KR20060018565A - Character input method of keyboard device for information and communication equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a character input method of a character keyboard provided in an information communication device such as a portable terminal or a mobile phone, and in particular, a consonant keyboard part, a vowel keyboard part, a phonological abbreviation button, and a Chinese character button 240 for displaying Chinese characters. The present invention relates to a character input method of a keyboard apparatus for an information and communication device capable of easily inputting foreign characters such as Korean, Chinese, Chinese, etc., comprising: a basic consonant button of a consonant keyboard portion constituting a keyboard apparatus And receiving a combination of the basic vowel buttons arranged in the vowel keyboard unit and generating Korean characters; Chinese tones selection step of selecting a Chinese tones corresponding to the Hangul generated on the screen of the keyboard display Hangul; Characterized in that it comprises a Chinese character conversion step of selecting and converting the selected Chinese characters from the displayed Chinese characters according to the selection of Chinese tones. The present invention expands the field of application such as personal and home wired and wireless telephones, PDAs, interactive TVs, CATV set-top boxes, POS systems, living and industrial remote control and keypads for text input in the future ubiquitous era Very useful.

Information and Communication Equipment, Keyboard, Hangul, Chinese, Foreign Language, Special Characters, Buffering

Description

An input method for a keyboard in an information communication device

1 is a block diagram of a character keyboard of an embodiment for implementing multiple characters usable for practicing the present invention,

Figure 2 is a detailed view of the character keyboard shown in FIG.

3 is a diagram for illustrating Chinese input according to the keyboard input method of the present invention;

Figure 4a is a view showing a kanji table by the selection of tones according to the present invention,

Figure 4b is a view showing a Chinese character table according to the present invention,

5 is a diagram illustrating an editing buffering function according to a character input method of the present invention;

6 is a view showing a special character display method according to the character input method of the present invention;

7 is a view showing a foreign language display method according to the character input method of the present invention;

8 is a view showing a stored article or a stored picture display method according to a character input method of the present invention;

9 is a flowchart illustrating a text input method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

<Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

100: keyboard 110: screen

120: function button 125: direction button

210: consonant keyboard 220: vowel keyboard

230: phonetic abbreviation button 230a: question mark button

230b: exclamation mark button 235: blank button

240: Chinese character button 250: Scroll button

300a: Chinese character table 300b: Chinese character table

320: special character table 330: go to the selection table

340 Hiragana selection table 350 Latin character selection table

360: Russian Character Selection Table 370: Hebrew Character Selection Table

The present invention relates to a character input method in a character keyboard provided in an information communication device such as a portable terminal or a mobile phone. The present invention particularly includes a consonant keyboard unit, a vowel keyboard unit, a phonetic abbreviation button, and a Chinese character button for displaying Chinese characters. The present invention relates to a character input method of a keyboard apparatus for an information and communication device capable of inputting multiple characters that can easily input foreign characters such as Korean, Chinese, and Chinese.

Due to the development of information and communication, the use of devices for receiving and receiving information such as personal and home mobile phones, wired / wireless phones, PDAs, interactive TVs via the Internet, CATV set-top boxes, POS systems, etc. are greatly used in personal life and industrial fields. Increasingly, text transmission is increasingly performed using a remote controller and a keypad such as a portable terminal or a telephone. With the development of wireless communication, personal mobile phones have become an indispensable necessity, and as a kind of value-added service, SMS has been common for text transmission and e-mail transmission and reception using mobile phones. Increased.

Therefore, there is a need for a method more convenient and easy to use for the Internet era when inputting characters using the keyboard of a device such as a portable terminal and a mobile phone.

The Korean input method which has been studied and used in the past has overwritten several Hangul vowels and consonants on a single button to express vowels and consonants for expressing all the Hangul characters on a limited number plate from 0 to 9. That is, when the user inputs Korean characters, the characters are displayed by combining the Korean characters by pressing the button of the keyboard several times.

Therefore, in order to input Korean characters, the user must take the inconvenience of pressing the button of the keyboard as many as 10 times, and the characters of the keyboard should be displayed more than 7 characters in correspondence with the buttons. .

In addition, it is almost impossible to input multiple characters that can express foreign languages such as Chinese characters, Chinese, and Japanese, and only a few special characters are available for inputting special characters. .

