TW478270B - Intelligent input method for dictionary - Google Patents

Abstract

An intelligent input method for the dictionary, which is used on the standard keyboard device of CCITT to realize the input for the bi-linguistic dictionary and the European characters and provides a method for searching and predicting with the current inputted characters and the dictionary data to implement the intelligent dictionary character input method. The method comprises at least the following steps: first, receiving the key message from the CCITT keyboard; when determining the pressed key is one of the number key from [2] to [9], the key will be sequentially converted into the corresponding characters and numbers according to the corresponding rules of CCITT keyboard; next, after completing the input for one character, setting the index range based on the converted character and indexing on the dictionary database; and, displaying the indexing result to achieve the object for character input.

Description

4/8270 V. Description of the invention (1) [Field of the invention] The method of the invention is particularly directed to input. Completed in the most time [Background of the Invention] As the pace of work has accelerated in recent years, changes have brought about breakthroughs in features such as minimalism from the introduction of mobile hair and daily life. It has become a daily routine to help workers present. We often need to carry words as an important waste of carrying two kinds of resources. Users who can combine phone names with individuals can only use 0. CC ITT standard keyboard can be used to implement dictionary input in combination with dictionary data. The smart dictionary of the device is easy to use, with the least number of keystrokes, and the shortest characters can be entered. Come to the solid exhibition of social communication industry, the major conveniences are to use its masterpieces to live, especially in bringing a essential general product, "so the number of supporting films is to bring the continuous development of an economy," people daily life, industry With the rapid development, people's communication concepts are also emerging with the fixed communication methods towards more efficient and more advanced mobile communication equipment, giving people. In particular, Xingxun phones are convenient to carry and are favored by operators. In recent years, mobile phone market share has great market vitality. In China, the dictionary is an indispensable type for people to search for business activities, study and training abroad, a heavy dictionary for emergency needs, and mobile telecommunications tools are also necessary. But at the same time it makes users feel inconvenient, and it makes them urgently need to add the function of the dictionary function system (PDA) to the mobile phone to manage their life / 's calendar, notebook, calculator and so on. This allows the mobile phone to get the most out of a PDA. The mobile phone has a special keypad. Due to the line + w 黾 话 便

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Due to portability restrictions, the keyboard of the mobile phone still uses the International Telegraph and Telegraph Committee (International Teiegraph and Teleph ° n = 珣 Consultative Comnnttee; CCITO standard keyboard interface keys, that is, 0-9 and several other controls and / Or combination of function keys. In addition to being quite easy to use for phone-only input, it is not so lucky to complete additional functions, especially when entering European letters = for example, to find the word "international" in a bilingual dictionary English words, you need to type first, just type 1 or 3 keys to complete on PC and PDA_

To enter, and things become very complicated on the mobile phone, press [4] once to appear 'h', wait until the third [4] to appear 'i', and then press [6] once to appear 'Μ', Pressing [6] again will not show 'η', and so on until the input of '1' is completed. The user presses [2], [3] twice, [4] six times, [5], nine times. [6], three [7] and two [g] times, a total of 27 keystrokes. It can be said that no one wants to go through such complicated input just to find an English word. This makes it difficult to add a dictionary function to a mobile phone.

Our goal is to make it as easy for a user to use a mobile phone keypad as for a PC keyboard. In view of this, how to improve the above problems, i.e., the input is simpler and faster, the number of keystrokes is less, the bilingual dictionary search is more intelligent, and the P D A function character input is simpler, which is the motivation for the invention. [Summary and purpose of the invention] The present invention implements a bilingual dictionary on a mobile phone, uses the cc 丨 τ standard keyboard to perform character input, and combines dictionary data based on the currently entered characters.

