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Chapter 4 Li's Font

The head of the Department of Electronics did not forget Li Siming. He suddenly ran to the laboratory from time to time, but Li Siming was doing experiments wholeheartedly. But once, Li Siming lay on the table and wrote something intently, asking him to catch it.

"What are you doing?" Director Chi suddenly appeared behind him, scaring Li Siming.

"Decompose the words!" Li Siming continued his work.

"Disassembly? Are you quite leisurely?" The director was angry, and the consequences were very serious.

"I'm not playing, this is a great study!" Li Siming said.

"Then tell me what is the greatness?" Director Chi didn't believe it.

"You see, Chinese characters are composed of radicals and radicals, right?"

"That's right, all primary school students know."

"So have you discovered that after decomposing the characters, are there any rules in these radicals and radicals?"

"Do you want to do a Chinese character input solution? It's used on a computer?" Director Chi was still aware of the goods. At this time, the computer was still a new thing. When the computer was introduced to China, the Chinese people found that Chinese character input was a headache. The input methods that can be seen include the Wang An 99 key triangular encoding method and various foreign large keyboards, pinyin methods, inaccurate pronunciation and Chinese characters that are not recognized are helpless. It is hard to imagine that people use a huge keyboard when using a computer. Some foreigners even claim that Chinese people can never use computers.

Of course, Li Siming knew the famous Wubi font. He used this input method in his previous life. He accidentally saw an imported prototype in the laboratory of the Computer Institute and suddenly thought of it.

"If later generations use my fonts, that would be great!" Li Siming felt beautiful.

"Are you sure?" Director Chi was also very interesting to see Li Siming's plan.

"Of course!" If not, it would be strange!

"Okay, I'll give you a month to finish!"

"No problem!" Li Siming said.

"That's how it's, young people shouldn't be too arbitrary!" Director Chi thought it was necessary to hit him.

"Just wait and see!"

For Li Siming, who has used this font, this is not a problem. He first wrote down all the roots corresponding to the letters based on his memory, drew out the root table, and gave a split method. This is the most important thing, knowing that the result can save him a lot of time. There are also computer workers at Peking University. After hearing about this, he sent several young people to be his assistants. Although Li Siming was a student, when he showed this root table, everyone thought that this plan was promising.

The function of these assistants is to copy all 11,000 Chinese characters in the "Modern Chinese Dictionary" onto 11,000 cards, and then encode them according to the root diagram. The encoding is done, including first-level characters, second-level characters and commonly used phrases. Li Siming began to purchase integrated circuits and draw circuit diagrams. Circuit case design is Li Siming's strength. Soon, Li Siming took his research results to the terminal factory to conduct an experiment, and it was successful at one time.

In June of that year, when Li Siming placed all the results information on the desk of Director Chi of the Department of Electronics, Director Chi immediately reported to his superiors. Peking University immediately organized a Chinese character input result appraisal meeting. Li Siming read out his paper for the first time, proposed the "three principles of shape code design", pioneered the "Chinese character root periodic table", and invented the efficient Chinese character input method and word compatibility technology of 25-key 4-code.

Once this achievement was announced, it immediately caused a sensation across the country. Some experts said excitedly: "From today, the era when Chinese character input cannot be compared with Western languages ​​is gone forever. The great significance of this invention is still difficult to estimate for the time being."

The "Beijing University Daily" published this scientific and technological invention at the first time, which immediately attracted the attention of the industry across the country, especially those engaged in computers. The "internal reference" of Xinhua News Agency evaluated it as a great invention that is "no less than movable type printing".

Teachers and students at Peking University are more concerned that this inventor Li Siming is actually a freshman in his first year and has become an idol worshipped by students. Everything about him has become a topic of discussion, especially his "bad record" of skipping classes since the start of school. Some people began to imitate it, and their actions became "bad typical", which Li Siming could not have expected. Seeing this bad sign, the school immediately issued a notice specifically for this. As long as pioneering theories or inventions are proposed, they are allowed to attend classes without step-by-step.

But Li Siming had only one, and others could not learn it, so they had to attend classes obediently. The school now attaches great importance to Li Siming and directly hired Li Siming as a lecturer and became a teacher at Peking University. However, this teacher did not attend classes, and he didn't even have a university diploma.

