ES2370346T3 - DATA ENTRY SYSTEM. - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for predictive data input of words, comprising: (a) the reception through a first input means of first input signals, the signals ambiguously corresponding to a plurality of characters, (b) the prediction of a first word from a dictionary word database (12601), the predicted word corresponding to the input signals; characterized by: (c) if the predicted word is not the desired word, receive through second means of introduction, different from the first means of introduction, correction information to define precisely at least the initial character of the desired word and ( d) predict a second word from the dictionary's word database, the second word corresponding to the signals already said at least one precisely defined character.

Description

Data entry system

Related Requests:

This application relates to previous PCT Patent Applications No. PCT / USOO / 29647, filed on October 27, 2000; PCT / US02 / 22385, filed July 12, 2001; PCT / US04 / 12082, filed on April 19, 2004 and PCT / US05 / 19582, filed on June 3, 2005.

Additionally, the present invention relates to and claims the priority benefit over U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 691,107, filed June 16, 2005; of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 693,176, filed June 23, 2005; of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 695,840, filed June 29, 2005; of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 695,841, filed June 30, 2005; of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 697,394, filed July 6, 2005; of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 704,243, filed July 29, 2005; of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 704,531, filed on August 1, 2005; of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 710,352, filed on August 22, 2005; of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 718,949, filed September 20, 2005; of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 724,368, filed October 6, 2005; of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 727,158, filed October 14, 2005; of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 732,829, filed on November 1, 2005; of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 737,813, filed on November 17, 2005; of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 741,556, filed on November 30, 2005; of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 786,835, filed on March 28, 2006, and of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 797,405, filed May 2, 2005.

Field of the invention:

The present invention relates to data entry. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a data entry system with features for entering data using an improved method of predicting and pressing / sliding keys with voice interaction.

Background:

Typical systems and procedures for electronically entering characters include the use of standard keyboards such as a QWERTY keyboard and the like. However, as modern electronic devices have become smaller, new procedures have been developed to introduce the desired characters.

One such procedure is to use a multi-press system on a standard telephone numeric reduced keypad, by which multiple alphanumeric characters are assigned to the same key. A drawback of such a system is that it requires multiple keystrokes to enter certain characters, thereby increasing the overall number of keystrokes, slowing down the process of entering characters.

A second procedure to adapt the introduction of characters in smaller and smaller devices has been simply to miniaturize the standard QWERTY reduced keyboard in the devices. However, such miniaturized reduced keyboards are often coarse and do not allow sufficient space between the keys, producing multiple keystrokes when only a single press is desired.

Another attempt to adapt the introduction of characters in smaller electronic devices is the use of voice recognition software. Such procedures have been used for some time, but suffer from a number of drawbacks. Most notably, voice recognition software suffers from the inability to distinguish homonyms and often requires significant introductions in advance for the system to recognize a particular interlocutor, their peculiarities and speech habits. Also, the voice recognition software, in an attempt to alleviate these problems, has become larger and requires a good amount of processing, not particularly suitable for the power and processing capabilities of smaller electronic devices, such as telephones. mobile and text search devices.

Document US-A-6734881 discloses a procedure for predictive word entry revealing some characteristics set forth in the preamble of the independent claims.

A paragraph of document US-A-6286064 discloses a reduced keyboard layout in which the introduction of text keystrokes is ambiguous.

Document US-A-2003/0122784 discloses an active keyboard system, which lacks word prediction.

WO-A-02/08880 discloses an input device for character input that has no word prediction capabilities.

In accordance with the present invention, a method for the introduction of word predictive data and a data entry system is determined by the characteristics set forth in the characteristic parts of the independent claims.

Brief description of the drawings:

In the drawings, in which the same reference characters indicate similar elements in all the different views:

FIGURES 1a to 1c show exemplary reduced keyboards having different key numbers that can be used with the data entry system, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 2 illustrates four keys of an example reduced keyboard and a corresponding database of words used with the data entry system, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 3 shows a number of words proposed on the screen of an electronic device, according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 4 shows an example reduced keyboard that can be used with the data entry system, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 5 shows an example reduced keyboard that can be used with the data entry system, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURES 6a to 6b show sample letter assignments to four keys of a reduced keyboard that can be used with data entry systems, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 7 shows a keyboard that has unambiguous letter keys to demonstrate a method of a predictive data entry system using this type of keyboard;

FIGURE 8 shows an exemplary reduced keyboard that can be used with data entry systems, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 9 shows an example reduced keyboard and the corresponding device screen, according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 10 shows four keys of an example reduced keyboard and a part of a corresponding database of words used with the data entry system, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 11a shows four keys of an example reduced keyboard divided into an electronic device and a corresponding word database used with the data entry system, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 11b shows four keys of an example reduced keyboard divided into an electronic device and a corresponding word database used with the data entry system using manual typing and keystrokes, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention ;

FIGURE 12 shows an example media player using the data entry system of the invention for content search, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 13 shows an example telephone using the data entry system, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 14 shows four keys of an example reduced keyboard and a corresponding word database used with the data entry system, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 15 shows four keys of an example reduced keyboard and a part of a corresponding database of words used with the data entry system, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURES 16a to 16b show exemplary reduced keyboards having touch keys that can be used with the data entry system, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 17 shows an example reduced keyboard for use with the data entry system, in which the letters of a QWERTY keyboard are assigned to six of the keys of the reduced keyboard, according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 18 shows an electronic device having ambiguous and unambiguous keys for use with the data entry system, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 19a shows four keys of an example reduced keyboard, a corresponding database of words used with the data entry system and an exit procedure, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 19b shows a word database used with the data entry system and an output presented to the user, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURES 19c to 19d show the outputs presented to the user, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURES 20 to 20a show an example media player having a circular sensitive reduced keyboard used with the data entry system, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 21 shows an exemplary extendable electronic device using the data entry system, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURES 22a to 22b show exemplary telecommunication devices using the data entry system, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 23 shows an exemplary reduced keyboard of the invention that can be used with data entry systems, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention;

FIGURE 23a shows an example reduced keyboard of FIGURE having oval keys and different key configuration, in which the keys of the reduced keyboard are divided into two groups in an electronic device for use with the data entry system, according to an embodiment of the invention; Y

FIGURE 24a shows the fingers of a user interacting with electronic devices that duplicate the keys and key interactions of a reduced keyboard used with data entry systems, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.

FIGURE 24b shows the fingers of a user wearing finger covers, which provides interactions that duplicate the keys and the interactions of the keys of a reduced keyboard used with the data entry system, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention.

Detailed description

A data entry system according to the present invention discloses a system for entering at least arbitrary characters / text, using (for example, a reduced keyboard having) a reduced number of keys (eg physical, software, virtually duplicated, etc.). The data entry system can use a number of symbols comprising at least the letters of the alphabet of at least one language and in which the symbols can be assigned distributed to the keys so that at least two of the letters can be assigned at least one key

In these systems an interaction (for example predefined) such as a pressing action on the key may, ambiguously, correspond to any of the symbols / letters assigned to the key (for example in the present patent application, the key may be referred to as "Ambiguous" and the interaction can be called "ambiguous" interaction). As described above, for example, to enter one of the symbols (for example, such as a letter) assigned to the key, the user can provide a predefined interaction with the key such as a pressing action on the key and provide a spoken information that corresponds to the symbol (for example such as pronouncing (for example the name of) the letter) for the selection of the symbol (for example a letter) among the symbols (for example letters) that are assigned to (the interaction with) the key and in which the spoken information can be detected and analyzed based on at least one of the voice of the user and / or the movements of the lips of the user.

It should be noted that the number of symbols can include substantially all elementary symbols, such as alphanumeric characters, punctuation marks and commands for both the entry and editing of a text or the manipulation of a computer. For example, to enter a punctuation mark character, the user can press on a corresponding key and pronounce the character. Other symbols such as macros, word parts, etc., can be assigned in a distributed way to the reduced number of keys.

The absence of speech can also be considered as spoken information and in which at least one of the symbols assigned to the key can be introduced providing a predefined interaction with the key in the absence of speech, the absence of speech being detected by the system . For example, to enter a predefined punctuation mark character assigned to a key, the user can use a predefined action of pressing the key corresponding to the character without speaking.

According to one procedure, the reduced number of keys can double the reduced telephone type keypad. The letter assignment may resemble the letter assignment of the reduced telephone type keypad.

According to another procedure, the letters of the alphabet can be assigned to four keys of the reduced number of keys.

According to a procedure, symbols such as letters that have a predefined pronunciation that looks ambiguously and that are difficult to distinguish from each other through their corresponding pronunciation can be assigned separately to each other to different keys.

Other related input technologies such as the input of at least part of the word (for example part-by-part data entry systems that use the push / slide action on one or more corresponding keys combined) have also been described in detail. with the corresponding spoken information (for example the absence of speech can also be predefined to be considered as a speech information)). Other data entry procedures herein, such as complete PC keyboards (e.g. physical, software / on-screen) and / or handwriting recognition systems, may be combined / used with data entry systems. (such as pressing and speaking) of the invention to enter a text / data.

Data entry systems (for example that provide precise characters) can be combined with the principles of the word predictive system (for example based on pressing actions on ambiguous keys that correspond to the characters / letters of the word used by a base of word information data and key press corresponding to each word The principles of word predictive systems are known to those skilled in the art) to provide highly accurate data / text input systems using (for example very) few keys (for example in which obviously at least some of the keys are ambiguous keys), (for example and minimizing user interactions so as to minimize user speech or user interaction for word selection between the candidate words). By using the pulse input and data entry systems of the invention the user can provide at least one precise character of the word and press the (ambiguous) keys corresponding to the remaining characters of the word to enter the word. By considering at least one precise character of the word, and considering the keystrokes corresponding to the remaining characters of the word, the system can more accurately predict the corresponding word.

The pulse / slide data entry systems and speech information (eg with / without speech) of the invention can be combined with other data entry systems such as a word predictive system based on the keystrokes provided on a reduced keyboard (which has ambiguous keys). The principles of word predictive systems based on keystrokes (for example only) are known to those skilled in the art. A word of a language can be entered by using push / slide data entry systems and speaks of the invention to accurately enter at least one of the (for example preferably the initial) letters (for example characters (a word it can include characters other than letters, too)) of the word and provide the keystrokes only (without speaking) corresponding to other letters (for example or characters) of the word. For example, for the introduction of the word "ball", by using the reduced telephone keypad, a user can enter the initial letter (such as "b") of the word by pressing a key corresponding to the letter y provide a pronunciation that corresponds to the letter and (as for example, below) use the keys that correspond to other letters (for example in this example, the character string “all”) of the word, without speaking. In this example, providing only a sequence of keystrokes (for example, without speaking) for all (for example that correspond to) the letters (which include the letter "b") of the word "ball" may also correspond to the word "call". But because in the previous example, the initial letter "b" was entered accurately, the system does not consider the word "call"). According to another example, for the introduction of the word "home" by using the same reduced keyboard, the user can first press the keys corresponding to the initial letters "ho" without speaking. Then the user can enter the key corresponding to the next letter "m" and pronounce the letter (for example, by accurately entering the letter). The user can then press the key corresponding to the last letter "e" without speaking. The sequence of keystrokes may also correspond to the word "gone", but because the system has accurately recognized that the third letter of the desired word is the letter "m", then the word "home" will be selected / entered "

By (for example considering a first type of information consisting of) accurately providing at least the letter (for example initial) of a word and (for example, combined considering at least a second type of information consisting of) providing the keystrokes of remaining key (for example, keystrokes that correspond to the remaining characters of the word), in most cases the system can find the corresponding word desired within its word dictionary that matches the combined information. In this example, by accurately entering the letter "b", the system selects the word "ball" without the need for an original user interaction (such as pressing a "Selection" key to go through different selections) .

It should be noted that, according to a procedure, the user can provide the keystrokes corresponding to the letters of a word and pronounce only the letters during the keystrokes even if the user's pronunciation is not synchronized (for example it is not provides simultaneously) with the corresponding keystroke or keystrokes.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the user can provide the keystrokes corresponding to the letters of the word and pronounce the word.

Word predictive systems based on key press information use at least one word dictionary and a corresponding key press database.

According to an embodiment of the invention, during the introduction of a text, the user can enter a word (for example a word that exists in the dictionary, a word that is not in the dictionary, a string of characters that does not exist in the dictionary of words, etc.) by providing the keystrokes corresponding to the letters / characters of the word and providing the spoken information corresponding to the (for example, the letters of the word). On the other hand, if the user wishes, you can enter a word that exists in the dictionary by entering (such as providing) the corresponding keystrokes (for example, providing only keystrokes, corresponding to the letters of a word that can correspond to a large number of words (for example choices) within a database of system words). For better accuracy and minimization of the number of choices for example, while pressing the initial keys (for example and / or middle, and / or end) (for example the keys that correspond to the initial and / or middle and / or final characters ) of the word, the user can pronounce the initial letters (for example and / or middle, and / or final) of the word (for example, as mentioned above, providing the keystrokes and the corresponding pronunciation at least to one of the letters of the word), you can enter, with precision, at least one letter. Therefore, by considering at least one letter accurately and the letters of the keystrokes that correspond to the remaining characters of the word, the number of choices (for example candidate words) can be dramatically reduced. Throughout the application, such systems may be referred to as a "combined data entry system" or more simply data entry system, such terms being used interchangeably in the context of the present invention unless specifically indicated. contrary.

The basic premise of such combined data entry systems has been previously described as in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor, the embodiments of the present invention constitute systems and methods for improving such combined input systems. data.

Pulsation and speech data entry systems of the invention that allow text entry by combining at least a part of a word data entry procedure (for example mentioned as a part-by-part data entry system of the invention), have been described in detail in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor). According to an embodiment of the word predictive data entry systems of the invention, instead of entering a single character, a user can enter a part of a word by using a push / slide data entry system. and speaks of the invention for the precise introduction of at least a part (for example initial) of the word and providing only keystrokes (for example without speech) corresponding to other letters of the word. For example, to enter the word “predefined”, the user can enter the “pre” part by pressing / sliding on the corresponding keys of the reduced keyboard and pronounce that part and then press the keys corresponding to the remaining letters “defined ”Of the word, without speaking. Obviously, during the keystroke actions corresponding to the remaining characters of the word, if desired, the user can provide the pronunciation corresponding to the keystrokes to accurately enter at least some of the characters.

As mentioned above, by using the system (for example combined), the user can enter a part of a text only based on keystrokes (for example without speaking). For example, the user can know in advance that the word to be entered can be recognized by the combined system based only on their keystrokes. In this case the user may not provide any pronunciation during the introduction of the word. For example, by using a reduced telephone keypad, the word "array" can only be recognized based on the keystrokes that correspond to your letters (without the need to pronounce any of the letters).

It is understood that the system mentioned above may be used with a predefined reduced keyboard such as a reduced telephone type keyboard or other reduced keyboard types such as the reduced keyboards described in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor. The reduced keyboard can have any predefined number of keys. FIGURES 1a to 1c show three types of reduced keyboards having respectively at least 12, 6 and 4 keys, as shown and described in previous patent applications. FIGURE 1a shows a reduced telephone type keypad. FIGURE 1b shows a reduced keyboard that has at least six keys in which six of the keys represent at least the letters of the alphabet of a language. On the other hand, the letters are preferably arranged in / assigned to the keys so that the letters having an ambiguously similar pronunciation in relation to the others are preferably assigned to different keys (for example previously described in detail). On the other hand, the letters are arranged so that the keystrokes (for example values) that correspond to the words of a dictionary (for example English) of the system's word database provides (for example corresponds to) minimized groups (for example that reduce confusion) of words that have the same keystrokes (for example, sequence of) keys (for example, value). Figure 1c shows a reduced keyboard that has at least four keys in which four of the keys represent at least the letters of the alphabet of a language. On the one hand, the letters are preferably arranged on / assigned to the keys so that the letters that have ambiguously similar pronunciation in relation to the others are preferably assigned to different keys (for example described in detail previously). On the other hand, the letters are arranged / can be re-arranged so that the keystrokes (for example values) that correspond to the words of a dictionary (for example English) of system word database provides (for example corresponds to) groups of minimized words (for example that reduce confusion) that have the same keystrokes (for example sequence of) keys (for example value).

It is understood that the use of more keys to assign (for example, represent) a smaller (for example, smaller) number of letters of a language to each of the keys will minimize the number of selected candidate words corresponding to the pulse information. of keys (for example and pronunciation, if provided) provided by a user for entering a word.

According to an embodiment of the invention, after the introduction of the keystrokes corresponding to a word and providing the pronunciation corresponding to at least one character (for example initial) of the word an end-of-word signal can be provided. The signal can be to press the "Space" key, so that a space character is also entered at the end of the word. According to another procedure, another end-of-word signal may be provided so that it does not include a space character at the end of the word. For example, by entering a PC keyboard command (for example predefined) or function or a punctuation mark character (for example predefined), after the word it can be considered as an end-of-word signal.

According to another procedure, a user can enter a first letter / part of a word by using the push / slide data entry systems and speaks of the invention and provide the keystrokes corresponding to the remaining characters of The word without speaking, at the end of the keystrokes (without providing an end-of-word signal), the user can proceed to the introduction of the next word by entering a first letter / part of the second word by using of the input / push and slide data entry systems of the present invention, the system can be predefined to understand that the second pronunciation corresponds to at least the initial characters of the next word and, therefore (for example the keystrokes of keys by which they begin) the first keystrokes that correspond to speech can belong to the next word. This can be considered as an end-of-word signal for the first word. Then, according to a predefined procedure, the system can enter a space character between words (such as an automatic spacing procedure). According to another predefined procedure, the system does not introduce a space character between the words (for example to join the words together).

According to another procedure at least a predefined period of time between the entry of two words can be considered as an end-of-word signal for the first word of the words.

As mentioned above, by using the word predictive system of the invention for the introduction of a word, after the user provides the information of keystrokes (for example and eventually additional information for the introduction of a letter or precise letters such as, the speech information that corresponds to at least one of the letters of the word), if the user information, there may be at least one of the at least three types of system feedback.

1- the system can relate only one word to the user's information. The word can be entered as the final result.

2- The system can relate a selection of at least two words to the information provided by the user. The system may be predefined to present (for example, to highlight) to the user the word that has the highest priority in relation to the other words within the selection. If the word is the one that the user intends to enter, then, according to a procedure, the user can proceed to the introduction of the next part (for example word) of the text and the system automatically enters the word. If the word entered is not the one that the user wishes to enter, then according to a procedure, the user can use a selection / correction means such as a selection / correction key by, for example, pressing (for example and maintenance) of the key and pronunciation of at least some of the letters (initials) of the desired word so that the system recognizes the word among the words of the selection. It is understood that the user may not re-enter the keystrokes that correspond to the word while pronouncing the at least some of the letters (initials) of the desired word. For the correction procedure, the system can use the information of the original keystrokes and the spoken information for the correction procedure. At the end of providing the spoken correction information, the user can release the correction key. Pressing (for example and maintenance) of the key can inform the system of the beginning (for example the end) of the spoken correction procedure. It is understood that in order to avoid a correction for the speech longer than necessary, the system may present all the words of the selection to the user so that the user stops his speech before pronouncing all the letters of the selection, if not necessary. It is understood that other means such as a double click action, a slide action, etc., can be used instead of the pressing action (for example and maintenance). According to another procedure, instead of using a correction / selection key, the user can point with a signaling device such as a pointer or by using a mouse pointer, etc., on the word and provide the information spoken At the end of the correction procedure, the user can finalize the signaling procedure, pointing (for example and maintaining) the signaling means in the signaling situation can inform the system of the beginning (for example, and termination) of the correction procedure by speaks. Instead of pronouncing the letters of the desired word among the candidate words, the user can pronounce the word.

According to another selection procedure, if the system refers / selects a selection of at least two words for the user information and (for example it is predefined so that) the word presented (for example, highlighted) to the user is not the that the user intends to enter, then the user can use means such as a key (for example multidirectional) to navigate within the selected words to select his desired word. The procedures for displaying and selecting that use a navigation / change key for the selection of a word from a number of selected words are known to those skilled in the art (e.g. pop-up lists, navigate up and down in the pop-up menu, etc.).

3- The system may not fit any word with the information provided by the user for the introduction of the desired word (for example a word that is not in the dictionary), then, according to a procedure, the user can use the medium correction, for example, by pressing (for example and maintaining) the correction key and pronouncing the characters (for example letters) of the word without providing the corresponding keystrokes again. The system can use the original key press information and speech information during the correction procedure for entering the word. It is understood that if the user wishes, the word can be added (for example automatically or manually) to the dictionary.

Priorities given / assigned (for example based on frequency of use) to dictionary words may be an important aspect for better acceptance of the combined data entry systems of the invention by the user. Priorities can be assigned so as to minimize user intervention for the selection of a word from a group of words selected by the system in relation to the key press information (for example and speech) provided by the user. As an example, FIGURE 2 shows a page of a word database dictionary 12600. Column 12601 shows some of the words in the database. Column 12602 shows the frequency values of the words in relation to the others. The values of the frequency of use can be predefined to be considered as the priority values assigned to the words. Column 12603 shows the keystroke values assigned to the words based on the key values (for example 1, 2, 3, 4) assigned respectively to the keys 12605, 12606, 12607, 12608 of the reduced keyboard 12609.

According to a procedure, for example, to enter the word "doing", the user can press the keys 12606, 12608, 12606, 12606, 12608, (for example the key press value 24224) without speaking. In this example, you can select a group of four words 12604 that correspond to the keystrokes by the system. The system can automatically enter the word (for example “doing”) that has the highest priority, except for example:

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If the user tried to enter another word such as the word "coins" according to a procedure, the user can use a correction / selection means such as those described above. For example, the user can press and hold a selection / correction key and pronounce the letter "c". The system could understand that the user intends to enter a word from the selection that begins with the letter "c". The word is the word "coins." According to another procedure, the user can navigate within a pop-up list provided by the system comprising the four words to select the word "coins." According to another procedure, the system can first display the word "doing" that has the highest priority. The user can press a predefined correction / selection key. The system can display the word "dying" that has the second highest priority among the four words. The user can press the preset correction / selection key again. The system can display the word "pupil" that has the third highest priority among the four words. And finally, the user can press the predefined correction / selection key again. The system can display the word "coins" that has the fourth highest priority among the four words. The user can confirm the word by, for example, proceeding to the introduction of the next word.

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If the user intended to enter the word "dying", the user may use a correction / selection means as described above. For example, the user can press and hold the selection / correction key and pronounce at least the letters "dy" (because the two words "doing" and "dying" begin with the same letter "d", it may be necessary the pronunciation of more than one letter). The system can understand that the user tries to enter a word from the selection that begins with the letters "dry". The word is the word "coins."

According to another procedure, for example, to enter the word "coins", the user can press the keys 12606, 12608, 12606, 12606, 12608, (for example the key press value 24224) and pronounce at least the letter " C". Only one word (for example “coins”) within the database can correspond to the keystrokes and pronunciation. The system can automatically enter the word (for example “coins”).

According to a procedure, for example, to enter the word "clive", the user can press the keys 12606, 12608, 12606, 12608, 12607, (for example the key press value 24243) and pronounce the letter "c " Two words (for example “cycle” and “clive”) within the database can correspond to keystrokes and pronunciation. The system can automatically enter the word (for example “cycle”) that has the first word between the two words. The user can use a change procedure as mentioned to move on to the next word. The system shows the second word that corresponds to the keystrokes and speech information that is the word "clive" (for example, although the word "noise" has the highest priority corresponding to the keystrokes, the word does not start with the letter "c" as pronounced by the user. Therefore, the system ignores it.).

Below is an example that summarizes one of the selection changes for change / navigation:

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by providing keystrokes of a word without speaking, select all the corresponding words:

 to the highest priority word regardless of the initial letter or letters

 to the next highest priority word regardless of the initial letter or letters and so on.

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When you provide keystrokes and pronounce at least one letter (for example, the initial one) of the word, select a group of corresponding words that begin with the letter or letters:

 the highest priority word within the group

 the next highest priority word within the group and so on.

According to an embodiment of the invention, a first word among a group of words having the same keystrokes (for example the same value of keystrokes) can be predefined to be selected by providing the corresponding keystrokes without speaking. If a user wishes to enter another word within the group that has the same value of keystrokes and that has the same initial letter as the first word and that has the second highest priority (for example lower than the first word and higher than the other words within the group that has the characteristics), the user can provide the keystrokes and pronounce the initial letter (for example at least). For example, to enter the word "doing", the user can provide the corresponding keystrokes without speaking. Consequently, to enter the word "dying", the user can provide the corresponding keystrokes and pronounce the letter "d". According to an embodiment of the invention, if a word having the highest priority is assigned to provide the corresponding keystrokes without pronouncing a spoken information and the user provides the keystrokes and erroneously says at least one letter (initial) from the word the systems select another word that corresponds to the information (for example keystrokes and pronunciation) provided by the user, so the system can also include the word corresponding to the keystrokes only in its proposed selection, so The user may be able to select the word if he wishes.

After becoming familiar with the system, the user can remember a number of words that can be entered based solely on their corresponding keystrokes (for example, without speaking). The user can assign the words to the interaction only (for example key), so that he can enter a word that has the same key press value that begins with the same letter with an interaction consisting of providing the keystrokes and pronounce the letter or letters (initials) of the word (for example "doing" without speaking, "dying" with the pronunciation of at least the letter "d").

According to an embodiment of the invention, the user can add his desired words to the system's word database. You can also change word priorities (for example based on the frequency of use by the user).

The dictionary of words of the system and the priorities of words within it, can also be adapted to the needs of market segments (eg medical, insurance, etc.). The system can also "learn" the words a user uses and assign priority levels to the words accordingly.

During the introduction of data such as text, the user may consider some parameters so as to minimize some user interactions such as speech, correction / selection procedures, etc. For example, the user may remember that many common words, many long words, etc., can normally be entered only based on their keystrokes.

As mentioned in previous patent applications, in the combined data entry systems (for example that include the predictive) of the invention, for reasons such as ease of use, punctuation marks or commands represented / assigned to the keys that also represent the letters, can be introduced through different redefined interactions in relation to the interaction used for the introduction of the letters. For example, a punctuation mark or command can be assigned to the pressing of two keys, preferably simultaneously (for example, pressing and holding a "change" key and pressing the key corresponding to the punctuation or command sign). They can also be assigned to another type of interaction such as a slip action or a longer single click action (for example, shorter click actions can be used to enter letters or other characters included within a word) in a corresponding key. These aspects have already been described in detail in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor.

According to another procedure, after entering a word (for example by providing an end-of-word signal), the user can press a key that represents some of the letters of a language and at least one symbol such as a punctuation mark. / command, without speaking to enter a punctuation mark or a predefined command assigned to the click action in the absence of speech. These aspects have already been described in detail in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor.

Based on the correction / selection principles as written, instead of correcting / selecting the words immediately after entry, a user can proceed to correct / select them later (for example, at the end of the introduction of a complete document or after taking notes during a meeting and editing / correcting them later).

