KR102138434B1 - Method of inputting characters - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is a character input method implemented in a terminal on which a screen having a text inputtable area can be displayed. The character input method includes receiving a first key input corresponding to a language character from a user. The character input method includes inputting a plurality of pre-matched Unicode characters into a text input possible area such that language characters corresponding to the first key input are expressed on two or more lines of text.

Description

Character input method {METHOD OF INPUTTING CHARACTERS}

The present invention relates to a character input technology capable of easily inputting characters into a user terminal.

As smartphones are widely used, the amount of messages that users send and receive through social network service (SNS) applications is also increasing significantly. Recently, various user interfaces have been developed that can be applied to a smartphone keyboard, such as changing the keyboard layout or emoticon in the key arrangement of the keyboard, for convenience in writing such a message. For example, in Korean Registered Patent No. 10-1646688 ('Keyboard input system and method for small smart devices and computer readable recording medium that records a program for executing it'), characters are displayed through a small touch screen. A method of inputting is disclosed. For example, Korean Patent Registration No. 10-1582155 ('Text input method and system for easy text modification, and recording medium and file distribution system') discloses a text input method for easily correcting typographically entered text. It is done.

Meanwhile, as the types of smartphone applications are diversified, SNS applications used by users are also becoming very diverse. However, in such SNS applications, the size and shape of characters that a user can input are often limited. For example, the size of text input through a specific message application is basically applied to the same size regardless of the type of text. Accordingly, it is difficult to change the size of the corresponding character while emphasizing or highlighting it while entering a specific character. In addition, there is a limitation in that it is difficult to input characters of a size and shape other than the typeface provided by the message application.

It is to provide a character input method that can easily input characters having a size larger than the basic character input size provided by the user terminal or characters having a shape different from the basic character input shape.

The character input method according to an embodiment of the present invention is a character input method implemented in a terminal on which a screen having a text input possible area can be displayed. The method may include receiving a first key input corresponding to a language character from a user, and a plurality of pre-matched Unicode characters such that the language characters corresponding to the first key input are expressed in two or more lines of text. And inputting the text input area.

The character input method according to an embodiment of the present invention is a character input method implemented in a terminal on which a screen having a text input possible area can be displayed. The method includes: (a) displaying a key arrangement including a plurality of keys corresponding to a language character in a keyboard region separated from the text input possible region on the screen, and (b) at least included in the key arrangement. Receiving a first key input for a key from a user, and (c) inputting a plurality of Unicode characters pre-matched to a language character corresponding to the first key input into the text input possible area Steps. The plurality of pre-matched Unicode characters are Unicode characters such that the shape of the language character corresponding to the first key input is expressed through two or more lines of text in the text input possible area.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the shape of the language character may be expressed as a whole of the plurality of Unicode characters matched in advance.

In one embodiment of the present invention, in step (b), the first key input may be sequential input to two or more keys included in the key arrangement, and between steps (b) and (c), the The method may further include displaying a combined character of language characters corresponding to each of two or more keys sequentially input in the keyboard area. In addition, in the step (c), the Unicode characters inputted into the text input possible area may be Unicode characters such that the shape of the combined character is expressed through two or more lines of text.

In an embodiment of the present invention, between steps (b) and (c), further comprising receiving a second key input for inputting a language character following the first key input from the user. can do. In addition, in the step (c), the Unicode characters input to the text input possible area are such that shapes of language characters sequentially listed corresponding to each of the first key input and the second key input are expressed through two or more lines of text. Can be Unicode characters.

In one embodiment of the present invention, any one of the above character input methods may be configured to be implemented as a computer program.

According to the text input method according to the embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to easily input text of a size and shape different from the basic text input size and shape provided by the user terminal.

