Data entry systems

• US 11,221,756 B2
• Filed: 03/31/2016
• Issued: 01/11/2022
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Keyless Systems Limited
• Original Assignee: Keyless Systems Limited
• Inventors: Ghassabian, Benjamin Firooz
• Primary Examiner(s): Ulrich, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US15/554,218
• Publication Number:
  US 20180081539A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,112 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 3/0233 Character input methods
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• 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 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs

Abstract

A keyboard is divided into a number of large zones each large zone having a number of small zones. The large zones, together, include substantially all of the letters of a language. A word predictive system analyzes the user'"'"'s interaction with the large zones relating to the small zones to predict a word.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a keyboard having a plurality of horizontal rows of letter keys divided into a left large zone and a right large zone, wherein each of said large zones is divided into a plurality of small zones and wherein each of the small zones comprises a plurality of letter keys of the corresponding row of letter keys; and

a processor executing a word predictive software for;

assigning an error value to each of at least some of the letter keys of a large zone when an interaction with said large zone is detected, wherein the error value of a letter key of an interacted small zone corresponding to said interaction with the large zone is calculated based on a distance of said letter key from an interaction point corresponding to said interaction with said large zone and wherein an error value of a letter key of another small zone of the interacted large zone is calculated based on a distance of said letter key of said another small zone from said interaction point in addition to a penalty value wherein said penalty value is regardless of the distance of said letter key of said another small zone from said interaction point, and

predicting at least one word from a database of words based on a sum of error values corresponding to a sequence of interactions provided by a user with the large zones.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each of said large zones is divided into three small zones and wherein each of the small zones includes a number of letter keys of a different row of letter keys of said horizontal rows of letter keys.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein, among a plurality of predicted words, the system gives priority to a word that has a lowest sum of error values.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said keyboard is one of a QWERTY, a QWERTZ, and an AZERTY keyboard.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said keyboard is one of a QWERTY, a QWERTZ, and an AZERTY keyboard and wherein said left large zone comprises four leftmost letter keys of each of the rows of letter keys of said keyboard and wherein said right large zone comprises a rest of the letter keys of said keyboard.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said keyboard has a slightly modified QWERTY letter key layout in which letter keys O and L are swapped and wherein a rest of the letter keys of the keyboard are located at their conventional locations within said QWERTY letter key layout.