On the other hand, there are two methods of inputting Chinese when inputting a foreign language using a letter board. However, the former uses the five-letter type method and the Chinese pinyin method. There are problems that the input is difficult due to the change of tonality and the input speed is slow in the latter case.

Therefore, it is necessary to develop a character keyboard that not only enables Korean input, but also implements multiple characters capable of inputting Chinese characters and various special characters and foreign languages such as Chinese and Japanese.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and includes a phonetic abbreviation button for displaying a lattice sound on a consonant keyboard part and a vowel keyboard part, and a Chinese character button for displaying a Chinese character. It is an object of the present invention to provide a character input method of a keyboard device for electronic and information communication devices that can easily implement multiple characters as an input method.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a character input method capable of converting Chinese characters by selecting Chinese tones by pressing a Chinese character button on a Korean character displayed on a screen.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a character input method capable of performing a buffering editing function for attaching and deleting a sentence.

Objects of the present invention as described above, the character keyboard provided in the information communication device used to communicate the voice or text to each other, a consonant keyboard part which is divided into a predetermined form to assign a button to input the basic consonant group And a vowel keyboard unit in which a button is divided and assigned in a predetermined form to input a basic vowel group configured to be combined with the consonant keyboard unit, and each button of the consonant keyboard unit and each button of the vowel keyboard unit As a character input method of a keyboard apparatus for an information and communication device for implementing a multi-character including a phono abbreviation button for displaying a sound and a Chinese character button for displaying a generated Hangul and Chinese characters.

Generating a Korean by receiving a combination of a basic consonant button of a consonant keyboard part and a basic vowel button arranged in a vowel keyboard part, respectively;

Chinese tones selection step of selecting a Chinese tones corresponding to the Hangul generated on the screen of the keyboard display Hangul;

The character input method of the keyboard apparatus for an information and communication device, which comprises a Chinese character conversion step of selecting and converting the selected Chinese characters from among the displayed Chinese characters by selecting the tones of Chinese.

Other objects, specific advantages and novel features of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description and the preferred embodiments associated with the accompanying drawings.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a configuration diagram of a character keyboard implementing multiple characters of an embodiment for implementing a character input method according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a detailed view of the character keyboard shown in FIG.

As shown in Figures 1 and 2, the character keyboard 100 is provided in a portable terminal or a mobile phone for implementing the present invention {10b, ㄷ,, ㅁ, ㅅㅇ, ㅎㅎ} 10 basic consonant group of five buttons Consisting of a consonant keyboard portion 210 provided with, and {ㅏㅗ, ㅓ TT, ㅣ ㅡ} six basic vowel group is composed of a large vowel keyboard portion 220 provided with three vowel buttons.

In addition, the phonetic abbreviation button 230 and the Chinese character for displaying consonants and vowels that are not displayed on the letter board 100 by combining the buttons of the consonant keyboard unit 210 and the vowel keyboard unit 220. And a Chinese character button 240 for displaying Chinese and a scrolling button 250 for moving the screen, and the like.

Here, the consonant keyboard 210, the vowel keyboard 220, and the Chinese character button 240 except for the screen movement button 250 are {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. , 0} Arabic numerals are displayed in order to include a numeric button function for displaying the numbers by operating the corresponding button.

In addition, the portable terminal or mobile phone provided with the letter board 100 as described above is further configured with a function button unit 120 and a screen 110 for displaying information necessary for the use of the phone. In addition, the function button unit is provided with a direction button 125 to move the cursor for displaying the selected character on the screen (110).

In addition, a screen moving button 250 for moving the screen displayed for the search movement of the content displayed on the screen 110 to the previous screen or the next screen is provided.

The basic consonant group consisting of 10 consonants of the consonant keypad 210 includes 10 consonants, each of which assigns two consonants to one button so that the front consonants are displayed in one push operation. In the second consecutive pressing operation, the back consonants are displayed sequentially. That is, the five buttons constituting the basic consonant group are arranged with two consonants, respectively, to display the consonants at the rear in two operations.

First, when the consonant display is described, a lattice sound is displayed by combining the phonetic contraction button 230 with the basic consonant group of the consonant keypad 210.

