JPS6220090A - Handwritten character entry guide - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To write a legible character by providing horizontal lines projected in the horizontal direction from the left end and the right end of a quadrilateral frame, and vertical lines projected in the vertical direction from the upper end and the lower end, and entering a character in accordance with these horizontal lines, vertical lines, etc. CONSTITUTION:A handwritten character entry guide 11 is provided on a paper surface 12, and constituted by providing a rectangular entry frame 13, and an entry guide outer frame 14 provided on the inside of this entry frame 13. On the inside of the entry guide outer frame 14, vertical lines 15, 16, horizontal lines 17, 18, a center vertical line 19, and a center horizontal line 20 are provided by a drop-out color. A character is entered by utilizing an intersection and a branch point of each line, and four corners of the entry guide outer frame 14, for constituting this handwritten character entry guide 11, for writing each character, and tracing on each line of the entry guide outer frame 14 - the center horizontal line 20. Also, by utilizing the intersection and the branch point of said each line and the corners of the entry guide outer frame 14, for the write end of the character, all handwritten characters in common use can be entered without an error.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention is directed to a handwritten character writing guide that serves as an auxiliary means to read handwritten characters read by an optical character reader or the like without error. .

(Summary of the Invention) The handwritten character entry guide according to the present invention includes a rectangular quadrilateral frame written on a paper surface, and horizontally opposing η inside the quadrilateral frame from the left and right ends of the quadrilateral frame. and vertical lines projecting vertically from the upper and lower ends of the quadrilateral frame so as to be opposed to each other, and characters are written according to these horizontal lines, vertical lines, etc. By just doing this, anyone can write characters that are easy to read with an optical character reading device.

(Prior art) When inputting information into a computer using an optical character reader (hereinafter referred to as OCR) that reads handwritten numbers, alphabetic characters, and kana symbols, OCR is usually used to input this information without errors. Form forms are used.

FIG. 21 is a plan view showing an example of this type of form. As shown in this figure, in this form 1, a reading area (hereinafter referred to as a field) 3 that is the object of OCR reading is set for each form, and this field 3 has a character frame 2 for writing handwritten characters. One character is provided.

In this case, in order to increase the OCR reading rate, the standard character shape (commonly handwritten characters) shown in FIG.
It has been standardized as IS. The person completing the form uses this font as a model when filling in the form, but in this case, a writing guide is often printed as a solid line or a broken line within the writing frame to ensure that the characters are written as close to the standard form as possible.

In this case, the entry guide uses a color that cannot be read by OCR (drop-out color).

FIG. 23 is a plan view showing an example of such a writing guide. The writing guide 4 shown in this figure has two round marks 6 and 7 provided in the center of a writing frame 5, and the person writing the characters uses these round marks 6 and 7 as a guide as shown in Figure 24 (A). ~
Write the characters as shown in (F). Also, for the entry guide 4, for example, the entry guide 8 as shown in FIG.
has already been put into practical use. Filling guide 8 shown in this figure
A "10" mark 10 is provided in the center of a writing frame 9, and the character entry person uses this "10" mark 10 as a guide to write the necessary characters.

(Problems to be solved by the invention) By the way, the conventional entry guide 4°8 as described above
Because it is extremely simple, it has the following disadvantages:

(b) There are no guide elements for the inclination of the vertical, horizontal, and diagonal straight lines that make up the characters. For this reason, in handwritten characters, Figure 26 (A
) As shown in
It is often misread by the PI, or as shown in FIG. 26(B), Arnobet's 111 I+ is often misread as the Japanese syllabary "."

(b) There are no guide elements for writing characters regarding the curved lines that make up the characters. For this reason, it is difficult to know what degree of curvature to write, and many deformations occur depending on the person writing. for example,
As shown in Figure 26 (C), the 50-on “7” is replaced with the 50-on “7”.
There are many cases where it is written like this.

In other words, a handwritten ``ff'' is often misread as ``ko'' instead of ``ff''.

(c) Since there are no guide elements that indicate the relative positions of the vertical, horizontal, and diagonal line segments that make up the characters, when writing characters whose original shapes are very similar, the characters tend to be confusing.

For example, as shown in FIG. 26(D), the number "5" can be confused with the alphabet "S".

Therefore, in order to increase the reading rate of OCR, handwritten characters for OCR (common handwritten characters) are usually Alphabella I.
``S 11'' of ~ is written as shown in Figure 26 (E). However, because the guide elements of entry guides 4 and 8 are too rough, many people write the alphabet S'' as shown in Figure 26 (D). This is often the case as shown below. For this reason, the expression becomes insufficient, and the shape is not much different from the free handwritten character shape described above. In other words, these characters cannot be read correctly by OCR or may be read incorrectly.

