ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND TEXT-INPUT INTERFACE DISPLAYING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20150082234A1
• Filed: 01/16/2014
• Published: 03/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Inventors: LIN, Yu-Jui
• Granted Patent: US 9,875,018 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/780
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/018 Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

The present invention discloses an electronic device including a storage device, an input device, a display device and a processing unit. The storage device stores an input rule table. The input device receives at least one input signal corresponding to text editing. The display device is arranged to display a text input interface, wherein the text input interface comprises a first display region and a second display region provided for users to do the text editing by the input device, wherein the display device has a display region, the display region has a predetermined display area, and the text input interface has an interface area. The processing dynamically adjusts the interface area of the text input interface to change the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region according to the input signal and the input rule table.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a storage device, arranged to store at least one input rule table;

an input device, arranged to receive at least one input signal corresponding to a text editing;

a display device, arranged to display a text input interface, wherein the text input interface comprises a first display region and a second display region, the first display region and the second display region are provided for users to do the text editing by the input device, wherein the display device has a display region, the display region has a predetermined display area, and the text input interface displayed on the display region has an interface area; and

a processing unit, arranged to dynamically adjust the interface area of the text input interface to change the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region according to the input signal and the input rule table.

2. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first display region and the second display region have a plurality of display blocks, respectively, and each of the display blocks is arranged to display a character, the processing unit is arranged to enable the text input interface to make at least one of the display blocks which is not in use to be transparent for changing the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region.

3. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the input device is a touch module disposed above the display region of the display device, the processing unit enables the first display region to display other characters by scroll tumbling when the input signal received by the input device is a first predetermined gesture performed on the first display region, the processing unit enables the second display region to display other characters by scroll tumbling when the input signal received by the input device is a second predetermined gesture performed on the second display region.

4. The electronic device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the text input interface is capable of switching between a plurality of language interfaces, and the processing unit is arranged to enable the text input interface to switch the language interfaces when the input signal received by the input device is a third predetermined gesture.

5. The electronic device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the input rule table comprises a Chinese input rule table, and the text input interface has a Chinese default interface when the text input interface operates as a Chinese interface, wherein the first display region is arranged to display a first set of a plurality of Chinese Zhuyin characters in the Chinese default interface, and the second display region is arranged to display five tones of Chinese in the Chinese default interface.

6. The electronic device as claimed in claim 5, wherein at least five of the display blocks of the second display region are in use in the Chinese default interface, and the processing unit is further arranged to enable the display blocks of the second display region to be transparent except for the display blocks arranged to display the five tones of Chinese for changing the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region.

7. The electronic device as claimed in claim 5, wherein when the input signal received by the input device is in response to an operation on the Chinese default interface and arranged to select a first Chinese Zhuyin character of the first set of the Chinese Zhuyin characters, the processing unit is arranged to enable the first display region to display a second set of the Chinese Zhuyin characters corresponding to the first Chinese Zhuyin character according to the Chinese input rule table and enable the second display region to display at least one of the Chinese characters corresponding to the first Chinese Zhuyin character and the five tones of Chinese.

8. The electronic device as claimed in claim 7, wherein when the second set of the Chinese Zhuyin characters is less than the display blocks of the first display region, the processing unit is further arranged to enable the display blocks of the first display region to be transparent except for the display blocks arranged to display the second set of the Chinese Zhuyin characters for changing the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region.

9. The electronic device as claimed in claim 5, wherein when the input signal received by the input device corresponds to an operation on the Chinese default interface and is arranged to select a first tone of the five tones of Chinese, the processing unit is further arranged to enable the first display region to keep displaying the first set of the Chinese Zhuyin characters and remove the five tones of Chinese on the second display region.

10. The electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein when the input signal received by the input device is in corresponds to the operation on the Chinese default interface and is arranged to select the first tone of the five tones of Chinese, the processing unit is further arranged to enable the second display region to be transparent for changing the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region.

11. The electronic device as claimed in claim 4, wherein when the text input interface operates as a number/punctuation interface, the first display region of the text input interface is arranged to display a first set of a plurality of Arabic numbers and an interface switching key.

