KR20150017075A - input method for numbers with 9 keys - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a number input method using 9 keys. The present invention provides a Korean alphabet keyboard to input a user name and a password to be used for protecting the connection of the users in an internet age in the Korean alphabet instead of an English alphabet keyboard. The present invention relates to a method for providing a keyboard composed of the 9 keys with a communication function by including a number key, a symbol key, and a shift key. The present invention inputs the number in a word estimation input method.

Description

9 input method for numerical input method using keys {input method for numbers with 9 keys}

The field of the present invention is a technology field related to an input device of a portable small digital device, which is a field for easily inputting numbers and characters

The change of the Internet information communication through the PC started at the end of the 20th century leads to the change of the information communication through the mobile device in the 21st century and this change is transformed into the transition to the ubiquitous world have. These changes are accompanied by changes in technology. The following sections show that technology that led each era has an inseparable relationship with these eras.

The age of the mail that was made by the transfer of the recordings by the writing tool

Age of voice call over telephone (telegraph)

E-mail via Internet with PC and worldwide web

Age of social network society by the appearance of mobile devices

It is already entering the ubiquitous era of connecting mobile devices to TVs in the living room of the house. Especially, regarding the input device, nobody can deny that touch screen of indispensable technology is indispensable for typewriter in the age of mailer, telephone (handset) in the age of voice call, mouse in addition to keyboard in email era, and touch screen of mobile device in SNS era. If there was no such input device, it would never be possible to change the communication so far, and entry into the current ubiquitous era is becoming a necessary element in the development of input devices. Recent speech recognition techniques and input through gestures have come to overcome the limitations of conventional input devices. However, these new technologies are still lacking and are not being used as the main input devices of smart TVs that will become the hub of the ubiquitous era.

Accordingly, the background technology of the present invention is to provide an input method to be applied to a remote control and a smart watch as a main input device of a smart TV leading the ubiquitous era.

TV is now called Smart TV because its functions have been diversified to replace the living room computer. However, unlike conventional computers, smart TV is not a productive device, but an essential device for enjoying leisure time. Therefore, the input device to be applied to it has a special feature that a keyboard and a mouse used in a computer can not be used. In other words, the speed of input is also important, but comfort is also an important factor in using it. For example, a TV that can be viewed on a couch sitting on a desk like a computer and taking a pose and watching it as if it were a keyboard and mouse is essentially unfit. In this context, speech recognition or text input via gestures is the focus of interest because it is as fast and comfortable as a keyboard. Nevertheless, the limitations of these methods are that it is difficult to distinguish the input from many people and the accuracy that can not reach the keyboard or mouse in the case of voice recognition. In the case of gesture recognition, It is unreasonable to perform simple commands such as channel increase and volume increase with the action taken by hand. In this context, the present invention provides a simpler method of controlling TV commands than voice or gestures, but can be applied not only to menu selection of a step down menu using a cross key, but also to a window of a PC I want to give you a way. Through this, we intend to provide an input device for Smart TV as a hub of the ubiquitous era, and further provide a function of the keyboard in a limited space of SmartWatch which will act as a pioneer of the computer to wear.