Li Siming found the department leader Director Chi: "Director, Wubi font has come out, but we still need to do the follow-up work."

"What else is there? Isn't it done?" Director Chi asked in confusion.

"Director, intellectual property is patent right." Li Siming explained, "This technology is actually not difficult. As long as you know the principles, you can copy it immediately if you do this."

"Isn't this good? At least it shows that this technology is easy to promote."

Li Siming was almost vomiting blood: "Director, this is my achievement, and it is also the achievement of Peking University. It was obtained through a lot of our mental labor. If we do not apply for patents to protect, anyone can use it. Let's not talk about it at the time of the country, because our current patent law is useless. But what if someone overseas uses this invention to make money? Besides, Japanese, Singaporean, and South Koreans can use this. Don't forget that computers are also foreigners. What should we do then? I think we need to have a patent awareness when we are engaged in scientific creation. You see, almost every device we have to import now, and we may not be able to buy it after spending a lot of foreign exchange. Why? That's because others have mastered technology, which means money!"

Li Siming continued: "If you apply for a patent, you must have it at home and abroad. In the future, we can authorize others to use it, but we will charge fees. With money, we can do other research, which can also reduce the burden on the country, right?"

Director Chi said in a daze: "Xiao Li, you are very reasonable. My eyes are too short-sighted. Let's do this. You go to the principal with me and report this matter. It seems that I am too simple."

The president's surname is Zhou, a famous fluid mechanic and theoretical physicist. In Li Siming's opinion, this is not good for Chinese people. They have to take on social positions, and one is not enough, and they have to take dozens of positions. An academician who Li Siming admires very much once said: "I often appear in newspapers and TV now, which means that my scientific career is over. When did you see a truly talented scientist who is creating peaks frequently showing his face on TV? On TV means that my scientific career is about to end, so I can only show my face on TV. A scientist at the peak of creation does not have time to show his face on TV frequently."

The principal is in his seventies, but now he seems to be full of energy. After all, he has a new feeling after all.

"You mean, we want to apply for a patent?" asked Principal Zhou.

"Principal, not only that, but all the scientific inventions we can provide should be like this." Li Si thinks this is very important. For example, the invention of VCD is a famous case. The biggest mistake made by VCD inventor Jiang Wanmeng is that he does not understand patent protection and loses an excellent opportunity to dominate the market. At the same time, it also makes China lose half of the country that should have the initiative in the development of this industry. "Compared with developed countries, we are at least twenty years apart in terms of technology. We need to chase us to catch up with others. This requires a prerequisite.

That is capital investment. As long as we pay attention to patent protection, we can obtain considerable patent fees, which can feed back our research work. At the same time, it is also an encouragement and support for our scientific and technological workers. At the same time, patent authorization to manufacturers can also prompt manufacturers to quickly occupy the market, which is also a support for national industries. Manufacturers benefit from it can provide greater financial support to research institutions, which will form a good cycle. If necessary, we can even cooperate directly with manufacturers to participate in the market. Relying on national investment alone is a shortage. You must know that manufacturers attach the most importance to technological progress."

"Comrade Li Siming, you are well-instructed. The younger generation is so terrifying!" The principal obviously supported his opinion.

"Where, where, this is just my suggestion." Li Siming said.

"Over modesty means pride. It is also our pride that you choose to come to Peking University." The principal said with a smile, "Director Chi, you have done a good job and found a good seedling. I will give more support to Comrade Li Siming in the future."

"Principal, then this suggestion?" Li Siming didn't care about any praise.

"Don't worry, although our country now has the 'Interim Regulations on the Protection of Invention and Patent Rights', it seems that it is necessary to specifically legislate. I will submit our opinions to the relevant departments. In addition, we will immediately start applying for patents, especially abroad!"

President Zhou felt that it was not enough, so he immediately asked Li Siming to write an article on strengthening patent legislation and published it in the Peking University newspaper. Li Siming was most afraid of writing articles that had nothing to do with his major, so he had to go to the University of Political Science and Law to find someone to find information before he could barely write it out. Once this article was published, Li Siming's name once again attracted everyone's attention, and it was difficult to be famous.
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