CN1122209C - Nine-square phonetic Chinese character input method and its keyboard - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for inputting Chinese characters by Chinese phonetic method in telecommunication and computer products, especially small or miniature products, and its keyboard features that the Chinese characters are input in three steps, i.e. initial consonant, single vowel, compound vowel and three keys are used to enter the character selection stage. In the step of inputting compound vowel, the tones of four tones of Chinese character are input together, so that the character-selecting range is greatly reduced in the character-selecting stage, and its input speed is raised.

Description

Jiufang Pinyin Chinese Character Input Method and Its Keyboard

The invention relates to a pinyin input method of Chinese characters and a keyboard thereof in the fields of telecommunication and computers, in particular to a pinyin input method of Chinese characters and a keyboard thereof which can be conveniently applied on small electrical objects such as mobile phones.

The technology in the field of computer and communication is changing with each passing day, and everyone needs to deal with computers and mobile phones. When this kind of man-machine dialogue is used, it is most convenient for Chinese people to use Chinese input methods and corresponding keyboards. Among them, Chinese pinyin can be Said to be the Chinese most commonly used, the most popular Chinese character input method, mostly uses the large keyboard of a lot of keys such as the standard keyboard of computer, there are two big problems here, the one, when adopting above-mentioned keyboard to carry out Chinese pinyin input, key Too many times, for example, the word is CHUAN, you need to press the key five times, and there are too many homophones, you need to press the key many times to select the word, which affects the input speed. Email, Chinese character input on the mobile phone to check and buy and sell stocks, etc. man-machine dialogue, all need to use the keyboard on the mobile phone to input Chinese characters. How to input the Chinese pinyin of Chinese characters on the mobile phone, there is no solution at present.

Therefore, the object of the present invention is to provide a method for inputting Chinese by pinyin and the corresponding keyboard thereof, especially on products with few keypads and keys in fields such as computers and communications, and allow the input method Easy to learn and easy to use.

The present invention adopts the keyboard of 9 keys, adopts the mode of interface conversion from the initial consonant interface to the final consonant interface and then to the compound final consonant interface, and is about to decompose the input of Chinese characters into three steps, namely initial consonants, single final consonants, three-step input of compound final consonants, and three keys Entering the word selection stage, at the same time, when entering the compound final step, input the tones of the four tones of Chinese characters together, so that the range of word selection during the word selection stage is greatly reduced, and the input speed is improved. Moreover, the keyboard adopts the nine-square key keyboard, This method is particularly suitable for telephones and mobile phones, and it is convenient to use mobile phones to surf the Internet and send e-mails, etc. The input method of the present invention is easy to learn, simple and intuitive, does not need any rote memorization, and people who know Chinese pinyin can learn it within 3 minutes. The method and the keyboard have just realized the purpose of the present invention.

The present invention is illustrated by the following drawings.

Fig. 1 is an explanatory diagram of the steps of the Hanyu Pinyin Chinese input method of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an explanatory diagram of an embodiment of the composition of the Chinese pinyin Chinese input keyboard of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is an explanatory diagram of the single vowel interface of the Hanyu Pinyin Chinese input keyboard of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is an explanatory diagram of the compound final interface under the a final of the Chinese pinyin Chinese input keyboard of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is an explanatory diagram of the compound final interface under the o final of the Chinese pinyin Chinese input keyboard of the present invention.

Fig. 6 is an explanatory diagram of the compound final interface under the e final of the Chinese pinyin Chinese input keyboard of the present invention.

Fig. 7 is an explanatory diagram of the compound final interface under the i final of the Chinese pinyin Chinese input keyboard of the present invention.

Fig. 8 is an explanatory diagram of the compound final interface under the u final of the Chinese pinyin Chinese input keyboard of the present invention.

Fig. 9 is an explanatory diagram of the compound final interface under the ü final of the Chinese pinyin Chinese input keyboard of the present invention.

Fig. 10 is a block diagram explanatory diagram of the configuration of the keyboard of the present invention.

