CN1109311C - Apparatus and method for inserting specified character codes between characters - Google Patents

Abstract

The inter-word interpolation device of the present invention comprises: character data conversion unit, is used for the character data input on the input unit is converted into the second character string and this second character string is output as the undetermined character string that produces in the conversion process; To indicate the unit or inter-word insertion instruction unit to indicate the insertion of a specific code; to judge whether the insertion instruction is a valid unit or an effective insertion instruction confirmation unit, there is also a unit for processing pending character strings. Its inter-word insertion instruction inserts a specific character code between each character of the undetermined character string, and outputs the result as the determined second character string.

Description

Device and method for inserting specific character code between words

technical field

The present invention relates to a device and a method for inserting specific character codes between words, or in the process of converting any first character string into another second character string and displaying the result character string, among those constituting the second character string An inter-word insertion device and method for inserting a specified character code such as a space or a middle point "·" in a character.

More specifically, the present invention relates to a technique as follows: when a personal computer or a word processor is used to process Japanese, Chinese or Korean characters, once character data representing a first character string contains characters such as kana Characters are displayed on the display screen, then only through a simple operation, the first character string is converted into a second character string containing characters such as Chinese characters, and spaces or midpoints are inserted into the characters forming the second character string "· ", so that the converted second character string is easy to recognize.

Background technique

In order to generate a document using a personal computer or a word processor, items such as a title or address, name are written on a sheet in a given format. At this time, each pair of characters that make up the title can be separated by an appropriate space to make the title easily identifiable. Conventionally, spaces are inserted into those characters constituting a determined second character string, which is a character string obtained by converting the original character data after pressing a shift key or the like. Those characters that make up the determined character string are shifted sequentially for equidistant display. This working method has been used repeatedly until now. Therefore, the more Chinese characters in the second character string, the more complicated the work.

In order to overcome this shortcoming, imagine converting Japanese kana characters into Chinese characters like this: After pressing a given key on the keyboard to input those kana characters belonging to the first string, insert them in the first string by key operation immediately desired spaces. This process has been disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication (kokai) No. 3-257660.

Let us illustrate the conventional process with reference to a diagram, from which we will understand the problems of the conventional process of inserting characters between words.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a conventional process of the interword insertion method disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication (kokai) No. 3-257660. The first character string includes several kana characters "にほんご", and these kana characters are converted to obtain a second character string containing the Chinese character "日本语". The conversion process and the process of inserting appropriate spaces in the above-mentioned Chinese character string will be described below.

(1) As illustrated in FIG. 1(a), the kana character "にほんご" is input by means of the display screen of the monitor by pressing a key on the keyboard.

(2) Then, the cursor is moved, and five spaces are successively input after the character data "にほんご" (see FIG. 1(b)).

(3) Figure 1(b) shows that pressing the shift key on the keyboard. Thus, "にほんご" is converted to "日本语". Each pair of characters constituting the character string "Japanese" is separated by an appropriate space according to the number of inserted spaces, and the resulting character string is displayed on the display.

With the above-described process, the input of spaces is completed before character data conversion. It seems that there is no need to insert space characters between characters after determining the second character string.

However, such a conventional process of inter-character insertion disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication (kokai) No. 3-257660 has to determine the number of spaces before performing kana-kanji conversion. If you find that the conversion result on the display is inconsistent with the expected result after kana-kanji conversion, for example, if you want the position of the space entered before the kana-kanji conversion to remain unchanged after the conversion, this situation is only through simple key operations It can't be dealt with. As a specific example, assume that "Japanese ○○○○○" is required to replace "○日○○本○○语○" (each circle represents a space) in the preceding example, then the string obtained after conversion Cannot be modified by simple operation.

According to the customary process of the above-mentioned inter-character interpolation method, the number of Chinese characters contained in the second character string (or the number of Chinese characters in the text composed of Chinese characters and pseudonyms) must be predicted before conversion. Therefore, the more the number of Chinese characters, the greater the workload or man-hour (i.e. time) cost for calculating the number of spaces.

Contents of the invention

The present invention attempts to solve the above-mentioned difficulties. The object of the present invention is to provide a device and method for inserting a specified character code between characters or a device and method for inserting characters between characters. results in a conversion in which a specific code such as a space or a midpoint is inserted between the words of the converted second character string, the conversion process is to convert any first character string containing characters such as kana into a character string containing Another second string of characters such as Chinese characters, and display the resulting string.

