Fluent user interface for text entry on touch-sensitive display
First Claim
1. A method for entering in an electronic device an arbitrary sequence of commands from a determined plurality of commands comprising:
- (a) a touch sensitive medium serving as input interface of said electronic device (b) a touching device operating on said touch sensitive medium selected from the group comprising stylus and pen and finger (c) an input area on said touch sensitive medium (d) a plurality of edges drawn within said text input area (e) an association rule relating edges of said plurality of edges to commands of said plurality of commands and proceeding by;
(f) detecting a stroke traced by a continuous motion of said touching device onto said input area (g) determining the sequence of edges of said plurality of edges that are traversed by said stroke (h) entering the corresponding sequence of commands resulting from applying said association rule sequentially to each edge in said sequence of edges.
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Abstract
A user interface method and apparatus for an electronic device operates by detecting a stroke (20) of a touch sensitive display (10) forming a part of the electronic device. The stroke is interpreted by the user interface method (73) as a sequence of commands where each command is associated to one edge traversed by the stroke, and possibly to the direction and to the speed at which the input device crossed the edge. The touch sensitive display (10) can be shared between the user interface method and any other application. If a stroke does not traverse any edges or is identified by other means as irrelevant for the user interface method, it is translated into an application function.
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11 Claims
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1. A method for entering in an electronic device an arbitrary sequence of commands from a determined plurality of commands comprising:
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(a) a touch sensitive medium serving as input interface of said electronic device (b) a touching device operating on said touch sensitive medium selected from the group comprising stylus and pen and finger (c) an input area on said touch sensitive medium (d) a plurality of edges drawn within said text input area (e) an association rule relating edges of said plurality of edges to commands of said plurality of commands and proceeding by;
(f) detecting a stroke traced by a continuous motion of said touching device onto said input area (g) determining the sequence of edges of said plurality of edges that are traversed by said stroke (h) entering the corresponding sequence of commands resulting from applying said association rule sequentially to each edge in said sequence of edges. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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