Patent Document ID: 4777600
Application ID: 06889761

Base Claim:
1. A phonetic data-to-kanji characters converter for converting character string data including Kanji characters, comprising: input means for inputting phonetic data and sentence end data representing an end of a sentence; conversion processing means for sequentially converting the phonetic data input by said input means into character string data in a predetermined train of the phonetic data, selecting character string data having the highest priority according to a predetermined priority order in the predetermined train of the phonetic data if a plurality of conversion possibilities are present, and obtaining the character string data which corresponds to the phonetic data; storing means for storing, in accordance with said priority order, all of the character string data obtained by said conversion processing means; syntactic analyzing means for analyzing syntactic relations in the character string data from said conversion processing means in response to the sentence end data from said input means; priority order altering means for altering, based on the analyzed syntactic relations, the priority order of the plurality of conversion possibilities corresponding to homonymic data during the processing of said conversion processing means, and altering selection of the character string data according to an altered priority order; and output means for sequentially displaying the character string input from said conversion processing means.

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Claim 10:
10. A system according to claim 1, wherein said conversion processing means includes a dictionary means comprising a data base for obtaining the character string data corresponding to the phonetic data.