KR20030043532A - Alphabet input device and method in a small apparatus - Google Patents

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KR20030043532A
KR20030043532A KR1020010074778A KR20010074778A KR20030043532A KR 20030043532 A KR20030043532 A KR 20030043532A KR 1020010074778 A KR1020010074778 A KR 1020010074778A KR 20010074778 A KR20010074778 A KR 20010074778A KR 20030043532 A KR20030043532 A KR 20030043532A
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PURPOSE: A device for inputting English alphabets in a small instrument and a method therefor are provided to input a desired sentence by the number of minimum input times by differently locating the English alphabets according to a use frequency. CONSTITUTION: When allocating English alphabets in each button on an instrument, the English alphabets are allocated as the first to fourth characters of each button according to the use frequency of the English alphabets. One alphabet is assigned in one button. In cast that the last alphabet is outputted when several alphabets are assigned in one button, a cursor is moved to a next blank for waiting for next input. In case that access is easily performed to a button, an alphabet of a low frequency is assigned as the first character of the button.

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소형 기기에서의 영문자 입력장치 및 그 방법{Alphabet input device and method in a small apparatus}Alpha input device and method in a small apparatus

본 발명은 휴대폰, PDA 등 소형 기기에서 버튼 수의 제한으로 인해, 글자입력이 복잡해진 것을 극복하기 위하여 고안된 알파벳 입력 장치에 관한 것으로, 영문의 알파벳을 입력할 때 알파벳의 사용 빈도에 따라 알파벳의 위치를 달리함으로써 최소한의 입력횟수로 원하는 문장을 입력할 수 있는 알파벳 입력 장치에 관한 것이다.The present invention relates to an alphabet input device designed to overcome the complexity of the character input due to the limitation of the number of buttons in a small device such as a mobile phone, PDA, etc., the position of the alphabet according to the frequency of use of the alphabet when entering the English alphabet The present invention relates to an alphabet input device capable of inputting a desired sentence with a minimum number of inputs.

현대의 휴대폰, 삐삐, 소형게임기, PDA등 여러 기기들은 소형화되고, 입력버튼수도 적어지고 있다. 이에 따라 한정된 입력 버튼으로 영어를 입력해야 하기 때문에, 하나의 버튼에 여러개의 문자를 할당하게 된다. 만약 한 버튼의 마지막 알파벳을 입력하기 위해서는 할당된 알파벳의 수만큼 버튼을 눌러야만 한다. 기존의 입력 장치에서는 각 버튼에 할당된 알파벳이 그 빈도와는 상관 없이 순서적으로 배치가 되어 있다. 따라서 자주 쓰이는 알파벳인 E, O, N, I, R, H이 두번 이상의 입력을 필요로 하게 되어 있다.Modern devices such as mobile phones, pagers, small game consoles, and PDAs have become smaller and have fewer buttons. Accordingly, since English must be input with a limited input button, several characters are assigned to one button. If you want to enter the last letter of a button, you must press the number of buttons assigned to it. In the existing input device, the alphabet assigned to each button is arranged in order regardless of the frequency. Therefore, the commonly used alphabets E, O, N, I, R, H require more than one input.

휴대폰을 예로 들면, 휴대폰의 문자 입력키는 10개만을 사용하고 있기 때문에 하나의 버튼에 여러개의 알파벳을 할당 해야 한다. 그런데 그 해당 알파벳의 위치는 그 알파벳의 빈도와 관계 없이 순서대로 할당 되어 있다. 따라서 사용자가 영문장을 입력하기 위해서 하나의 버튼을 2번 이상 눌러야 하는 경우가 자주 발생한다. 이러한 방식을 사용하는 기존 시스템에서는 사용자가 영어 문장를 입력할 때, 버튼을 누르는 횟수가 증가되므로 메시지를 보내기 위한 시간과 노력이 많이 걸리는 단점이 있었다.In the case of a mobile phone, for example, since only 10 character input keys are used, a number of alphabets must be assigned to one button. However, the position of the alphabet is assigned in order regardless of the frequency of the alphabet. Therefore, a user often needs to press a button two or more times to input an English text. In the existing system using this method, since the number of button presses increases when a user inputs an English sentence, it takes a lot of time and effort to send a message.

