WO2000031615A1

WO2000031615A1 - Input method of matrix type of once again depressed key model for multi-literals and symbols

Info

Publication number: WO2000031615A1
Application number: PCT/CN1998/000276
Authority: WO
Inventors: Chienhsin Kuo; Minghui Li
Original assignee: Chienhsin Kuo; Minghui Li
Priority date: 1998-11-20
Filing date: 1998-11-20
Publication date: 2000-06-02
Also published as: CN1315016A; JP2002534725A; CN1258131C; AU1222999A; DE19883024T1

Abstract

The invention relates to an input method of matrix type of once again depressed key model for multi-literals and symbols. Its main features are that letters, phonemes, numbers, punctuation marks or pitch symbols are directly marked on numeral keys. Said symbols marked keys possess oneself of numeral code of the numeral key and sequential number code of the symbol organization order on the key. When input said symbol, first of all pressed the key which the required symbol is marked and again pressed sequential number code key. Thusly, required symbol will be displayed. The method does not is remembered, as well it is simple and clear to study. Required symbol and literal can be achieved fast.

Description

Multinational text and symbol input method of matrix concept secondary key mode Technical field

The invention relates to a multi-national character and symbol input method of a matrix concept secondary key mode, especially a secondary key mode in a two-dimensional matrix, which can change the arrangement of the existing keyboard keys and the meaning of the characters or symbols, which can greatly Reduce the number of keys on the keyboard to achieve the purpose of light, thin, short, and small information products.

technical background

In traditional Chinese culture, yin and yang, five elements, gossip, and heavenly branches are used to explain all the daily life, culture, and habits in daily life, and they are used in the humanities and natural environment. However, if the above traditional culture is analyzed by scientific theory, it cannot be separated from the concept of combination of matrices.

The Chinese divide all things into yin and yang, and they use the four instruments of the two ancestors, and the four images give birth to gossip. Overlapping gossips can be used to explain all the phenomena. From the perspective of Heavenly Stems, Heavenly Stems include A, B, C, D, D, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, and Gui, etc., and Earth Stems, Zi, Ug, Yin, Qi, Chen, Ji, Wu, Wei, Shen, Composed of 酉, 戌, and Hai, the Chinese made up sixty Jiazis in pairs and combinations of ten days stem and twelve earthly branches to represent each person's birth year, month, and time in time.

It can be seen from the above concepts that the arrangement and combination of two numbers can represent various phenomena in the universe. If this matrix concept of permutation and combination can be applied to the input of characters and symbols in daily life, it will change the expression of the keyboard in information products.

For example, the characters of most European countries are very closely related. They all originate from the Indo-European languages. You can see the whole picture from the similar situation of the letters in the vocabulary of each country. European countries all use (letters) as the basic element (vocabulary). For example, Germany has 26 letters in addition to English, plus the letters' 0, U, and p, which have a total of 30 letters. Similarly, France, Italy, Spain and other countries have the same situation, and their relationship with English letters can be seen in Figure 1.

At present, in the English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other countries' text input methods, the standard typewriter keyboard used must have more than 21 basic letter keys. Due to the large number of keys, in addition to the disadvantages that it is not easy to find the keys, too many keys cannot reduce the number of keyboards. This is the biggest drawback. In addition, the existing electrical products and communication products are increasingly demanding for handheld devices. General electronic dictionaries are also known for their lightness, thinness, shortness, and smallness, and even manufacturers have developed mobile phones that can be connected to the Internet. Phone, but if the number of keyboard keys used on various small models is still more than 20 in the future, it will not be conducive to the development of light, thin, short and small technology products.

Therefore, in view of the problem of too many keystrokes, most mobile phones currently use the number of taps to select letters. Input, but this input method is very inconvenient. Take the Star TEC mobile phone produced by MOTOROLA as an example (shown in Figure 2). For example, to enter the word "FILL", you need to press the "3" number key three times (for F), press "4" the number key three times (for I), and press "5" the number key three times (for L) and then press "# "Key once (to separate the next" L "), and finally press the" 5 "number key three times (representing L). In other words, to enter the word "FILL", the key must be pressed thirteen times before it can be presented. For another example, if you want to enter the letter "C", you need to press the "2" number key nine times in succession to present the letter. Taking the GF768 mobile phone produced by ERICSSON as an example, if you want to enter the French letter "C", you need to press the "2" number key eight times in succession. It is quite complicated, and you must carry the user manual to know the order in which a number key is to be entered, and then you must know how many keys must be pressed. Therefore, in terms of the number of keys, the number of keys, and the number of keys on the keyboard, the existing input methods are not ideal, and will prevent the product from being short, small, light, and thin.