In order to achieve the above object, the inter-character insertion device of the present invention includes the following devices: an input device is used to input character data representing the first character string; a character data conversion device is used to convert the input character data into another second character string, and regard this second character string as the character string produced in the conversion process, and output it as a character string to be determined; indicate a device for inserting a specific code or insert an indicating device between words, and be used to indicate those characters that constitute the character string to be determined Inserting a specific character code into a string; judging whether the insertion instruction is valid or an effective insertion instruction determination device, which is used to judge whether the inter-word insertion instruction given by the inter-word insertion instruction device is valid according to whether the character string to be determined is in a state where the conversion has not been completed; There is also a device or pending character string processing device for processing undetermined character strings. Once it is determined that the inter-word insertion instruction is valid, it inserts specific character codes between those characters forming the undetermined character string according to this inter-word insertion instruction. , and display the result as the determined second string.

For the inter-character insertion device of the present invention, it is preferable that the first character string is composed of Kana or Roman characters and the second character string is composed of Kanji and Kana characters.

As far as the inter-word insertion device of the present invention is concerned, the specific character code used to form a certain interval between the characters of the character string to be determined is preferably a space.

The inter-word insertion method of the present invention comprises the following steps: the first step, input character data representing any first character string; the second step, convert the input character data into another second character string; the third step, generate As the second character string of the undetermined character string produced during conversion; the fourth step, at this step, if there is an indication that the specified character code should be inserted in the characters of the undetermined character string, and the undetermined character string is in the state where the conversion has not yet been completed Under the situation of the state, it is determined that the inter-word insertion instruction is effective, so just according to the inter-word insertion instruction, the specified character code is inserted among the characters of the undetermined character string; and the last step is to output the character string, and in this step, the specific character code Be inserted in the middle of the character of undetermined character string and form the second character string of definite; As far as interword interpolation method of the present invention is concerned, preferably, first character string is made up of pseudonym or Roman character, and the second character string is made up of Chinese character and kana characters.

As far as the inter-character insertion method of the present invention is concerned, the specific character code used to form a certain space between the characters of the specific character string is preferably a space.

According to the inter-character insertion device and method of the present invention, when any first character string containing pseudonyms or similar characters is converted into a second character string containing characters such as Chinese characters, the second character string is in the form of a pending character string Appears, that is, in a state where the conversion process has not yet ended. When the character string to be determined is displayed on the screen, a specific character code such as a space can be quickly inserted in the middle of the characters by means of the display screen through simple key operations, so that an appropriate interval is arranged between each pair of such characters.

The effective insertion indication determination device determines whether spaces can be inserted between characters before operating on the pending character string, so each character will be arranged in a form with a specific interval between each pair of characters. Only when spaces can be inserted correctly (for example, characters are allowed to be arranged equidistantly), characters such as spaces can be inserted into the pending character string at once.

According to the present invention, unlike the prior art, it is not necessary to determine the number of characters such as spaces before kana-kanji conversion. Therefore it never happens that the conversion result on the display screen is different from the expected conversion result. In addition, because there is no need to predetermine the number of spaces and the like, so even if there are many Chinese characters or the line where the second character is located is very long, it is not necessary to count the required number of spaces. Interword insertion requires less labor or man-hours than in the prior art.

Briefly, according to the method of the present invention, when any first character string is converted into a second character string, the second character string appears as a pending character string in a state where the conversion process is not completed. After a specific character such as a space is inserted between the characters of the character string to be determined, the second character string is provided as a character string to be determined. Through much simpler operations than the prior art, the purpose of inter-word insertion is quickly achieved.

Description of drawings

The preferred embodiments will be described below with reference to the corresponding drawings, so that the above objects and features of the present invention will be more clearly understood.

Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram describing the interword interpolation method of traditional process;

Fig. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment made according to the principle of the interword insertion device of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart of an embodiment made according to the principle of the inter-word insertion method of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a block diagram illustrating the schematic structure of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 5 is a flowchart describing the operation of the buffer in the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is a block diagram illustrating an example of the system configuration of the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 shows an example of the keyboard shown in FIG. 6. FIG.

Fig. 8 is a flow chart illustrating the process of inserting/displaying spaces between words in the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 9 is a detailed flowchart illustrating the insertion/deletion of spaces between words in the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 10 is a schematic diagram showing a first example of interword insertion/deletion in half-size mode and full-size mode according to the present invention.

Fig. 11 is a schematic diagram showing a second example of interword insertion/deletion in half-size mode and full-size mode according to the present invention.

12 and 13 are the first part and the second part of a flowchart, which describe in detail the inter-word insertion/deletion process in the embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings (FIGS. 2 to 13).

Fig. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the principle of the interword insertion device according to the present invention.