The remote controller shown in FIG. 1 shows a conventional remote controller of a conventional TV. Features of these remote controllers are a four-way key 101 and a number key block 102. [ The reason why the remote controller has such a common element is that the TV has a basic purpose of receiving a broadcast channel. However, in the recent smart TV environment, TV has become a multimedia supply medium as well as a channel broadcasting, and furthermore, functions like a PC. The remote controller can not take charge of the function by only the number key block and the four directional key which are basically provided for the selection of the broadcasting channel. For this reason, the 4-way key and the number key block form disappear on the remote controller for the smart TV shown in FIG. 2, and instead, the form of the qwerty keyboard (FIG. 2 (I)) or a virtual keyboard The touch screen method (Fig. 2 (II)) is adopted. Even a simpler form of remote control (Figure 2 (III)) has emerged. In the background of the remote controller shown in FIG. 2, a conventional remote controller for TV uses a large number of keys when a character input is performed with a limited key (a method in which letters are assigned to 12 keys of a number key block) This is because the input speed is significantly lower than that of the keyboard, which is a limitation of the character input device. Furthermore, since the TV remote control can not simultaneously see the TV screen and the remote control at the time of inputting text, the input speed is significantly lowered because it is inconvenient to alternate between the remote control and the TV screen in order to check the error of the character input. On the other hand, when the key input is performed with 10 fingers of both hands, the number of keys that one finger takes is substantially 4 to 5, so that the input speed is expected to increase more than the remote control type shown in Fig. Nevertheless, unlike the keyboard of PC, the keyboard shown in FIG. 2 (I) is small in size and needs to be operated with two fingers so that it can not overcome the inconvenience of alternating screen and keyboard to check whether the input is correct . On the other hand, the touch screen method shown in FIG. 2 (II) has a merit that the TV screen and the touch screen of the remote control are synchronized so that the user does not have to watch the TV screen while inputting. However, the price of remote control, which is not less than the price of TV, is limited in economy.

As described above, the most important factor of the input method applied to the remote control of the smart TV is that the field of view should focus on the TV during input. In other words, the visual field should be an input method that can implement an Eyes-free remote control free from the remote control. This is why the menu selection method using the 4-direction key on the existing remote control became the main control method. That is, since the four-direction key can recognize the position of each of the four-direction keys, the finger manipulating the four-direction key does not need to look at the remote control at the time of operation.

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method in which the finger is fixed on the TV screen and the finger can recognize the key position of the remote control and can operate the remote control without looking at the remote control. Key features of the remote control As the input method using the 9 key of the present invention is provided for fixing the TV screen of this view, the input method using the 9 key also enables the keyboard function to be implemented in the SmartWatch having an extremely limited space.

The remote control input method using the 9 key of the present invention provides an input method suitable for performing the hub function of the TV ubiquitous era in terms of convenience, speed, and securing accuracy according to the screen fixing of the view. Furthermore, the present invention can be applied to the form of a remote controller for a general TV shown in FIG. 1, thereby providing an advantage that it can be provided at low cost and the user can easily adapt. The 9-key input method of the present invention is applied to the 18-key rather than the 9-key method, so that the remote control function can be provided in which the field of view is fixed to the screen while using two hands instead of one hand. When the 9-key input method of the present invention for remote control is applied to a smart watch, the function of typing in a watch function is added, so that the function as a phone capable of receiving not only a reception but also a transmission function can be performed.

Figure 1 shows a typical remote control.
Figure 2 shows the remote control of a smart TV
3 shows a basic 9-key arrangement for the remote control of the present invention.
FIG. 4 shows an arrangement of a Korean consonant keyboard in a 9-key arrangement keyboard layout.
FIG. 5 shows an arrangement of a Korean vowel keyboard in a 9-key arrangement keyboard layout.
6 shows a virtual keyboard on a TV screen.
FIG. 7 shows a list of predicted words displayed on a TV screen in the case of the word prediction input method.
Fig. 8 shows that a navigation key board is displayed on a TV screen as a virtual keyboard
9 and 10 show a list of predicted words grouped on a TV screen in the case of the word prediction input method
11 and 12 show a list of predicted words grouped on a TV screen in different background colors.
13 shows a smart TV remote control including a QWERTY keyboard.
FIG. 14 shows the form of a remote control for the 9-key input method of the present invention.
15 to 20 show an example of an input method using the remote control type shown in FIG.
FIG. 21 shows a comparison between a keyboard type arranged on the left and right by applying the 9-key input method of the present invention, and a conventional QWERTY keyboard and a Chinese key keyboard.
Figures 22 and 23 are input methods of the present invention in which the repetitive input key is configured to perform the repetition function of the next section as well as the monophonic.
FIG. 24 shows a method of displaying a touched key when a finger touches a key of a virtual keyboard.
FIG. 25 shows a layout of a keyboard in the form of a keyboard of the present invention having nine keys on the left and right, respectively, in the center of the nine keys on the right side.
Figs. 26 to 28 illustrate a method for storing the location of each key in the Korean alphabets, and a method for storing the Korean characters in the alphabetic keys of the keyboard and an operation for inputting Hangul in the virtual keyboard, Shows a method of inputting the alphabetic characters of the keys corresponding to the Korean characters.
FIG. 29 shows a smartwatch in which the 9-key input method of the present invention is applied.
30 shows a nine-key keyboard configuration capable of inputting a number.
31 shows a remote controller having a nine-key keyboard configuration capable of inputting numbers.

