JPS62145461A - Word processor for chinese language - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain a processor coping with all conventional KANJIS (Chinese characters) by 1st or 2nd keying by arranging 35 keys in the standard Chinese sound letters in two stages (upper/lower) and generating a sound element corresponding to the lower stage at the 1st keying and to the upper stage for the 2nd keying. CONSTITUTION:When a key corresponding to a sound element of tone or rhyme is depressed at first, a signal of the sound element of the lower stage is outputted and when the next key is depressed, the signal of the sound element of the upper stage is outputted and they are converted into a KANJI by depressing a conversion key. If the syllable includes many homonyms, after the syllable is inputted, a corresponding tone key, a radical key or the both are depressed and then the conversion key is depressed. All KANJIS are inputted with >=40 keys by two or one keying in such a way, and the input operation of blind touch is attained.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention is a Chinese word processor (hereinafter referred to as a "word processor").
(abbreviated as ), and relates to a word processor that can represent all Chinese characters with a relatively small number of keys.

Chinese has no phonograms equivalent to Japanese hiragana, and everything is expressed in kanji. Furthermore, it is said that there are approximately 6,000 commonly used kanji characters, and if a word processor was configured with keys corresponding to all kanji characters on the keyboard, the number of keys would be too large and it would be inconvenient to search. , it is difficult to operate quickly.

Pinyinjibo is widely used in China to represent Chinese sounds. Since the number of pin-in-jibo characters is relatively small, consisting of 26 letters of the alphabet and 27 letters (U), it may be possible to make them correspond to each key. However, multiple pinyinjibo are required to represent the sound of one kanji, that is, one syllable, and the longest syllable has 6
A pinyin texture of the letters is required. Therefore, if the keys are made to correspond to the pinyin texture, the number of key strokes will increase, which is inconvenient.

Focusing on the fact that one kanji corresponds to one syllable,
It was considered to provide keys corresponding to syllables, but there are approximately 400 types of syllables in Chinese, and it would be quite impossible to arrange them all on a keyboard, and it would not be appropriate in terms of operability.

If we break down syllables further, one syllable is basically made up of a combination of two syllable elements: a vocal initial and a final. The number of these syllabic elements is 21 initials and 3 finals.
There are 6 pieces, and there are a few special ones, but there are about 60 pieces in total. Although we considered providing keys corresponding to these syllabic elements, the number of keys that can be pressed blindly is still too large and inconvenient. Therefore, the present inventor further focused on the fact that when representing a syllable, the order of the initial and the final is fixed, and by associating two syllable elements (the initial and the final) with one key, one syllable is selected depending on the order in which it is struck. I thought of configuring it so that element signals are output. This method allows us to create a word processor that can contain all syllabic elements with less than 40 keys that can be hit with a blind touch, and that can represent the syllables corresponding to all normal kanji characters by hitting each key once or twice. This made it possible.

The classification of syllable elements, which is the basis of the present invention, will be explained below.

One kanji corresponds to one syllable, and a syllable is basically composed of two types of syllabic elements: a vocal initial and a rhyming final.
There are also a few special consonants.

There are 21 initials: (b) (1)) (@) (f) (d) (t)
(n) (+) (g) (k) (h) (j)
(q) (x) (zh) (ch) (sh) (r)
(Z) (C) (s) There are 36 finals: (a) (o) (e) (er) (ai) (ei
) (ao) (ou) (an) (en) (an
g) (eng) (ong) (i) (in) (i
ao) (ie) (iou or iu) (fan)(
in) (tang) (ing) (iong) (
u) (ua) (uo) (uai) (uei or ui) (van) (uen or un) (uang
) (ueng) (me (jan) ni n) Consonant: ng (however, excluding those expressed in pinyinjibo and common to the initial) There are three types of combinations of syllable elements that make up a syllable.

(R syllable = initial + final (n) syllable = final (III) syllable” (i) (u) (i:) ten rhyme base In the present invention, each key is associated with two syllable elements, and the order in which they are pressed, that is, the first I thought that the signal for one of the syllable elements would be generated depending on whether it was the first or second stroke.
If we assume that the syllable elements that we want to generate in the stroke are the first type syllabic elements, then at least the following 34 elements must be included in order to express the three types of types (1) to (I[[) above. It won't happen.

(Type 1 syllabic element) Type (1): 21 initials in total.

(b) (p) (m) (f) (d) (t) (
n) (1) (g) (k) (h) (j) (
q) (x) (zh) (ch) (sh) (r)
(Z) (C) (s) 11 words that are sometimes used as sole finals in type 2 (■).

