KR20050023616A - Method for automatic conversion of language at message editor of mobile - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for automatically converting a language in a character editor of a mobile communication terminal is provided to internally convert a spelling of an inputted character into other language, and to convert a spelling of a character inputted from other language DB or to immediately convert the inputted character into a set language, thereby minimizing an inconvenience of converting into other language. CONSTITUTION: A character editor is set(S100). A user inputs a predetermined character to the character editor(S101). The editor retrieves a spelling based on a language of the inputted character(S102), and decides whether the spelling has an error(S103). If so, the editor internally converts the inputted character into a set language(S104). The editor retrieves whether a certain word has the same spelling in an English DB(S105). If not(S106), the editor converts the converted character into an original language(S107), and displays the character(S108). The editor decides whether to add a character(S111). If not, the editor transmits the converted character to a terminal of other party(S112).

Description

Method for automatic conversion of language at message editor of mobile}

The present invention relates to a method for automatically converting a language and, when language automatic conversion is set in a terminal, converts the spelling of an input character after inputting a predetermined character in a text message compose mode, and searches for this in the language DB to be converted. The present invention relates to a language automatic conversion method that minimizes the trouble of converting a given character into another language by automatically converting the input character into another language.

In a text editor of a conventional mobile communication terminal, a language must be changed by operating a menu button in order to convert a predetermined character into another language. In this case, you must first select a language conversion from the menu of the text editor, then enter the characters, and the kinds of languages that can be converted are almost limited to English. In the conventional terminal, whenever a character to be input is converted into another language, it is cumbersome to manually operate the language conversion menu each time before the character is input. In addition, if the user wants to convert to a variety of languages has a disadvantage that can not accommodate the various needs of the user because of the limited language type.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention for solving the above problems is that as the language automatic conversion is set, the spelling of input characters after inputting a predetermined character is internally converted into another language, so that the spelling of characters input from a DB of another language is spelled out. The present invention provides a method for automatically converting a language in which a result of converting a predetermined character into another language is minimized by converting and outputting a search result or directly converting an input character into a converted language.

According to the method of the present invention, after setting the automatic language conversion function in the configuration menu in the terminal, when predetermined text is input in the text message input mode, the input text is internally converted into the converted language. In the above process, if the same spelling letter is searched in the language DB to be converted by searching the DB of the language to be converted internally, the first method of converting and outputting the character input to the screen part is internally. The present invention is achieved through a second method of outputting a character converted in another language to a screen unit as it is.

In order to apply the method according to the present invention, a word DB for a plurality of types of languages such as English, Japanese, and Chinese should be stored in the terminal. Such a word DB may be arranged in a sequential manner as in the general dictionary order, or may have a simple DB form. Accordingly, the terminal has a keypad unit for inputting a plurality of types of languages as text messages, and for each button of the keypad, letters for various types of languages such as Korean, English, Japanese, and Chinese should be allocated one by one.

In addition, in the language mode of the characters entered in the terminal, the spelling error is judged, and if the spelling is not correct or mismatched internally converts the input character into the set language, S can search for the spelling of the converted characters in another language DB You must have / W to fully implement the present invention.

A mobile communication terminal having such a function will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1A, which is a flowchart of a first method of creating and transmitting a text message through an automatic language conversion process.

First, a method for setting language automatic conversion in a terminal is added to an environment information menu of a terminal capable of setting various types of terminal environments as shown in FIG. 2A. When the automatic language conversion setting is selected in the environment information menu, the setting of ON or OFF can be selected as shown in FIG. 2B. If the automatic language conversion setting is turned on, the user may select a desired conversion type on the screen for selecting the conversion type of FIG. 2C. The conversion type may have various types such as French, German, etc. in addition to the conversion type shown in FIG. 2C.

In this case, if the user selects a Korean / English conversion among various conversion types in FIG. 2C, the user enters a text editor of the terminal to compose a text message (S100). The text editor is set to Korean by default. have. The user inputs a predetermined character into the text editor as shown in FIG. 3A (S101). The input character searches for the spelling based on the language of the character entered by the spell search S / W stored in the terminal (S102). That is, the spelling search based on the Hangul is performed on the input characters as shown in FIG. 3A. After searching for the spelling, it is determined whether there is an error in spelling (S103). As shown in FIG. 3A, the inputted letter is determined to have an error in spelling as a result of the spelling search. The input character determined to have a misspelling is internally converted into the language set by the language automatic conversion function of the terminal (S104). In another case, when it is determined that there is no error in the text input in the spelling error determination process (S103), the text input in the text editor is displayed as it is on the screen (S110). As shown in FIG. 3A, a character input in Korean is converted into English through a process of internally converting to English, which is a language to be converted (S104). Here, since the English alphabet is assigned to each button of the Hangul keypad, each letter of a word that is spelled incorrectly in Korean can be converted into an English alphabet assigned to the keypad.

