Electronic device and text-input interface displaying method thereof

• US 9,875,018 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2014
• Issued: 01/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Inventors: Lin, Yu-Jui
• Primary Examiner(s): Barrett, Ryan
• Application Number:
  US14/157,229
• Publication Number:
  US 20150082234A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,468 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/018 Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• 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 present invention discloses an electronic device including a storage device, an input device, a display device and a processing unit. The storage device stores an input rule table. The input device receives at least one input signal corresponding to text editing. The display device is arranged to display a text input interface, wherein the text input interface comprises a first display region and a second display region provided for users to do the text editing by the input device, wherein the display device has a display region, the display region has a predetermined display area, and the text input interface has an interface area. The processing dynamically adjusts the interface area of the text input interface to change the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region according to the input signal and the input rule table.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a storage device, storing at least one input rule table;

an input device, receiving at least one input signal corresponding to a text editing;

a display device, displaying a text input interface, wherein the text input interface comprises a first display region and a second display region, the first display region and the second display region each comprising a plurality of display blocks, wherein each of the display blocks is arranged to display a character, wherein the first display region and the second display region are provided for users to do the text editing by the input device, wherein the display device has a display region, the display region has a predetermined display area, and the text input interface displayed on the display region has an interface area; and

a processor, in a first mode, displaying a first set of characters in the display blocks of the second display region, determining whether the input device receives a number of input signals corresponding to selection of characters of the first set of characters exceeding a predetermined value, and displaying a second set of characters in the display blocks of the first display region when the number of input signals corresponding to selection of characters of the first set of characters exceeds the predetermined value in the text editing, wherein the second set of characters leaves at least one display block in the first display region empty, the processor further making the at least one empty display block transparent and making the at least one empty display block accumulate at the end of the first display region, thereby dynamically adjusting the interface area of the text input interface to change the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region according to the input signals of the characters that have been selected and the input rule table, wherein the input rule table comprises a variety of combinations of characters that are used for constructing words.

2. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the input device is a touch module disposed above the display region of the display device, and the processing unit enables the second display region to display other characters by scroll tumbling when the input signal received by the input device is a predetermined gesture performed on the second display region.

3. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the text input interface is capable of switching between modes, the modes corresponding to a plurality of language interfaces, and the processor enables the text input interface to switch the language interfaces when the input signal received by the input device is a first predetermined gesture.

4. The electronic device as claimed in claim 3, wherein, in a second mode, the input rule table comprises a Chinese input rule table, and the text input interface has a Chinese default interface when the text input interface operates as a Chinese interface, wherein in the Chinese default interface a first set of Chinese characters comprising a first set of Chinese Zhuyin characters is displayed in the first display region, and a second set of Chinese characters comprising five tones of Chinese displayed in the second display region.

5. The electronic device as claimed in claim 4, wherein at least five of the display blocks of the second display region are in use in the Chinese default interface, and the processor further enables the display blocks of the second display region to be transparent except for the display blocks arranged to display the five tones of Chinese, thereby changing the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region.

6. The electronic device as claimed in claim 4, wherein when the input signal received by the input device is in response to an operation on the Chinese default interface and arranged to select a first Chinese Zhuyin character of the first set of the Chinese Zhuyin characters, the processor replaces the first set of characters with the second set of Chinese characters by enabling the first display region to display a second set of the Chinese Zhuyin characters corresponding to the first Chinese Zhuyin character according to the Chinese input rule table and enabling the second display region to display at least one of the Chinese characters corresponding to the first Chinese Zhuyin character and the five tones of Chinese.

7. The electronic device as claimed in claim 6, wherein when the second set of the Chinese Zhuyin characters is less than the display blocks of the first display region, the processor enables the display blocks of the first display region to be transparent except for the display blocks arranged to display the second set of the Chinese Zhuyin characters, thereby changing the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region.

8. The electronic device as claimed in claim 4, wherein when the input signal received by the input device corresponds to an operation on the Chinese default interface and is arranged to select a first tone of the five tones of Chinese, the processor enables the first display region to keep displaying the first set of the Chinese Zhuyin characters and remove the five tones of Chinese on the second display region.

9. The electronic device as claimed in claim 8, wherein when the input signal received by the input device is in corresponds to the operation on the Chinese default interface and is arranged to select the first tone of the five tones of Chinese, the processor enables the second display region to be transparent, thereby changing the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region.

10. The electronic device as claimed in claim 3, wherein, in a third mode, when the text input interface operates as a number/punctuation interface, wherein the first display region of the text input interface is arranged to display a first set of a plurality of Arabic numbers and an interface switching key.

