JPS62219063A - Japanese languate input device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To input a contracted sound and a long contracted sound through one touch and to simplify an input operation for a contracted sound and a long contracted sound compared with a conventional method by giving to a shift key a function changing normal vowels 'a', 'i', 'u', 'e', and 'o' to contracted vowels ya, yi, yu, ye and yo. CONSTITUTION:The contracted sound/long contracted sound shift key 3 has a function converting Japanese alphabets to contracted sounds and long contracted sounds. When 'a' column sound keys in Japanese alphabets such as 'sa' and 'ta' are keyed in by depressing said shift key 3, the corresponding contracted 'a' column sounds like 'sha' and 'cha' can be inputted. When 'i' column sound keys in Japanese alphabets such as 'ki' and 'shi' are keyed in by depressing the key 3, the corresponding long contracted 'u' column sounds such as 'kyu' and 'shu' can be inputted.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to a Japanese input device for inputting a kana character string in a pre-stage of kana-kanji conversion used in a Japanese word processor or the like.

(Prior art and its problems) In Japanese, there are many sounds such as "shiya", "giyo", etc.
Although sounds such as ``kyu'' and ``sho'' are written as multiple characters, they are actually pronounced as one syllable, so it is desirable to be able to input them with -1 stroke.However, with JIS kana keyboards, etc. If you use a commonly used keyboard, you have to enter it exactly as it is written, so it takes two strokes for a clear sound and three strokes for a muddy sound or a semi-voiced sound. , Concerning the long sound, it takes 3 strokes for a long sound like clear sound, and 4 strokes for a long sound like murky sound/semi-dark sound, which is cumbersome to input.Even if you use Romaji input, it takes 3 strokes for the long sound Four strokes are required for strokes and long sounds.To overcome this drawback, a method has been devised that allows one-touch input of sounds and long sounds using a dial with the sounds and long sounds pre-printed. However, since the number of keys is large, it is not necessarily suitable for experts to perform blind touch.Also, while holding down the consonant shift key,
, s, etc. by pressing consonant keys such as ky.

Create a consonant for the sound like sy, and then a, U, O.
By pressing one of the vowel keys,
A Roman alphabet input method has been devised in which a long vowel is entered by pressing either the long vowel key uu or ou (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 59-45534), but this method breaks down one sound into a consonant and a vowel. Therefore, it requires two strokes.

(Object of the Invention) An object of the present invention is to provide a Japanese language input device which eliminates the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks and allows inputting of yoshion and yoyolong sound with one stroke.

(Structure of the Invention) The present invention includes a kana character key, a Yo-on/Yo-long shift key,
A keyboard consisting of voiced sound/semi-voiced sound shift keys, a key press state detection means for detecting a key press state of the keyboard, and a tekana character code or a kana character code according to the key press state detected by the key press state detection means. It consists of a character code generation means that generates a string.

(Principle of the present invention) Yo sounds are written in Roman letters as kya, kyu, kyo, but these can be written as k + ya, k + yu.
, k + yo can be broken down into consonants + yo vowels. In other words, the vowel elements a, i, u, e, o in the Japanese syllabary are replaced by the vowel ya,
It can be thought of as replacing yi, yu, ye, yO. Therefore, the normal vowels a, i, u, e,
If the shift key has the function of changing o to the yo vowels ya, yi, yu, ye, yO, by pressing the shift key, you can make the following sounds:
It is possible to change the sound to Kiya-gyoha, Sha-gyoha, Cha-gyoha, Niyya-gyoha, Hya-gyoha, Miya-gyoha, and Rya-gyoha, respectively. In addition, yakuja, which is normally handled as a Japanese syllabary, can also be input using the shift key + a yakuza key.