According to an embodiment of the invention, the system memorizes at least one of the keystrokes and their corresponding pronunciation (for example the system can also be designed to remember the precise letter or letters and the ambiguous keystrokes), provided by the user for the introduction of the word. As shown in FIGURE 3, if the user wishes to change a word (for example “codes”) proposed by the system based on the user's information, by his desired word, he can first display the text 12701 on the screen of a corresponding device 12700, then point 12705 to the unwanted word "codes" 12702 (for example by using the mouse or pointer to point or select the word). The system can remember the information of keystrokes (for example and the speech information. Note that as mentioned in previous requests, not speaking can be considered by the system as a speech information) previously provided by the user and propose the other word options 12703, 12704 in relation to user information. The user can either select the desired word "ducks" 12704 from the words proposed by the system by, for example, the use of a medium such as a direction / navigation key (for example within a pop-up menu), using a signaling such as mouse or pointer, etc. or you can pronounce at least some of the letters of the desired word so that the system recognizes the word among the other proposed / candidate words (for example in this case referring to the current example, it may be sufficient to pronounce the letters “du” to distinguish the word “ducks” of the other word “docks”, so that the user does not have to pronounce all the letters of the word “ducks.” The system can recognize and print the word before the user completes the corresponding pronunciation) (for example also as described in this case; the system can remember the information of keystrokes and can use them, so that the user does not have to provide the keystrokes again for that word). In this example, the user has originally entered only the keystrokes, therefore the system has selected the word "codes" that has the highest priority in relation to the keystrokes. After pointing the word, the user can pronounce at least the letters "du" so that the system recognizes and selects the desired word "ducks" among the other words proposed (for example, the word "docks" begins with "d" and the letter "o" as its second letter).

The combined data entry systems of the invention require keystrokes that correspond to the words and may require a small amount of pronunciation to enter words into the dictionary. As mentioned, for words that are not in the dictionary, the user can enter the words character by character by for example pressing the keys and pronouncing the characters.

According to an embodiment of the invention, for the introduction of a word (or more words) such as a word that is not in the dictionary of a document, the user can provide the keystrokes corresponding to the word without speaking (or pronouncing the word, or pronouncing a few letters of the word) and proceeding to enter the other words of the document. The system may either fit the information that corresponds to the word (which is not in the dictionary) to an existing word and provide an unwanted word or the system may not be able to fit a dictionary word with the information. In this case, instead of the word, the system can print a string of characters such as key values (for example a string of predefined characters such as the characters "*" or "X") that were pressed (for example if the user has also provided the pronunciation corresponding to, for example, one or more letters of the words that are not in the dictionary, then the system can print the letters and the values of keystrokes or other predefined characters in relation to the other letters of the word). Finally, the user can extract from the document and point (as described above) to the word or words that are wrong / unwanted. The user can then pronounce the letters that correspond to the word without again providing the keystrokes corresponding to the word (for example the system can remember the keystrokes). If the user has forgotten the pronunciation of the word, he can hear the pronunciation of the word he initially provided during the introduction of the original keystrokes that correspond to the word. By pointing to the wrong / unwanted word, the system can also play the audio that corresponds to the word that was provided by the user during the word entry. For example, to enter the word “Cannes” (for example a French word) that may not be included in an English language word database dictionary, the user can press the corresponding keys and pronounce the word (for example as pronounced in the French language "kan"). The system may not find a word that corresponds to the keystrokes and pronunciation (for example, the pronunciation may not correspond to the pronunciation (for example, a word) of the English language that has the key press information). In this case the system can memorize the pronounced information and the information of keystrokes and in the meantime provide a string of characters that corresponds to the assigned values of the keys that have been pressed for the introduction of the word (for example “212234” ). Then, for example, finally, the user can point to the character string, if necessary, the system can provide the pronunciation provided by the user to remind him what he did during the introduction of the word. The user can then pronounce the word letter by letter (without providing the keystrokes again). The system can consider the original keystrokes and the user's recent pronunciation to provide the word that is not in the “Cannes” dictionary.

The embodiments just described can be very useful in some environments. For example, during a meeting or in a conference room, a user can take / enter notes by providing keystrokes that correspond to the words he enters and when necessary, can provide a very short pronunciation (for example, pronounce a letter, a syllable, a word (short) that corresponds to a word (for example or pronounces the word) that you enter. Also for example, after the meeting the user can retrieve the document and proceed to correct / edit the notes, as described.

According to another procedure, the user can also enter abbreviations for faster data entry. According to another procedure, to provide a (random) string of characters that correspond to words to be included later correctly, the user can press one or more keys (for example random or predefined, non-corresponding keys) and pronounce a word . Subsequently, you can retrieve the document, point to that string of characters, listen to its pronunciation, retype the corresponding keystrokes correctly and if necessary provide the pronunciation of a number of letters necessary for the correct entry of the word.

According to another embodiment, for the introduction of a word such as a word that is not in the dictionary, the user can only provide the corresponding keystrokes (for example without providing a pronunciation). Later when the user points to the word, he can remember (for example the pronunciation) of the word based on the keystrokes and correct the word as described.

It is understood that other selection / correction procedures such as navigation through pop-up lists can be used for the same purpose.

To save memory, the system may comprise a medium such as a key, so that the user memorizes the audio (for example its pronunciation) only for a period of time such as while in a meeting or a conference room. The user can also memorize the audio only during the introduction of the words to be corrected / entered later.

According to another procedure, the words to be corrected / entered later can be entered by handwriting (for example the words can be recognized by the manual writing recognition system, immediately or later. The user can enter them later by the procedures input and text correction as described above).

Many methods and means can be used with the system to improve the ease of use of the combined data entry systems (eg including the predictive) of the invention.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the word dictionary of the system can also comprise parts of a word (for example that correspond to the language), to be used with the data entry systems (for example that includes the predictive) of the invention. Depending on the architecture of the system, parts of a word can be included in the word dictionary or they can be a separate database.

Also, to remind the user that a word can only be entered based on their keystrokes, after entering the word, the system can highlight the word on the screen of the corresponding device, for example, its bold print, print on another color, flickering, etc.

If a word does not exist within the database, but by deleting some part such as the final part of it, it can exist within the database, then the user can delete the part and then enter the deleted part to the end of the word For example, the word "prescription" may be included in the database and the word "prescription" may not. For example, after providing the information that corresponds to the word “prescriptions”, if the system does not select any word (for example but the user knows that the word “prescription” exists within the system database) then the user You can use the “Backspace” key to delete the last key press corresponding to the last letter “s”, the system selects the word “prescription” and the user can add the letter “s” at the end of the word.

Some of the predefined unique letters (for example “a”, “e”, “i” of the English language) can be assigned to different keys that can be entered in a predefined way through interaction such as a pressing action on their corresponding keys Without providing a pronunciation.

During the entry of a word, the user can enter a part of the word by using data entry systems part by the invention. For example, the user can start pressing the keys that correspond to the letters (initials) of a word without speaking and press the / scroll key corresponding to a middle or final part of the word and pronounce the part (or vice versa, etc.) This has some advantages. For example, the part entered with precision can help an easier recognition of the whole word. It also helps to enter a word faster (for example, less keystrokes). For example, to enter the word "recognition", the user can first press the keys that correspond to the letters "recogni" without speaking and then use the key that corresponds to the letter "t" (initial letter of the "tion" part ) and pronounce the part.

As mentioned above, other improvements can also be used in data entry such as the use of language models / rules, a word completion system, an automatic correction system, etc. with the data entry systems of the invention. Also as mentioned above, fingers, finger covers, etc. they can be used in substitution or in addition to the keys of the data entry systems of the invention. Also instead of or in addition to the user's voice, the movements of the body members such as the user's lips can be considered. These aspects have already been described in detail in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor.

According to an embodiment of the invention, other data entry procedures such as multiple keystrokes or handwriting can be used for accurately entering at least one of the characters such as the initial letter or letters of the word. Information corresponding to the rest of the word can be entered by providing (for example only) keystrokes that correspond to the remaining characters of the word without / with pronunciation.

Using the push / slide and talk system and / or input and handwriting recognition and / or a full keyboard (for example PC), for accurately entering at least one of the characters of a word and providing the press or keystrokes (for example ambiguous) (for example, without pronunciation) that correspond to at least one (for example, preferably all) of the other characters of the word, can provide a fast (for example, only handwriting is slow) and precise (for example, the word predictive system based only on keystrokes, is frustrating and inaccurate and has other limitations as is known to those skilled in the art) and may also require less speech or handwriting. The system may also require a small amount of memory and processing capacity / speed. For example, the speech recognition system (for example combined with the corresponding keystrokes or keystrokes) may exclude word pronunciations (for example in general, the introduction of a letter may be sufficient for the introduction of a word). Also, the handwriting recognition system can exclude word level introduction and can work in general based on the input of letters. This is because, as mentioned, the use of the predictive data entry system of the invention using the precise letter or letter input procedures combined with keystrokes (eg ambiguous) (for example of a keyboard reduced correspondingly reduced) can dramatically minimize the use of the speech and / or handwriting system.

Providing keystrokes and pronunciation of at least some of the letters (for example initials) of a word can allow the system (for example, combined data entry) to provide better accuracy and use of a small amount of memory and power of processing, compared to providing keystrokes and pronunciation of words from a language that may not be very accurate and use a large amount of memory and processing power. Therefore, at least for devices that have limited memory and processing power, it is advisable to use the letter-by-letter approach that requires a very small amount of vocabulary (for example, letters, numbers, some punctuation, some commands).

It should be noted that obviously, for the selection / signaling of a word to be corrected / changed, the signaling position can be predicted to be, pointing to the word or before the word or after the word or etc. For example, you can place a cursor after the last character of the word or inside the characters of the word or point to the word.

According to an embodiment of the invention, if a word does not exist in the dictionary but including the word

or excluding a prefix (for example "re") or a suffix (for example "tion") the word exists within the system database (or word), so the system can propose the word without or with the prefix or suffix. The user can add or delete the other part to / from the word. For example, if the user tries to enter the word “understanding” and the system does not find that word, recognizing that the word can be composed of the suffix “ing”, the system can search for the word “understand” (for example not considering the last three keystrokes provided for the word). If the system finds the word "understand", you can propose it to the user, the user can accept the word for example by entering the remaining required letters "ing" of the word. According to another procedure (for example by analyzing the keystrokes provided), the system can automatically add the prefix or suffix to the word.

As mentioned above, preferably, the reduced keyboard used with the combined data entry system of the invention can be such that it maximizes the ease of use and accuracy of the system. Parameters such as the number of keys, the configuration of the letters on the keys, etc. It can be considered differently with each reduced keyboard. FIGURE 4 shows an example of a reduced keyboard 12800 in which four of the keys 12801-12804 correspond to substantially all the letters of the English alphabet (for example the letters are assigned in a distributed manner to the four keys). The reduced keyboard can be designed to be used with the combined data entry systems (for example including the predictive) of the invention. For example, on the one hand, the letters that have similar ambiguous pronunciation such as the letters of the letter groups such as "m, l, n", and "p, b" and "d, e" and "j, k "And" t, d ", etc., can be assigned separately to different keys so as to maximize the accuracy of data entry systems by pressing / sliding and speaking of the invention. And on the other hand, groups of letters such as “e, o, i, a” and “s, d; r ", etc., can be assigned to different keys separated from each other so as to minimize the number of words that have similar keystrokes when using the predictive word systems (for example, combined) of the invention. For example, by doing this, words such as "drives, driver" or "forces, forced, forcer", etc. they can have different corresponding keystrokes. It is understood that the procedures just explained can be applied with any reduced keypad that has few keys such as a reduced keypad that has 12 keys (for example, a reduced keypad having a keypad type of the reduced telephone keypad type).

As mentioned above, when a word is introduced by means of the combined data entry systems (which include the predictive) of the invention (for example based on keystrokes corresponding to the letters of a corresponding word, without speaking or by providing the pronunciation of at least one letter (for example the initial one) of the word, as described above), a user can preferably enter (for example precisely) at least one of the initial letters of the word by the procedure of input of push / slide data and talk about the invention and press the keys corresponding to the remaining letters of the word. According to an embodiment of the invention, if the user wishes to provide other characters such as at least one word, at least a part of the word (eg suffix), etc., pasted at the end of the word, the user can provide at least one of the initial letters of the word / part by means of the procedure of entering push / slide data and speaks of the invention and, for example, continue pressing the keys corresponding to the remaining letters of the word. This can allow you to create and enter joint words even if they do not exist in the word database of the system dictionary. For example, by considering this procedure and that the words "friend" and "ship" exist the dictionary of words database of the system, to introduce the word "friend-ship" in two parts "friend-ship" ( for example the word friendship may not exist in the system database), the user may first enter the word "friend" by the methods of the word predictive data entry systems of the invention as described (for example or either by providing keystrokes that correspond to aspects of the word without speaking or by providing keystrokes that correspond to at least one letter (for example initial) (for example "f") of the word and pronouncing the letter, and providing the keystrokes of keys that correspond to the remaining characters (for example “riend”) of the word without speaking). The user can then proceed to the introduction of the following word "ship" by providing the keystrokes corresponding to at least the letter (for example initial) (for example "s") of the word and pronouncing the letter and providing the keystroke corresponding to the remaining characters (for example "hip") of the word without speaking. The key press and the pronunciation corresponding to the first character of the second word can inform the system of the beginning of the second word and the end (for example considered as the word end signal) of the previous word ”“.

As mentioned, the user can also enter at least a part of the word such as a suffix at the end of a word by using the same procedure. For example, to introduce the word “management” in two parts “manage-ment” (for example the word “manage” and the suffix “ment”, by considering that the word and part of the word exist in the dictionary system word database), the user can enter the word using the procedure just described.

It should be noted again that in addition to the words, the system's word database dictionary may also comprise parts of words that correspond to at least one language. Even words that are made up of multiple parts or words such as the word "workmanship" (for example "workman-ship") that include several shorter words can be entered through the same procedure.

According to another procedure, a string of characters (for example a word from the database, a word that is not in the dictionary, an arbitrary string of characters, etc.) can be entered / attached at the end of a word by the use, for example, of input systems of pulsation / sliding and speaks character by character of the invention. For example, by considering that the word "manage" exists the dictionary of the database of words of the system, to enter the word "management" in two parts "manage-ment", the user can first enter the word " manage ”as described above (for example by providing keystrokes corresponding to the letters of the word without speaking or by, for example, providing the keystrokes corresponding to at least one letter (for example initial) (for example) "M") of the word and pronounce the letter and provide the keystrokes corresponding to the remaining characters (for example "anage") of the word without speaking). The user can enter the character string "ment" at the end of a word by using push / slide data entry systems and speak character by character of the invention.

According to another embodiment, an end-of-word signal may be necessary such as pressing a predefined key at the end of the word entry so that when the user proceeds to enter the next word (for example to join it to the first word), the screen does not fluctuate.

The embodiments just described may allow a word database having a significantly reduced number of words to be used with the combined data entry systems of the invention. For example, words that end with common suffixes (for example, "ed", "s", "ing", "ment", "ture", etc.) may not be included in the database. Also words that are composed of multiple shorter words (for example for which the shortest words exist in the database) may not be included within the dictionary. The system may also include a self-correction system so that, for example, they automatically correct a joint word. For example, if the user enters the word “memorize” and adds the “ing” part to its end, the system can automatically rectify the joint word “memorizing”, to provide the word “memorizing”.

As mentioned above, when a word is entered by using the word predictive system of the combined data entry systems of the invention, the system, for example, can propose a word that the user did not intend to enter. Also, for example, the system may not fit user information (for example, keystrokes and speech, if any) with any of the words in the database (as mentioned above, in this case the system may print a predefined or arbitrary string of characters such as predefined letters, which correspond to the corresponding keystrokes of the user keys, or the system can print numerical values corresponding to the corresponding keystrokes of the user keys, etc.). According to a procedure, for example, if a user wishes to correct an unwanted word (for example or a string of characters) or select the desired word, after pointing (for example as described above) to the wrong word ( for example a wrong word that has been provided based on the corresponding key presses initially entered), the system can recognize the user's keystrokes provided for entering the word, by considering the character string (for example obviously, the system can easily relate a printed letter with its corresponding key). For example, the user can point to the word and (for example, if the word does not exist in the database or for reasons of convenience etc.) pronounce at least some of the letters corresponding to the word (for example in its instead, you can also pronounce the word). At the end of the pronunciation, the user can provide an end-of-speech signal such as removing the pointer from the word (for example, the user can also use other procedures to inform the system of the beginning and end of speech). For example, as described above, the user can press and hold a redefined key to inform the system of the beginning of the speech that corresponds to the correction / selection and release the key when it finishes speaking so that the end system is informed speech. The procedures for correcting / selecting a word have already been described in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor.

Procedures for the use of punctuation marks and commands in combined data entry systems of the invention can be considered to maximize the ease of use of the combined systems by the user. As described in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor, each of the most special symbols such as punctuation marks or numbers can be entered by interacting with its corresponding key and providing a pronunciation that corresponds to the special symbol. By doing this, any such punctuation characters or commands can be entered during text entry using the combined data entry systems of the invention.

As mentioned in previous patent applications, to make the data entry systems of the invention more friendly, there may be some special symbols (for example, such as the "." Character provided at the end of a word) that can be entered by pressing the corresponding keys without pronouncing. Some of the special symbols can be assigned to keys other than the keys to which the letters are assigned. Because the system can preferably use few keys, some other special symbols can also be assigned to keys that represent the letters. A problem may arise when the last mentioned symbols are used within a word (for example, such as a "?" At the end of a word when the word is entered through the word predictive systems of the combined data entry systems of the invention For example, a user may try to enter the word "ready?" (for example by including the "question mark") by using the word predictive systems of the combined data entry systems of the invention either by providing keystrokes that correspond to the letters of the word without speaking, or by providing the keystrokes that correspond to at least the letter (for example initial) (in the example "r") of the word and pronouncing the letter and providing the keystrokes that correspond to the remaining characters of the word including the special symbol (in the example "eady?") without speaking. ma may not know that the word entered ends with a special symbol. Therefore the system can search for words that have both five and six characters. This can provide many choices to be presented to the user. To solve the problem, a procedure for entering special symbols (which includes commands and functions) is described below.

In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, while using the combined data entry system of the invention, words, letters and other symbols such as special symbols can be mixed in the same character string. The user can enter one or more consecutive words, letter string, special character string, etc., by pressing the keys corresponding to the words, letter string, special character string and pronouncing at least the first letter of the Words, letter string, special character string. If the first symbol in the symbol string is a “not pronounced” symbol (for example, it is entered by pressing its corresponding key without speaking) that was assigned to a key other than the keys that represent the letters or if the first Symbol of the symbol string is a “non-pronounced” symbol (for example provided by pressing its corresponding keys without speaking) that was assigned to the same key that at least some of the letters are assigned to, but is entered through an interaction different (for example by means of a double-click action, press of the key and another key simultaneously, etc.) with the key that the interaction with the key (for example simple-press action) required for the introduction of a letter on the key , then the user can enter a special character by providing the corresponding click action without speaking at the beginning of the character string special. For example, considering the reduced keyboard 12800, to enter the URL http://www.textentry.com, the user can:

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enter the character string "http" by, for example, the use of the pulse data input procedure and speak character by character of the invention (for example by pressing the keys corresponding to the letters and pronouncing the letters), then ;

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the user can provide a predefined interaction such as a double press action on the 12802 key or another predefined interaction such as pressing the 12805 keys (for example also considered as a "Change" key if, for example, it is pressed simultaneously with other keys, as described in previous patent applications) and 12802 without speaking to enter the special symbol ":" (for example the symbol may be predefined to be assigned to the interaction of keys in the absence of speech) and continue entering the special symbols "//" providing two (for example predefined) simple key press actions on the 12803 key without speaking. The introduction of the first special character at the beginning of the special character string can inform the system that the following characters entered are special characters, until a letter is entered (for example until a key is pressed and a letter is pronounced);

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The user can then enter the character string "www" by using the pulse data input procedure and speaks character by character of the invention as described;

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The user can then enter the symbol "." by means of, for example, the interaction (for example, simple pressing) with the 12806 key without speaking or by, for example, pronouncing "period" (for example, the symbols can be assigned, both pronunciation as no pronunciation)

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the user can then enter the "textentry" character string, for example, either by using the pulse data input procedure and speaks character by character of the invention or by entering in two parts (for example the two words "text" and "entry" in the word dictionary of the system database). To do this, the user can first enter the 12802 key corresponding to the letter "t" and pronounce the letter and continue pressing the keys corresponding to the remaining letters "ext" of the word "text". The user can then press the 12803 key corresponding to the letter "e" and pronounce the letter and continue pressing the keys corresponding to the remaining letters "ntry" of the word "entry";

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the user can then enter the symbol "." by pressing on the 12805 key without speaking or by for example saying "period" (for example the symbols can have both pronunciation and non-pronunciation assigned);

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(For example, finally) the user can enter the character string "com", for example, by using the data entry procedure, pressing and speaking character by character of the invention.

It should be noted that the "http", "www" and "com" character strings could be entered using the word predictive system of the combined data entry systems of the invention (if, for example, the word existed in the dictionary of words of the database of the invention). For this purpose the user could:

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enter the word "http" both by providing the keystrokes that correspond to the letters of the word without speaking, and by providing, for example, the keystrokes that correspond to (in the example at least)

a letter (for example initial) (in the example "h") of the word and pronouncing the letter and providing the keystrokes corresponding to the remaining characters (in the example "ttp") of the word;

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enter the word “www” providing, for example, the keystrokes that correspond to (in the example at least) a letter (for example initial) (in the example “w”) of the word and pronouncing the letter and providing the keystrokes corresponding to the remaining characters (in the example "ww") of the word;

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enter the word “com” providing, for example, the keystrokes that correspond to (in the example at least) a letter (for example initial) (in the example “c”) of the word and pronouncing the letter and providing the keystrokes that correspond to the remaining characters (in the example "om") of the word.

Note that, in general, each time the user changes between a type of symbols to be introduced, the first symbol is either pronounced or is an unpromoted symbol that is entered through or by a key other than a key that represents letters or if the non-spoken symbol is assigned to the same key to which at least one letter is assigned, the symbol is entered through a predefined interaction (for example double press, press two keys simultaneously, etc.) assigned to the key in which the predefined interaction is different from the interaction (for example, simple press) required to enter a letter on the key. It should also be noted that the word at the beginning of a mixed string of characters can be entered using the word predictive system of the combined data entry systems of the invention without providing the pronunciation corresponding to the first letter of the word. On the other hand, if the character string begins with a special character at least the first character can follow the procedures described above.

According to another procedure, if the system uses a sensitive surface (for example touch, pressure) for the interaction (for example key), then for example one of the interactions other than an interaction such as a simple push action assigned to the letters on a key, it can be a sliding action on the key. These aspects have already been described in detail.

It is understood that any string of characters such as the mixed string of characters mentioned above may be introduced by the use of pulse data input systems and speak character by character of the invention as described in the references incorporated herein. document, presented by the present inventor (for example, the use of punctuation characters and non-spoken commands is allowed within the same key and the same type of key interaction as the letters assigned to them). According to an embodiment of the invention, change means may be provided such as a mode key for switching between the push / slide and talk data entry systems of the invention and the combined data entry systems of the invention. .

As mentioned above, a special symbol such as a space character, a punctuation mark (for example “,”, “.”, “!”, “?”, Etc.), a function or a command (for example "Enter", "Tab", etc.) provided at the end of providing the information for the input of a word can be predefined to be considered as an end-of-word signal for the word. Also some part of a word (for example the combination of characters excluding or including special characters, such as punctuation marks such as "'s", "n't", etc.) provided at the end of a word can be considered as an end of word signal for the word. For example, the word "doesn't" can be entered by first entering the word "does" and finally pressing the key corresponding to the "n't" part and pronouncing the predefined pronunciation corresponding to the part . Obviously, such words that include a punctuation mark character (for example, "'", "-", "_") can also be words from the database dictionary and can be entered by, for example, pressing of the keys that correspond to the characters (for example punctuation marks) of the word (in the example with or without pronunciation).

According to an embodiment of the combined data entry systems (for example that include word prediction) of the invention, one of the letters assigned to a predefined interaction corresponds to the key that can be entered by interaction with the key with and / or without providing a corresponding pronunciation. For example, as shown in FIGURE 4, each of the letters “a” and “I” that have a meaning in the English language can be assigned to different keys (for example or to different interactions with the same key) and entered by pressing its corresponding key and the pronunciation and / or non-pronunciation of the letter.

The advantages of using a reduced keyboard having few keys, such as four keys, have been described and demonstrated in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor. The reduced keyboard can be, for example, a virtual / software reduced keyboard (for example fixed, dynamic) used on the screen (for example touch) of an electronic device and used with the data entry systems of the invention such as the combined data entry systems of the invention. In addition to, for example, the different types of click actions, other interactions such as interactions that result from a sliding action (for example simple sliding, double sliding, touching and sliding, etc.) on for example can be considered at least one key of the reduced keyboard for the assignment of at least part of the symbols of the data entry systems of the invention, so that on one hand the symbols are better distinguished from each other and on the other hand the use of Very few keys for complete, easy and fast data entry such as text entry. FIGURE 5 shows an example, such as a reduced keyboard 12900, which has four keys. For example, to enter a word (for example "driver") through the word predictive data input systems of the invention and the introduction of a "space" character (for example immediately) after the word, a The user can either provide the keystrokes that correspond to the letters of the word without speaking or he can provide, for example, the keystrokes corresponding to (in the example at least) the letter (for example initial) (in the example "d") of the word and pronounce the letter and provide the keystrokes that correspond to the remaining characters (in the example "river") of the word. At the end of providing the keystrokes, the user can slide over the 12902 key to enter a space character (for example immediately) after the word (for example the "space" character, can be assigned to a sliding action on key 12902 without speaking). It should be noted that this is only as an example, other symbol assignments to different keys and different key interactions, also other key numbers, can be considered. For example, a letter on a key can correspond to sliding actions on the key (for example and can be introduced by means of its pronunciation or by non-pronunciation if they are introduced by means of a press action without speaking about the key during the introduction of a word to through the word predictive systems of the invention) and the "space" character may correspond to a pressing action on the key (for example in the absence of a pronunciation). These issues have already been described in detail in this patent application and in the references incorporated therein, presented by the present inventor.

As mentioned above, the word dictionary of the database of the invention may comprise words (eg parts of words) of more than one language. According to another embodiment, after entering at least one (initial) character of a word by pressing on at least one first key and the pronunciation of at least one letter, and providing the keystrokes corresponding to the remaining letters of the word, if the system doubts between two letters in the at least first key that has a pronunciation that looks ambiguously relatively relative to each other, then the system can present the words that correspond to the keystrokes that, for example, begin with each One of the letters.

Another parameter to consider when assigning symbols such as characters to the keys of the reduced keyboard is the frequency of use of each key by the user's hand so that they are harmonized when using the fingers of the hands such as the use of the two thumbs (for example avoiding multiple consecutive interactions with the finger or fingers of the same hand). FIGURES 6a to 6b show other examples of assignments of letters to four keys of a reduced keyboard that can be used with, for example, the combined data entry systems of the invention by considering the principles mentioned above and the principles of the combined data entry systems of the invention as described above.

As mentioned above, according to one embodiment, the pulse / slip and talk data entry systems of the invention can be used in conjunction with, but separately from, other data entry systems. For example, the system can work together / with another data entry system based on key presses only (for example without providing pronunciation, such as a predictive word system based on non-speech key presses) available with a device electronic, but independently of the other system so that, for example, when information such as keystrokes corresponding to a part of a text such as a word is provided, if a corresponding pronunciation is not provided (for example if the device corresponding electronic does not detect a speech) the information (for example only the keystrokes) can be interpreted by the other system in which the other system can enter the part of a text (for example the word) based on the principles of the Another data entry system.

On the other hand, as mentioned above, if associated with (for example during) the entry of keystrokes that correspond to a part of a text such as a word, the user provides a pronunciation that corresponds to the part of a text or at least one of the characters of the part of a text (for example if the corresponding electronic device detects the presence of speech) the information (for example, keystrokes and speech) that correspond to the part of the text / word can be interpreted / considered by the input systems of pulsation / sliding and speaking data of the invention in which the input systems of pulsation / sliding and speaking data can enter the part of a text (eg the word) based on the principles of pulse / slip and talk data entry systems of the invention (for example including the word predictive systems of the invention co as described above).

