Single Word and Multi-word Term Integrating System and a Method thereof

• US 20120089907A1
• Filed: 10/08/2010
• Published: 04/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kika Tech (HK) Holdings Co., Limited
• Original Assignee: IQ Technology Inc.
• Inventors: LIN, John
• Granted Patent: US 9,465,798 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/261
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0233 Character input methods
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/53 Processing of non-Latin text kana-to-kanji conversion G06F40/129; vowelisation G06F40/232

Abstract

A single word and multi-word term integrating system and a method thereof are disclosed, wherein a user uses an input unit to continuously input pinying codes for the system to find combinations of the pinying codes to provide word candidates for the user to choose, wherein the word candidates can be combined into a phrase or a sentence; when the inputted pinying codes are too long or incomplete, there might be a false prediction of a word or a sentence due to an incorrect combination of pinying codes; consequently, the system forcibly determines the pinying codes to be regarded as a single word and does not combine them with the follow-up pinying codes; then the system uses a full sentence prediction result display unit for the user to choose a correct word, thereby improving prediction accuracy.

Claims

1. A single word and multi-word term integrating system, comprising:

an input unit using a keyboard or other software/hardware device worked as a substitute of the keyboard for a user to input codes with an input method editor (IME);

a pinying input display unit connected with the input unit for displaying the inputted codes from the input unit;

a full sentence prediction unit connected with the pinying input display unit for combining the inputted codes from the input unit into a corresponding word, phrase or sentence;

a full sentence prediction result display unit displaying a result of the full sentence prediction unit for the user to verify and choose a correct word, phrase or sentence;

a single word prediction unit connected with the full sentence prediction unit for forcibly determining the inputted codes from the input unit to be regarded as a single word and making it as a word candidate with high priority, then moving a cursor to the single word to highlight the single word;

a single word prediction result display unit connected with a single word prediction unit for displaying a result of the single word prediction unit for the user to verify and choose a correct word, phrase or sentence;

an output unit connected with the single word prediction result display unit for displaying the chosen sentence to a target.

2. The single word and multi-word term integrating system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the input unit uses Pinying as the input method editor.

3. The single word and multi-word term integrating system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the input unit uses Zhuying as the input method editor.

4. The single word and multi-word term integrating system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the target can be an application or a software component which can accept text input.

5. A method for combining a single word and a multi-word term, comprising:

inputting a part of Pinying or Zhuying codes of a sentence, or full Pinying or Zhuying codes of a sentence and displaying the inputted Pinying or Zhuying codes;

finding combinations of the inputted Pinying or Zhuying codes to predict a corresponding word, phrase or sentence, and identifying a single word;

displaying a prediction result;

determining if the prediction result is correct;

if so then outputting the inputted word, phrase, or the sentence to a target, such as an application or a software component which can accept text input, if not, then moving an input mark to the single word and displaying a prediction result of the single word;

determining if the prediction result of the single word is correct;

if not, then continuing to identifying another single word and determining a corresponding sentence of the single word; and

outputting a correct sentence by modifying the prediction result with a correct single word chosen by the user.

6. The method for combining a single word and a multi-word term as claimed in claim 5, wherein moving an input mark to the single word if the prediction result is not correct is done by automatically moving a cursor to the single word for choosing a correct word, phrase, or sentence.

7. The method for combining a single word and a multi-word term as claimed in claim 5, wherein the method is implemented as a computer program stored in a computer-readable medium, therefore, when the computer can perform the method by loading and executing the computer program.