CN103226393A

CN103226393A - Input method and equipment

Info

Publication number: CN103226393A
Application number: CN2013101274409A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陆阳阳; 蔡玉婷
Original assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2013-04-12
Filing date: 2013-04-12
Publication date: 2013-07-31
Anticipated expiration: 2033-04-12
Also published as: CN103226393B

Abstract

The invention aims at providing an input method and input equipment. The input equipment is used for obtaining one or more input candidate items corresponding to input character strings, determining priority information corresponding to the input candidate items according to application scenario information of target applications corresponding to the input character strings, and providing at least one of the one or more input candidate items to the target applications according to the priority information. Compared with the prior art, the priority information corresponding to the input candidate items is determined according to the application scenario information of the target applications corresponding to the input character strings, and the input candidate items are provided to the target applications according to the priority information, so that the priority information corresponding to the input candidate items is adjusted in real time to be matched with the user input demand according to the application scenario information, the input flexibility is improved, the input efficiency of the input method is also improved, and the user experience is improved.

Description

A kind of input method and equipment

Technical field

The present invention relates to Internet technical field, relate in particular to a kind of technology that is used to import.

Background technology

User's same input of character string is corresponding one or more input candidate item usually, when the quantity of described input candidate item more for a long time, bring very big inconvenience can for user's selection, and then influence user's input efficiency and input experience.Simultaneously,, cause the limited amount of the input candidate item of demonstration under the same screen, further improved the inconvenience of user's input owing to the restriction of mobile phone screen size.

Therefore, how preferentially to provide with user expectation and import corresponding input candidate item, improve user's input efficiency and user experience, become the technical matters that those skilled in the art need to be resolved hurrily.

Summary of the invention

The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of method and apparatus that is used to import.

According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of input method, wherein, this method may further comprise the steps:

A obtains and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string;

B according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine the pairing precedence information of described input candidate item;

C is according to described precedence information, with at least one offers described intended application in described one or more input candidate item.

According to a further aspect in the invention, also provide a kind of input equipment, wherein, this equipment comprises:

Deriving means is used to obtain and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string;

Determine device, be used for according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine the pairing precedence information of described input candidate item;

Generator is used for according to described precedence information, with at least one offers described intended application in described one or more input candidate item.

Compared with prior art, the present invention is by the application scenarios information of basis with the corresponding intended application of input of character string, determine and the pairing precedence information of the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string, and according to described precedence information, with at least one offers described intended application in described one or more input candidate item; Thereby according to described application scenarios information, adjust in real time the pairing precedence information of input candidate item, be complementary, improved the input dirigibility, also improved the input efficiency of input method, improved user experience with user's input demand.

And the present invention can also obtain input of character string, according to described input of character string, determines and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string; Further, can also be according to described input of character string, in conjunction with the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string; Further, can also be according to described application scenarios information, determine and the corresponding one or more candidate's dictionaries of described application scenarios information, and, determine and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string by described input of character string is carried out matching inquiry in described one or more candidate's dictionaries.Thereby according to multiple mode, as according to as described in application scenarios information, to determining with the corresponding input candidate item of described input of character string, realized the input candidate item is effectively obtained or screened, and then be complementary with user's input demand, improve the input dirigibility, also improved the input efficiency of input method, improved user experience.

And, import owing to often have to relate at the ambiguity keyboard, and the ambiguity keyboard comprises at least one ambiguity key, this ambiguity key is corresponding to a plurality of initial input candidate item, then user's same keystroke sequence can corresponding multiple input of character string, and then corresponding a plurality of input candidate item, further improved the inconvenience of user's input; The present invention can also obtain the input keystroke sequence via the input of ambiguity keyboard, and according to described input keystroke sequence, in conjunction with the pairing a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key, determines and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence; Further, can also be according to described input keystroke sequence, in conjunction with the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input keystroke sequence, determine and the pairing preferred input keystroke sequence of described input keystroke sequence, and according to described preferred input keystroke sequence, in conjunction with the pairing a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key, determine and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence.Thereby realized processing to the input keystroke sequence of ambiguity keyboard input, and further in conjunction with described application scenarios, determine and the corresponding preferred keystroke sequence of described input keystroke sequence, with realized to the input candidate item effectively obtain or screen, and then be complementary with user's input demand, improve the input dirigibility, also improved the input efficiency of input method, improved user experience.

And, the present invention can also according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information, thereby determine the pairing precedence information of described one or more input candidate item; Further, described application scenarios component information comprises pairing one or more application scenarioss of described input candidate item and the weights information of described input candidate item under described application scenarios; Further, can also be in conjunction with according to described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information, in conjunction with the corresponding order models of described application scenarios information, calculate described input candidate item and the corresponding weighted calculation value of described application scenarios information, according to described input candidate item and the corresponding weighted calculation value of described application scenarios information, determine the pairing precedence information of described input candidate item.Thereby realized corresponding under the plurality of application scenes, determine the method for the pairing priority of input candidate item, input candidate item pairing priority is effectively handled having realized, and then be complementary with user's input demand, improved the input dirigibility, also improve the input efficiency of input method, improved user experience.

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By reading the detailed description of doing with reference to the following drawings that non-limiting example is done, it is more obvious that other features, objects and advantages of the present invention will become:

Fig. 1 illustrates a kind of input equipment synoptic diagram according to one aspect of the invention;

Fig. 2 illustrates a kind of input equipment synoptic diagram in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3 illustrates a kind of input equipment synoptic diagram according to another preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 4 illustrates a kind of input method process flow diagram according to a further aspect of the present invention;

Fig. 5 illustrates a kind of input method process flow diagram in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 6 illustrates a kind of input method process flow diagram according to another preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 7 illustrates a kind of nine key board synoptic diagram in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Same or analogous Reference numeral is represented same or analogous parts in the accompanying drawing.

Embodiment

Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing the present invention is described in further detail.

Fig. 1 illustrates a kind of input equipment synoptic diagram according to one aspect of the invention; Wherein, described input equipment comprise deriving means 11, determine device 12, generator 13.Particularly, deriving means 11 obtains and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string; Determine device 12 according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine the pairing precedence information of described input candidate item; Generator 13 is according to described precedence information, with at least one offers described intended application in described one or more input candidate item.

