Controlled manipulation of characters

• US 20060111890A1
• Filed: 11/24/2004
• Published: 05/25/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Mowatt, David, Chambers, Robert, Andrew, Felix GTI
• Granted Patent: US 7,778,821 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/221 Announcement of recognition results

Abstract

A method and system for manipulating characters displayed on a display screen is provided wherein the method includes identifying a selected word, wherein the selected word includes at least one character to be modified. The method further includes correlating each of the at least one character with a unique numerical value and receiving a selection command and a modification command, wherein the selection command is the unique numerical value corresponding to a selected character. Furthermore, the method includes modifying the selected character responsive to the modification command to generate a modified word.

Claims

1. A method for manipulating characters displayed on a display screen, the method comprising:

identifying a selected word, wherein said selected word includes at least one character to be modified;

correlating each of said at least one character with a unique numerical value;

receiving a selection command and a modification command, wherein said selection command is said unique numerical value corresponding to a selected character in said selected word; and

modifying said selected character responsive to said modification command to generate a modified word.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said identifying further includes, enabling a spelling command to invoke a spelling User Interface (UI) allowing a user to vocally communicate said selected word.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said correlating further includes, displaying said selected word on the display screen to visually communicate the correlation between each of said at least one character and each of said unique numerical value.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said displaying includes, drawing a box around said selected word on the display screen;

and displaying each of said unique numerical value adjacent each of said at least one character.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said identifying includes identifying a selected word and appending at least one space to said selected word to create an appended word, wherein said appended word includes at least one character to be modified.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein said correlating further includes, displaying said appended word on the display screen to visually communicate the correlation between each of said at least one character and each of said unique numerical value.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said displaying includes, drawing a box around said appended word on the display screen;

and displaying each of said unique numerical value adjacent each of said at least one character.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein if said modification command is “

Delete”

, said modifying includes deleting said selected character from said appended word.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said receiving includes, receiving said selection command and said modification command via an audio input device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein if said modification command is a replacement character, said modifying includes replacing said selected character with said replacement character.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein if said modification command is “

Delete”

, said modifying includes deleting said selected character from said selected word.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein if said modification command is “

Insert”

, said modifying includes inserting a space between said selected character and an immediately preceding character.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said modifying further includes selecting said space and visually indicating said space on the display screen.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein said modifying further includes selecting a subsequent character, wherein said subsequent character is disposed immediately following said selected character.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein said modifying further includes visually indicating said subsequent character on the display screen.

16. The method of claim 2, further including allowing a user to vocally exit the spelling UI via an exit command.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein said allowing further includes replacing said selected word with said modified word responsive to said exit command.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein said exit command is “

OK”

.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein said receiving further includes displaying a list of at least one allowable character modification, wherein said list includes a second unique numerical value corresponding to each of said at least one allowable character modification.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein said modification command is said second unique numerical value.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein said modification command is at least one of the words “

Change” and

“

Undo”

22. The method of claim 2, wherein said identifying further includes the spelling UI receiving an audio signal via an audio input device.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein the method may be implemented as at least one of a standalone application module and an integrated application module integrated with at least one of a target software application, a speech recognition software application and an operating system.

24. The method of claim 1, wherein the method may be implemented as an integrated application module integrated with a target software application, and wherein the target software application includes at least one of a word processing application, a spreadsheet application and an email application.

25-30. -30. (canceled)

31. A computer-readable medium encoded with a machine-readable computer program code, the program code including instructions for causing a processing device to implement a method for manipulating characters displayed on a display screen, the method comprising:

identifying a selected word, wherein said selected word includes at least one character to be modified;

correlating each of said at least one character with a unique numerical value;

receiving a selection command and a modification command, wherein said selection command is said unique numerical value corresponding to a selected character; and

modifying said selected character responsive to said modification command to generate a modified word.