System and method for text entry

• US 10,133,479 B2
• Filed: 08/27/2013
• Issued: 11/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: David Hirshberg
• Original Assignee: David Hirshberg
• Inventors: Hirshberg, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Tsai, Henry
• Assistant Examiner(s): Phan, Dean
• Application Number:
  US13/952,621
• Publication Number:
  US 20130339895A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,911 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/96 Touch switches specially adapted for electronic time-pieces with no moving parts G04G21/08

Abstract

A method of text entry for an electronic device comprising: receiving a sequence of keystrokes performed over a plurality of keys of a keyboard of the electronic device, wherein a single keystroke enters a single letter location in a word, and wherein the set of the keystrokes comprises a first set of keystrokes for single letter entries that select single letter in an alphabet and a second set of keystrokes for letter group entries that selects a group of possible letters from the alphabet for a single letter location; creating list of possible words the user intends to enter based on a priori database of words by searching in the word database words having letters that match the sequence of letter entries; and displaying the list of possible words to a user, receiving the user selection of a desired word and providing the selected word for further processing.

Claims

1. A method of text entry for an electronic device, the method comprising:

(a) generating a sequence of letter entries from a sequence of keystrokes, wherein for any word a user want to input, a single keystrokes generates a letter entry for a single letter location of the word,

and wherein the keystrokes performed over a keyboard with a plurality of keys partitioned into multiple regions, at least one region comprising one or more adjacent keys which are activated by a first keystroke and a plurality of second keystrokes, said first keystroke is configured to output a letter group entry which generates a group of possible letters at a letter location of the word and each keystroke from said plurality of second keystrokes is configured to output a single letter entry which generates a single letter to a letter location of a word, and said group of possible letters generated by said first keystroke only comprises letters generated by all said second keystrokes;

(b) creating a list of possible words, each possible word is a word that is created from a combination of possible letters at each step of said sequence of letter entries that matches with a word in a priori database of words;

(c) displaying said list of possible words to the user; and

(d) receiving from the user a selected word in said list of possible words and providing the selected word for further processing.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the keystrokes in said group of keystrokes are configured to be performed by the user using the same finger.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said first keystroke is a press on a first key.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said second keystrokes are tilts on said first key or presses on keys adjacent to said first key.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said group of keystrokes are performed on a single key and wherein the first keystroke is a non-directional keystroke on this single key and the second keystrokes are directional keystrokes on this single key.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said letter group entry comprises a probability measure for each letter in the letter group.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the order of said list of possible words is affected by said probability measure.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said keyboard comprises at least one key which is defined by a region on a touch surface or a touch screen.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein said first keystroke is a touch on a first key and said second keystrokes are touches on second keys.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein second keys are adjacent to first key.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said letter group entry comprises a probability measure for each letter in the letter group, and wherein the probability measures are determined by the distance between the position of touch on the first key to each one of the second keys.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein said first keystroke is a touch on a first key and said second keystrokes are swipes to different directions wherein the swipes starts on the first key.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein said keyboard has a circle shape, and wherein a space entry key is located in the center of the circle, the first key is located in an inner ring of the circle and the second keys are in an outer ring of the circle.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein said keyboard is presented on a touch screen whenever a finger or an object are swiped across the touch screen edge, said keys are regions over the touch screen and the keys activation is performed by a keystroke which is a swipe that starts at the edge of the touch screen and ends inside the key region, and first keystroke is performed by using a shorter swipe and second keystrokes are performed by using longer swipes.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein different types of said keyboards are activated conditioned upon at least the side of said touch screen edge that the keystroke was initiated on.

16. A text entry system for an electronic device comprising:

(a) an input subsystem generating a sequence of letter entries from a sequence of keystrokes, wherein for any word a user want to input, a single keystrokes generates a letter entry for a single letter location of the word,

the input subsystem comprising a keyboard with a plurality of keys partitioned into multiple regions, at least one region comprising one or more adjacent keys which are activated by a first keystroke and a plurality of second keystrokes, wherein said first keystroke is configured to output a letter group entry which generates a group of possible letters at a letter location of a word and said second keystrokes are configured to output a single letter entry which generates a single letter to a letter location of a word, said group of possible letters generated by said first keystroke only comprises letters generated by all said second keystrokes;

(b) a text prediction subsystem receiving from the input subsystem the sequence of letter entries and creating a list of possible words, each possible word is a word that is created from a combination of possible letters at each step of said sequence of letter entries that matches with a word in a priori database of words; and

(c) a word processing subsystem receiving said list of possible words, displaying said list of possible words to the user, receiving from the user a selected word from said list of possible words and providing the selected word for further processing.

17. The text entry system of claim 16, wherein some of said plurality of keys are configured to be the default resting position of multiple fingers and the first keystrokes of said keystrokes groups are presses on these keys.

18. The text entry system of claim 16, wherein said first keystroke is a press on a first key and said second keystrokes are tilts on the first key or presses on keys adjacent to the first key.

19. The text entry system of claim 16, wherein said first keystroke is a press on a first key and said second keystrokes are tilts on the first key.

20. The text entry system of claim 16, wherein said keyboard comprises a touch surface or a touch screen, said keys are regions on the touch surface or the touch screen and said keystrokes are touches or swipes over the touch surface or the touch screen.

21. A method of text entry for an electronic device, the method comprising:

(a) generating a sequence of letter entries from a sequence of keystrokes, wherein for any word a user want to input, a single keystrokes generates a letter entry for a single letter location of the word,

and wherein the keystrokes performed over a keyboard with a plurality of keys partitioned into multiple regions, at least one region comprising a first key and a plurality of second keys adjacent to each other,

a keystroke on said first key is configured to output a letter group entry which generates a group of possible letters at a letter location of a word and each keystroke from said plurality of second keys is configured to output a single letter entry which generates a single letter to a letter location of a word, said group of possible letters generated by said first keystroke only comprising letters generated by keystrokes on all said plurality of second keys;

(b) creating a list of possible words, each possible word is a word that is created from a combination of possible letters at each step of said sequence of letter entries that matches with a word in a priori database of words;

(c) displaying said list of possible words to the user; and

(d) receiving from the user a selected word from said list of possible words and providing the selected word for further processing.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein keys in said group of keys are configured to be activated by the user using the same finger.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the default resting position of the fingers of the user are said first keys.