1 to 3 are diagrams illustrating a user terminal in which a character input method according to embodiments of the present invention can be implemented.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a character input method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of Unicode characters that can be input into a text input capable area on a screen of a user terminal in which a character input method according to an embodiment of the present invention is implemented.
6 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a character input method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 to 9 are diagrams illustrating examples of Unicode characters that can be input into a text input capable area on a screen of a user terminal in which a character input method according to an embodiment of the present invention is implemented.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 to 3 are diagrams illustrating a user terminal 100 in which a character input method according to embodiments of the present invention can be implemented. 1 to 3, although the user's terminal 100 is shown as a smart phone, a terminal capable of implementing a text input method according to embodiments of the present invention is not limited thereto. The terminal 100 may be any computing device capable of displaying a screen 110 capable of text input, such as a personal computer, a smart phone, a tablet computer, and a laptop computer. In this case, various screen elements such as text, pictures, and graphic objects may be displayed on the screen 110 of the terminal 100. In one example, the terminal 100 may include a touch screen, and the screen components may be displayed on the touch screen. For example, when the terminal 100 is a personal computer, the terminal 100 is a monitor (not shown) that can display a screen 110 for text input, a keyboard (not shown) for text input, and the like. It may include components of.

Meanwhile, the terminal 100 may be a device capable of accessing a web/mobile site or installing and executing a service-only application. In this case, the terminal 100 may be configured to perform operations such as service screen configuration, data input, data transmission and reception, and data storage under the control of a web/mobile site or a service-only application.

1 to 3, a text input capable area 111 through which text can be input may be displayed on the screen 110 of the terminal 100. For example, the text input possible area 111 may be a message input window of a message application. For example, the text input possible area 111 may be a message input window of an SNS application. However, the text input possible area 111 is not limited thereto. That is, the text input capable area 111 may be any screen component capable of displaying text input from a user on the screen 110 of the terminal 100.

A plurality of language letters may be input into the text input capable area 111. For example, an uppercase English alphabet, a lowercase English alphabet, or a combination thereof may be input into the text input available area. However, the language letter that can be input into the text input possible area 111 is not limited thereto. For example, in the text input available area 111, the German alphabet, the Russian alphabet, the Spanish alphabet, the Portuguese alphabet, the Dutch alphabet, the Swedish alphabet, the Greek alphabet, the Thai alphabet, the Arabic alphabet, Korean, Hiragana, Katakana, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese abbreviation. Various language characters such as Chinese characters and Chinese characters can be input. Depending on a user's input, only text characters of any one country may be input to the text input capable area 111, or language text characters of two or more countries may be mixed and input.

Also, a Unicode character, not a language letter, may be input into the text input capable area 111. Unicode is an industry standard code system introduced to consistently represent all characters in the world. Unicode characters include not only language characters, but also various characters such as numbers, phonetic symbols, and symbols. Unicode can be implemented according to various encoding methods such as UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. For example, the UTF-16 encoding method expresses Unicode characters in at least 16 bits.

In general, when performing text processing in a computing system, Unicode serves to provide a unique code point for each character, that is, a code value (number). In this case, Unicode decides which code point character to represent, and the visual rendering (size, shape, style, etc.) of the character is usually an application (web browser, document editing program, messenger) Application, SNS application, etc.). For example, Unicode U+0041 represents the basic Latin alphabet capital letter'A' (where U+ is the hexadecimal representation of the code point in Unicode, and vice versa). . In this case, the size, shape, and color of the capital letter'A' may be determined by an application in which the corresponding Unicode is text-processed (ie, input, modified, etc.).

Unicode defines 1,114,112 code points ranging from U+0000 to U+10FFFF. That is, Unicode defines a code space composed of 1,114,112 code points. The code space has a total of 17 code planes from 0 to 10 (hexadecimal representation), corresponding to the number of digits corresponding to 4 to 16 or more in the hexadecimal representation of the code points. For example, code points from U+0000 to U+FFFF belong to the basic multilingual plane (BMP), which is the plane zero. The code points of the multilingual base plane contain the most frequently used, almost all modern language characters.

