Method for inputting chinese phrase

• US 10,042,433 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2015
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pentagon Maple Leaf Information Technologies Of Kunshan Co.,Ltd
• Original Assignee: Lianhui Zhou
• Inventors: Zhou, Lianhui
• Primary Examiner(s): NWUGO, OJIAKO K
• Application Number:
  US15/505,728
• Publication Number:
  US 20170277276A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,149 Days
• Field of Search: 341 28, 704 3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/018 Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0233 Character input methods
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/129 Handling non-Latin characters, e.g. kana-to-kanji conversion
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs

Abstract

A method for inputting a Chinese phrase, and the said phrase includes 2- and 3-Chinese characters, if the phonetic code for inputting the said phrase is full Pinyin for the 1st character and abbreviation Pinyin for the 2nd and 3rd characters and the number of phrases for such a code is more than the presetting value, then the converted phonetic code combinations from the phrase dictionary database of the input method based on the said phonetic code will display on the input interface, that is full Pinyin is kept for the 1st character, all combinations of full Pinyin based on the abbreviation Pinyin are displayed for the 2nd character and abbreviation Pinyin is kept for the 3rd character.

Claims

1. A method for inputting a Chinese phrase, and the said Chinese phrase

includes 2- and 3-Chinese characters wherein a phonetic code for

inputting the said Chinese phrase is full Pinyin for a 1st character and abbreviation Pinyin for

a 2nd and 3rd characters and when the number of phrases for the phonetic code is more than a presetting value, then converted phonetic code combinations from a phrase dictionary database will display on an input interface, wherein full Pinyin is displayed for the 1st character, all phonetic code combinations of full Pinyin based on the abbreviation Pinyin are displayed for the 2nd character and abbreviation Pinyin is displayed for the 3rd character;

when the a candidate number for a phonetic code is selected, all candidate phrases associated with the candidate number from the phrase dictionary database for such a code will be displayed on the input interface will be entered on the screen upon selection of a candidate number key.

2. The method for inputting a Chinese phrase as claimed in claim 1, wherein the said presetting value is 6.

3. The method for inputting a Chinese phrase as claimed in claim 1, wherein the converted phonetic codes for both the 1st and 2nd characters are of full Pinyin, or in case of full Pinyin for the 1st and 2nd characters and abbreviation Pinyin of the initial letter for the 3rd character, all corresponding 2 or 3 character phrases will be displayed in the input window of interface, and the corresponding candidate phrase will be entered on the screen upon selection of a candidate number key.