The present invention will be described in further detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Referring to Fig. 1, Fig. 1 is the step flow diagram of the Chinese phonetic alphabet Chinese input method of the present invention, and step is represented with 1, 2 etc. sequence numbers, and the keyboard that the phonetic input method of the present invention cooperates is step 1 at the beginning, is to be used The interface that is set as the initial consonant of Chinese Pinyin, or the original keyboard panel that contains the initial consonant of Chinese Pinyin, can be used directly, or converted from other panels to the initial consonant of Chinese Pinyin, such as the number 1-9 The disk surface of the number keys has been converted into the disk interface of the initial consonants of the Chinese phonetic alphabet, and all the initial consonants of the Chinese phonetic alphabet are included in the interface, that is, b, p, m, f, d, t, n, l, g, k, h, j, q, x, zh, ch, sh, r, z, c, s, y, w, step 1 includes, according to the Chinese character to be input, select the desired initial consonant, and press the key to input the initial consonant;

Enter step 2, the keyboard surface of the man-machine dialogue is converted into the interface of the keyboard surface of single-syllable vowels, that is, the disk surface includes six single-syllable vowels of a, o, e, i, u, and ü, and each single-syllable vowel occupies One key position, the operator selects the desired single final according to the Chinese character to be input, and presses the key to input the single final;

Next, enter step 3, the keyboard interface of the man-machine dialogue is converted into the keyboard interface of the compound final corresponding to the single final selected in step 2. Since there are six single finals, there are six different The keyboard interface of compound finals, each single vowel has a corresponding keyboard interface of compound finals, the operator selects the desired compound finals according to the Chinese characters to be input, and presses the key to input the compound finals. At the same time, input the tone of the Chinese character to narrow the range of word selection. There are 4 tones in Chinese, namely Yinping-, Yangping', Shangsheng , Qusheng' four kinds, according to the Chinese characters to be input, choose one input, but you can also not choose the tone when you don't remember it, so that all the characters with four tones will appear one after another and be selected. The disadvantage is that the input speed is slowed down; Finally, enter step 4, the keyboard interface of the man-machine dialogue is converted, enter the character selection stage, the homophone Chinese character to be selected appears, directly press the position key of the selected Chinese character, the selected Chinese character will be selected and moved to Display screen, input finishes, at this moment, program returns to step 1, returns to the keyboard picture of initial consonant, can continue to input next Chinese character.

For example input Chinese character " pass " word, its Chinese pinyin is chuan, and four tones are Yang Ping ', and its initial consonant is ch, and single final consonant is u, and compound final consonant is uan, therefore, when pressing aforementioned step 1, input ch, during step 2, Input u, in step 3, input uan and the tone is Yangping', and several Chinese characters such as Chuan, Chuan, Trent, and Rafter will appear on the keyboard panel, just press Chuan Zi, and Chuan Zi will jump to the display screen.

For example input Chinese character " East " word, its Chinese pinyin is dong, and four tones are the first tone Yinping, and its initial consonant is d, single final is o, and compound final is ong, therefore, when pressing aforementioned step 1, input d, step 2 In step 3, input ong and Yinping tones, and several homophonic characters such as Dong, Dong, Dong, and Radon will appear on the surface of the keyboard, including the Dong character to be selected. Press the Dong character to complete enter.

In summary, the method of the present invention is characterized in that the following steps are adopted,

Step 1, when setting the keyboard panel as a man-machine dialogue interface including all initials, input the initials of the Chinese characters to be input,

Step 2, when the keyboard surface is converted into a man-machine dialogue interface including all single vowels according to a predetermined program, input the single vowel behind the initial consonant of the Chinese character to be input,

Step 3, when the keyboard surface is converted into a man-machine dialogue interface with all compound finals corresponding to the single finals input in step 2 according to the predetermined program, input the compound finals of the Chinese characters to be input,

Step 4, when the keyboard surface is converted to display Chinese characters, enter the character selection stage, press the key to select the character to be input, the Chinese characters are finished, and return to step 1.

