Abstract: In a printer that normally prints 1-byte characters as well as 2-byte characters in such a manner that a size of a 2-byte character is smaller than twice the size of a 1-byte character, a device and method for adjusting an interval between 1-byte character and a 2-byte character so that the printed size of the 2-byte character containing this character interval is twice the size of the 1-byte character.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a keyboard for inputting Chinese characters, which can input both simplified Chinese characters and their original complex forms.The invention defines 25 double strokes of the kind and 25-28 auxiliary roots containing the double strokes as codes for inputting Chinese characters, further, the invention also defines 25 common use words. Three methods for inputting Chinese characters will be disclosed in the invention. In the input method of which 4 simple shape codes will be used for the coding, a word that can be leaved each other may be broken down into 2 blocks and then 2 codes respective of the first and last double strokes or roots containing the double strokes of each block will be taken into the coding. The inputting methods of the invention are simple and easy for studying.

Abstract: Electronic equipment includes a memory containing first information such as KANA characters and second information such as KANJI characters corresponding to the first information, a key input device for inputting the first information, a display for displaying the second information corresponding to the input first information, and a control for reading out all of the second information corresponding to the input first information, from the memory, displaying it on the display and sequentially erasing the displayed second information which no longer correspond to the input first information subsequently inputted by the input device.

Abstract: In a computer based approach to looking up characters in an ideographic alphabet, a user specifies characters by dragging individual character radicals from a radical palette to a canvas. A database is searched for characters that match character radicals dragged to the canvas and a selection window is produced that contain a resulting list of matching characters. The search may be limited by specified qualifying parameters, such as the total number of strokes in the character. When a desired character is chosen from a selection window, a unique character code is generated that may be output for various applications.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system for automatic adjustment of character spacing suited to characters in innumerable combinations, such as in the case with Chinese characters and hiragana and katakana characters in the Japanese language. In character dot data of a plurality of characters which construct a character string developed in memory, character density data representing the broadness of the character face of a character, character face overlap area data representing degree of overlap between this character and a character adjacent thereto in a state in which the character and adjoining character are closest to each other, and blank-space area data representing the broadness of blank space produced between the two characters are generated for each and every character.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the direction code for encoding Chinese characters using English alphabet and the inputting method thereof. While encoding a Chinese character, constructing the English letters that exist in said character according to horizontal stroke " ", vertical stroke " ", left-slanting stroke " " and right-slanting stroke " " of Chinese characters, decomposing said character into a combination of certain actual postures among 161 ones of the letters according to order of strokes and rules of the order of strokes, said combination of postures being limited to 6 direction patterns, said letters being in 8 positive directions and 8 inverted directions presented by the letters respectively, said combination of the letters being the direction code of said Chinese character.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the coding of Chinese characters, and more specifically to the holo-information code of Chinese characters. The holo-information code is based on radicals and the order of strokes of Chinese characters, wherein the radicals are classified and grouped together according to the order of their first phonetic letter in the phonetic alphabet or according to their number of strokes. The Chinese characters are encoded according to the representative codes of the broken down radicals of Chinese characters. Without resorting to any formulas, only 100 radicals are used which first grade pupils can learn to read and which are the most common in forming characters, The radicals, which are broken down from Chinese characters according to the order of strokes in calligraphy (handwriting), are arranged according to the order of the first phonetic letter of Chinese characters' phonetic transcriptions in the phonetic alphabet or the number of strokes.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for combining a character pattern of a first typeface with a character pattern of a second typeface to generate a character pattern of a third typeface, wherein searching for corresponding part patterns or contour points among part patterns constituting a character pattern of the first typeface and part patterns or contour points among part patterns constituting a character pattern of the second typeface is performed, based on identical code data affixed to the corresponding part patterns or contour points. The corresponding part patterns or contour points are combined to prepare part patterns or contour points of a character pattern of the third typeface.

Abstract: A process is described for mechanically analyzing connected Chinese text and isolating the words comprising the text. The process uses a dictionary, straightforward rules dealing with punctuation, a method for identifying all words in a string of Chinese text and resolving overlapping words into a set of adjacent words for the input text through successively stricter filtering mechanisms that eliminate illogical segmentations, and a method for resolving ambiguities.