For example, {a, c, ㅂ, ㅈ} forming the basic consonant group expresses {ㅋ, ㅌ,, ㅅ}, which is a lattice sound (coarse sound), in combination with the phonetic contraction button 230 Abbreviated). That is, when the phonetic abbreviation button 230 is pressed after the {a} button of the basic consonant group is pressed, {ㅋ} (ㄱ + ㅎ) is displayed on the screen 110.

Likewise, when the phonetic abbreviation button 230 is pressed after the pressing operation of the {c} button, {ㅌ} (ㄷ + ㅎ) may be displayed. In this way, the lattice sounds {ㅋ (ㄱ + ㅎ), ㅌ (ㄷ + ㅎ), ㄴ (ㅂ + ㅎ), ㅊ (ㅈ + ㅎ)} can be displayed.

Then, the consonant, which is another consonant group, may be displayed through the basic consonant group. When the key operation is performed three times in total, the front consonants are displayed as twin consonants. That is, the five buttons constituting the basic consonant group are arranged in front of each of the basic consonants composed of {a, c, ㅂ, ㅅ, ㅈ}, so if each button is pressed three times, the {ㄲ, ㄸ, 쌍, ㅆ, ㅉ} double consonants.

In addition, the consonants displayed through the consonant keyboard 210 as described above are composed of three basic vowel buttons {ㅏㅗ, ㅓㅜ, ㅣ ㅡ} in combination with the vowels of the vowel keyboard 220 displayed. You are done.

That is, when generating the vowels to generate the Hangul, 3 configured to input each of the two vowels of the basic vowel group consisting of six vowels (ㅏ ,, ㅓ TT, ㅣ ㅡ) arranged in the letter keyboard 100 Receives each button action from the vowel keyboard 220 consisting of two buttons once to create a vowel in front of the corresponding button, or receives the button action twice and creates a vowel behind the corresponding button. The remaining vowels can be displayed by combining the phonetic abbreviation buttons 230 (collecting the vowels) to display all the entire vowels. That is, the vowel vowels {ㅑ (ㅣ + ㅏ), ㅕ (ㅣ + ㅓ), ㅛ (ㅣ + ㅗ), ㅠ (ㅣ + TT)} (ㅏ, ㅓ, ㅗ, TT) and the phonetic abbreviation button 230 In combination, press each vowel button once or twice and press the phonetic abbreviation button 230.

In addition, the {{}} button includes a blank button 235 function for displaying a blank in combination with the phonetic contraction button 230. That is, pressing the blank button 235 which is the same button as the {ㅅㅇ} button, and then pressing the phonetic abbreviation button 230 causes the cursor to immediately display a writing position on the screen 110 to be spaced by one space. Will be displayed.

In addition, the phonological abbreviation button 230 may display a question mark (?) And an exclamation point (!). That is, the pressing operation of the phonic abbreviation button 230 is repeated twice to display a question mark (?) On the screen 110, and the pressing operation of the phonological abbreviation button 230 is repeated three times. ) With an exclamation point (!).

The desired Hangul can be expressed using the functions as described above, and the Hangul expressed can be displayed in Chinese characters including Chinese in combination with the Hanja button 240.

That is, when the first display of Hangul and pressing the Chinese character button 240, as shown in Figure 3, the tonal selection window 130 appears on the screen 110, the tone selection display is the direction of the function button unit 120 Arrows of the type corresponding to button 125 are configured to represent respective tones of Chinese characters. In other words, Mandarin, which is a standard Chinese language, is divided into four stars. The first sex, Pyeongseong (eumpyeong) (symbol:-), is extended to the end with a high level and is indicated by an arrow ( ← ), and the second sex, Pyeong ( Yangpyeong) (symbol: /) is pronounced by the arrow ( → ) as the pronunciation that is pulled up at once, and the third adult (phonogram) (symbol: ∨) is represented by the arrow ( ↑ ) as the pronunciation that is lowered and raised. The giant (symbol: ') is just pronounced lightly by the arrow ( ↓ ). Of course, such a display method may be appropriately changed and may be appropriately modified and applied as the type of tones according to the dialect increases or decreases.