Page 5 478270 V. Description of the invention (3) '" " "' It is expected to perform query and prediction to realize intelligent dictionary character input, in order to reduce the number of keystrokes, and the input is simple and fast. The invention has the following features: 1 · fuzzy input, no need to select the exact key value for the key; 2 · after pressing 11 keys, the character combinations are used for selection; 3 · the predictability of the input, Add "..." after the combination of characters, which means that other words can be rotated to synthesize other words; 4 · Just press the prefix of a word to select and input through the dictionary keyword list; 5 · Select day and day in the dictionary keyword list Enter the phrase; and 6 · Select the input word variation in the dictionary keyword list. The detailed content and technology of the present invention are described below with reference to the drawings: [Detailed description of the invention] FIG. 1 is a keyboard distribution and a smart dictionary input interface distribution map of a conventional mobile phone, including a liquid crystal display Screen LCD no, Right soft key 120, Cancel key (ESC) 130, Left key (Left

Soft Key) 140, Confirmation key (〇κ) ΐ50, CCITT standard keyboard 16〇, and a liquid crystal display LCD 1 1 0, including a function title area 丨 丨 丄, 轸. .112, input selection area 113, key function area 114, and green area. Tian Yue, Zhong Zhuang 115, etc. began to explain the technical content and embodiments of the present invention. ^ The symbols used in the text are used to explain: Yes, slant down 1 · Corresponds to the mobile phone CCI τ τ standard keys before and after 1, 2 · Corresponds to the ^ [] character before and after the character key value of the key in this solution. 478270 V. Description of the invention (4) 3. In this solution, the asterisk (*) represents any combination of letters of any length. In this solution, χ [1], χ [2] ~ χ [η] respectively represent the first time pressing ° Key element key value, up to the character key value of the 11th key press. χ [η + 1] represents the key value of the known key. b In this scheme, Y [l], γ [2] ... γ [η] respectively represent the combination of characters generated by the previous η keystrokes. Block (I) The first stage ... First, we must establish a complete bilingual dictionary system. The bilingual dictionary includes a bilingual dictionary database and a dictionary search engine. /, Π

Among them, the bilingual dictionary database includes at least an English-Chinese dictionary database, an English single-word variant database, a Chinese-English dictionary database, a data decompression table, and a keyword index table. The keyword index table uses the first two characters of the keyword to establish the index relationship between the number of dictionary entries and the keywords. Here, ^,,, ^ w first need to sort the dictionary data according to the size of the keywords. After the establishment of the keyword search bow I form, the character search range was reduced, and the search speed was accelerated. ,

The dictionary search engine includes a data decompression program, a data search program, and a format conversion program. When the character string is entered, the engine starts a data search program to find the dictionary data, and obtains the dictionary search result through a data decompression program and a format conversion program = 出 子 典 贫 料 ’. (2) The second stage:, ~ As the keys [2] to [9] on the mobile phone represent 3 to 4 letter keys, respectively, a double-code phenomenon and one-to-many are inevitably generated in the character rotation. Phenomenon, in order to turn in a single word, often has to go through the tedious key press process.

478270 V. Description of the invention (5) The intelligent dictionary input method can complete the text input in the shortest time by using the easiest and most convenient method and the least number of keystrokes. After the above-mentioned bilingual dictionary system is established, intelligent dictionary input methods can be performed. The implementation process is shown in Figure 2 to Figure 6. Among them, Figure 2 is a software architecture diagram of the present invention, including a standard keyboard table 210, a dictionary data file 220, a matching service module 230, and a retrieval service module. 240 and function display module 2 50 and so on. Figure 3 is the general flowchart of the intelligent dictionary input method software of the present invention, which specifically includes the following steps: First, enter the initial dictionary list of the day and time (step 310). The LCD input selection area displays the initial dictionary keywords, and the currently selected line Located on the first keyword, the user can use the up and down keys to move the currently selected row, or use the left and right arrow keys to page through to select a single word or phrase as an input entry. Among them, the detailed steps include whether to press the change button (step 3 2 0), if not, further determine whether to press the arrow key (step 3 3 0), and if there is no _., Then further determine whether to press the confirmation key (step 3 4 0) ), After confirming, the selected row is used as the input result (step 3 50). In step 3 2 0, when the change button is selected, the keyword change is performed to change the day and time of the list (step 3 2 2), and then it is judged whether to press the arrow key (step 3 2 4). If not, enter the confirmation Option (step 3 2 6), and use the selected row as the input result (step 3 5 0); if the arrow key is pressed, it means to move the currently selected row or page turning (step 3 2 8), and then perform step 3 2 2. In step 3 3 0, when the arrow key is pressed, it represents moving the currently selected row or page turning (step 3 3 2), and returns to step 310.

