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Method and device for phonetically encoding Chinese textual data for data processing entry

  • US 5,164,900 A
  • Filed: 05/26/1989
  • Issued: 11/17/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/14/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An operator controllable electronic data entry device for encoding in digital-coded form, for output to word processing equipment in accordance with an encoding method, at least one desired block of a plurality of blocks of Chinese text characters, each of said blocks containing one or more characters in a linear order, said data entry device comprising:

  • input means for inputting at least one of a plurality of encoding sequences of data, said at least one encoding sequence including phonetic and character position data which are used to encode said desired block in accordance with said encoding method, said input means comprising a means for inputting said phonetic data which corresponds to the pronunciation of each Chinese text character making up said at least one desired block and a means for inputting said character position data indicating a linear position which each text character making up said at least one desired block occupies within a sequence of characters constituting a phrase in the Chinese language;

    said input means being selectively operable by said operator to input said encoding sequences of data, said input means generating a respective plurality of electronic, digitally-coded signal strings corresponding to said encoding sequences of data;

    memory means containing a plurality of memory locations, each said location corresponding to one of said plurality of signal strings generated by the input means and each said location operative to store digitally-coded data for at least one Chinese character, by which coded data said at least one character can be visually reproduced or otherwise processed as required by the word processing equipment into which the data entry is made; and

    processing means for receiving said signal strings generated by said input means, for searching said memory means for said corresponding memory locations, for retrieving said coded data stored in said memory means, and for outputting said data into the word processing equipment into which the data entry is made.

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