In the embodiment shown in Figure 2 according to the principle of the inter-character insertion device of the present invention, the inter-character insertion device includes: an input device 1, which is used to input character data representing any first character string; a device or character string for converting character data Data conversion means 2, are used to convert input character data into another second character string and output one as the second character string that a character string that generates during conversion is referred to as undetermined character string; Indicate the device that inserts specific character code or Inter-word insertion indicating device 3, in order to point out inserting specific character code in all characters that form undetermined character string; Judging whether inserting indication is effective device or effective inserting indication determining device 4, is used for judging according to the state of undetermined character string Whether the inter-word insertion instruction made by the inter-word insertion indicating device 3 is effective; Indicates to insert a specific character code into the middle of each character that composes the character string to be formed, and displays the resulting character string as a determined second character string.

Figure 3 illustrates a flow diagram of one embodiment of the principles of the interword insertion method according to the present invention.

In this embodiment, the inter-word insertion method comprises several steps as shown in Figure 3: Step S1 imports character data representing any first character string; Step S2 converts the input character data into another second character string; S3 produces a second character string as undetermined character string, and this character string is generated during conversion; Step S5 inserts specific character code between each character of the undetermined character string indicated by insertion indication between words, and its condition is The inter-word insertion indicating device has pointed out (step 4) that specific character code should be inserted between each character forming undetermined character string, and has confirmed that inter-word insertion indication is valid according to the state of undetermined character string; And step S6 outputs a character In the output character string, specific character codes have been inserted between the characters forming the character string to be determined, and the character string output like this is called the second character string (final character string) determined.

In FIGS. 2 and 3, preferably, the first character string to be input is composed of kana or Roman characters, and the second character string is composed of kanji and kana characters.

In FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, the specific character code for forming a certain interval between the character pairs of the character string to be determined is preferably a space.

In Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, when any first character string consisting of characters such as kana is converted into another second character string containing characters such as Chinese characters, the second character string is the character in the state that the conversion has not been completed string appears and is called a pending string. When this undetermined character string is displayed on the display screen of display device 6 (Fig. 2), the specific character codes such as spaces and the like can be quickly inserted between each character by simple key operation by means of the display screen. , so as to maintain an appropriate distance between each pair of characters.

In FIG. 2 , the effective insertion instruction determination device 4 judges whether characters such as spaces can be inserted between characters before operating on the pending character string, the purpose of which is to keep a specific interval between each pair of characters. Only when it is necessary to insert characters such as spaces (for example, to keep the distance between each character), insert characters such as spaces once in the pending string.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, unlike the prior art, it is not necessary to determine the number of spaces or the like before kana-kanji conversion. Therefore it never happens that the conversion result shown on the display is different from the expected conversion result. Since it is not necessary to predetermine the number of spaces or the like, even if the number of Chinese characters contained in the second character string is large, it is not necessary to calculate the number of required spaces. Therefore, the required labor or man-hour for inserting work between characters is saved compared with the prior art.

As mentioned above, in the embodiment of the present invention shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, when an arbitrary first character string is converted into a second character string, the second character string is generated as a conversion pending state A string of and appears as a pending string. After the specific character code is inserted between the characters of the undetermined character string, the second character string is provided as a determined character string. Such an inter-word insertion method is much quicker and simpler in operation than the prior art.

Fig. 4 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of the preferred embodiment of the present invention. Wherein, the inter-word insertion device or the inter-word insertion method of the present invention is realized by a computer system. Devices identical to those described above are assigned the same reference numerals.

Just like the input device 1 in FIG. 2, the input device 10 inputs Japanese, Chinese or Korean character data by key operations such as a keyboard. The character data converting means 2, the inter-character insertion indicating means 3, the valid insertion indicating determining means 4 and the pending character string processing means 5 are implemented by a control unit 7, which includes a central processing unit (hereinafter abbreviated as CPU). A display unit 60 such as a display is similar to the display device in FIG. 1 . The character data input by the input unit 10 and the pending and confirmed character strings provided by the control unit 7 are displayed on the display screen of the display unit 60 .

In addition, it also includes a storage unit 40 composed of a buffer zone. When a given key (for example, the conversion key in the input unit 10) is pressed to convert the first character string into a second character string, a character string to be determined (as the conversion process The character string in which the unfinished state is established) is stored. Another way is to use RAM and ROM as the storage unit 40 in the CPU of the control unit 7, and also include a dictionary unit 20 for storing read-only dictionary data. In order to convert the first character string into the second character string, the CPU in the control unit 7 looks up the necessary information from the dictionary.

Press the given key (such as space insertion key) in the input unit 10 to insert specific character codes between the characters of the character string to be determined, and such character string to be determined is sent to the storage unit 40 for temporary storage from the input 10, Wait until there is an appropriate interval between each pair of characters of a character string, and then press a given key in the input unit 10 (such as a confirmation key or a cursor movement key) to provide the final second character string.

