KR20060093208A - Wireless portable terminal for enabling automatic completion of character strings and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a wireless portable terminal providing a text autocompletion function and a method thereof, and more particularly, by receiving a portion of a character from a user and replacing the text with a completed character including the input character. It relates to a wireless portable terminal and a method for providing the same to complete a character without inputting the text. A wireless portable terminal of the present invention is a wireless portable terminal providing a text autocompletion function, comprising: a database including a complete character and a frequency of use associated with the completed character, a user interface unit for receiving a character from a user, and the database; A control unit for searching for one or more completed characters including the text inputted from the user, and a display unit for sorting and displaying the found completed characters in order of use frequency associated with the searched completed characters on a display device of the wireless portable terminal. The interface unit may receive selection information for selecting any one of the completed characters from the user, and the controller may control to output the selected completed characters in place of the received characters. The. According to the present invention, a character is completed by inputting only a part of characters without providing the characters one by one, thereby providing a user with a completed character including some characters.

Wireless handset, text, auto, complete

Description

WIRELESS PORTABLE TERMINAL FOR ENABLING AUTOMATIC COMPLETION OF CHARACTER STRINGS AND METHOD THEREOF}

1 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a wireless portable terminal that provides an automatic text completion function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a database according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating alignment of completed characters including characters input from a user on a display device of a wireless portable terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating a screen for outputting a completed character selected by a user in place of a character received from the user according to one embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing an automatic text completion function in a wireless portable terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention.

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100: wireless mobile terminal

110: database

120: user interface unit

130: control unit

140: display unit

150: judgment

The present invention relates to a wireless portable terminal providing a text autocompletion function and a method thereof, and more particularly, by receiving a portion of a character from a user and replacing the text with a completed character including the input character. It relates to a wireless portable terminal and a method for providing the same to complete a character without inputting the text.

The remarkable development of mobile communication today has rapidly promoted the popularization of wireless handheld terminals (mobile phones, PDAs, etc.), so that most ordinary people now have wireless handheld terminals all the time.

Wireless mobile terminals provide many services that receive and use text from users. Examples of the service include a short message service (SMS), a multi message service (MMS), a schedule setting registration, a memo pad, and an alarm.

In particular, adolescents often use short text messaging services to avoid the burden of voice call charges. The short message service is one of the most popular text input services.

In the input of such characters, the user must repeatedly enter all the characters in the same text repeatedly or reuse the previously used characters, or the user directly inputs a word or phrase into the wireless terminal. The hassle of having to search and select the stored words or phrases through a menu to enter characters.

Therefore, there is a need for a method of easily inputting characters without inputting all characters in a method of inputting characters of a wireless portable terminal. The present invention provides a method of maximizing user convenience and more efficiently using a mobile communication terminal by providing a user with a function of receiving some characters and automatically completing characters in character input.

The present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, the user does not input the characters one by one, only by entering a portion of the character by providing a complete character containing some of the characters to the wireless portable to complete the character A terminal and a method thereof are provided.

In addition, the present invention provides a complete text to the user, the user does not need to separately enter the complete text for the text auto-completion function, SMS, MMS, address book management, schedule management, such as using a wireless portable terminal, such as text input naturally It is an object of the present invention to provide a wireless portable terminal and a method of providing a text autocompletion function by making a database of characters which are not currently stored among the above.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to increase the user's convenience by first providing a completed character frequently used by the user.

In order to achieve the above object and to solve the problems of the prior art, the wireless portable terminal of the present invention is a wireless portable terminal providing a character autocompletion function, the database comprising a complete character and the frequency of use associated with the completed character, A user interface for receiving a character from a user, a control unit for searching for one or more completed characters including the character received from the user with reference to the database, and the searched completed character on the display device of the wireless portable terminal And a display unit arranged to display the sorted characters in order of use frequency associated with the completed characters, wherein the interface unit receives selection information for selecting any one of the completed characters from the user, and the controller is further configured to input the selected completed characters. Received it characterized in that the control outputs in place of the above letters.

