Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Shigemi Nakasato

Kimihito Takeda

Tsutomu Kawada

Tatsuji Kusumoto

Hiroyoshi Saito

A multiple language input system of this invention includes input systems corresponding to a plurality of languages. This multiple language input system recognizes a target language in accordance with various pieces of information from an application or information set by an environment setting function in the multiple language input system. When the target language is Japanese, the system causes a Japanese processing section to perform Japanese input processing. When the target language is English, the system causes an English processing section to perform English input processing. When the target language is Chinese, the system causes a Chinese processing section to perform Chinese input processing.

Multiple language computer-interface input system

An input processing system inputs character string data including kanji characters and corresponding to phonetic data by entering phonetic data. An input device sequentially inputs phonetic data and sentence end data. A conversion section includes a conversion processor, a syntactic analyzer, and a priority order alterator. The conversion processor sequentially converts character string data in a predetermined conversion unit. If single phonetic data includes a plurality of conversion possibilities in the predetermined conversion unit, character string data is selected according to a predetermined priority order, thereby obtaining character string data (including kanji characters) corresponding to input phonetic data. The syntactic analyzer performs syntactic analysis of a sentence consisting of the character string data in response to sentence end data. The priority alterator alters the priority orders of the conversion possibilities corresponding to identical phonetic data for the conversion processor according to syntactic analysis results, and alters the already selected possibilities as needed. The character string data from the conversion processor in the conversion section is displayed on a diplay.

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Shigemi Nakasato