Abstract: Depending on the size of the character sets, more steps may be designated with the same letters-followed-by-digits pattern. With the encoding system, an ideographic based language can be transcribed, or ciphered, into an easy-to-read stream of phonetic symbols and a discourse in the language can be input with commonly used computer keyboards. Since the system of encoding employs variable code length, it can be applied to much larger character sets by using longer codes. It also can be applied to character sets with different characteristics by appropriate reordering of the steps. The letters-followed-by-digits coding pattern is used for each characteristic of the ideographic symbols, independent of the symbols' relative graphic image locations in font tables and the size of character set, so that different configurations of the encoding can be software compatible across many character sets and languages.

Abstract: A word processor for producing Chinese characters includes a standard United states keyboard, an internal memory unit for storing a dictionary of radicals of Chinese characters from which selected Chinese characters are derived, a screen and a memory disk. Each of the Chinese characters includes at least one radical. The standard United States keyboard is coupled to said memory unit and has numeral and letter keys. The numeral keys includes co-functioning numeral keys. Each of the co-functioning numeral keys is inscribed with at least one of the radicals and a letter or numeral representative of a letter or numeral key used in combination with each co-functioning numeral key to select the corresponding radical. The letter keys includes co-functioning letter keys. Each of the co-functioning letter keys is inscribed with at least one of the radicals and a letter or numeral representative of a letter or numeral key used in combination with each co-functioning letter key to select the corresponding radical.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for inputting Chinese characters into a computer system, by using the 26 alphabet keys on a standard English keyboard to arrange Chinese consonants, vowel codes, codes of the initial two strokes and the last two strokes of a Chinese character, and inputting Chinese characters or phrases according to their Pinyin (phonetic symbol) and writing sequence. The present invention provides both the input method which is mainly based on consonants and vowels, secondly on the initial two strokes and the last two strokes of the characters and the input method which is mainly based on the initial two strokes and the last two strokes of the characters, and secondly on their consonants and vowels.

Abstract: A method for audio-video coding of Chinese characters wherein each audio-video code has two elements. The first element is an audio code element, and the second element is a video code element. The audio code element is always made of two English letters. The first English letter of the audio code element represents the consonant of the syllable of a Chinese character, and the second English letter represents the vowel of the syllable of the Chinese character. The video code element is made of two English letters in most situations. The first English letter of the video code element represent the first stroke of the Chinese character, and the second English letter represents the last stroke of the Chinese character. Only for 24 particular Chinese characters their respective video code element has one English letter, and for approximately 4% Chinese characters their respective video code element has an additional English letter "C" for indicating duplicated codes.

Abstract: An interactive keyboard and display apparatus is used to enter ideographic characters in a computer or other utilisation device. The characters are defined by manually selecting displayed symbols such as phonemes, strokes, radicals and inflective tones represented in displayed key cells which are arranged in a matrix for rapid selection. Simultaneous multiple key cell selection is possible for accelerated character entry. The keyboard and display are integrated in a format suitable for replacing conventional keyboards. To avoid spurious entries, a pre-determined amount of pressure must be applied to the display panel when entering a symbol or character.

Abstract: An input method including a novel keyboard facilitates entry of Chinese characters into a computer. Character Roots or Radicals are selected in accordance with the first pen-stroke used by Chinese in writing such Root or Radical and those that begin with the same stroke are symbolized on keys in separate selected sections of the keyboard. As a further aid, Roots or Radicals that have the same second pen-stroke are selected and symbolized on specified keys having a secondary identification design or motif. The method includes selecting, in the traditional Chinese order of writing, the first Root to be encoded and, from the keyboard, the key having such Root thereon, the location selection being facilitated as described above, and actuating the key, and continuing to select the second and third Roots in the character and actuating the corresponding keys.

Abstract: A Bicameral Keyboard is provided for generating pictographic characters wherein twenty keys are sufficient to specify the roughly 3000 characters required for ordinary personal and business correspondence. The Bicameral Keyboard is compatible with pictographic expression and pedagogy and will permit direct access to word processors, translation machines, page editors, and printers at input rates more rapid than possible using the alphanumeric keyboard with western orthographic characters.