In a wireless portable terminal according to an aspect of the present invention, a method of providing a text autocompletion function in a wireless portable terminal, comprising: a first step of maintaining a database including a completed character and a frequency of use associated with the completed character; A second step of receiving an input, a third step of searching for one or more completed characters including the character received from the user with reference to the database, and the searched completed character on the display device of the wireless portable terminal A fourth step of displaying and sorting in order of a frequency of use associated with a character; a fifth step of receiving selection information for selecting any one of the completed characters from the user; outputting the selected completed character in place of the received character; Sixth step of controlling to, the selection Updates the frequency of use associated with a completion character is characterized in that it comprises a seventh step of including in said database.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail with respect to a wireless portable terminal providing a text automatic completion function according to an embodiment of the present invention and a method of providing the same.

The character auto-completion function used in the present invention can be applied to all cases where character input such as short message service, multi message service, address book management, schedule management, etc. of the wireless portable terminal is required.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a wireless portable terminal that provides an automatic text completion function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the wireless portable terminal 100 according to the present invention includes a database 110, a user interface unit 120, a controller 130, a display unit 140, and a determination unit 150. . Hereinafter, the function of each component will be described in detail.

The database 110 includes complete letters, including words, phrases, or sentences, and frequencies of use associated with the completed letters.

2 is a diagram showing the configuration of a database 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the database 110 includes a complete character 111 and a frequency of use 112 field. The complete character 111 refers to a completed word, phrase or sentence among characters previously input from the user, and the use frequency 112 is updated in association with the completed character whenever the completed character stored in the database 110 is used. It means how often.

The user interface 120 receives text from the user.

The controller 130 searches for one or more completed characters including the characters received from the user with reference to the completed characters 111 of the database 110.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when the character received from the user is Korean, the wireless portable terminal 100 may provide a character autocompletion function in units of initial, neutral, or final. In other words, the controller 130 divides the input characters into initial, neutral or terminal units, and searches the database 110 for the completed characters including the input characters.

For example, when the character input from the user is 'no' to date, the controller 130 may include a syllable 'in' and one or more completed characters having a first letter 'b' among the next syllables. Search on. For example, when the character input from the user is 'no', the completed characters 'hello', 'hello', 'hello', including 'no' in the database 110 as shown in FIG. Search each of 'no left'. That is, even when the user does not input all the consonants, the neutrals, or the consonants of the syllables, the user may search for the completed character including the consonants or the neutrals using only the consonants or neutrals that have been input.

The display unit 140 displays the completed character searched by the controller 130 on the display device of the wireless portable terminal 100. In addition, according to another embodiment of the present invention, the controller 130 refers to the database 110 to retrieve the frequency of use associated with the retrieved complete character, respectively, and the display unit 140 retrieves the retrieved complete character. It can also be sorted by frequency of use.

3 is a diagram illustrating alignment of completed characters including characters input from a user on a display device of the wireless portable terminal 100 according to one embodiment of the present invention.

For example, as shown in FIG. 3, when the user inputs 'n', the above completed characters including 'n', 'hello', 'hello', 'hello', 'not left', etc. By referring to the frequency of use of the database 110 associated with the character, the frequency of use is sorted from highest to lowest and displayed on the display screen of the user.

The interface unit 120 receives, from the user, selection information for selecting any one of the completed characters displayed on the display device by the display unit 140. Even when there is only one completed character displayed on the display device, the user inputs the selection information when the displayed completed character actually corresponds to a character that the user wants to input.

For example, when the user selects 'hello' from among the completed characters 'hello', 'hello', 'goodbye', and 'not left', the interface 120 selects hello. To be entered as optional information.

As shown in FIG. 4, the controller 130 controls to output the selected completed character in place of the character received from the user.

In addition, this process may be repeatedly performed as the user inputs a character. That is, when the user enters a neutral '' 'followed by' n ', and becomes a' girl ', the controller 130 includes' hello' and 'hello' including 'girl' among the searched completed characters. And 'hello' except for 'not left' that does not include 'girl'.

The display unit 140 also does not display 'not left' on the display device, and the user can select a completed character from among the currently displayed 'hello', 'hello', and 'hello'.

