SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INPUTTING CHARACTERS ON SMALL ELECTRONIC DEVICE
First Claim
1. A method for inputting characters into and for processing by a small electronic computing device having a touch screen display, a motion detector, and a pressure sensitive switch comprising:
- first depressing said switch to show a default grouping of icons of characters on said display;
in the case in which the desired character is shown in such default grouping, touching one of the icons representing said default characters on said display to enter said character into and for processing by said device or otherwise moving said device in a prescribed manner to show a different grouping of icons representing characters on said display;
touching one of said icons characters shown in a said different grouping of said icons of said characters on said display to enter said character into and for processing by said device; and
repeating said first step and said following steps to enter as many additional characters into and for processing by said device as needed in order to complete the entry of a complete word into and for processing by said device.
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Abstract
A system and method for the inputting of characters for processing by very small electronic devices based on correlated movement of such a device by the user to access groupings of certain characters and the subsequent choice by said user of the proper character to be entered by touch screen input. In the preferred embodiment each of the twenty six letters of the Roman alphabet are intelligently marshaled into a default grouping and three selectable groupings, each of which being easily accessible by a user simply by moving the electronic device in a prescribed manner.
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31 Claims
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1. A method for inputting characters into and for processing by a small electronic computing device having a touch screen display, a motion detector, and a pressure sensitive switch comprising:
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first depressing said switch to show a default grouping of icons of characters on said display; in the case in which the desired character is shown in such default grouping, touching one of the icons representing said default characters on said display to enter said character into and for processing by said device or otherwise moving said device in a prescribed manner to show a different grouping of icons representing characters on said display; touching one of said icons characters shown in a said different grouping of said icons of said characters on said display to enter said character into and for processing by said device; and repeating said first step and said following steps to enter as many additional characters into and for processing by said device as needed in order to complete the entry of a complete word into and for processing by said device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for inputting characters into and for processing by a small electronic computing device having a touch screen display, a motion detector, and a pressure sensitive switch comprising:
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first depressing said switch to show a default grouping of icons representing the character set composed of the small letters “
a,”
“
b,”
“
c,”
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d,”
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e,”
“
f,”
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x, ”
“
y,” and
“
z”
on said display;in the case in which “
a,”
“
b,”
“
c,”
“
d,”
“
e,”
“
f,”
“
x,”
“
y,”
or “
z”
are the character desired to be entered into for processing by said device touching one of the icons representing said default characters on said display to enter said character into and for processing by said device or, otherwise moving said device in a prescribed manner to show one of three different groupings of icons representing characters on said display, which three different groupings are composed of the following character sets;
first different grouping composed of the character set of small letters “
h,”
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i,”
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j,”
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k,”
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l,”
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p,”
“
r,” and
“
t;
”
second different grouping composed of the character set of small letters “
m,”
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n,”
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u,”
“
v,” and
“
w;
” and
third different character set composed of the set of small letters “
o,”
“
g,”
“
s,” and
“
q;
”touching one of said icons representing characters shown in one of said different groupings so chosen of said icons of said characters on said display to enter said character into and for processing by said device; and repeating said first step and said following steps to enter as many additional characters into and for processing by said device as needed in order to complete the entry of a complete word into and for processing by said device.
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- 16. In a computing system comprising a small electronic computing device, the improvement for inputting characters to be processed by said small electronic device having a touch screen display, a motion detector, and a pressure sensitive switch whereby characters are input for processing by said device by touching icons representing characters in separate groupings of icons of said characters in groupings that allow for the display of less than the entirety of the universe of said characters on said display.
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