Prior to multi-media broadcast, which is called smart TV or internet TV, remote control of TV was merely a function of channel change and volume control. However, as these multimedia broadcasts began, TV became a device that needed the same level of input and output as a computer. As a result, the input device has reached the limit in the form of remote control of the conventional button sorting type. That is, the function of the remote control becomes complicated to arrange all the buttons for each function on the remote control. The advantage of the existing button-array remote control is that buttons with similar functions are placed next to each other so that you do not have to look at the button during operation. For example, when you press a button to increase the volume, you must first look at the remote to check its position, but once you operate the key, the subsequent action will no longer need to look at the key. The reason is that the operation required after pressing the volume increase button is only for operating the button for stopping the volume operation or decreasing the volume again. Therefore, when the operation is stopped, no further operation is required. When the volume is decreased, This is because you can press a volume down button and its position is easily recognized by your finger, so you do not have to look at the remote in any case.

In this context, the present invention provides a method of minimizing the movement of a finger to allow most of the input to be performed with only nine keys so that the position of the key can be easily grasped.

The keyboard shown in FIG. 3 is a keypad for inputting Korean and English characters as a key of the configuration of the present invention described in the following embodiments, and is characterized in that a multi-function key in red is used.

<Consonant input method in 9-key consonant keyboard including vowel input activation key>

FIG. 3 (I) and FIG. 4 show a nine-key keyboard for Hangul input. The characteristics of these keyboards are one key for vowel input and a red key in the middle (named "Hanal key"). A method of inputting a vowel using a single key is already known from Korean Patent 10-2012-7004777. 4, it is possible to easily input the Korean alphabet by using only nine keys.

The consonant keypad shown in FIG. 4 relocates only the consonant arrangement of the conventional Hangul input method to seven or eight keys, and the input method is the same as the consonant input method of the conventional Hangul input method. FIG. 4 (I) is a consonant arrangement of a Samsung Heavenly, FIG. 4 (II) is a consonant arrangement of a Gongyin input method (patent 10-0201211) and FIG. 4 (III) is a consonant arrangement of a KT spiral. In addition, the consonant arrangement can be arbitrarily arranged in the key except for the "key". The use of 'Hanal Key' has the advantage that the arrangement of consonants in Hangul can be freely placed within the 9-key keyboard.

In addition, when using the "still key", the consonant input method of the overtone method (FIGS. 4 (I) and 4 (II)) in which the blank key " And the input of consonants is easily performed.

For example, in the case of the consonant keyboard of FIG. 4 (I) and FIG. 4 (II), when 'each' is input, 'a', the first letter of 'angular', and ' Since it is assigned to the same key, after inputting the first letter 'A', press the 'space' key, and then press the 'A' key again. If you press the 'space' key twice consecutively, 'space' will be entered so that the input of the Korean alphabet except for the symbol will be done by only 9 keys. Unlike the consonant keypad shown in FIG. 4 (I) and FIG. 4 (II), 'consonant' consonant input shown in FIG. 4 (III) does not have a consonant collision element, It is more inconvenient than the consonant keyboard composed of the seven consonant keys shown in Figs. 4 (I) and 4 (II) in that a separate key for input is required. Therefore, it is preferable that the consonants are arranged in 7 keys in order for the Korean alphabet input including the blank input to be made up of 9 keys, excluding the symbol input.