In addition, the above-described case in which the user additionally inputs a character, but the case in which the user deletes a character already input by pressing the 'Delete' button or the left arrow button in the initial, neutral, or final unit is also the same. . That is, when the user presses the 'Delete' button while the 'girl' is currently input, 'hello', 'hello', 'hello', and 'no' including 'no' are displayed again. do.

For example, as shown in FIG. 3, when the user inputs selection information for selecting 'hello' among the searched and displayed completed characters, the controller 130 is input to the 'no' input from the user. Controls to output the "hello" to the wireless portable terminal 100 display window instead of "n".

In addition, the controller 130 updates the frequency of use associated with the completed character selected by the user and stores the frequency of use in the database 110. As shown in FIG. 3, the frequency of use associated with the selected completed character “hello” may be 53 and the frequency of use after the update may be 54.

The frequency of use used in the present invention is a value calculated by reflecting the number of times a user selects a predetermined completion character. For example, the controller 130 may calculate the frequency of use as the number of selections during the predetermined period. That is, when the period is set to 100 days, the frequency of selection for the past 100 days from the present time point may be calculated as the frequency of use. In addition, the frequency of use may be calculated as the number of times a predetermined complete character is selected from the time when the user first uses the wireless portable terminal 100 to the present. As such, the specific manner of calculating the frequency of use may vary according to the embodiment, and the scope of the present invention is not limited by the frequency of use calculation.

The controller 130 increases the frequency of use associated with the completed character of the database 110 whenever the user selects the completed character.

When the interface unit 120 receives an end signal for text input from the user, the determination unit 150 completes the input of the text content that the user wants to transmit via SMS, for example, of the wireless portable terminal 100. When an end signal for terminating character input is generated by pressing the 'OK' or 'OK' button, the terminal searches for whether there is a completed character which is not included in the database 110 among characters input before the end signal. If the complete character not included in the database 110 is searched, the determination unit 150 sets the frequency of use of the retrieved completed character to 1 to include the retrieved completed character and the frequency of use in the database 110. .

For example, the user said, 'The weather is very nice today. 'How are you doing?' And when you receive the end signal by pressing the 'OK' button, etc., 'Weather' or 'Getting' characters are not included in the database 110. The frequency of use of 'weather' and 'getting out' is set to 1, and the completion characters 'weather' and 'being' and each use frequency 1 are included in the database 110.

As described above, newly completed characters added to the database 110 correspond to characters that the user directly inputs without using the character autocompletion function.

5 is a flowchart illustrating the steps of a method for providing an automatic text completion function in a wireless portable terminal according to the present invention.

First, in step S501, the wireless portable terminal 100 maintains a database 110 including a completed character and a frequency of use associated with the completed character. The completed character means a word, phrase or sentence previously input from the user, and the use frequency means a frequency updated in association with the completed character each time the completed character is used.

In step S502, the wireless portable terminal 100 receives a text from the user.

In operation S503, the wireless portable terminal 100 searches for one or more completed characters including the text received from the user with reference to the database 110. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the wireless portable terminal 100 divides the received characters into a unit of consonant, neutral, or terminal, and searches the database 110 for a completed character including the received characters.

In operation S504, the wireless portable terminal 100 displays the completed character found on the display device of the wireless portable terminal 100. In addition, according to another embodiment of the present invention, the frequency of use associated with the retrieved complete character may be searched for by referring to the database 110, and the retrieved complete character may be sorted and displayed in order of the retrieved frequency.

In step S505, steps S502 to S504 are repeated until the selection information or character completion information is input from the user. For example, when the letter 'ㅇ' is input from the user, the completed characters' A ',' U ',' Ya ', etc. starting with' ㅇ 'are output to the user's wireless portable terminal 100, and the user's' If 'ㅏ' is inputted, the completed characters 'A', 'A', 'Hi', etc., which begin with 'A' are output to the wireless portable terminal 100. The process is repeated until the selection information for selecting the completed character output by the user or the character completion information is input from the user. The character completion information means that the input of the corresponding completion character is completed, for example, a spacing signal (right arrow key button), a comma (,), a period (.), And the like. For example, when the user inputs "Hello, how are you?", The comma and the right space entered by pressing the right arrow button correspond to the character completion information. ? ',' Report ', and' want 'respectively correspond to completion characters.

