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TOUCHSCREEN ORIENTED INPUT INTEGRATED WITH ENHANCED FOUR-CORNER INDEXING

  • US 20170131890A1
  • Filed: 11/06/2015
  • Published: 05/11/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for inputting Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) characters into a touchscreen-enabled device comprising:

  • receiving a plurality of finger touch events on the touchscreen-enabled device, wherein each of the plurality of finger touch events is a CJK text input stroke associated with a corner of the touchscreen-enabled device;

    determining a finger touch movement direction on the touchscreen-enabled device for each of the plurality of finger touch events;

    in response to determining the finger touch movement direction, converting the finger touch movement direction associated with each of the plurality of finger touch events to a numeric index value;

    determining a corner on the touchscreen-enabled device that is activated by each of the received plurality of finger touch events; and

    searching a four-corner index-character dictionary for a matching CJK character using a content of an index buffer.

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