As another example, as shown in FIG. 26(F), the alphabet "B" is easily misread as the number "8".

(d) Since there are no guide elements for the length of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal line segments, it is easy to read confusing characters. For example, the 51-syllable ``M'' and the operational symbol ``X'', the 50 syllables ``゛'' and the alphabet ``!'', the 50-sound ``2'' and the operational symbol ``-'''' is a typical example. In this case, the only distinguishing factor is the relative length of the line segment, and whether the written character is the Japanese syllabary ``me'' or the arithmetic symbol ``X''. Somehow, some characters appear that are difficult to decipher even for the person filling them out.

In other words, to summarize (a) to (d) above, the conventional writing guide 4.8 has simple expressions, so it is inadequate as a guide for writing glyphs that can be reliably read by OCR. . For this purpose, we created standard glyphs and OC
Even when writing characters to be read in R, the degree of freedom for the person writing them is too large, and it is easy for each person's name to be the same. Therefore, in the conventional Filling Guide 4.8, even with thorough training for fillers in order to increase the OCR correct reading rate and reduce the erroneous reading rate, it was difficult to obtain the expected results.

In view of the above-mentioned circumstances, the present invention has been developed by handwriting, which allows writing in handwritten characters with a shape that is easy for OCR to read, while making it possible to extremely reduce individual differences among the people filling in the form by following the rules for using the writing guide. The purpose is to provide a text entry guide.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to solve the above problems, the handwritten character entry guide according to the present invention includes a rectangular quadrilateral frame written on a paper surface,
Horizontal lines protrude horizontally from the left and right ends of the quadrilateral frame to face each other, and horizontal lines extend vertically from the top and bottom ends of the square frame into the quadrilateral frame. It is characterized by having vertical lines that protrude to face each other.

(Embodiment) FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a first embodiment of a handwritten character entry guide according to the present invention. The handwritten/written character entry guide 11 shown in this figure is provided on a paper surface 12, and includes a rectangular entry frame 13 and an entry guide outer frame (quadrilateral frame) 14 provided inside this entry frame 13. It is composed of:

The entry guide outer frame 14 is composed of a rectangular frame line (color is a drop-out color), and inside it is a vertical line 15.1 in a drop-out color.
6, horizontal line 17.18, center vertical line 19, center horizontal line 2
0 is provided.

The vertical line 15 is a distance from the left end of the entry guide 14.
j! It is provided so as to protrude inwardly from the writing guide outer frame 14 by 1 to the right and to the left of the center vertical line 19. This vertical line 15 serves as a guide when handwriting a vertical line shifted leftward from the center.

Also, like the vertical line 15, the vertical line 16 extends from the right end of the writing guide outer frame 14 by a distance J22 (=J!1) to the left.
Further, it is provided on the right side of the center vertical line 19 so as to protrude inward from the writing guide outer frame 14 . This vertical line 16 serves as a guide when manually polishing the vertical line shifted to the right from the center.

In other words, these vertical lines 11115.16 serve as guides when writing vertical lines such as ``IZII'' and ``C''.

Further, the horizontal line 17 is a line provided so as to protrude inward from the writing guide outer frame 14, below the upper end of the writing guide outer frame 14 by a distance p3 and above the center horizontal line 20, This horizontal line 17 serves as a guide when handwriting a horizontal line shifted upward from the center.

Further, the horizontal line 18 is a distance j! from the lower end of the writing guide outer frame 14! 4 (13) above, and the center horizontal line 2
Similar to the horizontal line 17, the horizontal line 17 is provided below the horizontal line 17. And these horizontal lines 17 and 18 are the 50 syllabary characters “ko” and “o”.
, power”, “ki”, numbers “4”, “5”, symbol 11 #
This will serve as a guide when filling out II, etc.

Further, the center vertical line 19 is located at a position that vertically divides the inside of the entry guide outer frame 14 by two (or approximately two).
,16. It is provided except for the area 21 surrounded by horizontal lines 17 and 18, and one vertical line in the center is the Japanese alphabet ``a''.

“i”, “tsu’°,” “tech”, alphabet I T 1
This serves as a guide when drawing vertical lines such as 1°"Y u.