11. The electronic device as claimed in claim 3, wherein, in a fourth mode, the input rule table comprises a Japanese input rule table, and the text input interface has a Japanese default interface when the text input interface operates as a Japanese interface, wherein the first display region is arranged to display a space key and an enter key in the Japanese default interface, and the second display region is arranged to display a first set of a plurality of Japanese consonants in the Japanese default interface.

12. The electronic device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the first display region has at least three of the display blocks, and the processor enables the display blocks of the first display region to be transparent except for the space key and the enter key, thereby changing the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region.

13. The electronic device as claimed in claim 11, wherein when the input signal received by the input device is a second predetermined gesture performed on the second display region, the processing unit enables the second display region to adjust the first set of the Japanese consonants to display other Japanese consonants by scroll tumbling.

14. The electronic device as claimed in claim 13, wherein when the input signal received by the input device is corresponding to an operation on the Japanese default interface and arranged to select a first Japanese consonant of the Japanese consonants, the processing unit enables the first display region to keep displaying the space key and the enter key, and enables the second display region to display a plurality of Japanese vowels and an “

N”

for selecting the Hatsuonn character according to the Japanese input rule table.

15. The electronic device as claimed in claim 14, wherein when the input signals received by the input device selects a first Japanese vowel of the Japanese vowels and the space key, the processing unit enables the first display region to display a plurality of Chinese characters and/or Japanese characters corresponding to the first Japanese vowel and the first Japanese consonant according to the Japanese input rule table, and enables the second display region to display the first set of the Japanese consonants.

16. The electronic device as claimed in claim, wherein, in the first mode, the input rule table comprises an English input rule table, and the text input interface has an English default interface when the text input interface operates as an English interface, wherein the first display region is arranged to display a space key and a case switching key in the English default interface, and the first set of characters and the second set of characters comprise a plurality of English letters in the English default interface.

17. The electronic device as claimed in claim 16, wherein the first display region has at least three of the display blocks, and by default the processor enables the display blocks of the first display region to be transparent except for the display blocks arranged to display the space key and the case switching key, thereby changing the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region.

18. The electronic device as claimed in claim 16, wherein when the input signal received by the input device is a second predetermined gesture performed on the second display region, the processing unit enables the second display region to adjust the first set of the English letters for displaying other English letters.

19. The electronic device as claimed in claim 16, wherein when the number of input signals corresponding to selection of characters of the first set of characters exceeds the predetermined value in the text editing, the processing unit enables the first display region to display the space key, the case switching key and the second set of characters according to the English input rule table and enables the second display region to keep displaying the first set of the English letters.

20. A text-input interface displaying method, applied to an electronic device having an input device and a display device, wherein the display device has a display region, the display region has a predetermined display area, the text-input interface displaying method comprises:

displaying a text input interface on the display region, wherein the text input interface has a first display region and a second display region, the first display region and the second display region each comprising a plurality of display blocks, wherein each of the display blocks is arranged to display a character, wherein the first display region and the second display region are provided for users to do a text editing by the input device, and the text input interface has an interface area; and

displaying a first set of characters in the display blocks of the second display region;

determining whether the input device receives a number of input signals corresponding to selection of characters of the first set of characters exceeding a predetermined value;

when the number of input signals corresponding to selection of characters of the first set of characters exceeds the predetermined value in the text editing, displaying a second set of characters in the display blocks of the first display region, wherein the second set of characters leaves at least one display block empty; and

making the at least one empty display block transparent and making the at least one empty display block accumulate at the end of the first display region, thereby dynamically adjusting the interface area of the text input interface to change the ratio of the interface area and the predetermined display area of the display region according to the input signals of the characters that have been selected and an input rule table, wherein the input rule table comprises a variety of combinations of characters that are used for constructing words.

21. The text-input interface displaying method as claimed in claim 20, wherein the input device is a touch module disposed above the display region of the display device, and the text-input interface displaying method further comprises:

when the input signal received by the input device is a gesture sliding to the left and/or right on the second display region, enabling the second display region to display other characters by scroll tumbling.

22. The text-input interface displaying method as claimed in claim 21, wherein the text input interface is capable of switching between a plurality of language interfaces, and the text-input interface displaying method further comprises enabling the text input interface to switch the language interfaces when the input signal received by the input device is a gesture sliding up and/or down.

23. The electronic device as claimed in claim 20, wherein by default the processing unit enables the first display region to display a space key and a case switching key, and when the number of input signals corresponding to selection of characters of the first set of characters exceeds the predetermined value in the text editing, the processing unit enables the first display region to display the space key, the case switching key and the second set of characters according to the English input rule table and enables the second display region to keep displaying the first set of the English letters.