As shown in FIG. 4A, the Chinese character corresponding to the Hangul of the tonal character is a tonal Chinese character table 300a by pressing the corresponding direction button 125 of the function selection unit 120 to select the tonality and pressing the Chinese character button again. It will appear like this to display the Chinese by selecting the Chinese characters.

On the other hand, in the case of simply converting Hangul to Hanja used in Korea, as shown in FIG. 4B, by pressing the Hanja button 240 on the generated Hangul, the Hanja table 300b listing the Hanja corresponding to the sound of the Hangul is displayed. Displayed on the screen 110 is switched to the Chinese character selection screen.

At this time, it is possible to switch the Chinese character selection screen by the screen movement button 250, and each Chinese character is numbered from 1 to 9 times, and selects the Chinese character with the corresponding number button to display or display the direction button 125 on the screen 110. After moving the cursor between the Chinese characters used, the selected Chinese character is displayed on the screen 110 by pressing the Chinese character button 240.

Here, the Chinese character selection screen switching is performed by the screen moving button 250, and the Chinese characters are arranged in the Chinese character table 300b one by one to form a plurality of Chinese character tables 300b. It is possible.

In addition, the Chinese character button 240 includes a function of instructing a final selection, and thus acts as an enter key of a computer keyboard.

In this way, the corresponding Chinese or Chinese characters are displayed by pressing the Hanja button 240 for the Hangul generated by combining the buttons of the consonant keypad 210 and the vowel keyboard 220. The Chinese character table 300b is a table in which all Chinese characters corresponding to each Korean sound are classified by sound, and can be displayed in the memory to display all desired Chinese characters. It is a table that sorts the Chinese characters according to the Chinese characters and is arranged in the memory to display the required Chinese characters.

In addition, each consonant to be expressed can be displayed in combination with the kanji button 240, a special character for each consonant. That is, a special character table 320 attached to each consonant is assigned to the consonant and stored in a memory. The consonant is displayed when the consonant is combined with the kanji button 240. The special character table 320 is generally composed of special characters expressed in a computer.

In addition, in the same manner as the display process of the special character table 320 may be displayed by displaying a foreign language, stored articles or storage pictures. In particular, the foreign language is an example of the display of Japanese katakana and hiragana, Latin letters, Russian letters and Hebrew letters.

That is, the consonant buttons {나타나는, ㄸ, ㄲ, ㅆ, ㅉ} and each of the Chinese characters button 240 appear by pressing each consonant button of the consonant button three times in succession. At this time, the combination of {ㅃ} and the kanji button 240 displays the Japanese katana selection table 330, and the combination of the {ㄸ} and the kanji button 240 displays the Japanese hiragana selection table 340. . In addition, the combination of {ㄲ} and the Chinese character button 240 will display the Latin character selection table 350, and the combination of {ㅆ} and the Chinese character button 240 will display the Russian character selection table 360, and the {ㅉ} The combination of and Chinese characters button 240 will display the Hebrew character selection table 370.

On the other hand, when you press the phonetic abbreviation button 230 and the Chinese character button 240 in combination to display a storage article or a storage picture selection table 380, such a storage article or storage picture frequently used by the user when writing or drawing, This function stores avatars and emoticons in memory and recalls them when necessary.

The various selection tables 330, 340, 350, 360, 370, and 380, including the special character table 320, respectively, appear on the screen 110 and are numbered 1 to 9 on one screen to display nine. Press the number button of the letter to select. In addition, after moving the cursor between each special character using the direction button 125 provided in the function button unit 120, the Chinese character button 240 may be pressed.

And, if there are more than nine special characters to display, it consists of a plurality of screens, and the movement to the previous screen and the next screen is switched using the screen move button 250.

The functions as described above are the special character table 320, the katana selection table 330, the hiragana selection table 340, the Latin character selection table 350, the Russian character selection table 360, the Hebrew character selection table 370, and In the storage article or the stored picture selection table 380, all texts, articles, and pictures are identically used. And, this feature is characterized in that can be implemented in the Chinese character table (300).

In addition, as described above, the order and positional relationship of the special characters, foreign languages, storage words, and storage pictures assigned to each consonant and the double consonant in the present invention are only one embodiment in the present invention. .

