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Method, Device, and Graphical User Interface Providing Word Recommendations for Text Input

  • US 20090174667A1
  • Filed: 06/30/2008
  • Published: 07/09/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

  • at a portable electronic device having a touch screen display;

    displaying a plurality of key icons, each key icon having an adjustable hit region of dynamically adjustable size;

    receiving a sequence of individual touch points input by a user on the touch screen display, wherein;

    each touch point is determined at lift off of a contact from the touch screen display, andan image with an enlarged version of a character that will be selected as the character corresponding to an individual touch point is displayed prior to lift off of a respective contact, wherein the character image that is displayed prior to lift off is selected in accordance with the adjustable hit regions of the displayed key icons; and

    after receiving each of the individual touch points;

    forming a user-input directed graph for the sequence of individual touch points received so far;

    determining a character corresponding to a last received individual touch point in accordance with the adjustable hit regions of the displayed key icons;

    displaying a sequence of characters corresponding to the sequence of individual touch points, including the determined character; and

    updating sizes of the adjustable hit regions for a plurality of the key icons in accordance with the sequence of individual touch points input by the user.

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