Further, the center horizontal line 20 is placed in the area 21 at a position that crosses the entry guide outer frame 14 horizontally by 2 minutes (or approximately 2 minutes).
This center horizontal line 20 is provided except for the alphabets "B", "E", "
This will serve as a guide when drawing horizontal lines such as F'', ``+1'', symbol 11 +I+, etc.

In this case, the distance on the surface j! 1.12 or distance 13.
14 can be any size as long as it does not look particularly unnatural due to the shape of the font, and J1=J! 2. It is not necessary to set it to 113-14.

In this way, in this embodiment, the writing guide outer frame 14.
11F115.16. ! :, The horizontal a17.18, the center vertical line 19, and the center horizontal line 20 constitute the handwritten character entry guide 11, so the handwritten character entry guide 11 is as shown in FIGS. 2(A) to 2(D). Trace each line from the writing guide outer frame 14 to the center horizontal line 20 by using the intersections and branching points of the lines that make up the guide 11 and the four corners of the writing guide outer frame 14 to find the fortune of each character. By using the intersections and branching points of these lines and the corners of the writing guide outer frame 14 to finish writing the characters, all commonly used handwritten characters can be written without errors.

In other words, the shapes of commonly used handwritten characters specified by JIS are such that similar characters can be easily identified by OCR, as shown in Figure 22, but among these shapes, the 3rd
If the letters shown in the figure do not fill in the protrusions or keys necessary to pass the identification to the OCR (the area surrounded by O in Figure 3), it may be difficult for the person filling it in to follow the example. Even if you intend to write a glyph, OCR will have trouble reading it correctly. However, in this example, the length of the protrusion and key is 1 to β4 in terms of distance, so the written characters are OC
It is possible to make R recognize it correctly.

In addition, if the protrusion is written in accordance with the standard handwritten character model, there will be no problem, but as shown in Figure 4, this is not sufficient in the conventional handwritten character entry guide, so it may be misread by other characters. , there are many cases where it cannot be read correctly, but this example handwritten character entry guide 1
1, such misreading does not occur because the distances 1 to ρ4 are the protrusion lengths.

Furthermore, even if the protrusions, keys, etc. are written correctly, the conventional handwritten character writing guide cannot sufficiently guide the inclination of the line segments of the written characters as shown in Fig. 5, but this example , it is possible to determine from which position and in which direction a line segment should be drawn for these characters, so such inconvenience does not occur.

Further, in the handwritten character entry guide 11 shown in this embodiment, the handwritten character entry guide 11 also applies to characters that can be distinguished from other characters only by the length of the line segment, such as characters shown in FIG. Since the quality of these characters is regulated by each line segment that makes up the character, the OCR can read these characters correctly.

FIG. 7 is a plan view showing a second embodiment of the present invention. The handwritten character entry guide 11-2 shown in this figure is different from the handwritten character entry guide 11 shown in FIG. This is to make it clearer and easier to fill out. Even with this configuration, characters can be written in the same manner as in the first embodiment described above.

FIG. 8 is a plan view showing a third actual droplet example of the present invention. The handwritten character entry guide 11-3 shown in this figure is different from the handwritten character entry guide 11 shown in FIG. That's true.

In this way, accurate characters can be entered using the same entry procedure as in the first embodiment described above.

FIG. 9 is a plan view showing a fourth embodiment of the present invention. The handwritten character entry guide 11-4 shown in this figure is different from the handwritten character entry guide 11 shown in FIG. -4 and horizontal lines 17-4, 18-4, and provided a point 22 at the center thereof. Even in this case, entries can be made in the same manner as in each of the embodiments described above.

FIG. 10 is a plan view showing a fifth embodiment of the present invention. The handwritten character entry guide 11-5 shown in this figure is different from the handwritten character entry guide 11 shown in FIG.゜18-4 was provided. Even in this case, entries can be made in the same manner as in each of the embodiments described above.

FIG. 11 is a plan view showing a sixth embodiment of the present invention. The difference between the handwritten character entry guide 11-6 shown in this figure and the handwritten character entry guide 11 is that the vertical line 15-6.16
-6, horizontal line 17-6, 18-6, center vertical line 19-6
．． Extend the horizontal line 20-6 further inward and place a point 22 at its center.
This is because we have established the following. Even in this case, characters can be written in the same manner as in each of the embodiments described above.

FIG. 12 is a plan view showing a seventh embodiment of the present invention. The difference between the handwritten character entry guide 11-7 shown in this figure and the child-written character entry guide 11 is that the vertical line 15-6.16
-6, the horizontal line 17-6, 18-6, and the center index 23 are provided. Even if this method is used, entries can be made in the same manner as in each of the above-mentioned embodiments.