According to another embodiment of the invention, even if the word is entered by the other data entry system, the correction / selection of a word entered by means of the push / slide and talk systems of the invention can be provided as described. described above, for example, the user can point to the wrong word (for example select it by using a mouse / arrow key; etc.) and (for example with or without pressing the corresponding keys (for example the letters of the wrong / unwanted word can inform the system of the corresponding keystrokes)) pronounce the letters corresponding to the desired word.

One of the most confusing and frustrating aspects of entering a word by using the word predictive system based on keystrokes only (i.e. speechless) is the selection of the desired word if the word proposed by the system It is not the one that the user intends to introduce. It should be noted that based on the systems, for example, if the desired word is one of the least frequently used words among the words that correspond to the keystrokes provided by the user, it may require several presses of the "selection" key ”And a lot of user attention on the screen until the word is selected by user. The manipulations of keys and the permanent attention on the screen can be reduced or eliminated by using the combined data entry systems of the invention (for example, the pulse / slide and speech data input systems and word predictors in based on at least the consideration of some of the keystrokes provided for word entry), data entry systems and corrections of the invention as described above.

As mentioned above, when using the combined data entry systems of the invention, associated with (for example during) the introduction of keystrokes that correspond to a part of a text such as a word, the user can provide a pronunciation that corresponds to the part of a text or at least some of the characters of the part of a text. The system can detect the presence or absence of pronunciation. Based on the principles of the combined data entry systems of the invention, as described above, different combined data entry systems of the invention can be considered as described below, in which each of the systems You can have your own advantages.

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it is predefined that only one word from the dictionary of the system's word database can correspond to a sequence of keystrokes (for example corresponding to the characters of the word) provided by a user without providing a corresponding pronunciation, for introduction of a word, and

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it is predefined that other words of a language that correspond to the same sequence of keystrokes cannot be included within the database. If the user wishes to enter one of the other words, he can enter them as a word that is not in the dictionary as described above by, for example, the use of pulse data entry systems and speaks character by character of the invention. For example, if the user knows in advance that the word does not exist in the dictionary, then he can provide the keystrokes and pronounce the corresponding letters (for example substantially simultaneously). If the user for example does not know in advance that the word does not exist in the dictionary and notices it after the introduction of the keystrokes without speech, then, the user can for example pronounce the letters of the word, or pronounce the word as described above.

For example, by considering the reduced keyboard 13200 of FIGURE 8, only one word (for example "doing") within a word dictionary of the system database is predefined to correspond to the keystrokes 13202, 13204 , 13202, 13202, 13204. If a user wishes to enter another word such as “coins” that has the same key press information, in addition to the keystrokes the user can pronounce the letter of the word or can pronounce the word ( for example as described above).

The system just described can allow you to enter a word without ambiguity. Each sequence of keystrokes on the keys of the reduced keyboard without speech for the introduction of a word can correspond only to one word within the dictionary. The word can be a predefined word such as a commonly used word or a word decided by a user, or used in a predefined environment. The user may not be frustrated by choosing another word by manipulating the reduced keyboard keys. If the word entered is not the one that the user wanted, (for example without providing the corresponding keystrokes again) he can simply either pronounce the word or pronounce the letters of the word. This is easy and fast.

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it is predefined that only one word from the dictionary of the system's word database can correspond to a sequence of keystrokes provided by a user without providing a corresponding pronunciation, for the introduction of the word, and

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it is predefined that, at most, only one word from the word database can correspond to information provided by the user, including the information the same sequence of keystrokes provided by the user and a pronunciation corresponding to the pronunciation of at least one of the characters (for example initial) of the word provided by the user and;

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it is predefined that other words in the system's word database that have the same sequence of keystrokes cannot be included within the database. If the user wishes to enter one of the other words, he can enter it as a word that is not in the dictionary as described above.

For example, by considering the reduced keyboard 13200 of FIGURE 8, only one word (for example "doing") within a word dictionary of the system database is predefined to correspond to the keystrokes 13202, 13204 , 13202, 13202, 13204 without pronunciation. If a user wishes to enter another word such as “coins” or “dying” or “pupil” that have the same key press information, in addition to the keystrokes the user can pronounce the at least one letter (for example initial) of the word or you can pronounce the word (for example as described above). As shown, each of the words in the database (for example, “coins” or “dying” or “pupil”) that have the same key press information and that require pronunciation of the initials entered, begin with a different letter, so that when the user provides a word and pronounces, for example, the first letter of the word, the user knows that the system will provide only one word that corresponds to the information it provides. Note that although the word "doing" has the same key press information and begins with the letter "d", the word is assigned to the actions of non-spoken key presses.

The system just described can allow you to enter a word without ambiguity. Each sequence of keystrokes on the keys of the reduced keyboard without pronunciation for the introduction of a word can correspond only to one word within the dictionary. The word can be a predefined word such as a commonly used word, a word decided by a user or used in a predefined environment. On the other hand, each sequence of the same keystrokes on the keys of the reduced keyboard in combination with providing a corresponding pronunciation for entering the word can only correspond to one word within the word dictionary database. The word can be a predefined word such as the most commonly used word among words that have the sequence of keystrokes and that correspond to the pronounced information. If the word entered is not the one that the user wanted (for example without providing the corresponding keystrokes again) he can simply either pronounce the word or pronounce at least more letters or all the letters of the word. This is quick and easy.

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it is predefined that other words in the word database corresponding to the same sequence of keystrokes (for example provided by the user), can be entered by providing the keystrokes and providing a pronunciation corresponding to the pronunciation of at least one of the characters (for example initial) of the word (for example or pronouncing the word) by the user.

The system just described can allow you to enter a predefined word without ambiguity. Each sequence of keystrokes on the keys of the reduced keyboard without speech for word entry can only correspond to one word within the dictionary. The word can be a predefined word such as a commonly used word or a word decided by a user or used in a predefined environment. On the other hand each sequence of the same keystrokes on the keys of the reduced keyboard combined with providing a sufficient pronunciation that corresponds (for example at least as much as is required to distinguish the word from other words that correspond to the same keystrokes and that require the corresponding pronunciation to be introduced). If the word entered is not the one that the user wanted (for example without providing the corresponding keystrokes again), he can simply either pronounce the word or pronounce at least some or all of the letters of the word. This is easy and fast.

For example, by considering the reduced keyboard 13200 of FIGURE 8, only one word (eg "noise") within a word dictionary of the system database is predefined to correspond to the keystrokes 13202, 13204 , 13202, 13203 without pronunciation. If a user wishes to enter another word such as “cycle” or “clive” that have the same key press information, in addition to the keystrokes the user can pronounce at least one or more letters (for example the initial one) of the word or you can pronounce the word (for example as described above). As shown, each of the words in the database (for example, "cycle" or "clive") that have the same key press information and that require pronunciation of the initials entered, can start with the same letter, so to distinguish the words from each other the user can say, for example, more than one letter of a corresponding word so that it distinguishes it from the other words in the selection. It should be noted that the pronunciation corresponding to the letters (for example or the word) can be provided at predefined time intervals in relation to the time at which one of the keystrokes is provided. For example, the pronunciation can be pronounced substantially simultaneously with providing the corresponding keystrokes or it can be at most after predefined time intervals before or after the keystrokes. During the introduction of the keystrokes, if the user does not provide enough spoken information (for example he only pronounces a letter "c" in this example) and the system provides an unwanted word (for example "cycle") then to enter the desired word (eg "clive") the user can proceed to a correction / selection procedure as described above.

It should be noted that according to a procedure, preferably, after the user enters at least a first character (for example letter) of a word by for example pressing the corresponding key and pronouncing the corresponding letter (for example a part / word) and provides the remaining keystrokes that correspond to the remaining characters of the word without speaking, the system can try to find the candidate words that begin with the letter and in which the remaining characters (for example letters ) of the candidates correspond to the keystrokes provided by the user without speech. It should be noted that the pronunciation corresponding to the letter (or, for example, word) can be provided in at least a predefined time in relation to the time in which at least one of the keystrokes is provided. For example, pronunciation can be provided substantially simultaneously with a corresponding key press or it can be at most after predefined time intervals before or after the key press.

As mentioned above, according to an embodiment of the invention, the interaction with a key other than a letter key, or providing an interaction mode with a letter key other than the interaction mode used to enter a letter on the key can be considered as an end-of-word signal by the system. For example, after providing the introduction information that corresponds to the introduction of at least the initial letters of a word and the introduction of a part of the word such as a suffix of a word providing a sliding action or a double-click action on the key that corresponds to the first letter of a part of a word, according to a procedure, the system can consider the part of a word as a last part of the word and based on all the information provided by the user, select at least one word that corresponds to all the information. According to another procedure, the system can consider the part of a word as an addition to the word that corresponds to the previous information provided by the user and after selecting at least one word based on the preceding information, the system can add the part of a word at the end of at least one word. As mentioned above, according to a procedure, substantially all of a part of a word can be assigned to at least one type of interaction with the reduced keyboard other than the interaction required for the introduction of a character such as a letter on (for example assigned to) the key. It should be noted that, as mentioned in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor, in accordance with a procedure, each of the at least substantially all word parts of the database can be assign to the key that corresponds to the initial letter of the part of a word.

As mentioned above, correction procedures can be provided substantially, immediately at the end of the word entry or can be provided at a later time. The user can save a text, and then open it to display it on a screen of an electronic device, point to a word that you want to change (for example the signaling procedure can be the selection of the complete / unwanted word complete) and pronounce the less one or more of the letters (for example initial) of the word required for the introduction of the word. By providing a predefined signaling signal such as the selection of the whole word, the system may understand that the user may wish to change the entire word. Then, according to another procedure, to modify one (or more) characters of the word, the user can point to the character (for example such as pointing to a position immediately after the character) and provide the correction.

It is understood that other methods of selecting a word among candidate words can also be used such as signaling to / selecting a word separately or in conjunction with the pronunciation of the word (for example, at least some of the characters of the word word) as described.

As mentioned above, the data entry systems of the invention can use a keyboard such as an on-screen keyboard (for example, QWERTY) on a touch screen of an electronic device. As mentioned above, when the user types on the screen, he can hit (for example by mistake) in an area (for example on the key) on the keyboard that is close to the key that the user was trying to press. The system can consider at least some of the keys adjacent to the pressed area (for example key). This can provide a set of keys that each has at least one character such as a letter to be considered with each press action of the user during the introduction of a word. Each of the number of keys selected for each pressing action on the keyboard can be related to at least one character such as the letter, so that a key of a reduced keyboard having several characters such as a letter is duplicated. Then based on the principle, the system can use the reduced keyboard and the method with different data entry systems of the invention such as the push / slide and input data systems of the invention or the combined input systems of data of the invention. For example, as shown in FIGURE 7, by using an on-screen keyboard 13100, to enter the word "have", the user can press the next areas 13101-13104 near the keys corresponding to the word. For each of the impact zones, the system can consider the letters on for example the keys that surround the area. As an example, in this example, the system may consider at least some of at least the letters "h, j, and, u" for impact zone 13101, the system may consider at least some of at least the letters "a, s, z "for impact zone 13102, the system may consider at least some of the letters" f, g, v, c, b "for impact zone 13103, the system may consider at least some of the minus the letters "e, r, s, d, v" for the impact zone 13104. It is understood that the characters corresponding to pulse actions such as those described can be used with the data entry systems of the invention. For example, for better accuracy, while using the keys, at least one pronunciation can be provided corresponding to at least one of the keystrokes so that the at least one letter is better recognized. For example, the user can pronounce the letter "h" while providing the key press. The system can realize that the word begins with the letter and by considering the letters that correspond to, for example, the remaining click actions provided by the user, the system can provide the word "have". These issues have already been described in detail. It will be understood that instead of a QWERTY keyboard, any other keyboard having any number of keys and any character assignment, etc. can be used.

It should be noted that although in many embodiments keys have been shown and described as the input means of an electronic device, any other input device that duplicates the keys and / or the interactions with the keys, provided with an electronic device such as user's fingers, finger covers, a pointer

or movements of an electronic device (eg oscillations), can be used for the same purpose. These issues have already been described in detail.

Also according to another embodiment of the invention, after the selection of a word based on the information entered by the user, the system can reproduce the word (for example in a text-to-speech system). So that the user without looking at the screen can decide whether to change the word or confirm it. For example, after listening to the system, if the user wishes to confirm it, he can proceed to the introduction of a new character / word, etc. Also for example, after listening to the system, if the user wishes to change the word he can, for example, pronounce at least one of the letters of the word, or pronounce the word (for example the corresponding keystrokes are already provided by user ), etc. Changes and word confirmation have been described in detail above.

As mentioned above, the speech information provided by the data entry systems of the invention can be based on one of at least one of the user's voice or lip movements. When a lip reading recognition system of the invention is used (for example in which the letters of a language are distributed on different keys), the pronunciation of isolated characters such as letters with a pause between each pronounced character can be significantly improved. The accuracy of character recognition. As mentioned in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor, characters that have ambiguously similar pronunciation relative to each other can be assigned to different keys.

According to an embodiment of the invention, a lip reading recognition system can be used with the combined data entry systems of the invention (for example, which includes word predictive systems as described). For example, as mentioned above, for the introduction of a word, a user can enter at least one character of his characters such as at least his first character (for example letter) with precision by pressing the corresponding key and pronunciation of the letter. The user can then provide the keystroke corresponding to the remaining letters of the word. The pronunciation of a letter corresponding to the word and providing the remaining keystrokes without speaking can provide time intervals of pronunciation pause after the pronunciation of the letter. If a user provides consecutive words, there may be (for example mainly) a pause between the provided pronunciation of the letters (for example first) of the consecutive words. To recognize a letter (for example the first) pronounced, a lip reading recognition system can be used. This may add more discretion to the data entry systems of the invention.

If the system does not recognize / select the word desired by the user based on the information provided by the user through this embodiment, then the user can proceed with the correction / selection procedure as described above by, for example, the pronunciation of the word letter by letter or pronouncing the word. The pronunciation provided by the correction / selection procedure can preferably be recognized based on the user's voice (for example, obviously, pronunciation recognition can also be based on lip reading, especially when the user pronounces one or more discreetly letters). This is because voice recognition systems are now more sophisticated than lip reading systems for the recognition of complex pronunciations (for example, the pronunciation of a word, speaking quickly, pronunciation of non-pause letters). It is understood that in case there is a sophisticated lip reading system, it can be used to recognize pronunciation based on the user's lip movements.

It should be noted that if a user does not provide a pause when providing a pronunciation in relation to an initial letter of a word (for example pronounces more than one letter), the lip reading system may only consider the initial part of the pronunciation of the word. user (for example the one that substantially corresponds to the first letter of the word).

As mentioned above, a word in the database dictionary can also be entered by providing the corresponding keystrokes without speaking. If the system uses a lip reading system to accurately recognize a letter such as the first letter of a word, it may happen that the system is not able to recognize whether or not a pronunciation was provided at the beginning of the word by the user (For example, it may not determine if the user's lips have moved). In this case, a voice recognition system of the invention can also be used to see if there was a pronunciation. Therefore, when trying to pronounce a letter of a word only by the movement of the lips, it can be useful if the user also provides a pronunciation (for example even very discreetly, so that the microphone detects that something was said by the user, so inform the system to use the lip reading system to recognize the pronunciation of the user).

It is understood that for better accuracy of pronunciation recognition, both voice recognition and lip reading (for example, combined) can be used.

In the case that characters such as letters that have an ambiguously similar pronunciation related to each other are assigned to the same key (in the example and to the same type of interaction with the key) of a reduced keyboard (for example a reduced keyboard of telephone type), the word prediction data entry system of the invention may consider words that have the same keystrokes and begin with any of the ambiguous characters. For example, the pronunciation (for example voice or lip movements) of each of the pairs of letters "d, e", or of the pair of letters "j, k", in which each pair is located on the same key of a reduced telephone type keyboard, it can be ambiguous by using the lip reading system or even a voice recognition system. For example, by using the reduced telephone-type keypad used with the combined data entry systems of the invention, to enter the word "keep", the user can press the key corresponding to the letter 'k' and pronounce the word . The user can then continue pressing the remaining keys without speaking. The system can (for example be predefined to) also consider words that begin with the letter "j" and that have the same remaining keystrokes (for example "jeep").

Different means such as microphones and / or cameras (for example that are implemented within the corresponding electronic device or used as a peripheral device / removable equipment connected to the electronic device) can be considered for the detection of user pronunciation. The images of user lip movements detected and analyzed can be in 3D (for example three-dimensional). As mentioned above, other parts of the user's face (for example such as teeth, chin, etc.) can also be considered when speaking. These aspects have already been described in detail.

Continuing with the reference to the touch keyboard of FIGURE 7 and its corresponding embodiments, preferably, the user can provide with precision (for example precisely / without ambiguity) at least one of the keystrokes (for example initial) corresponding to the letter or letters (for example initials) of a corresponding word (in the example without speaking), and can provide the keystrokes that correspond to the remaining characters of the word ambiguously (for example through the ambiguous keys of the example of a keyboard reduced from the invention) as described above in the embodiments. This can provide sufficient information for word selection (for example without the use of pronunciation). It is understood that it can also be considered to provide the corresponding pronunciation information based on the principles of the data entry systems of the invention. As mentioned above, the precise character or characters can be entered by means of a manual writing recognition and entry system.

As mentioned above, by using the word prediction data entry system of the invention, a word can be entered by accurately / unambiguously entering at least one of the letters of the word by for example provide a predefined action of pressing / sliding on the key corresponding to the letter and providing the spoken information corresponding to the letter (for example pronouncing the letter), and pressing / sliding on the keys corresponding to at least one (for example preferably of all) the remaining letters of the word. Obviously, in any of the embodiments of data entry systems (eg predictive) of the invention, the pressing / sliding action on the corresponding key and the corresponding pronunciation, for the introduction of at least one letter with precision / without ambiguity The word can be replaced by the use of another precise / unambiguous data entry system (for example the letter) such as a manual input and recognition system, full keyboard (for example PC), etc. Also, in the correction / selection procedures of the invention, instead of using the user's pronunciation, the user can provide one or more of the letters required for the selection / correction / introduction of a word, by using another system Data entry (for example letter) accurate / unambiguous such as the system for entering and recognizing handwriting, full keyboard (for example PC), etc.

With continued reference to the combined data entry systems of the invention, the word dictionary (for example complete) of at least one database of one language and the dictionary of a database of a portion of words of at least A language used with the system may be separated from each other. The system may be predefined to be informed that the keystrokes provided may correspond to the introduction of a language word and provided that, for example, a sliding action may correspond to the introduction of a part of a language word. The system can search for the word in the corresponding dictionary database.

It is understood that a combined data entry system of the invention may include either of the databases separately or may include both. These aspects have already been described in detail.

It should be noted again that although the "combined" data entry systems of the invention may have been mentioned in various forms therein and in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor, the system refers to the data entry systems of the invention that combine pulse / slip and talk data entry systems of the invention, combined with word prediction data entry systems, based on providing at least some (for example preferably all) of the keystrokes that correspond to the letters of a word for the introduction of the word without speaking or with the pronunciation of at least one of the characters (for example initial) (in the example letter or letters) of the word. These aspects have already been described in detail.

Searching for a word within a word database based on (ambiguous) keystrokes only (for example keystrokes that can correspond to any one of several characters / letters assigned to the key), provided for example in A reduced telephone keypad by a user has been known for many years. As mentioned, a sequence of keystrokes provided by the user can correspond to one or more words in the database, in which normally the word having the highest frequency of use is proposed as the first choice to the user. . Different methods have been proposed for the acceptance of the word or selection of another word if the word is not the one that the user intended to introduce. According to the most popular word predictive system (for example T9) used in a Nokia phone, the introduction of a word "pda" requires seven additional keystrokes including an end-of-word signal such as a space character and lots of concentration on the screen to verify each next word that the system proposes. Even if the user knows in advance that the word "pda" is one of the least prioritized words among the candidate words, he should follow the same steps to select it. Worse is that when after browsing between the words, the user can realize that none of the words proposed by the system is the desired word. At this point the user must change to another procedure such as the multiple press system and provide multiple presses in general on each key that corresponds to each of the characters of the word for the introduction of the word. In real-time situations, a large part of the text entered may include words that are not in the dictionary (for example, names, addresses, URLs, numbers, punctuation marks, words from another language, abbreviations, formulas, etc.). For that reason, word prediction systems are not used for data entry into computers such as Tablet PCs or PDAs that really lack a fast and easy compact data entry system. Even on mobile phones, most people still use the multi-press system even if it is slow, but the user enters text character by character and knows that "what you get is what you typed."

As mentioned above, the combined data entry systems of the invention can extremely minimize and even eliminate user interaction after the introduction of the information (for example the keystrokes corresponding to the letters of the word and an information spoken word corresponding to a word, in which the spoken information may be of a different type of information such as the pronunciation of at least part of the word such as the pronunciation of at least some of the letters of the word or the pronunciation of the word or not to provide any pronunciation, in which the spoken information is detected and analyzed by the system These aspects have already been described in detail in the references incorporated in this document, presented by the present inventor) which corresponds to a word in the dictionary (for example the system can eliminate the additional interaction with the keys for the int roduction of the desired word and this minimizes extremely and even eliminates the interaction with the display unit because an experienced user can know in advance what words need the corresponding pronunciation and eventually the amount or type of pronunciation needed).

Another great advance of the system is the ability to introduce strings of characters that are not in the dictionary such as words. As mentioned above, for example, if after entering the information provided by the user the system does not find a character string (for example a word) within the dictionary database, the user can enter the string of characters by pronouncing the characters (for example letters) that correspond to the character string without pressing additional keys. As mentioned above, the system can take into account the original keystrokes.

Another great advantage of the system is the ability to enter any arbitrary character string (e.g. proper names, addresses, numbers, character strings including special characters such as punctuation marks, etc.) quickly and easily by preferably at least one press of key by character or press of two keys simultaneously. For example, if the user knows in advance that the character string (for example, such as a word in another language or a URL) to be entered is an arbitrary string of characters that does not exist in the database, you can use a system of input of data of pulsation / slip and speaks of the invention (for example to enter the character string character by character) (for example by using the system input of character by character data for example, the corresponding keystroke to the characters and providing the spoken information that corresponds to the characters).

Using few keys such as at least four keys (for example, in which all four letters of a language are distributed distributed to all four keys) with the word predictive data entry system based solely on keystrokes, it will be inconvenient even did not practice due to the large number of corresponding words for a sequence of keystrokes. The combined data entry systems of the invention allow the use of few keys and a quick and easy data entry system. The advantage of using few keys (in which in the example, four of them correspond to the letters of at least one language and in which, for example, the keys are divided into two groups located each group on one side of for example a Tablet PC) with the data entry systems of the invention that have already been described in detail.

Also, data entry systems based on only keystrokes (for example without the use of the benefits of providing at least a minimum amount of corresponding spoken information) will not be practical if the dictionary database includes the words of multiple languages due to the large number of corresponding words for a sequence of keystrokes. The combined data entry systems of the invention allow the use of multiple languages (for example within the same database) simultaneously and a fast and easy data entry system.

Also as described in detail above, substantially all special symbols such as a space character, figures, punctuation characters and commands (for example the "Enter" function) can be entered (for example within a string of characters such as a word or independently) without ambiguity by generally providing at most one keypress or simultaneous two keypress action. In addition to its main purpose, a special symbol not ambiguous at the end of the entry of the information that corresponds to a word can also inform the system of an end of word. This can be another great advantage of the combined data entry systems of the invention. After entering the information corresponding to a word, the user can enter a desired symbol such as at least one of the special characters. The special character can be considered by the system as an end-of-word signal. In addition, the system can insert or execute the symbol after the word. For example, it can be indicated that some of the special characters can (in the example also) be used within the word, which can be part of the ambiguous characters assigned to a key.

According to an embodiment of the invention, when a user enters a word by using the word prediction systems of the combined data entry systems of the invention, the system can use a system such as a text system to voice to provide the selected word to the user. In most cases the word can be the desired word and the user can, for example, by entering a next character or a next word, inform the system of the acceptance of the selected word. If the selected word is not the word that the user wanted to enter, then the user can proceed to the selection / correction procedures as described (for example by pronunciation of the word or at least some of the characters of the word ). This embodiment can provide a fast and observation-free data entry and correction system without additional key press actions.

As mentioned above, according to an embodiment of the invention, the word prediction systems of the combined data entry systems of the invention can use a word database dictionary in which the words are arranged so that only one of the words can correspond to a sequence of keystrokes provided by the user without speaking. Different procedures for organizing the database and searching within it can be considered, such as the following different procedures:

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According to a database arrangement procedure, the system can comprise two different word databases: a first word database in which each word can correspond to a different sequence of keystrokes provided by the user in the absence of speech (for example each word corresponds to a different key press sequence) and a second database of words in which each word can correspond to the sequence of key presses provided by the user in which the user provides a corresponding pronunciation, as described above (for example at least one word may correspond to a sequence of different keystrokes). If the user provides a sequence of keystrokes and does not provide a corresponding pronunciation, the system can detect the absence of the user's pronunciation. Then, the system can search for a corresponding word within the first database. There may be at least one corresponding word within the first database. The word can be entered and can also be printed on a corresponding screen that displays the text that the user enters. If the word is the one that the user wishes to enter, the user can proceed to the next task such as entering the next word. If the word is not the word that the user wanted to enter, then the user can proceed with a correction / selection procedure such as those described above. For faster data entry, the user may not proceed with the correction / selection procedure immediately after entering the word. You can proceed with the following task such as entering the next part of the text (for example the following words) and so on, and you can then proceed with the correction / selection procedures as described above.

If the user provides a sequence of keystrokes and provides a corresponding pronunciation, the system can detect the pronunciation of the user and can search for the corresponding words within the second database. There may be one or more words within the second database that correspond to the user's keystrokes and pronunciation. For example, when a user presses at least one key that corresponds to at least the initial character (for example a letter) of a word and pronounces the at least one letter, and continues pressing the keys corresponding to at least some (for example preferably, all) the remaining characters of the word then, according to a search procedure, the system can recognize the at least one letter and search, within the second dictionary of the word database, the words that begin with the at least one recognized letter and in which the remaining characters of the words correspond to the remaining keystrokes provided by the user. According to another search procedure, the system can search within the second dictionary of the word database, the words in which the characters of the words correspond to the sequence of keystrokes provided by the user and in which their Initial letter corresponds to the at least one recognized letter. It will be understood that these search procedures are described as examples. Other search procedures can be taken into account by those skilled in the art.

As a continuation of the description of the current embodiment, there may be one or more candidate words that correspond within the second database. If there is only one corresponding word, then the system can enter it. If there is more than one candidate word, then, according to one procedure, a predefined word can be entered between the candidates. According to another procedure, one of the candidate words that has the highest priority in relation to the others can be entered automatically (each of the words in the second word database can have a priority value based on, for example , its frequency of use). The word can also be printed on a corresponding screen that displays the text that the user enters. If the word is the one that the user wishes to enter, he can proceed to the next task such as the introduction of the next word. If the selected word is not the word that the user wanted to enter, then, according to another procedure, the user can provide more spoken information such as the pronunciation of at least some of the remaining letters of the word, the user can proceed with a correction / selection procedure as described above. It is understood that if the user so desires, according to another procedure, the user can use a change medium such as a selection key so that he navigates within the candidate words (for example presented to him one by one, for example , based on its frequency of use) until you find the desired word.

As mentioned above, for faster data entry (for example during a meeting), the user may not proceed with the correction / selection procedure immediately after receiving an unwanted word. You can continue with the next task such as entering the next part of the text (for example the following words) and so on and you can then proceed with the correction / selection procedures as described above.

It will be understood that according to another procedure, the system may comprise a word database that includes the two databases mentioned above.