According to the preferred embodiment shown in FIG. 4, the pending character string obtained through character string conversion and the second character string of the final result are shifted and displayed on the display screen of the display unit 60 along with simple key operations. To generate a document, a simple operation is performed on the input unit 10 such that characters such as spaces are inserted between the characters making up the character string so that those characters are arranged with appropriate spaces between each pair of characters.

Figure 5 is a flowchart describing the operation of the buffer in the preferred embodiment of the present invention. The actions of various buffers of the storage unit 40 in FIG. 4 are described in detail.

First, at the step of S10 in FIG. 5, the character data representing the first character string input on the input unit 10 (FIG. 4) (such as "にほんご") is stored in the read memory unit 40 (FIG. 4). in the buffer memory for outputting character strings.

Secondly, after the conversion key is pressed at step S11, the conversion progress flag in the control unit 7 is set to indicate that the conversion is in progress. The character data stored in the read string buffer is converted to a second string. The converted result (for example, "Japanese") is stored in a buffer memory for storing the converted character string, or in the converted character string buffer in the storage unit 40 .

The S12 step represents that a key such as a space insertion key has been pressed, and a space is inserted into each character of the character string to be determined, so that all characters are arranged with appropriate intervals between each pair of characters. A character string padded with an appropriate number of spaces is generated (for example, "日○日本○语"), and is stored in a memory for placing a space-inserted character string, or in a space-inserted character string buffer. After inserting spaces, the string buffer holds a definite string, in which the required spaces have been inserted between the characters as the finalized string, while the converted string buffer holds the contents of the pending string, in which there is no Any spaces are inserted between characters.

Using the converted character string buffer may insert spaces when the original character string contains spaces such as "transformed ○ character string". For example, consider transforming a character string of ○ character string ", if the original space is also regarded as a character, then after inserting a space between each character, the character string after the space insertion becomes "transform ○ transform ○○○ text ○word ○column".

After the space is inserted, the character string in the character string buffer is displayed on the display screen of the display unit 60 for checking, if it is confirmed that the character string has the desired number of spaces, you can press the confirmation key or the cursor movement key to Output the confirmed string. Subsequently, the conversion flag in the control unit 7 is cleared, and the conversion process from the first character string to the second character string ends here.

Fig. 6 is a block diagram showing an example of the system configuration of the preferred embodiment of the present invention. The configuration of the embodiment shown in Fig. 4 will now be described more specifically.

The interword insertion apparatus shown in FIG. 6 includes a CPU 70 for controlling various operations including character string conversion and interword insertion according to the present invention. The input unit 10 (FIG. 4) includes a keyboard 12 and a keyboard driver 14. The keyboard is used to input arbitrary character data or perform specific key operations. The keyboard driver is used to transform the signal sent by the keyboard 12 and send the resulting signal to the CPU70.

In Fig. 6, the display unit 60 (Fig. 4) includes a display 62 (such as a cathode ray tube, abbreviated as CRT hereinafter) and a display driver 64, and the display is used to display the input characters or display character string conversion The result is either an interword insertion process performed by the CPU 70. The display driver 64 is used to ensure that the display 62 can work correctly. The display unit 60 includes a printer 68 for printing character string conversion results or inter-character insertion results, and a printer driver 66 for ensuring that the printer 68 can work correctly.

In Fig. 6, the storage unit 40 (Fig. 4) includes a storage unit and 41 and an external storage unit for storing other data, the storage unit 40 is equivalent to the main memory, and the storage unit 41 is used for storing The kernel program that is part of the operating system is used to manage the entire computer system. Storage unit 40 has stored a program, under the control of CPU70, carries out character string conversion of the present invention and inserts between words, and storage unit 40 also comprises a dictionary high-speed cache, is used for preserving frequently used dictionary data, also comprises a font The cache is used to save common fonts and font data of character strings.

External storage units include floppy disks, floppy disk drives, hard disks, and hard disk drives. Floppy disk (FPD) 44 is used for depositing many less commonly used data, and floppy disk driver (FD driver) 45 is used for driving the read-write mechanism in the floppy disk 44; Hard disk (HDD) 46 is used for storing various all data, hard disk The drive 47 (HD drive) is used to drive the read/write mechanism in the hard disk 46 . Various font data, including font data that is not frequently used, are often stored in the hard disk 46 . When the font driver 42 operates, the font data representing a specific font is read out. In the hard disk 46, data necessary for converting the first character string into the second character string are stored in advance.

In Fig. 6, dictionary unit 20 (Fig. 4) comprises a CD-ROM device 22 and CD-ROM driver 24, and the former is in order to preserve the read-only dictionary data that puts in advance, and the latter is in order to drive CD-ROM device read institutions.