At this, described input equipment includes but not limited to that the network equipment, subscriber equipment or the network equipment and subscriber equipment are by the mutually integrated equipment that constitutes of network.Wherein, the described network equipment its include but not limited to the cloud that computing machine, network host, single network server, a plurality of webserver collection or a plurality of server constitute; At this, cloud is by constituting based on a large amount of computing machines of cloud computing (Cloud Computing) or the webserver, and wherein, cloud computing is a kind of of Distributed Calculation, a virtual supercomputer of being made up of the loosely-coupled computing machine collection of a group.It includes but not limited to any electronic product that can carry out man-machine interaction by keyboard, telepilot, touch pad or voice-operated device with the user, for example computing machine, smart mobile phone, PDA, game machine or IPTV etc. described subscriber equipment.Described network includes but not limited to internet, wide area network, Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), LAN (Local Area Network), VPN network, wireless self-organization network (Ad Hoc network) etc.Those skilled in the art will be understood that other input equipment is equally applicable to the present invention, also should be included in the protection domain of the present invention, and be contained in this at this with way of reference.

Be constant work between above-mentioned each device, at this, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that " continuing " is meant that above-mentioned each device is respectively in real time or according to the mode of operation requirement of setting or adjust in real time, providing of the determining of the obtaining of candidate item, precedence information, input candidate item etc. is provided, stopped to obtain and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string until input equipment.

Deriving means 11 obtains and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string.Particularly, deriving means 11 passes through according to various communication protocols (Communications Protocol), by various data transmission interfaces, database, input equipment or other third party device interactions with storing or provide described input candidate item obtain and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string; Perhaps the input of character string of importing by operations such as input, selection, clicks such as use by directly from input frame for example, receiving user or other, by with described input of character string one or more dictionaries (as the acquiescence dictionary, or according to user thesaurus of user's operation training gained etc.) carry out the mode of matching inquiry, obtain and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string.At this, described input frame such as short message editing frame, content input frame etc.

Determine device 12 according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine the pairing precedence information of described input candidate item.Particularly, determine device 12 by with the various data transmission interface interactions of described intended application, obtain application scenarios information with the corresponding intended application of described input of character string; Wherein, described application scenarios information includes but not limited to the pairing application type of described intended application (using application types such as IM, office documents word as instant messaging), current time (as working time/time of having a rest, Various Seasonal or particular sections time holiday etc.), current place (as country, area, place commonly used or tourist destination or concrete work place or home location etc.).For example, the GPS module that described definite device 12 is associated with described input equipment by basis, obtain the current location information of described intended application, according to the user (belonging to home location etc. as the some specific location informations of user preset value) is set, determines that current location information belongs to work place or home location; Also can the binding time analysis, as the working time section (as morning 8 of Mon-Fri to evening 6) place at place belongs to the work place, the time of having a rest section (as evening 9 of Mon-Fri to early 6) place at place belongs to home location; Thereby obtain application scenarios information with the corresponding intended application of described input of character string.For example, if the place at the most of situation of user place all belongs to Beijing, and because go on business or tourism etc., the place changes to Shanghai City, the application scenarios information that 12 in then described definite device obtains the corresponding intended application of described input of character string is " Shanghai City ", further, can also determine that described scene information comprises " Shanghai City ", " non-common place (travel or go on business) ", " working time " etc.

Determine device 12 according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, by mode such as described input candidate item and described application scenarios information being mated, determine the pairing precedence information of described input candidate item.For example, described application scenarios information is " Shanghai City ", " non-common place (travel or go on business) ", " working time " etc., and first input candidate item is corresponding to " Shanghai City ", " place commonly used ", " working time "; Second input candidate item is corresponding to " Shanghai City ", " non-common place (travel or go on business) ", " time of having a rest "; The priority of then described second input candidate item is higher than described first input candidate item.At this, described input candidate item " corresponding to " certain application scenarios information, can comprise that this input candidate item comes from and the corresponding specific dictionary of described application scenarios information, perhaps described input candidate item comprises association attributes with described application scenarios information etc.At this, described precedence information is as calculating the priority that obtains to utilize numeric representation; Perhaps for different application scenarioss, the specific input candidate item that preferentially provides that sets in advance etc.; For example, when corresponding to " tourist destination ", the priority with input candidate item of " tourist destination " attribute is higher than the input candidate item with described " tourist destination " attribute.

Preferably, described definite device 12 can also be in conjunction with user related information (importing historical record, user type information etc.) as the user, according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine the pairing precedence information of described input candidate item.At this, described user related information includes but not limited to that the user imports historical data, as the number of times, the user that comprise user's self-word creation import the binary relation of number of times, user's input of whole sentence and front and back speech relation etc.; User type information is as age, sex, hobby etc.; The part of speech of user's habitual sentence formula and relative position etc., as moving guest's combination, subject-predicate combination etc.

Generator 13 is according to described precedence information, with at least one offers described intended application in described one or more input candidate item.Particularly, described generator 13 passes through according to various communication protocols (Communications Protocol), by various data transmission interfaces, according to described definite device 12 determined precedence informations, by described one or more input candidate item are sorted according to described precedence information, the input candidate item after the ordering is offered described intended application; Perhaps choose the input candidate item of several the highest fixed number of priority, with at least one offers described intended application in described one or more input candidate item.For example, when described intended application is on the mobile phone certain when using, this mobile phone list screen can show 4 input candidate item, and preceding four input candidate item that then described generator 13 is the highest with priority offer described intended application.

Fig. 2 illustrates a kind of input equipment synoptic diagram in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention; Particularly, wherein, described input equipment comprises deriving means 11 ', determines device 12 ', generator 13 ', and wherein, described deriving means 11 ' comprises acquiring unit 111 ', candidate item determining unit 112 '.Particularly, acquiring unit 111 ' obtains input of character string; Candidate item determining unit 112 ' is determined and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string according to described input of character string; Determine device 12 ' according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine the pairing precedence information of described input candidate item; Generator 13 ' is according to described precedence information, with at least one offers described intended application in described one or more input candidate item.Wherein, described definite device 12 ', generator 13 ' is identical with corresponding intrument shown in Figure 1 or basic identical, so locate to repeat no more, and mode by reference is contained in this.

Be constant work between above-mentioned each device, at this, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that " continuing " is meant that above-mentioned each device is respectively in real time or according to the mode of operation requirement of setting or adjust in real time, that carries out input of character string obtains, imports providing of the determining of the determining of candidate item, precedence information, input candidate item etc., stops to obtain input of character string until input equipment.

Acquiring unit 111 ' obtains input of character string.Particularly, acquiring unit 111 ' is by receiving the character string that user or other application etc. are imported by operations such as input, selection, clicks from input frame; Perhaps,, obtain the character string from the input frame of other application by various data transmission interfaces according to various communication protocols (Communications Protocol); Wherein, described input frame such as short message editing frame, content input frame etc.

Candidate item determining unit 112 ' is determined and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string according to described input of character string.Particularly, described candidate item determining unit 112 ' is according to input of character string that described acquiring unit 111 ' obtained, by with described input of character string one or more dictionaries (as the acquiescence dictionary, by network inquiry dictionary or according to the user thesaurus of user's operation training gained etc.) carry out the mode of matching inquiry, obtain and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string.