<Explanation of vowel input method>

The vowel input is performed by activating the vowel keyboard shown in Fig. 5 by pressing the &quot; lower key &quot; of the consonant keyboard shown in Fig. FIG. 5 (I) is a combination of well-known Korean characters and a combination of Korean characters. In FIG. 5 (II), the short vowels are input by pressing the respective vowel keys once for the short vowels except for 'ㅐ' and 'ㅔ', and in the case of the double vowel, each key is inputted by pressing each key twice. In the case of double vowels, the short vowels constituting each double vowel are input by pressing the designated key in order. For example, in the case of 'ㅑ', 'ㅑㅑ' key is pressed twice and 'ㅐ' is input by pressing 'ㅑㅑ' key and 'ㅣ' key in order. In case of 'ㅘ', press 'ㅗㅛ' key and 'ㅑㅑ' key in order. In the case of FIG. 5 (III), 'ㅐ' and 'ㅔ' are assigned to separate keys, so that a short vowel is inputted by pressing each key once, and a double vowel is inputted by pressing each key twice. And the short vowels constituting the first vowel are sequentially input.

5 has the disadvantage of being most intuitive and easy to understand but having a large number of pauses in the case of Fig. 5 (I). In the case of Fig. 5 (III), the number of pauses is the smallest, 5 (III) has the greatest advantage. In the case of the vowel keyboard, when the vowel entry is completed, a method of switching to the consonant vowel plate by pressing the "vowel key" again is applicable to all of the vowel plates of Fig. 5, and in the case of Fig. As disclosed in -7004777, when inputting a vowel is completed, it is automatically switched to a consonant keyboard to increase the input efficiency.

Regarding the search process, the vowel plates of Figures I and II have advantages over the vowel plates of Figure 5 (III). And a move keypad activation key (501). In other words, in case of these vowel keyboards, even if they are not converted to consonant vowels, they provide a way to be converted into a moving keyboard, which provides a method of easily selecting and inputting a word without leaving the 9-key keyboard.

Expansion of the function of the space key

Since the character input to the remote control for smart TV is mainly a command input for searching or controlling the TV, the input for these functions is different from the inputting of a sentence for sending and receiving a message like a smart phone. The main difference that these characteristics bring is space input. Searches on smart TVs or general TVs mainly search for channels, broadcast contents, and VOD titles, so that characters can be input without a blank input. For example, when searching for a VOD title called 'Batman Returns', you can omit the space following 'Batman' and type 'Batman Returns' so that the search results will not differ. Therefore, when the 'space' key shown in the consonant keyboard of FIG. 4 is pressed twice in succession, it is preferable to activate the 'move key' keyboard instead of the 'space' input. 3 (IV) can be activated by pressing the 'space' key twice, the selection / execution of the search item displayed on the screen after the character input for the search and the character input can be completed as the 9 key . This allows the search to be completed without leaving the finger at 9 keys. Since the finger grasps the position of the 9 key, it is advantageous that the visual field can be fixed on the TV screen since the finger operation for switching to the keyboard can be done without looking at the keyboard.

As shown in FIG. 6, when the 'A' key is pressed on the remote controller by displaying the virtual keyboard on the TV screen, the depressed state of the 'A' It is preferable to visually check the key position to be recognized simultaneously on the TV screen.

<Hangul input: first name search>

In the case of Hangul search, the number of key input is reduced because the vowel input is omitted when searching using only the prefix. Moreover, since there is no need to enter a vowel, no vowel activation key is required. Therefore, when the function of 'move key keyboard' is given instead of the function of 'vowel input' of 'Hanal key', it is also possible to press' Hanal key 'only once instead of pressing' The user convenience can be further increased.

The search word selection and input process in the search through the prefix input can be applied to the word prediction input method shown in the seventh to tenth embodiments.

<Move Keyboard>

The navigation keypad shown in FIG. 3 (IV) provides a function to match a navigation key and a character input key existing on a conventional TV remote controller to a nine-key keyboard. The move-key keyboard can also provide a volume key and a channel change key function, thereby providing a method of unifying the function control of the TV to nine keys. Since the volume key and the channel change key are not used at the time of inputting or searching a character using the move key, they can be activated by pressing the space key or the down key as in the third and fourth embodiments, or a separate ' It is also possible to change the volume and the channel at any time by placing the switch 301 at the same time.