The zigzag interleaving device of the present invention realized with the computer system shown in FIG. 6 can be connected via an adapter line in a local area network (LAN) of the network driver 43.

In the device of the present invention utilizing the above-mentioned computer system, as explained in conjunction with Fig. 3, from inputting character data to inserting a specific character code into characters forming a character string to be determined and outputting a determined character string, this series of processing steps This is done by programs residing in the memory unit 40, that is to say by means of software. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 6, the interword insertion process according to the present invention can be realized without increasing the number of hardware.

FIG. 7 is an example of the keyboard shown in FIG. 6 . As shown in FIG. 7, the keyboard 12 in the input unit 10 has keys for inputting kana characters and Roman characters, and various function keys, such as a conversion key 14, a space insertion key capable of inserting a space between each pair of characters. 15 and the space delete key 16. These function keys have to be pre-added to the normally used keyboard. Thus, the keyboard used must be modified to have specific functions to meet user requirements. When the shift key 14 is pressed, a signal is sent to the CPU. A first character string consisting of kana characters is converted into a second character string containing kanji characters. A pending string indicating that the conversion is in progress is generated. Whenever the space insertion key 15 is pressed, a signal is sent to the CPU and a space is inserted between each pair of characters forming the character string to be determined. Whenever the space delete key 16 is pressed, a signal is also sent to the CPU and an existing space is deleted between each pair of characters making up the character string to be determined. After pressing the space insertion key or the space deletion key to generate a target character string, press the confirmation key or the cursor movement key. The undetermined character string is thus obtained, thereby obtaining the final converted second character string. As described above, since the space insertion key and the space deletion key are installed separately, the number of spaces to be inserted among those characters constituting the character string to be determined can be modified by a simple key operation.

Fig. 8 is a flow chart illustrating a space insertion/display processing procedure according to an embodiment of the present invention. In order to illustrate the operation of the present invention, the following operation is adopted as an example: when a first character string consisting of pseudonym characters is converted into a second character string comprising Chinese characters, between the characters forming the character string to be determined is inserted blank steps.

”)。At first, in this step of Fig. 8S20, the first character font (such as "ガたガんじへんんガガたガんじへんん) comprising kana characters is input through the keyboard operation and by means of the display screen of the display.

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Then in S21 step, press conversion key (Fig. 6), the first character string is converted into the undecided character string (such as " ガた kanji conversion ") that comprises Chinese character and pseudonym character.

After obtaining the conversion result, press the space insertion key (Fig. 7) in S22 step. Thus a space equivalent to one character is inserted between each pair of characters appearing on the display.

After the space insertion key is pressed in step S23, another space equivalent to a character is inserted between each pair of characters appearing on the screen. Therefore, in the pending string as an intermediate result, a space equivalent to two characters is inserted between each pair of characters.

After pressing the space insertion key in step S24, another space equivalent to a character is inserted between each pair of characters appearing on the screen. Thus, as an intermediate result, a total of three characters worth of spaces are inserted between each pair of characters in the pending string. Therefore, every time the space insertion key 15 is pressed, the number of spaces inserted will add 1.

In step S25, every time the space deletion key 16 is pressed, the actual number of spaces between each pair of characters appearing on the display screen will be reduced by 1.

After the desired space number is inserted between each pair of characters in a character string displayed on the screen, the confirmation key or the cursor movement key can be pressed in step S26. The pending character string is thus validated so that a space equivalent to two characters is inserted between each pair of characters in the second character string (for example, ○○ ○○汉○○字○○化○○化") .

In above-mentioned kana-kanji conversion and inter-character space insertion/deletion operations, as long as the predetermined special keys are operated, a desired character string can be produced quickly, wherein an appropriate number of spaces is inserted between each pair of characters.

The flowchart shown in Fig. 9 illustrates in detail the process of inserting/deleting spaces between words according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, wherein an example is used to illustrate the relevant operations of the present invention when the first character containing kana characters In the process of converting a character string into a second character string containing Chinese characters, spaces are inserted between the characters forming the character string to be determined.

As shown in step S30 in FIG. 9 , the conversion progress flag in the CPU is usually cleared ("off").

As shown in step S31, when a key on the keyboard in the input unit is pressed in a predetermined manner by means of the displayed display screen, a first character string composed of kana characters is input. Thus, the character data as the first character string is stored in the readable character string buffer (step S36).