Handwritten character entry guides 11-a and 11-b shown in the plan view of FIG. 13(A), <8) are examples considered as derivatives of the handwritten character entry guide 11 shown in FIG. 1, respectively. These handwritten character entry guides 11-a and 11-b each have a diagonal line 2 on the handwritten character entry guide 11 shown in FIG.
4-a and 24-b are added.

Furthermore, the handwritten character entry guides 1l-2a and 11-2b shown in the plan views of FIGS. Yes, these handwritten characters entry guide 1l-
2a and 1l-2b are obtained by adding diagonal lines 24-2a and 24-2b to the handwritten character entry guide 11-2 shown in FIG. 7, respectively.

In addition, the handwritten character entry guide 1l-3a shown in FIG.
This can be considered as a derivative of the handwritten character entry guide 11-3 shown in FIG.

The handwritten character entry guide 1l-3a shown in this figure is attached to the handwritten character entry guide 11-3 shown in FIG.
is added.

The handwritten character entry guide 1l-4a shown in FIG.
This can be considered as a derivative of the manual character entry guide 11-4 shown in the figure. The handwritten character entry guide 1l-4a shown in this figure is the handwritten character entry guide 11 shown in FIG.
-4 with a diagonal line 24-4 added.

Further, the handwritten character entry guide 1l-5a shown in FIG. 17 can be considered as a derivative of the handwritten character entry guide 11-5 shown in FIG. 10. The handwritten character entry guide 11-5a shown in this figure is obtained by adding a diagonal line 24-5 to the handwritten character entry guide 11-5 shown in FIG.

Further, a handwritten character entry guide 11-5a shown in FIG. 18 is a plan view of an embodiment considered as a derivative of the handwritten character entry guide 11-6 shown in FIG. In the handwritten character entry guide 1l-5a shown in this figure, the handwritten character entry shown in FIG. ! The handwritten character entry guide 1l-7a shown in FIG. 19 is a plan view of an embodiment considered as a derivative of the handwritten character entry guide 11-7 shown in FIG. 12. The handwritten character entry guide 1l-7a shown in this figure has a diagonal line 2 on the handwritten character entry guide 11-7 shown in FIG.
4-7 is added.

In this way, characters can also be written in the case where 24-7 is added to the diagonal line 24-a in the same manner as in each of the above-described embodiments.

In the case where these diagonal lines 24-a to 24-7 are provided, it is the Japanese character "o".

“su”, “nu”, “me”, ´ノ”, alphabet “
M″, “, XIZI “Y” 11 Z 11. “ of numbers”
7'', the diagonal line forming the symbol "*", etc. can be easily drawn.

As described above, in each of these embodiments, the center is indicated by the writing guide outer frame 14, the vertical lines 15 to 15-6.16 to 16-6, and the horizontal lines 17 to 17-6.18 to 18-6. Since one point is provided for each line, when handwritten characters written using the handwritten character entry guides 11 to 11-78 of this embodiment are read by OCR, when using the conventional handwritten character entry guide, Alternatively, the following effects and features can be obtained compared to when no entry guide is used at all.

(1) It is possible to greatly reduce the variation for each filler. In particular, the vertical and horizontal straight lines that make up the letters are traced over the guide, including their relative positions and lengths, so individual differences between the people writing them are less likely to occur.

Next, the diagonal line segments that make up the letters are also vertical.

The elements of deformation are small because the characters are drawn using the positions of horizontal intersections and branching points as key points.

<2) Misreadings during OCR reading can be drastically reduced.

This will be explained below in relation to the main causes of misreading.

(b) Misreading caused by writing vertical and horizontal straight lines as diagonal straight lines as shown in Figure 20 (A).

As mentioned above, the handwritten character entry guide 11-11 of the present invention
Since the lines are traced along the vertical and horizontal straight lines in ~7a, there will be no misreading unless the person writing ignores the writing guide.

(b) Misreading caused by mixing horizontal line components into diagonal lines as shown in FIGS. 20 (B) and (C).

This handwritten character entry guide 11 to 1l-7a also provides examples of whether to bend a diagonal line segment at the guide position or to end at the guide position, so it can be thoroughly written with simple training.

(c) Misreading due to short line segments being too short as shown in FIGS. 20(D) and (E).