Preferably, described candidate item determining unit 112 ' can also be according to described input of character string, in conjunction with the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string.Particularly, described candidate item determining unit 112 ' is according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, select for use and the corresponding dictionary of described application scenarios information, thereby according to described input of character string, in described dictionary, carry out match query, to determine and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string; Perhaps, inquire about, to determine and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string by network by according to described application scenarios information; Perhaps according to described application scenarios information, mate with the corresponding input candidate item of input of character string or screen described, to determine and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string.Wherein, described application scenarios information includes but not limited to the pairing application type of described intended application (using application types such as IM, office documents word as instant messaging), current time (as working time/time of having a rest, Various Seasonal or particular sections time holiday etc.), current place (as country, area, place commonly used or tourist destination or concrete work place or home location etc.).For example, when comprising a certain locality information in the described application scenarios, as " Shanghai ", then will with the specific entry in the dialect of the corresponding Shanghai of described input of character string, as described input candidate item; And when described location information is " Beijing ", with the specific entry in the dialect of the corresponding Shanghai of described input of character string, then not as described input candidate item.For example, when described application scenarios is different application type, then with the pairing input candidate item of described input of character string also have different, the inclined to one side colloquial style of input candidate item in using as instant messaging, the input candidate item in the office documents is more standardization etc. then.At this, obtain the method for the application scenarios information of the pairing intended application of described input of character string, same or similar with the method that definite device 12 among Fig. 1 obtains described application scenarios information, so locate to repeat no more, and be contained in this by the mode of using.

Preferably, described candidate item determining unit 112 ' can also be according to described input of character string, in conjunction with the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine and the corresponding one or more candidate's dictionaries of described application scenarios information; Described input of character string is carried out matching inquiry in described one or more candidate's dictionaries, determine and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string.Particularly, described candidate item determining unit 112 ' is by the application scenarios information in conjunction with the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine and the pairing one or more candidate's dictionaries of described application scenarios information, for example, the pairing application scenarios information of described input of character string is " Shanghai ", " Spring Festival ", " instant messaging application ", and then described candidate item determining unit 112 ' determines to have " Shanghai ", one or more candidate's dictionaries of one or more attributes in " Spring Festival ", " the instant messaging application ".Wherein, described application scenarios information includes but not limited to the pairing application type of described intended application (using application types such as IM, office documents word as instant messaging), current time (as working time/time of having a rest, Various Seasonal or particular sections time holiday etc.), current place (as country, area, place commonly used or tourist destination or concrete work place or home location etc.).At this, obtain the method for the application scenarios information of the pairing intended application of described input of character string, same or similar with the method that definite device 12 among Fig. 1 obtains described application scenarios information, so locate to repeat no more, and be contained in this by the mode of using.Described candidate item determining unit 112 ' is by carrying out matching inquiry with described input of character string in described one or more candidate's dictionaries, according to the result behind the described matching inquiry, with the one or more entries behind institute's matching inquiry, as with the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string.

Preferably, described acquiring unit 111 ' also comprises sequence acquiring unit (not shown) and input of character string determining unit (not shown), wherein, described sequence acquiring unit obtains the input keystroke sequence via the input of ambiguity keyboard, wherein, described ambiguity keyboard comprises at least one ambiguity key, the corresponding a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key; Described input of character string determining unit, is determined and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence in conjunction with the pairing a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key according to described input keystroke sequence.

Particularly, described sequence acquiring unit obtains the input keystroke sequence via the input of ambiguity keyboard by directly mutual with described ambiguity keyboard; Perhaps according to various communication protocols (Communications Protocol),, obtain from other application or input keystroke sequence that equipment sent via the input of ambiguity keyboard by various data transmission interfaces.Wherein, described ambiguity keyboard comprises at least one ambiguity key, and as nine key boards (as shown in Figure 7) commonly used on the mobile phone, or other comprise the ambiguity keyboard of at least one ambiguity key; The corresponding a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key.Wherein, described input keystroke sequence include but not limited to be used for the identifying user input by one or more identification information sequences of button; Described initial input character includes but not limited to pairing one or more input senses of a dictionary entry on the described button.For example, as shown in Figure 7, the user is under nine key boards, can pass through the described button of Digital ID, as utilize numeral 2 signs to import the senses of a dictionary entry " abc " or " ABC ", the numeral 3 sign input senses of a dictionary entry " def " or " DEF ", the numeral 4 sign input senses of a dictionary entry " ghi " or " GHI ", the numeral 5 sign input senses of a dictionary entry " jkl " or " JKL ", the numeral 6 sign input senses of a dictionary entry " mno " or " MNO ", the numeral 7 sign input senses of a dictionary entry " pqr " or " PQR ", the numeral 8 sign input senses of a dictionary entry " tuv " or " TUV ", the numeral 9 sign input senses of a dictionary entry " wxy " or " WXY " etc.The user passes through the input digit sequence, or by touching or clicking described nine key boards, determines the pairing Serial No. of described button; By described Serial No., expression is via the input keystroke sequence of ambiguity keyboard input, as input " 9636 ", then import keystroke sequence and be " 9636 ", 9 pairing " wxy " or " WXY ", 6 pairing " mno " or " MNO ", 3 pairing " def " or " DEF " are the corresponding a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key.

Described input of character string determining unit is according to described input keystroke sequence, in conjunction with the pairing a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key, by the initial input character on the pairing one or more ambiguity keys of described input keystroke sequence is carried out modes such as permutation and combination, determine and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence; For example, continue and go up example, when the input keystroke sequence was " 9636 ", pairing input of character string can be combination in any such as " wmdm ", " wndn ", " xnfo ", " wofo ".Further, the initial input character on the pairing one or more ambiguity keys of described input keystroke sequence carried out permutation and combination after, filter out combination with concrete semantic information, as with the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence; For example, continue and go up example, if the described spelling input method that is input as then filters out the input of character string with semantic information and is " wofo ".

Preferably, described input of character string determining unit can also be according to described input keystroke sequence, in conjunction with the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input keystroke sequence, determine and the pairing preferred input keystroke sequence of described input keystroke sequence; According to described preferred input keystroke sequence,, determine and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence in conjunction with the pairing a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key.