Nevertheless, in the consonant keypad structure of FIG. 3 (I), when the 'move keypad' is activated by pressing the 'space' key twice, the volume and the channel can be adjusted without leaving the finger. Of course, pressing the 'space key' twice can be applied only when the 'move keypad' function is activated instead of the 'blank' input function.

<English: input sentence>

The English keyboard shown in FIG. 3 (II) inputs English characters using multi-tapping. Unlike Hangul, there is no distinction between consonants and vowel keyboards, so the center red 'Hanal Key' merely serves as a space key function. That is, if you press the space key once, the input of new character starts like the function of preventing consonant collision of Hangul. For example, if you press the 'abc' key twice, then press the 'space' key and press the 'abc' key again, 'b' will be entered and 'a' will be newly entered. If you press the 'abc' key twice and then press the 'space' key twice in succession, type 'b' and type space. This is the same as the input method of the Korean consonant keypad shown in Figs. 4 (I) and 4 (II).

In the case of VOD title search and channel search on a TV in which a search function can be performed even if there is no space input even in the case of English input, such as English, a red tap 'red' key of FIG. 3 (II) And if the user presses the key twice to perform the move key keyboard activation function, the character input for the search and the selection / execution of the search item displayed on the screen after the character input can be completed as the 9 key.

In the case of the search through the input of the English word in the present embodiment, the contents of the search word selection and input process of the seventh to tenth embodiments can also be applied.

<Inputting English: Application of word prediction input method>

In the case of English, character input is commonly performed by using the predictive text input method. In this case, the red 'yellow key' of FIG. 3 (II) It is only necessary to perform the function of activating the moving board.

For example, the word prediction input method is to press 'abc', 'mno', and 'wxyz' key once in order to input 'boy'. ''','','','','','',' ], The prediction words are displayed in the prediction word list window 712 so that one of the prediction words can be selected. (FIG. 7) In order to select / input a predictive word to be input among the predicted words thus displayed, a 'red' key (a red key marked with a '+') is pressed to activate the move keypad 811. The English keyboard 711 is switched to the movement keypad 811 as shown in FIG. Pressing the downward movement key 801 once after the keyboard has been converted to the navigation keypad moves the selection to the 'boy' one level below the first selected 'any' in the predicted word list. The background color of the word is displayed in blue). In this state, if the 'confirm' key 802 is pressed, the selected predictive word 'boy' is input.

<Prediction word input using numeric input>

In the seventh embodiment, the downward movement key 801 is depressed to select a predictive word in the navigation keypad shown in FIG. If you replace this process with numeric input, the selection process becomes easier. For example, when the key of the move keypad is pressed for a long time, a numeric value is inputted in place of the original move key function of the move keypad, so that a predictive word corresponding to the number of the word list window 812 of FIG. 8 is inputted. In other words, press '2' key (corresponding to the upward movement key) to input 'boy'. When this happens, the key press to enter 'boy' is completed in one go. In the case of the remaining prediction words, the input is performed by one key push, and the number of key presses is greatly reduced.

<Expanding the configuration of the move keypad>

The configuration of the movement keypad generally has left, right, up, and downward movement keys in the form shown in FIG. 3 (IV). In Examples 5 to 7, a desired list was selected using the general moving keyboard. However, as described in the eighth embodiment, when the predicted word is input by one-key pressing by associating each predicted word with the key at a ratio of 1: 1 without using the shift key, the number of key presses is greatly reduced, . For this purpose, a shift key board of Fig. 9 is a modification of the structure of a general shift key board. 9 does not have a left / right movement key. Even the Shanghai Donkey is used to select the predictive word list group instead of the navigation key function to select the predictive word from the predictive word list. Here, the 'predicted word list group' refers to a case where the number of predicted words predicted by character input is larger than the number of predicted words ('6' in the case of the moving keyboard in FIG. 9) Quot; refers to each group subdivided into a number that can be input by the moving keyboard key as a whole.