In this handwritten character entry guide 11-11-78, vertical lines or horizontal lines that are adjacent to each other (excluding vertical and horizontal center lines)
The interval between is the minimum unit of a short line segment. Therefore, line segments below this do not exist unless the entry guide is ignored, so misreading as in the above example does not occur.

(d) Misreading due to insufficient protrusion as shown in Fig. 20 (F), (G), ()-1>.

In this case, as in (c) above, in order to ensure good protrusion, the proper character entry guides 11 to 1l-7a set the vertical or horizontal line segment spacing or more.

Therefore, cases like the above example will not occur as long as the entry guidelines are followed.

(E) Misreading due to characters being too small as shown in Figure 20 (I).

With the exception of specific characters such as commas (,), general characters are basically written so that they touch the guides at the top, bottom, left and right ends of the writing guide both vertically and horizontally. Therefore, even in the case of 8'' in the above example, the curve of the lower loop can be exemplified as touching the guides on both sides, so as long as it is written in this way, there will be no misreading as ``9''.

From the above examples, it can be seen that by using the handwritten character entry guides 11 to 11-7a of this embodiment and following the simple entry instructions, misreading can be drastically reduced.

<3> The correct reading rate when acquiring 0CRFi can be significantly improved.

As a result of (1) above, there is almost no variation in character shape due to individual differences, and written characters are shaped so that OCR can easily read them correctly, so it is expected that the correct reading rate will approach 100%. .

(4) Thorough training on filling in information is recommended.

When writing each character using the Honte Kiyoshi Character Entry Guides 11 to 11-7a, the starting and ending points of each line segment can be specifically instructed using the coordinate positions of the guide. In addition, the length and direction of line segments can also be stipulated by the same law.

In particular, the vertical and horizontal line segments can be drawn by tracing on the straight lines of this entry guide. From these points, it is possible to provide more specific guidance on simple entry rules, so it is easier to ensure thoroughness.

(Effects of the Invention) As explained above, according to the present invention, if the rules for using the entry guide are followed when filling in, it is possible to extremely reduce individual differences among the people filling out the form, and the handwriting is in a shape that is easy for OCR to read. You can enter characters.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 (A
) is a plan view showing an example of writing in 50 syllabary characters using this first embodiment, FIG. 2 (B) is a plan view showing an example of writing numbers using this first example, and FIG. C) is a plan view showing an example of alphabet entry using this first embodiment, and FIG.
D) is a plan view showing an example of symbol entry using this first embodiment, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a character pattern for explaining this first embodiment, and FIG. 4 is a plan view showing an example of writing symbols using this first embodiment. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing yet another example of a character pattern to explain this first embodiment. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing another example of a character pattern to explain this first embodiment. 7 is a plan view showing a second embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 8 is a plan view showing a third embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 9 is a top view showing another example of a character pattern. FIG. 10 is a plan view showing a fifth embodiment of the invention, FIG. 11 is a plan view showing a sixth embodiment of the invention, and FIG. 12 is a plan view showing the sixth embodiment of the invention. FIG. 13(A) is a plan view showing the seventh embodiment. (B) is a plan view showing a modification of the first embodiment, and the fourteenth embodiment.
15 is a plan view showing a modification of the second embodiment, FIG. 15 is a plan view showing a modification of the third embodiment, and FIG.
6 is a plan view showing a modification of the fourth embodiment, FIG. 17 is a plan view showing a modification of the fifth embodiment, FIG. 18 is a plan view showing a modification of the sixth embodiment, and FIG. 20 is a plan view showing a modified example of the seventh embodiment, FIGS. 20 (A) to (1) are views showing examples of character patterns for explaining each embodiment, and FIG. 21 is a plan view showing an example of a form. 22 is a diagram showing an example of commonly used handwritten characters to be filled in the form shown in FIG. 21, FIG. 23 is a plan view showing an example of a conventional entry guide, and FIG.
Figures (A) to (F) are plan views showing examples of writing in the writing guide shown in Figure 23, Figure 25 is a plan view showing other examples of the conventional writing guide, and Figures 26 (A) to 26. (F) is a pattern diagram showing examples of entries in each conventional entry guide. 11...Handwritten character entry guide, 12...Paper, 1
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Claims (1)

[Claims] A rectangular quadrilateral frame drawn on a sheet of paper, horizontal lines protruding horizontally from the left and right ends of the quadrilateral frame so as to be opposite to each other, and the top and bottom edges of the quadrilateral frame. A handwritten character entry guide characterized by comprising vertical lines protruding vertically from the lower end so as to be opposed to each other within the quadrilateral frame.