Particularly, described input of character string determining unit is by the application scenarios information in conjunction with the corresponding intended application of described input keystroke sequence, by described input keystroke sequence is carried out preferably, to determine and the pairing preferred input keystroke sequence of described input keystroke sequence.For example, when the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence does not have semanteme, in conjunction with the current application scene, described input keystroke sequence is carried out error correction, for example, continue and go up example, if the input keystroke sequence of user's input is " 9536 ", and described application scenarios information is " Beijing the Temple of Sleeping Buddha ", and then described input of character string determining unit is " 9636 " with the error correction of described input keystroke sequence, corresponding to input of character string " reclining Buddha ".Further, described input of character string determining unit can also be carried out error correction to the continuous key information in the described input keystroke sequence, increase or delete as button continuous button, promptly, if touch potential is N continuously, then be preferably N+1 or N-1 etc., thereby determine and the pairing preferred input keystroke sequence of described input keystroke sequence; For example, when user's input keystroke sequence is " 96636 ", and described application scenarios information is " Beijing the Temple of Sleeping Buddha ", and then described input of character string determining unit is " 9636 " with the error correction of described input keystroke sequence, corresponding to input of character string " reclining Buddha ".

Wherein, described application scenarios information includes but not limited to the pairing application type of described intended application (using application types such as IM, office documents word as instant messaging), current time (as working time/time of having a rest, Various Seasonal or particular sections time holiday etc.), current place (as country, area, place commonly used or tourist destination or concrete work place or home location etc.).At this, obtain the method for the application scenarios information of the pairing intended application of described input of character string, same or similar with the method that definite device 12 among Fig. 1 obtains described application scenarios information, so locate to repeat no more, and be contained in this by the mode of using.

Described input of character string determining unit is according to described preferred input keystroke sequence, by in conjunction with the pairing a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key, by the initial input character on the pairing one or more ambiguity keys of described preferred input keystroke sequence is carried out modes such as permutation and combination, determine and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence.Further, the initial input character on the pairing one or more ambiguity keys of described preferred input keystroke sequence carried out permutation and combination after, filter out combination with concrete semantic information, as with the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence.Further, can also be in conjunction with the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input keystroke sequence, by the initial input character on the pairing one or more ambiguity keys of described preferred input keystroke sequence is carried out modes such as permutation and combination, determine and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence; Perhaps the initial input character on the pairing one or more ambiguity keys of described preferred input keystroke sequence is carried out candidate's input of character string of determining after the permutation and combination, application scenarios information in conjunction with the corresponding intended application of described input keystroke sequence is screened, thereby determines and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence.

Fig. 3 illustrates a kind of input equipment synoptic diagram according to another preferred embodiment of the present invention; Particularly, described input equipment comprises deriving means 11 ", determine device 12 ", generator 13 ", wherein, described definite device 12 " comprise component determining unit 121 ", priority determining unit 122 ".Particularly, deriving means 11 " obtain and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string; Component determining unit 121 " according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information; Priority determining unit 122 " according to described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information, determine the pairing precedence information of described one or more input candidate item; Generator 13 " according to described precedence information, with at least one offers described intended application in described one or more input candidate item.Wherein, described deriving means 11 ", generator 13 " identical with corresponding intrument shown in Figure 1 or basic identical, so locate to repeat no more, and mode by reference is contained in this.

Be constant work between above-mentioned each device, at this, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that " continuing " is meant that above-mentioned each device is respectively in real time or according to the mode of operation requirement of setting or adjust in real time, providing of the determining of the determining of the obtaining of candidate item, application scenarios component information, precedence information, input candidate item etc. is provided, stopped to obtain and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string until input equipment.

Component determining unit 121 " according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information.Particularly, described input candidate item corresponding to specific region, special time, application-specific etc., is equivalent to described input candidate item and comprises one or more dimensional information as this input candidate item corresponding to one or more application scenarios component information; Described application scenarios component information can be according to predefine, input training or according to acquisitions such as the pairing dictionary attributes of described input candidate item; Component determining unit 121 " according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string; one or more application scenarios component information that described application scenarios information and described input candidate item are comprised are mated, thus definite described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information.For example, the current application scene information is indoor, working time, WORD; The pairing application scenarios component information of current input candidate item is indoor, working time, IM, and then described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information are indoor, the working time.

Priority determining unit 122 " according to described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information, determine the pairing precedence information of described one or more input candidate item.Particularly, described priority determining unit 122 " according to described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information; by quantity; perhaps described application scenarios component information is weighted modes such as calculating; according to resulting quantitative value or weighted value, determines the pairing precedence information of described one or more input candidate item according to the described application scenarios component information of statistics.For example, two input candidate item, first pairing application scenarios component information is that 2, the second pairing application scenarios component information are 1, thinks that then the priority of first input candidate item is higher than second input candidate item; Perhaps to described two pairing application scenarios component information of input candidate item, be weighted calculating according to described application scenarios, for example, the weights of the pairing application scenarios of application type, the weights that are higher than the pairing application scenarios in place, then be weighted calculating, thereby obtain the priority result according to described weights.

Preferably, described component determining unit 121 " can also according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string; determine described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information; wherein, described application scenarios component information comprises pairing one or more application scenarioss of described input candidate item and the weights information of described input candidate item under described application scenarios.Particularly, described input candidate item is corresponding to one or more application scenarios component information, and described application scenarios component information comprises pairing one or more application scenarioss of described input candidate item and the weights information of described input candidate item under described application scenarios; , be equivalent to described input candidate item and comprise one or more dimensional information corresponding to application scenarioss such as specific region, special time, application-specific as this input candidate item; Simultaneously, described input candidate item has different weights information under different application scenarioss.For example, the application scenarios component information of this input candidate item correspondence can be expressed as a set, comprise one or more subclass in this set, comprise (application scenarios in each subclass, the pairing weights information of application scenarios), as (specific region, the pairing weights information in specific region), (special time, the pairing weights information of special time), (application-specific, the pairing weights information of application-specific).Described application scenarios component information can be according to predefine, input training or according to acquisitions such as the pairing dictionary attributes of described input candidate item; For example, according to user's selection operation to described input candidate item under special scenes, improve or reduce the pairing weights information of this application scenarios etc.At this, described component determining unit 121 " determine component determining unit 121 described in the method for described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information and Fig. 3 " method same or similar, so do not repeat them here, and be contained in this by the mode of using.

Further, because under different application scenarios information, same input candidate item is different with the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information, therefore, pairing weights information also may be different in the described application scenarios component information, be that different application scenarios combination meetings exerts an influence to weights information, make the weights information of the pairing application scenarios of this input candidate item not fix.For example, the initial application scene information of described input candidate item correspondence is " (Beijing, 03), (working time, 0.4), (office documents 0.3) "; When described application scenarios information is " Beijing, working time, IM ", described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information are " (Beijing; 0.5), (working time; 0.5) ", when described application scenarios information is " Beijing, time of having a rest, office documents ", described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information are " (Beijing, 0.5), (office documents 0.5) " etc.

