Pictographic Character Search Method

• US 20080063281A1
• Filed: 09/07/2006
• Published: 03/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sunrise Group LLC
• Original Assignee: Sunrise Group LLC
• Inventors: Dunn, Roger
• Granted Patent: US 7,840,073 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/185
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/08 for teaching control of aircraft, e.g. Link trainer

Abstract

To make searching for pictographic characters, such as Chinese characters, easier for novice learners of languages using pictographic characters, a subset of pictographic character parts of the pictographic character is generated. Then, the subset of the pictographic character parts is used to generate the pictographic character based on the subset of the pictographic character parts.

Claims

1. A method of generating a pictographic character comprising a plurality of pictographic character parts, the method comprising:

generating a subset of the plurality of pictographic character parts of the pictographic character; and

generating a pictographic character comprising the subset of the plurality of pictographic character parts according to the subset.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

designating a portion of the pictographic character; and

generating a different pictographic character comprising the portion of the pictographic character.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein generating the different pictographic character comprising the portion of the pictographic character comprises adding a radical to the portion of the pictographic character.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein adding a radical to the portion of the pictographic character comprises inputting a keystroke sequence corresponding to the radical.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein adding a radical to the portion of the pictographic character comprises selecting the radical from a list of radicals.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein generating the different pictographic character comprising the portion of the pictographic character comprises adding a non-radical portion to the portion of the pictographic character.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein adding a non-radical portion to the portion of the pictographic character comprises inputting a keystroke sequence corresponding to the non-radical portion.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein adding a non-radical portion to the portion of the pictographic character comprises selecting the non-radical portion from a list of non-radical portions.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein designating the portion of the pictographic character comprises splitting the pictographic character into a plurality of portions, and selecting the portion from the plurality of portions.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein selecting the portion from the plurality of portions comprises scrolling through the plurality of portions and pushing a button to select the portion.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein selecting the portion from the plurality of portions comprises clicking on the portion.

12. The method of claim 2, wherein generating the different pictographic character comprising the portion of the pictographic character comprises selecting a location of the character part in the different character.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein entering the input corresponding to the subset of the plurality of pictographic character parts of the pictographic character comprises entering a string corresponding to a sound of one of the pictographic character parts.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein entering the input corresponding to the subset of the plurality of pictographic character parts of the pictographic character comprises entering a string corresponding to a meaning of one of the pictographic character parts.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein entering the input corresponding to the subset of the plurality of pictographic character parts of the pictographic character comprises entering a string corresponding to a shape of one of the pictographic character parts.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein entering the input corresponding to the subset of the plurality of pictographic character parts of the pictographic character comprises entering a Pinyin string corresponding to the subset of the plurality of pictographic character parts of the pictographic character.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein entering the input corresponding to the subset of the plurality of pictographic character parts of the pictographic character comprises entering a Zhuyin string corresponding to the subset of the plurality of pictographic character parts of the pictographic character.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein entering the input corresponding to the subset of the plurality of pictographic character parts of the pictographic character comprises selecting the subset of the plurality of pictographic character parts of the pictographic character from a list of pictographic character parts.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein entering the input corresponding to the subset of the plurality of pictographic character parts of the pictographic character comprises selecting the subset of the plurality of pictographic character parts of the pictographic character from a table of pictographic character parts.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein generating a subset of the plurality of pictographic character parts of the pictographic character comprises entering an input comprising a phonetic representation of the pictographic character and a predetermined representation of a radical or a non-radical portion of the pictographic character.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein entering an input comprising a phonetic representation of the pictographic character and a predetermined representation of a radical of the pictographic character comprises entering an input comprising a Pinyin representation of the pictographic character and a representation of the radical of the pictographic character.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the representation of the radical of the pictographic character is a first letter of a Pinyin representation of the radical of the pictographic character.

23. The method of claim 20, wherein entering an input comprising a phonetic representation of the pictographic character and a predetermined representation of a radical of the pictographic character comprises entering an input comprising a Zhuyin representation of the pictographic character and a representation of the radical of the pictographic character.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the representation of the radical of the pictographic character is a first Zhuyin symbol of a Zhuyin representation of the radical of the pictographic character.