wo3'' is displayed on a CRT, ''wo'' can be also displayed. On the basis of said keying, data are branched by the block 12 and the branched word is inputted to a dictionary index Chinese character conversion block 15 to convert the Roman character into a Chinese character.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an apparatus for converting Chinese phonetic characters written in Roman alphabet, that is, >'f-sound characters, into Chinese.

[Conventional technology]

Chinese is made up of many kanji characters, and it is extremely difficult to write them on a typewriter.

For example, in a system such as a Japanese typewriter that picks up and prints one character at a time, it is necessary to prepare an extremely large number of printed characters, which is clearly inefficient. Therefore, the kanji ``bias'' and 1
There is also a device that focuses on the fact that kanji consists of characters such as ``kan'' and ``labor 1 (tsukuri),'' and prepares keys for these constituents and phonemes, and synthesizes a single kanji by pressing the keys.

[Towards the stage where invention is trying to solve the problem]

All of the above devices have the problem of inefficiency as they have to select from a large number of typed characters or uneven, laborious, etc. Also, with the composite type device, the characters become saki-shaped. There was a problem with reading (and the appearance was undesirable).

[Means to solve the problem]

Of course, Chinese is written in Kanji, but the Roman alphabet is used for pronunciation practice. According to this Roman alphabet writing system, there are many homonyms in each character. For example, tong is the same, dong, paulownia, copper, and
It's like the eyes.

However, if you look at the word level, you will notice that there are almost no homonyms. Therefore, if the sentence is spelled using the romanization of the word funeral position, confusion about the sentence I- will hardly occur. This means that there is almost no need to develop a grammar analysis system like that used in Japanese word processors.

In addition, when writing Chinese in the Roman alphabet, the tonal symbols are 7 of the L hi yen historical character, '-''#, I, Jv'',
It is attached with one of the four insertion symbols \゛', but when inputting by typing, the - character is determined by adding the ]22 symbol at the end of the - letter instead of above each letter sound. be able to.

Of course, the numbers 1.2, 3°4 may be used instead of the tone code. For example, Jinl tianl qi 4 hen3 hao3
It's like typing , .

Based on the above ideas, the present invention provides the following Roman-Chinese conversion device.

That is, an input means having at least a Roman alphabet key and a numeric key, a means for identifying the input equivalent of one character in the Roman alphabet of the input Chinese character, and a means for identifying the equivalent of one word, and the input means for identifying the equivalent of one character and the -Ilt word... It consists of a means for converting the current time into Chinese by indexing an electronically stored Romanization-Chinese comparison dictionary, and a single output stage of the converted Chinese,
The above-mentioned identification means is characterized in that the tone code key input at the end of the character equivalent to one character in Roman alphabet is used to identify the character equivalent, and the -tB word input end key is used to identify the one word equivalent. This is a Romanji-Chinese conversion device.

[For production]

In this Chinese conversion device, input data in Roman alphabet that is quickly input using an input means equipped with alphabet keys, numeric keys, and a small number of special character keys, such as an English Quib Writer, can be input at the end of the character corresponding to the - character. Because tone codes are attached to the characters, they can be easily classified by identification means, and if you match them with a comparison dictionary of Roman characters and Chinese, which also have tone codes at the end of the equivalent of one character, you can find the corresponding Chinese characters. is indexed,
Output.

[Actual example]

FIG. 1 shows an example of a Roman-Chinese conversion device having the most basic configuration. As shown in the figure, this device includes a keyboard 1, a central processing unit 2, a dark blue cathode ray tube 3, and a printer 4, which are integrated with the central processing unit.

The keyboard 1 as an input means has 26 alphabets.
Numerical keys and some special character keys are sufficient for character songs, but of course, function keys such as phrase break, input end, etc. are provided as needed for text creation.

The central processing unit 2 mainly processes data input from the keyboard 1, and among these processes, the processing of identifying the equivalent of one character and the equivalent of one word in the Roman alphabet of Chugoku is particularly important. As mentioned above, this process
By adding a tone code to the end of one character at the time of input, this can be executed with simple software, but it is also possible to implement it in hardware. Although such a processing method makes almost no grammar analysis function necessary, a grammar analysis function can be added if necessary.

The identified one-character equivalent or one-word equivalent is then converted into middle five words by indexing a Romanization-Chinese comparison dictionary. This dictionary may be stored in internal memory or in external memory such as a disk. The storage format for Chinese includes words as well as characters, and although the font is based on simplified characters, traditional characters can also be stored at the same time. As with the input method, it is convenient to store the Roman alphabet notation by adding a tone code at the end of the part corresponding to the - character because it can be easily matched with the input data. Data stored according to a certain method may be matched by performing program-like processing when corresponding to input data.

The Chinese words indexed as shown in 1- below are displayed on CRT 3.
Or it is output to the printer 4.

In addition to the above-mentioned processing, the central processing unit 2 also performs
Able to edit, layout, and process statements. Furthermore, control of input/output devices is essential.

FIG. 2 shows the basic processing flow.

Now, assume that the following input is made one character at a time in block 10. The original Roman alphabet is in parentheses.

wo3 guo2 tong2bo4 wei 4xi
ngl fal 5he4 cheng2gonglv
// \ \--\ l - (W) guo tongbo weixing fa
) First, while WO is being input, the process returns to the input operation via blocks 11 to 12.13. If the last 3 is entered, block 11.1
From 2.13 to block 14, it is identified that the number corresponding to the minus character has been input.

Next, you can use either the single word input end key (space key or a function key such as a conversion key).

By pressing the key above, branch to block 12 and block 1
5, and the conversion to Chinese b<(q becomes.

This Chinese language is displayed on the cathode ray tube in block 16. If there are multiple Chinese words, just select one. This Chinese character is stamped in block 17 if necessary.

In this way, when inputs in the L-letter Roman alphabet are concatenated, the input is sequentially converted into Chinese. This is expressed in simplified characters as follows.

Our nation successfully celebrated the victory of Dobo.

In addition to the keyboard, various devices such as an optical device such as an OCR or a magnetic reader such as an MICR can be used as the input means.

In addition to visual input means, floppy disks, magnetic disks, magnetic tapes, etc. can also be used.

〔effect〕

According to this invention, as described above, since the number of input keys is small, the input speed is fast and efficient, and when inputting, a tone code is added to the end of the romanized character. As a result, single characters and terms can be easily identified, and the correspondence and indexing with Chinese can be done easily without the need for complex processing, and almost no grammar analysis function is required. It is possible to achieve excellent effects such as not doing so.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing the configuration of an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a basic processing flow. In the figure, 1 is a keyboard, 2 is a central processing unit, 3 is a cathode ray tube, and 4 is a printer.

Claims (1)

[Claims] an input means having at least a Roman alphabet key and a numeric key; a means for identifying an input equivalent to one character and one word in the Roman alphabet of Chinese characters; It consists of a means for converting into Chinese by indexing a Romanization-Chinese comparison dictionary stored in the Romanization system, and a means for outputting the converted Chinese. A Roman-Chinese conversion device characterized in that the tone code key input at the end identifies the equivalent of one character, and the one-word input end key identifies the equivalent of one word.