Preferably, described priority determining unit 122 " can also be according to described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information; combination and the corresponding order models of described application scenarios information, calculate described input candidate item and the corresponding weighted calculation value of described application scenarios information; According to described input candidate item and the corresponding weighted calculation value of described application scenarios information, determine the pairing precedence information of described input candidate item.Particularly, described priority determining unit 122 " can be under specific application scenarios information; to the pairing application scenarios component information of pairing described input candidate item under the different application scene information; as to the pairing weights information of the application scenarios of different application scene component; be weighted calculating, calculate described input candidate item and the corresponding weighted calculation value of described application scenarios information.When the pairing weighted calculation value of described input candidate item is high more, then its pairing precedence information is high more.

At this, described order models includes but not limited to directly according to described application scenarios component information, is weighted calculating based on predetermined initial calculation weight, at this, described initial calculation weight can according to as evaluation and test language material etc. determine; Can also comprise according to dynamic adjusted weight, described application scenarios component information is weighted calculating, at this, described dynamic adjusted weight can be carried out self-adaptation based on user's use habit or user's application scenarios etc., the adjustment that is described weight has self-learning function, for example, uses the increased frequency of this input candidate item as the user under current scene, the then related reinforcement of this scene and this input candidate item, it is corresponding to the weight reinforcement of this scene etc.

Application scenarios with the user is that the pairing application type of described intended application (using application types such as IM, office documents word as instant messaging) is an example, application type according to the current use of user, corresponding a collection of such other candidate word of this application type meeting, when the user imports in this class is used, the then corresponding increase of the weight of the speech of application type correspondence meeting, if the user chooses the speech that increases power in such application of being everlasting, then the weight of candidate word can exponential reinforcement in this is used.

If the user often uses certain to use in the certain hour section, and chooses the proportion of the corresponding candidate word of this application higher in this application, even not in this is used, when other input frame inputs, such weight of using corresponding candidate word also can increase; If this user does not use such to use corresponding candidate word in certain class is used yet, then such candidate word weighted effect of using correspondence suitably reduces.

Use corresponding weight effect, also can be along with the time weaken, if user's a period of time is not used the candidate word of such applicating category, then such weighting effect of using candidate word weakens, and is reduced to 0 until weight.

Application scenarios with the user is that the pairing current place of described intended application is (as country, the area, place commonly used or tourist destination, perhaps concrete work place or home location etc.) be example, according to user's present located geographic position, the pairing candidate word in this position is (such as the public transport name of station of locality, the subway name of station, perhaps building name etc., the candidate word relevant) with local position, can increase weight accordingly, as moving on to a reposition as the user when, then the dictionary of this position correspondence can increase weight, transfer to certain new place when customer location, then corresponding candidate word content can be upgraded, and new corresponding candidate word weight is strengthened.According to the position at user place, the relevant content in region, position also can weighting, and as local dialect etc., in Guangdong, the dialect weight of Guangdong language is strengthened, and in Shanghai, the corresponding candidate speech weight of Shanghai language can be strengthened.The weighted strategy of position correspondence can be done long-term judgement, does not use dialect if the user repeatedly can select, and then the dialect corresponding weights can reduce, and may be one and but not say the user of local dialect in this position, and weights can reduce to zero at last.

Fig. 4 illustrates a kind of input method process flow diagram according to a further aspect of the present invention.Particularly, in step s1, input equipment obtains and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string; In step s2, input equipment according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine the pairing precedence information of described input candidate item; In step s3, input equipment is according to described precedence information, with at least one offers described intended application in described one or more input candidate item.

Between the above steps constant work, at this, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that " continuing " is meant that above steps is respectively in real time or according to the mode of operation requirement of setting or adjust in real time, providing of the determining of the obtaining of candidate item, precedence information, input candidate item etc. is provided, stopped to obtain and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string until input equipment.

In step s1, input equipment obtains and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string.Particularly, in step s1, input equipment passes through according to various communication protocols (Communications Protocol), by various data transmission interfaces, database, input equipment or other third party device interactions with storing or provide described input candidate item obtain and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string; Perhaps the input of character string of importing by operations such as input, selection, clicks such as use by directly from input frame for example, receiving user or other, by with described input of character string one or more dictionaries (as the acquiescence dictionary, or according to user thesaurus of user's operation training gained etc.) carry out the mode of matching inquiry, obtain and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string.At this, described input frame such as short message editing frame, content input frame etc.

In step s2, input equipment according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine the pairing precedence information of described input candidate item.Particularly, in step s2, input equipment by with the various data transmission interface interactions of described intended application, obtain application scenarios information with the corresponding intended application of described input of character string; Wherein, described application scenarios information includes but not limited to the pairing application type of described intended application (using application types such as IM, office documents word as instant messaging), current time (as working time/time of having a rest, Various Seasonal or particular sections time holiday etc.), current place (as country, area, place commonly used or tourist destination or concrete work place or home location etc.).For example, in step s2, the GPS module that input equipment is associated with described input equipment by basis, obtain the current location information of described intended application, according to the user (belonging to home location etc. as the some specific location informations of user preset value) is set, determines that current location information belongs to work place or home location; Also can the binding time analysis, as the working time section (as morning 8 of Mon-Fri to evening 6) place at place belongs to the work place, the time of having a rest section (as evening 9 of Mon-Fri to early 6) place at place belongs to home location; Thereby obtain application scenarios information with the corresponding intended application of described input of character string.For example, if the place at the most of situation of user place all belongs to Beijing, and because go on business or tourism etc., the place changes to Shanghai City, then in step s2, the application scenarios information that input equipment then obtains the corresponding intended application of described input of character string is " Shanghai City ", further, can also determine that described scene information comprises " Shanghai City ", " non-common place (travel or go on business) ", " working time " etc.

In step s2, input equipment according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, by mode such as described input candidate item and described application scenarios information being mated, determine the pairing precedence information of described input candidate item.For example, described application scenarios information is " Shanghai City ", " non-common place (travel or go on business) ", " working time " etc., and first input candidate item is corresponding to " Shanghai City ", " place commonly used ", " working time "; Second input candidate item is corresponding to " Shanghai City ", " non-common place (travel or go on business) ", " time of having a rest "; The priority of then described second input candidate item is higher than described first input candidate item.At this, described input candidate item " corresponding to " certain application scenarios information, can comprise that this input candidate item comes from and the corresponding specific dictionary of described application scenarios information, perhaps described input candidate item comprises association attributes with described application scenarios information etc.At this, described precedence information is as calculating the priority that obtains to utilize numeric representation; Perhaps for different application scenarioss, the specific input candidate item that preferentially provides that sets in advance etc.; For example, when corresponding to " tourist destination ", the priority with input candidate item of " tourist destination " attribute is higher than the input candidate item with described " tourist destination " attribute.

