Method for a high-speed writing system and high -speed writing device

• US 20020180797A1
• Filed: 06/26/2002
• Published: 12/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Speedscript, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Speedscript, Ltd.
• Inventors: Bachmann, Raphael
• Granted Patent: US 7,145,554 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/780
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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

Abstract

The invention concerns a high speed writing system and a high speed writing device with special menu selection for entering text by means of a pen and a touch-screen. This method of entering text is suitable for desktop PCs, laptop PCs, palmtop PCs, mobile phones (for SMS, WAP and e-mail), watches and other electronic devices. Significantly higher writing efficiency than on a QWERTY keyboard is reached with little investment in practicing time.

The monitor screen features a key section with all consonants of the alphabet, as well as one vowel key distinguished by its arrangement and function. All elements of the writing process defining the method can be generated by pen movements such as selection of a key or guiding it in one of eight stroke directions, as well as combinations of these pen movements

The high speed writing devices described here excel by their small and ergonomically arranged entry sections, whereby all keys for text entry can be reached from one single hand position that never needs re-setting.

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