Abstract: A method and a system for inputting both simplified form and original complex form Chinese character, comprises two dominent and highly efficient inputting methods and a plurality of auxiliary ones wherein 187 radicals have been selected. These radicals then are defined onto 25 keys in a standard English keyboard. The rules to be remembered by the typist is simplified greatly, and therefore, the Chinese character inputting speed is improved significiently.

Abstract: A method and apparatus editing and creating multidirectional or multidimensional text includes an editor responsive to keystrokes representing text characters and editing commands for generating a string of codes defining a text and a parser responsive to operation of the editor for reading the codes of the string and parsing the codes into encoded units. Each encoded unit is made up of a group of codes defining a group of characters that are positioned in an expression as a unit and the system further generates a unit structure for each encoded unit. Each unit structure contains information defining a visual representation of the corresponding encoded unit. The parser is responsive to operation of the editor for reading the unit structures and corresponding codes of the string and generating a visually displayable representation of the text.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for data processing and word processing in the Chinese language. A Phonetic Chinese Language (PCL) is defined in which any ideogram can be unambiguously represented by a Phonetic Chinese Word (PCW) no more than four characters in length, each word being composed of letters selected from a defined set of letters that can each be uniquely represented by a 7-bit digital code. Each PCW represents one and only one ideogram and provides the full sound and tone information required to pronounce it. Ambiguities caused by homonyms and homotones are avoided. PCL words are translated into their corresponding ideograms and vice versa by means of a stored monosyllabic dictionary. A method for unambiguously separating a polysyllabic PCL character string into separate words is also provided, which makes it unnecessary to employ a polysyllabic dictionary.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for encoding chinese characters into a computer. Each character is divided into a leading part and a body part. The leading part is represented by one code element and the body part is represented by four code elements. The code elements are input to the computer using a keyboard, with the code element for the leading part being input first followed by the code elements for the body part.

Abstract: A method for coding the input of Chinese characters from a keyboard according to the first phonetic symbols and tones thereof includes the steps of making a dictionary; establishing a conversion table which converts each of Chinese phonetic symbols to an approximate English letter in accordance with the phonetic similarities therebetween; establishing coding rules for coding the Chinese characters in accordance with the first phonetic symbols and tones thereof; setting a mode selection symbol as the first symbol of the instruction codes for the English letter mode, the mode selection symbol being an English letter which is not present in the conversion table; and making an ASCII code keyboard which has a plurality of English alphabet keys, some of the English alphabet keys being respectively marked with a corresponding Chinese phonetic symbol according to the conversion table. The dictionary has an instruction code index section and an input/output conversion section.

Abstract: A method for compression of data used to describe an ideographic character, or a set of such characters such as Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic or Tamil characters or a set of two-level images, on a computer screen. The computer screen is divided into an array of non-overlapping pixel sub-blocks, each J pixels wide by K pixels high, and a neighborhood of L adjacent pixels is defined for each target sub-block. The known pixel configuration (white versus black or off versus on) of the neighborhood of pixels is used to predict the rth most probable pixel configuration for each target sub-block, for r=1, 2, . . . , R-1 (R.gtoreq.2), based on a statistical analysis of the sub-block pixel configurations for all characters in the set. Where a particular target sub-block pixel configuration cannot be predicted from the R-1 pixel configurations associated with the neighborhood pixel configuration, the exact pixel configuration is used. Use of the exact sub-block pixel configuration is not often required.

Abstract: Automatic orientation of predefined chemical structures in conjunction with a computer terminal employs respective protocols corresponding to a system state. The system states can include a chain state, ring state, library state, and retrieve state. Upon orientation, the object is attached according to a specified attachment command to a parent graph. The protocols corresponding to connection of the object to the parent includes rules regarding angles at which the structures can be attached to one another, and another protocol governs rules respecting rotation of the stored object through predetermined angles. Nodes of the object recalled are automatically provided with markers in alphabetic order from the most recently used marker corresponding to a letter of alphabet. Multiple alphabet sequences are used. Specification of position is indicated by inputting the lower case letter of the alphabet corresponding to the location desired. Bonds can be specified between two markers.

Abstract: A printer includes a printing unit capable of printing preset characters; a designation unit for designating a character to be printed by the printing unit; and a judgement unit for judging whether a designated character by the designation unit can be printed by the printing unit.