Preferably, in step s2, input equipment can also be in conjunction with user related information (importing historical record, user type information etc.) as the user, according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine the pairing precedence information of described input candidate item.At this, described user related information includes but not limited to that the user imports historical data, as the number of times, the user that comprise user's self-word creation import the binary relation of number of times, user's input of whole sentence and front and back speech relation etc.; User type information is as age, sex, hobby etc.; The part of speech of user's habitual sentence formula and relative position etc., as moving guest's combination, subject-predicate combination etc.

In step s3, input equipment is according to described precedence information, with at least one offers described intended application in described one or more input candidate item.Particularly, in step s3, input equipment passes through according to various communication protocols (Communications Protocol), by various data transmission interfaces, according to determined precedence information among the step s2, by described one or more input candidate item are sorted according to described precedence information, the input candidate item after the ordering is offered described intended application; Perhaps choose the input candidate item of several the highest fixed number of priority, with at least one offers described intended application in described one or more input candidate item.For example, when described intended application is on the mobile phone certain when using, this mobile phone list screen can show 4 input candidate item, and then in step s3, preceding four input candidate item that input equipment is the highest with priority offer described intended application.

Fig. 5 illustrates a kind of input method process flow diagram in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.Particularly, in step s11 ', input equipment obtains input of character string; In step s12 ', input equipment is determined and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string according to described input of character string; In step s2 ', input equipment according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine the pairing precedence information of described input candidate item; In step s3 ', input equipment is according to described precedence information, with at least one offers described intended application in described one or more input candidate item.Wherein, described step s2 ', step s3 ' are identical or basic identical with corresponding step shown in Figure 4, so locate to repeat no more, and mode by reference is contained in this.

Between the above steps constant work, at this, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that " continuing " is meant that above steps is respectively in real time or according to the mode of operation requirement of setting or adjust in real time, that carries out input of character string obtains, imports providing of the determining of the determining of candidate item, precedence information, input candidate item etc., stops to obtain input of character string until input equipment.

In step s11 ', input equipment obtains input of character string.Particularly, in step s11 ', input equipment is by receiving the character string that user or other application etc. are imported by operations such as input, selection, clicks from input frame; Perhaps,, obtain the character string from the input frame of other application by various data transmission interfaces according to various communication protocols (Communications Protocol); Wherein, described input frame such as short message editing frame, content input frame etc.

In step s12 ', input equipment is determined and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string according to described input of character string.Particularly, in step s12 ', input equipment is according to the input of character string that is obtained among the described step s1 ', by with described input of character string one or more dictionaries (as the acquiescence dictionary, by network inquiry dictionary or according to the user thesaurus of user's operation training gained etc.) carry out the mode of matching inquiry, obtain and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string.

Preferably, in step s12 ', input equipment can also be according to described input of character string, in conjunction with the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string.Particularly, in step s12 ', input equipment is according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, select for use and the corresponding dictionary of described application scenarios information, thereby according to described input of character string, in described dictionary, carry out match query, to determine and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string; Perhaps, inquire about, to determine and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string by network by according to described application scenarios information; Perhaps according to described application scenarios information, mate with the corresponding input candidate item of input of character string or screen described, to determine and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string.Wherein, described application scenarios information includes but not limited to the pairing application type of described intended application (using application types such as IM, office documents word as instant messaging), current time (as working time/time of having a rest, Various Seasonal or particular sections time holiday etc.), current place (as country, area, place commonly used or tourist destination or concrete work place or home location etc.).For example, when comprising a certain locality information in the described application scenarios, as " Shanghai ", then will with the specific entry in the dialect of the corresponding Shanghai of described input of character string, as described input candidate item; And when described location information is " Beijing ", with the specific entry in the dialect of the corresponding Shanghai of described input of character string, then not as described input candidate item.For example, when described application scenarios is different application type, then with the pairing input candidate item of described input of character string also have different, the inclined to one side colloquial style of input candidate item in using as instant messaging, the input candidate item in the office documents is more standardization etc. then.At this, obtain the method for the application scenarios information of the pairing intended application of described input of character string, the method for obtaining described application scenarios information with step s2 among Fig. 4 is same or similar, so locate to repeat no more, and be contained in this by the mode of using.

Preferably, in step s12 ', input equipment can also be according to described input of character string, in conjunction with the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine and the corresponding one or more candidate's dictionaries of described application scenarios information; Described input of character string is carried out matching inquiry in described one or more candidate's dictionaries, determine and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string.Particularly, in step s12 ', input equipment is by the application scenarios information in conjunction with the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine and the pairing one or more candidate's dictionaries of described application scenarios information, for example, the pairing application scenarios information of described input of character string is " Shanghai ", " Spring Festival ", " instant messaging application ", then in step s12 ', input equipment determines to have " Shanghai ", one or more candidate's dictionaries of one or more attributes in " Spring Festival ", " the instant messaging application ".Wherein, described application scenarios information includes but not limited to the pairing application type of described intended application (using application types such as IM, office documents word as instant messaging), current time (as working time/time of having a rest, Various Seasonal or particular sections time holiday etc.), current place (as country, area, place commonly used or tourist destination or concrete work place or home location etc.).At this, obtain the method for the application scenarios information of the pairing intended application of described input of character string, same or similar with the method for obtaining described application scenarios information among the step s2 among Fig. 4, so locate to repeat no more, and be contained in this by the mode of using.In step s12 ', input equipment is by carrying out matching inquiry with described input of character string in described one or more candidate's dictionaries, according to the result behind the described matching inquiry, with the one or more entries behind institute's matching inquiry, as with the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string.

Preferably, in step s11 ', also comprise step s111 ' (not shown) and step s112 ' (not shown), wherein, in step s111 ', input equipment obtains the input keystroke sequence via the input of ambiguity keyboard, wherein, described ambiguity keyboard comprises at least one ambiguity key, the corresponding a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key; In step s112 ', input equipment, is determined and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence in conjunction with the pairing a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key according to described input keystroke sequence.

Particularly, in step s111 ', input equipment obtains the input keystroke sequence via the input of ambiguity keyboard by directly mutual with described ambiguity keyboard; Perhaps according to various communication protocols (Communications Protocol),, obtain from other application or input keystroke sequence that equipment sent via the input of ambiguity keyboard by various data transmission interfaces.Wherein, described ambiguity keyboard comprises at least one ambiguity key, and as nine key boards (as shown in Figure 7) commonly used on the mobile phone, or other comprise the ambiguity keyboard of at least one ambiguity key; The corresponding a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key.Wherein, described input keystroke sequence include but not limited to be used for the identifying user input by one or more identification information sequences of button; Described initial input character includes but not limited to pairing one or more input senses of a dictionary entry on the described button.For example, as shown in Figure 7, the user is under nine key boards, can pass through the described button of Digital ID, as utilize numeral 2 signs to import the senses of a dictionary entry " abc " or " ABC ", the numeral 3 sign input senses of a dictionary entry " def " or " DEF ", the numeral 4 sign input senses of a dictionary entry " ghi " or " GHI ", the numeral 5 sign input senses of a dictionary entry " jkl " or " JKL ", the numeral 6 sign input senses of a dictionary entry " mno " or " MNO ", the numeral 7 sign input senses of a dictionary entry " pqr " or " PQR ", the numeral 8 sign input senses of a dictionary entry " tuv " or " TUV ", the numeral 9 sign input senses of a dictionary entry " wxy " or " WXY " etc.The user passes through the input digit sequence, or by touching or clicking described nine key boards, determines the pairing Serial No. of described button; By described Serial No., expression is via the input keystroke sequence of ambiguity keyboard input, as input " 9636 ", then import keystroke sequence and be " 9636 ", 9 pairing " wxy " or " WXY ", 6 pairing " mno " or " MNO ", 3 pairing " def " or " DEF " are the corresponding a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key.