The further feature of the method of the present invention is that in step 3, in the man-machine dialogue interface of compound finals presented on the keyboard surface, each final and the keys of each compound final are accompanied by the button locations of four tones of Chinese characters, namely Yin Ping, Yang Ping, Shang Tone, and Qu Tone button positions, the four tones are set at the corners of the four corners of the key, and the four corners are distinguished as the four tones by color .

Another feature of the method of the present invention is that in step 3, when inputting the compound final of a Chinese character, the tone of the Chinese character can be input simultaneously.

In the present invention, the keyboard to be used is preferably a display-type interface-type keyboard with an interface changeable, and the disk surface can produce predetermined keyboard interface conversions with the touch of a special pen or finger on it at different positions.

Referring to Fig. 2, Fig. 2 is a kind of embodiment of the matched keyboard interface of the invented Chinese character pinyin input method among Fig. 1, named interface 1, and its main key position is 9, is equivalent to 1- on the mobile phone keyboard 9 has 9 keys, so this keyboard is suitable for mobile phones. There are 23 initials in Chinese Pinyin, but c and ch can be combined for common keys due to their correlation, z and zh can be combined for common keys, and s and sh can be combined. Merge the common keys, v is not used, and k and q are merged into the common keys, so that only 18 keys are needed, and the above nine keys are divided into two, which becomes 18 keys, which is just enough The key position requirements of the 22 initial consonants used are met. In this interface 1, there are only initial consonants in use, without any other letters, nor any numbers.

In this embodiment, 9 square keys are arranged in 3×3, and each square key is divided into two parts, the lower left and the upper right, by a diagonal line from the upper left corner to the lower right corner, and the upper right part is represented by a dark color in the figure to highlight the difference. The 22 consonants are basically arranged in alphabetical order from left to right, and then to the next row. As shown in this picture, this is just one of the arrangement methods. Its characteristic is that all the consonants used in Chinese Pinyin are in the In this same keyboard interface, even the interface in which the positions of the initials are exchanged also belongs to the protection scope of the present invention.

Since the keyboard surface is mainly composed of 9 squares, it is characterized by a 9-square matrix, which can also be called the Jiugong Square, Jiufang Pinyin, etc., interface 1 and the next few interfaces are arranged on the top of the keyboard surface. and other figures and graphics as trademarks or decorative patterns.

Below the nine square keys are the space key and the cancel key. The space key is for a monosyllable word without an initial consonant. You can press the space key to directly enter the interface of the single-syllable vowel on the keyboard. The cancel key is used for canceling the key. .

Keyboard of the present invention, can be used on various communication products, also can be used on computer, as the input keyboard of computer, or be included as a part of the input keyboard of computer, therefore, the input method of initial consonant, when using mouse, Move the cursor of the mouse to the initial consonant to be input and type it. When using the touch keyboard panel, touch the initial consonant to be input with a special pen or finger. Two clicks to distinguish, for example, press once when entering the initial consonant in the lower left area, and press twice when entering the initial consonant in the upper right area of the same square key.

The keyboard interface 1 shown in FIG. 2 can be used as an embodiment of the interface layout of the keyboard described in step 1 in FIG. 1 .

Referring to Fig. 3, Fig. 3 is an embodiment explanatory figure of the interface of the keyboard disk surface that step 2 is converted and presented in the method shown in Fig. 1 among the present invention, is called interface 2, is the keyboard interface of single vowel of a vowel, and still adopts The nine-square key keyboard shown in Fig. 2 has only six key positions because the single final vowel has only six, and the remaining three key positions are given commas "," and full stop "." and the most commonly used punctuation marks. Colon ":", the a of the six single finals is set in the upper middle key position, o, e and u are set in the three key positions in the middle row, i and ü are set in the lower middle key position and the lower right key position.

Referring to Fig. 4, Fig. 4 is an embodiment explanatory figure of layout when the keyboard interface that step 3 is converted in the method shown in Fig. 1 shown in Fig. 1 is corresponding to the compound simple or compound vowel of a simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable And the combined forms, namely a, ai, an, ang, ao, are arranged from the first row to the second row from left to right, which is called interface 3.