For example, the navigation keypad shown in FIG. 9 has six keys ('1', '1', and '2') excepting the center 'confirm' key and the ' 3 ',' 4 ',' 6 ',' 7 ',' 9 '). That is, if these number keys are pressed, a prediction word corresponding to the number is inputted. Therefore, the number of predictive words that can be input into the 'move keypad' of FIG. 9 is the number of predictive words of the number keys ('1', '3', '4', '6', '7', '9' It corresponds to the number.

In the predictive word present list windows 903 and 904 shown in FIG. 9, six predictive words are arranged on the left and right sides. When the 'abc', 'mno', and 'wxyz' The six prediction words that are more than 6 words and can be input by the navigation keypad are displayed in the 'current list window' 903 and 904, and the rest are displayed in the 'next list window' 905 and 906. In this case, the user can easily select a prediction word to be input. If the prediction word to be input is placed in the 'next list window', the 'next list' key is pressed to be arranged in the 'current list window', and the predicted word to be inputted is inputted by pressing the designated key. For example, if the predicted word to be input in FIG. 9 is 'coz', the word is arranged in the 'next list window', so to place it in the 'current list window', first press the 'next list' key. Then, as shown in FIG. 10, 'coz' is placed in the 'current list window' 1003 and 1004, and 'coz' is input when the fourth key corresponding to 'coz' is pressed in this state.

<Use background color of moving keyboard>

As shown in Example 9, when the number key is used instead of the move key of the move keypad, the number of key presses for selecting / inputting a predictive word is greatly reduced as compared with the case using the Shanghai Donkey. In order to further increase the user convenience due to the decrease in the number of key presses, a method of utilizing the background color of the numeric keys of the movement keypad as shown in FIGS. 11 and 12 will be presented in this embodiment.

In Example 9, numerals are also displayed in the predicted word list in order to associate the numeric key with the predicted word in the predicted word list window. If the same background color is applied to the numerical keys of the virtual keyboard and the prediction word list instead of these numbers in order to further increase the linkage of the virtual keyboard 901 and the predictive word list 902 displayed on the screen by actually displaying the numbers, It is possible to easily associate the predictive word with the numeric key of the virtual keyboard without confirming the actual key, so that the user can easily input the key of the real remote controller.

Therefore, the contents shown in FIG. 11 and FIG. 12 are the same as those shown in FIG. 9 and FIG. 10, except that a different background color is applied to the virtual keyboard and the predicted word list instead of numbers, .

The moving keyboard layout for the prediction word input method shown in the seventh to tenth embodiments can be applied to the case of Hangul, and in particular, the process of selecting / inputting a search word can be applied in the searching process through the initial input.

The processes of Examples 1 to 10 show that character input is performed by using the center of 9 key as a function key. Embodiments 11 to 20 illustrate a method of obtaining a faster input speed than that using only one keypad with 9 keys on both the left and right sides, .

As the TV performs the function of the existing PC such as the Internet, the keyboard is mounted on the remote controller as shown in FIG. 13. The remote controller has a form of a general TV remote controller on one side and a dual side having a qwerty keyboard on the other side Is also being commercialized. The reason for providing the form of qwerty keyboard is that the letter key input method based on the general 12 key is insufficient in terms of the input speed of various characters (Korean, English, symbols, numbers) and its convenience in comparison with the qwerty keyboard . However, the remote control with this qwerty keyboard is not common because qwerty keyboard can not be fixed on the screen and qwerty keyboard should be seen. Therefore, although qwerty keyboard has advantages over 12-key type keypad, it is still generalized. In order to overcome this problem, the present invention extends to the nine-key input method shown in the first to tenth embodiments, so that an input method using two 9-key keyboards, in which the visual field is fixed on the TV screen and the input speed can take advantage of both hands, I want to explain.

