INPUT PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS

• US 20140184514A1
• Filed: 12/05/2013
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Rao, Zhangwen
• Application Number:
  US14/097,467
• Publication Number:
  US 20140184514A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0381 Multimodal input, i.e. interface arrangements enabling the user to issue commands by simultaneous use of input devices of different nature, e.g. voice plus gesture on digitizer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/183 using context dependencies, e.g. language models
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/70 methods for entering alphabetical characters, e.g. multi-tap or dictionary disambiguation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 with voice recognition means

Abstract

The present invention provides an input processing method and apparatus. The input processing method includes: acquiring, by a terminal device according to an input mode selected by a user, first input information that is input by the user and matches the input mode; encoding the first input information according to a preset encoding rule to obtain code corresponding to the first input information; and querying a pre-established vocabulary to acquire a candidate word corresponding to the code. In the input processing method provided in the embodiments of the present invention, by acquiring first input information according to an input mode selected by a user, acquiring corresponding code according to the first input information, and then acquiring, by encoding, a word to be input by the user, rapid and accurate input of complex words is implemented, thereby effectively improving the input efficiency.

Claims

1. An input processing method, comprising:

acquiring, by a terminal device according to an input mode selected by a user, first input information that is input by the user and matches the input mode, wherein the input mode is a gesture input mode or a voice input mode;

encoding, by the terminal device, the first input information according to a preset encoding rule to obtain code corresponding to the first input information; and

querying, by the terminal device, a pre-established vocabulary to acquire a candidate word corresponding to the code.

2. The input processing method according to claim 1, wherein acquiring first input information that is input by the user and matches the input mode comprises:

when the input mode is the gesture input mode, acquiring a first touch track of the user on a virtual keyboard of the terminal device;

or when the input mode is the voice input mode, collecting first sound information by using a sound sensor of the terminal device.

3. The input processing method according to claim 2, wherein encoding the first input information according to a preset encoding rule to obtain code corresponding to the first input information comprises:

when the acquired first input information is the first touch track of the user on the virtual keyboard of the terminal device, combining characters corresponding to buttons which the first touch track sequentially passes through on the virtual keyboard, to obtain the code corresponding to the first input information; and

when the acquired first input information is the first sound information, encoding the first sound information by using a hash algorithm, a hidden Markov model HMM algorithm or a dynamic time warping DTW algorithm to obtain the code corresponding to the first input information.

4. The input processing method according to claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the terminal device, a word processing request, wherein the word processing request is used for requesting addition of a word to the vocabulary, the word processing request comprises a word processing mode and a word to be added, and the word processing mode is a gesture word processing mode or a voice word processing mode;

receiving, by the terminal device according to the word processing request, second input information that is input by the user and matches the word processing mode; and

encoding the second input information according to the preset encoding rule to generate code corresponding to the second input information; and

establishing, by the terminal device, a mapping relationship between the code corresponding to the second input information and the word to be added, and storing the mapping relationship into the vocabulary.

5. The input processing method according to claim 4, wherein receiving second input information that is input by the user and matches the word processing mode comprises:

when the word processing mode is the gesture word processing mode, acquiring a second touch track of the user on the virtual keyboard of the terminal device;

or

when the word processing mode is the voice word processing mode, collecting second sound information by using the sound sensor of the terminal device.

6. The input processing method according to claim 5, wherein encoding the second input information according to the preset encoding rule to generate code corresponding to the second input information comprises:

when the acquired second input information is the second touch track of the user on the virtual keyboard of the terminal device, combining characters corresponding to buttons which the second touch track sequentially passes through on the virtual keyboard, to obtain the code corresponding to the second input information; and

when the acquired second input information is the second sound information, encoding the second sound information by using the hash algorithm, the hidden Markov model HMM algorithm or the dynamic time warping DTW algorithm to obtain the code corresponding to the second input information.

7. The input processing method according to claim 1, wherein after querying a pre-established vocabulary to acquire a candidate word corresponding to the code, the method further comprises:

when a plurality of candidate words corresponding to the code is acquired, arranging the plurality of candidate words according to a descending order of frequency, and displaying, on a screen of the terminal device, the sorted plurality of candidate words for selection by the user; and

displaying, in a particular area on the screen of the terminal device, a word selected by the user from the sorted plurality of candidate words.

8. An input processing apparatus, comprising:

an information acquiring module, configured to acquire, according to an input mode selected by a user, first input information that is input by the user and matches the input mode, wherein the input mode is a gesture input mode or a voice input mode;

an encoding processing module, configured to encodes the first input information according to a preset encoding rule to obtain code corresponding to the first input information; and

a query and acquisition module, configured to query a pre-established vocabulary to acquire a candidate word corresponding to the code.