In step S506, the wireless portable terminal 100 receives selection information for selecting any one of the completed characters from the user.

In step S507, the wireless portable terminal 100 controls to output the selected complete character from the user in place of the character input from the user. For example, when the character input from the user is 'n', selecting 'hello' among the completed characters including 'n' may control to output 'hello' instead of 'n'.

In operation S508, the wireless portable terminal 100 updates the frequency of use associated with the completed character selected by the user and stores the frequency of use in the database 110.

In operation S509, when the wireless terminal 100 receives an end signal of character input from the user, the wireless portable terminal 100 searches for a completed character not included in the database 110 among characters input before the end signal. For example, the user said, 'We love the weather today. If you are receiving the end signal by pressing the 'confirmation' button after inputting the character 'how are you doing well,' the database 100 searches whether the input complete character.

In step S510, the wireless portable terminal 100 sets the frequency of use of the retrieved completed character to one.

In step S511, the searched completed character, the completed character, and the frequency of use 1 are included in the database 110.

The method for providing the autocomplete function in the wireless portable terminal according to the present invention may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed by various computer means and recorded in a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic disks, such as floppy disks. Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. The medium may be a transmission medium such as an optical or metal wire, a waveguide, or the like including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal specifying a program command, a data structure, or the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

While specific embodiments of the present invention have been described so far, various modifications are possible without departing from the scope of the present invention.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be defined not only by the scope of the following claims, but also by the equivalents of the claims.

According to the present invention, a character is completed by inputting only a part of characters without providing the characters one by one, thereby providing a user with a completed character including some characters.

In addition, according to the present invention, in providing the complete character to the user, the user does not need to separately enter the complete character for the character auto-completion function, while using a wireless portable terminal such as SMS, MMS, address book management, schedule management Among the characters, characters that are not currently stored are databased to provide the character auto-completion function.

In addition, according to the present invention, the user's convenience is increased by first providing a completed character frequently used by the user.

Claims (8)

In a wireless portable terminal that provides a character autocompletion function, A database comprising a complete character and a frequency of use associated with the completed character; A user interface unit which receives text from a user; A controller for searching for one or more completed characters including the character received from the user by referring to the database; And A display unit arranged to display the searched completed characters in order of use frequency associated with the searched completed characters on a display device of the wireless portable terminal Including, The interface unit receives selection information for selecting any one of the completed characters from the user, And the control unit controls to output the selected completed character in place of the received character. The method of claim 1, And the control unit updates the frequency of use associated with the selected completed character and stores the frequency in the database. The method of claim 1, When the interface unit receives an end signal from the user, search for a completed character not included in the database among characters input before the end signal, Set the frequency of use of the retrieved complete character to 1, And a determination unit to include the searched completed character and the frequency of use in the database. The method of claim 1, The control unit, When the received character is Hangul, the wireless portable terminal providing a character auto-completion function, characterized in that to search for the completed character including the received character by dividing the received character into the initial, neutral, and final unit. In the method for providing a text auto completion function in a wireless portable terminal, Maintaining a database comprising a complete character and a frequency of use associated with the completed character; A second step of receiving text from a user; A third step of searching for one or more completed characters including the character received from the user by referring to the database; A fourth step of sorting and displaying the searched completed text in order of use frequency associated with the searched completed text on a display device of the wireless portable terminal; A fifth step of receiving selection information for selecting any one of the completed characters from the user; A sixth step of controlling to output the selected completed character in place of the received character; And A seventh step of updating the frequency of use associated with the selected completed character to include in the database; Method for providing a character autocomplete function in a wireless portable terminal comprising a. The method of claim 5, The second to fourth steps may be repeated until the selection information or the character completion information from the user, wherein the character completion information means that input of a completed character including the character is completed, is repeated. How to provide character autocompletion in mobile terminal. The method of claim 6, Searching for a completed character not included in the database among characters input before the end signal when the end signal of character input is received from the user; Setting a frequency of use of the retrieved completed character to 1; And And including the searched completed character and the frequency of use in the database. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method of any one of claims 5 to 7.

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