478270 V. Description of the invention (6) In step 3 40, if there is no confirmation option, start the matching service module (step 3 4 2), then execute the character combination list screen (step 3 4 4), and provide whether or not Press the confirmation key (step 34 6). If you confirm the selection, go back to step 3 1 0. If there is no confirmation option, it is further provided whether to press the arrow key (step 3 4 8). If the arrow key is used, it means to move the currently selected row or page turning (step 3 4 9), otherwise, start the matching service module 2 3 〇 And retrieval service module 2 4 0. Start the matching service module, please refer to Figure 4, and make sure to press the standard input unit of the mobile phone, that is, the CCITT keyboard (step 410), to obtain the standard keyboard mapping table (step 4 2 0), and perform key-value conversion on the keyboard (Step 4 3 〇), get the key value of this key * χ [η + 1] (Step 440), listed in the input selection area, you can also use the up, down, left and right arrow keys to select the character combination. Start the search service module. Please refer to Figure 5. Take out the character combination set γ [1], γ [2], γ [η] generated by the previous η key presses (step 510), and then go through The matching service module obtains the current key value * χ [η + 1] (step 520), and combines it with the current key value * X [n + l] to form Y [l], Y [2] ... Y [n] X [n + l] set (step 5 3 0). Next, take out each character string in the γ [ΐ], γ [2] ... Υ [η] × [η + 1] set, and query it in the bilingual dictionary system (step 5 4 0), and determine whether the query is successful (Step 5 5 0), if the query obtains the character string as one of the character combination, then the character string is added to the character combination of the current layer (step 5 6 0) 'and whether the next word exists Selection of a string (step 570) 'Set mark indicates whether characters can still be entered to form a longer word. Finally, the n + 1th character combination set γ [ι], γ [2] ••• Yfr ^ Yfn + l] is obtained (step 580) and listed in the input selection area for the user to select and input. Among them, the combined display word

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478270 V. Description of the invention (7) After the string, there is a "· · ·" character with a longer character, with a backspace input in the character combination column, then the service module can enter a single display list entry The key or phrase in the key entry form is as complete as French, and it is not used for the input method. The last English selection is taken out. The previous selection area is provided so that the pure display string is not a substring. This key begins. The user uses the input as a dictionary key word to change the input result. The above intelligent character input facilitates the use of this' must be strong German and so on. The input process number of the limited English language prompts the predetermined daytime surface to be selected by the user. This f .. word list You can use fruit. List day list day user predictive, make clear key combination set selection. When the string is the .Π symbol, the characters can be further input from the top, bottom, and left. The user accidentally presses the wrong key to cancel the key combination Y [l] and Y [2]. Press the confirmation key to enter the result. The corresponding selected string is selected or desired in the right direction key of the word, then the search server ... Υ [η-1] column is currently selected, such as the corresponding keyword in the key dictionary of the currently selected dictionary. Press the [Change] button and use the up, down, left, and right arrow keys to select the variable dictionary input method, and the user can easily edit it. Because the input method has a certain predictability, the input of the person. It is important to note that the above-mentioned English databases can be changed, such as European languages or other appropriate language databases. Finally, two examples are used to illustrate the smart dictionary. One embodiment: the user needs to input the word "i n t r n a t i 0 n a 1π". The initial list of the initial keywords of the dictionary is displayed, as shown in Figure 6.

Page 10 478270 V. Description of the invention (8) At this time, the user has not entered any characters, and the LCD input selection area displays the initial keyword of the dictionary, 'When the selected line is the first keyword, wait for the user's input. Use The user can input through the corresponding CCITT keyboard keys according to the keyboard displayed on the day. First, suppose the user presses the first key [4]. After decoding by the matching service kernel group, the user obtains three fuzzy key values 'g,' 'h', and i, and obtains the initial set of sub-element combinations {" g 'f ， " h ”i” 丨 list the combination set as a list in the LCD input selection area, and currently select “g” (see Figure 7): Second, press the second key 【 6], also obtained by the matching service module decoding, 'm', 'η, and, 〇, three fuzzy key values, combined with the initial character set of people r'g ", ,, h",} The sequence, "gm" ,,, gn ", ... until "10", the second-level word combination set gm ", " gn ,,, " g〇 ,, ,,, hm ,,,,,, h〇, "im'f, π in", " i〇n}, and display it in the LCD input selection area t (see Figure 8). Since the LCD Size limitation, all sub-element combinations cannot be displayed on the screen. 'You can press the down arrow key to display the character combinations shown in Figure 9). After that, continue to press Three keys [8], as usual, the retrieval service module retrieves the previous set of sub-element combination sets and the key values generated by this key press. 丨 ,, u, and V are combined to obtain the third-level character combination set, which is displayed in L CD selection area (see Figure 10). ^ If the user presses the key [Left soft key], then the combination is translated into the clear key, then the previous set of screen character combinations are taken out, as written in Figure 8 It shows' return to the state after pressing the second key.