Abstract: The expression of characters in Chinese, Japanese or Korean languages in a directly readable code suitable for input through a small keyboard into an information processor. Output is in the input code or the equivalent conventional ideographic characters. The code uses arrangements of pronunciation signs and determinative signs in an order derived from the conventional stroke orders of the respective characters. The determinative signs are derived from a selected group of conventional radicals and are used to differentiate among homonymic characters.

Abstract: A method and an arrangement of key-board are disclosed for inputting information in Chinese through a hieroglyphic approach, in which the forms, sounds, and meanings of the English letters and the numerals are correlated with the Chinese characters for inputting information in Chinese through the keyboard. In the present invention, instead of the numerous Chinese radicals which are to be memorized, the correlation in form, sound, and meaning of the English letters and the numerals between the Chinese characters is utilized so that information in Chinese can be input by directly operating a standard keyboard. With the present invention, it is easy, convenient, and fast for an operator to learn the input method and arrangement and it is also possible to change the font of the Chinese characters by simply pressing a function key.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for selecting and storing script characters, particularly Chinese, in a computerized system containing a memory wherein is stored a database of such script characters. The database may be augmented by a user and is indexed according to the phonetic and graphic attributes of the script characters therein, so that by specifying at least one attribute, all characters in the database having the specified attribute may be identified. In a preferred embodiment only a few identified characters are displayed, and more attributes are specified by the user until the desired character is displayed. The apparatus includes a high resolution display monitor for displaying the characters and a specially adapted light pen provided with at least two selection switches for selecting a desired character or, alternatively, for displaying further identified characters according to which selection switch is operated.

Abstract: An improved method for inputting Chinese characters into computers and the keyboard arrangement therefor wherein the Chinese characters, of which the numbers are enormous and the structures are complicated, are reduced to obtain only a few rules for inputting Chinese characters and the 244 radicals are allocated on a standard keyboard.The present inputting method is based on "stroke orders". The manner in which the characters are input conforms with general writing habits such that the method is easy and convenient for an operator to learn fast.

Abstract: A manually operable sweeping-type compact printer apparatus includes a key entry unit, a display unit, a memory unit, an encoder and a printer unit which are mounted on a manually manipulatable housing. When the housing is manually moved over a printing medium with the printer unit in contact with the printing medium, data entered by the key entry unit is printed out on the printing medium. In the printer apparatus, only designated segments or lengths of data are printed out on the printing medium, independent of continued travel or movement of the housing. Also, even if the housing is moved over the printing medium at an unstable moving velocity, high printing quality can be realized by control of the printing head. Stop codes designating the end of a data segment can be automatically or manually inserted.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating an ideographic character in response to an operator input. The apparatus includes an input device which generates a series of input signals in responses to an input sequence of writing strokes corresponding to identifiable constituent characteristics of an ideographic character contained in a set of idiographic characters. A processor stores a library of character representations, each character representation in the library of character representations represents a respective character of the set of ideographic characters and each character representation being identified according to predetermined constituent characteristics of the represented ideographic character. The processor is responsive to the input signals for selecting a character representation from the library of character representations. The processor upon selection of a character representation provides the selected character representation as an output signal.

Abstract: A document creating apparatus allows the insertion of strings of characters within a display area of a boundary figure to have good balance. The display area of the strings of characters is compared with that of the boundary figure. The strings of characters are reduced or enlarged or the boundary figure is enlarged or reduced in accordance with the comparison result so as to display the strings of characters and the figure with good balance.

Abstract: The present invention is a keyboard device for entering Japanese language text utilizing Romaji character notation and a method for entering the Romaji character notation.

Abstract: A character composed of basic symbols such as a Korean character is outputted by an apparatus so as to adjust to an outputted design or outputted design alteration.

Abstract: A keyboard assembly for selecting characters to be recorded includes a substrate carrying an array of characters arranged on one face thereof. A character selection device moves between advanced and retracted positions along each of two axes of the array and, by means of an optical viewfinder, registers a given character with respect to the position of the selecting device. Registration openings distributed along each of the two axes cooperate with an associated detent carried by the selecting device so as to retain the selecting device in a fixed position relative to the locus of the character which has been selected. Movement of the character selection device to the locus of a given character serves to control the recording of the character selected.