The word converted through the above process is not actually displayed on the screen but is converted into a terminal and recognized. In FIG. 3B, the internal character 'sky' is searched for the same spelling word in the language DB, that is, the English DB. 'sky' is determined to have the same spelling words in the English DB (S106), and converts the 'Divi' inputted to the screen portion of the terminal as shown in FIG. 3A to 'sky' and displays it (S109). In another case, when the user changes the language environment of the text editor to English and inputs a character as shown in FIG. 3C, the same process as described above is converted to FIG. 3D and displayed on the screen.

If the character input as shown in FIG. 3e is inputted in the same manner as the language automatic conversion process, the input ㄹ direction is converted into sgidv in the terminal (S105) and searched in the English DB which is the language to be converted (S105). . In this case, since it is determined that there is no word identical to an internally converted character in the English DB (S106), the internally converted character is converted back to the originally input language (S107), and the initial input character is displayed as shown in FIG. 3E. The display on the unit (S108).

Next, it is determined whether to input characters in addition to the input characters (S111). If there is no message to add, the language-transformed characters are immediately transmitted to the terminal of the counterpart (S112). If there is a message to be added, the language can be automatically converted by inputting the message in the same process as described above. However, when you enter additional messages, the default language environment is set to remain the language environment of the characters that were previously typed and converted. That is, since the character entered immediately before is converted to English as shown in FIG. 3B, the character to be additionally input next is input in the English environment.

A detailed description will be given with reference to FIG. 1B, which is a flowchart of a second method for creating and transmitting a text message through an automatic language conversion process different from the above method.

The automatic language conversion method shown in FIG. 1B is the same as up to step S104 of FIG. 1A until step S204 of FIG. 1B, and is performed differently from the following process. That is, if the user inputs the text editor as shown in FIG. 3E, the second method converts the input character 'ㄹ -oriented' into 'fgidv' internally through the process of steps S200 to S204 of FIG. 1B. Follow the same process as the part of. In this way, the characters converted into other languages internally are displayed on the screen as shown in FIG. 3F (S205). The following message addition process is the same as the first method of FIG. 1A. In this method, a character input by a user can be directly converted and displayed on the screen without a DB of a language to be converted.

The language conversion process of the present invention is continuous and is performed every time a user inputs a message. The conversion unit may be not only words having a specific meaning but also letters of all parts of speech. In addition, although the present invention has been described using Korean / English automatic conversion as an example, those skilled in the art can sufficiently apply to other various language conversions by change or modulation without departing from the scope and spirit of the present invention. You will know.

Therefore, the spirit and scope of the invention will be defined by the following claims.

As described above, according to the present invention, when the automatic language conversion function is set in the environment setting of the mobile communication terminal, the word input after inputting a predetermined word in the text editor is automatically converted into the set language and outputted, thereby outputting a different word for the predetermined word. This minimizes the hassle of manually converting language to convert to a variety of languages, and makes it easier to convert to various languages as well as English. If frequent language conversion is required when writing a text message, it is possible to perform simple and accurate automatic language conversion input.

1A is a flowchart of a first method of creating and transmitting a text message through an automatic language conversion process.

1B is a flowchart of a second method of creating and transmitting a text message through an automatic language conversion process.

2A to 2C are screen examples for setting language automatic conversion in a terminal.

3A to 3F are examples of language automatic conversion actual screens in the text editor.

Claims (5)

A first step of determining an error of spelling of a text input in a text editor; A second step of internally converting an input character into a converted language when it is determined that a spelling error is determined in the step; A third step of searching for a spelling of the converted character in a converted language DB; A fourth step of converting an input letter into a searched word and outputting the same word if the same spelling word is found in the step; Automatic language conversion method of the text editor comprising a. According to claim 1, If the spelling of the characters converted internally in the language DB to be converted in the third step of the text editor that does not perform the language conversion and outputs the characters entered in the text editor on the screen portion How language is automatically converted. The method of claim 1, wherein the text editor is implemented in a mobile communication terminal having a word DB for each language such as English, Japanese, and Chinese. A first step of determining an error of spelling of a text input in a text editor; A second step of internally converting an input character into a converted language when it is determined that a spelling error is determined in the step; The third step of outputting the characters converted into other languages internally on the screen part Automatic language conversion method of the text editor comprising a. [5] The method of claim 4, wherein a text editor is implemented in a mobile communication terminal having a word DB for various languages such as English, Japanese, and Chinese.