The significant difference from Figure 2 and Figure 3 is that the four corners of each key in this interface are changed to gray in order to indicate the tone of the pinyin, and each corner represents a sound tone, such as the upper left corner It is Yinping tone, the upper right corner is Yangping tone, the lower left corner is Shang tone, and the lower right corner is Qu tone. When this interface appears, when you press the button, the tone will be emitted when you press a certain corner position. In the man-machine dialogue interface of several composite final keyboard panels, the setting of nine square keys including four tones for each square key is adopted.

If you don't press the area of four tones when pressing the key, press the area that has not turned gray in the middle, and the homonyms of various tones will appear one after another.

Referring to Fig. 5, Fig. 5 is an explanatory diagram of an embodiment of the layout when the keyboard panel surface presented in step 3 of the method shown in Fig. 1 corresponds to the compound vowel of the final o in the present invention, and is also a man-machine dialogue interface, which can Called interface 4, including the final o, it has only three forms, i.e. o, ou, ong. Among the 9 square key positions, only three key positions are occupied. In this embodiment, they are placed in the three key positions in the middle row. The keys are arranged sequentially from left to right. The setting of the four tones is the same as that in Figure 4, using the four corners, respectively representing Yinping, Yangping, Shangsheng and Qusheng.

Referring to Fig. 6, Fig. 6 is an explanatory diagram of an embodiment of the layout when the keyboard panel surface converted and presented in step 3 of the method shown in Fig. 1 corresponds to the compound final of the final e in the present invention, and it is also a kind of man-machine dialogue interface, which can Called interface 5, including the final e, there are only 4 separate and combined forms, namely e, ei, en, eng. In this layout example, e is placed in the upper left key, and the other three are placed in the middle row. Arranged in sequence from left to right. The four-tone setting is the same as that in Figure 4, using four-corner locations.

Referring to Fig. 7, Fig. 7 is an explanatory diagram of an embodiment of the layout when the keyboard surface corresponding to the compound vowel of the final i is converted by step 3 in the method shown in Fig. 1 in the present invention, and it is also a man-machine dialogue interface, which can be called It is interface 6, excluding the single final i, which has 9 compound combinations, namely iou, ia, iao, ian, iang, ie, in, ing, iong, arranged in sequence from left to right, and then up to A total of nine key positions from the middle row to the lower row are just full, and the four-tone setting is the same as that in Figure 4, using four-corner positions.

Referring to Fig. 8, Fig. 8 is an embodiment explanatory diagram of the layout when the keyboard panel surface converted in step 3 in the method shown in Fig. 1 in the present invention corresponds to the compound vowel of the final vowel u, and can be called interface 7, including the single vowel of a vowel u, it has 9 forms, namely u, ua, uai, uan, uang, uei, uen, ueng, uo, arranged in order from left to right, and then a total of nine keys from the upper row to the middle row to the lower row , the four-tone setting is the same as that in Figure 4, using four-corner zones, each zone representing a tone.

Referring to Fig. 9, Fig. 9 is an explanatory diagram of an embodiment of the layout when the keyboard panel surface converted and presented in step 3 of the method shown in Fig. 1 corresponds to the compound final of the final ü in the present invention, which can be called interface 8, including the single final ü, it has 4 forms, that is, ü, üan, üe, ün. In terms of key layout, ü is set in the upper left key position, and the other three are set in the middle row, occupying 4 key positions in total. , the four-tone setting is the same as the setting in Figure 4, using four-corner locations.

