Method and system for data input

• US 20060267805A1
• Filed: 05/26/2006
• Published: 11/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Angela, Glazkova, Leila Yurievna
• Application Number:
  US11/441,716
• Publication Number:
  US 20060267805A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 341/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0233 Character input methods
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0235 using chord techniques G06F3/0234 takes precedence

Abstract

Provided is a method and system for correcting key input when a key button which a user intends to input and its neighbor buttons are simultaneously pressed on a small-size keyboard. For information input, simultaneous activation by the operator of a combination of keys of a keyboard is performed, wherein each of possibility for simultaneous activation of the combination of keys is associated with an individual code generated at simultaneous activation of this combination of keys. The generated code is loaded into the adaptive code conversion unit converting this individual input code into the most probable output code, which is visualized on a display after processing by the device processor for selection of the required symbol and confirmation of the selection.

Claims

1. An information input method, comprising simultaneous manual activation by of one of a plurality of combinations of keys of a keyboard on a device including a display and a processor, wherein each combination of keys is associated with hardware or software having an individual code generated at the simultaneous manual activation of each combination of keys, after which the individual code is loaded into an adaptive code conversion unit that converts the individual code into a most probable output code, which is visualized on the display after processing by the processor for a selection of a required symbol and confirmation of the selection.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, after selection of the required symbol and confirmation of the selection in the adaptive code conversion unit, remembering the selection by assigning to the selection a highest truthfulness level in comparison with other probable variants among which the selection was made.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing adaptation of the code conversion unit by creating a conformity table during repeated sessions of manual information input from the keyboard, with confirmation of correctness of the loaded code.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing adaptation of the code conversion unit by writing in it from an external device having an individual program prepared for a single operator, said individual program including a conformity table of input and output codes.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising reducing a list of variants displayed for the selection by deleting variants with a low truthfulness level after a repeated assignment of a highest truthfulness level to a symbol.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising accepting, by default, a symbol of the highest truthfulness level, if this selection is not canceled within a selected time period.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the confirmed command is transmitted to an external device for processing associated with the command.

8. An information input system, comprising:

an input device, implemented as a compact keyboard, wherein key activation or simultaneously activated groups of keys are associated with an individual code;

an adaptive code conversion unit including a memory unit, a display, an executive unit with a processor and an external device communication unit, an output of the input device being connected with a first input of the adaptive code conversion unit, an output of the adaptive code conversion unit being connected with an input of the processor of the executive unit, the first output of the executive unit being connected to a second input of adaptive code conversion unit, a second output of the processor being connected with the display input, and the processor of the executive unit being connected to external device communication unit.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein a minimum size of the keyboard is stipulated by size of a finger-pad of an operator.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the keyboard is removable.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the adaptive code conversion unit is removable.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the adaptive code conversion unit is programmable.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the adaptive code conversion unit is programmable by manual setting.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the adaptive code conversion unit is programmable for automatic setting by use of a code conformity table from an external computer.

15. The system of claim 8, wherein the executive device is implemented as a receiving-transmitting unit of a phone.

16. The system of claim 8, wherein the executive device is executed as a transmitting unit of an external device remote control panel.

17. The system of claim 8, wherein the external device communication unit is executed as a transceiver connected to the processor of the executive device.