However, except for some sounds used in foreign words such as "shie" and "che", consonant + yi and consonant + ye are used less frequently, so the shift key 150 syllables and the shift key 10 syllables are used. For the Japanese sound, we will use long sounds such as consonant + yuu and consonant + you, which are used relatively frequently, such as ``shiyuu'' and ``kiyou''. In the old Japanese kana usage, ``shiu'' is written as ``[shuu J'', and ``keu'' is written as ``kyo J'', so the above assignment can be said to be natural.Thus, The Japanese syllabary key excluding the Y line,
The sound/long vowel shift key has the function of changing the vowel elements a, i, u, e, and O of the Japanese syllabary to the yo vowel and yo long vowel ya+yuu+yu+you+yo, respectively.
Can produce long sounds and long sounds.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 shows an example of the configuration of the present invention.

In FIG. 2, 1 is a keyboard.

FIG. 1 shows an example of the structure of a keyboard. In the keyboard 1, 2 is a kana letter key, 3 is a yoshion/yolong sound shift key, and 4 is a voiced sound/semi-voiced sound shift key. Kana character key 2 is the Japanese syllabary excluding the y line and the 4 characters “n” and “tsu”.
There are 5 available. The mechanism of the keyboard 1 may be like that of a conventional computer input keyboard, in which each key pressed turns on a corresponding switch.

The voiced sound/semi-voiced sound shift key 4 has a function of changing a clear sound to a voiced sound. When a kana character key is pressed while holding down the voiced sound/semi-voiced sound shift key 4, the corresponding ga-gyo-sha, za-gyo-ha, da-gyo-ja, and ba-gyo-ja can be input for ka-gyo-ya, su-gyo-on, yu-gyo-ya, and ha-gyo-ja. In order to input a voiced sound, a semi-voiced sound shift key may be used in addition to the voiced sound shift key, but in this configuration example, for convenience, by pressing the voiced sound/semi-voiced sound shift key 4 and pressing the voiced sound key, Realize. Other lines do not have voiced or semi-voiced sounds, so special symbols such as parentheses, punctuation marks, and lowercase letters for foreign words are assigned in place of voiced sounds.

The Yo-on/Yo-long shift key has the function of changing the Japanese syllabary into a Yo-on or a Yo-long sound. If you hold down the Yo sound/Yo long sound shift key 3 and press the 50-on A sound key for "sa" and "ta", the A sound key will be changed to correspond to "Shiya J" and "Chiya" na. Can be input. If you hold down the Yo sound/Yo long sound shift key 3 and press the 50 sound actor key for "su" or "<", the sound actor can input the corresponding sounds for "shu" or "kyu". . If the user presses the Yo-on/Yo-long sound shift key 3 and presses a key for a Japanese 50-on o-dan character such as [ko] or 'so', the on-oan actor can input a corresponding character such as 'kiyo' or [shiyo]. If you press the 50-on character key such as [ki] or ``]] while holding down the yo-on/yo-long sound shift key 3, you can input the corresponding long-on actor keys such as ``kiyuu'' or [shuu]. If you hold down the Yo sound/Yo long sound shift key 3 and press the Japanese 50 sound actor key for "Ke" or "SeJ na", you can enter the long sound actor key to correspond to "Kiyo" or "Sho J na". . For the Ya line, hold down the Yo-on/Yo-long shift key 3 and press "
By pressing the keys ``A'', ``I'', ``U'', ``E'', and ``O'', ``Ya'', ``FYU'', ``YU'', ``YO'', and ``J'' can be entered respectively. To input cloudy and semi-voiced sounds such as ``jiyu'' and [piyoj na, and murky and semi-voiced long consonants such as ``jiyu'' and [byoj], use the voiced/semi-voiced sound shift key. If you press and hold 4 and perform the above-mentioned yon/yo long sound input operation, \, -) The following table shows examples of character input.

Pressing the key 3 at the same time ([shares]) represents pressing the voiced sound/semi-voiced sound shift key 4 at the same time, respectively.

