METHOD FOR CORRECTING CHARACTER STYLE AND AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF

• US 20130311880A1
• Filed: 04/09/2013
• Published: 11/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: SHIN, Sang-Min
• Application Number:
  US13/859,095
• Publication Number:
  US 20130311880A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/268
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/018 Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/53 Processing of non-Latin text kana-to-kanji conversion G06F40/129; vowelisation G06F40/232

Abstract

An electronic device receives manual input of strokes representing input text, and is used with an apparatus and method for automatically correcting the text which is input by a user into the electronic device. In a method of correcting a font of the text output by the electronic device, the method includes inputting a text, changing a font of the input text, and outputting the text whose font is changed.

Claims

1. A method of correcting a font of text output by an electronic device, the method comprising:

inputting the text;

changing the font of the input text; and

outputting the text whose font is changed.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the changing of the font of the input text comprises correcting at least one of a type and size of the font and a direction, arrangement, and spacing interval of elements of the input text before outputting the input text.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the changing of the font of the input text comprises:

confirming an input ratio for a stroke constituting the input text; and

correcting the confirmed input ratio according to an input ratio of a correction font,

wherein the input ratio is a ratio for horizontal and vertical lengths of the stroke constituting the input text.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the changing of the font of the input text comprises:

confirming a feature point for a stroke constituting the input text; and

correcting the confirmed feature point according to a correction font,

wherein the feature point is a part to which an effect for a specific font is applicable in the stroke constituting the input text.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the changing of the font of the input text comprises:

confirming a feature of a handwriting from the input text;

confirming a correction font corresponding to the confirmed feature; and

changing the input text to the correction font.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the changing of the font of the input text comprises:

confirming, from the input text, a text whose size is changed; and

increasing or decreasing the text whose size is changed according to a specific ratio.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the changing of the font of the input text comprises:

confirming a pre-set correction ratio; and

changing the font according to the confirmed correction ratio.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the correction ratio is changed according to an environment external to the electronic device.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising, if an abnormal part exists in the input text, correcting an abnormal part of the input text, wherein the abnormal part is at least one of a part which is input in such a manner that at least one of the strokes of the input text protrudes in a portion in which the strokes overlap with each other, and a part which is input in such a manner that the stroke constituting the input text is abnormally input.

19. A non-transit computer-readable storage medium for storing one or more programs, executed by an electronic device, including instructions for the electronic device to execute the method of claim 1.

10. An apparatus for correcting a font of text output by an electronic device, the apparatus comprising:

an input device for inputting the text;

an output device for outputting the text;

a processor;

a memory; and

a module stored in the memory and configured to be executable by the processor,

wherein the module includes an instruction for inputting the text using the input device, changing the font of the input text, and outputting the text using the output device whose font is changed.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the module includes an instruction for correcting at least one of a type and size of the font and a direction, arrangement, and spacing interval of elements of the input text before outputting the input text.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the module includes an instruction for confirming an input ratio for a stroke constituting the input text, and correcting the confirmed input ratio according to an input ratio of a correction font, wherein the input ratio is a ratio for horizontal and vertical lengths of the stroke constituting the input text.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the module includes an instruction for confirming a feature point for a stroke constituting the input text, and correcting the confirmed feature point according to a correction font, wherein the feature point is a part to which an effect for a specific font is applicable in the stroke constituting the input text.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the module includes an instruction for confirming a feature of a handwriting from the input text, confirming a correction font corresponding to the confirmed feature, and changing the input text to the correction font.

15. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the module includes an instruction for confirming from the input text a text whose size is changed, and for increasing or decreasing the text whose size is changed according to a specific ratio.

16. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the module includes an instruction for confirming a pre-set correction ratio, and changing the font according to the confirmed correction ratio.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the module includes an instruction for changing the correction ratio according to an environment external to the electronic device.

18. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the module includes an instruction for correcting an abnormal part of the input text if the abnormal part exists in the input text, and wherein the abnormal part is at least one of a part which is input in such a manner that at least one of the strokes of the input text protrudes in a portion in which the strokes of the input text overlap with each other, and a part which is input in such a manner that the stroke constituting the text is abnormally input.