12. The electronic device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the input rule table comprises an English input rule table, and the text input interface has an English default interface when the text input interface operates as an English interface, wherein the first display region is arranged to display a space key and a case switching key in the English default interface, and the second display region is arranged to display a first set of a plurality of English letters in the English default interface.

13. The electronic device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the first display region has at least three of the display blocks, and the processing unit is further arranged to enable the display blocks of the first display region to be transparent except for the display blocks arranged to display the space key and the case switching key for changing the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region.

14. The electronic device as claimed in claim 12, wherein when the input signal received by the input device is a second predetermined gesture performed on the second display region, the processing unit enables the second display region to adjust the first set of the English letters for displaying other English letters.

15. The electronic device as claimed in claim 12, wherein when the input signal received by the input device is corresponding to an operation on the English default interface and arranged to select a first English letter of the first set of the English letters, the processing unit enables the first display region to display the space key, the case switching key and a second set of the English letters corresponding to the first English letter according to the English input rule table and enables the second display region to keep displaying the first set of the English letters.

16. The electronic device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the input rule table comprises a Japanese input rule table, and the text input interface has a Japanese default interface when the text input interface operates as a Japanese interface, wherein the first display region is arranged to display a space key and an enter key in the Japanese default interface, and the second display region is arranged to display a first set of a plurality of Japanese consonants in the Japanese default interface.

17. The electronic device as claimed in claim 16, wherein the first display region has at least three of the display blocks, and the processing unit is further arranged to enable the display blocks of the first display region to be transparent except for the space key and the enter key for changing the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region.

18. The electronic device as claimed in claim 16, wherein when the input signal received by the input device is the second predetermined gesture performed on the second display region, the processing unit enables the second display region to adjust the first set of the Japanese consonants to display other Japanese consonants by scroll tumbling.

19. The electronic device as claimed in claim 18, wherein when the input signal received by the input device is corresponding to an operation on the Japanese default interface and arranged to select a first Japanese consonant of the Japanese consonants, the processing unit enables the first display region to keep displaying the space key and the enter key, and enables the second display region to display a plurality of Japanese vowels and an “

N”

for selecting the Hatsuonn character “

”

according to the Japanese input rule table.

20. The electronic device as claimed in claim 19, wherein when the input signals received by the input device are arranged to select a first Japanese vowel of the Japanese vowels and the space key, the processing unit enables the first display region to display a plurality of Chinese characters and/or Japanese characters corresponding to the first Japanese vowel and the first Japanese consonant according to the Japanese input rule table, and enables the second display region to display the first set of the Japanese consonants.

21. A text-input interface displaying method, applied to an electronic device having an input device and a display device, wherein the display device has a display region, the display region has a predetermined display area, the text-input interface displaying method comprises:

displaying a text input interface on the display region, wherein the text input interface has a first display region and a second display region, the first display region and the second display region are provided for users to do a text editing by the input device, and the text input interface has an interface area; and

dynamically adjusting the interface area of the text input interface to change the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region according to the input signal and the input rule table.

22. The text-input interface displaying method as claimed in claim 21, wherein the first display region and the second display region have a plurality of display blocks, respectively, and each of the display blocks is arranged to display a character, and the text-input interface displaying method further comprises enabling the text input interface to make at least one of the display blocks which is not in use to be transparent for changing the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region.

23. The text-input interface displaying method as claimed in claim 21, wherein the input device is a touch module disposed above the display region of the display device, and the text-input interface displaying method further comprises:

when the input signal received by the input device is a gesture sliding to the left and/or right on the first display region, enabling the first display region to display other characters by scroll tumbling; and

when the input signal received by the input device is a gesture sliding to the left and/or right on the second display region, enabling the second display region to display other characters by scroll tumbling.

24. The text-input interface displaying method as claimed in claim 23, wherein the text input interface is capable of switching between a plurality of language interfaces, and the text-input interface displaying method further comprises enabling the text input interface to switch the language interfaces when the input signal received by the input device is a gesture sliding up and/or down.