Coded data generation or conversion – Bodily actuated code generator – Including keyboard or keypad
Patent
1996-05-01
1998-03-03
Hofsass, Jeffery
Coded data generation or conversion
Bodily actuated code generator
Including keyboard or keypad
345171, 395797, 400484, 400110, H03M 1100
Patent
active
057240310
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a method and a keyboard for inputting Chinese characters, which can input both simplified Chinese characters and their original complex forms.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
So far there are many methods for inputting Chinese characters, for example, Five-Stroke Character Form Code, Nature Code, etc. Most of the stroke-form codes and the combination codes of phoneme and stroke-form are difficult to learn and to bear in mind. The crucial question is that they are limited in the encoding method using radicals which are structural components of Chinese characters, so it is difficult for them to avoid the following shortcomings: Five-Stroke Character Form Code has more than 190 encoding elements, Nature Code has more than 250 encoding elements, Four-stroke Phoneme And Stroke-form Code has more than 440 encoding elements, both of Two-stroke Phoneme And Stroke-form Code and Zheng Code have up to 540 encoding elements, and Taiji Code has 152 encoding elements only in so far as the elements of pictographic character elements and mere character elements for exemplification(it is difficult to count up the actual total number of its encoding elements). Because of the large number of encoding elements, users have to remember a large amount when they learn to use these encoding methods. elements, it is not clarified how a character can be broken down into encoding elements. For example, Chinese character "" can be either broken down into "" or "". The rules for breaking down Chinese characters are very complicated and the theories thereof are not easy to understand. The rules for encoding and the corresponding keyboard arrangements of the encoding elements are also very complicated. rate of duplication codes and which can realize blind typing(typing without looking at the display) are four-code input methods, and the long codes cause the increasing of thinking levels for encoding a character and increasing the number of key-striking times, as well as the slowing down of input speed. now available are applicable only to a small collection of Chinese characters, e.g. 6763 Chinese characters in Chinese National Standard GB2312-80, but not applicable to a collection with 20,902 Chinese characters in the international standard ISO-10646 for China, Japan and Republic of Korea. When applying to the ISO-10646 Chinese character collection, it is difficult to encode the phoneme codes in the combination codes of phoneme and stroke-form because there are a large number of Chinese characters, which people do not know their pronunciation, in this large character collection, and it is also very difficult to avoid the high rate of duplication codes or the increase of code length when using mere stroke-form codes, therefore it causes inconvenience to the users.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the present invention is to provide a method and a keyboard for inputting Chinese characters based on the two-stroke forms and two-stroke symbols which are used as basic codes for encoding Chinese characters. It is easy to learn to use and can be inputted with high speed, therefore it overcomes the disadvantages of the prior arts.
The keyboard of the present invention is realized by setting up keys corresponding to 25 two-stroke form code elements and 25 to 28 two-stroke symbol code elements and a code ending key on a standard keyboard.
Said two-stroke form code elements include: ##STR1##
The above two-stroke form code elements are arranged in three lines, with each line has at most 10 elements. The 5 elements beginning with a "horizontal" stroke are marked on the left 5 keys of the middle line; the 5 elements beginning with a "vertical" stroke are marked on the right 4 keys of the middle line, and the second right key of the lower line; the 5 elements beginning with a "left-falling" stroke are marked on the left 5 keys of the upper line; the 5 elements beginning with a "right-falling" stroke are marked on the right 5 keys of the upper line; and the 5 elements beginning with a "tur
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Hofsass Jeffery
Wong Albert K.
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