Abstract: A method of selecting and reproducing language characters, preferably in languages having a multitude of pictorial characters, from phonetic or sound representation of the language, includes the steps of displaying the phonetic symbols which show all of the sounds of the language without intonations, selecting the desired sound for constructing a character, displaying all language characters having all intonations of the selected sound, and selecting the particular character having the unique phonetic sound and intonation combination, and the specific meaning intended.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a system for composing patterns of predetermined less-frequently-used Chinese characters using an information processor, causing the memory occupation to be significantly decreased and the composing speed to be significantly increased and, furthermore, causing the Chinese character to be exactly, ornamentally generated. In accordance with the method and system, a first memory section stores patterns of frequently-used characters and a second memory stores command data. The command data is processed to obtain two patterns from the first memory section, one of the two patterns yielding a first pattern part and the other of the two patterns yielding a second part. The two pattern parts are then used to compose the patterns of less-frequently used Chinese characters.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for validating the electronic and coding of an incoming ideographic character, having a particular complexity and encoded according to a group of predetermined basic stroke elements and stroke sequencing rules to define an incoming character code, for use in association with a set of standard ideographic characters, encoded according to the group of pre-determined stroke elements and stroke sequencing rules to define standard character codes, each standard character having a certain complexity, the set being ordered according to the complexities of the standard characters.

Abstract: A system includes a keyboard for encoding Chinese characters and phrases. The invention relates to the quick input of Chinese characters and phrases into any large, medium, small and mini-sized computers as well as systems for Chinese information processing and communications. Some basic roots are selected according to their frequency distributions both in the constitution of characters and in practical usage, and classified in accordance with their inner links and compatible relations. These selected roots are then arranged on the twenty five keys of a standard keyboard in accordance with the probabilities of use of keys and the fingering of the keyboard in order to form a complete encoding system and a keyboard for Chinese. In the system, Chinese characters and phrases can be encoded according to their geometrical forms. Therefore the method is direct and easy to learn and convenient for touch typing, and the efficiency of input Chinese characters and phrases can be raised greatly.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for electronic typing of symbolic language texts is disclosed. A twelve-key keyboard utilizing a modified four-corner identifier system permits construction of a first shape identifier code utilizing indicia which represent the shape of a character to be reproduced. Alternatively, a phonetic identifier code utilizing a phonetic alphabet can be constructed to represent the character. The identifier code is used to select one or more characters stored in a data processing system memory, each character selected by the shape identifier code having the same four-corner identifier indicia, and each character selected by the phonetic identifier code having the same phonetic spelling.

Abstract: A system for the generation of composite ideographic characters is disclosed. Composite characters are generated by the placement of basic characters which are stored in memory into basic layouts which have at least two selection areas which divide the display area of a display device. The basic layouts are generated by the selection of one of a plurality of basic layouts stored in memory. The basic characters are placed in a selection area of a basic layout by selection of one of a plurality of basic characters stored in memory. Basic layouts may be nested within the active selection area of a current layout. Scaling of basic character size and location and basic layout size and location is accomplished by use of stored compression coefficients and the origin of each selection area of the basic layouts.

Abstract: This invention relates to a keyboard device for typing and inputting characters in Chinese and other oriental languages. In particular, the keyboard device of this invention comprises a plurality of keys representing selected strokes, combinations of strokes, radicals and some characters, collectively called the configurations, which are arranged in a particular way and thus makes it possible to type and to input Chinese and oriental characters entirely by touch. By dividing each oriental character into components which resemble the special configurations on the keys, the typing and inputting can be carried out by depressing the keys representing the component configurations without the need of any "menu" selection step. The keyboard device and method of this invention can be used in typewriters, word processors, computers, typesetting machines, teletype machines, telecommunication machines and other machines that use or require a keyboard to input characters in Chinese or other oriental languages.

Abstract: A method for constructing ideographic characters by means of a character generator and displaying such characters within a standard character area of a display device coupled to the character generator. The method includes storing data in the character generator corresponding to (a) character components used for forming the ideographic characters, (b) information regarding the position within the standard character area of the character components associated with each ideographic character and (c) information regarding the size of the ones of the character components associated with each ideographic character.