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According to another procedure of the arrangement of the database, the system may comprise a word database in which each word has a priority value for example based on its frequency of use. When a user provides the keystrokes that correspond to a desired word without pronunciation, the system can select a word that corresponds to the keystrokes and has the highest priority of use in relation to the other words (for example if there is some) corresponding to the same keystrokes. In this procedure, in addition to the keystrokes, if a user provides a pronunciation such as the pronunciation of one or more initial letters of the word, the system can select a corresponding word based on the combined information and having the highest priority high in relation to the other words that correspond to the combined information. If the word is not the desired word, then the user can proceed with the selection / correction procedures as described above.

According to another procedure, the system comprises a word database in which each of the words in the database can include or be related to additional information (for example a marker) indicating its pronunciation situation (for example that requires pronunciation (for example "1") or not (for example "0")). When a sequence of keystrokes is provided, if the system does not detect a pronunciation, it can only consider the words in which its pronunciation indicator indicates that "pronunciation is not required" and vice versa. According to one procedure, for each of the keystroke sequences without pronunciation being provided, at least one word may exist within the database. The introduction and selection / correction procedures may resemble those described above.

As mentioned above, the sequence of keystrokes provided by the user may include an end-of-word signal as one or more special symbols such as punctuation characters, numeric characters, commands (for example "Tab", " Enter ”), space character, introduction of a character such as a final letter of the word and pronunciation of the character, etc. Because the symbols are generally introduced unambiguously, according to a procedure, the system may not consider the keystrokes that correspond to the special symbols between the sequence of keystrokes, for search purposes. After entering the desired word, the system can enter the special symbols. The user can proceed with the following task such as entering the next word without additional keystrokes.

Also as mentioned above another type of end of word signal can be to provide the keystrokes corresponding to the next word and to pronounce the pronunciation (for example the initial part / characters of) the next word. According to a procedure, the system can automatically provide a character of space between words.

The different correction / selection procedures of the combined data entry systems of the invention have already been described in detail.

As mentioned above, to change a word already entered, the user can point (for example first) to the word. The signaling of the word for the replacement of the word by another word can be defined so as not to interfere with a signaling action provided for another purpose such as the insertion of a letter after or within a word. For example, the user can select a word by, for example, a double-click action on a word or can place the cursor after the last character of the word that includes or excludes its special character such as a character space or a punctuation mark , etc. According to another procedure, the user can place over any position within a word (at the beginning, inside, at the end), press and hold a predefined key and provide the desired pronunciation for the selection / introduction of another character string (for example a word).

To provide a minimum amount of pronunciation necessary for the introduction of a word without ambiguity, the user can preferably pronounce a first letter of the word. If there is more than one word that fits the information (for example, keystrokes and pronunciation), the user can pronounce the next letter and so on until the system provides the desired word. According to a procedure, each time the user provides a letter, the system can indicate the maximum number of pronunciations (for example of the next letter) required to enter unambiguously any of the remaining words that correspond to the information (for example keystrokes and pronunciation) provided by the user.

According to another procedure, to select a word within a document, the user can for example pronounce the word, or pronounce at least one of the initial letters of the word or press / slide and pronounce at least one of the letters / parts initials of the word or provide one or more click actions that correspond to one or more letters (for example initials) of the word without speaking, etc. The system can compare the information provided by the user with the words and the information that corresponds to the words within the document to find the desired word within the document. This can be extremely fast and accurate without using navigation media such as a mouse. For example, with reference to FIGURE 9, and considering the reduced keyboard 13300 to replace the word "doing" with the word "coins", the user can say the word or can say any of the initial letters (for example "do" ) of the word. The system can compare the pronunciation with the initial letters of the words within the document to find the word “doing”. The system can find more than one word. The user can navigate between the words to reach the word he wants to find. Also, for example, with reference to FIGURE 9 and considering the reduced keyboard 13300 to replace the word "doing" with the word "coins", the user can, for example, press keys 13304, 13303 corresponding to two of the initial letters (for example "do") of the word. The system can compare the keystroke actions with the keystrokes corresponding to the initial letters of the words within the document to find the word “doing”. The system can find more than one word. The user can navigate between the words to reach the word he wants to find.

According to an embodiment of the invention, during the introduction of the sequence of keystrokes (for example before providing the end-of-word signal) corresponding to a word (for example and eventually, providing the pronunciation of at least part of the word), the system can propose the candidate words every time the user provides a new keystroke. According to a procedure, when the user enters the last key press, he can proceed with the acceptance or correction / selection procedures of the invention as described above. According to another procedure, each time a new key press of the sequence is introduced, the system can also propose words that have more characters than the keystrokes entered so far. The user can select the word and provide the remaining keystrokes that correspond to the word (for example a word completion system).

During the keystroke (for example and the pronunciation information, if provided) that correspond to the word, a word ending system (for example and propose) can be considered as the words that begin with the keystrokes ( in the example and pronunciation). The word with the highest priority may be the one that is printed within the text that the user enters (in the example and the cursor can be located at the end of the proposed word). If the user continues to enter a new key press (in the example and pronunciation) and that key press (in the example and pronunciation) still corresponds to the next letter of the word, then the word (in the example and the cursor ) can remain in the same position. If the next key press (in the example and pronunciation) does not correspond to the word but corresponds to another word (for example or other words) that have the same information (for example keystrokes) initial, then the word that has the highest priority among them can be printed within the text that the user enters (for example, and the cursor can be placed at the end of the proposed word). At any time during the click actions (in the example, and pronunciation), if the proposed / printed word is the one that the user wants, he can provide an end-of-word signal such as a special symbol as described above and Proceed with the next task.

It should be noted that although keys have been used to describe different embodiments of the invention, as mentioned many times before in different patent applications by the present inventor, any other means of entry (for example finger interactions of the invention) can be used. user, motion detection of an electronic device, etc.) for the same purpose (for example to duplicate keys and / or keys and key interactions).

As described, the word prediction systems of the invention allow a quick and easy word entry system. According to one embodiment, there may be no priority assigned to any of the words. For each sequence of pulsation actions without a pronunciation being provided, preferably, there may be at least one corresponding word. Any of the other words that have the same sequence of keystrokes can be distinguished from each other by the pronunciation of the user that corresponds to at least one of the characters (for example initial) of the word or by the pronunciation of the word. Even if each of the words has a degree of priority (for example, value) relative to each other, by using this system you can access any of the words (for example directly) and be entered quickly.

As mentioned, other candidate words that have the same sequence of keystrokes can be distinguished from each other by (for example in addition to the keystrokes, also provided) the pronunciation of the user corresponding to the word (as described above) or by providing other traditional means or mixture of user pronunciation and other traditional means. For user information, the other candidate words can be presented to the user in a list, or one by one, in a display unit. As mentioned in accordance with another embodiment, the other candidate words may not be presented to the user. If the user wishes to enter one of the words, he simply provides the corresponding pronunciation (for example as written) without additional interaction with the display unit.

As described above, the data entry systems of the invention can be used in many applications such as call directories. As an example, as described in a different application for PCT patents, such as PCT / US2002 / 22385 filed by the present inventor, the information (eg text) provided through one or more appropriate embodiments of the systems of Data entry of the invention can be used by a corresponding application (for example having a word database

or phrases) to provide tasks (for example predefined). For example, the system can be used to:

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generate phone calls;

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provide an entry to a call directory;

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provide an entrance to interactive call centers;

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provide information to a system that provides predefined tasks based on a user's input (eg text);

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According to an embodiment of the invention, as an example, a method of entering data such as text within such an application can be taken into account. The procedure may include as an example, at least one of the following steps:

1) the user can provide the keystrokes that correspond to a text information such as a word, without speaking;

2) If the system recognizes the text (for example the word), it can continue with step 4, if not; 3) The system can request more user information such as:

 pronounce the text (for example the word) or;

 Pronounce at least some of the letters that correspond to the keystrokes provided by the user. The minimum number of letters to be pronounced can be defined dynamically by the system to distinguish the text (for example, the word) from other texts (for example, the words) that have the same sequence of keystrokes.

If more than one text (for example words) within the database corresponds to the information provided by the user, the system may ask the user to provide more information. For example, if the system is used to provide a telephone call based on the name of the entity to be called such as a person or a company, the system can for example ask the user for more information such as entering at least part of the address of the entity to be called such as your zip code, office / address information, etc.

4) After a successful recognition of user input, the system can proceed accordingly with the following predefined task.

As an example, as mentioned above, the system can be used with a calling directory to for example provide a telephone call based on at least the name to be called or to automatically provide the telephone number to be called to the caller , etc.

In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the user can enter the name to be called by using a character-by-character data entry system of the invention by for example pressing each of the keys corresponding to the letters of that name and simultaneously with each press action pronounce the corresponding letter.

In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, the user can enter the name to be called by using a character-by-character data entry system of the invention by for example pressing the keys corresponding to the letters of that name and (if necessary or required by the system) after that, you can pronounce at least one of the letters of the name or you can pronounce the name. Providing key information and pronounced information at different time periods can be useful in situations such as when using a tone phone. Pressing a key and speaking simultaneously when using a tone phone can combine the key tone and the corresponding pronunciation, thereby disrupting the recognition system.

For example, if the user wishes to call a company called “TheCompany” using, for example, the use of a reduced telephone keypad, according to a procedure, the user can first provide the keystrokes that correspond to the letters of the name. If the sequence of key presses corresponds only to one entry (for example, name) in the database, the system can proceed with the next predefined task or request confirmation before proceeding with the next predefined task.

On the other hand, if, for example, the user wishes to call a company called "TheMakers", for example, using the reduced telephone keypad the user can first provide the keystrokes corresponding to the letters of the name. The keystrokes can correspond to more than one entry in the database. For example, another entry in the database may be another company name called "TheMaskers". To distinguish the names from each other, the system may ask the user to provide spoken information such as the pronunciation of at least the first six letters (for example "themas") of the desired name so that it defines which name the user wishes to enter. According to another procedure, the system can ask the user to pronounce the name as spoken information.

It should be noted that the information processing can be executed locally (for example inside the telephone) or the system can be installed inside a server (for example in the call directory facilities) and processed remotely. In this case, keystrokes and spoken information can be sent to the server for processing and additional results or requests can be sent by the server to the user.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the telephone call can be directed internationally. For this purpose, according to a procedure, the system may include in the databases of the entities to be called such as the persons or companies of at least some countries so that the information is processed locally and directs the international call to destination, while in accordance with another procedure, the system may use some of the information provided by the user to direct at least part of the information provided by the user to the server of the corresponding country telephone directory to be processed there.

For example, a user can enter the text "Benjamin Ghassabian NY USA". The system may direct information such as "Benjamin Ghassabian NY" to a corresponding telephone directory in the United States to be processed there. According to another procedure, the system can direct the information such as "Benjamin Ghassabian" to the corresponding telephone directory of the state of New York (NY) in the United States to be processed there. The word order of the text may be predefined or the system may be sufficiently "intelligent" so as to freely provide the word order within the text.

According to an embodiment of the invention, a predefined signal such as pressing the "#" key before or after the introduction of the entity to be called, can define the purpose (for example the type) of the keystrokes (for example and pronunciation) provided by the user. For example, pressing a predefined key such as the “#” key before the sequence of key presses can inform the system that, for example, the key presses provided after the “#” key press can correspond to the introduction of a name of the party to be called and that after the introduction of the name the system can automatically call the other party. In the same way, for example, pressing a predefined key such as the “*” key before (in the example or after) a sequence of key presses can inform the system that, for example, key presses provided after pressing the "*" key may correspond to the introduction of the name of a party to be called and that, for example, after the introduction of that name the system can provide the other part of the telephone number (in the example or other information such as your address, etc.) to the caller. Or vice versa. According to yet another embodiment, not providing a predefined signal before or after the sequence of keystrokes can inform the system that, for example, the keystrokes provided by the user correspond to the dialing of a telephone number.

It should be noted that an introduction within the database may comprise more than one word (for example last names, first name, middle name). According to a procedure, the user can enter the entry word by word by entering each word by pressing the corresponding keys of the word and, if necessary, providing the corresponding pronunciation to enter the word, before proceed to the entry of the next word, while according to another procedure the user can first provide the keystrokes that correspond to all the words of the entry and then provide the spoken information necessary to enter each of the words.

The data entry systems of the invention can improve or even replace interactive call centers based solely on voice. For example, when a user of a company, instead of listening to all the choices that the company's automatic voice system proposes to the user (which in most cases is confusing and requires time), having the ability to enter a Arbitrary text through the data entry system of the invention, the user can skip at least some of the steps proposed by the calling system and directly enter the information he wishes to enter. For example, after calling an automatic call center of a company, the user can ask for a specific help stating his desire using the data entry systems of the invention. Also for example, if no one is available, the user can enter their contact information such as their name and / or their address and / or their telephone number, etc. so that it is contacted (for example later) by the company.

It should be noted that the embodiments, procedures and examples provided in this patent application are used solely for the demonstration of concepts of use of the data entry systems of the invention in a variety of applications. It is understood that other embodiments, procedures and examples may be considered by those skilled in the art based on the principles of the data entry systems of the invention, their use in different applications, etc.

It should be noted that the embodiment just described may require fewer pronunciations but may require more user attention / interaction with the corresponding screen. It is understood that, as mentioned in other embodiments above, if an initially proposed word is not the word that the user intended to enter, the user can point to the word (for example by selecting it in a word processing window) and provide the pronunciation corresponding to (in the example at least some of) the characters of the word or pronounce the word to minimize attention on the screen.

The functions of applications such as call directories, call centers, auto answer centers, etc., are known to those skilled in the art. The combination of the applications with the data entry systems of the invention provides faster interaction with the systems to achieve a goal and allows the introduction of complex text easily and quickly.

Different procedures for selecting / correcting an unwanted word proposed by the system have been described above. Another procedure to minimize the pronunciation necessary in the substitution of the unwanted word by another word is described below.

According to an embodiment of the invention, when data entry systems (for example that include word prediction) of the invention are used to enter a word, if the word selected by the system is not the one the user desired enter, the user (for example after pointing / selecting the unwanted word) can begin to pronounce the characters corresponding to the word one by one. For example, after pronouncing the first character of the word, if a selection of two or more other words (for example other than the unwanted word) in the database correspond to the initial keystrokes provided by the user and begin With the pronounced character, then the system can propose to the user the word within the selection that has the highest priority in relation to the other words within the selection. If the proposed word is not yet the one the user was trying to enter the user can pronounce the next character of the desired word. The system can propose another word (for example within the selection) that begins with the two pronounced characters. If there are two or more words that begin with the two characters then the system can propose to the user the one with the highest priority. According to a procedure, if the previously proposed word also begins with the same two characters, the system can ignore it, even if the word has the highest priority among those words that correspond to the two pronounced characters. The fact that the user proceeds to pronounce the next character of the desired word informs the system that the word proposed by the system is not the one that the user wishes to enter. If the last word proposed is not yet the one that the user tries to enter, the user can pronounce the next letter of the desired word and so on.

As an example, FIGURE 10 shows a reduced keyboard 13400 having at least four keys, in which four of the keys 13401-13404 of the reduced keyboard represent the letters of the alphabet of a language. Values 1 to 4 are assigned accordingly to the corresponding keys 13401 to 13404, respectively. A part 13405 of a system word database corresponding to the sequence of key presses 13401, 13401, 13402, 13402 (for example, to the value "1122") is also shown. In this example, if the user presses keys 13401, 13401, 13402, 13402, (for example the value of key presses "1122") without speaking, the system can be predefined to select the word corresponding to the key presses That has the highest priority. In this example, the word is the word "what." Immediately after providing the keystrokes

or later during a correction / selection procedure by signaling the proposed word (in the example "what"), the user can pronounce the letter "n" (for example without providing keystrokes). The system can propose the word that corresponds to the initial keystrokes (13401, 13401, 13402, 13402) that begins with the letter “n” and that has the highest priority in relation to the other words that correspond to the same keystrokes of key and that begin with the same letter “n”. In this example, the word is the word "next." If the proposed word is not yet the one that the user tries to enter, the user can pronounce the next letter, "e", of the desired word (for example without providing keystrokes). According to a procedure, the fact of pronouncing an additional character informs the system to ignore the current word proposed (for example “next”) even if the additional characters pronounced correspond to the next character of the word (in the example “next” ). The system can propose the word that has the same information of initial keystrokes and that two of its letters (for example initials) match the corresponding user pronunciations and that have the highest priority in relation to the other words that have the same information of keystrokes and that two of its letters (for example initials) match the corresponding user pronunciations, excluding the word or words already proposed (in the example “next”). In this example, the word is the word "near." If the word "near" is not yet the one that the user tries to enter, the user can proceed to pronounce the next character of the desired word and the system behaves based on the principles described, and so on. In this example, by pronouncing the next letter "a", the system proposes the word "neat" which, for example, is the one that the user intends to enter.

As mentioned above, the data input systems of the invention such as the predictive data input systems of the invention can be combined with other data input systems such as manual input and / or recognition systems. , multiple pulse systems, etc.

For example, a word predictive method of the invention can be combined with a handwriting recognition system so that the manual writing input and recognition system is used either as an additional recognition system or to replace systems. of recognition spoken of the invention. For example, a user can enter a word by providing the keystrokes that correspond to the word without speaking. If the word is not the only word that corresponds to the sequence of keystrokes, the user can accurately enter at least some of the characters (for example initials) of the word by using the handwriting recognition system, in Predefined time periods such as during word entry or during the correction / selection procedure as described above. For example, as shown in FIGURE 11a, by using a split reduced keyboard having at least four keys 13501 to 13504, (for example in accordance with for example one of the reduced keyboards already described) of the Tablet PC 13500 and by considering a part of the word database 13508 of the system, to enter the word "has", the user can press the corresponding keys 13501, 13502, 13504 without speaking. The system can propose the unwanted word "was" that corresponds to the same sequence of keystrokes and has the highest priority. Then, as shown in FIGURE 11b, the user can change (for example at that point / moment, or subsequently by signaling / selecting 13570, the word "was") the unwanted word for, for example, the writing of at least a number of letters (for example initials) necessary to distinguish the desired word "has" from the other words that have the same sequence of keystrokes. In this example, providing only the letter "h" 13505 may be sufficient to replace the word "was" with "has." This is because the word "has" has the highest priority value in relation to the other words that correspond to the same keystrokes provided by the user and that begin with the letter "h" inside the database . Although this system is slower and can be more frustrating, it can allow data entry and correction without the use of user speech. It is understood that according to an embodiment of the invention, the manual writing input and recognition system can be implemented together with the word predictive data input systems of the invention that also use speech recognition systems so that the According to, for example, an environment (for example, quiet) or situation (for example, the need for fast and easy data entry) can consequently use any of the data entry systems with the predictive data entry systems of words (for example using the keys of a reduced keyboard that has few keys in which at least four of the few keys are assigned to at least four of the few keys to at least the letters of the at least one language) as has described.

The previous example demonstrates a system word correction procedure. Obviously, as mentioned above, the user can enter a letter or handwritten letters during word entry. For example, (for example if the user knows in advance that the words "was" and "has" correspond to the same sequence of keystrokes and that the word "was" has the highest priority) for the introduction of the word "Has", the user can first write the letter "h" and then press the keys corresponding to the remaining letters "as" of the word.

According to an embodiment of the invention:

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pointing to a position in relation to (for example within) an unwanted text such as an unwanted word and providing a pronunciation such as pronouncing a desired word or pronouncing at least some of the characters that correspond to the desired word without providing keystrokes of keys (in the example the system can consider the initial keystrokes that were provided by the user for the introduction of the unwanted word), can result in the substitution of the unwanted word with the desired word and

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pointing to a position in relation to (for example within) a text such as a word provided by the system and providing the sequence of keystrokes and providing the pronunciation such as a pronunciation corresponding to the sequence of keystrokes or pronouncing At least some of the characters that correspond to the sequence of keystrokes, can result in the insertion of the corresponding text (for example the word) at the position in relation to (for example within) the word provided.

According to an embodiment of the invention, a navigation procedure can be considered for signaling a / selecting the words of a document (for example to replace them with other words). For example, according to one procedure, the arrows (for example four) of the data entry systems of the invention can be used to navigate the words of a document so that they point to / select a word from the document. According to another procedure, a means of advance and / or a means of backward movement (for example a key) moves a means of selection forward and / or backward through the words, (for example by selecting word by word) you can Use for the same purpose.

According to an embodiment of the invention, during the introduction of data in an environment such as during the notes taken at a meeting, the user may decide to enter a part of a text such as a word, a word or long words, or a string of characters that are not in the dictionary such as words that are not in the dictionary or even phrases (for example complex), functions, etc. (in the example hereafter, “difficult text to enter”), at a later time such as after the meeting. For this purpose, different procedures such as:

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according to a procedure, the user can inform the system by for example providing a predefined signal such as the press of a predefined key and the pronunciation of the "difficult to enter text" such as a word. The system can record the pronunciation and can provide one or more symbols in the corresponding position within the document such as when the user signals / selects the position (for example to the one or more symbols), the systems can provide the registered pronunciation to the user so that the user remembers what he had and consequently enter the “difficult text to enter” (for example the word) into the document, for example:

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pressing the keys that correspond to at least some of the characters (for example initials) of the “difficult text to enter” (for example a word) and to pronounce the characters of the “difficult text to enter” (for example a word) or

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enter the word by using the systems of introduction and recognition of handwriting or

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etc.

For example, when a user is taking notes, a word that is not in the dictionary such as a person's name (for example "Alexandrite") can be entered by pressing a predefined key such as the key corresponding to the first Letter of the word and pronouncing the word. By not recognizing the word, the system can provide one or more symbols (for example predefined) in the corresponding position within the text and memorize the pronunciation, the pronunciation also corresponding to the position (for example the one corresponding to one or more of the symbols (for example predefined)), so that when the user points to / select the one or more corresponding symbols (for example predefined), the system provides the pronunciation of the user (for example the recorded audio) to the user, so that The user remembers what he wanted and consequently, as described, enter the text.

According to another procedure, as described above, the user can provide a sequence of pressing actions corresponding to at least some (for example, preferably all) the characters of the "difficult to enter text" (for example a word ) and pronounce the text (for example the word or words). If the system does not recognize the word, it can record the pronunciation and can provide a set of characters such as a sequence of predefined characters such as the values of the keys that have been pressed by the user, in the corresponding position within the document so that When the user points to / select the position (for example the characters), the system provides the recorded pronunciation to the user so that the user remembers what he had and can consequently enter the text by, for example:

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pronunciation of the characters one by one without pressing the keys again (for example as described above, taking into account the stored character string such as the values of the keys, the system remembers the initial keystrokes) or

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enter the word by using the systems of introduction and recognition of handwriting or

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For example, when a user is taking notes, you can enter a word that is not in the dictionary such as a person's name (for example "Alexandrite") by pressing the keys that correspond to the letters of the word and pronouncing the word. By not recognizing the word, the system can provide predefined symbols such as the predefined values of the keystrokes provided by the user in the corresponding position within the text and memorize the pronunciation also corresponding to the pronunciation to the position (for example to the corresponding symbols (for example predefined)), so that when the user signals / selects the corresponding symbols (for example predefined), the system provides the pronunciation of the user (for example recorded audio) to the user, so that the user remembers what you wanted and consequently enter the text, as described above:

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According to another procedure, the user can enter the “difficult text to enter” (for example, the word) by means of his handwriting which is either immediately digitized or by its graphic as it is and subsequently or converts it to characters digitized (for example printed characters) or you can keep it as it is in the document.

For example, when a user is taking notes, a word that is not in the dictionary such as a person's name (for example "Alexandrite") can be introduced by, for example, the use of a manual writing input system (in the example, and recognition). According to a procedure, the system can provide the text as it is in the corresponding position within the document so that if desired, the user can subsequently convert it to digitized characters (eg printed characters). According to another procedure, the system can immediately convert the text to digitized characters (for example printed characters).

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Other input procedures (for example that provide unambiguous characters) such as an on-screen keyboard or other input procedures such as those based on the principles of data entry systems of the invention, can also be used to enter the "text difficult to enter ”(for example a word).

It should be noted that all words of any part of a text can be entered by using the manual writing recognition and entry system. The change of the reduced keyboard procedure (for example by pressing keys) can inform the system of the end of the manual writing procedure for part of the text.

It should also be noted that recording the pronunciation of the user (eg voice) of some of the parts of a text during a data entry may require a small amount of memory but allows the user great freedom and flexibility.

There are many content search procedures by using a standard PC keyboard. The data entry systems of the invention allow at least duplicate the functionality of a PC keyboard, therefore allow duplicate content search procedures.

The data entry systems of the invention can be used for a general interactive procedure such as a content search procedure, interactive computer system such as an interaction with PC, interactive TV, etc. For example, the system can be used with a remote control of a Multimedia Center PC for searching and playing movies or songs, answering questions frequented by a TV channel server, interacting remotely with other TV users (for example through TV messages), etc.

According to an embodiment of the invention, to search for a content within a content database (for example the name of the song within a database of song names, the name of the movie within the database of Movie name data, the name of the person or company within the telephone directory database, etc.), the user can use the data entry system of the invention. The content may be composed of one or more strings of characters such as one or more words. Each of the contents can be composed of different fields, within each of the fields one or more strings of characters can be included. For example, FIGURE 12 shows a part 13600 of the song name database. For example, each record corresponding to the song may include several fields such as the title of the song 13601, the singer 13602, the album 13603, etc., each of the fields may include one or more words.

Because the data entry systems of the invention use a keyboard that has few keys in which at least one of the keys is assigned more than one letter of an alphabet, different input procedures can be considered for the search for a content such as those described herein below.

According to a first procedure, the user can enter all the characters of at least one of the fields by providing the keystrokes that correspond to the characters and, if necessary, provide the pronunciation corresponding to the keystrokes (for example pronouncing the characters that correspond to at least some of the keystrokes or pronouncing the desired word or words that represent the keystrokes). The pronunciation can be provided simultaneously with the keystroke actions or can be provided after the keystroke has been entered (for example, the pronunciation can be dynamically required by the system after the keypresses are processed). This procedure may normally require more keystrokes to find content.

According to a second procedure, the user can enter part of the characters of at least one of the fields by providing the keystrokes corresponding to the characters and, if necessary, providing the pronunciation corresponding to the keystrokes (for example pronouncing the characters that correspond to the keystrokes or pronouncing the words with which the keystrokes are related). The pronunciation can be provided simultaneously with the keystroke actions or can be provided after the keystroke has been entered (for example, the pronunciation can be dynamically required by the system after the keypresses are processed). This procedure may normally require fewer keystrokes but more pronunciations, to find a content.

For example, if a user wishes to listen to a song on a music player device that is related to a Multimedia Center PC, the user can, for example, enter at least some of the characters of the song title through the music systems. Entering data of the invention by, for example, pressing the keys corresponding to at least some of the characters (for example preferably the initials) of at least the song title. Preferably, the user can also enter the at least some of the characters also from the other fields such as the name of the singer or the song through the data entry systems of the invention, for example, by pressing the keys that they correspond to at least some of the characters (for example preferably the initials) of the singer. Between the two sequences of key presses, a delimitation signal such as pressing a predefined key can be provided.

The system can search within the fields of song titles in the database to find the titles that correspond to the sequence of keystrokes (for example the value) provided by the user that corresponds to the title of their desired song . The system can find one or more titles corresponding to the keystrokes provided by the user in relation to the desired title. If the system found only one title that matches the corresponding keystrokes of the user, then the system can proceed with the following task such as song selection and sending it to the user's playback device for playback. According to one embodiment, the following task may be to consult the user to confirm the song that has been selected by the user, etc.