Meanwhile, in the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 5, the combination buffering function such as the erasing and pasting function of the sentence is performed by combining the vowel keyboard, the Chinese character keyboard 240 and the phonetic abbreviation button 230. Can be. That is, when the cursor is placed at the first part of the sentence to be erased or pasted, and the combination of the first vowel keyboard 220 and the kanji keyboard 240 is pressed, it starts to designate a part to be copied. The buffering function is edited according to the movement of the cursor. After all of the portions to be performed are designated, the second collection keyboard 220 is subsequently pressed to delete the specified portions (CUT), and after moving the cursor to the copying portion, the third collection keyboard 220 and the Chinese character board 240 are moved. Press to perform the paste function (PASTE).

By configuring the editing buffering function such as the pasting and erasing of sentences through the combination of the vowel keyboard and the kanji keyboard, it is possible to perform the task more efficiently when the long message is delivered. On the other hand, when pressing the second vowel keyboard 220 and the Chinese character board 240 is configured to perform the Re-Do (Redo) function, in the case of displaying foreign language characters after displaying one foreign language character and then another foreign language character In the case of displaying, instead of pressing the Chinese character button after generating the lattice sound, it is possible to simply press the second vowel keyboard and the Chinese character button to continue displaying the foreign language characters.

Hereinafter, a method of using a keyboard apparatus for implementing a multi-character using a letter keyboard having the above function will be described in detail with reference to a method of displaying Chinese characters and Chinese characters.

As shown in FIG. 9, when inputting a character using a keyboard, first, through a menu operation step (S100) of defining a tonal type definition, storing (old), telephone number, keyboard type, etc. S200, S210 to proceed.

In the character input step, generally enters the Hangul input step (S300), when it is required to generate a basic consonant or a pair of consonants, consonants to each of the character keyboard 100 (ㄱ, ㄹ, ㅂㅁ, ㅅㅇ, ㅎ) By receiving the button operation of any one consonant button from the consonant keyboard unit 210 consisting of five buttons to be combined once to generate a consonant of the front of the button or to receive the button operation twice to generate a consonant behind the button , Consonant consonants receive any one consonant button of the consonant keyboard unit 210 three times to generate a consonant (ㄲ, ㄸ, ㅃ, ㅆ, ㅉ) in front of the corresponding button, lattice sound (ㅋ, ㅌ, プ, K) is to press the consonant buttons (b, ㄹ, ㅂㅁ, ㅎ) respectively, and then generate a corresponding lattice sound (consonant abbreviation) by input of the phonological abbreviation button 230.

On the other hand, when generating the vowels to create Hangul, three (3, 수, ㅓ ト, ㅣ ㅡ) consisting of six vowels arranged in the character keyboard 100 configured to input two vowels each of the two vowels group Receives each button operation from the vowel keyboard 220 composed of buttons once to create a vowel in front of the corresponding button, or receives the button action twice to create a vowel behind the corresponding button. The entire collection may be displayed by displaying the remaining collections by combining the abbreviation button 230. In other words, the vowel vowels {ㅑ (ㅣ + ㅏ), ㅕ (ㅣ + ㅓ), ㅛ (ㅣ + ㅗ), ㅠ (ㅣ + ()} (contract abbreviation) are (ㅏ, ㅓ, ㅗ, TT) Combining 230, pressing each vowel button once or twice, and press the phonetic abbreviation button 230. Similarly, (ㅐ, ㅔ, ㅚ, ㅟ) consists of (ㅏ, ㅓ, ㅗ, TT) + (ㅣ), where (ㅏ) + (ㅣ) is (ㅐ), (ㅓ) + (ㅣ) It is displayed in the same combination as (iii). In addition, (ㅒ, ㅖ) is represented by (ㅏ, ㅓ) + phoneme abbreviation button 230 + (ㅣ), or (ㅏ, ㅓ) + (ㅣ) + phoneme abbreviation button 230, two ways All is possible. Then, (ㅘ, ㅝ, ㅢ) is displayed by pressing the buttons of (ㅏㅗ, ㅓ, ㅣ ㅡ) three times each, and (ㅙ, ㅞ) is displayed after pressing (ㅘ, ㅝ) and then press (ㅣ). Is displayed as.

