Method, device and system for data entering and displaying on touch screen display

• US 10,101,906 B2
• Filed: 10/08/2015
• Issued: 10/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: 1C Wearable
• Original Assignee: 1C Wearable
• Inventors: Sotnikov, Evgeniy Albertovich
• Primary Examiner(s): Sun, Li P
• Application Number:
  US14/877,953
• Publication Number:
  US 20170038967A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,104 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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 claimed invention relates to the method of data entering and displaying on devices equipped with touch screens using the Graphic User Interface (GUI) comprising a virtual keyboard providing interaction of a user with device. The claimed effect is reached due to the method of entering and displaying of alphanumeric and other graphical symbols on the electronic device touch screen comprising the following steps: generate on a device touch screen a virtual keyboard consisting of data input/output virtual keys, and each virtual key comprises the input symbol sample and the field of displaying of the entered data; determine user interaction with the said virtual keyboard; and arrange and display on the device display in the virtual key field of displaying of the entered data symbols entered by the user using the said virtual keyboard.

Claims

1. A method of receiving a user-input as a string of symbols on a touch screen of an electronic device and displaying the string of symbols on the touch screen, the method executable by the electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying on the touch screen a plurality of virtual keys such that the plurality of virtual keys occupies an entirety of the touch screen, each of the plurality of virtual keys having a boundary and the boundaries of the plurality of virtual keys have contact zones with each other, a given one of the plurality of virtual keys having;

an indication of an input symbol that can be inputted by actuating the given one of the plurality of virtual keys; and

a field for displaying data,

both the indication of the input symbol and the field for displaying data being positioned inside the boundary of the given one of the plurality of virtual keys;

receiving an indication of a user interaction with a user-actuated virtual key of the plurality of virtual keys, the user-actuated virtual key being associated with a desired symbol; and

displaying the desired symbol in the field of a virtual key of the plurality of virtual keys;

wherein the field for displaying data of each of the plurality of virtual keys does not obstruct the input symbol of any of the plurality of virtual keys, and wherein the fields for displaying data of a first virtual key and a second virtual key define a continuous field for displaying data across the boundaries of the first and second virtual keys.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the field for displaying data of at least one of the plurality of virtual keys is operable to display a plurality of desired symbols without any one of the plurality of desired symbols intercrossing with any other one of the plurality of desired symbols.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the desired symbol is part of the string of symbols, a sub-portion of which has been entered and wherein the displaying the desired symbol comprises displaying the desired symbol logically sequentially to the sub-portion.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the fields for displaying data of the first virtual key and the second virtual key define a continuous horizontal field for displaying data across the boundaries of the first and second virtual keys, and wherein the displaying the desired symbol logically sequentially to the sub-portion comprises displaying the string of symbols in the continuous horizontal field.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the continuous horizontal field for displaying data is displayed in one of:

a position above and a position under the input symbols of the first and second virtual keys.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the fields for displaying data of the first virtual key and the second virtual key define a continuous vertical field for displaying data across the boundaries of the first and second virtual keys, and wherein the displaying the desired symbol logically sequentially to the sub-portion comprises displaying the string of symbols in the continuous vertical field.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the continuous vertical field for displaying data is displayed in one of:

a position to the left of and a position to the right of the input symbols of the first and second virtual keys.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the virtual keys on the touch screen comprises displaying the boundary of a first virtual key contiguous with the boundary of a second virtual key in a horizontal direction.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the virtual keys on the touch screen comprises displaying the boundary of a first virtual key contiguous with the boundary of a second virtual key in a vertical direction.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the plurality of virtual keys is a sub-set of all possible displayable virtual keys;

the plurality of virtual keys further including a function key; and

the method further comprises;

receiving an indication of a user interaction with the function key, and

in response to receiving the indication of the user interaction with the function key, displaying a different sub-set of all of the possible displayable virtual keys on the touch screen.

11. A device comprising a touch screen, a processor, and a memory storing therein machine-readable commands, which, when executed by the processor, implement a plurality of steps, the steps comprising:

displaying on the touch screen a plurality of virtual keys such that the plurality of virtual keys occupies an entirety of the touch screen, each of the plurality of virtual keys having a boundary and the boundaries of the plurality of virtual keys have contact zones with each other, a given one of the plurality of virtual keys having;

an indication of an input symbol that can be inputted by actuating the given one of the plurality of virtual keys; and

a field for displaying data,

both the indication of the input symbol and the field for displaying data being positioned inside the boundary of the given one of the plurality of virtual keys;

receiving an indication of a user interaction with a user-actuated virtual key of the plurality of virtual keys, the user-actuated virtual key being associated with a desired symbol; and

displaying the desired symbol in the field of a virtual key of the plurality of virtual keys;

wherein the field for displaying data of each of the plurality of virtual keys does not obstruct the input symbol of any of the plurality of virtual keys, and wherein the fields for displaying data of a first virtual key and a second virtual key define a continuous field for displaying data across the boundaries of the first and second virtual keys.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the field for displaying data of at least one of the plurality of virtual keys is operable to display a plurality of desired symbols without any one of the plurality of desired symbols intercrossing with any other one of the plurality of desired symbols.

13. A system comprising a touch screen, a processor, and a memory containing machine-readable commands, which, when executed by the processor, implement a plurality of steps, the steps comprising:

displaying on the touch screen a plurality of virtual keys such that the plurality of virtual keys occupies an entirety of the touch screen, each of the plurality of virtual keys having a boundary and the boundaries of the plurality of virtual keys have contact zones with each other, a given one of the plurality of virtual keys having;

an indication of an input symbol that can be inputted by actuating the given one of the plurality of virtual keys; and

a field for displaying data,

both the indication of the input symbol and the field for displaying data being positioned inside the boundary of the given one of the plurality of virtual keys;

receiving an indication of a user interaction with a user-actuated virtual key of the plurality of virtual keys, the user-actuated virtual key being associated with a desired symbol; and

displaying the desired symbol in the field of a virtual key of the plurality of virtual keys;

wherein the field for displaying data of each of the plurality of virtual keys does not obstruct the input symbol of any of the plurality of virtual keys, and wherein the fields for displaying data of a first virtual key and a second virtual key define a continuous field for displaying data across the boundaries of the first and second virtual keys.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the field for displaying data of at least one of the plurality of virtual keys is operable to display a plurality of desired symbols without any one of the plurality of desired symbols intercrossing with any other one of the plurality of desired symbols.