If there is more than one title that corresponds to the keystrokes provided by the user in relation to the desired title, then the system selects the titles and searches within the fields of singers of the selection the name of the singer or singers that fit the corresponding keystrokes provided by the user (in the example the second sequence of keystrokes). If the system finds only one song that matches the corresponding keystrokes of the user, then the system can proceed with the following task such as selecting the song and sending it to the user's playback device for playback. According to one embodiment, the following task may be to consult the user to confirm the song that has been selected by the user, etc.

If there is more than one title corresponding to the keystrokes provided by the user in relation to the desired title and singer, then the system may ask the user to provide more information such as, for example, the pronunciation of the characters corresponding to at least some of the keystrokes provided by the user for the introduction of the title and / or the singer, provide keystrokes (in the example and pronunciation) corresponding to more characters of any of the fields or other fields such such as the name of the album, a part of the song's lyrics, etc.

It should be noted that although the example just described refers to the search for a song, the search procedure can be applied to any type of content. For example, a movie database may include different fields such as the movie title, at least one movie actor, movie director, etc. According to another example, a database of a calling directory may include different fields such as the person's last name, the person's own name, address, zip code, etc. Also the search procedure described above is only an example procedure that shows the effectiveness of the data entry systems of the invention such as the predictive data entry systems of the invention combined with the data entry systems. of pulsations / sliding and talks about the invention and its ability to be used in different applications. As mentioned, many types of content search can be taken into account by those skilled in the art. For example, according to another search procedure, based on the principles of predictive data entry systems of the invention, if a user provides a sequence of keystrokes corresponding to, for example, the film title and the keystrokes correspond to the name of two or more movies in the database, then the system may request more information such as requesting a number of characters (for example, initial, middle or final) such as letters of the database movie title (as described above). According to different systems, for example by pronunciation of the user or by writing (for example, manual) of the characters, the user can enter the characters. If the information provided by the user corresponds to at least two films, the system may request more information such as at least a part (for example initial) of the name of one of the actors of the film, in which the user can provide the information by for example providing it with the same procedure used to provide the film title, etc.

It should be noted that, as mentioned, the search for content as described can be used for a search and interaction of general purposes and that although a search for a movie, the search or interaction procedures have been mentioned as an example They can be applied with any content such as song search, answer to a question, question questions, text input, etc.

An example is given hereinbelow by reference to FIGURE 12 in which a remote control 13645 having a reduced telephone type keypad 13607 is shown. The remote control may have a speaker 13608, a microphone 13604, a writing surface 13609, a display unit 13606, etc. FIGURE 12 also shows a part of a song database 13600 as described above.

According to a search procedure, the user to enter the name of the song "who" performed by Frank Sinatra, the user can for example, respectively, press the keys 136011, 13612, 13613 corresponding to the word "who". The user can then provide a delimitation signal such as pressing the "#" key 13615 and pressing the key 13614 corresponding to the letter "F" (in the example of the initial character of the character string "Frank Sinatra ”) Corresponding to the name of the singer. The system can compare the click actions with the corresponding fields. In this example, there are two entries (in the example songs) that correspond to the keystrokes provided by the user:

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" Who ", played by Frank Sinatra and

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" Win ", played by David Bowie

The system can recognize that the first letters of the two songs are similar (for example the same letter "W"), therefore the system can dynamically decide and ask the user to pronounce the initial two letters of the title so that it is capable to recognize which song the user wishes to select. It is understood that instead of the pronunciation, the system may request other information such as the pronunciation of the second character or the last character of the song title, pressing the key corresponding to the singer's last name (for example and pronunciation if necessary ) or other information as described above.

Another example in relation to the search of a content within a telephone directory (for example to request a telephone number or make a call) is demonstrated taking into account FIGURE 13, in which a part of a database is shown example of a telephone directory.

For example, if a user wishes to request the "Eve Miller" telephone number by using the reduced keypad 13708 of the telephone 13709 by calling an automatic telephone directory, the user can, for example, provide three keystrokes 13711, 13712, 13713, which correspond to the initial three letters " thousand " of the surname "Millet", followed by a delimitation pulse such as pressing the pad key 13714 and providing two keystrokes 13715, 13716 corresponding to the initial two letters of the person's own name "Eva". As described, based on the principles of the data entry systems of the invention, the system can recognize that there are several entries within the database that correspond to the keystroke information, such as:

Milker

Evelyn (212) 112 2222

Miller

Eve (212) 111 2221

Nikky

Dudu (212) 333 2222

By analyzing the selection, the system can ask the user to enter the pronunciation of at least the initial four letters (for example, or the last two letters) of the last name of the desired person.

It should be noted that as described above, instead of pressing the keys and waiting for instructions for the user such as providing the required pronunciation, the user can press the keys and provide the corresponding pronunciation (for example simultaneously or immediately after providing the corresponding pulsation action) so that it enters the character string based on, for example, the input systems of pulse / slide data and speaks character by character of the invention.

It should be noted that according to an embodiment of the invention, the selected entries from the database based on the information (for example keystrokes and / or pronunciation) can be provided to the user on the screen of the corresponding electronic device, so that the user decides what additional information to provide for the selection of the desired input.

If a field within the entry of a database includes more than one word (for example with a space between words), the user can provide the space character by, for example, pressing a predefined key such as the "*" key a predefined number of times. It should be noted that the contents within the fields may correspond to any symbol such as numbers, etc., it should also indicate that the search procedure can be executed dynamically after the introduction of each information such as each pressing action (in the example and pronunciation). Also, according to a procedure, the information (for example additional) required by / provided to the system may only be the pronunciation (without a corresponding key press) such as pronouncing the last character of the word for which it was not provided. No key press.

It should also be noted that the content database such as the list of songs, movies, etc. and its corresponding information such as the name of the singers, the name of the actors, may be available locally such as within the PC of the user's Multimedia Center or may be available within a remote location such as the server of a service provider such as a cable TV or satellite TV company or a company server or person accessible through the Internet, etc.

A credit card number usually has a predefined number of figures. Each of the figures may vary from 0-9. When a user buys an item through a phone call, he can pay for the item by entering his credit card number through the keys of a tone phone. There is only one tone per key in a tone phone. By using the data entry systems of the invention that allow the introduction of any symbol (for example of a PC keyboard) through the telephone (for example the key press and the pronunciation of the symbol), it is possible to Consider a type of credit card number that includes at least alphanumeric characters making it more secure and allowing the number to be entered even through a tone phone.

According to an embodiment of the invention, when the predictive data input systems of the invention are used for text input, the words in which their corresponding key press sequence can correspond to more than one word within the System word database can be highlighted (for example written in another color, underlined, bold, etc.). For example (for example at a later time), if a user wishes to replace an unwanted word proposed by the system with his desired word, to find the unwanted word, he can only focus on (for example, search inside) the highlighted words.

As mentioned above, at least in a digitizer such as the screen of a Tablet PC, at least some of the special characters such as punctuation characters can be assigned to interactions (for example with the software / virtual keys of the corresponding reduced keyboard or the finger duplication keys and / or finger covers and / or key interactions) that include the sliding actions. These aspects have been described in detail in this patent application and in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor. For example, a predefined punctuation mark character can be assigned to a sliding action of its corresponding key combined with predefined speech information and / or pressing and maintaining a predefined first key and pressing the corresponding key combined with predefined speech information.

As mentioned above, language rules can be used to improve any of the data entry systems of the invention. For example, by considering the part of database 13508 and keys 13501 to 13504 of the reduced keyboard of FIGURE 11a, when a phrase such as "there is no way" is entered by pressing the corresponding keys without To speak, the system may enter another phrase "there is no was" (in the example "was" has a higher priority than "has"). By using the system that includes the language rules, because the word "way" is the only word, among the words in the database that corresponds to the keystrokes provided for the introduction of the word "was" , which makes sense within the phase, the result provided by the system can be automatically modified to “there is no way”.

As mentioned above, a word from the system's word database can also be a complete word or it can be a part (for example, beginning, middle, end) of the whole word. Also as mentioned, after each interaction (for example keystrokes) of key and information (in the example and the corresponding pronunciation if there has been any) provided during the introduction of a word through the use of predictive data entry systems of the invention, the system may consider a corresponding word whose initial characters (in the example or its total characters) correspond to the interaction (for example, pressing) of keys and to the information (for example and the corresponding pronunciation, if any) provided by the user (for example until that time).

According to different principles and / or procedures, the presentation of a string of characters that corresponds to the information of keystrokes (for example and the corresponding pronunciation if provided) may be considered during the entry of a word.

According to an embodiment of the invention, after each key press information (for example and the corresponding pronunciation if provided) provided by a user during the key press information sequence (for example and pronunciation, if there is some) provided by the user for the introduction of the word, the system can present to the user the word that has the highest priority among the complete words in which all the characters of each of the words correspond to the information of the sequence provided by the user. If the system does not find such a word then the system can present to the user the word that has the highest priority among the words in which a predefined part (for example such as, preferably, the initial characters) of the words corresponds to the sequence of information provided by the user. Taking into account the reduced keyboard 13800, FIGURE 14 shows an example of a table 13805 demonstrating various stages (for example initials) to propose the character string corresponding to the initial part of the information sequence (for example in this example , only keystrokes) provided by the user during the introduction of the word “information”, in accordance with this procedure.

According to another embodiment of the invention, after each key press information (for example and the corresponding pronunciation if provided) provided by the user during the key press information sequence (for example and the pronunciation if provides some) provided by the user for the introduction of a word, the system may present to the user the word that has the highest priority among the words in which at least one part (for example such as at least the initial characters,

or all the characters) of the words correspond to the sequence of information (for example keystrokes and corresponding pronunciation if provided) provided by the user. Taking into account the reduced keyboard 13800, FIGURE 14 shows an example table 13806 demonstrating various stages (for example initials) of the proposition of the character strings corresponding to the initial part of the information sequence (for example in this example, only keystrokes) provided by the user during the introduction of the word “information”, in accordance with this procedure. According to this procedure, at any time, if the user provides an end-of-word signal (for example, such as a space character) in which the proposed character string is a part (for example, initial) of a word ( for example that it has a longer character string) (for example, in other words, the character string is an incomplete word) so the system can consider the words in the database in which the information (for example keystrokes key and pronunciation if any) provided by the user corresponds to all the characters of each of the words and can propose for example the word that has the highest priority among the words. In the example of 13806, if after three keystrokes the user provides an end-of-word signal (such as a space character) the system can replace the character string "int" (for example the initial characters of the word "Into") by the word "put" (for example, it has the highest frequency of use among the words for which the information provided by the user corresponds to all the characters of each of the words).

According to an embodiment of the invention, during the supply of the information sequence, if the user enters one or more precise characters, then:

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according to a procedure, the system can keep the other characters as they are and add the precise characters at the end of the other characters

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According to another procedure, the system can combine the information provided by the introduction of the other characters and the one or more precise characters and compare them with the words in the database to provide a corresponding word. If there are no corresponding words, then the system can keep the other characters as they are and can add the precise characters at the end of the other characters.

It should be noted that the character string can be introduced by any of the data entry procedures (for example or a combination) of the invention such as character-by-character input, part of a word / word, predictive input, etc. . As mentioned in detail above, each character introduction (for example by character) or introduction of part of a word (for example part of a word / word), can be assigned to a different type of input signal such as providing a different interaction with the corresponding key or keys. For example, according to a procedure, the input of a character / letter can be provided by a simple press action on a key corresponding to the character and provide the corresponding pronunciation and the introduction of a part of the word can be provided by an action of sliding on the corresponding key (for example the key corresponding to the part of the word) and provide the corresponding pronunciation. Also for example, according to another procedure, the introduction of a part of the word can be provided by pressing two keys (for example pressing the change key and a key corresponding to the part of the word) and Provide the corresponding pronunciation. These aspects have already been described in detail. As an example, as shown in FIGURE 14, considering the reduced keyboard 13800, to enter the word "revolutionize", the user can first provide the information that includes the keystrokes that correspond to the initial characters "revolu" ( for example some of the keystrokes can be provided without pronouncing the corresponding pronunciation) of the word "revolution" (for example without pronouncing it). The user can then provide a second information that includes a sliding action on the key 13802 and provide the pronunciation of the "tion" part (for example by saying "shen"). The system can combine the first and second information and compare them with the words in the database and take out the word “revolution”. The user can then provide a third information that includes a sliding action on the key 13804 and the pronunciation of the "ize" part. The system can combine the first, second and third information and compare them with the words in the database. The system may not find a word that corresponds to the combined information. In this case the system can take out the character string (for example the word) "revolution" as it is, and you can attach the "ize" part at the end of it to provide the character / word string "revolutionize". The integration of the data entry systems part by the invention with the predictive data entry systems of the invention can accelerate the speed of the data entry systems of the invention, requiring less keystrokes and less pronunciation as well. how to minimize user spelling errors, etc.

It should be noted that, as described above in detail, according to another embodiment of the invention, the character-by-character introduction or the introduction of part of the word / word can be assigned to the same input signal as provided the same interaction such as providing a simple pressing action on the corresponding key or keys.

It should be noted that, as described above in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a part of a word can be introduced providing the keystrokes corresponding to more than one letter such as all the letters of the part and pronouncing the part. For example, to enter the "tion" part, the user can press the keys 13802, 13804, 13803, 13804, and say the part (for example by saying "shen").

According to an embodiment of the invention, during the introduction of the information provided by the user for the introduction of the word by using the predictive data input of the invention, the system may not print the character string proposed by the system until there is only a single string of characters that corresponds to the information corresponding to at least one of the words in the database. This can eliminate screen fluctuations. According to one procedure, until then other predefined symbols such as, for example, corresponding key numbers can be printed on the screen.

As mentioned above, the data input systems of the invention such as the predictive data input systems of the invention can be combined with other data input systems such as manual write input and / or recognition systems. , multiple typing system, on-screen keyboard (for example, QWERTY), etc. to accurately enter at least one or more characters of the word. The other data entry systems can be used by any of the procedures (for example embodiments) of the data entry system and / or replacement / correction of the data entry systems of the invention. For example, in the corresponding embodiments of the invention, instead of entering the one or more characters of a word / part of the word, by means of a manual writing input / recognition system or by pressing the key corresponding to a letter and the pronunciation of the letter, the user can enter the one or more characters of a word by using a virtual keyboard (for example QWERTY). These aspects have already been described in detail.

As mentioned above, according to one of the correction methods of the invention, when the user points out an unwanted word and provides a pronunciation for the replacement of the word with a desired word, the pronunciation may be the pronunciation of a or more letters of the desired word.

According to an embodiment of the invention, when a user points to an unwanted word and provides a pronunciation for replacing the word with a desired word, the pronunciation may be predefined to be one of at least or the pronunciation of a letter. (for example predefined as the first or last or middle) of the word, or the pronunciation of all the letters of the desired word. This can significantly increase the accuracy of the system. According to one procedure, the system can consider both hypotheses and provide the word that best suits it accordingly. Because in most cases it is sufficient to provide the first letter of the word to correct / replace an unwanted word, the user as a first attempt may preferably pronounce a letter (in the example the initial one) of the desired word. If the system provides yet another unwanted word that corresponds to the user's pronunciation, then the user can provide another attempt at correction / substitution by for example pointing back to the unwanted word and pronouncing all the letters of the desired word. It is understood that as previously described in detail, according to another procedure, any number of characters of the desired words can be pronounced for the correction / replacement of a word during the correction / replacement procedure.

During data entry (for example text), typing errors may occur (for example key interaction). When used in the predictive data input systems of the invention, it may result in the system either considering the wrong word or not finding a corresponding word. The user can use a deletion means such as a "backspace" key to erase the interaction (for example, press) of the key (for example and the corresponding pronunciation, if one has been provided). It should be noted that according to one embodiment each "backspace" action can erase the last key interaction (for example, press) for example (and the corresponding pronunciation, if any) and the corresponding one or more characters. The system can consider the words that correspond to the information of remaining keystrokes (for example and pronunciation). According to a procedure, the system can print the corresponding characters of the candidate word. According to a procedure, the user can then provide a click action or actions (for example and the corresponding pronunciation if desired) corresponding to the remaining characters of the word. Considering the remaining initial information and the additional information provided after the backtracking procedure, the system can predict the corresponding word or words.

A special recoil means such as a special backspace command assigned to a key for deleting more than one character has been described in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor. According to an embodiment of the invention, a special back command can be used with the predictive data input systems of the invention. According to a procedure, providing a special backspace action (for example to provide a corresponding interaction such as a click action on the key to which the special backspace command is assigned) can delete the last complete or incomplete word (for example in front of the cursor) entered by a user. Each additional special backspace action can delete an additional last complete or incomplete word (for example in front of the cursor).

According to another procedure providing a special backspace action can erase the last string of characters (for example in front of the cursor) that corresponds to corresponding portions of the user (for example that include reduced keyboard information and pronunciation (if provided)) . Each additional special backspace action can erase an additional last string of characters (for example in front of the cursor) that correspond to other portions of the user (for example that include reduced keyboard information and pronunciation (if provided)). A user portion (for example that includes reduced keyboard information and pronunciation (if provided)) may correspond to providing the information between two predefined time periods. Portions may correspond to a letter, a string of characters such as a part of the word, a whole word, a string of characters that includes at least one word and at least a part of another word, etc. The character string can also include special characters.

As mentioned above, according to a method of the predictive data input systems of the invention using word / part of the invention data input systems, an interaction with a corresponding key (in the example and providing a corresponding pronunciation) can provide / remove the corresponding character string. According to an embodiment of the invention (for example in which the cursor is located at the end of the character string) a single "backspace" (for example a regular or special "backspace" depending on the definition of the user and / or from the system designer) you can delete the character string. According to a procedure, if there are one or more special characters such as a space character or punctuation mark character after the character string and the cursor is located after the special characters, then the special characters can also be deleted. .

The words in the dictionary database can comprise any special character such as punctuation characters. For example, taking into account FIGURE 14, to enter the word “don't” (for example that exists in the database), the user can press the keys 13804, 13803, 13804, 13802 (in the example they contain the apostrophe character 13809), 13802, and provide a corresponding pronunciation if desired / needed.

According to an embodiment of the invention, pressing the "change" key before or during the introduction of the word through the predictive data entry systems of the invention can result in the capitalization of the letter of the corresponding word (for example the first). According to another procedure, the user can press (for example and keep) a change key and press a key that corresponds to a letter (for example the first) of the desired word that is entered through the data entry system predictive of the invention and pronounce the letter. The user below (for example, can release the key held) can provide the keystrokes that correspond to the remaining characters of the word. The letter can be capitalized within the word. According to another procedure, instead of the pressing action, a sliding action on the corresponding key (for example and the corresponding pronunciation) may be predefined to be provided for the same purpose. Obviously, when the key interaction is provided, if the user does not provide a corresponding pronunciation, the system can consider the key interaction as an ambiguous key interaction and the corresponding letter can be capitalized within the predicted word or words. .

According to an embodiment of the invention, one or more characters within the word can be deleted or changed.

According to a procedure, the system can consider the interaction information of the key (for example and the pronunciation) of the modified word and compare it with the words of the database to provide a corresponding word (for example as described in detail). According to another procedure, the system can keep the new character string (eg word) as it is.

It should be noted that although in many embodiments of the invention the keys are mentioned as input means to provide input signals, obviously any input means can be used (for example finger interactions on a touch screen, finger covers, etc. ) for the introduction of the input signals.

According to an embodiment of the invention, during (for example at any time) the input of the information corresponding to a word, a user may wish to replace one more of the initial characters (eg letters) of the corresponding character string proposed by the system (for example by another character or characters that have the same corresponding key interactions). Without providing key interactions or the use of predefined means such as a predefined key, the user can pronounce the one or more characters. According to a procedure, by considering the modified characters and the information that was provided for the rest of the character string and based on the comparison with the system database, the system may consider one (for example or more) string of candidate characters (for example word) and propose it to the user.

According to an embodiment of the invention, for the modification of a character (for example or more) of a character string such as a word (for example by another character or characters having the same corresponding key interactions), the user You can place the cursor in a predefined position in relation to the character and provide the pronunciation corresponding to the desired character or characters.

According to an embodiment of the invention, during the correction / replacement procedure of the predictive data input systems of the invention, by using predefined means such as a key, the user can inform the system that the pronunciation (by for example, the pronunciation of one or more letters) that it provides for the correction / replacement of the corresponding proposed word refers to a predefined area of the word such as the final area of the word.

According to another embodiment of the invention, during the correction / replacement procedure of the predictive data input systems of the invention, by the use of a predefined means such as the selection / signaling of a part (for example one or more letters) of the word the user can inform the system that the pronunciation (for example the pronunciation of one or more letters) provided for the correction / replacement of the corresponding proposed words refers to a part of the word. The part can be any part of the word and the means (for example selection / signaling) can be any of the means for selecting a part of the word or signaling a part of the word. According to a procedure, the user can point to a location within the string (for example the proposed string) of characters such as a complete or incomplete word (for example by placing a cursor on the location) and the system can be preset to select all or any of the characters in the character string before and / or after the cursor (for example as designed). The user can then provide the desired pronunciation that corresponds to the selected part. According to a procedure, the system can consider the modified characters and the interaction information (for example keystrokes) of other characters of the character string (for example and the corresponding pronunciation if provided by the user) for modification of the complete string of characters accordingly (for example, considering the corresponding candidates and proposing one of them as described in detail).

It is noted again that although in some paragraphs the beginning of the word is mentioned by the corresponding information provided by the user for the introduction of a precise character or characters, obviously any part of the word and the corresponding user information can be considered for the introduction of a word based on the principles of the combined data entry systems of the invention.

Also, it is noted again that although in some paragraphs only the keystrokes are mentioned as the information provided considered by the user, obviously based on the principles of the data entry systems of the invention the information may include the corresponding User pronunciation if you have provided any.

The data input systems of the invention (for example such as / including the predictive data input systems of the invention) can use several languages simultaneously. For example, the pronunciation of more than one language can be assigned to a symbol such as a letter (for example Latin), a word, a part of the word, etc. of the data entry systems of the invention. As an example, for each of the letters of the Latin alphabet that are assigned to the keys of the reduced keyboard, you can assign the pronunciation of the letter in two

or more languages For example, for each of the letters you can assign the pronunciation of the letter in two languages such as English and French. For example, the letter "z" can be pronounced "z iy" or "z eh d", accordingly. The multi-language data entry system of the invention may also include the predictive data input systems (for example of words) of the invention and comprise a word database that includes the words (and a part of words) of multiple languages or can comprise multiple databases (for example of words) (for example and a part of words) of multiple languages such as, for example, English, French, etc. So that the system does not consider other languages while entering data (for example such as text) in one of the languages (for example for increasing the accuracy of data entry), different embodiments can be considered.

According to an embodiment of the invention, a means such as a key or a user command (eg voice) can be used to change from one language to another.

According to another embodiment of the invention, switching between languages can be done automatically by the system. According to a procedure, when a user enters a symbol (for example, such as a letter, word, etc.), by interacting with a corresponding key providing the corresponding pronunciation, the pronunciation can be recognized by the system as a pronunciation that It corresponds to one of the languages. The system can then switch to the language and may not consider the other languages until the user provides the pronunciation of the symbol in another language. For example, to enter the phrase "my mother in English means ma mere in French", by using, for example, the word predictive data input systems of the invention, the user can first enter the first part "my mother in English means ”as usual by one of the data entry systems of the invention. You can then enter the word “ma” (in the example the French word) by pressing the keys that correspond to the word and providing the pronunciation (in the example in French) corresponding to at least one of the letters of the word or by pronunciation of the word (in the example depending on the data entry procedure) in French. The system can recognize that the word is a French word and behave accordingly. For example, if the data entry procedure used for word entry is a predictive data entry procedure (for example of words) of the invention, the system can use the French word database of the invention To enter the word. The system may consider that the user enters data in French until the user provides a pronunciation in another language. In this example, the user can enter the following word “mere” (in the example a French word) by pressing the corresponding keys (in the example he may not need to provide a pronunciation if the user uses the predictive data input procedure and the system can use the French word database of the invention for word entry).

The user can then enter the last part "in French" by means of one of the data entry systems of the invention. During the supply of the keystrokes corresponding to the word "in", the user can inform the system to automatically switch to English mode by providing information spoken in the English language such as providing a pronunciation corresponding to at least one of the characters of the word "in" (for example saying the word, or saying at least one of the characters such as "woe" of the word).

It is understood that other automatic manual exchange means can be considered. For example, based on a previous word of a language entered / selected by the user, the system may consider the next word to be a word of that language unless the user provides information (for example, such as those just described) to change to another language.

According to an embodiment of the predictive data input systems of the invention, a symbol such as a character by the system can be considered as being, also, part of a word in the database (for example the symbol is considered as part of the word to be predicted by the word review procedure when its corresponding keystrokes are provided (for example predefined as with

or without pronunciation) during a sequence of key presses for entering the word) or it can be predefined to be considered as a symbol outside the word or predefined as both.

The same symbol can be assigned to any predefined type of interaction with, a first key or a second key, and be considered as part of the word or as a symbol outside a word, respectively (for example or vice versa).

The same symbol can be assigned to the same key but to two different types of information, in which by providing a first type of interaction with the key the system considers the symbol as being a symbol part of the word and providing a second type of key interaction the system considers the symbol to be a symbol outside a word (for example or vice versa).

The same symbol can be assigned to the same key and the same type of information but to two different predefined pronunciation information in which by providing the interaction with the key and providing the first spoken information the system considers the symbol as being a part symbol of the word and in which providing the interaction with the key and providing a second spoken information the system considers the symbol as part of the symbol outside the word (for example or vice versa).

For example, the symbol "-" may be part of a word in the database such as the word "semi-final" or it may be an out-of-word character such as that used in a formula or as a delimiter between two separate words (for example "single-double"). Predefined interaction such as predefined user behavior (for example type of interaction with the reduced keyboard and / or pronunciation information) can inform the system of the nature of the symbol. For example, when the word “semi-final” is entered (for example a word within the database) the user can press the corresponding keys without providing the pronunciation corresponding to the symbol “-” (for example, in this example , does not provide a pronunciation when, for example, the simple press of the character key "-" can inform the system that the character corresponding to the key press is part of the word to be predicted by the system). On the other hand, for example, if the user says the pronunciation corresponding to the symbol "-", the system may consider that it is a symbol outside the word and considers that it is an end-of-word signal from the previous word. For example, to enter the two words that include the "single-double" delimiter symbol, the user can press the keys that correspond to the word "single", then press the key corresponding to the delimiter symbol and pronounce the symbol. The system understands that the pronounced symbol (for example the punctuation mark) is not part of the previous word. The system enters the word "single" and the delimiter "-" and considers the following keystrokes (for example and the corresponding pronunciations) as part of the next word (for example "double" in this example).

According to another example, when the word "semi-final" is entered (for example a word within the database) the user can press the corresponding keys so that when the user presses the key corresponding to the symbol "- ", The user can provide the predefined pronunciation corresponding to said symbol (for example in this example, by providing a simple pressing action (for example with or without pronunciation) on the key corresponding to the character" - "can inform the system that the character corresponding to said key press action on said key is part of the word to be entered). By default, another pressing action on said key or another predefined key (for example in a predefined way, with or without providing a pronunciation) that is assigned to the character "-", can inform the system that the character provided by said interaction does not It can be considered by the system (eg predictive) as part of a word.

Based on principles such as those described, predefined by the manufacturer or by users, each of the symbols of the data entry systems of the invention may be assigned to be part of a word, or out of a word, or both , based on, for example, the type of interaction provided by the user. As a further example, a part of a word of the invention, such as a "tion" suffix, can be considered as part of a word and is assigned to a first type of interaction such as a single or double click action on a key corresponding and provide the corresponding pronunciation to the part of a word. Also for example, the same part of a word of the invention (for example, a "tion" suffix), can be considered as a symbol outside the word and assigned to another type of interaction such as a simple or double sliding action on a corresponding key and provide the corresponding pronunciation to the part of a word.