In addition, the question mark and exclamation point is characterized in that both the question mark and exclamation point display function is given to the phonological abbreviation button 230. Therefore, pressing the phonological abbreviation button 230 repeatedly displays a question mark (?) On the screen 110 and pressing the phonological abbreviation button 230 repeatedly displays an exclamation mark (!) On the screen 110.

On the other hand, when it is necessary to display a blank, the consonant button s of the consonant keyboard 210 is combined with the phonological abbreviation button 230 to display a blank.

Through this process, the Korean language is generated, and then a Chinese character or Chinese input step (S400, S410, S420; S500, S510, S520, S530) is performed, as shown in FIGS. 4A, 4B, and 9, When the Chinese characters corresponding to the Korean characters are displayed (S400, S410, and S420), after each consonant keyboard of the consonant keyboard unit 210 and each vowel keyboard of the vowel keyboard unit 220 are combined to generate a Korean character, When the Chinese character button 240 is directly pressed, a Chinese character table 300b corresponding to Korean characters is generated and the screen is switched to the Chinese character selection screen (S410). In addition, the Chinese character selection screen can be switched by the screen moving button 250, and each Chinese character is assigned a number from 1 to 9 so that the Chinese character can be selected and displayed using the corresponding number button.

In addition, another method of selecting a desired Chinese character is to move the cursor between each Chinese character using the direction button 125 provided in the function button unit 120, and then press the Chinese character button 240 to select the Chinese character on the screen ( 110). For example, if you want to convert Hangul (a) to Hanja, press the Hanja button 240 while placing the cursor on the letter (a) in Hangul on the screen 110. When the kanji button 240 is pressed, a kanji table 300b in which “kan” negative kanji characters are displayed at the bottom of the screen 110 is displayed and the screen is switched to the kanji selection screen. At this time, if there is a desired Chinese character in the Chinese character table displayed on the screen, the desired Chinese character is selected using the direction button 125 and then the Chinese character button 240 is pressed again so that the selected Chinese character is displayed.

At this time, if there is no desired Chinese character to switch to the previous screen or the next screen using the screen movement button 250 to find the desired Chinese character to move to the corresponding number button or direction button 125 to select.

On the other hand, Chinese display (S500, S510, S520, S530) is a combination of the consonant keyboard and vowel keyboard of the keyboard to display the Hangul (S300), the Hangul is one one syllable Hangul cursor on the screen 110 is displayed If you select and input a combination of Chinese characters button 240, Chinese tonal selection window 130 appears first to execute the tone selection step (S510), the function button corresponding to the arrow indicating the tone of the tone selection window 130 When the direction button 125 of the unit 120 is pressed, the Chinese character table 300a corresponding to the Chinese tones is displayed and the screen is switched to the Chinese kanji selection screen (S520). Just do it.

6 is an exemplary view showing the step (S700, S710, S720) of displaying a special character using the keyboard apparatus to which the present invention is applied, which is generated and displayed by the consonant keyboard portion 210 of the letter keyboard 100 The special character table 320 coincides with each consonant. Accordingly, when one of the selected consonants is displayed on the screen 110 and the Chinese character button 240 is pressed (S700), the special character table 320 corresponding to the selected consonants is displayed on the screen 110 to select special characters. The display is switched to the screen (S710).

The special character table 320 displayed on the special character selection screen is arranged along with the numbers from 1 to 9, and is selected by pressing the number button of the same character keyboard 100 as the number before the desired special character (S720). At this time, the special character table 320 is composed of a plurality of screens each arranged by nine special characters, press the screen move button 250 to switch to the previous screen or the next screen various special characters to the screen 110 Can be represented.

Here, all the special characters required by assigning different special character table 320 for each consonant can be displayed, and selecting by pressing the number button of the letter keyboard 100 identical to the number before each special character as described above. Done.

Figure 7 is an exemplary view showing a foreign language (excluding Chinese) display (S600, S610, S620) using the keyboard device to which the present invention is applied, the double consonant (나타나는, ㄸ, ㄲ) appears by pressing each consonant button three times in succession , ㅆ, 시켜) are preferably matched with each other.