Next, after the shift key is pressed at step S32, a signal from the shift key is sent to the CPU. This causes the conversion progress flag in the CPU to be set (turned "on") to indicate that conversion is in progress (step S33). In this case, the character data in the readable character string buffer is converted into a second character string containing kanji and kana characters (step S34). The conversion result is stored in the converted string buffer. As long as the conversion progress flag is "on", the second character string as the conversion result is always stored in the converted character string buffer as a pending character string. After confirming that the conversion is carried out as "on" on step 35, once the space insertion key is pressed (step S37), the corresponding number of spaces will be inserted between each pair of characters of the character string to be determined. On the contrary, whenever the space delete key is pressed, a certain number of existing spaces are deleted from between each pair of characters of the character string to be determined (step S39). Only when the switching progress flag is "on", can the space insertion key and the space deletion key be valid. A string with spaces inserted between characters is stored in the space-inserted string buffer.

Interpolated Spaces The character strings stored in the string buffer are inserted with finalized spaces between characters, whereas the character strings stored in the converted string buffer will not have spaces between them.

For half-size mode, a half-size space will be inserted between each pair of characters in the pending string when the space insertion key is pressed. Correspondingly, for the full-size mode, a full-size space (that is, two half-size spaces) will be inserted between each pair of characters in the pending string. For half-size mode, a half-size space will be deleted between each pair of characters in the pending string when the delete key is pressed. For the full-size approach, one full-size space, that is, two half-size spaces, is removed between each pair of characters in the pending string.

In short, either way (half-size or full-size), the appropriate number of spaces can be inserted between each pair of characters in the converted string buffer by operating the space insert or space delete key. When a character after inserting a space is identified as the required character string, the confirmation key or the cursor movement key can be pressed, as shown in step S31. After the confirmation key or the cursor movement key is pressed, the switching progress flag in the CPU is changed from "on" to "off" (step S37'). The pending character string is confirmed, and the converted second character string is output as a result (step S38).

As mentioned above, when the conversion progress flag in the CPU changes from "on" to "off", the conversion process from the first character string to the second character string ends.

Fig. 10 is a schematic diagram showing a first example of interword insertion/deletion in half-size and full-size modes implemented in accordance with the present invention. Combined with the scrolling direction of the display screen of display 62 among the figures, the inter-character insertion/deletion process performed by the half-size mode and the full-size mode for the undetermined character string (such as "Japanese") is described, and the undetermined character string is converted by kana-kanji It is obtained that the first character string before conversion includes only full-sized kana characters (for example, "にほんご").

As shown in the uppermost part of Fig. 10, when the conversion progress sign was set along with the pressing of the conversion key, the second character string (such as "Japanese") obtained by conversion was displayed on the display 62 as a character string to be determined. on the display. Numbers written above the display screen of display 62 indicate byte positions in the string. A full-size character is two bytes long.

When inserting/deleting between characters in the half-size mode, every time you press the space insertion key, a signal indicating inter-word insertion is sent to the CPU, and a half-size space is inserted into each pair of characters in the undetermined string middle. Whenever the space deletion key is pressed, a signal indicating deletion between characters is sent to the CPU, and a half-sized space between each pair of characters of the character string to be determined is deleted.

When doing inter-word insertion/deletion in full-size mode, every time you press the space insertion key, a signal indicating inter-word insertion is sent to the CPU, and a full-size space (that is, two half-size spaces) ) is inserted between each pair of characters in the pending string. Every time the space delete key is pressed, a signal to delete between characters is sent to the CPU, so that a full-size space (that is, two half-size spaces) will be removed from the current space between each pair of characters of the character string to be determined. There are spaces to delete.

Fig. 11 schematically shows a second example of interword insertion/deletion at half and full sizes according to the present invention. In conjunction with the scrolling direction of the display screen of display 62 among the figures, the insertion/deletion between characters performed by the half-size and full-size modes for the undetermined character string (for example, "the first round") is described, and the undetermined character string is determined by the full-size The first string of kana characters and half-sized numbers (for example, "だい1かい") is obtained after kana-kanji conversion.

As shown in the upper part of Fig. 11, when the conversion progress sign was set along with the pressing of the conversion key, the second character string (such as "the first time") obtained by conversion was displayed on the display 62 as the character string to be determined. on the display.

When inserting/deleting interwords in a half-size mode, similar to the example shown in Figure 9, each time the space insertion key is pressed, a signal indicating interword insertion is sent to the CPU, and a half-size space is inserted Between each pair of characters in the pending string. Press the space deletion key once, a signal to delete between the pointers is sent to the CPU, and an existing half-sized space between each pair of characters of the character string to be determined is deleted.