It should be noted that in some paragraphs of the applications in relation to the data input systems of the invention such as the predictive data input systems of the invention, the term "end-of-word" signal is used to describe a character outside of word.

Based on the principles described above, symbols such as the characters provided by other systems (for example and those used with the word predictive systems of the invention) such as the manual handwriting introduction and recognition system, full keyboard, etc. ., they can also be in a predefined way either a symbol part of a word or a symbol outside a word or both.

As mentioned above, in the predictive data input system of the invention, a symbol may be assigned by default to at least two types of user interactions in which in one of the interactions the symbol may be part of a word (in the example that is compared to the words in the system word dictionary) or can be considered as a symbol outside a word. For example, the letter "a" can be assigned to a key and can be entered as part of the word, for example, by providing a corresponding pressing action on the corresponding key without providing a pronunciation. On the other hand, for example, the same letter "a" can be considered as a letter outside the word and can be introduced by, for example, providing a corresponding pressing action on the corresponding key and pronouncing the letter.

As examples of the described procedures, for example the letter "a" may be assigned to a key and be entered as being part of the word by, for example, providing a predefined click action such as a simple click action on the corresponding key with or without providing a pronunciation (for example, by pronouncing said letter you can enter said letter with precision and not pronounce that letter you can inform the system that said keystroke is ambiguous and that it can correspond to any of the symbols, including the letter "A", which are assigned to said predefined interaction with said key). On the other hand, for example, the same letter "a" can be considered as a letter outside of a word and can be introduced by, for example, providing another predefined interaction with the corresponding key (for example a sliding action, an action of longer time press, press the key harder, press two keys such as the push and hold action on a first key and the corresponding key press, etc.) with or without pronunciation (for example, according to an example, said letter may be in a predefined manner accurately introduced by said interaction and the pronunciation of said letter.According to another example, said letter may be by default the only letter assigned to said key to be accurately introduced by providing said interaction with the key in the absence of pronunciation, although in these examples the introduction of a letter has been used to describe the procedures, preferably, the symbol to be assigned to a key to be introduced by providing said interaction with the key in the absence of pronunciation may be a symbol other than a letter, such as a punctuation mark character or a command / function) .

It is understood that the described examples can be applied to any kind of symbols of the data entry system of the invention such as letters and punctuation characters.

As mentioned above, in the predictive data input system of the invention, an end-of-word signal can be used to inform the system of the end of the sequence of keystrokes (in the example and pronunciation information) That corresponds to a word. For example, as mentioned, according to an embodiment of the invention, the end-of-word signal can be an out-of-word character or it can be a signal (for example, such as a predefined click action on a predefined key) Without providing any character. As also mentioned, according to another embodiment of the invention, the word end signal can be a character such as a letter that can be defined as being the initial character of a word (for example the following). These aspects have already been described in detail.

According to an embodiment of the invention, (for example in the predictive data input system of the invention) more than one change key can be considered to allow various types of information in the data input. For example, an uppercase letter can be provided by pressing (for example and maintaining) a first change key and pressing the key corresponding to the letter. According to different procedures, the pronunciation of the letter can inform the system that for example:

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the letter can be capitalized and predefined as a letter outside the word or

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the letter can be capitalized and can be predefined to be considered as an initial letter of a word (for example the following) or

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the letter can be capitalized and considered as part of the current word or

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etc.

Also according to a procedure, for example, not pronouncing the letter can inform the system that the corresponding letter within the corresponding word (for example recognized) can be capitalized.

Also for example, a second change key can be considered for use with at least the data entry system of part of a word of the invention. For example, you can provide a part of a word by pressing (for example and maintaining) the second change key and pressing another key that corresponds to the part of the word and say a predefined pronunciation that corresponds to the part of a word. Also for example, the pressing (for example and maintenance) of the second change key and the pressing of another key without pronunciation can correspond to another type of symbols such as a special character, such as a punctuation mark character or a function .

In devices that have a sensitive surface such as a touch screen, other or additional input procedures such as single or double sliding actions (for example or one more touch a sliding action (for example on a key) for example can be provided and the corresponding pronunciation, if necessary) for the introduction of the corresponding data such as, for example, even a greater variety of symbols. For example, instead of pressing (for example and maintaining) the change key and pressing another key corresponding to a part of a word, a sliding action can be provided on a corresponding zone / key corresponding to the part and say a predefined pronunciation that corresponds to the part for the input of the part.

As mentioned above, according to an embodiment of the invention, the predictive data input systems of the invention may include the data input systems of character of the invention and a data input system of a part of the invention. Word of the invention. In some cases (preferably, words that have multiple syllables such as at least three or four syllables) for a lower pronunciation, a part of the word can be entered by interacting with the corresponding key without making a pronunciation. Based on the part and the other parts or characters of the word entered by the user, the system can recognize the corresponding word.

According to an embodiment of the invention, based on the principles of predictive data input systems of the invention, a symbol table may be considered in which each symbol is predefined as being part of a word or that is Out of a word. Each of the symbols may be assigned to at least one predefined type of interaction with its corresponding key (for example the interaction so that the pressing and holding action on a first key and providing a predefined type of interaction with the corresponding key, it can also be considered as a type of interaction with the key) both in the presence of a corresponding pronunciation and in the absence of a pronunciation (for example, or both). The symbol table can be created or modified by the manufacturer and / or by the user.

As mentioned above, according to an embodiment of the invention, hitting in four different locations on a surface may correspond to four keys used by the data entry systems of the invention. According to an embodiment of the invention, hitting in different locations on a surface can provide different sounds or corresponding vibrations, etc., the system can recognize each of the sounds and the corresponding predefined imaginary key and use it by means of the input system of data of the invention. This principle may, for example, be useful for data entry by hitting on four different locations on the screen of a non-touch screen of a computer (for example combined with the corresponding pronunciation based on the principles of the input system of data of the invention). According to another procedure, sliding in four different directions on a surface to provide four different sounds (for example as described above in different patent applications filed by the present inventor such as application PCT / US / 01/49450 " Stylus Computer ”) can also be used for the same purpose. At least some of the inventions of the PCT patent application may be combined for use with the combined data entry systems of the invention. Some of the combinations are described in detail in this patent application.

As mentioned above, the data entry systems of the invention can be combined with manual writing input and recognition systems. Also as mentioned above, for example, during the introduction of the word based on the predictive data entry systems of the invention, instead of or in addition to using a key interaction and providing corresponding pronounced information for the introduction of each of the at least one precise character such as a letter of a word (for example or a part of), (for example to be discreet) the letter or letters / parts can be written (for example by users) in the corresponding input device such as, for example, the sensitive input surface of the electronic device. The information corresponding to the other characters of the word can be pressed with the corresponding keys without pronouncing (for example based on the principles of the predictive data input systems of the invention). It is understood that such data entry systems can use any type of keyboards (for example reduced) such as those described in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor such as a dynamic reduced keyboard (for example having the minus four keys) of the invention.

(For example, as described in previous patent applications a dynamic reduced keyboard system that duplicates (for example by finger, pointer, mouse, etc.) interactions (for example, a click action, a slide action , etc.) with a predefined reduced keyboard model (for example imaginary) in a non-predefined part of a surface (touch) The procedure of recognition of the interaction provided in a location on the surface that relates the location of the corresponding key of the reduced keyboard model, it is based on the recognition of the relationships between the contacted location and other different locations (for example the previous and / or the following) on the surface contacted by the user, in relation to the relationships between the locations of the keys of the reduced keyboard model predefined relatively to each other. These aspects have been described in detail in the applications s patent.)

For example, by using a reduced keyboard (for example dynamic) (for example having four keys) of the invention, the user can type a character of the word (for example on the input panel of an input system / handwriting recognition or elsewhere on the screen of a corresponding data entry surface) and use the knock / slide interactions (for example as described above), which correspond to / for the input of the other characters of the word. The system can easily distinguish between writing action and hitting actions. In this example, the dynamic reduced keyboard has been used to demonstrate the principles of the embodiment of the invention as mentioned, any other reduced keyboard can be used with the embodiments of the invention.

According to a procedure, when writing and / or hitting actions are allowed for use on the same surface (for example they can be used on any side of a touch screen surface), the writing / sliding actions may correspond to manual write input and hit actions may correspond to key press actions). As an example, to enter the word "book", the user can provide a first information (for example accurate) by writing the letter "b" (for example by the corresponding pointer or by his finger), on the touch screen of a Tablet PC and then provide a second information (for example ambiguous) by pressing the key or keys (for example physical / by software / virtual / dynamic, etc.) that correspond to the remaining characters "ook", of the keyboard Reduced / corresponding keyboard used with the system. As mentioned above, the user can type any one or more letters of the word and provide the keystrokes that correspond to the other letters of the word. According to another example, the user can enter the word "book" by providing a first information (eg ambiguous) by pressing the keys corresponding to the initial characters (for example "bo" in this example) of the word already then provide a second information (for example accurate) by writing the following letters (for example "ok" in this example) of the word on the surface of the electronic device, and so on.

It should be noted again that any number of systems, procedures, features, etc. can be combined together. of the data entry systems of the inventions to provide a specific data entry system that can be used in a corresponding environment.

As mentioned above, each different type of input information (for example to provide information for the input of a word through the predictive data input systems of the invention) can be assigned to a different type of interaction with the corresponding key. For example, the introduction of an ambiguous letter in lowercase letters may be assigned to a short simple press action on the corresponding key without speaking and the introduction of the same letter in uppercase letters may be assigned to a longer press action on the key. Without speaking. Also for example, the introduction of a precise lowercase letter can be assigned to a simple short press action on the corresponding key and the pronunciation of the letter and the introduction of the same precise letter in uppercase can be assigned to a pulsation action Longer on the key and the pronunciation of the letter. Also for example the introduction of a part of a word can be assigned to a double press or a sliding action on the corresponding key (in the example, and providing the corresponding pronunciation). For example, the introduction of one of the at least some punctuation marks or functions or commands may be assigned to the pressing and maintenance of a first key (for example modifier / change) and providing a pressing action on the corresponding key with / speechless And so on.

It is understood that the interactions and assignments just mentioned are used for demonstration only. Any interaction (for example type of) and assignment of symbols (for example any type of) to the interaction can be considered based on the principles described.

Different methods of correcting an unwanted word proposed by the system corresponding to the predictive data input systems of the invention have been described above. Other procedures may also be considered. For example, when an unwanted word is selected / signaled, according to a procedure if the desired word begins with the same (initial) letter of the unwanted word, then the user can provide a predefined signal such as pressing the predefined key without speaking. The system can propose another word from among the group of words that correspond to the same keystrokes as the unwanted word and that start with the same letter of the unwanted word and preferably have the next highest priority among the words in the group of words that begin with the letter. Also for example, if the desired word does not start with the same letter (initial) as the unwanted word then the user can provide the pronunciation corresponding to the initial character (in the example or write) of the desired word. The system can propose a word within the group of words that correspond to the same keystrokes as the unwanted word and that begin with the letter that corresponds to the user's pronunciation (or written character) and that preferably has the highest priority high among the words in the group of words that begin with the letter.

As an example corresponding to the above-mentioned procedure, considering the reduced keyboard 13900, FIGURE 15 shows a table 13909 containing the words of a database of system words corresponding to the sequence of keystrokes 13904, 13903, 13901 (in the example its key press value is "431". As described above, according to a procedure, providing the sequence of keystrokes 13904, 13903, 13901, without speaking may correspond to the word "now" which has the highest priority among those words. If the word is not a desired word that has been entered during a text, while the word is selected / signaled, if the user for example presses a predefined key (for example correction) without providing a pronunciation, then the system can propose the word "nvq" corresponding to the group of words 13906 that begin with the letter "n", in which the word has the highest priority after the word "now" within the group. Also for example, if the user provides a pronunciation (in the example together with the pressing of the correction key) such as saying "d", the system can provide the word "doe" which has the highest priority among the words of the group of words 13905 beginning with the letter "d". An additional pressing action on the correction key (for example without speaking) can provide another word (for example "dye" in this example) of group 13905, in which the word has the highest priority after the word "doe " Within the group. Another additional pressing action on the corresponding key (in the example without speaking) can provide another word (for example "dow" in this example) of group 13905, in which the word has the highest priority after the words " doe ”and“ dye ”within the group. And so on.

According to a correction procedure, if the user proceeds to correct an unwanted word proposed by the system and for example presses the correction key and pronounces the initial character of the desired word that has the same initial character as the word unwanted, then the system can propose a word from a group of words that correspond to the same keystrokes as the unwanted word and that begin with the character, in which the proposed word has the highest priority after unwanted word among the word group.

According to another correction procedure if the user proceeds to the correction of an unwanted word proposed by the system and presses for example the correction key and pronounces the initial character of the desired word having the same initial character of the non-word desired, then the system can propose a word within the group of words that correspond to the same keystrokes as the unwanted word and that begin with the character, in which the proposed word has the highest priority among a group of words (For example, if the unwanted word has the highest priority among the word group, then the system can propose the word again).

According to a correction procedure, in some cases the correction procedure may additionally provide a space character. For example, if immediately after entering the information (for example, keystrokes and if pronunciation is necessary) that corresponds to the word and before entering an end-of-word signal such as a space character, the user wishes to correct The currently proposed word can provide a predefined signal such as pressing a space key or a correction key and making the corresponding pronunciation (for example by pronouncing the initial letter of the desired word). The system can replace the word accordingly and can provide a space character after the word.

It is understood that instead of the above-mentioned correction procedure, the user may use any other correction procedures such as those described above such as pronouncing part or all of the letters of the word.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the system can automatically learn the habits of entering a user's user text and provide the priorities corresponding to the words used by the user based on the frequency of use of the words by the user .

As mentioned above, to enter a letter, the user can press a key to which it is assigned to the letter and provide a pronunciation corresponding to the letter (for example, pronounce the letter). According to one embodiment, for example, if the letter is a consonant, the pronunciation may be the pronunciation of the consonant phoneme followed by at least one vowel phoneme. According to one procedure, the vowel phoneme can be at least any of the vowel phonemes of a language. For example, the letter "t" can be entered by pressing the corresponding key and saying less one of the following combinations:

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"Ta" (for example corresponding to the pronunciation of the initial word "tap"

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“Te” (for example corresponding to the pronunciation of the initial of the word “test”)

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“T e” (for example corresponding to the pronunciation of the initial of the word “tee”)

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"Tô" (for example corresponding to the pronunciation of the initial word "told")

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“Tu” (for example corresponding to the pronunciation of the initial word “tune”)

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"Tî" (for example corresponding to the pronunciation of the initial of the word "ride").

This procedure can be used with the combined data entry systems (for example that include the predictive) of the invention. For example, to enter the word "test", the user can press the key corresponding to the letter "t" and say "teh" (corresponding to the vowel of the corresponding syllable (for example the first) of the word) and press the keys corresponding to the remaining characters of the word without speaking. Also for example, to enter the word "told", the user can press the key corresponding to the letter "t" and say "toh" and press the keys corresponding to the remaining characters of the word without speaking. For some users this may be more in favor than pronouncing the letter (for example, saying "you"). It is understood that as mentioned above, the user can provide more than one constant and the following vowel. For example, the user can pronounce the first consonant, the next vowel and the next consonant of the corresponding word. These aspects have already been described in detail in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor.

It should be noted that as described above, instead of the user's pronunciation, other user interactions can be combined with the interaction with the user's keys. The input of letters based on the user's thinking is experienced in laboratories. For example, although it is not yet carried out, to enter a symbol such as the letter, the user can press the corresponding letter and think about the letter. The symbols can be distributed on the keys of the corresponding reduced keyboard so as to increase the accuracy of the data entry.

As mentioned above, in addition to or replacing user pronunciation, other precise character input systems such as a letter can be used with predictive data entry systems (for example, using few keys such as four keys to which substantially all the letters of a language are assigned) of the invention. Also as mentioned, in addition to the interaction with the input means of the system that provides input signals corresponding to ambiguous characters (corresponding to a group of characters), the data entry systems of the invention can use the other input signals provided that correspond to providing precise characters, such as interaction with a virtual or physical keyboard (for example using a type of QWERTY keyboard in addition to the four ambiguous keys of the system), input procedures and handwriting recognition (for example to enter precise characters), etc.

FIGURE 16a shows as an example, a multidirectional reduced keyboard having four keys to which the letters of a language are assigned (for example as shown on each key). For example, pressing the center of the keys may correspond to the ambiguous entry of one of the letters assigned to the key. A sequence of such keystrokes that correspond to a desired word can be considered by the predictive data input system to provide at least one corresponding word. On the other hand, a pressing action on a character such as a letter (for example a letter area) on a key can accurately enter the character. For example, considering the reduced keyboard 14000 of FIGURE 16a, the sequence of pressing actions (for example in the center) of the keys 14002, 14001, 14003, 14002, may correspond to the words "test" and "best". The word "best" in general may have a higher frequency of use. Therefore the system can propose the word as a result of the pulsation actions. In this example, if the user wishes to enter the word “test”, he can first press on the letter (for example the zone of) “t” 14005 of the key 14002 and then press on the centers of the keys 14001, 14003, 14002 The system understands that the word corresponding to the sequence of keystrokes on keys 14002, 14001, 14003, 14002, begins with the letter "t". Therefore in this example, the word "test" can be proposed by the system.

FIGURE 16b shows as an example, a reduced keyboard 14010 having tactile keys to duplicate the functionalities of the multidirectional reduced keyboard 14000 by touching on the corresponding areas of the keys of the reduced keyboard 14010. In this example, according to another input procedure , the pressing actions on any area of a reduced keyboard of the reduced keyboard 14010 may correspond to an ambiguous character on the key and the sliding action on a key to or on, for example, a character (for example printed) on the key can correspond to the character (in the precise example) on the key.

Based on the principles and assignments of a few keys symbols, of the data entry systems (for example combined) of the invention, any of the special characters such as numbers, punctuation characters, commands, functions, etc. they can be assigned to predefined interactions with the keys (for example or to additional keys) with or without providing a pronunciation.

Unique letters / characters may also have related priorities in the predictive data input system of the invention. For example, (for example considering the English language) the letters "a" and "i" can obviously have a higher frequency of use / priority in relation to the other letters in English. For example, by considering the reduced keyboard 14000 of FIGURE 16a, the letters "m", "a", "s" and "i" may have the highest priority in relation to the other letters of their respective corresponding keys 14001, 14002, 14003, 14004. A user can benefit from priority assignments for letters to enter some words based on providing keystrokes that would otherwise only require some amount of pronunciation. For example, by considering the reduced keyboard 14000, if the user wishes to enter the word “as” by pressing (for example in the center of) the corresponding keys 14002, 14003, without speaking, the system can propose the word “to ”Which corresponds to the same sequence of keystrokes but has a higher frequency of use / priority. To enter the word “as” without pronouncing, the user can press the key 14002 that corresponds to the letter “a”, then provide an end-of-word signal (for example by pressing the corresponding key) that does not provide ( no character such as) a space character and then press the key 14003 corresponding to the letter “s”. In this example, the letter "a" has the highest priority among the letters assigned to (for example, a simple press action on) the key 14002. The system proposes the letter. By providing an end-of-word signal, the system maintains the letter and knows that the next key press to enter a word corresponds to the input of the next / other word. In this example, the letter “s” has the highest priority among the letters that are assigned to (for example the simple pressing action on) the key 14003. By pressing the key 14003 without speaking the system proposes the character “s” and print it immediately after the letter "a" to provide the word "as."

The use of the manual writing input and recognition system with the data input systems (for example predictive) of the invention (for example by interaction with the reduced system keyboard and the writing of precise characters on a computer) has already been described. surface for example helps the predictive system of the invention to predict more accurately the words). According to an embodiment of the invention, the user can write a character such as the letter on the key / zone (for example, sensitive / virtual) of the reduced system keyboard corresponding to the letter. The handwriting recognition system can correspond to the letter written by the user with one of the characters that are assigned to the key / zone. Therefore, the processing time can be reduced and recognition accuracy can be increased.

Manual writing can be performed by writing with a medium such as a pointer or the user's finger on a surface. According to an embodiment of the invention, when the split version of the reduced system keyboard is used (for example located on opposite sides of a device having a touch surface), the user can press the keys with the corresponding thumbs and, if it is necessary to write it with your fingers (for example thumb, index, etc.) on the surface to provide precise characters that can be used with the data entry systems (for example predictive) of the invention (for example the introduction of a word through the predictive data entry system providing a first type of information that consists of the precise introduction of at least one of the characters of the word through the manual writing input / recognition system and providing at least a second type of information that consists in providing the keystrokes (for example ambiguous) corresponding to at least some of the ca remaining word raters, has already been described in detail above).

As mentioned above, the data entry systems of the invention can be used with any application or device. One of the popular devices is the iPOD music / media player. The device has a means of searching for content that consists of going through a menu by means of circular sliding actions on a circular tactile surface. When the content list is long, the procedure becomes time consuming. The data entry systems of the invention can either replace the search procedure (for example and selection) or can help to perform it more quickly. For example, the user can enter one or more characters (for example initials) that correspond to a desired content (for example song, singer or both, etc.). The device pop-up menu can present the user (for example, a small number of) the content accordingly and the user can search within the reduced list by using the content search medium (for example circular) of the device.

The use of movements such as the movements of the user's body (for example such as the user's lips to provide the pronunciation corresponding to the user's keystrokes) with the data entry systems of the invention have already been described. previously. The movements can be used with the predictive data input systems of the invention to reduce the amount of pronunciation to be provided by the user by voice.

According to an embodiment of the invention, a motion detection means can be used with the data input systems (eg predictive) of the invention during word entry or when the method of correcting the invention is provided. to inform the system that the user wishes to change to the next word in the list of words corresponding to the user's information (for example keystroke sequences and / or pronunciation). For example, the motion detection means may include a camera that detects the movements of the user's body such as the movements of the lips. For example considering the reduced keyboard 14000 of FIGURE 16a, the sequence of key press actions (for example on the center) of the keys 14002, 14001, 14003, 14002, can correspond to the words "test" and "best" . The word "best" can generally have a higher frequency of use. Therefore the system can propose the word as a result of the pulsation actions. In this example, if the user wishes to enter the word "test", for example, while pressing the corresponding keys, the user can provide (for example without providing voice) lip movements (for example by pronouncing the letter "t" or "Next", or etc.). The camera of the corresponding device can detect the movements and the system can understand that the user wants the next word in the list (for example having the second highest priority / frequency of use) after which the system would normally propose (for example "Best") if lip movements by the user will not be provided. This system is different than the lip reading and recognition system. In this embodiment of the system, you do not have to recognize what the user says, just detect that there is a movement. It is understood that other user interactions and corresponding detection means can be used for the same purpose. For example, instead of a camera, a heat detection means can be used to detect user speech. According to another embodiment, the motion detection means provided by the user may be a motion detection means provided within the corresponding device such as a mobile telephone. The place of the movement of the lips the user can provide a predefined movement with the device when providing the corresponding sequence of keystrokes.

As mentioned above, to increase the accuracy of the system, one of the symbols that have an ambiguously similar pronunciation in relation to other symbols (for example on a key) can be assigned a different pronunciation so that the symbols are can distinguish from the other symbols. For example, to better distinguish the pronunciation of the letter "m" (for example pronounced as "em") from the pronunciation of the letter "n" (for example pronounced as "en") instead of or in addition to the standard pronunciation of the letter "m", another pronunciation such as "ma" can be assigned to the letter "m" so that it can be distinguished from the pronunciation of the letter "n".

As described above in detail, the data entry system of the invention can use a reduced keyboard having few keys such as a reduced keyboard having at least six keys in which the six of the keys are substantially assigned to all The letters of a language. The assignment of the letters to the keys may be such that it duplicates the order of a QWERTY keyboard. For example, as shown in FIGURE 17, a group of six keys (for example 3 rows 14117-14119 by 2 columns 14111-14112) of a reduced keyboard 14110 can be used to duplicate the layout of the QWERTY 14100 PC keyboard ( for example duplicating imaginary, rows 14107-14109 by columns 14101-14102 comprising the alphabetic characters of keyboards 14100). As an example, the upper left key 14113 may contain the letters "QWERT", which correspond to the letters located on the left side keys 14101 of the upper row 14107 of the PC keyboard 14100. The other keys of the group of six keys follow the same principles and contain the corresponding letters located on the keys of the row and the corresponding side of the PC keyboard 14100.

An experienced user of a QWERTY keyboard usually knows exactly the location of each letter on the keyboard. A motor reflex allows you to quickly type on the QWERTY keyboard. The duplication of the QWERTY arrangement on six keys as described earlier in this document, allows the user to type (quick click) on the keyboard having a reduced number of keys. A user can, for example, use the thumbs of both hands (left thumb for the left column, right thumb for the right column) for data entry. This reminds you to click on the PC keyboard that allows fast data entry. As mentioned above, as an example, each of the key columns can be placed on opposite sides of an electronic device and used with the data entry systems of the invention.

It is understood that the definition of the characters on the left side and the right side of a keyboard described in the previous example is shown only as an example. The definition can be reconsidered according to the user's habits. For example, the letter "G" can be considered as belonging to the right side instead of the left side.

To increase the accuracy of the system, as mentioned above, you can assign a personalized pronunciation to at least some of the letters (for example on different keys or on the same key) that have a pronunciation that looks ambiguously relatively relative between yes (for example, the letters "m" and "n" on a reduced telephone keypad or on the reduced keyboard 14110 of FIGURE 17), so that they are distinguished from each other. For example, the letter "m" (for example "em") can be assigned to another denomination (for example pronunciation) such as "ma" so that it is distinguished from the letter "n" (in the example of denomination "in").

With continuous reference to the example of FIGURE 17, the same principle can be applied to distinguish other characters that have an ambiguously similar pronunciation, such as "i, y", "s, f", "d, g", "J, k", "z, c", etc.

It is understood that the reduced keyboard, key configuration, symbols such as assigning letters to the keys of the reduced keyboard, custom naming of the symbols, etc., have been described and shown as examples. Other reduced keyboards, key configurations, symbols such as letter assignments to reduced keyboard keys, custom symbol designation etc. can be considered. by those skilled in the art. For example, the reduced keyboard can be in alphabetical order and the symbols such as letter assignment can be such that, for example, two or more personalized pronunciations can be assigned to a letter (for example in addition to its standard pronunciation).

Dialing by name has been described in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor. Dialing by name can produce an ambiguity such as for example two different people can have the same name. According to an embodiment of the invention, when an attempt is made to provide a call, a call forwarding / switching center, an operator, service provider, etc. You can (for example on demand) use a database or acquire information improvisedly, to provide information about the party to be called to the user / caller. For example, when a user makes the call based on a username, the exchange can provide information about the party to be called such as its address, image, predefined phrase, keyword request, etc. so that the user can ensure that the system will call the correct part. The party to be called can be a person, a company, an organization, etc. Information about the parties to be called can be provided by themselves and / or by a third party, improvisedly or through a database used by the call center. For example, in addition to their address, a person can provide their image, their favorite song or other information to the call center so that at least part of the information can be transmitted to a caller who calls the person so that The caller can verify the authenticity of the party to be called based on the information and based on it confirm or cancel the call. It should be noted that the information provided to the user can be vocal or can be displayed on the screen of the user's electronic device (for example telephone).