That is, when the consonant {ㅃ} + Chinese character button 240 is combined (S600), the access table 330 is displayed on the screen 110 (S610), and the access table 330 is displayed. The letters are arranged with numbers from 1 to 9 by 9, and pressing the same number button on the letter board 100 as the number before the letter is selected (S620). In this way, the consonant {ㄸ} + Chinese character button 240 is combined to display the hiragana selection table 340 on the screen 110, and the consonant {ㄲ} + Chinese character button 240 is combined to select Latin characters. The table 350 is displayed on the screen 110, the combination of the double consonant {ㅆ} + Chinese character button 240 displays the Russian character selection table 360 on the screen 110, and the consonant {ㅉ} + Chinese character. A button 240 is input to display the Hebrew character selection table 370. In each of the selection table displayed in this way by pressing the number button of the letter keyboard 100 the same as the number before the desired character to be selected.

8 is an exemplary view illustrating a method of displaying a stored article, a stored picture, or an emoticon. When the phonetic abbreviation button 230 and the Chinese character button 240 are combined, the stored article, emoticon, or stored picture selection table 380 is displayed on the screen ( 110 is displayed and displayed by pressing the number button of the letter keyboard 100, the same as the number before the stored text, emoticons or storage pictures. Of course, after moving the cursor to the desired character can also be entered by pressing the Chinese character button 240. In addition, by using the screen move button 250, the display can be selected and displayed by displaying a larger portion or a stored picture by switching to the previous screen or the next screen.

The stored text, emoticon or stored picture selection table 380 displayed on the screen 110 can be easily selected and used when necessary by inputting frequently used phrases into a memory in advance. You can download and save the picture.

In addition, in the case of performing the editing function as shown in FIG. 5 (S1000), a combination of a vowel keyboard, a Chinese character 240, and a phonetic abbreviation button 230 is used to perform a buffering editing function such as a function of erasing and pasting a sentence. Can be done. That is, when the cursor is placed on the first part of the sentence to be erased or pasted, and the combination of the first vowel keyboard 220 and the kanji keyboard 240 is pressed, it starts to designate a part to be copied and the buffering editing function according to the movement of the cursor. After all of the portions to be performed are designated, the second collection keyboard 220 is subsequently pressed to delete the specified portions (CUT), and after moving the cursor to the copying portion, the third collection keyboard 220 and the Chinese character board 240 are moved. Press to perform the paste function (PASTE). By configuring the buffering editing function such as the pasting and erasing of sentences through the combination of the vowel keyboard and the kanji keyboard, the work can be more efficiently performed when the long message is delivered.

In addition, Arabic numerals of {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0} in the consonant keyboard 210, the vowel keyboard 220, and the Chinese character button 240 are sequentially. It displays the number by operating the button. As described above, when the number is displayed, it is preferable to change the input mode to the number mode in the function button unit 120 and then press the letter board 100 to display the number.

On the other hand, the above description has been described with reference to the keyboard consisting of the keyboard of the present invention as a vowel keyboard, (ㅏ, ㅗ; ㅓ, TT; ㅣ, ㅡ), but the present invention is not limited thereto, naragle It is obvious that the same can be applied to a case in which the vowel keyboard is configured differently.

Furthermore, in another embodiment of the present invention, the type of the keyboard is different from the one used in the present invention so that several types of keyboards are integrated to be selected first, and thus, the selected keyboard device is applied to apply the present invention. In this case, the input stack for displaying letters and symbols including vowels or consonants may be configured as LEDs and LCDs, and the characters may be configured to input characters using a type of keyboard selected and switched by the user.

Of course, in the case of integrating such a keyboard type, in order to select a keyboard type and subsequently perform an input method according to the corresponding keyboard type, each corresponding software is embedded in an information and communication device including a portable terminal, and thus the keyboard type is selected. The corresponding software will be called up and executed, and the program for selecting each type of keyboard and executing these keyboards can be downloaded and used by accessing the homepage of the relevant company.

The keyboard and information input method for an information and communication device that implements the multi-characters as described above can provide various functions and provide a simpler input method by providing a function more similar to the input method of a standard keyboard of a computer.

In addition, each button constituting the character keyboard according to the present invention can be modified in any positional relationship with each other in the arrangement, the modification of a simple arrangement relationship does not depart from the scope of the present invention. In particular, in displaying special characters, the connection arrangement of each special character or foreign language, stored word or stored picture that is connected to each consonant or double consonant can be changed as much as possible, and the alphabet of English is written together on the keyboard. Of course, the sentence can be configured to deliver the message.