Referring to Fig. 10, Fig. 10 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the composition when the corresponding keyboard of the method of the present invention is made into a separate assembly, it includes a keyboard disk surface 1, a keyboard CPU 2, and can also include a character library 3, and the output of the keyboard CPU 2 can be Simply divided into output 1 and output 2, where output 1 is to the display screen, output 2 is to other predetermined components, such as in the field of communication in mobile phones, output 2 may be used as an email output channel, or as a stock inquiry channel, etc. Etc., such as being applied to computer products, the output 2 may be transmitted to the main CPU of the computer first, and then typed and output. Therefore, the keyboard of the present invention usually includes a keyboard surface 1, and a keyboard CPU 2, and the CPU 2 is in a predetermined program. Under the control, according to the input command of the keyboard panel 1, the man-machine dialogue interface of the keyboard panel 1 is converted, and the conversion and display of the interfaces shown in Figure 2 to Figure 9 are performed, and the display of related Chinese characters is performed, and the steps in Figure 1 are followed when being used. The operation realizes the word selection function such as interface conversion. When this keyboard is used in products in the communication field, most of the keyboards must be equipped with a Chinese character library 3, which can be formed by a piece of IC. However, most of the products in the computer field do not need the composition of the Chinese font library 3. According to the functional requirements of different products, even products in the computer field In the middle, also can have Chinese font storehouse 3, in addition, because required storage is not big, storage part can be included among the keyboard CPU 2.

Give several more examples below to illustrate the method of the present invention and the keyboard interface conversion situation.

Input the word "江", its Chinese pinyin is jiang, the four tones are Yinping, first input the initial consonant j from interface 1, and then input the final i from interface 2; at this time, the interface is transformed into interface 6 shown in Figure 7, and iang is input from interface 6 With the first tone of Yinping, several Chinese characters with the same sound and the same tone as "Jiang" will appear. The order of appearance of Chinese characters is usually arranged according to the frequency of use, and the one with the highest frequency will come out first. Here, the input operator only presses the key 3 times to enter the word selection stage, and most of the word selection stages can be selected once. If more than 9 selected words, enter the next version of the word selection area by the space bar below, and continue to select words.

Compared with the usual Chinese pinyin input once by one key, the method of the present invention is simplified to three keys and promptly enters the word selection stage, and because of the difference of four tones, the word selection range is greatly reduced, for example, according to the Chinese-English dictionary in 1980 1 edition, unified ISBN 9017·810, jiangxia has 26 homophones, jiangxia only has three tones, no yinping tone, jiangxia has 10 tones in yinping tones, among which jiang has a higher frequency, so the word jiang can be directly selected at one time Out, compared with other pinyin input, the word selection stage can save 3-5 keys, thereby greatly improving the input speed of Chinese characters.

For example, input the word "An" again, its Chinese pinyin is an, and the first sound is Yinping. Because there is no initial consonant in front, the space key is input in interface 1 to enter interface 2, and the final vowel a is input by interface 2 again. At this time, the interface is converted to the one shown in Figure 4 Interface 3 shown, input an from interface 3, and the first tone of the harmony tone, and the Chinese characters including the word An appear. According to the above-mentioned dictionary, there are only 8 Chinese characters under the first tone of the word an, and all of them will be displayed on the display screen. Can be directly selected at one time.

Through the above examples and descriptions, the step features and keyboard features of the method of the present invention have been clearly illustrated. The method of the present invention is extremely simple, easy to use, the matching keyboard has a simple structure, and the input speed of Chinese characters can be greatly improved. The method of the present invention and Keyboard, not only can be used on the telephone mobile phone, is used on the computer, it can also be used on various products such as field products such as telecommunication computer and game machine, electronic dictionary.

Claims (13)

1. one kind is adopted the Chinese phonetic alphabet to import the method for Chinese character in the keyboard of telecommunication or computer product, wherein this keyboard includes keyboard disk (1) and keyboard CPU (2), wherein keyboard disk (1) links to each other with keyboard CPU (2), keyboard CPU (2) is by preset program, instruction according to keyboard disk (1) input, man-machine dialog interface to keyboard disk (1) is changed, and it is characterized in that comprising the steps:

Step 1, keyboard disk are set to comprise the man-machine dialog interface of whole initial consonants, and the initial consonant of the Chinese character that import is imported;

Step 2 when keyboard disk is converted into the man-machine dialog interface that comprises whole single vowels by preset program, is imported the single vowel of the initial consonant back of the Chinese character that will import;

Step 3, when keyboard disk be converted into by preset program with step 2 in during the man-machine dialog interface of the pairing whole composite vowels of single vowel of input, the composite vowel of the Chinese character that import is imported;

Step 4, when keyboard disk conversion presents Chinese character and enters word selection during the stage, button is selected the Chinese character that will import, and word selection finishes, and returns step 1.