When doing inter-word insertion/deletion in a full-size mode, similar to the example shown in Figure 9, every time the space insertion key is pressed, a signal indicating inter-word insertion is sent to the CPU, and a full-size space (i.e. two half-size spaces) are inserted between each pair of characters in the pending string. Every time the space deletion key is pressed, a signal indicating deletion is sent to the CPU, and an existing full-size space (i.e. two half-size spaces) between each pair of characters of the character string to be determined is deleted.

As described above, according to the inter-character insertion (or inter-character deletion) technique of the present invention, even if the first character string is composed of kana and other types of characters (numbers), it can be properly inserted or deleted among the characters of the character string space.

12 and 13 are flowcharts (Part 1 and Part 2) detailing the inter-word insertion/deletion process used in the embodiment of the present invention. The actual process will be described assuming that there is a software program for implementing interword insertion/deletion in half-size mode and full-size mode according to the interword insertion method of the present invention.

Before starting the description, it is necessary to define the variables set in the program for inter-word insertion/deletion. For this, a total of seven variables are defined below. In this embodiment, a character should be two bytes long (sixteen bits).

(1) T: The number of spaces to be inserted (or deleted) at a time between each pair of characters in the pending string.

T is equal to 1 for half-scale mode. T is equal to 2 for full size mode.

(2) S: the number of spaces (total number) that should be inserted between each character of a character string.

(3) I: The byte position of the character string to be converted.

(4) J: Indicates a certain character number and variable (regardless of half-size or full-size, it refers to a single character).

(5) H: The number of leading half-size characters of this character.

(6) K: A variable (1 or 2) indicating the number of each byte in a character.

(7) L: A byte position in a string with spaces inserted.

When it is determined in the step S40 among Fig. 12 to insert/delete spaces between characters with the half-size mode, the variable T is set to 1 (step S41). If full size is used for inter-word insertion/deletion, the variable T is set to 2.

Next at step S43, the CPU detects whether the space insertion key or the space deletion key has been pressed.

If it is found that the space insertion key has been pressed, the variable S is changed to S+T (S=S+T) (step S44). Control then goes to step S47.

When it is found that the space delete key is pressed, the variable S is changed to S-T (S=S-T) (step S45).

The CPU checks whether the new value of the variable S is negative (S<0) (step S46). If the value is negative (S < 0), meaning that there is no space between characters of the character string, the value of the variable S is reset to 0 (step S48). If the value is equal to or greater than 0 (S ≥ 0), it means that there are spaces between the characters of the determinant string. Ability to remove spaces. At step S47, variables I, J, and H are set to initial values (I=1, J=1, H=0). The variable K is set to 1 (K=1).

At step S49 in Fig. 13, the value of the variable L indicating the position of a byte in the character string inserted with spaces is calculated. The value of variable L is calculated according to the following expression:

L=(S+2)×(J-1)+K-H.

In the S50 step, the character string generated during the conversion, that is, the character of the I byte position in the undetermined character string is copied to the L byte position in the space character string buffer. Therefore, a space is inserted after that character at the I byte position.

At step S51, the CPU checks whether the character at the I-th byte position is a half-size character. If the character on the I byte position of the character string to be determined is a half-size character, then at S52 step, the value of the variable H of a plurality of half-size characters before that character on the I byte position is pointed out increases by 1 (H=H+1). After the variable H is reset, the control of the CPU goes to step S53 of the flowchart.

If the character string at the I-th byte position of the character string to be determined is not a half-size character, control goes to step S53. In this step, the value of the variable I is incremented by 1 (I=I+1).

In step S54, the CPU checks whether the length of the converted character string to be determined is less than 1 byte. If the length of the pending character string is less than 1 byte, it means that the space insertion/deletion operations are no longer required. The program ends here.

If the length of the pending character string is greater than 1 byte, it means that the insertion/deletion of spaces has not been completed. The control of the CPU is transferred to step S55.

In step S55, the CPU checks whether the I byte position in the undetermined character string is the second byte position of a full-size character. If the I byte position is not the second byte position of a full-size character (so, it is the first byte position) in the character string to be determined, the value of variable J is increased by 1, and the value of variable K remains 1 ( J=J+1, K=1) (step S56). Therefore, prepare to insert a space after a full-size character at the I byte position. After the variable is set, the control of the CPU returns to step S49 in the flow chart, and those steps from S49 to S55 are executed again.

If the I byte position in the character string to be determined is the second byte position of a full-size character, then it is considered that a full-size character occupies the second byte position in a character. Therefore, at step S57, the value of the variable K is set to 2 (K=2). So prepare to insert a space after the full-size character at the second byte position of a character. After the above-mentioned K variable is set, the control of the CPU returns to step S49 of the flow chart, and steps S49 to S55 are repeatedly executed again.