In FIG. 22, numeral 5 represents key press state detection means, and numeral 6 represents character code generation means. The key press state detection means 5 is
It is similar to the keyboard interface used in general computer systems. The character code generating means 6 is composed of a CPU 7 and a ROM 8° RAM 9. The ROM 8 includes a character code generation program 10 and a character code table 11. Also, R
AM9 includes a key press state reference buffer 12 and a character code output buffer 13.

When a key on the keyboard 1 is pressed, the key press state detection means 5 detects the press state of the kana character key 2, the voiced sound/semi-voiced sound shift key 4, and the Yo sound/Yo long sound shift key 3 on the keyboard 1, and detects the pressed state. Information such as the number of the kana character key 2, the ON/OFF state of the voiced sound/semi-voiced sound shift key 4, and the ON/OFF state of the voiced sound/long sound shift key 3 is sent to the key press state reference buffer 12 in the character code generating means 6. In the character code generation means 6, a character code generation program 10 refers to the key press state reference buffer 12 to check the key press state, refers to the character code table 11, and generates a character code corresponding to the key press state. Alternatively, a character code string is generated and stored in the character code output buffer 13.

As an example, a procedure for inputting the word "Kiyojuuchi" will be shown. First, on the keyboard 1, press the "Ko" key while pressing the Yo-on/Yo-long shift key 3.

The key press state detection means 5 detects that the yoshion/yoyo long sound shift key 3 and the "ko" key are pressed, and sends this information to the key press state reference buffer 12 in the character code generation means 6. . In the character code generation means 6,
The character code generation program 10 refers to the key press status reference buffer 12 to check the key press status, refers to the character code table 11, generates the character code string [Y], and converts this to the character code. It is stored in the output buffer 13.Next, on the keyboard 1, press the "shi" key while pressing both the yo-on/yo-long on shift key 3 and the voiced/semi-voiced sound shift key 4. The key press state detection means 5 detects that the yo-on/yo-long on shift key 3, the voiced on/semi-voiced on shift key 4, and the "shi" key are pressed, and transmits this information to the character code generation means 6. It is sent to the key press state reference buffer 12. In the character code generation means 6, the character code generation program 10 refers to the key press state reference buffer 12 to check the key press state, refers to the character code table 11, and generates the character code string "Shi J "*". ``Yu'' and ``U'' are generated and additionally stored in the character code output buffer 13. next,
On the keyboard 1, press the "chi" key. The key press state detection means 5 detects that the "chi" key is pressed, but neither the Yoon/Yolong sound shift key 3 nor the Voiced sound/Semi-voiced sound shift key 4 is pressed, and converts this information into characters. The code is sent to the key press state reference buffer 12 in the code generating means 6. In the character code generation means 6,
The character code generation program 10 refers to the key press state reference buffer 12 to check the key press state, refers to the character code table 11, generates the character code [chi], and sends this to the character code output buffer 13. Store additionally. In this way, the character code output buffer 13 contains the character code string ``ki''``yoJrLJr~''``yu''``u'' ``
” has been stored.

(Effects of the Invention) By using the present invention, it is possible to input a long sound and a long sound with one touch, and the operation for inputting a long sound and a long sound is simplified compared to the conventional method. Compared to the JIS Kana keyboard, it takes one stroke for clear sounds such as "shu" and "kyo".
2 strokes for turbid long sounds such as ``ju'' and ``gyo''; 2 strokes for turbid long sounds such as ``ju'' and ``gyo''; 2 strokes for turbid long sounds such as ``ju'' and ``gyo''; The number of strokes was reduced by 3 strokes.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of the structure of a keyboard, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the structure of the present invention. In the figure,

Claims (1)

[Claims] A keyboard consisting of a kana character key, a Yoon/Yolong shift key, and a voiced/semi-voiced sound shift key, a key press state detection means for detecting a key press state of the keyboard, and a key press state detected by the key press state detection means. 1. A Japanese language input device comprising character code generating means for generating a kana character code or a kana character code string in accordance with the Japanese language input device.