2. the method for claim 1, it is characterized in that, in the composite vowel man-machine dialog interface that keyboard disk presents in step 3, the button of each simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable and each composite vowel all attaches the button position of four tones of Chinese character, i.e. the button position of high and level tone, rising tone, last sound, falling tone.

3. method as claimed in claim 2, it is characterized in that, in the composite vowel man-machine dialog interface that keyboard disk presents in step 3, four positions of four tones are set at the corner positions at four angles of this key, and are the position of four-tone tone with color with the difference of the position in four bights.

4. method as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, when importing the composite vowel of Chinese character in step 3, this Chinese character tone can be imported simultaneously.

5. the method for claim 1, it is characterized in that, in the man-machine dialog interface that keyboard disk presented of step 1,23 initial consonants are arranged on 3 * 39 square button positions of arranging, each square button position is divided into lower-left and upper right two positions by the oblique line from the upper left corner to the lower right corner, represent with dead color in the upper right quarter component, with outstanding difference, wherein c and ch merge the public key position, z and zh merge the public key position, and s and sh merge the public key position, and k and q merge the public key position, v does not use, and its arrangement is as follows:

b\p m\f d\t

n\l g\(k，q) h\j

(z，zh)\(c，ch) (s，sh)\r x\(y，w)。

6. the method for claim 1, it is characterized in that, in the man-machine dialog interface that keyboard disk presented of step 2,6 single vowels are arranged on 3 * 39 square button positions of arranging, it is comma that the most frequently used punctuation mark has been given in remaining three key position, ", fullstop "." and colon ": ", its arrangement is as follows:

， a 。

o e u

： i ü。

7. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, in the man-machine dialog interface that keyboard disk presented of step 3, corresponding simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable is arranged on 3 * 39 square button positions of arranging, unnecessary key position need not,

When step 2 input be simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable a the time, its arrangement is as follows:

a ai an

Ang ao need not

Not using and disusing need not;

When step 2 input be simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable o the time, its arrangement is as follows:

Not using and disusing need not

o ou ong

Not using and disusing need not;

When step 2 input be simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable e the time, its arrangement is as follows:

E does not does not use and disuse

ei en eng

Not using and disusing need not;

When step 2 input be simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable i the time, its arrangement is as follows:

iou ia iao

ian iang ie

in ing iong；

When step 2 input be simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable u the time, its arrangement is as follows:

u ua uai

uan uang uai

un ueng uo；

When step 2 input be simple or compound vowel of a Chinese syllable ü the time, its arrangement is as follows:

ü does not does not use and disuse

üan üe ün

Not using and disusing need not.

8. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, this method can be applied to telephone bandset.

9. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, this method can be applied to computer.

10. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, the input mode of symbol can adopt interface contact input mode according to the specific product situation on its key, the input mode of knocking mouse, button strike input mode once or twice soon.

11. keyboard that in telecommunication or computer product, adopts the described method input of claim 1 Chinese character, include keyboard disk (1) and keyboard CPU (2), wherein keyboard disk (1) links to each other with keyboard CPU (2), keyboard CPU (2) is by preset program, according to the instruction of keyboard disk (1) input, the man-machine dialog interface of keyboard disk (1) is changed, it is characterized in that, it has adopted the keyboard of 9 keys

When initial consonant is set, 9 square keys on the keyboard are divided into lower-left district and upper right district by the straight line from the upper left corner to the lower right corner, two districts adopt different colours to distinguish, and two or more initial consonants are set on each square key;

When single vowel is set, each single vowel is arranged on 1 square key;

When composite vowel is set, four positions are scratched out in four bights of each square key of nine square keys, and distinguished with color, be used to import the four tones of standard Chinese pronunciation of Chinese character;

When selecting the Chinese character that will import, the keyboard disk conversion presents Chinese character and enters the word selection stage.

12. keyboard as claimed in claim 11 is characterized in that, it can also include character library (3).

13. keyboard as claimed in claim 11 is characterized in that it is applicable to mobile phone handsets.

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