Letter input method

• US 8,887,084 B2
• Filed: 08/19/2009
• Issued: 11/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Youn Soo
• Primary Examiner(s): Tan, Alvin
• Assistant Examiner(s): POHLMAN, JAMES GREGORY
• Application Number:
  US13/122,398
• Publication Number:
  US 20110214084A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,910 Days
• Field of Search: 715/780, 715/268
• US Class Current: 715/780
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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

Abstract

The letter input method of the present invention comprises: a first step of enabling a letter input window including an end button to be displayed on a touch screen at a location separate from a word input window, when a user applies contact pressure to the word input window of the web browser or web site displayed on the touch screen; a second step of inputting relevant letters to the word input window, when the user inputs characters to the character input window; and a third step of generating a driving signal such that the search engine associated with the word input window can be driven by using the letters input to the word input window as search data, when the user selects the end button. The letter input method of the present invention enables users to input letters on the touch screen simply by touch instead of a separate keyboard or a mouse, enables the driving of a search engine of the web browser or a web site to be performed on the letter input screen, and enables the simple selection of a search engine to be used.

Claims

1. A text input method comprising:

displaying, in response to a user applying contact pressure on a word input bar of a web browser or a website that is displayed on a touch screen, a text input window comprising a complete button on a position of the touch screen that is beyond the word input bar;

inputting, in response to the user inputting text into the text input window, corresponding text into the word input bar; and

generating, in response to the user selecting the complete button, an operation signal so that a search engine associated with the word input bar is operated using the text that is input into the word input bar as a search data,

wherein the complete button comprises a general search button and an extensive search button;

an area of the text input window is on a position of the touch screen that is beyond the word input bar and is configured to input corresponding text into the word input bar in response to the user inputting text via touch input at any location within the area;

the generating the operation signal comprises

operating, in response to the general search button being selected, the search engine designated as default, and

displaying, in response to the extensive search button being selected, a field selection window equipped with one or more field selection buttons, displaying, in response to one of the field selection buttons being selected, the website selection window equipped with one or more website selection buttons, and operating, in response to one of the website selection buttons being selected, another search engine corresponding to the selected website selection button,

the field selection window and the website selection window are displayed inside the area of the text input window, and the website selection window is displayed inside the area of the text input window in response to the display of the field selection window being finished.

2. The text input method of claim 1, wherein, after the first step, the text input window disappears when contact pressure is applied once or more on the position of the touch screen that is beyond the text input window.

3. The text input method of claim 1, wherein the text input window is displayed in contact with the word input bar.

4. The text input method of claim 1, wherein the second step comprises inputting, when the user writes a letter by hand on the text input window, a letter that is most similar to a shape of the letter written by the user into the word input bar.

5. The text input method of claim 1, wherein, in the second step, when the user applies contact pressure on the touch screen by crossing a point in the text input window on which a letter is written while inputting the text into the text input window, a letter corresponding to the point on which the contact pressure is applied is erased.

6. The text input method of one of claims 1 to 5, wherein a selected website screen is displayed in an entire area of the touch screen or in the text input window when a search engine of a selected website is operated.

7. The text input method of one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the text input into the word input bar is stored in a memory in response to the search engine being operated using the text input into the word input bar as a search data, and

wherein the search engine is operated using text that is most recently stored in the memory as a search data in response to the complete button being selected in a state in which the text is not input into the word input bar.

8. The text input method of one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the text that is input into the word input bar is stored in a memory in response to the search engine is operated using the text input into the word input bar as a search data,

wherein, after one or more texts are input into the word input bar 15, in response to the complete button is selected in a state in which no text is input into the word input bar, the texts stored in the memory are displayed in the text input window, and

wherein, in response to one of the texts displayed in the text input window is selected, the search engine is operated using the selected text as a search data.

9. The text input method of claim 8, wherein, in response to the complete button is selected in a state in which no text is input into the word input bar,

the texts are displayed in the text input window in such a fashion that two or more of the texts are displayed in an order reverse to that in the memory, or the texts are displayed one by one in an order reverse to that in the memory at every time that the user selects the complete button.

10. The text input method of one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the first step comprises further displaying a telephone button, the telephone button forwarding numbers that are input into the word input bar to an Internet telephone transceiver.