As described above, according to the keyboard apparatus and the input method for implementing the multi-character according to the present invention, the consonant keyboard unit 210 composed of {ㄱ, ㄷ, ㅁㅁ, ㅅㅇ, ㅈㅎ} and {ㅏㅗ, ㅓ TT, ㅣ A phonological abbreviation button 230 for displaying a lattice sound and a kanji button 240 for displaying a kanji are provided on the vowel keyboard 220 composed of ㅡ}, so that all Korean characters can be expressed with fewer pushes. Was done.

Then, by pressing the Chinese character button 240 for the Chinese characters represented on the screen 110 to display the Chinese tonal selection window, and then select the tonality to display the corresponding Chinese character table, input the desired Chinese, or create a Chinese character after generating Korean You can display the Hanja by pressing the button, followed by selecting and typing the corresponding Hanja to display the Hanja, special characters and foreign languages such as Katana, Hiragana, Latin, Russian, and Hebrew, as well as avatars and emoticons. You can express various characters by entering the saved picture in the form of a table.

In addition, the portable terminal or the mobile phone can easily enter letters as in a computer standard keyboard input method, and all characters can be input and displayed to accommodate all anticipated contents in mobile e-commerce. .

In addition, the character operation system and code system of the computer can be accommodated in both the mobile phone keyboard and the screen 110, thereby ensuring the compatibility of all data between the computer and the mobile phone. Moreover, it is possible to guarantee text input more simply and quickly than the existing text input system, and it is possible to transmit text and picture information more quickly and accurately through mobile phones.

In addition, according to the present invention, it is possible to apply in the character input of various remote controllers and keypads for personal and home wired / wireless telephones, PDAs, interactive TVs, CATV set-top boxes, POS systems, living and industrial preparations for the future ubiquitous era. Is very useful because it is expanding.

Although the present invention has been described in connection with the above-mentioned preferred embodiments, various other modifications and variations may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, it is intended that the appended claims cover such modifications and variations as fall within the true scope of the invention.

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A character keyboard provided in an information communication device used to communicate a voice or a text to each other, comprising: a consonant keyboard unit 210 having a predetermined shape and a button assigned to key input a basic consonant group, and the consonant keyboard unit In order to input a basic vowel group configured to be combined with 210, a vowel keyboard unit 220 is provided by separating and assigning a button in a predetermined form, and each button of the consonant keyboard unit 210 and each of the vowel keyboard unit 220 are allocated. Information communication device for implementing a multi-character including a phonetic abbreviation button 230 for displaying a phonetic abbreviation in combination with a button, and a Chinese character button 240 for displaying Chinese and Hanja corresponding to the generated Hangul As the keyboard input method of the keyboard device: Generating a Korean by receiving a combination of the basic consonant buttons of the consonant keyboard unit 210 constituting the keyboard device and the basic vowel buttons arranged on the vowel keyboard unit 220; Chinese tones selection step of selecting a Chinese tones corresponding to the Hangul generated on the screen of the keyboard display Hangul; A character input method of a keyboard apparatus for an information and communication device, comprising: converting a Chinese kanji by selecting and converting the selected kanji from the displayed Chinese kanji according to the selection of Chinese tones. The method of claim 1, wherein a special character or a foreign language is displayed by pressing a combination of the consonant keyboard and the Chinese character board of the consonant keyboard unit 210. The character input of the keyboard apparatus for an information and communication device according to claim 1, wherein the basic vowel buttons {(누 ㅗ), (ㅣ ㅡ)} and the Chinese character button 240 are pressed in combination. Way. The character input method of the keyboard apparatus for an information and communication device according to claim 1, wherein, in the Hangul generating step, a lattice sound is generated by pressing a combination of a basic consonant and a phonetic abbreviation button. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein after inputting a foreign language character, the basic vowel button and the Chinese character button 240 are pressed to perform a re-do function to continue inputting a foreign language character. Character input method of. The character input method of claim 1, wherein the stored text is inputted by pressing a combination of a phonetic abbreviation button (230) and a Chinese character button (240) when editing a document after registering the stored text. The character input method of the keyboard apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the character input program and data can be downloaded and executed when different keyboard types are executed.

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