The code planes that make up the Unicode code space can be further subdivided into blocks. A block is defined as a group of consecutive code points in the code plane. Some blocks may be named, and some blocks may not be named yet. For example, code points from U+0000 to U+007F can be grouped into basic Latin blocks. For example, code points U+2580 to U+259F may be grouped into blocks of block elements. For example, code points from U+25A0 to U+25FF can be grouped into blocks of geometric shapes. Unicode characters belonging to the various Unicode blocks may be input to the text input possible area 111 of the terminal 100.

Meanwhile, the text input capable area 111 is an area in which two or more lines of text can be input. For example, when a new line character (text line separator, such as carriage return, line feed, etc.) is input into the text input capable area 111, text line breaks may be displayed. When the text line break is displayed, a character input before the newline character may be displayed on a different line from the character input after the newline character.

1 to 3, the user terminal 100 may further display a keyboard area 120 that is distinguished from the text input capable area 111 on the screen 110. A plurality of keys 123 corresponding to characters of various languages may be arranged in the keyboard area 120. For example, keys corresponding to the English alphabet may be arranged in the keyboard area 120. For example, keys corresponding to Hangul consonants or vowels may be arranged in the keyboard area 120. However, language characters corresponding to keys 123 that may be displayed on the keyboard area 120 are not limited thereto. For example, the keyboard region 120 includes an English alphabet, a German alphabet, a Russian alphabet, a Spanish alphabet, a Portuguese alphabet, a Dutch alphabet, a Swedish alphabet, a Greek alphabet, a Thai alphabet, an Arabic alphabet, Hangul, Hiragana, Katakana, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese. Keys 123 corresponding to letters of various languages such as Chinese characters and Chinese characters may be displayed.

Keys 123 corresponding to a language letter displayed on the keyboard area 120 may be included in the primary key arrangement 121 or may be included in the supplementary key arrangement 125. The primary key arrangement 121 refers to a key arrangement that first appears in the keyboard area 120 regardless of a user's key input, and the secondary key arrangement 125 is a key that appears in response to a user input to a key of the primary key arrangement. Means an array. For example, as shown in FIG. 2, when a key arrangement for inputting Japanese characters in a Roman alphabet notation is displayed in the keyboard region 120, English alphabet characters are displayed in the primary key arrangement 121 and secondary keys are displayed. The arrangement 125 may display Japanese hiragana, katakana, Japanese abbreviations, etc. (shown by dotted lines) corresponding to the pronunciation of the English alphabet characters input from the user. For example, when a key arrangement for inputting Simplified Chinese characters in the Roman alphabet is displayed in the keyboard area 120, English alphabet characters are displayed in the primary key arrangement 121, and a secondary key arrangement 125 is input from the user. Simplified Chinese (not shown) corresponding to the pronunciation of the input English alphabet character may be displayed. According to an embodiment, only the primary key array 121 is displayed on the keyboard area 120, the primary key array 121 and the secondary key array 125 are simultaneously displayed, or the primary key array 121 is displayed first. The secondary key arrangement 125 can be displayed. Hereinafter, unless otherwise specified, the key arrangement may be understood to include all of these cases (ie, cases where the secondary key arrangement 125 is further displayed).

In one embodiment, the keyboard region 120 may include a preview region that further displays language characters received from a user while displaying an arrangement of a plurality of keys 123 corresponding to language characters. Characters corresponding to keys input from the user may be sequentially displayed in the preview area according to the input order. For example, when the user inputs the English uppercase alphabet'A', the English lowercase alphabet'p', and the English lowercase alphabet'p', in the preview area, characters corresponding to each input key are sequentially listed as'App 'May be displayed.

Alternatively, a combined character of characters corresponding to a key input by the user may be displayed in the preview area. For example, when a user inputs keys corresponding to a Korean consonant'ㅇ', a Korean vowel'ㅏ', and a Korean consonant'b', the preview area may display'Am', a combination of Hangul characters. .