본 발명은 이를 극복하기 위해 각 알파벳의 실제 사용 빈도를 분석하고 그 알파벳을 적절하게 배치하여 최소의 입력으로 원하는 문장을 입력할 수 있는 문자입력장치를 제안한다. 알파벳의 빈도는 암호학책과 인터넷에 있는 자료를 참고로 하여 계산하였다. 도2는 cryptography and network security -principles and practice-(William Stallings 저 Prentice-Hall 1999)에서 도3은 cryptography An introduction to Computer Security (JENNIFER SEBERRY, JOSEF PIEPRZYK 저 Prentice-Hall 1989)에서 도4는http://library.thinkquest.org/27993/crypto/classic/analysis3.shtml?tqskip=1에서 구한 자료이다. 이들 자료를 바탕으로 하여 빈도가 높은 알파벳들은 버튼의 첫번째 글자로 할당하고 상대적으로 빈도가 낮은 알파벳들은 버튼의 두번째나 세번째에 할당하는 방식으로 입력의 효율성을 높이는 입력 시스템을 제안한다.The present invention proposes a character input device that can input a desired sentence with a minimum input by analyzing the actual frequency of use of each alphabet to properly arrange the alphabet to overcome this. The frequency of the alphabet was calculated with reference to cryptographic books and data on the Internet. Figure 2 shows cryptography and network security -principles and practice- (William Stallings, Prentice-Hall 1999). Data from /library.thinkquest.org/27993/crypto/classic/analysis3.shtml?tqskip=1. Based on these data, we propose an input system that improves the input efficiency by assigning high frequency alphabets to the first letter of the button and relatively low frequency alphabets to the second or third of the button.

도1 - 본 발명을 적용한 글자판을 나타낸 도면Figure 1-a diagram showing the dial to which the present invention is applied

도2 - Cryptography and Network security에서 발췌한 빈도표를 나타낸 도면Figure 2-Frequency diagram extracted from Cryptography and Network security

도3 - Cryptography An introduction Computer Security에서 발췌한 빈도표를 나타낸 도면Figure 3-Frequency diagram extracted from Cryptography An introduction Computer Security

도4 - http://library.thinkquest.org에서 얻은 빈도표를 나타낸 도면Figure 4-Frequency diagram obtained from http://library.thinkquest.org

먼저 각 알파벳의 평균 빈도를 구해 보면 표1과 같다.First, the average frequency of each alphabet is shown in Table 1.

표에서 보듯이 각 알파벳들은 서로 다른 빈도를 가지고 있다. 본 발명은 자주 쓰이는 'E, T, A, O, N, I, R, S'등은 쓰기 쉽게 한 번에 출력되게 하고 상대적으로 적게 쓰이는 'K, X, Q, J, Z'와 같은 알파벳들은 여러 번 누른 후에 출력되게 고안되었다. 도1에서 보듯이 각 버튼의 첫번째 알파벳들은 빈도수가 큰 알파벳을 할당했고 두번째 알파벳들은 남은 알파벳들 중 빈도수가 큰 순서로 할당되었고 세번째 네번째 알파벳들도 같은 방식으로 할당되었다. 그리고 각 버튼의 마지막 알파벳이 출력되면 무조건 커서가 한 칸 전진하게 되어 다음 입력을 기다리게 고안되었다. 예를 들어 5번 버튼에 할당된 알파벳 H, F, V에서 버튼을 3번 눌러 V를 선택할 경우 자동적으로 커서가 한 칸 오른쪽으로 이동해 다음 입력을 기다리게 된다. 영문자를 입력하는데 익숙한 사람이라면, 잘못 입력한 경우를 대비하며 V에서 H로 다시 이동하는 방식보다 한 글자를 지우고 다시 그 글자를 입력하는 편이 더 효율적이다. 왜나하면 연속된 VV를 입력할 경우 V를 먼저 입력한 후 오른쪽으로 한 칸 전진시키는 버튼을 누르고 다시 V를 입력하는 방식보다 첫번째 V를 입력한 후 커서 전진 버튼을 누르지 않고 바로 두번째 V를 입력하는 것이 더 효율적이기 때문이다. 그리고 가장 많이 쓰이는 E와 T는 하나의 버튼에 각각 할당하여 연속된 사용에도 효율성을 가지게 구성되었다. 0번 버튼의 경우는 특수한 경우로서 손가락이 잘 미치지 못하기 때문에 M, F, P보다 빈도수가 더 낮은 Y, X를 첫번째 두번째 알파벳으로 할당하였다. 대문자, 소문자의 구분은 새로운 기능키를 두어 그 키를 누를 때마다 대문자, 소문자가 교대로 바뀌는 방식으로 구현하였다.As shown in the table, each alphabet has a different frequency. In the present invention, the frequently used 'E, T, A, O, N, I, R, S', etc. are easily written at a time and relatively less used alphabet such as 'K, X, Q, J, Z' Are designed to print after several presses. As shown in Fig. 1, the first letters of each button are assigned alphabets of higher frequency, the second alphabets are assigned in the order of higher frequency among the remaining alphabets, and the third and fourth alphabets are assigned in the same manner. And when the last letter of each button is printed, the cursor moves forward one space, which is designed to wait for the next input. For example, if you press V three times in the letters H, F, and V assigned to button 5 to select V, the cursor will automatically move to the right of one cell and wait for the next input. If you're used to typing English letters, it's more efficient to delete a letter and type it again than to move back from V to H, just in case you make a mistake. Because when you enter a series of VVs, it is better to enter the first V and then enter the second V without pressing the cursor forward button, rather than pressing the button to advance one space to the right and then entering V again. Because it is more efficient. The most commonly used E and T are assigned to a single button, so that they are efficient for continuous use. Button 0 is a special case and the fingers are not good enough, so Y, X, which is less frequent than M, F, and P, is assigned as the first second alphabet. The distinction between uppercase and lowercase letters is provided by placing a new function key so that the uppercase and lowercase letters are alternately changed each time the key is pressed.