9. The input processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the information acquiring module is configured to:

when the input mode is the gesture input mode, acquire a first touch track of the user on a virtual keyboard of the input processing apparatus;

or

the information acquiring module is configured to;

when the input mode is the voice input mode, collect first sound information by using a sound sensor of the input processing apparatus.

10. The input processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the encoding processing module is configured to:

when the first input information acquired by the information acquiring module is the first touch track on the virtual keyboard of the input processing apparatus, combine characters corresponding to buttons which the first touch track sequentially passes through on the virtual keyboard, to obtain the code corresponding to the first input information;

or the encoding processing module is configured to;

when the first input information acquired by the information acquiring module is the first sound information, encodes the first sound information by using a hash algorithm, a hidden Markov model HMM algorithm or a dynamic time warping DTW algorithm to obtain the code corresponding to the first input information.

11. The input processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the input processing apparatus further comprises:

a receiving module and a word storage module, wherein

the receiving module is configured to receive a word processing request, wherein the word processing request is used for requesting addition of a word to the vocabulary, the word processing request comprises a word processing mode and a word to be added, and the word processing mode is a gesture word processing mode or a voice word processing mode;

the information acquiring module is further configured to receive, according to the word processing request, second input information that is input by the user and matches the word processing mode;

the encoding processing module is further configured to encode the second input information according to the preset encoding rule to generate code corresponding to the second input information; and

the word storage module is configured to establish a mapping relationship between the code corresponding to the second input information and the word to be added, and store the mapping relationship into the vocabulary.

12. The input processing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the information acquiring module is configured to:

when the word processing mode is the gesture word processing mode, acquire a second touch track of the user on the virtual keyboard of the input processing apparatus;

or

the information acquiring module is configured to;

when the word processing mode is the voice word processing mode, collect second sound information by using the sound sensor of the input processing apparatus.

13. The input processing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the encoding processing module is configured to:

when the second input information acquired by the information acquiring module is the second touch track of the user on the virtual keyboard of the input processing apparatus, combine characters corresponding to buttons which the second touch track sequentially passes through on the virtual keyboard to obtain the code corresponding to the second input information;

or

the encoding processing module is configured to;

when the second input information acquired by the information acquiring module is the second sound information, encodes the second sound information by using the hash algorithm, the hidden Markov model HMM algorithm or the dynamic time warping DTW algorithm to obtain the code corresponding to the second input information.

14. The input processing apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

a sorting processing module, configured to;

when a plurality of candidate words corresponding to the code is acquired, sort the plurality of candidate words according to a descending order of frequency, and display, on a screen of the input processing apparatus, the sorted plurality of candidate words for selection by the user; and

a display module, configured to display, in a particular area on the screen of the input processing apparatus, a word selected by the user from the sorted plurality of candidate words.

15. An input processing apparatus, comprising:

a processor, a memory and a bus, the processor and the memory are connected to and implement communication with each other by using the bus, the processor runs a program corresponding to the executable program code by reading the executable program code stored in the memory, so as to;

acquire, according to an input mode selected by a user, first input information that is input by the user and matches the input mode, wherein the input mode is a gesture input mode or a voice input mode;

encode the first input information according to a preset encoding rule to obtain code corresponding to the first input information; and

query a pre-established vocabulary to acquire a candidate word corresponding to the code.

16. The input processing apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the input processing apparatus further comprises:

a touchscreen, wherein a virtual keyboard is displayed on the touchscreen for a user to perform a touch operation, and the first input information is a first touch track on the virtual keyboard;

the processor runs the program corresponding to the executable program code by reading the executable program code stored in the memory, so as to;

combine characters corresponding to buttons which the first touch track sequentially passes through on the virtual keyboard, to obtain the code corresponding to the first input information.

17. The input processing apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the input processing apparatus further comprises:

a sound sensor, wherein the sound sensor is configured to collect a sound, and the first input information is a first sound information collected by the sound sensor;

the processor runs the program corresponding to the executable program code by reading the executable program code stored in the memory, so as to;

encode the first sound information by using a hash algorithm, a hidden Markov model HMM algorithm or a dynamic time warping DTW algorithm to obtain the code corresponding to the first input information.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium including operations stored thereon that when processed by at least one processing unit cause a system to perform the acts of:

acquire, according to an input mode selected by a user, first input information that is input by the user and matches the input mode, wherein the input mode is a gesture input mode or a voice input mode;

encode the first input information according to a preset encoding rule to obtain code corresponding to the first input information; and

query a pre-established vocabulary to acquire a candidate word corresponding to the code.