According to an embodiment, the preview area may occupy the same area as the key of the auxiliary key arrangement 125. For example, as shown in FIG. 2, when a key arrangement for inputting Japanese characters in a romanized manner is displayed on the keyboard region 120, the key arrangement 125 appears in the secondary key arrangement 125 according to the key input of the primary key arrangement 121. Any one of the keys (shown in dashed lines) may coincide with the preview area. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, when a key arrangement of Hangul consonants and vowels is displayed on the keyboard region 120, keys appearing in the secondary key arrangement 125 according to key input of the primary key arrangement 121 (in dotted lines) Any one of the illustrated) may coincide with the preview area.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a character input method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, in the character input method according to the present embodiment, a first key input corresponding to a language character is input from a user (S11), and a text line having two or more language characters corresponding to the first key input And inputting a plurality of pre-matched Unicode characters into a text input possible area (S13).

In step S11, the first key input corresponding to the language character may be one key input or two or more key inputs. For example, when the language character is an uppercase English alphabet, the first key input may be a key input for one key corresponding to the uppercase English alphabet. Alternatively, for example, when the language character is Hangul'ga', the first key input may be key input for a plurality of keys for sequentially or parallel input of'a' and'ㅏ'. .

In step S13, a plurality of pre-matched Unicode characters that cause the language character corresponding to the first key input to be expressed in two or more lines of text, as a whole, a uniform that allows the shape of the language character to be expressed over several lines of text. Code characters. For example, when the language character corresponding to the first key input is'A', each of the plurality of Unicode characters previously matched to the language character'A' may be, for example, as shown in FIG. 5. It may be a character of the Unicode code point U+2588 (that is, the code point corresponding to a solid square block shape). However, when a number of these U+2588 characters are input together with appropriate line break and space Unicode characters, they may be input into the text input capable region 111 so as to have a shape of'A' in Korean as a whole. In FIG. 5, the characters of the Unicode code point U+2588 over five lines of text are shown to represent the shape of Hangul'A', but this is only an example, and a person with ordinary knowledge can predetermine other Unicode characters. By matching, it will be understood that the shape of'a' can be represented across multiple lines of text.

In addition, according to an embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, before the Unicode characters are input to the text input possible area 111, a Hangul consonant and a Hangul consonant are displayed in a preview area (any key area of the secondary key arrangement 125 ). 'A', which is a combined character of the Korean vowel, may be displayed. Depending on the embodiment, the Unicode characters may be input into the text input capable area 111 only after receiving the final selection input from the user for the key of the language character'A' displayed in the preview area.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a character input method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, a character input method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes displaying a key arrangement including a plurality of keys corresponding to language characters in a keyboard region separated from a text input possible region (S21), Receiving a first key input from a user for at least one key included in the key arrangement (S23), and causing a language character corresponding to the first key input to be expressed in two or more lines of text, a plurality of pre-matched characters And inputting Unicode characters into a text input capable area (S25).

1, 2, 3, and 6, in step S21, when the text input capable area 111 is displayed on the screen 110 of the user terminal 100, the text input capable area 111 ) And a keyboard area 120 separated from the) may be displayed. In this case, a key arrangement including a plurality of keys 123 corresponding to a language letter may be displayed on the keyboard area 120. Here, the key arrangement includes a primary key arrangement 121 and/or a secondary key arrangement 125. For example, if the language character is an English uppercase alphabet, the keyboard region 120 may be displayed such that English uppercase alphabet keys are arranged according to the QWERTY keyboard layout. For example, when the language character is an English lowercase alphabet, the keyboard region 120 may be displayed such that English lowercase alphabet keys are arranged according to a qwerty keyboard arrangement. For example, if the language character is Japanese (in the romanized format), the primary key arrangement 121 of the keyboard area 120 is displayed with an uppercase or lowercase English alphabet, and hiragana or according to the user's additional key input. The katakana secondary key arrangement 125 may be further displayed.