(a) (o) (a) (sr) (ai) (eL
) (ao) (ou) (an) (en) (an
g) Type of (f[I): i when i or 6 comes at the beginning of a syllable
or (y), which is used in place of t, and (-), which is used in place of U when U comes at the beginning of a syllable.

Next, if the syllable element to be generated in the second stroke is a second type syllable element, in principle, all finals must be included in order to express the types (1) and (Iff). However, two of the 36 types of finals (er) and (ueng) do not connect with the initial (come after the initial), and (i)
(u) It is a final that does not come after ni), so it can be removed. Ultimately, the second type of syllable elements must include at least the following 34 elements.

(a) (o) (e) (ai) (ei) (ao
) (ou) (an) (en) (ang) (e
ng) (ong) (i) (ia) (is) (i
ao) (iou or iu) (ian) (in)(
tang) (ins) (iong) (u) (u
a) (uo) (uai) (uei or ui) (
uan) (uen or un) (uang) (go)
(韮e) (韮an) (■n) In addition to these initials and finals,
It is desirable to provide a key corresponding to the consonant (ng) for special purposes.

Next, the structure and operation method of the word processor keyboard according to the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

In the figure, keyboard 1 has 35 keys corresponding to syllable elements.
Syllable input key 1 number key (1) to (O), sign key <, ) (,) (,), tone key (-) (l) (V)
(\) (-), operation keys (conversion) (exit) (lowercase alphabet) (letter) (radical shift) (shift) (page break) (line feed) (cancel) (radical mode) (double sound = Pinyin mode) (cursor), etc.

The 35 keys corresponding to syllable elements are displayed with pin in jibo in the upper and lower rows, and the 34 keys other than the consonant (ng) key in the upper and lower rows have the first type syllables explained earlier in the lower row. One of the elements is arranged in the upper row, and one of the second type syllable elements is arranged in the upper row. In this word processor, when the key corresponding to a syllable element is hit on the first stroke, the signal of the lower row, that is, the first type of syllable element, is hit, and when the key that corresponds to the syllable element is hit on the second stroke, the signal of the upper row, that is, the second type of syllable element. is configured to output. The distinction between the first stroke and the second stroke can be determined after pressing the conversion key for the previous character.

The syllable-to-kanji conversion of this word processor will be explained in more detail below.

[In the case of monosyllables] [N syllables - initials + rhyming finals] After selecting and inputting the first stroke to select the lower vocal final and the second stroke to select the upper final, the input is converted to a kanji by pressing the conversion key.

However, in the case of syllables with many homonyms, after inputting the syllable,
Perform conversion by inputting tone or radical, or both.
After inputting a syllable, if only the tone is to be input, after pressing the tone key, the 0 radical, which signals conversion using the conversion key, is input from the keyboard while pressing the radical shift key. At this time, depending on the type of radical, press the shift key at the same time0
Since the radical input also serves as a conversion signal, there is no need to press the conversion key.Also, when inputting both the tone and the radical manually, input the tone and the radical in that order.

[111 syllables - Final pattern On the first stroke, select the final word in the lower row, manually, and then [! ]Same as.

[11+] Syllable - (i) (u) (δ) Ten rhyme mother
With the first stroke of the pattern, type (y) or (so) in the lower row, and with the second stroke select and input the final of the upper row.The rest is the same as [11].

The summary is as follows.

Example) 'g'-' eB° conversion '4F hoof'”
a o'−' −(-voice)゛−°conversionconversion rconcave J ” x'−h' in g'−=' radical shift +゛9.

-61 Bamboo” ゛ y゛→-1l-1＼ (West bank)゛→゛Radical shift°
＋゛ Kano ° → “beggar” l Wl −1e nl → °/(nil) → −゛conversion゛ “Jō, Shishi, Mosquito,”
4,...1 [For two or more syllables] After inputting the initial and final of each syllable, the conversion is performed by pressing the conversion key. Tone and radicals are not manually controlled. For words with three or more syllables, you only need to enter the first two syllables.

Example) 'g'-+'□ng'-'3'
-'i'! Conversion ゝ → ``And YuJ ・ ai ・ −・ , ・ −・ 8n・ !Conversion → ``Receiver.

' 3 h'→'ou'→'y'→'
i n' →゛Variation conversion →r Oguchi L Shikame 1 1ql→l 1an1-1b1→l 1nal→'Variation?
〆→``Seven Ward Mandaro 1 1 gl→l uangI→l b1→l O1→゛Conversion'Conversion'tA, W'6, f4+7A J Shang,
In the figure, a consonant (ng) key is provided, but it is not necessary as it is rarely used.
The combinations of the upper and lower rows of the four keys are not limited to the combinations shown in the diagram, and may be any combination of syllable elements of the first type and the second type.
) may be separated and combined with the other 34 keys and syllable elements instead of being placed above and below the same key.