Disclosure of invention

Therefore, the main object of the present invention is to provide a multi-national character and symbol input method of the matrix concept secondary key mode to solve the problem of too many keys on the keyboard, which is not conducive to the development of short, small, light, and thin technology products. At the same time, the inconvenience and unmemorable shortcomings of letter input in existing mobile phones are solved.

According to the foregoing, the two-dimensional matrix key method of the two-dimensional matrix of the present invention mainly marks the letters, vowels, numbers, punctuation marks, and tone symbols of the characters of various countries directly on the keyboard, that is, it has the numeric code assigned to the key, and then A certain sequence arranged on the key can have the numerical code of the sequence again. The user only needs to press the key on which a certain letter, phonogram, number, punctuation mark or tone symbol is located, and then press the key of the numerical code in which it is located, and the corresponding display is displayed. Features of memorizing, concise and easy to learn, and quickly get the text and symbols you need.

According to the foregoing, the present invention can express the relationship between the number of embedded characters, phonetic sounds, numbers, or symbols and the minimum number of keys by using a mathematical equation, where X represents the number of letters, phonetic sounds, numbers, or symbols embedded, Y Indicates the minimum number of keys. If the X value is the square root, the integer value is directly taken. If the X value is not the square root, the integer value is increased by one.

Another object of the present invention is that in view of the frequent use of the Internet and the importance of multi-language transmission and use, the phonetic symbols of the English alphabet are used to spell a variety of pronunciations, which can be widely used for the input of characters in various countries.

In the following, the design and principle of the present invention will be described in detail, and the features of the present invention will be further understood with reference to the drawings, and described later: Brief description of the drawings

Figure 1 shows the comparison of the similarities and differences between German, French, Italian, and Spanish letters.

Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of the buttons of a Star TEC mobile phone produced by Motorola.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a button marking position of the present invention; FIG.

Figure 4 is the English pronunciation list of Japanese characters;

Figure 5 is an English pronunciation table of Korean characters;

Figure 6 is the English pronunciation table of the initials and finals of Chinese characters;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of the positions of the keys of the Japanese letters and symbols;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of the positions of the keys of the Korean letters and symbols;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of the positions of the keys of the Russian letters and symbols;

Fig. 10 is a schematic diagram showing the positions of the keys of the Arabic letters and symbols.

The best way to implement the invention

The present invention uses the concept of arrangement and combination of a two-dimensional matrix to input multi-national characters or symbols in the manner of a second keystroke. Information products on the market, such as computers, desk phones, mobile phones, electronic computers and electronic dictionaries, all contain

(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) Ten numeric keys, so this kind of keyboard is taken as an example to explain the method of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, in the present invention, the letters of each country are respectively placed on each number key, and the first letters corresponding to the five number keys such as "1, 2, 3, 4, 5" are "a, e, i, o, u "and other five English vowels, and then insert other letters in English alphabetical order. For example: "1" number key starts with the letter "a", and then the three letters "b", "c", and "d" are inserted, and so on, and the "5" number key will start with "u "The letter starts with, and five letters such as" v "," w "," x "," y "," z "are sequentially inserted. In this way, twenty-six English letters will be placed in the "1" ~ "5" number building keys. The arrangement of the English alphabets has six English letters in the "3", "4", "5" three-digit keys, "1",

The "2" number keys are provided with four English letters. In order to make the number of each key consistent, the 5th and 6th order of the "1" number keys will be implanted with "," and "." symbol. The ";" and "one" symbols commonly used in the languages of various countries will be implanted at the 5th and 6th positions of the "2" number key. In addition, "6" and "7" are sequentially inserted in the two number keys, ",", "'", "Λ", "LT", ", and" ς "," ρ "," η "And other letters or symbols in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and other countries that cannot be represented by the twenty-six English letters. For example," ^, "", "S", "'," e ",

"e", "ς", "i", τ ,, "δ", "b", "i", "ΰ", "u". German words "3", "ϋ", "β" in the parent, ", a", "", "", "δ", "u""a","","丫" in the Italian alphabet, "S", "^ '," in Spanish,,

"i ，，，" ό ，， "" ，，.

According to the concept of a two-dimensional matrix, the code of each letter is composed of two numeric keys. For example: "a" is the first order arranged on the "1" numeric key, and its key code is "11" As long as you press the code according to the "1" number key (press the "1" number key twice in succession), the letter "a" will be displayed. "w" is the third order placed on the "5" number key, and its code is "53". Just press the "5" number key once, and then press the "3" number key once to display "w" "This letter. For example, the letters "U" in French and "1" in German, because "· ·" is arranged at "6", the first order of the number keys is "61"; press Then press "u" Code "51", the letter "U" will be displayed, that is, the code of the "U" letter is "6151", and so on to get the rest ",", "'", "eight" And "υ" symbols. In addition, "oe" and "ς" in French, "" in German, and "ft" in Spanish, their codes are "66", "71", "72" and "73".

Except for "1" and "2" number keys, the codes of symbols "," · ","; "," "" are "15", "16", "25", "26", and " 8 "Numerical keys can also be implanted" ?,!, (,), I "and other six symbols, of which" ("symbol can have a variety of other representations, such as:" <"," "", "[" Equal, if you enter the "84" code at this time, "(, <,", [", etc.) will appear on the screen for users to choose. For example, if" ["is selected, it is the first Four-sequence, as long as you press the "4" number key to display the "[" symbol. If the symbol is not enough, other symbols such as "?,! ,,: ,,), /", etc. can also refer to the above "(" symbol Way of handling.

As for the input of ten digits such as "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0", they can be arranged in the "0" order on each number key uniformly. Then the code of "3" is "30". Just press "3" and then "0" to get the number "3", and so on.

Therefore, as an example, press the "fill" button on the Star TEC mobile phone produced by the former Intorola Company. The method of the present invention only needs to enter the code "22313434", that is, eight key presses to display "fill", compared to The thirteen keystrokes of the Star TEC mobile phone, that is, five keystrokes are significantly less, appear more efficient, fast and do not need to memorize the placement of the letters.

The previously disclosed embodiment is the design of the text input method and key position of various countries based on English alphabets. However, the characters of countries such as China, Japan, Korea, Russia, and Arabia cannot be spelled out with English alphabets. However, these countries The phonetic alphabet can be spelled out by the phonetic alphabet of the English alphabet, so the 26 English alphabets in the English alphabet can be grouped A variety of pronunciations are synthesized to represent the characters of the aforementioned countries. In view of the large number of countries, the following will use the characters of China, Japan, and South Korea as illustrations.

As shown in FIG. 3, the present invention uses the "0" number key as the switching of the characters in various countries, and the switching order can be arranged according to local conditions. If Chinese is the main language, its switch key code can be "01", and the characters of other countries can be arranged in an appropriate order as required.

As shown in Figure 4, Japanese includes three types: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. People can switch to the 4, 5, and 6 order of the "0" number keys. For example, press "04" to switch to Japanese. Hiragana letters, press "4511" to display Japanese hiragana letters ", and press" 05 "again to display hiragana letters as" "of the katakana letters, as shown in Figure 5, which is a Korean alphabet English pronunciation list, for example, Korean "口" can be pronounced as "m". As shown in Figure 3, the seventh order of the number key "0" represents Korean, as long as you press the number keys "0" and "7" at the same time, that is, You can switch to Korean and press "35" to display the Korean alphabet "口".

As shown in Fig. 6, due to the input of Chinese characters, the tone of the character has the first tone (yin and ping) without the tone symbol, the second tone (yang and ping) with the tone symbol "/", and the third (upper) tone. The symbol "", the fourth tone (unvoiced) tone symbol "\" and the soft tone symbol "·", and there are many cases of homonyms, so it is relatively complicated. The single-letter sound and final in Figure 6 The English alphabet indicates, this can also refer to the concepts of "Chinese character compression pinyin coding input method" and "Chinese character double pinyin input method". The compound finals "an, en, ao, ai, ei, ou", three letters The compound vowels "ang, eng, ing, ong" and "zh, sh, ch" are replaced by an English letter, as shown in Fig. 3. The tone symbols of the first, second, third, fourth, and soft tone are The "9" number keys are displayed in order of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Taking "zuo," as an example, as long as you press the corresponding code "56415194", the screen will display the same pronunciation text " Sit, seat, do, 祚, work, 怍, 柞, 酢 " The homonyms are for users to choose further. If they choose "do", the ranking is the third order, then the user presses the "3" number key again to display the word "do". If there are too many homonyms , And the word you want to select is not on the first page of the screen, you can use the "one" symbol (as shown in Figure 3, whose code is "96") to turn the page. If you still cannot find the word, enter "%" "Continue to the next page until the word is selected.

Similarly, the aforementioned Japanese can also directly input Japanese letters by using the concept of English alphabet input of the present invention, that is, the relative positions of Japanese letters and number keys are shown in FIG. 7. For example, if an information product is launched and used in Japan, its input method can be mainly Japanese. The first, second, and third order of the number key "0" represent Hiragana (code: "01") and Katakana (code: "02") and Chinese characters (code is "03"), and the English key can be moved to the fourth order (code is "04"). If you select Hiragana and press the "2" number key sixth symbol (code "26") "" represents the voiced sound of Japanese pronunciation, such as "<'" The code is "2623". The "3" sixth key of the number key (the code is "36"). "" Stands for the semi-voiced sound of the Japanese pronunciation, such as "" and its code is "3662". "4" Symbol of the sixth key of the number key "+" represents the Japanese sound of 拗 (code: "46"), you can enter "46" between two-letter codes to display, such as "", the code is "224693" and "" the code is "26324692". As for "5" and "6", the sixth key of the number keys represents "," and "." Two punctuation marks commonly used in Japanese.

Utilizing the above concepts, Korean, Russian, and Arabic alphabets and number keys can also be placed in the keys (as shown in Figures 8, 9 and 10) to achieve the purpose of multi-language input, which will not be repeated here. .

As shown in FIG. 3, the keyboard configuration has the relative positions of the alphabetic sounds and number keys of the English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese characters, that is, "0" to "9" Wait for ten number keys, and then switch to enter the characters of the above countries. Since the characters of all countries are mainly lowercase, and the phonetic symbols of English are similar to lowercase letters, the present invention also uses Japanese to input text by using pronunciation, so the letters listed on the number keys are mainly lowercase. As for uppercase You can press "0" and "1" number keys at the same time to switch.

In order to retain the calculation function of the number keys, the eighth order of the "0" number keys (indicated by the "=" symbol) can be used to represent the operation functions of the number keys, that is, press the "0" and "8" number keys at the same time to switch To the calculation function, at this time, you can add more symbols such as "+, one, X, ÷" for numerical calculation.

According to the foregoing, the relationship between the number of embedded characters, sounds, numbers, or symbols and the minimum number of keys can be expressed by a mathematical equation of Υ =, where X represents the number of letters, sounds, numbers, or symbols implanted , Υ represents the minimum number of keys. If the X value is the square root, the integer value is directly taken. If the X value is not the square root, the integer value is increased by one. For example, for 26 English letters (that is, X = 26), Υ = 5.099 according to the above equation, and taking the integer value plus one, we get Υ6, so the English alphabet can completely contain all the letters with 6 keys. .

The aforementioned arrangement of keys on the keyboard is a flexible design method, and various keyboard arrangements such as rectangular, square, triangular, or circular can be used, depending on the needs and functions. As in the previous example, a keyboard with six keys can be arranged in the form of "one column and six rows", "two columns and three rows", and "three columns and two rows". If using a nine-key keyboard, there will be multiple arrangements to choose from.

In summary, the multi-national character and symbol input method of the matrix concept secondary key mode provided by the present invention uses the secondary key mode of the two-dimensional matrix to change the existing keyboard key arrangement and the meaning of the characters or symbols, so that The keystroke text input has the characteristics of no need to remember, concise and easy to learn, and can quickly obtain the required characters and symbols, and it is indeed highly industrially usable.

The present invention has been described in detail above, but what is described above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The scope of implementation of the invention should not be limited. That is, all equivalent changes and modifications made in accordance with the scope of the present application should still fall within the scope of the patent of the present invention.

Industrial applicability

From the above, the present invention provides a multi-national character and symbol input method of the matrix concept secondary key mode to solve the problem of too many keys on the keyboard, which is not conducive to the development of short, small, light, and thin technology products. Solve the inconvenience and unrememberable lack of letter input in the existing mobile phones.

Claims

Rights request

1. A multi-national text and symbol input method with a matrix concept secondary key mode, in which the keys of the keyboard are respectively implanted with a plurality of letters, phonetics, numbers, punctuation marks and tone symbols that constitute the characters of each country, and are directly marked on On the above keys of the keyboard, the number represented by the key is the numeric code of the key, and the letters, vowels, numbers, punctuation marks, and tone symbols of the national characters embedded in the key are in accordance with the implanted order While having another numeric code, the two-digit code is input in the secondary key mode to display corresponding characters.

2. The multi-national text and symbol input method of the matrix concept secondary key mode according to claim 1, wherein the keyboard label and the implantation of the text symbols can be a single country or a plurality of countries.

3. The multi-national character and symbol input method of the matrix concept secondary key mode according to claim 1, characterized in that Chinese, Japanese, and Korean can be spelled out by the pronunciation of English letters.

4. The multi-national character and symbol input method of the matrix concept secondary key mode according to claim 1, wherein a key is provided in the keyboard to switch the characters of each country, and the local characters are listed in the switch key according to local conditions. The first order, the rest of the national characters are arranged in the appropriate order.

5. The multi-national character and symbol input method of the matrix concept secondary key mode according to claim 1, wherein for the relationship between the number of implanted characters, phonetic sounds, numbers or symbols and the minimum number of keys, a mathematical equation can be used Indicates that X is the number of letters, phonetic sounds, numbers, or symbols implanted, Y is the minimum number of keys, and if X is the square root, the integer value is directly taken. If X is not the square root, the integer value is added. One.

6. The multi-national character and symbol input method of the matrix concept secondary key mode according to claim 1, wherein the arrangement of the keys on the keyboard is a flexible design method, regardless of various keyboards such as rectangle, square, triangle or circle Arrangements can be used, depending on needs and features.