Patent ID: 6346990
Filing Date: 2002-02-12
Classification: B41J,G06F

Abstract:
A code entry method of obtaining a desired character from one of a plurality of code-character conversion tables associated with different code systems in which one or more codes correspond to respective different characters and one or more characters are identified by different codes in the respective code systems wherein a first table of the plurality of code-character conversion tables contains relationships between all the different codes and their corresponding characters under a first code system, and a second table of the plurality of code-character conversion tables contains only specific codes under a second code system and the identity of different codes under the first code system identifying the same characters, the specific codes under the second code system identifying characters different from characters identified by the identical codes under the first code system; the method comprising the steps of:inputting a code corresponding to the desired character in one of the plurality of code-character conversion tables; finding and retrieving different eligible characters identified by the input code in the respective plurality of code-character conversion tables; said finding and retrieving including retrieving a first eligible character identified in the first code-character conversion table as corresponding to the input code, and retrieving a second eligible character identified in the first code-character conversion table as corresponding to a different code which is identified in the second code-character conversion table as corresponding to the input code; displaying on a display screen, the retrieved eligible characters; and selecting the desired character from the displayed retrieved eligible characters.