Furthermore, in order to minimize the number of keys containing syllables, it is desirable that each key corresponds to a different syllable element, but the number of keys should be around 1 to 5, and the same syllable element should be represented by two or more keys. It is also within the scope of the present invention to provide keys that correspond to keys, or to completely different syllable elements, ``empty elements,'' or the like.

As explained above, in the word processor according to the present invention, two syllable elements are basically made to correspond to one syllable input key, and depending on the order of strokes, that is, whether it is the first stroke or the second stroke, one of the syllable elements can be selected. By configuring the device to output a signal, all syllable input can be performed with 2 or 1 touch using 40 keys or less, and once the user becomes proficient, it becomes possible to perform input operations by blind touch.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The figure shows an example of a keyboard according to the invention. Explanation of symbols 1...Keyboard procedure amendment February 4, 1988 1, Indication of the case 1985 Patent Application No. 287232 2, Name of the invention Chinese word processor 3, Person making the amendment Relationship with the case Patent applicant address: 1-14, Taito 1-chome, Taito-ku, Tokyo Name: Patchtsuk Co., Ltd. Representative: Shogo Takayama 4 Agent address: 8-10-8-6, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo Patent claim in the specification to be amended "scope of the invention" and "detailed description of the invention"
Column 7, Contents of amendment (1) The statement in the "Claims" column of the specification is corrected as shown in the attached sheet. . (2) On page 2, line 13 of the specification, the phrase ``word processor for Chinese'' is corrected to ``word processor for Chinese (referring to the common language of China called ``Putonghua'')''. Claims: A word processor for Chinese, wherein the keyboard displays initials and finals constituting syllables in pinyinjibo (double phonetic alphabet).
Equipped with more than 40 keys corresponding to syllable elements represented by;
At least (b) (p) (
-) (f) (d) (t) (n) (+) (g
) (k) (h) (j) (Q) (X) (zh
) (ah) (sh) (r) (2) (C) (
3) and the 21 initials of (a) (o) (e) (e
r) (ai) (ei) (ao) (ou) (a
n) 11 finals of (en) (ang) and i or a
is used instead of i or a when it comes at the beginning of a syllable (
y) and (-), which is used in place of U when U comes at the beginning of a syllable, for a total of 34; ) (e
i) (ao) (ou) (ai) (en) (an
g) (eng) (ong) (+) (ia) (
ie) (iao) (iou or iu) (jan>
(in) (iang) (ins) (iong)
(u) (ua) (uo) (uai) (uei or ui) (uai) (uen or un) (uang
) ni) (iie) (iian) (iin) no.34
of the keys corresponding to the syllable elements; each of the at least 34 keys corresponds to any one of the first type syllable elements; Among them, at least 34 keys also correspond to any one of the second type syllable elements, and when the key is hit for the first time, the first type syllable element among the corresponding syllable elements A word processor for Chinese language, characterized in that it is configured to output a signal of the second type of syllable element among the two corresponding syllable elements when the second stroke is struck. .

Claims (1)

[Claims] Chinese (refers to the common language of China called “Putonghua”)
A word processor for the computer, the keyboard having up to 40 keys corresponding to syllable elements in which initials and finals constituting a syllable are expressed in pinyinjibo (■ phonetic finals); at least (b) as the first type syllable element; (p) (m) (f)
(d) (t) (n) (l) (g) (k) (h) (j) (
q) (x) (zh) (ch) (sh) (r) (z) (c
)(s) and the 21 initials of (a)(o)(e)(er
)(ai)(ei)(ao)(ou)(an)(en)
11 finals of (ang), (y) used in place of i or ■ when i or ■ comes at the beginning of a syllable, and (w) used instead of u when u comes at the beginning of a syllable. contains a total of 34 elements; at least (
a) (o) (e) (ai) (ei) (ao) (ou) (
an) (en) (ang) (eng) (ong) (i)
(ia) (ie) (iao) (iou or iu) (ia
n) (in) (iang) (ing) (iong) (u
) (ua) (uo) (uai) (uei or ui) (u
an) (uen or un) (uang) (■) (■e)
Contains 34 finals of (■an) (■n); Of the keys corresponding to the syllable elements, each of the at least 34 keys corresponds to any one of the first type syllable elements. and at least 34 keys among the keys corresponding to the syllable elements also correspond to any one of the second type syllable elements,
When the key is hit for the first time, the signal of the first type of syllable element among the corresponding syllable elements is output, and when the key is hit for the second time, the signal of the second type of syllable element of the two corresponding syllable elements is output. A word processor for Chinese language, characterized in that it is configured to output signals of syllable elements of species.