Step S49 is repeatedly carried out to step S55 until the length of undetermined character string is less than 1 byte. This results in a character string in which spaces are inserted (or spaces are removed) between all the characters making up the character string to be determined.

The above-mentioned steps are automatically realized by means of the execution of a specific program under the control of the CPU. Inserting specific characters, such as spaces, one at a time among the characters of the string being converted is much simpler than the usual method.

The examples given by the inter-character insertion device and method of the present invention all assume that Japanese kana characters are converted into Chinese characters; Two strings.

The inter-character insertion device and method of the present invention can be used to convert any first character string consisting of Chinese, traditional Chinese characters or Korean characters into a desired second character string.

Considering the Chinese example, Chinese characters are input by hitting consonant keys (such as b, p, and m) and vowel keys (such as a, . . . ) (known as double-key input method). The second character string consists of consonants and vowels as a pending character string in the conversion process after the conversion key is pressed. Utilizing the inter-character insertion device and method of the present invention and the embodiments similar to those described above, the undetermined character string can also be converted into a second character string in which characters such as spaces are inserted between characters such as Chinese characters.

The above examples all assume that the characters between the characters inserted into a string are spaces. In fact, the characters to be inserted are not limited to spaces. Characters such as "·", "—" or "~" can be inserted into a string.

According to the above-mentioned preferred embodiment of the present invention, when any first character string that contains kana characters is converted into the second character string that contains characters such as Chinese characters, as long as the operation much simpler than traditional method, just can Quickly insert a specific character code such as a space between each character, so that each character is arranged with an appropriate interval between character pairs. The benefit of inserting characters such as spaces between the characters in the second character string generated during the conversion process is particularly obvious when the converted character string is the title of a document, and the title of the document requires that each character must be displayed equidistantly. Using the method described above saves effort when generating documentation.

According to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the number of spaces is not determined before kana-kanji conversion. The conversion results that appear on the display screen are never different from the expected conversion results. Since the number of spaces and the like need not be predetermined, it is not necessary to count the number of spaces even when the number of Chinese characters contained in a character string generated during conversion is large. Thereby, compared with the prior art, the labor or man-hour required for inter-word insertion is obviously saved.

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1. insert the device of specific character sign indicating number at intercharacter, be called and insert device between word, this device comprises:

Input media is used for importing the character data of representing any first character string;

The device that is used for the hand over word data, be called the character data conversion equipment, be used for described input character data is converted to another second character string, and described second character string is provided as character string undetermined, the character string that this character string undetermined produced as the transition period;

Be used to indicate the device that inserts the specific character sign indicating number, be called and insert indicating device between word, be used for indicating and between each character that constitutes described character string undetermined, insert the specific character sign indicating number;

Be used for determine inserting and indicate whether effective device, be called effective insertion indication and determine device, be used for whether being in the still uncompleted state of conversion and determine to insert between word to insert between the given word of indicating device and indicate whether effectively according to described character string undetermined; And

Be used to handle the device of character string undetermined, be called character string processing apparatus undetermined, when having confirmed that the insertion indication is effective between above-mentioned word, just respond, described specific character is inserted between each character that constitutes described character string undetermined and demonstrates character string as a result as the second definite character string to inserting indication between described word.

2. the described device of claim 1, wherein said first character string is made up of kana character or roman character, and described second character string is made up of Chinese character and kana character.

3. the described device of claim 1, wherein said specific character sign indicating number is the space, is used in constituting described character string undetermined each to produce certain interval between to character.

4. the described device of claim 2, wherein said specific character sign indicating number is the space, is used in constituting described character string undetermined each to produce certain interval between to character.

5. insert a kind of method of specific character sign indicating number at intercharacter, be called insertion method between word, the method comprises the following steps:

The character data of any one first character string is represented in input;

Described input character data is converted to another second character string;

Described second character string is generated as character string undetermined, the character string that this character string undetermined generated as the transition period;

Should be inserted into the specific character sign indicating number between each character that constitutes described character string undetermined and be in after conversion still determines to insert between described word effectively under the situation of uncompleted state when indicating, respond described specific character sign indicating number is inserted between each character of the described character string undetermined of formation inserting indication between described word in described character string undetermined; And

Export a character string as second character string of determining, a described character string promptly is that described specific character sign indicating number is inserted into the character string between each character that constitutes described character string undetermined.

6. the described method of claim 5, wherein said first character string is made up of assumed name or roman character, and described second character string is made up of Chinese character and kana character.

7. the described method of claim 5, wherein said specific character sign indicating number is the space, is used for producing certain interval in each that constitutes described character string undetermined between to character.

8. the described method of claim 6, wherein said specific character sign indicating number is the space, is used for producing certain interval in each that constitutes described character string undetermined between to character.

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