In the case of the input keyboard shown in FIG. 15, the consonant and the vowel keyboard are separately input to the left and right. The method of inputting a consonant and the method of inputting a vowel are performed as described in the first and second embodiments. In this way, when the consonant and vowel are separated from each other, there is no need to change the modes of the consonant and vowel by pressing the vowel key to input the vowel, thereby doubling the input speed. Nevertheless, as described in Examples 1 to 10, since the visual field can be fixed on the screen when the input is performed with only the 9 key, even if the input of the consonant and vowel is composed of two pairs of left and right keys, do. Therefore, the input method using the two pairs of 9-key keyboards shown in FIG. 15 has advantages over using the qwerty keyboard shown in FIG. The advantage of the keyboard shown in FIG. 15 is that it has a general remote control type when it is rotated by 90 degrees, so that there is no problem in applying the input method having the convenience of one hand operation already described in FIGS. In other words, in the case of Hangul, similarly to English, it is easy to input characters by using the 9 key by using the predictive input method. In the case of the consonant, the consonant is used to search / input the predicted word by pressing only once without distinguishing the consonants assigned to the respective keys. If the remaining eight keys excluding the middle key are designated together with the vowel, It is possible to search for a predicted word using all the alphabets of the word and input it using 'Hanal key'. That is, if the consonant 'ㄱ bㄲ' and the vowel 'ㅜ' are assigned to the same key and are pressed once, all the words including the five characters are retrieved and the corresponding predicted word is extracted. For example, if you search for the word 'country', you would press 'consecutive' three times in succession without distinguishing consonant vowels from 'ㄱ bㄲ' and 'ㅜ ㅠ' The method can be applied in the same way as the English prediction method.

In addition to being able to enter consonants and vowels in the two pairs of nine keys of Figure 15 described in Embodiment 11, another advantage is that there are two central keys 1501 and 1502, both of which can be used as function keys, It is advantageous to expand the function of the system. For example, the left center key 1501 may be used as a mode changing function (character input mode-> screen adjusting mode) function and a function of changing a key function in the right middle key 1502 character input mode. This extended function will be described by way of example in the twelfth embodiment.

FIG. 17 is a view for pressing the right center key 1502 of FIG. 15 to change the function of the right 9 key in the Hangul mode to enable the input of a symbol. FIG. 18 is a view for explaining the operation of pressing the left center key 1501 It shows the change from subject Hangul mode to English mode. FIGS. 19 and 20 show the state in which the numeric mode and the general control mode are changed when the left center key is pressed twice, three times, respectively. Therefore, the advantages of the remote controller of FIG. 15 are easily changed to basic control mode -> Korean input mode -> English input mode -> number input mode -> basic control mode. Or a character input for character transmission. That is, a method of performing all the operations while the view is fixed on the TV screen is provided. Even replacing the left and right center keys with pointing devices such as joysticks, ball mouses, and optical mice will allow you to do pointing without causing any problems in the character input mode, It is to be able to play a role like a pc in a certain way. However, if a pushing function is provided by adding a switch function to the lower part of these pointing devices, it is possible to perform the function in the character input mode of the right center key.

As described in the twelfth embodiment, the mode is changed by using the left center key of FIG. 15 so that the characters can easily be input into the two pairs of 9-key keyboards on the left and right sides. It is preferable to set the function of the left and right 9-key keyboards to operate in the normal control mode shown in FIG. 20 when the actual remote control is turned on. In the twelfth embodiment, This is because the function of the key board is explained based on the character input. In the twelfth embodiment, when the function of the mode or key is changed by the left and right center keys, a virtual keyboard is displayed on the TV screen so that the user can confirm the change. In the case of the general remote controller shown in FIG. 1, each of the keys takes one function and prints a function on the key to input while viewing the remote controller. However, the remote controller according to the configuration of the present invention shown in FIG. And it can be used in the landscape mode as well as in the vertical mode with one hand as shown on the right. Accordingly, the function of the key can be changed accordingly, thereby further enhancing the user convenience. By incorporating a gyro sensor, it is possible to automatically detect the change of the horizontal and vertical modes, thereby changing the function of the 9-key keyboard according to the use of the user's horizontal and vertical modes. In this case, it is preferable to display the virtual keyboard on the screen to confirm the function of the key rather than to print the function of the key around the key or the key.