In step s112 ', input equipment is according to described input keystroke sequence, in conjunction with the pairing a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key, by the initial input character on the pairing one or more ambiguity keys of described input keystroke sequence is carried out modes such as permutation and combination, determine and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence; For example, continue and go up example, when the input keystroke sequence was " 9636 ", pairing input of character string can be combination in any such as " wmdm ", " wndn ", " xnfo ", " wofo ".Further, the initial input character on the pairing one or more ambiguity keys of described input keystroke sequence carried out permutation and combination after, filter out combination with concrete semantic information, as with the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence; For example, continue and go up example, if the described spelling input method that is input as then filters out the input of character string with semantic information and is " wofo ".

Preferably, in step s112 ', input equipment can also be according to described input keystroke sequence, in conjunction with the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input keystroke sequence, determine and the pairing preferred input keystroke sequence of described input keystroke sequence; According to described preferred input keystroke sequence,, determine and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence in conjunction with the pairing a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key.

Particularly, in step s112 ', input equipment is by the application scenarios information in conjunction with the corresponding intended application of described input keystroke sequence, by described input keystroke sequence is carried out preferably, to determine and the pairing preferred input keystroke sequence of described input keystroke sequence.For example, when the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence does not have semanteme, in conjunction with the current application scene, described input keystroke sequence is carried out error correction, for example, continue and go up example, if the input keystroke sequence of user input is " 9536 ", and described application scenarios information is " Beijing the Temple of Sleeping Buddha ", then in step s112 ', input equipment is " 9636 " with the error correction of described input keystroke sequence, corresponding to input of character string " reclining Buddha ".Further, in step s112 ', input equipment can also carry out error correction to the continuous key information in the described input keystroke sequence, increase or delete as button continuous button, promptly, if touch potential is N continuously, then is preferably N+1 or N-1 etc., thereby determines and the pairing preferred input keystroke sequence of described input keystroke sequence; For example, when user's input keystroke sequence is " 96636 ", and described application scenarios information is " Beijing the Temple of Sleeping Buddha ", and then in step s112 ', input equipment is " 9636 " with the error correction of described input keystroke sequence, corresponding to input of character string " reclining Buddha ".

Wherein, described application scenarios information includes but not limited to the pairing application type of described intended application (using application types such as IM, office documents word as instant messaging), current time (as working time/time of having a rest, Various Seasonal or particular sections time holiday etc.), current place (as country, area, place commonly used or tourist destination or concrete work place or home location etc.).At this, obtain the method for the application scenarios information of the pairing intended application of described input of character string, same or similar with the method for obtaining described application scenarios information among the step s2 among Fig. 4, so locate to repeat no more, and be contained in this by the mode of using.

In step s112 ', input equipment is according to described preferred input keystroke sequence, by in conjunction with the pairing a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key, by the initial input character on the pairing one or more ambiguity keys of described preferred input keystroke sequence is carried out modes such as permutation and combination, determine and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence.Further, the initial input character on the pairing one or more ambiguity keys of described preferred input keystroke sequence carried out permutation and combination after, filter out combination with concrete semantic information, as with the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence.Further, can also be in conjunction with the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input keystroke sequence, by the initial input character on the pairing one or more ambiguity keys of described preferred input keystroke sequence is carried out modes such as permutation and combination, determine and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence; Perhaps the initial input character on the pairing one or more ambiguity keys of described preferred input keystroke sequence is carried out candidate's input of character string of determining after the permutation and combination, application scenarios information in conjunction with the corresponding intended application of described input keystroke sequence is screened, thereby determines and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence.

Fig. 6 illustrates a kind of input method process flow diagram according to another preferred embodiment of the present invention.Particularly, at step s1 " in, input equipment obtains and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string; At step s21 " in, input equipment according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information; At step s22 " in, input equipment is determined the pairing precedence information of described one or more input candidate item according to described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information; At step s3 " in, input equipment is according to described precedence information, with at least one offers described intended application in described one or more input candidate item.Wherein, described step s1 ", step s3 " identical or basic identical with corresponding step shown in Figure 4, so locate to repeat no more, and mode by reference is contained in this.

Between the above steps constant work, at this, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that " continuing " is meant that above steps is respectively in real time or according to the mode of operation requirement of setting or adjust in real time, providing of the determining of the determining of the obtaining of candidate item, application scenarios component information, precedence information, input candidate item etc. is provided, stopped to obtain and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of input of character string until input equipment.

At step s21 " in, input equipment according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information.Particularly, described input candidate item corresponding to specific region, special time, application-specific etc., is equivalent to described input candidate item and comprises one or more dimensional information as this input candidate item corresponding to one or more application scenarios component information; Described application scenarios component information can be according to predefine, input training or according to acquisitions such as the pairing dictionary attributes of described input candidate item; At step s21 " in; input equipment according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string; one or more application scenarios component information that described application scenarios information and described input candidate item are comprised are mated, thus definite described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information.For example, the current application scene information is indoor, working time, WORD; The pairing application scenarios component information of current input candidate item is indoor, working time, IM, and then described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information are indoor, the working time.

At step s22 " in, input equipment is determined the pairing precedence information of described one or more input candidate item according to described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information.Particularly, at step s22 " in; input equipment is according to described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information; by the quantity according to the described application scenarios component information of statistics; perhaps described application scenarios component information is weighted modes such as calculating; according to resulting quantitative value or weighted value, determines the pairing precedence information of described one or more input candidate item.For example, two input candidate item, first pairing application scenarios component information is that 2, the second pairing application scenarios component information are 1, thinks that then the priority of first input candidate item is higher than second input candidate item; Perhaps to described two pairing application scenarios component information of input candidate item, be weighted calculating according to described application scenarios, for example, the weights of the pairing application scenarios of application type, the weights that are higher than the pairing application scenarios in place, then be weighted calculating, thereby obtain the priority result according to described weights.