In step S21, the text input capable area 111 may be displayed together with the keyboard area 120 on the screen 110 of the terminal 100. For example, step S21 may be implemented as a screen in which a keyboard for touch is displayed on the screen to input text into the message input window of the messenger application. According to an embodiment, a flashing cursor may be further displayed on the text input capable area 111 to indicate a position where text input is possible.

1, 2, 3 and 6, in step S23, the terminal 100 is the first key from the user for at least one key of the plurality of keys 123 arranged in the keyboard area 120 You can receive input. The first key input may be one key input to the key 123 of the key arrangement of the keyboard area 120 or two or more key inputs. For example, when the English alphabet lower case key arrangement is displayed on the keyboard area 120, the first key input may be one key input for any one of the English alphabet lower case keys. For example, when a key arrangement of Hangul consonants and vowels is displayed on the keyboard area 120, the first key input is one key input for any one of Hangul consonants and vowels, or any two or more of Hangul consonants and vowels. The total for can be more than one keystroke. For example, if the key region of the English lowercase alphabet for Japanese input in the Roman alphabet is displayed on the keyboard area 120, the first key input is followed by one key input for any one of the lowercase English alphabet followed by It may be an additional key input to the key of any one of the hiragana, katakana, and weak in the secondary key arrangement. Alternatively, the first key input may be two or more key inputs to any two or more of the English lowercase alphabets, and additional key inputs to any one of the hiragana, katakana and abbreviations of the secondary key arrangement.

As described above, the first key input input from the user may be a user key input for displaying one language character of each country, such as alphabet, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. That is, depending on the language characters of each country, one key input of the primary key array is sufficient to input one language character, or two or more key inputs of the primary key array are required, or key input and secondary keys of the primary key array All keystrokes in the array may be required.

Although not illustrated, after step S23, the terminal 100 may further receive a second key input from a user with respect to at least one key among the plurality of keys 123 arranged in the keyboard area 120. In this case, the second key input may be a user's key input for inputting another language character, followed by one language character corresponding to the user's first key input. The second key input may also be a user's key input that is performed once or more in a key arrangement (including a primary key arrangement and a secondary key arrangement), like the first key input.

1, 2, 3 and 6, in step S25, the terminal 100 may input a plurality of Unicode characters pre-matched to a language character corresponding to a key input received from a user, text input It can be input into the region 111. At this time, the plurality of pre-matched Unicode characters are Unicode characters that allow the shape of the language character corresponding to the user's key input to be expressed through two or more lines of text in the text input possible region 111. . For example, when the key input received from the user is the Unicode code point U+0041, that is, the basic Latin alphabet capital letter'A', the Unicode characters of FIG. 7 to be described later are matched in advance to enable the text input area 111 Can be entered in.

7 is a diagram illustrating an example of Unicode characters that can be input to the text inputtable area 111 in step S25 of FIG. 6.

1, 2, 3, 6, and 7, in response to a single key input for the alphabetic capital letter'A' input from the user, a text input available area 111 has a series of Unicode characters Can be displayed. The code points expressed in hexadecimal of the Unicode characters shown in FIG. 7 are as follows.

Exemplary Unicode Group 1: Code points of pre-matched Unicode characters corresponding to the alphabetic capital letter'A'

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U+25E2 U+2588 U+25E3

<Line 2>

U+2588 U+0020 U+0020 U+0020 U+0020 U+2588

<Line 3>

U+2588 U+2588 U+2588

<line 4>

U+2588 U+0020 U+0020 U+0020 U+0020 U+2588

<line 5>

U+2588 U+0020 U+0020 U+0020 U+0020 U+2588

In the example of FIG. 7, in response to a key input corresponding to the uppercase letter'A' of the alphabet, Unicode characters may be input over a total of 5 lines in the text input capable area 111. In this case, the Unicode characters in each line can be separated by a new line. For example, Unicode characters from the first line to the fifth line may be input by using a newline as a separator between each line. Specifically, a newline character (eg, U+000A corresponding to a line feed) is input following the last Unicode character of the first line (ie, code point U+25E3), followed by the first Unicode character of the second line Entering text from the first Unicode character (i.e., U+25E2) on the first line to the last Unicode character (i.e., U+2588) on the fifth line in such a way that a character (i.e., code point U+2588) is entered It may be input to the possible area 111.