478270 V. Description of the invention (9) Next, after the user continues to press the [3], [7], [6], [2], and [8] keys, the character combination set obtained is {”internat”, " interocun} (as shown in Figure 11), the currently selected row is at the position of "finterna t " ° The user can enter the result. However, a more convenient method is to press the [οκ] persuasion key to start the search service module to retrieve the corresponding entry "internat " in the dictionary, and display the corresponding dictionary keyword list day and night, as shown in Figure 12 At this time, the currently selected bar is exactly the word "n international". The keyword list starts from the corresponding entry of the selected string in the dictionary. Enter the word by pressing the [OK] confirmation key. If the user wants to input the word "internati〇nale", just press the down arrow key twice on the corresponding dictionary keyword list screen to select the turn-in (see Figure 13). . In the above example, in order to input, the word i n t e r n a t i〇n a 1 丨 丨, only 10 keystrokes are needed to use the smart dictionary rotation method. And the standard input method of using the mobile phone becomes very complicated. Press once to see "h": wait until the third and second ow [4] appears, i, then press one-person [6] to appear Μ , Press once again, n ', and after the input is complete, 1, the user includes T a / ro Ί ^, Γο Ί 直 Straight ^ I know twice [2], twice [3], six times [4 ], Two times [5], nine times [6], three times [7], and two, for a total of 27 keystrokes. 』The first Besch, example, user needs to enter the English word b | ο k i n g book cl ubn. Initially display dictionary initial keyword list

Page 12 478270 V. Description of the invention (10), as shown in Figure 6. The user of Baixian presses the first key [2], and after decoding by the matching service module, he obtains three fuzzy key values of 'a',, bu, ', _b and C to obtain the initial set of character combinations. {"A", "b", "c ,,}, the combination set is listed as a list in the LCD input selection area, and" a "is currently selected (see Figure 14). ^ Secondly, after the user continues to press the [6], [6], and [5] keys, the set of known character combinations is {,, am〇k ”,,, bnk ,,,,, b〇 〇k ,,, b〇〇l ", n con j ”......} (as shown in Figure 15), the currently selected line is

n amokn position. Then the user presses down on the character combination list twice a day to select n book " (as shown in Figure 16). Then press the [〇κ] confirmation key to start the search service module to retrieve the "book " corresponding entry in the dictionary, and display the corresponding dictionary keyword list day and day. The currently selected item selects" b 〇◦k ". Single word. See figure 17. In order to enter the phrase n book club ", the user. Just press the down key once a day in the corresponding dictionary keyword list to select the input (see figure 18). Show).

To enter the word "'book" in the variant "booking"'. The user needs to press the [change] button on the day and day of the keyword list shown in Figure 17 to start the bilingual dictionary system to retrieve the variation of "book". The variation is listed as a list in the LCD input selection area, that is, Enter the corresponding ', book' change list. At this time, the currently selected bar selects the first line of the list (see Figure 19). Press the down key once on the keyword change list screen. Selected

Page 13 478270 5. Description of the invention (11) The item selected is n booking ". Then press the [0K] confirmation key to complete the input of the word (see Figure 20). Although the present invention is based on the foregoing The preferred embodiment is disclosed above, but it is not intended to limit the present invention. Any person skilled in the art can make some modifications and retouching without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be Subject to the scope of the attached patent application.