Preferably, at step s21 " in; input equipment can also according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string; determine described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information; wherein, described application scenarios component information comprises pairing one or more application scenarioss of described input candidate item and the weights information of described input candidate item under described application scenarios.Particularly, described input candidate item is corresponding to one or more application scenarios component information, and described application scenarios component information comprises pairing one or more application scenarioss of described input candidate item and the weights information of described input candidate item under described application scenarios; , be equivalent to described input candidate item and comprise one or more dimensional information corresponding to application scenarioss such as specific region, special time, application-specific as this input candidate item; Simultaneously, described input candidate item has different weights information under different application scenarioss.For example, the application scenarios component information of this input candidate item correspondence can be expressed as a set, comprise one or more subclass in this set, comprise (application scenarios in each subclass, the pairing weights information of application scenarios), as (specific region, the pairing weights information in specific region), (special time, the pairing weights information of special time), (application-specific, the pairing weights information of application-specific).Described application scenarios component information can be according to predefine, input training or according to acquisitions such as the pairing dictionary attributes of described input candidate item; For example, according to user's selection operation to described input candidate item under special scenes, improve or reduce the pairing weights information of this application scenarios etc.At this, step s21 described in the described method of determining described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information and Fig. 6 " method same or similar, so do not repeat them here, and be contained in this by the mode of application.

Further, because under different application scenarios information, same input candidate item is different with the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information, therefore, pairing weights information also may be different in the described application scenarios component information, be that different application scenarios combination meetings exerts an influence to weights information, make the weights information of the pairing application scenarios of this input candidate item not fix.For example, the initial application scene information of described input candidate item correspondence is " (Beijing, 03), (working time, 0.4), (office documents 03) "; When described application scenarios information is " Beijing, working time, IM ", described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information are " (Beijing; 0.5), (working time; 0.5) ", when described application scenarios information is " Beijing, time of having a rest, office documents ", described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information are " (Beijing, 0.5), (office documents 0.5) " etc.

Preferably, at step s22 " in; input equipment can also be according to described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information; combination and the corresponding order models of described application scenarios information, calculates described input candidate item and the corresponding weighted calculation value of described application scenarios information; According to described input candidate item and the corresponding weighted calculation value of described application scenarios information, determine the pairing precedence information of described input candidate item.Particularly, at step s22 " in; input equipment can be under specific application scenarios information; to the pairing application scenarios component information of pairing described input candidate item under the different application scene information; as to the pairing weights information of the application scenarios of different application scene component; be weighted calculating, calculate described input candidate item and the corresponding weighted calculation value of described application scenarios information.When the pairing weighted calculation value of described input candidate item is high more, then its pairing precedence information is high more.

To those skilled in the art, obviously the invention is not restricted to the details of above-mentioned one exemplary embodiment, and under the situation that does not deviate from spirit of the present invention or essential characteristic, can realize the present invention with other concrete form.Therefore, no matter from which point, all should regard embodiment as exemplary, and be nonrestrictive, scope of the present invention is limited by claims rather than above-mentioned explanation, therefore is intended to be included in the present invention dropping on the implication that is equal to important document of claim and all changes in the scope.Any Reference numeral in the claim should be considered as limit related claim.In addition, obviously other unit or step do not got rid of in " comprising " speech, and odd number is not got rid of plural number.A plurality of unit of stating in the device claim or device also can be realized by software or hardware by a unit or device.The first, the second word such as grade is used for representing title, and does not represent any specific order.

Claims

1. input method, wherein, this method may further comprise the steps:

2. method according to claim 1, wherein, described step a comprises:

X obtains input of character string;

Y determines and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string according to described input of character string.

3. method according to claim 2, wherein, described step y comprises:

-according to described input of character string, in conjunction with the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string.

4. method according to claim 3, wherein, described step y comprises:

-according to described input of character string, in conjunction with the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine and the corresponding one or more candidate's dictionaries of described application scenarios information;

-described input of character string is carried out matching inquiry in described one or more candidate's dictionaries, determine and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string.

5. method according to claim 2, wherein, described step x comprises:

-obtain input keystroke sequence via the input of ambiguity keyboard, wherein, described ambiguity keyboard comprises at least one ambiguity key, the corresponding a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key;

X1, determines and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence in conjunction with the pairing a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key according to described input keystroke sequence.

6. method according to claim 5, wherein, described step x1 comprises:

-according to described input keystroke sequence, in conjunction with the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input keystroke sequence, determine and the pairing preferred input keystroke sequence of described input keystroke sequence;

-according to described preferred input keystroke sequence,, determine and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence in conjunction with the pairing a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key.

7. method according to claim 1, wherein, described step b comprises:

B1 according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information;

B2 determines the pairing precedence information of described one or more input candidate item according to described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information.

8. method according to claim 7, wherein, described step b1 comprises:

-according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information, wherein, described application scenarios component information comprises pairing one or more application scenarioss of described input candidate item and the weights information of described input candidate item under described application scenarios.

9. according to claim 7 or 8 described methods, wherein, described step b2 comprises:

-according to described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information, in conjunction with the corresponding order models of described application scenarios information, calculate described input candidate item and the corresponding weighted calculation value of described application scenarios information;

-according to described input candidate item and the corresponding weighted calculation value of described application scenarios information, determine the pairing precedence information of described input candidate item.

10. input equipment, wherein, this equipment comprises:

11. input equipment according to claim 10, wherein, described deriving means comprises:

Acquiring unit is used to obtain input of character string;

The candidate item determining unit is used for according to described input of character string, determines and the corresponding one or more input candidate item of described input of character string.

12. input equipment according to claim 11, wherein, described candidate item determining unit is used for:

13. input equipment according to claim 12, wherein, described candidate item determining unit is used for:

14. input equipment according to claim 11, wherein, described acquiring unit comprises:

The sequence acquiring unit is used to obtain the input keystroke sequence via the input of ambiguity keyboard, and wherein, described ambiguity keyboard comprises at least one ambiguity key, the corresponding a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key;

The input of character string determining unit is used for according to described input keystroke sequence, in conjunction with the pairing a plurality of initial input characters of described ambiguity key, determines and the pairing input of character string of described input keystroke sequence.

15. input equipment according to claim 14, wherein, described input of character string determining unit is used for:

16. input equipment according to claim 10, wherein, described definite device comprises:

The component determining unit, be used for according to the application scenarios information of the corresponding intended application of described input of character string, determine described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information;

Priority determining unit is used for determining the pairing precedence information of described one or more input candidate item according to described input candidate item and the pairing application scenarios component information of described application scenarios information.

17. input equipment according to claim 16, wherein, described component determining unit is used for:

18. according to claim 16 or 17 described input equipments, wherein, described priority determining unit is used for: