JPS5814238A - Kana(japanese syllabary)-kanji(chinese character) converting system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain high speed input, by totalizing the number of times of usage of each Kanji by each type of sentence and determining the priority of display through the reference of the result of integration. CONSTITUTION:An operating signal of a keyboard 1 is read in a control section 8 and the control section 8 makes required control for each part based on the reading. A selection section 3 determines the priority of the display as to a plurality of Kanjis and phrases corresponding to the input of pronounciation and the result is given to the control section 8. A text memory 4 stores inputted character information. When a pronounciation instruction key 12 is depressed, the control section 8 recognizes that the succeeding input is the input of the pronounciation of the Kanji and displays as symbol representing that the pronounciation input is instructed to the display section 8. When a Kana key 11 is inputted, the control section 8 retrieves a Kanji at a dictionary section 2 and displays the Kanji one by one according to the priority. The required Kanji is displayed by keying a selection key 14.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a kana-kanji conversion method in an information processing device that uses kanji 11, such as a Japanese word processor, and in particular aims at speeding up the selection of homonymous kanji such as homophones. This is what I propose.

In the so-called display selection type kana-kanji conversion method, in which multiple homophones and allophones are sequentially displayed in response to kana input, and the operator selects the desired kanji and converts it into kanji, this selection takes a lot of time. In addition, when a desired kanji character is not displayed easily, the operator becomes unnecessarily frustrated. As a method to solve these problems, (1) After the customer introduces the device, the number of times each kanji is used (selected) prepared in the dictionary is accumulated, and If kanji conversion is instructed, the most frequently used kanji among the corresponding kanji, i.e.
A method of displaying the kanji in descending order of the cumulative number of usages (2) When the same sound is entered multiple times in the input process of the same sentence, a method of displaying the previously selected kanji with priority has been put into practical use, but (1) ) method is used to create a wide variety of texts, completely unrelated kanji may be prioritized and display of necessary kanji may be postponed, and many people use only one kanji. This is often inconvenient considering the general usage pattern of this type of product, such as when two Japanese word processors are shared, or when two operators print documents brought in by many people.

In addition, method (2) has a low possibility that the same kanji, especially the same idiom, will appear in the same sentence, and office sentences in particular are short, so this possibility is low and there is little practical advantage.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and the present invention is made by accumulating the number of times each kanji is used for each type of text (genre), and determining the display priority by referring to this cumulative result. Second, it is an object of the present invention to provide a kana-kanji conversion method that eliminates the drawbacks of the method (1) above and enables high-speed input.

The kana-kanji conversion method according to the present invention stores the frequency of use of each kanji prepared in the dictionary for each type of text selected and specified in advance, and when a manual kanji conversion of pronunciation kana is instructed. The system is characterized in that the display priority is determined by referring to the frequency of use of the specified civilian/military type. Note that the text type here is a factor that characterizes the text to be input, and means not only its content but also its format, operator, operation requester, and the like. The system of the present invention will be specifically explained below based on the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a device (for example, a Japanese word processor) used to implement the method of the present invention, and l indicates a keyboard. This keyboard has 11 kana keys arranged in accordance with the JIS. A reading kana instruction key 12 to indicate that it is a kana human power, a conversion key 13 to instruct kanji conversion, and a selection to specify the desired kanji by pressing the key when the desired kanji is displayed among the plurality of kanji displayed sequentially. In addition to the keys 14, a genre key 15 is provided for selecting and specifying the type of text to be input. Practically speaking, it is sufficient to have about 50 genre keys 15, and the consumer can assign a desired text type to each key. For example, ■letter, ■slip, ■internal correspondence, ■external report, ■minutes,■
Approval documents: O radio, O tape recorder, O television,
■VTR...Documents to be created as described below are divided according to the contents of Form 9, the operator or the operation requester, etc., such as OU president, OV managing director, OW manager, etc. If the letter is related to the above, the genre keys ``■'' and ``O'' are operated. Operation signals from the keyboard 1 configured as described above are read into the control section 8, and the control section 8 performs necessary control of each section based on these signals.

Reference numeral 2 denotes a dictionary section, which prepares kanji and idioms having the pronunciations for the pronunciations inputted by the kana key 11. As shown in FIG. 3, it has an area for storing the frequency of use of each kanji and phrase. This frequency storage area 4d requires about 3 bytes per kanji or idiom genre, so if 50 genres are provided per kanji or idiom, 150 bytes are required.0 Selection section 3 corresponds to reading kana human power. multiple kanji.

A text memory 4 that determines the display priority of the idioms using a method described later and sends the result to the food control section 8.
ti For input character information, i.e., kana, numbers, symbols, etc., the code of what was input from keyboard 1, and for reading kana human power, the code of nine kanji that is selected and instructed, for example, in units of 1 page. The contents of the text memory 4 are then given to the character generator 5 and then displayed on the display unit 7 using a CRT or the like or on the printer 6. The control for executing the method of the present invention will be explained below. Determine the genre to which the text belongs and press the appropriate genre key 15.Depending on how it is used, it may be possible to clearly classify it into one genre, but in general it cannot be classified into one genre. In addition, when genres are divided based on multiple criteria, such as format 9 textual content as in the above example, it is natural to select multiple genres, so this example In this example, the configuration is such that multiple genres can be selected, but in order to use a system that allows multiple genres to be selected and specified, it is necessary to specify the highest priority genre.For this purpose, the control unit 8 The control program is configured to process the genre associated with the first pressed genre key 15 as the top priority.After the genre key 15 is pressed, text can be input.

As with conventional devices of this type, kana input is displayed on the display section 7 and written into the text memory, but when kanji input is required, for example when inputting ``eccentric behavior'', First, as shown in FIG. 2(a), read kana instruction key 12.
Press the key. The control section sFi thereby recognizes that the subsequent input is the input of the pronunciation of the kanji, and displays on the display section F a symbol indicating that the pronunciation of the kana character has been instructed. The underline in the figure indicates a cursor.

Next, as shown in FIG. 2 (b), input "ki", "ko", and "u" using the kana keys 11.0 Then, as shown in FIG. Part °2
The system examines the kanji with the pronunciation of ``Kikou'' and displays the kanji obtained through the search one by one in the order determined as described below.

The display of each kanji changes at regular intervals T'L (or is changed by operating a predetermined key such as the conversion key 13), and the selection key 14 is pressed while the so-called kanji ``quirk'' is displayed. By doing this, the text memory number is related to "odd behavior".
When the corresponding code is written, it becomes -, and "-" appears on the display.
The display of "eccentric behavior" will also be fixed, and the number of uses of "eccentric behavior" in the specified genre will be increased by "1", and the contents of dictionary section 2 will not be rewritten. Specifically in the new year. Figure 3 conceptually shows a part of the data contents in the "Kikou" section of Dictionary Section 2, including "eccentric behavior,""climate,""porosity,""returning to school," and "contribution."
The kanji codes of idioms such as ... and the frequency of use for each genre, that is, the total number of times of use and power; the stored 0 diagrams include genre A1 selected and designated as the top priority genre and other designated genres B.

The frequency for C is shown. The control unit 8 transfers frequency data related to the specified genre to the selection unit 3.

The selection unit 3 first examines the most frequently used phrases for each designated genre. In the example shown, in genre A, "eccentric behavior" is 70.
Also, in genres B and 0, ``stomata j'' is the most frequent with 256.48.Based on this result, the selection unit 3 evaluates the usability of the genre with the highest frequency. Calculate as the sum of the numbers. In the example shown in the figure, "Stomata" has the highest usability of 2, followed by "Eccentricity" with a usability of 1, and the others have 0 usability, so 4 selection section 3Fi is based on this. A tentative priority order as shown in FIG. 4 is obtained. Items with the same usability are stored in the dictionary section 2.

Then, the selection unit 3 selects the usage frequency of the item with the highest possibility of use for the highest priority genre A, and if this is O as in the example, then selects the frequency of use for the highest priority genre A. The frequently used phrase, in this case ``eccentric behavior,'' is modified to be moved up to the highest priority, as shown in FIG. Kon
This is based on the idea that it is unreasonable to preferentially display items that are frequently used in other genres but are not used at all in the highest priority genre.

On the other hand, if the idiom with the greatest possibility of use is in the highest priority genre and the frequency of use is not 0, then the table remains as shown in FIG. 4 and no modification is made.

When the display priority 11@ is determined in this way, the result is transferred to the control unit 8. The control unit 8 sequentially displays this on the display unit 7, and in this example, first the “eccentric behavior” is displayed.
is displayed. When the operator visually recognizes this, he presses the selection key 14 to instruct conversion to "eccentric behavior." As a result, the usage frequency for each genre of "eccentric behavior" in the dictionary section 2 is increased by 1 only for the designated genres A, B, and C.

The above explanation was based on the Kana-Kanji sequential conversion method, which converts one character or one lead's worth of pronunciation into Kanji each time it is input, but it is also possible to convert Kana-Kanji into Kana-Kanji in batches, such as one page. The same method can be applied to conversion methods as well. In addition, in method 4, where multiple kanji and phrases are not displayed sequentially, but a large number are displayed at the same time, and the desired kanji is selected and designated using nine numbers, etc., the highest priority is displayed. It is possible to apply the same method as the above embodiment by displaying it on the left side or above. Since information related to the specified type of target text is used to determine the display priority, the above-mentioned ((
The drawbacks of the method 1) are resolved, and the input speed of the information processing device using the display selection type kana-kanji conversion method is improved.

The evaluation of usability is not limited to the above-mentioned method, but also a detailed table evaluation method, such as a method in which the most frequent item is given a 3, the next most frequent one is given a 2, and the third place is given a 1. Of course, it can be adopted.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show an embodiment of the present invention, in which Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a device used to implement the method of the present invention, and Fig. 2 (a), (b), and e are key diagrams. An explanatory diagram of the operation and the display contents of the display section, Fig. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing part of the contents of the dictionary section, Fig. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the temporary display priority order, and Fig. 5 has been revised. FIG. 6, an explanatory diagram showing the display priority order, is a conceptual diagram of a part of the dictionary section in which the frequency of use has been rewritten. 1... Keyboard 2... Dictionary section 3... Selection section 4
...Text memory 5...Character generator 6...Printer F...Display section 8...Control section 11...Kana key 12...Yomikana instruction key 13
...Change key 14...Selection key Patent applicant Noboru Kawano, patent attorney representing Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. In a kana-kanji conversion method in which a plurality of homophone and allograph kanji are displayed to the pronunciation kana human power and the desired kanji is selected and instructed, the usage frequency of each kanji prepared in the dictionary section is calculated. It memorizes each selected text type in advance, and when instructions are given to convert reading kana to kanji, the display priority is determined by referring to the frequency of use of the specified text type. Features a Kana-Kanji conversion method. 2. A plurality of text types are specified, and one of the text types is designated as the highest priority text type, and the usage frequency of the highest priority text type is used as preferential data for determining the display priority order. Kana-kanji conversion method.