Method of entry of symbolic information into computer system

• US 5,786,809 A
• Filed: 03/18/1996
• Issued: 07/28/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sergei Viktorovich Trofimov, Vladimir Alexandrovich Ryzhov
• Original Assignee: Sergei Viktorovich Trofimov, Vladimir Alexandrovich Ryzhov
• Inventors: Ryzhov, Vladimir Alexandrovich, Trofimov, Sergei Viktorovich
• Primary Examiner(s): Saras, Steven J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): WU, XU MING
• Application Number:
  US08/557,063
• Time in Patent Office: 862 Days
• Field of Search: 345/113, 345/114, 345/120, 345/121, 345/145, 345/146, 345/157, 345/168, 345/348, 345/349, 345/352, 364/188, 364/189
• US Class Current: 345/168
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0489 using dedicated keyboard keys or combinations thereof

Abstract

The method includes the steps of transferring onto a screen a required set of symbols, which is positioned relative to the output position; their mutual allocation is fixed; the set is moved over the screen on the display to the predetermined positions synchronously with the output position while keeping their mutual space allocations; the predetermined symbol is entered into the computer system, after said set has been fixed, thereby performing the entry of symbols into the computer system.

Claims

1. A method of entry of information into a computer system having a screen of a display, comprising the steps of:

setting an output position of a predetermined symbol on said screen,

outputting an image of a set of symbols including the predetermined symbol onto said screen at a position which has a fixed relationship to said output position,

selecting said predetermined symbol from said set,

entering said predetermined symbol into said computer system after said image of said set of symbols has been output in said fixed positional relationship,

outputting an image of said predetermined symbol onto said screen in said output position

moving said output position on said screen to a new position, and

moving said image of said set of symbols synchronously with said moving of said output position on said screen to maintain said fixed positional relationship between said image of said set of symbols and said output position.

2. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said moving of said output position on said screen to a new position occurs only after said symbol has been entered in the previous output position.

3. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said selecting of said predetermined symbol from said set comprises using a pointer, after said image of the set of symbols has been displayed.

4. A method as defined in claim 3, wherein said pointer comprises a cursor.

5. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said image of said set of symbols is partially transparent and superimposed on the image on said screen.

6. A method as defined in claim 1, additionally comprising:

making all images on said screen partially transparent and superimposed on said image of said set of symbols.

7. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein said selecting of said predetermined symbol comprises superimposing the image of the predetermined symbol within said image of said set of symbols onto said output position by moving said image of said set of symbols.