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System for reading chinese characters in seconds

  • US 7,809,550 B1
  • Filed: 10/08/2009
  • Issued: 10/05/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2009
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method to output from an electronic device a Chinese or other Oriental character text, Pinyin spelling and translation into English or another language, brought by a user using said electronic device and entering one or more of a selection of symbols, a stroke number, and a stroke range number, comprising:

  • providing said electronic device with a graphical user interface showing a plurality of modes, a place to input a mode selection, a plurality of symbols, a place to input a symbol selection, a place to input character stroke count, and a place to input stroke range count;

    selecting a mode from said plurality of modes on said graphical user interface;

    entering said selected mode in said place to input a mode selection;

    selecting, from said plurality of symbols, one or more symbol that is found in an unknown character brought by said user using said electronic device;

    entering said selected one or more symbol in said place to input a symbol selection;

    counting strokes of said unknown character;

    entering a stroke count of said unknown character in said place to input character stroke count;

    selecting and entering a stroke range count in said place to input a stroke range count;

    processing, by said electronic device, said unknown character based on said stroke count and said stroke range count to provide as output a plurality of candidate character texts;

    selecting a character text from said plurality of candidate character texts for said unknown character brought by the user using said electronic device;

    receiving for the selected character text an output of an enlarged character text, Pinyin word, stroke number, tone, and translation.

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