East Asian character assist

• US 9,733,825 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2014
• Issued: 08/15/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo PC International Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Bula, Geoffrey Simon, Qian, Ming, Li, Jian, Zhang, Jianbang, Wang, Song
• Primary Examiner(s): DICKE, CHAD M
• Application Number:
  US14/533,827
• Publication Number:
  US 20160124630A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,014 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/018 Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/287 of Kanji, Hiragana or Katakana characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/347 Sampling; Contour coding; Stroke extraction

Abstract

A method can include identifying at least one radical of a plurality of East Asian characters based at least in part on stroke information received via a touch-sensitive display; ranking individual East Asian characters of the plurality of East Asian characters according to their individual frequencies in a corpus; and rendering at least a portion of the ranked individual East Asian characters to the touch-sensitive display.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving stroke information via a touch-sensitive display wherein the stroke information is associated with a type of application, a user account and an address;

selecting a personalized corpus from a plurality of corpuses based at least in part on the type of application, the user account and the address wherein the personalized corpus is based on text within files of the type of application that are associated with the user account and the address;

identifying at least one radical of a plurality of East Asian characters based at least in part on stroke information;

ranking individual East Asian characters of the plurality of East Asian characters according to their individual frequencies in the personalized corpus; and

rendering at least a portion of the ranked individual East Asian characters to the touch-sensitive display.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the identifying at least one radical comprises associating the stroke information with a radical that comprises a Unicode and wherein the ranking individual East Asian characters comprises accessing a Unicode range for the Unicode wherein the Unicode range corresponds to the individual East Asian characters.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the stroke information comprises stroke information for a complete radical.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the complete radical comprises a plurality of strokes.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the stroke information comprises stroke information for a single stroke that exists in a plurality of radicals.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the personalized corpus is a personalized corpus associated with a word processing application.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the personalized corpus is a personalized corpus associated with an email application.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the personalized corpus is a personalized corpus associated with communications for a group wherein the group comprises at least two members.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the personalized corpus is a personalized corpus associated with at least a portion of an email address.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving a selection that selects one of the ranked individual East Asian characters.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising updating frequency information in the personalized corpus based at least in part on the selection.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving the stroke information via stylus-enabled digitizer circuitry of the display.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the rendering at least a portion of the ranked individual East Asian characters to a display comprises rendering at least one of the ranked individual East Asian characters in a phrase.

14. The method of claim 1 comprising accessing a lookup table.

15. An apparatus comprising:

a processor;

memory operatively coupled to the processor;

a touch-sensitive display operatively coupled to the processor;

reception circuitry that receives stroke information via a touch-sensitive display wherein the stroke information is associated with a type of application, a user account and an address;

selection circuitry that selects a personalized corpus from a plurality of corpuses based at least in part on the type of application, the user account and the address wherein the personalized corpus is based on text within files of the type of application that are associated with the user account and the address;

radical circuitry that identifies at least one radical of a plurality of East Asian characters based at least in part on stroke information;

corpus circuitry that ranks individual East Asian characters of the plurality of East Asian characters according to their individual frequencies in the personalized corpus; and

character circuitry that renders at least a portion of the ranked individual East Asian characters to the touch-sensitive display.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the radical circuitry associates the stroke information with a radical that comprises a Unicode and wherein the corpus circuitry that ranks individual East Asian characters accesses a Unicode range for the Unicode wherein the Unicode range corresponds to the individual East Asian characters.

17. One or more computer-readable storage media comprising processor-executable instructions that instruct a computing device wherein the instructions comprise instructions to:

receive stroke information via a touch-sensitive display wherein the stroke information is associated with a type of application, a user account and an address;

select a personalized corpus from a plurality of corpuses based at least in part on the type of application, the user account and the address wherein the personalized corpus is based on text within files of the type of application that are associated with the user account and the address;

identify at least one radical of a plurality of East Asian characters based at least in part on stroke information;

rank individual East Asian characters of the plurality of East Asian characters according to their individual frequencies in the personalized corpus; and

render at least a portion of the ranked individual East Asian characters to the touch-sensitive display.

18. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 17 wherein the instructions to identify comprise instructions to associate the stroke information with a radical that comprises a Unicode and wherein the instructions to rank comprise instructions to access a Unicode range for the Unicode wherein the Unicode range corresponds to the individual East Asian characters.

19. A method comprising:

receiving stroke information via a touch-sensitive display wherein the stroke information is associated with a messaging application, a user account and an address;

selecting a personalized corpus from a plurality of corpuses associated with the messaging application and the user account based at least in part on the address wherein the personalized corpus is based on text within files that are associated with the user account and the address;

identifying at least one radical of a plurality of East Asian characters based at least in part on stroke information;

ranking individual East Asian characters of the plurality of East Asian characters according to their individual frequencies in the personalized corpus; and

rendering at least a portion of the ranked individual East Asian characters to the touch-sensitive display.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein the address comprises a phone number.