Abstract: A keyboard is disclosed for an ideographic language, in particular for Japanese. The disclosed keyboard includes the positioning of up to eight similar descriptors on a single key. Combination of the descriptors to form compound or complex ideograms is accomplished by actuating two or more keys in the usual order of "writing" a Japanese character.

Abstract: A typing or printing apparatus for communicating in the Chinese language, wherein the characters typed or printed represent separate sounds, and the characters of the font are currently employed characters of the Chinese language.

Abstract: A complex character generator having a mass memory for storing the individual characters of a Chinese character-based language in pictorial form, the characters being represented by a two-part code, the first part defining a predetermined element common to a plurality of characters, and the second part defining the balance of the individual character. The character generator includes a keyboard having one section of keys for singularly entering a unique 2-digit code representing each of the predetermined common elements, and a numerical section for entering at least a 5-digit code defining the balance of the characters under a modified Four Corner Coding Method. A method for coding Chinese characters into the two-part code and the complete Four Corner Coding Method are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of reducing the size of a character font in a word processor or an office computer. Digitized font data representative of a character font is constructed in a dot matrix consisting of a plurality of rows in an X direction and a plurality of columns in a Y direction perpendicular to the X direction. The first row of dots in the X direction is divided into a plurality of blocks and each block is provided with a ONE or a ZERO depending upon the number of dots included therein. The first row is shifted one dot to the left in the X direction to form a shifted row. The shifted row is divided into a plurality of blocks and each of these blocks is provided with a ONE or a ZERO depending upon the number of dots included therein. ANDs of the respective logical values of the shifted and non-shifted rows in the Y direction are computed to obtain a ONE or ZERO block by block.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for typing Japanese text is disclosed. The method is characterized by operator manipulation of a keyboard to produce input signals to a microprocessor. The input signals are in the form of kana, English alphabet, numerals, and punctuation, as well as delimiting signals which may be used in combination with kana input to produce corresponding text material in kanji. The microprocessor is responsive to combinations of the kana input signals and delimiting code signals to produce adjusting outputs which call up from memory signals which produce the desired kanji output. A CRT display is provided for displaying keyboard signals and, when called for, kanji symbols from memory.Where it is desired to type kanji symbols which cannot be called up by the operator through the use of kana and delimiting coding signals, alternative procedures using word analysis and graphic inputs are provided.

Abstract: A text inputting device includes a keyboard for inputting a string of characters of a first kind by keying keys and a first device for displaying characters of a second kind corresponding to the character string supplied from the keyboard as candidate characters and selecting a desired character of the second kind from the candidate characters for supplying it to a processor. A second device is also provided for reading a character of the second kind corresponding to a mnemonic code in the character string supplied from the keyboard for supplying it to the processor. In order to determine whether the first or second device is used, a selection switch is provided for selectively activating the first or the second device when a character of the second type is to be inputted. Further, to assist in teaching the mnemonic code, when the first device is selected, either visual or oral correspondence is provided between the selected candidate character and its corresponding mnemonic code.

Abstract: An impact printing mechanism which contains a great number of printing types in a minimized spacing is disclosed. Types are arranged in rows of columns on a plurality of substantially planar type carrying elements which are accommodated in equally spaced parallel relationship in a removable casing. Selection of a type is attained by three dimensional movements including horizontal movements of the elements within and perpendicular to their planes and a vertical movement of an element within its plane.The type carrying elements are carried on a carrier while a print hammer is mounted on an independent carrier. The former carrier includes an outer section and an inner section mounted for movement on the outer section, and means for lifting a type carrying element is mounted on the outer section.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for selectively key-inputting a Kanji (Chinese and Japanese ideogram) in a Japanese sentence are disclosed. The operator keys-in a reading of a desired Kanji through a keyboard, and candidate Kanjis for that reading are displayed on a display screen so that the operator chooses a relevant Kanji for entry out of the displayed candidate Kanjis. In entering the reading of a Kanji, blocks which are in correspondence to character keys located in home positions of the keyboard and in the neighborhood thereof are displayed on the display screen and candidate Kanjis corresponding to the reading of the desired Kanji are displayed in the blocks. The operator then keys a character key corresponding to a relevant candidate Kanji displayed on the display screen.