As mentioned above, when using the predictive data entry systems of the invention that use few keys and pronunciation to enter a word, instead of or in addition to the use of pronunciation, at least some of the letters of the Word can be entered accurately by using other means or data entry procedures such as a manual writing system (and recognition) or a keyboard (for example mechanical, virtual, etc.) in which a predefined click action on a key (for example in some cases more than one key) of the keyboard (for example a standard QWERTY keyboard) generally corresponds to a single character or function. These aspects have already been described above. It is understood that as previously mentioned, the other means or procedures of entry may have different forms. For example, the keyboard can be an on-screen keyboard that has a standard PC keyboard shape, a circular shape, divided into two semicircular parts or two quarter-circle parts on opposite sides of the device (for example the touch screen ), etc.

As another example, FIGURE 18, shows an electronic device 14200 such as a Tablet PC that has a touch screen. A predictive data entry system of the invention is integrated that uses few keys (for example in this example, mechanical keys divided into two groups 14205 and 14206) within the device. As an example, as described above, four of the keys 14201, 14202, 14203, 14204 can be assigned (for example, respectively duplicating the keys 14211, 14212, 14213, 14214, of the reduced keyboard model 14210) substantially all the letters of a language so that each of the four keys ambiguously represents any letter of the group of letters that are assigned to the key (for example corresponding) (for example the assignment of letters of a language to a few letters such as four letters and the use of the keys with the predictive data entry systems of the invention has already been described in detail). In this example, in addition to the few mechanical keys, an on-screen keyboard is available (for example, divided into two parts 14207, 14208) that provides precise letters (for example as described above) with the data entry system (for example predictive) of the invention. As an example, the on-screen keyboard can be used to accurately enter one or more letters of a word during word entry through the predictive data input systems of the invention. For example, to enter the word "day", the user can first press the key 14209 on the on-screen keyboard to accurately enter the letter "d". The user can then press the ambiguous keys 14202 and 14203 corresponding to the letters "a" and "y". Based on the information provided, the system provides the word “day” that has the highest priority among the words that correspond to the input information (for example, in this example, pressing the sequence of ambiguous keys 14204, 14202 , 14203 may correspond to the word "its" which has a higher priority than the word "day").

It should be noted that the examples shown above are used for demonstration purposes only. It is understood that as mentioned above, other input means (for example having different shapes) can be used to enter the characters (for example letters) or precise functions.

As described in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor, an external reduced keyboard (for example mobile) can be manufactured that has few keys (for example mechanical, virtual, etc.) and some of the others components such as a microphone, camera, mouse, etc. to be used with the data entry systems of the invention.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the external reduced keyboard can be a removable / attachable reduced keyboard designed so that (for example when not in use) it can be fixed or accommodated within a corresponding device. For example, the reduced keyboard can have a flat shape so that it can be fixed to an outer surface of a corresponding device or designed to have a PCMCIA card shape so that it can slide into the PCMCIA slot of the device . The reduced keyboard can be connected, wirelessly or by cables, to the corresponding device.

According to one embodiment, the external reduced keyboard may contain a battery that can be rechargeable so that when the reduced keyboard is fixed to (for example, slipped into the PCMCIA slot, hooked into the USB port, etc.) to its corresponding device , the battery can be charged through the device.

It is understood that the reduced keyboard can have any other form, and can be fixed by any other means to its corresponding device and can use any other means to be recharged. For example, the reduced keyboard may have a credit card size.

As mentioned above, a word of which at least one part exists in the word dictionary of the system can be introduced through the combined data entry systems of the invention. According to an embodiment of the invention, to enter the word, the user can provide a predefined separation input signal (for example, such as the predefined interaction with one or more predefined keys) between the input of the input information (by example keystrokes and pronunciation, if provided) corresponding to two consecutive parts of the word so that it informs the system of the end of the introduction of the previous part and / or the beginning of the introduction of the next part of the word. In this case, during the introduction process (for example the keystrokes and probably the pronunciation if required / desired) of the information (for example, possibly including the search procedure if the word predictive system of the invention is used ) that corresponds to the next part of the word, the system may not consider the input information (for example, keystrokes and pronunciation) that correspond to the part or parts prior to the next part of the word.

It is understood that a word can be combined into one or more parts where each of the parts is an entry (for example an article such as a word, a word part) of the system's word dictionary and / or one or more parts that are not an entry (for example, are not included within) of the system word dictionary. It should be noted that a word can be arbitrarily divided into different parts by the user.

As an example of one of the possibilities of a compound word just described, when you enter a word (for example the word "pcboard" that can be divided into two parts "pc" and "board") at the end of the introduction of a sequence of simple characters (for example characters by means of the character-by-character data entry system of the invention for the introduction of the letters "p" and "c", in this example), the user can enter the signal of Separation input so that it informs the system that when the user enters a new part (for example the part / word “board”, in this example that can be introduced by the predictive data input system of the invention) of the word , the system may not consider the previous part or parts (for example, the sequence of simple characters, in this example) in the search procedure. It is understood that the compound word (for example "handheld") that may be composed of at least two consecutive parts (for example words / parts) (for example "hand" and "held") that may be included within the word dictionary of the system. In this case, for example, both parts can be introduced by means of the predictive data input system of the invention in which at the end of the input of the first part of the two parts the separation input signal can be provided.

As described above, when the predictive data input system of the invention is used to enter a word, according to a first search and selection procedure, during the provision of user input information (for example, keystrokes). key and pronunciation if provided), for each case of the input information (for example for each consecutive key presses and the corresponding pronunciation if provided) the system can provide (for example show the user) the word that has priority highest among the words in the system's word database to which the complete character string of each of the words corresponding to the input information provided so far corresponds. As an example, considering the reduced keyboard 14300 of FIGURE 19a, if a user tries to enter the word “forget” (for example in this example, without providing pronunciation), he can press the keys 14302, 14303, 14302, 14303, 14301, 14302 Table 14309 shows, as an example, a database of system words. Table 14305 shows, as an example, six words 14306 of the system word database corresponding to six cases of the input information consisting of providing consecutive keystrokes (for example 1st key press, 1st and 2nd presses of key, 1st and 2nd and 3rd keystrokes, etc.) provided without speaking during the introduction of the word "forget". This procedure for searching, selecting and presenting the word has already been described in detail.

It should be noted that, as previously mentioned, according to a procedure, in each case of input information, if the word predictive system of the invention does not find a word in which all its characters correspond to the input information of the user (for example keystrokes, and pronunciation if one is provided), then the system can search for longer words in the database in which its initial characters correspond to the input information and in general it can propose (for example at least) the initial characters corresponding to the word that has the highest priority among the words in which its initial characters correspond to the input information. If the system does not find any longer word in which its initial characters correspond to the input information, then, depending on the system's predefined architecture, you can for example add a predefined character (for example, corresponding to the last keystrokes of key and pronunciation if provided) at the end of the last string of characters (for example or word) (for example corresponding to the previous case of the input information provided for the introduction of the word) proposed to the user.

Also, as previously mentioned, according to a second search and selection procedure, to reduce the fluctuation of the display unit during the supply of user input information (for example keystrokes and pronunciation if any are provided ), for each case of input information (for example, each consecutive key press and pronunciation if provided), the system can provide (for example, show the user) at least the initial (for example corresponding) characters of the word (for For example, if desired, the system can also display the remaining characters of the word To separate the remaining characters from the initial characters, the system can print them in a distinctive way by, for example, placing them after the cursor or printing them in another color ) that has the highest priority among the words in the system database where The initial characters of the words correspond to the information (for example, case of) input (for example, input information that corresponds to the word, provided up to that point). As an example, considering the reduced keyboard 14300 of FIGURE 19a, if the user tries to enter the word "forget" (for example, in this example, without providing pronunciation), he can press the keys 14302, 14303, 14302, 14303, 14301 , 14302. Table 14307 shows, as an example, six character strings 14308 that correspond to six cases of input information consisting of providing consecutive keystrokes (for example 1st key press, 1st and 2nd key presses, 1st and 2nd and 3rd keystrokes, etc.) (for example in this example, without speaking) during the introduction of the word “forget” in which each of the words has the first highest (for example the highest frequency of use) between the words in the system word database in which at least the initial characters of the words correspond to the same corresponding case of input information (for example, in this example the sequence nce of key presses provided without speaking) provided during the introduction of the word “forget”. According to this procedure, as an example, when the user presses the first key 14302, the system can display the letter "a" of the word "and" which has the highest frequency of use among the words in the database of words 14309 of the system that begins with the letter corresponding to the first key press provided by the user. The user can then press the second key 14303. The system can propose the string of letters "to" corresponding to at least the initial characters (for example in this case, all characters) of the corresponding word "to" which has the highest frequency of use among the words in the word database 14309 of the system that begins with the letters that correspond to the first and second keystrokes provided by the user. The user can then press the second key 14302. The system can provide the string of letters "for" corresponding to at least the initial characters (for example in this case, all characters) of the corresponding word "for" which has the highest frequency of use among the words in the word database 14309 of the system that begin with the letters that correspond to the first and second and third keystrokes provided by the user. The user can then press the fourth key 14302. The system can add the letter "g" to the chain of letters "for" already displayed (in the example the screen does not fluctuate) to provide the chain of letters "forg" corresponding to the initial characters of the word “forget” which has the highest frequency of use among the words in the database of the system word database that begin with the letters that correspond to the keystrokes provided by the user . The user can then press the fifth key 14301. The system can add the letter "e" to the chain of letters "forg" already displayed to provide the chain of letters "forge" (in the example the display does not fluctuate) that correspond to (for example, the initial characters of) the word "forget" that has the highest frequency of use among the words in the database of the system's word database that begin with the letters that correspond to the keystrokes of key provided by the user. The user can then press the sixth key 14302. The system can add the letter "t" to the chain of letters "forge" already displayed (in the example the screen does not fluctuate) to provide the word "forget" that has the frequency of highest use among the words in the system's word database that correspond to the keystrokes provided by the user.

As shown, by comparing the proposed character strings 14306, 14308, provided during the introduction of the word "forget" for each of the search and selection procedures, it may be noted that the display unit may have minor fluctuations. when the second search and selection procedure is used.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the first and second procedures can be combined to provide a third efficient procedure that can provide the user with the search results of both procedures. In each case of the input information for the introduction of the word, show both, the word with the highest priority among the words in which all its characters correspond to the input information provided by the user up to that time and the word With the highest priority among the words in which its initial characters correspond to the input information provided by the user up to that point, it can help the user to provide easier, faster and more accurate data entry (for example, as It has been explained above, if the first procedure does not find the corresponding word, you can print / propose the corresponding initial characters of the word proposed by the second procedure).

As an example, FIGURE 19b shows a database of words 14319 of the invention. Considering the reduced keyboard 14309 of FIGURE 19a to enter the word "informative" (for example in this example, providing the keystrokes, without speaking), after pressing the keys corresponding to the first four initial characters of the word, based on the first procedure (for example, as shown in step 4), the system can propose a first word (for example, the word “into”) 14311 by inserting it in line of text 14315 on screen 14310 and preferably simultaneously, based on the second procedure, the system can also propose a second word (for example the word "information") 14312 as an alternative by for example printing under the first word (in the example "into"). In addition to the cursor 14314 located at the end of the first word 14311, a cursor 14313 can be automatically placed within the corresponding position of the second word 14312. To continue, the user can have different choices such as the use of one of the following procedures :

1) pressing the key corresponding to the next character (in the “r” example) of the desired word (in the “informative” example). OR

2) provide a predefined input signal such as a predefined push action on a predefined key to replace the word "into" with the word "information" within the text line 14315. OR

3) provide a predefined input signal such as a predefined push action on a predefined key to replace the first word (in the example “into”) that has the N characters proposed by the first procedure, by N + 1 characters initials (in the “infor” example) of the second word (in the “information” example) proposed by the second procedure. This can allow you to enter precise letters of at least the initials of the desired word without having to press the keys corresponding to the letters. Obviously, each additional predefined input signal (for example the pressing action on the predefined key) can add a character equal to the next character / letter of the second word to the N + 1 characters. OR

4) provide a predefined input signal such as a predefined push action on a predefined key to replace the first word (in the “into” example), with the longest string of initial characters (in the “infomati” example) of the second word (in the “information” example) proposed by the second procedure in which the character string is the initial characters of all the words in the word database of the invention that correspond to the same sequence of keystrokes. key corresponding to the character string.

In this example, by using, for example, the use of one of the above-mentioned procedures 3 or 4, the user can substitute the word "into" for the character string "informati" (for example see step 5). The user, then (for example see step 6), can, for example, press the key 14304 corresponding to the letter "v". Based on the word predictive system of the invention, the system can add the letter "v" at the end of the "informati" character string to provide "informativ" as the first choice and, obviously, can print the word "informative" (for example in this example, the combined input signals that provide the initial characters of the proposed word as the first choice that corresponds to the two words "informative" and "informatively", in which the word "informative" has priority higher) as the second choice by the second procedure. The user, then (see step 7), can press the key 14301 corresponding to the letter "e". Based on the word predictive system of the invention, the system can add the letter "e" to the first "informativ" character string to provide the word "informative", the first proposed word. At this stage, the system may also provide the word "informatively" (for example the combined input signals provided by the word "informative" as the first option may correspond to the initial characters of only one word, "informatively") by the Second procedure The user can provide an end-of-word signal such as providing a space character to complete the introduction of the desired word, "informative."

It should be noted again that for better accuracy and to have minor fluctuations on the screen, during the introduction of the word the user can also provide the corresponding spoken information based on the principles of the data entry systems (for example, pressing and talk) of the invention. As an example, and for comparison purposes, FIGURE 19c shows the stages of the introduction of the word "informative" by providing the input information (eg keystrokes) without speaking (for example as described above) and FIGURE 19d shows the stages of the introduction of the same word “informative”, by providing the input information (for example, keystrokes) in which in step 3, in addition to the corresponding keystrokes to the letter "f", the user pronounces the letter. Considering the input information, the system can provide the word “udf” through the first procedure and also propose the word “information” through the second procedure at this stage (for example in this example, the word “information” is proposed in a previous stage by the second procedure, in comparison to the introduction of the same word by the example of FIGURE 19c).

As mentioned above, when the predictive data input systems of the invention are used, a user can modify a word during the introduction of an end-of-word signal such as a space character. For this purpose, when, for example, the space key is pressed, the user can pronounce at least one of the characters (for example, such as a letter) of the word. The at least one pronounced character can be any of the characters of the word. For example, to enter the words "this way" by using the reduced keyboard 14300 of FIGURE 19a, the user can first press the keys 14302, 14301, 14304, 14303 (for example respectively, corresponding to the letters of the word "This") without speaking. The system may not detect any pronunciation during the entry (for example, providing the keystrokes corresponding to the letters) of the word, therefore, the system may provide the word (for example “this”) that has the highest priority high between the words in the database that correspond only to the keystrokes (for example provided in the absence of speech). At the end of the word entry, the user can press the "space" key without speaking to provide a space character after the word. The user can then proceed to the introduction of the word "way" by, for example, pressing the keys corresponding to the letters (in the example the string) "wa" without speaking and pressing the corresponding one to the letter "y" and pronounce the letter. The keystrokes and the spoken information provided by the user can correspond to at least two words, "may" and "way" of the system's word database. The system can take the word "may" that has the highest priority among the words that correspond to the user's input information (for example, keystrokes and pronunciation provided by the user for the introduction of the word). The different correction procedures have been described in detail above. According to a method of the invention, at the end of the word introduction, if the word proposed by the system is not the one desired by the user, while providing a predefined signal (for example, preferably) such as a pulse the "space" key, the user can pronounce (for example, at least) one of the letters of the word as additional input information corresponding to the word. Considering (preferably all) the input information already provided and the additional information, the system can provide a new search process and provide a new result. In this example, (for example, preferably) while pressing the "space" key, the user can pronounce the letter "w". Considering the information already provided (for example the result of the word “may”) and the pronunciation of the letter “w” (for example that corresponds to the key 14301), the system can (for example by replacing the letter “ m ”in the word“ may ”) provide the word“ way ”(for example in this example, the letter“ w ”cannot replace the letter“ y ”, because the letter“ y ”was already introduced precisely by means of pressing its corresponding key and the pronunciation of the letter "y"). It is understood that in this example, together with the modification, the system can provide a space character after the word. In another example, to enter the word "no", if the user presses keys 14304, 14303, without speaking, the system can provide the word "is" corresponding to the input information having the highest corresponding priority. The user can then press the "space" key and say one of the letters (for example "n") of the desired word, "no". The system can provide the word "no" that corresponds to the combined information (for example, initial keystrokes and additional pronunciation) provided by the user. In another example, for the word "ok", the user can provide the keystrokes 14303, 14303 without speaking. The system can provide the word "so" that has the highest priority. The user can then press the "space" key and say the letter "k" for example. In this example, the letter corresponds to the keystrokes (for example both). The system can consider the words of the dictionary that correspond to the keystrokes and that at least one of the letters of each of the words (for example in the location corresponding to the keystrokes corresponding to the letter "k" ) contains the letter "k" and provides the word with the highest priority. In this example, the word "ok" can be provided.

It should be noted that the correction procedures of the invention can be performed during (for example in the middle of) the entry of the word. For example, if during (for example in the middle of) the entry of the word, (for example in a predefined way with / without providing a correction signal) the user provides the spoken information, the spoken information may correspond to a pulse information of the predefined key provided for entering the word before providing the spoken information. It should be noted that according to a procedure, the spoken information may be predefined to correspond to a keystroke that can be provided after providing the spoken information.

It should still be noted again that although in many cases the keystrokes without speaking may be sufficient for the introduction of the desired word, in accordance with the principles of the word predictive data entry systems of the invention, the display of the device can propose different words during the supply of the keystrokes. To reduce or even sometimes eliminate screen fluctuation (for example especially for long words), during the introduction of the keystrokes that correspond to a word, the user can provide the spoken information corresponding to at least some of the characters / letters (for example, preferably, the initials) of the word so that you enter the characters accurately. This can significantly reduce screen fluctuation. For example, by using the reduced keyboard 14300 of FIGURE 19a, during the introduction of the word "for" by only pressing keys, the system can propose the character strings "a", "to", "for". For example, if during the first pressing action, the user had also pronounced the letter "f", the system would have proposed the character strings "f", "fo", "for" (for example without screen fluctuation in this example).

As mentioned above, during the introduction of the word through the word predictive data input systems (for example of the invention), in a case of input information (for example a key press action and information spoken if required), the system may propose a word / character string in which its initial characters are different from the words / character string proposed in the preceding cases of input information that correspond to the word that was provided by user (for example the screen fluctuates). According to an embodiment of the invention, if the user wishes to keep the string from characters and add additional characters to the string of characters to provide the desired word, he can provide a predefined input signal after entering the information corresponding to the string of preceding characters. For example, by considering the reduced keyboard 14300 of FIGURE 19a, to enter the word "then", if the user provides simple press actions on the corresponding keys without speaking, the system can provide the word "been" which has a higher priority than the word "then". The first three keystrokes provided by the user can provide the word "the". To inform the system to maintain the character string (in the example "the"), before providing the input information corresponding to the next or next characters (for example "n") the user can provide a predefined interaction (by example such as a double press action or a sliding action, etc.) on a predefined key. The user can then provide the input information corresponding to the letter (for example, pressing key 14304). The predictive system of the invention considers the character string "the" (for example and not the input information corresponding to the character string) and the input information corresponding to the letter "n" (for example in this example , the predictive system searches for a word that has the highest priority among words that begin with a string of letters "the" and end with one of the letters "iucdnvj", and provide the word "then"). The user can then provide an end-of-word signal such as a space character to complete the word entry.

As mentioned above in detail, the input information that corresponds to a character of a word may also include information in relation to the preceding characters (for example and / or the following) of the word. For example, a simple press action on key 14301 can inform the word predictive system that the system should consider one of the letters "ehmqwz" in its prediction procedure for entering the current word. On the other hand, also as an example, another interaction (for example, such as a double click action, a longer press action (for example, press and hold action on the key for predefined periods of time), press mode Simultaneously of another key and the key, etc.) on the key 14301 can inform the word predictive system that, for example, the current input information belongs to the next word (for example, obviously, it also informs the system that the previous word entry has finished). With continued reference to previous embodiments and considering the principles just described, the input signal informing the system to maintain the string of preceding characters (in the example "the") can be provided during the provision of the information entry that corresponds to the next character (for example, the letter "n" in this example) of the word (in the example "then"). For the same purpose, according to another procedure, a predefined spoken input can be provided (for example by saying "hold", "end", etc.) during / along the key interaction corresponding to the next character. For example, in addition to a simple click action on the key that corresponds to the letter "n", the user can also say "hold" to inform the system that he can consider the string "the" as the initial characters of the desired word combined with the additional information just entered (for example, a simple press on the key corresponding to the letter "n").

It could be that the inclusion of an input signal that corresponds to the previous or following characters within the input information provided for the introduction of a word is confusing for the user. Therefore, the input signals can preferably be provided separately (for example as described in detail).

FIGURE 23 shows as an example, a reduced keyboard of the invention 14700 in which symbols such as substantially all symbols (for example letters, punctuation, commands, functions) of the keyboard of a PC are assigned to its keys. The reduced keyboard is created based on at least some of the principles of the predictive data input systems of the invention. For example, English letters are assigned to four of their keys 14701, 14702, 14703, 14704, so that:

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Letters that have a pronunciation that resembles ambiguously, separately from each other, are assigned to different keys and / or

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the letters, separately from each other, are assigned to different keys so that when a word is entered by using the word predictive procedures of the invention based on keystrokes (in the example and pronunciation if required / provided) preferably, the most frequently used words correspond to different sequences of keystrokes so that (for example during text entry) in most cases the desired word can be entered by pressing / interacting with the corresponding keys to the letters / characters of the word, without requiring additional input information (for example speaking, handwriting, etc., for the precise introduction of the characters). Also preferably, the assignment may be such that the number of words corresponding to the same sequence of keystrokes is minimized.

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the letters, separately from each other, are assigned to different keys so that when the text is entered, the user can interact with the four keys as uniformly as possible and / or;

If the system also uses manual writing (for example in addition to or replacing spoken information) for the introduction of at least some of the letters of a word, to increase the accuracy of manual writing, the system may allow the introduction of Letters / characters accurately by handwriting on a corresponding sensitive key to which a letter is assigned, in this case letters that have ambiguous writing graphics can be assigned to different keys.

It should be noted that the reduced sample keyboard 14700 and the letter assignments to the keys of the reduced keyboard based on at least one of the principles described are shown as an example, other letter assignments to the keys can be considered of a reduced keyboard based on at least one of the principles. For example, the reduced keyboard 13200 of FIGURE 8 (for example partially shown. The reduced keyboard may have more keys than those described in many embodiments. Only the keys shown here are assigned to the letters of the Latin / English alphabet) are It is also based on the principles described above.

Based on the principles of the predictive data input systems of the invention, by reference to one of the keys 14702 as an example, the characters "abfrtx-_" 147021 (for example, lowercase letters) can be considered Consider the system as part of the elements that can constitute a word through the word predictive system of the invention. The input information that corresponds to any of the characters can be provided by a first predefined type of interaction with (for example the simple press action) the key. Providing the first predefined type of interaction (for example with the key) without providing a corresponding pronunciation can correspond to one of the characters (for example letters) ambiguously and provide the predefined interaction (for example with the key) combined with providing a pronunciation ( for example predefined) that corresponds to one of the characters, you can provide the character (for example letters), with precision.

In this example, providing a second predefined type of interaction with (for example, a double click action, press and hold action for (at least) a predefined period of time, etc.) key 14702 can correspond to any of the letters ambiguous, but in capital letters 147022, and providing the predefined interaction combined with providing a pronunciation that corresponds to one of the letters can provide the letters, precisely, in capital letters.

With continuous reference to the reduced keyboard 14700, based on the principles of the predictive data input systems of the invention, as an example, by reference to key 14702, provide a third predefined type of interaction with (for example an action of simple sliding on, pressing the modifier key 14707 and preferably simultaneously providing a simple pressing action on, etc.) the key 14702 may correspond to the character (for example, in this example, the character "-" 147023) which cannot be considered by the system as part of the elements that can constitute a word (for example, as previously mentioned, a character outside a word) through the word predictive systems of the invention. Providing the third type of interaction (for example predefined as with / without pronunciation) can provide the corresponding character, by means of the character-by-character data entry system of the invention, without going through (for example, the search procedure and selection of) word prediction procedures of the invention.

In this example, provide a fourth type of predefined interaction with (for example a double slide action on, press of the modifier key 14707 and preferably simultaneously provide a double press action on, press of the modifier key 14707 and preferably simultaneously provide a pulsation and maintenance action for at least a predefined period of time on, etc.) the key 14702 can correspond to (for example to another) character (for example in this example, the character "_" 147024) that cannot be considered by the system as part of the elements that can constitute a word along the word prediction systems of the invention.

The principles corresponding to key 14702 as described can be applied to the keys of any reduced keyboard used with the combined data entry systems of the invention, in which the reduced keyboard has a reduced number of keys and in the that at least one of the keys represents different letters of a language. In this example, the principles corresponding to key 14702 as described can also be applied to keys 14701, 14703, 14704 (for example for the introduction of the corresponding characters).

In relation to key 14706, in this example, providing the first predefined type of interaction with (for example, a simple click action on) key 14706 may correspond to providing a space character. Provide the second predefined type of interaction with (for example a double-click action on, etc.) the key can correspond to (for example on the PC keyboard) the "Enter" command.

Provide the third predefined type of interaction with (for example a simple sliding action on, pressing a modifier key 14707 and preferably simultaneously providing a simple pressing action on) the key 17606 may correspond to keeping the initial character string proposed in the preceding case of the input information of the word introduction through the predictive methods of the invention (for example as previously described in detail). Provide the fourth predefined type of interaction with (for example a double sliding action on, the pressing of the modifier key 14707 and preferably simultaneously providing a double pressing action on, the pressing of a modifying key 14707 and preferably simultaneously providing an action of pressing and maintenance for at least a predefined period of time on, etc.) key 14706 may correspond to the "Tab" function.

The principles corresponding to the 14706 key as described can also be applied to the 14705 key. For example, providing the first predefined type of interaction with the 14705 key without speaking may correspond to providing the "Backspace" command. Also for example, providing the third predefined type of interaction with the 14705 key without speaking may correspond to the "SuperRetrocess" command (for example the upper / special backspace command, which deletes more than one character, as described in the built-in references in this document, presented by the present inventor).

Each of the keys 14707 and 14708 can at least function as at least one modifier key (for example "change").

In relation to key 14707, in this example, providing the first predefined type of interaction with the key without speaking may correspond to providing the character ",". To enter any of the characters “() @ #’ $ & ”, the user can provide the first predefined type of interaction with the 14707 key and pronounce the character.

Providing the second predefined type of interaction with the 14707 key without speaking may correspond to the "change" function. To enter any of the combined character strings "'s", "' d", "'m", "' ll" (for example character strings that include the apostrophe character, as described in detail above), the user can provide the second predefined type of interaction with the key 14707 and provide a spoken information corresponding to the combined character string (for example according to another symbol assignment procedure, each of the character string may be assigned to the key that represents the first letter of the character string).

With continuous reference to the reduced keyboard 14700, based on the principles of the predictive data input systems of the invention, as an example, by reference the key 14707, providing the third predefined type of interaction with the key 14707 without speaking can correspond to the “Caps Lock” function. In this example, providing the fourth predefined type of interaction with the 14707 key without speaking may correspond to a character / symbol (for example in this example, the character "(").

The principles corresponding to the key 14706 as described (for example key interactions and the corresponding spoken information when provided) described for the key 14707 may apply the key 14708. For example, to provide the first predefined type of interaction with the key 14708 without speaking may correspond to providing the character "." To enter any type of characters (for example arithmetic) "&quot; <> 0-9 + - / * =% #", the user can provide the first predefined type of interaction with the 14707 key and pronounce the character.