본 고안에 의한 방식으로 영문장을 입력할 경우 기존 입력 시스템에 비해 효율이 약 30% 정도 향상되었다. 이 수치는 직접 구현한 시뮬레이션 프로그램을 사용하여 검증한 것으로 해당 프로그램과 알고리즘에 대한 설명은 sainfe@empal.com으로 요청 메일을 보내면 구할 수 있다. 이 입력 시스템은 현재 널리 사용되고 있는 휴대폰의 문자 입력 효율을 높일 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 각종 게임기, 리모콘을 이용한 문자 입력장치, 인터넷 TV의 문자 입력장치, PDA 및 향후 문자 입력이 수반되는 소형 기기에 응용 될 수 있다.In the case of inputting the English text by the method of the present invention, the efficiency is improved by about 30% compared with the existing input system. This figure was verified using a simulation program of our own implementation. A description of the program and algorithm can be obtained by sending a request to sainfe@empal.com. This input system not only improves the character input efficiency of mobile phones which are widely used at present, but also can be applied to various game consoles, character input devices using remote controllers, character input devices of Internet TVs, PDAs, and small devices involving character input in the future. have.

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기기 상의 각 버튼에 알파벳을 할당할 때, 알파벳들의 발생 빈도에 따라 각 버튼의 첫번째, 두번째, 세번째, 네번째의 글자로 할당하는 소형 기기에서의 영문자 입력 장치 및 그 방법When the alphabet is assigned to each button on the device, the English alphabet input device and method in a small device to assign to the first, second, third, fourth letter of each button according to the frequency of occurrence of the alphabet 제 1항에 있어서, 특정 알파벳에 대해서 한 버튼에 하나의 알파벳을 할당하는 소형 기기에서의 영문자 입력 장치 및 그 방법The alphabetic character input device of claim 1 and the method for allocating one alphabet to a button for a specific alphabet. 제 1항에 있어서, 한 버튼에 여러 개의 알파벳이 할당되었을 때 마지막 알파벳이 출력된 경우 그 다음 칸으로 커서가 이동하여 다음 입력을 기다리게 되는 소형 기기에서의 영문자 입력 장치 및 그 방법The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the cursor moves to the next column and waits for the next input when the last alphabet is output when a plurality of alphabets are assigned to one button. 제 1항에 있어서, 버튼에 접근이 용이하지 않을 경우 낮은 빈도의 알파벳을 그 버튼의 첫글자로 할당하는 소형 기기에서의 영문자 입력 장치 및 그 방법The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the alphabetic device assigns a low frequency alphabet letter as the first letter of the button when the button is not easily accessible.
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