According to an embodiment, when the size of the text input available area 111 on the screen 110 of the terminal 100 is fixed, for example, text input across multiple lines is possible but only the last one text line is displayed. When the vertical length of the text inputtable area 111 is fixed as much as possible, in the text inputtable area 111, the Unicode characters in the first to fourth lines are input but are not shown, and the unicode of the fifth line is shown. Code characters may be marked as the last input.

As described above, in step S25, the terminal 10 does not simply input a language character of one Unicode code point U+0041 when, for example, the alphabetic capital letter'A' is input as the user's key input in step S23. , Configured to input multiple Unicode characters. In addition, a plurality of Unicode characters input at this time may be matched in advance with the alphabetic capital letter'A' key of the key arrangement included in the keyboard region 120 to express the shape of the alphabetic capital letter'A' over several lines of text. .

A person having ordinary knowledge in the art, in addition to the method of matching the uppercase alphabetic letter'A' in FIG. 7 to the Unicode characters as shown in FIG. 7, a Unicode character expressing the shape of the uppercase letter'A' in any number of different ways It will be understood that these can be matched in advance. For example, in FIG. 8, among the Unicode characters matched to the uppercase alphabet'A' in FIG. 7, Unicode characters are shown, in which the third Unicode character in the first row is replaced with the character of the code point U+2588. Those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that FIGS. 7 and 8 differ only in a part of the shape, and all represent the capital letter'A' over several lines of text. In addition, a person with ordinary knowledge will understand that a plurality of Unicode characters can be matched and input into the text input possible area 111 of the terminal 100 as well as English alphabet characters as well as other language characters.

On the other hand, when the second key input for the second language character, which is to be subsequently input from the user after the first language character from step S23, is followed, in step S25, the shapes of the first language character and the second language character are two or more. A plurality of Unicode characters that are expressed together over a line of text can be input.

For example, the English alphabet key arrangement is displayed on the keyboard area 120 of the terminal 100, the user receives the uppercase letter'A' as the first key input, and the lowercase letter'b' key as the second key input. For input, for example, the Unicode characters of FIG. 9 may be input to the text input possible area 111. The code points of the Unicode characters shown in FIG. 9 are as follows.

Exemplary Unicode Group 2: Code points of pre-matched Unicode characters, which are input corresponding to the uppercase alphabetic letter'A' and the lowercase alphabetic letter'b'.

<Line 1>

U+25E2 U+2588 U+25E3 U+0020 U+0020 U+2588

<Line 2>

U+2588 U+0020 U+0020 U+0020 U+0020 U+2588 U+0020 U+0020 U+2588

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U+2588 U+2588 U+2588 U+0020 U+0020 U+2588 U+2588 U+25E3

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U+2588 U+0020 U+0020 U+0020 U+0020 U+2588 U+0020 U+0020 U+2588 U+0020 U+0020 U+0020 U+0020 U+2588

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U+2588 U+0020 U+0020 U+0020 U+0020 U+2588 U+0020 U+0020 U+2588 U+2588 U+25E4

In this case, an appropriate space character (for example, U+0020) follows each line of Unicode characters representing the uppercase alphabetic letter'A', and then Unicode characters representing the lowercase alphabetic letter'b' are input. Can be. That is, Unicode characters representing the lowercase alphabetic letter'b' across five lines of text may be concatenated after each of the Unicode characters representing the uppercase alphabetic letter'A' in each line, followed by a certain space. Accordingly, in response to the user's first key input (in this case, the uppercase letter'A') and the subsequent second key input (in this case, the lowercase letter'b'), the text input available area 111 is the above example Unicode characters of Unicode group 2 may be input. In this case, depending on the embodiment, the language characters (ie,'Ab') according to the user's first key input and second key input are first displayed in the preview area (eg, 125 in FIG. 1 ), and the corresponding display ( That is, when the final selection input is further received by the user for the key of the auxiliary key array), the Unicode characters of the exemplary Unicode group 2 may be input to the text input possible area 111.

