ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING TOUCH-SENSITIVE INPUT DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME

• US 20110264999A1
• Filed: 04/23/2010
• Published: 10/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: LHOTAK, Jennifer Elizabeth, POLLOCK, Stuart Coleman Edmond, BELLS, Matthew
• Application Number:
  US12/766,180
• Publication Number:
  US 20110264999A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0238 Programmable keyboards key guide holders G06F3/0224
• 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 3/0489 using dedicated keyboard keys or combinations thereof

Abstract

A method of controlling a portable electronic device includes rendering a first virtual keyboard corresponding to a first language on a touch-sensitive display of the portable electronic device, rendering a second selectable feature corresponding to a second language when the first virtual keyboard is rendered on the touch-sensitive display, detecting selection of the second selectable feature corresponding to the second language, and rendering a second virtual keyboard corresponding to the second language in response to detecting the selection.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a portable electronic device, the method comprising:

rendering a first virtual keyboard corresponding to a first language on a touch-sensitive display of the portable electronic device;

rendering a second selectable feature corresponding to a second language when the first virtual keyboard is rendered on the touch-sensitive display;

detecting selection of the second selectable feature corresponding to the second language;

rendering a second virtual keyboard corresponding to the second language in response to detecting the selection.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the selectable feature corresponding to the second language is one of a plurality of selectable features corresponding to a plurality of languages rendered on the touch-sensitive display when the first virtual keyboard is rendered.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the selectable features comprise selectable tabs rendered near the first virtual keyboard.

4. The method according to claim 1, comprising rendering a first selectable feature corresponding to the first language when the first language is rendered on the touch-sensitive display.

5. The method according to claim 1, comprising utilizing a second set of objects, stored in memory, in response to detecting the selection, the second set of objects corresponding to the second language.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein utilizing the second set of objects comprises discontinuing utilizing a first set of objects stored in memory, the first set of objects corresponding to the first language.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the second set of objects are utilized to check spelling of character strings entered at the portable electronic device.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the first set of objects are utilized to check spelling of character strings entered at the portable electronic device.

9. The method according to claim 6, wherein the second set of objects are utilized to predict a next character in a string of characters entered utilizing the second keyboard.

10. The method according to claim 6, wherein the first set of objects are utilized to predict a next character in a string of characters entered utilizing the first keyboard.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein detecting selection comprises detecting a touch at a location on the touch-sensitive display that is associated with the second selectable feature.

12. The method according to claim 1, comprising providing at least one menu option to select a further language for which to render a further corresponding selectable feature.

13. The method according to claim 1, comprising providing at least one menu option to deselect at least one of the first language and the second language for which corresponding first and second selectable features are rendered.

14. A computer-readable medium having computer-readable code embodied therein for execution by at least one processor in an electronic device having a touch-sensitive display to carry out the method according to claim 1.

15. A portable electronic device comprising:

a touch-sensitive display; and

at least one processor operably coupled to the touch-sensitive display to render a first virtual keyboard corresponding to a first language on a touch-sensitive display of the portable electronic device, render a second selectable feature corresponding to a second language when the first virtual keyboard is rendered on the touch-sensitive display, detect selection of the second selectable feature corresponding to the second language, and render a second virtual keyboard corresponding to the second language in response to detecting the selection.