Page 478270 Simple description of the drawings [Simplified illustration of the drawings] Figure 1 is a keyboard distribution and smart dictionary input interface distribution of a conventional mobile phone; Figure 2 is a software architecture diagram of the present invention; Figure 3 The diagram is the general flowchart of the intelligent dictionary input method software of the present invention; the fourth diagram is the flowchart of the matching module of the present invention; the fifth diagram is the flowchart of the retrieval module of the present invention; the sixth diagram is FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of an initial keyword list of an English-Chinese dictionary of the present invention; FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of inputting a day and a surface according to the first embodiment of the present invention, showing the result after inputting the first character; Figure 9 shows the result after inputting the second character. Figure 9 is the result of inputting the day and the schematic view of the first embodiment of the present invention. Figure 10 is the result of inputting the third character in the schematic diagram of the input of the day and the first embodiment of the present invention; Figure 11 is the eighth input of the schematic diagram of the input of the day and the surface in the first embodiment of the present invention The result after the character Fig. 12 is a schematic diagram of inputting the day-to-day view of the first embodiment of the present invention after pressing the confirmation key; Fig. 13 is a schematic diagram of inputting the day-to-day view of the corresponding keywords according to the first embodiment of the present invention; The result after the down key is pressed twice in the list screen; Figure 14 is the result of inputting the first character in the day-to-day schematic diagram of the second embodiment of the present invention; display display display display display display display

Page 478270 Brief Description of Drawings Figure 15 is a schematic diagram of the input day and surface of the second embodiment of the present invention, showing the result after entering the fourth character; ^ Figure 16 is the second of the present invention Schematic diagram of input day and day in the embodiment, showing the result of the input character combination list, after pressing the down arrow twice; | Figure 17 is a schematic diagram of input day and day in the second embodiment of the present invention, showing confirmation by pressing The corresponding day and day of the corresponding keyword list after pressing the key; FIG. 18 is a schematic diagram of inputting the day and day of the second embodiment of the present invention, showing the result of pressing the down key once on the day and the corresponding keyword list; FIG. 19 is Schematic diagram of the input day and day in the second embodiment of the present invention, showing the φ keyword list. The day after the [change] button is pressed, the key change list screen: and FIG. 20 shows the input day and day in the second embodiment of the present invention. A schematic diagram showing the results of a list of keyword variations after pressing the down key once a day. 【Symbol Description】

110 Liquid crystal display LCD 120 Right button (Rigth Soft K ey) 130 Cancel button (ESC) 140 Left button (Left Soft Key) 15 0 Confirmation key (0 K) Xin 160 CCITT standard keyboard 111 Function title area 112 Input display area 113 Input selection area 114 Key function area

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478270 VI. Scope of patent application 1. A smart device that achieves the character obtained from the standard and retrieves the subject based on the mapping based on the word; and does not search 2. If the patent application includes the establishment of a patent dictionary, please request a patent Please refer to the patent lean database for the index of dictionary data. 4 · Rushen The bilingual word changes a key 5 · Rushen The English library. 6 · Youshen the dictionary 7. As the smart dictionary input method described in item 4 of the dictionary, it is sorted according to the size of the keyword. The smart dictionary input method described in the third item, wherein the dictionary input method is a method using CC ITT's standard keyboard input method. The method includes at least the following steps: The keyboard receives key information; quasi-keyboard mapping table; The key is converted into corresponding characters and numbers in turn; the search range is set by the characters and numbers, and the result of a dictionary database is set. The smart dictionary input method described in item 1 above, which includes a complete bilingual dictionary system. The smart dictionary input method described in item 2 of the scope, which further includes a bilingual dictionary database and a set of smart dictionary input methods described in item 3 of the search scope, wherein the database contains at least one English-Chinese dictionary database , An English single database, a Chinese-English dictionary database, a data decompression table and table. The smart dictionary input method described in the fourth item, which can be changed to European language or other appropriate language data. Please. Patent Data Department Please patent search engine includes a data decompression program, a data search program and Page 18 478270 6. Scope of Patent Application A format conversion program. 8. The smart dictionary input method described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the key information has a fuzzy input function. 9. The smart dictionary input method described in item 8 of the scope of patent application, wherein the fuzzy input function is to input a number of keys and use a list to list each character combination for selection. Page 19