Providing the second predefined type of interaction with the 14708 key without speaking may correspond to the "FDP" function (for example the "end of word" signal, normally used to provide compound words, as described above). To enter any of the digit strings (for example "00" "000" "000,000", having the corresponding pronunciations, "hundreds", "thousands", "millions") the user can provide the second predefined type of interaction with key 14708 and provide spoken information that corresponds to the string of figures.

With continuous reference to the reduced keyboard 14700, based on the principles of the predictive data input systems of the invention, as an example, by reference key 14708, provide the third predefined type of interaction (for example here, the key modifier used with the 14708 key, it can be the 14707 key) with the 14708 key without speaking it can correspond to the "Correction" key (for example an indicator of the correction key indicating the start of a correction / selection procedure for the correction of compound words by means of the predictive data input systems of the invention, as described above). To provide one of the functions F1 to F12, the user can provide the third predefined type of interaction and provide a predefined spoken information corresponding to the function (for example say the number of the function).

In this example, providing the fourth predefined type of interaction (for example here, the modifier key that is used with the key 14708, may be the key 14707) with the key 14708 without speaking may correspond to a character / symbol (for example, In this example, the character ")"). To enter a combined character string of numbers and letters (for example, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ... 9), the user can provide the fourth predefined type of interaction and provide spoken information that corresponds to the combined strings of characters (for example saying "zero", "first", "second", "third", "fourth", ..., "ninth", respectively).

It should be noted that the assignment of the symbols to the keys of the different types of interactions is only used as a demonstration. Any of the symbols can be assigned to an interaction (for example the key) different from the one assigned in this example. Other interactions (for example keys) for the reduced keyboard can also be considered.

As it may have been noted, various types of interactions defined with each key of the reduced keyboard can be used for input in the absence of speech or in the presence of the corresponding speech of (for example different) corresponding symbols (eg letters, character strings, punctuation characters, functions, etc.). Considering those principles and also considering other parameters such as the use of a number of different keys, etc., many types of reduced keyboards can be provided for use with the data entry systems (eg predictive) of the invention. For example, at least one of the functions of the PC keyboard (for example Ctrl, Alt, Delete) can be assigned to key 14707 in which any of the functions can be entered providing the corresponding interaction (for example, in this example , providing the fourth predefined type of interaction with the 14707 key and providing the corresponding predefined spoken information assigned to the keyboard function).

As mentioned above, the data entry systems of the invention can be used with a circular touch sensitive surface such as that used with the iPOD player (eg audio, video, etc.) to search and / or select a content (for example a song, a movie, etc.). In addition to a sliding action on the circular surface (for example for the selection of a content from a list), the circular surface can also respond to striking actions (for example on predefined positions on its surface) to duplicate a used reduced keyboard with the data entry systems of the invention for the introduction of data such as text. FIGURE 20 shows as an example, a circular tactile sensitive surface as described. The circular surface can have several predefined zones in which each zone can correspond to a key of a predefined reduced keyboard (for example imaginary) of the system. In this example, zones 14401 to 14406 may duplicate at least some of the principles of the reduced keyboard of the invention as described in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor. For example, the four keys 14401, 14402, 14403, 14404 can substantially be assigned in a distributed way to all the letters of a language.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the reduced keyboard can be used with combined data / text input systems of the invention so that the striking actions on the zones can be used for text entry and sliding actions (for example circular) on the circular surface can be used for selection purposes. For example, to enter the word "bull", according to an embodiment of the invention, the user can press the corresponding keys 14402, 14404, 14403, 14403, without providing a pronunciation (for example the predictive system of the invention can be based only on keystrokes or the user may not wish to speak, etc.). The system can show the user the list of words 14412 that correspond to the input information (in the example the frequency of use figures are shown indicatively). The user can then provide a sliding action (for example circular) 14410/14411 on the circular surface so that it navigates within the list to select the desired word. For example, after choosing the desired word, the user can provide a striking action in the central area 14407 of the circular reduced keyboard so that he selects / enters the word. According to another example, in addition to the keystrokes, while pressing for example the first key 14402, the user can pronounce the corresponding letter, "b". In this case, the system can display list 14413 (in the example the figures of the frequency of use are shown indicatively). The user can then provide a sliding action (for example circular) 14410/14411 on the circular surface so that it navigates within the list to select the desired word.

The data entry procedure as described can be applied for the search and selection of content. For example, by using the hitting actions (for example and eventually, providing the corresponding pronunciation) the user can enter a textual content information that corresponds to the partial or total characters of a content (for example the title of a content ) and then the list of contents corresponding to the information entered by the user (for example, for example, by printing on the screen) is provided (for example by the system), the user can use the sliding actions on the surface to select your desired content.

It should be noted that the circular reduced keyboard shown in this example is provided only as an example. It is understood that other types of keyboards reduced by those skilled in the art can be considered. For example, it can be considered as shown in FIGURE 20a, the reduced circular keyboard 14410 having eight predefined zones that duplicate eight keys used with the data entry systems of the invention.

As shown as an example in FIGURE 21, according to an embodiment of the invention, an external reduced keyboard 14500 used with the data entry systems of the invention can be manufactured so that it is divided to form at least two parts 14501, 14502, in which each of the parts can be fixed independently / separately (for example, and each of the parts preferably independently and preferably wirelessly, connected) to the corresponding electronic device 14509 for use with the data entry systems of the invention. The divided parts can be designed so that they can be fixed together to form the integrated reduced keyboard 14500 and used as an external reduced keyboard with the electronic device (for example and used with the data entry systems of the invention) . In this example, (for example as an example) to four of the keys (for example the darkest keys in the drawing) you can assign substantially all the letters of a language. The integrated reduced keyboard may comprise at least one microphone for use with the data entry system of the invention. For example, each part of the divided reduced keyboard may comprise an integrated microphone so that when the reduced keyboard is in its divided position on the sides of an electronic device, the microphones 14503, 14504 are also distributed on the sides of the electronic device to allow Better capture of the user's voice.

The reduced telephone keypad has become a familiar dialing means for phones. Therefore the reduced keyboard can be included in most of the communication devices. According to an embodiment of the invention, the voice and / or data communication device that can use the data input systems (for example, even the predictive one) of the invention, may include both the reduced telephone keypad (for example for dialing) and a reduced keyboard (for example divided) of the invention (for example for entering data / texts). As shown, the reduced telephone keypad occupies a substantial part of the surface of the corresponding side of the telephone, reducing the area assigned to the display unit on that side. To overcome the problem, the reduced keyboard can be manufactured so that it is responsive to the outside of the body of the device (for example preferably in the direction of the axis of the longest dimension of the device, as shown in FIGURE 22b). FIGURE 22a shows as an example, a voice and / or data communication device 14600 that includes the data input systems (for example combined) of the invention using a reduced keyboard divided into two parts 14601, 14602. The device it may also include a reduced telephone type keypad (in the example not shown, here it is in its retracted position). When the telephone reduced keypad is in its retracted position or when the user enters data such as text by using the reduced keypad divided through the data entry systems of the invention, the display unit 14608 can (for example preferably, automatically) to be in a landscape position to improve the vision of a 14609 text printed on the screen. The device may also include a pointer 14613 and a selection means 14614 for duplicating the functions of the computer mouse on the screen (for example with the data entry systems of the invention). FIGURE 22b shows the same device 14600 (for example the device of FIGURE 22a) in which the reduced telephone keypad part 14611 extends outside the body of the device. When the reduced keypad is in the extended position, the display unit 14608 of the device can (for example preferably automatically) change the orientation (eg to be in an upright position) so that it adapts to the reduced telephone keypad to display the input such as a telephone number 14619 provided through the reduced telephone keypad 14611.

It should be noted again that instead of the addition of a voice recognition system, a lip reading system with the data entry systems of the invention can be used to recognize the pronunciation of the user. For example, the lip reading system can work accurately with the predictive data input systems of the invention because the systems require less pronunciation and most of the pronunciation is in isolated letters. This may allow an even more discrete data entry procedure.

As mentioned and shown in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor, the reduced keyboards used with the data entry systems (in the example that include predictive data entry systems) of the invention may have different key configurations (for example for different types of use) and, obviously, the reduced keyboard keys can have different shapes. As also mentioned, for example, the keys can be divided into two groups that are located on opposite sides of a surface of the corresponding electronic device. For example, keys 14701 to 14708, (for example and their functionality) of the reduced keyboard 14700 of FIGURE 23, can be duplicated / fabricated so that, as shown in FIGURE 23a, the keys (in this example, 14711 to 14718, respectively to duplicate keys 14701 to 14708 of FIGURE 23) may be oval (in the example or round). The keys can be divided into two groups of keys 147111, 147112, and be fixed to / integrated on opposite sides on the surface of the corresponding electronic device 14719. The configuration of the keys of each group relative to each other can duplicate the configuration of the keys of the directional reduced keyboard (for example of an electronic game console). In this example, in each group, two of the keys (for example preferably those to which the letters are assigned) are placed in a column position, in which a third group key is placed on the right side of the two keys, between them and the fourth group key is located on the right side of the two keys, between them. Preferably, a mobile data entry system can preferably allow data entry when the user is in motion. Holding a mobile device requires the use of one of the user's fingers. Therefore, the user's thumbs can ideally be used for data entry. The configuration of the keys as described herein may allow the letter keys to be under the user's thumbs, so that during the writing of the word, the user's fingers do not have to move through the keys. By using the user's thumbs, this setting allows you to enter the letters of the text quickly.

The use of input means such as reduced keyboards / keyboards on the screen for entering data through the data entry system of the invention has been described in detail in the references incorporated herein, presented by the Present inventor. Also, using other means of entry such as the user's fingers, finger covers, gloves, pointers, etc. to duplicate the keys and the interactions with the keys of the reduced keyboard (for example having few keys such as eight keys, such as the reduced keyboard 14700 of FIGURE 23) used with the data entry systems of the invention has been described in detail in the different references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor (for example, obviously, the input means can also be used with the predictive data input systems of the invention). For example, as shown in FIGURE 24a and described above, a dynamic reduced keyboard having at least four (for example up to eight) keys (for example in which at least four of the keys are assigned distributed at least The letters of a language based on the principles that have been described in this document and in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor) can be provided for user finger interactions on a surface. The principles for the definition of dynamic reduced keyboard keys and the interaction with them have been described in detail in the references incorporated herein (for example and briefly in this patent application), presented by the present inventor. As mentioned above, the dynamic reduced keyboard can be used with the data input systems (for example that include predictive data input systems) of the invention. For example, by means of finger interactions on a sensitive surface such as on the screen (for example touch) 14800 of a Tablet PC, with at least one of its fingers such as the index 14801 (for example or the pointer), such as described in detail above, the user can duplicate at least the keys 14701 to 14704 of the reduced keyboard 14700 of FIGURE 23 and the interaction with the keys (for example a simple pressing action, a double pressing action, an action of slip, etc.) You can even provide the press and hold of one key (for example the change key) and (for example simultaneously) the press of another key. For example, the user can provide a pressing and maintenance action by means of his thumb 14803 (therefore located on the left side relative to his index finger 14801) on the screen and simultaneously provide, for example, a corresponding interaction with (for example a simple press action, double press action, etc.) with your index finger 14801 on a desired key of the dynamic reduced keyboard. For each of the combined interactions a corresponding group of symbols of the invention can be assigned. Also, for example, the user can provide a pressing and maintenance action by means of his middle finger 14802 (for example located on the right side in relation to his index finger 14801) on the screen and simultaneously provide, for example, a corresponding interaction with (for example a simple press action, a double press action, etc.) with your index finger 14801 on a desired key of the dynamic reduced keyboard. A corresponding group of symbols of the invention can be assigned to each of the combined interactions. It should be noted that the systems can respond differently to each of the pulsation and maintenance interactions (for example, located on the left side or on the right side of the pressing actions on the dynamic reduced keyboard). It should be noted that the user's fingers that duplicate a predefined reduced keyboard shown and described in this document are used as an example. Obviously, based on the principles of the invention, the user can use different fingers to provide the reduced keyboard or other reduced keyboards.

An input method and method that consists in providing interactions such as pulsation actions (for example striking) (for example and / or sliding actions) by means of a part (for example with the pointed part, flat part, etc.) of a finger carrying a finger cover having (for example integrated) a touch-sensitive system / surface in which each finger can duplicate one or more (preferably, two) keys of the reduced keyboard of the invention and use them with the systems of data entry of the invention has been described in detail (for example described in detail in patent applications), for example, a single or double tapping action with the pointed part of a finger / finger sleeve which it can duplicate / correspond respectively to a single or double press action on a first predefined key of a predefined reduced keyboard model. Also for example, a single or double tapping action with the flat part of a (for example the) finger / finger cover can double / correspond respectively to a single or double press action on a second predefined key of the reduced keyboard model predefined The interaction means and procedures can eliminate the use of a sensitive touch panel such as the touch screen of an electronic device by the interaction of user inputs. Obviously, the means and the input procedure can be used with the data input systems (for example that include the predictive) of the invention. Also as described in previous patent applications and considering the example of FIGURE 24b, by using four fingers 14811 to 14814 each carrying a finger cover of the invention, a reduced keyboard of the invention can be duplicated such such as the reduced keyboard 14700 of FIGURE 23 and the interaction with the keys of the reduced keyboard (single press action, double press action, slide action, etc.) and be used with the predictive data input systems of the invention .

For example, providing an interaction such as a predefined pulse action (for example, such as a simple, or double, or longer pulse action, etc.) with the flat part of the finger holster 14811 may correspond to the interaction ( in the example provide the interaction) with the key 14701 of the reduced keyboard 14700. Also for example, provide an interaction such as a predefined pressing action with the pointed part of the finger sleeve 14811 may correspond to the interaction (in the example provide the interaction) with the key 14703 of the reduced keyboard 14700. Also for example, provide an interaction such as a predefined pressing action with the flat part of a finger sleeve 14812 may correspond to the interaction (in the example provide the interaction) with key 14702 of the reduced keyboard 14700. Also for example, provide an interaction such as a predefined click action with the pointed part of a finger sleeve 14812 it can correspond to the interaction (for example providing the interaction) with the key 14704 of the reduced keyboard 14700.

Also for example, providing an interaction such as a predefined pressing action with the flat part of a finger sleeve 14813 may correspond to the interaction (for example providing the interaction) with the key 14705 of the reduced keyboard 14700. Also for example, providing an interaction such as a predefined pressing action with the tip portion of a finger sleeve 14813 may correspond to the interaction (for example providing the interaction) with the key 14707 of the reduced keyboard 14700. Also, for example, providing such an interaction as a predefined pressing action with the flat part of a finger sleeve 14814 may correspond to the interaction (for example providing the interaction) with the key 14706 of the reduced keyboard 14700. Finally, for example, providing an interaction such as an action of predefined pressing with the tip part of a finger holster 14814 may correspond to the inter action (for example provide interaction) with key 14708 of the reduced keyboard 14700.

You can even duplicate pressing and holding a key (for example the change / modifier key) and (for example simultaneously) press another key. For example, the user can provide a pulsation and maintenance action with the flat part of his finger (for example, obviously, the finger cover) 14813 on a surface and provide a pulsation action with, for example, the tip part of the finger case 14811, without speaking, to provide the character "/" (for example to duplicate the interaction required for character input when using the reduced keyboard 14700 of FIGURE 23).

An interaction procedure based on the interaction with different parts of a user's finger (for example, flat tip) on a touch sensitive surface to provide a different input signal for each of the different parts that touch the sensitive surface ( for example in which the system recognizes the part based on the size of the area contacted on the surface) to duplicate the keys of the reduced keyboard of the invention that have few keys and use it with the data entry systems of the invention has been described in detail in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor. The interaction procedure can be used with the predictive data input systems of the invention. The use of the interaction system can eliminate the need for the finger covers of the aforementioned embodiment. For example, each of the user's fingers (for example by using the pointed and flat part to interact with a touch sensitive surface) can duplicate two keys of the corresponding reduced keyboard model of the system. When the user types a text (for example by using the principles of the embodiment), based on the location of the contact impact of a user finger on the sensitive surface (for example, considering that during an input sequence of data, the click / hit action with any part of a different user finger on a surface is normally provided within the same different vertical area on the surface) in relation to the location of the contact impact of the user's other finger (for for example in different vertical areas) on the surface, the system can recognize the finger and, considering the part of the finger (for example, tip, flat) by which the interaction was provided, the system can relate the interaction to the corresponding key on the keyboard reduced predefined of the invention.

As mentioned above, a handwriting recognition system can be used for the introduction of one or more precise characters (eg unambiguous) of a word in which at least one of the characters of the word is ambiguously entered ( for example, by pressing / sliding on the key to which several characters are assigned) to improve recognition of the predictive data entry system. In the previous examples (for example, such as those shown and described in FIGURES 20 to 24b), when physical or software keys are used or when fingers, finger covers, gloves, etc. are used. To duplicate the key interactions, in addition to the swipe / slide actions that correspond to the key interactions, the user can type characters such as letters on a corresponding / sensitive surface such as a touch screen. According to one procedure, the system may be designed to distinguish between manual write actions and knock / slide actions (for example interaction with / duplication of interactions with the reduced keyboard). According to another procedure, the hitting actions may correspond to key interactions and the sliding actions may correspond to the handwriting. According to another procedure, the knocking / sliding action on the keys (for example by software) of the reduced system keyboard may correspond to interactions and writing (for example hitting / sliding) on the sensitive surface / touch screen (for example on a zone outside the zone of) the reduced keyboard may correspond to the introduction of manual writing (for example in the example of media player of FIGURE 20 to 20a, zone 14407 can be used for manual writing).

It is understood that the examples provided are for demonstration only. Other fingers, other fingers that have finger covers, different numbers of fingers and finger covers, pointers, gloves, etc. may be used. with the combined data entry systems (in the example that includes predictive) of the invention.

It should be noted that, however, in different embodiments different reduced keyboards have been used such as a reduced telephone type keyboard a reduced keyboard having at least four keys in which four of the keys are assigned at least substantially to all letters of a language, to demonstrate the principles of different embodiments of the invention. Obviously, any other class of reduced keyboard that has any number of keys in which at least some of the keys of the reduced keyboard are ambiguous, any type of keys such as physical or software keys, any configuration of symbols assigned to any predefined type of interaction with the keys of the reduced keyboard, etc., can be used with the embodiments of the combined data entry systems of the invention.

Although in many paragraphs describing the combined data entry systems of the invention, "keys" have been used to describe the embodiments, it is understood that other input means used by preferred types of interactions can be considered to provide predefined input signals. different to replace duplication / replacement of keys and key interactions in embodiments of the invention. For example, user interactions such as finger interactions or finger covers and corresponding to interactions that duplicate the keys and key interactions as described herein and in the references incorporated therein can be used in the embodiments. , presented by the present inventor.

Note that in some paragraphs of the term "press" have been as an example of a type of interaction with a key, the interaction could be any other type of interaction such as touch / slide / point to, etc. with one key

It should be noted that although in many paragraphs a reduced keyboard (for example with few keys) has been used to demonstrate an embodiment of the combined data entry systems of the invention, it is understood that the reduced keyboard having some ambiguous keys (for example an ambiguous reduced keyboard has been described above).

In order not to repeat the principles of the data entry systems of the invention frequently, in many paragraphs of this application it is mentioned that one or more symbols such as characters / words / parts of the word / functions, etc., can be assigned to a key (for example or an input object other than a key). It is understood that unless otherwise mentioned, the symbols, in general, are intended to be assigned to the simplest predefined interaction with the key which may be a single-click action on the key (as explained in many embodiments of the invention).

Although in different embodiments of the invention, it has been possible to mention a voice recognition system (for example having a microphone) for use to perceive and recognize a user's pronunciation, a lip reading system can be used (for example that has a camera) instead of or in addition to the voice recognition system to perceive and recognize the user's pronunciation (or vice versa).

Also, as mentioned above, some or all of the methods of the data entry systems of the invention may use linguistically rules of text entry recognition systems such as the number of syllables of a word that can be adapted, the position of a word within the sentence, etc. These aspects are known to those skilled in the art.

It should be noted that in some paragraphs the expression "part by part" has been used to simplify the expression "at least a part of a word (in the example, by) at least a part of a word".

Note that, although for reasons of simplification, in many paragraphs, the data entry systems of the invention are mentioned in a sentence such as "data entry systems of the invention", "push / slip data entry systems and speaks of the invention ”, etc., it is understood that as many paragraphs are described in detail, such phrases refer to the principles of the data entry systems of the invention that consider the pulsation / sliding actions combined with the information spoken of the user, in which the spoken information is the presence of the corresponding pronunciation or in the absence of the pronunciation of the user (for example in which the systems are generally used with the combined data entry systems of the invention when during the introduction of a word at least one precise character of the word is introduced through the referred systems and in which at least one of the Keystrokes provided for entering the word is ambiguous). These aspects have already been described in detail. Also, in many paragraphs, the data entry systems of the invention that combine the push / slide and talk data input systems of the invention and the predictive data input systems of words such as those of the invention, can be having mentioned in a sentence such as "combined data entry systems of the invention".

Note that although in many embodiments of the data entry systems of the invention sensitive surfaces such as a touch sensitive mat or a touch screen have been used as examples, it is understood that any other detection and analysis technology can be used. User interactions with any surface to define and / or use the zones / keys of a software-reduced keyboard (for example dynamic). For example, as mentioned, the technology can be an optical detection technology, or an IR technology that provides a virtual reduced keyboard (for example having few keys / zones in which, for example, 4 keys / zones of the Reduced keyboard are assigned at least substantially all the letters of the language) on a (normal) surface and detect the user's finger touch on the keys / zones of the reduced keyboard.

Also, it should be noted that according to a procedure, while the user enters a word by using the predictive system of the combined data entry systems of the invention, the system can print the most likely word corresponding to the information. input provided by the user up to that time (for example before providing an end-of-word signal). It is understood that the displayed word can change each time the user presses an additional key corresponding to the word.

For example, obviously, all or part of the principles of the embodiments of the present invention and other inventions of the present inventor and / or their characteristics can be used separately or combined together. For example, at least one word / at least part of a word in a text can be entered by combining different procedures or embodiments of the data entry systems of the invention. For example, touch / slide actions on a sensitive surface can be used with the predictive data input systems of the invention as described in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor (for example as touch and / or slide actions provided by a user's finger, a pen, a glove, etc., which duplicate, for example, interactions with few keys such as with at least four keys of the reduced keyboard in which at least the letters of a language are assigned to a few predefined keys such as four keys of the keys as described in detail in the present application and in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present inventor, the glove of the input systems Invention data also duplicates the keys as described in the references incorporated herein, presented by the present invention. or, etc.)

It should be noted that although in many examples, the input information provided for entering a word is mentioned as being based on keystrokes, it is understood that, if desired / allowed, in addition to a keypress (for example for greater accuracy), the user can also provide the pronunciation that corresponds to at least some of the keystrokes.

It should be noted that although in many paragraphs describing the procedures of the data entry system of the invention, the information provided by the user is mentioned as corresponding to a character of a word, obviously, depending on the system architecture, in some cases the input information may correspond to a string of characters of the corresponding word (for example, see the data entry systems of parts of a word of the invention). Obviously, as previously mentioned in detail, the combined character data input systems of the invention with the data input systems of parts of a word of the invention can be used with the predictive data input systems (by example of the word) of the invention. For example, to enter the word “action”, the user can first press the keys corresponding to the letters “a” and “c” and then provide a sliding action on the reduced keyboard that is predefined to represent the part of a word “tion” and pronounce the part (for example saying “shen”). Based on the input information provided by the user, the predictive data input system of the invention can, for example, search for a word in which its two initial characters correspond to the two keystrokes and that the remaining characters of the word be the character string "tion". The system may consider the word "action" and depending on its frequency of use, the system may propose the word to the user. In the previous example, the user could have also accurately entered any of the characters “a” or “c” by pronouncing the letter (for example while pressing the corresponding key) to help the system / user to, for example, provide more quickly / more accurately the desired word. The use of the combined data input systems of character and part of a word of the invention with the predictive data input systems of the invention has already been described in detail previously. As described above, the system may include work with at least one data entry system such as a full keyboard on the screen or a manual write input / recognition system to enter precise characters that may correspond to at least one part of the word The precise character or characters and the additional input information corresponding to the word provided through other data entry methods of the invention as described in this paragraph, can be considered by predictive data entry systems. of the invention to provide the desired word.

Also for example, the combined data entry systems of the invention can be used / implemented with (for example, by using a split split keyboard of the invention) an extensible computer as shown (for example see the figures 70a to 70h and the corresponding description in the incorporated document PCT / US04 / 12082).

It should be noted again that depending on the system architecture, the part of a word of a language can either be included in the word dictionary of the language database or a separate database can be constituted and used with the combined data entry systems (eg including predictive ones) of the invention.

It should be noted that the spoken information that corresponds to a letter is usually pronounced the letter.

It should also be noted that pressing or pressing keys that correspond to at least one character of a word generally means providing the sequence of keystrokes corresponding to the characters (sequentially).

It should be noted that as described in detail above, providing a predefined interaction with one key may also refer to providing a push and hold action on another key and provide a push action on the key.

It should be noted again that although many paragraphs describing the procedures / features of the invention have mentioned the information of keystrokes for the input of a word, obviously said procedures / features, may consider that another user may be provided input information such as that corresponding to the pronunciation in addition to said key press information.

It is understood that the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale but are merely of a conceptual nature.

Claims (15)

1. A procedure for predictive word data entry, comprising:

(to)

 the reception through a first input means of first input signals, the signals ambiguously corresponding to a plurality of characters,

(b)

 the prediction of a first word from a dictionary word database (12601), the predicted word corresponding to the input signals;

characterized by:

(C)

 if the predicted word is not the desired word, receive, through second means of introduction, different from the first means of introduction, correction information to precisely define at least the initial character of the desired word and

(d)

 predict a second word from the dictionary's word database, the second word corresponding to the signals and at least one precisely defined character.

2.

 The method according to claim 1, which comprises receiving input signals of all the characters of a word.

3.

 The method according to claim 1, which comprises receiving correction information to precisely define at least the initial character and subsequent characters of the desired word, until the desired word is obtained.

Four.

 The method according to claim 1, wherein the input signal and the correction information input is provided by keystrokes.

5.

 The method according to claim 4, wherein the input signal is provided by a key press on a first keyboard and the correction information is provided by a key press on a second keyboard (14207, 14208).

6.

 The method according to claim 5, wherein all the letters of a language are ambiguously assigned to four keys of the first keyboard.

7.

 The method according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the reception of the correction information comprises the reception of a plurality of correction information signals that each corresponds to a simple character.

8.

 The method according to claim 7, wherein the plurality of correction information signals is received while a cursor of the first input means is in a specific location.

9.

 The method according to claim 8, wherein the plurality of correction information signals are received while a cursor of the first input means is immediately after a last character of the word.

10.

 The method according to claim 5, wherein said second keyboard is a telephone type keyboard.

eleven.

 The method according to claim 1, wherein said characters are letters.

12.

 A data entry system that includes:

(to)

 a first input means for providing input signals that ambiguously correspond to a plurality of characters;

(b)

 a second input means, different from the first input means, to provide correction information and

(C)

 a dictionary database (12601) of words;

(d)

 a word predictive system to predict a first word from the word dictionary based on the input signals characterized in that if the second input means receives correction information, the word predictive system provides a second word based on the signals input and correction information and because

The second input means is used to provide correction information to precisely define at least the initial character of the desired word.

13.

The system according to claim 12, wherein the at least one first input means provides ambiguous character input signals for all the characters of a word.

14.

 The system according to claim 12, wherein the first input means is a keyboard comprising four keys to which all the letters of a language are ambiguously assigned.

fifteen.

 The system according to claim 12, wherein the characters comprise letters.