Apparatus and method for inputting chinese characters for communication terminal

Abstract

An apparatus and method for inputting Chinese characters for a communication terminal is disclosed, whereby a keypad provided with various kinds of buttons can slide in at least four directions in a main body around the center thereof, and thus Chinese characters or numerals / symbols can be conveniently inputted.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a device and method for inputting Chinese characters. More specifically, the present invention relates to a device and method for inputting Chinese characters for a communication terminal, whereby the keyboard provided with various keys can slide in at least four directions around its center in the fuselage, and therefore, can The input of Chinese characters or numbers / symbols is conveniently carried out through the communication terminal. Background technique [0002] Recently, with the rapid development of communication technology, communication terminals such as mobile phones, PDAs, palmtop computers, Internet terminals, etc., which enable users to perform voice and data communication during their mobility, have been developed and widely promoted. [0003] In particular, various additional services have been developed and actively used due to the technical development of the general personal wireless communication service a...

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In contrast, although the Wubi input method is simple and has a higher character input speed, it is difficult to apply the Wubi input method to cellular phones, and therefore, the Wubi input method has not been actively used in the cellular phone field middle

[0013] As mentioned above, there is the following problem in the Chinese character input method (for example, the pinyin input method using Roman character) that uses touch-tone telephone type keyboard according to the prior art using Roman characters: they are different from the Roman character input method provided by general-purpose word processors. systems (referring to the 26 roman character input environment in a PC's QWERTY keyboard) are vastly different, thus ruining user friendliness

Especially in the case of assigning multiple roman consonants and vowels to one key on the keyboard, it takes a lot of effort for the user to understand the key arrangement of the keyboard, so it is not easy for the user to master it even when the key arrangement is very regular Key operation, thus causing a great obstacle to input pinyin

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