In the user terminal 100, without using the character input method according to the embodiments of the present invention, the Unicode characters of the exemplary Unicode group 1 or the exemplary Unicode group 2 are individually written to the text input capable area 111. It may also be possible to type. However, if the user tries to input the Unicode characters of the block elements having the alphabetical'Ab' shape sequentially listed, as shown in FIG. 9, the alphabetic'A' key and alphabet according to embodiments of the present invention It will be easily understood that it will be much more cumbersome than entering the'b' key.

As described above, according to embodiments of the present invention, the size of a character input in a text input available area of a user terminal can be variously expressed in two or more lines of text through a group of Unicode characters.

In addition, the style, shape, and the like of the characters input in the text input area of the user terminal can be variously expressed in two or more lines of text through a group of Unicode characters.

In addition, the group of Unicode characters of various sizes and shapes is not only applied to one application executed in the user terminal, but can be implemented in any application in which Unicode characters included in the Unicode character group can be input. Can.

The character input methods according to the above-described embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in a form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer systems and recorded in a computer-readable medium. In addition, the computer program according to embodiments of the present invention may be configured as a PC-only program or a mobile terminal-only application. In this case, the mobile terminal-specific application may be implemented in the form of a program that operates independently, or may be implemented in an in-app form of a specific application to be able to operate on the specific application.

The user terminal described above may be implemented as a hardware component, a software component, or a combination of a hardware component and a software component. In this case, the hardware component may be a processing device including a processor, a controller, and a programmable logic unit. The processing device may execute an operating system (OS), and may execute one or more software applications on the operating system. The processing device may access, store, manipulate, process, and generate data in response to the execution of the software application. Those skilled in the art will understand that the processing device may include a plurality of processing elements.

The software component may include a computer program, code, instructions, or a combination of one or more of these, and configure the processing device to perform a desired operation, or independently or collectively the processing You can tell the device. The software component may be interpreted by the processing device, commanded by the processing device, or permanently attached to any type of machine, component, physical device, virtual device, or storage medium to provide data to the processing device. Can be embodied either temporarily or temporarily. The software component may be stored on a computer-readable recording medium.

100: terminal
110: screen
111: text input area
120: keyboard area
121: Primary key arrangement
123: key (or key area)
125: secondary key arrangement

Claims (7)

A character input method that can be implemented in a terminal on which a screen having a text input capable area can be displayed,
Receiving a first key input from a user corresponding to a language character for input into the text input possible area; And
And inputting a plurality of pre-matched Unicode characters into the text input capable area, such that language characters corresponding to the first key input are expressed through two or more lines of text in the text input capable area. Input method. According to claim 1,
The text input capable area is configured so that Unicode characters can be input as a plurality of text lines. According to claim 1,
Characterized in that the plurality of pre-matched Unicode characters include a newline character. According to claim 1,
And before the step of receiving the first key input, displaying a key arrangement including a plurality of keys corresponding to language characters in a keyboard area separated from the text input possible area on the screen. , Character input method. According to claim 4,
The first key input is a sequential input to two or more keys included in the key arrangement,
Character input, characterized in that the Unicode characters inputted in the text input possible area are combined characters of the language characters corresponding to the sequential input or sequential characters to be expressed through two or more lines of text. Way. A program stored on a computer-readable recording medium configured to implement the character input method of claim 1. A computing device storing a program configured to implement the character input method of any one of claims 1 to 5 when executed by a processor.

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