In the twelfth embodiment, a method of changing modes using the center keys 1501 and 1502 has been described. For character input, it may be advantageous to assign the frequently used character key to the center key rather than to change the mode. The thirteenth embodiment describes a case where the center key is replaced with a character input key.

16 shows a case where the center key is used as a character key instead of the mode change key. Fig. 16 (I) shows a case where the left and right center keys 1501 and 1502 are all changed to character keys. In this case, the mode change function originally performed by the central key is performed by selecting among the circular keys 1603 located at the center of the remote control. In this case, as the number of consonant keys increases from 7 to 9, the number of input for consonant input decreases, and grouping of consonants can be grouped to be similar. That is, the consonant keyboard of FIG. 16 (I) is composed of similar consonants as follows - 'ㄱ ㅋ ㄲ', 'ㄸ ㄸ', 'ㅇ ㅎ', 'ㅃ ㅃ', 'ㅅ ㅆ', ''- By assigning to the same key, the readability of the keyboard is increased and the input efficiency is increased. In addition, in the case of the vowel keyboard, the blank key is positioned at the center, thereby minimizing the finger movement for spacing. 16 (I) is more effective when applied to a smartphone usable with a TV remote control. This is because, in the case of a smartphone, the view is fixed to the screen even if the key for changing the mode is not located within the 9 key. In other words, in the case of a smart phone, since the view is synchronized with the TV screen, the view is fixed to the smartphone screen instead of the TV screen, so it is preferable that the finger movement is minimized rather than the mode conversion key is located within the 9 key. In this regard, when applied as a Korean input device of a smartphone, it has the advantage of increasing the input speed due to the intuitiveness of the consonant keyboard and the minimization of the finger movement required for the blank input. 21 (II)) and the sky keypad (FIG. 21 (III) - the exact name is "sky key double keyboard") used in the smartphone is the same as the keypad Respectively. As already well known, qwerty keyboard has advantages that it can be recognized easily by computer keyboard, but it has a shortness of key size and high typing rate. In the case of Hangul, 'cow', ' And the disadvantage of overlapping the left hand and the right hand thumb. On the other hand, in the case of the 'Chunjiyin' keyboard already determined by the Hangul standard keyboard, a method for decreasing the number of key presses as shown in FIG. 21 (III) . 21 (I), the consonant and the vowel are separated from each other so that there is no finger overlap in the vicinity of the center. As compared with the qwerty keyboard, the size of the key increases, and 9 consonants and vowels The key is that the input is easy and the finger movement is minimized. Therefore, it eliminates the disadvantages of qwerty keyboard and chijiji keyboard, which are representative Korean language keyboards of existing smart phones, and maximizes the advantages, so that it has the advantage of fixing the view to the TV screen with the remote control and the function as the unified keyboard of smart phone and smart TV And the like. 16 (II) is different from FIG. 16 (I) in that the functions of the right central key 1502 are maintained by designating the 'space' and 'deletion' keys instead of omitting the ' (Not only the vowel input but also the function of preventing the consonant collision prevention function and performing the function to prevent consonant collision by pressing once and the blank space by pressing twice) Delete 'key to enable deletion of Korean characters. That is, FIG. 16 (I) shows the removal of the mode change function of the left and right center keys in the direction of increasing the input efficiency of Korean characters, FIG. 16 (II) And can be selected according to the user's taste.

As described in the thirteenth embodiment, the remote control unit of FIG. 14 has an advantage of providing an input method suitable for a smart TV, and moreover, a consistency with an input method of a smartphone. Hereinafter, embodiments 14 to 16 describe additional contents of the Korean input method applied to the smartphone shown in FIG. 20 (I).

FIG. 25 shows a keyboard using a 'beep sound key' 2501 instead of a 'flood' key located at the center of FIG. 16 (I) to solve a consonant collision problem that occurs when a consonant input is input by multi- have. In this method, the consonant sound is input by pushing the terminal sound but not by pushing the key corresponding to the terminal sound of these light and shout sound several times. For example, to enter 'ㅋ' and 'ㄲ', press 'ㄱ' and then press the key twice (2501) twice to input 'ㅋ' and 'ㄲ', respectively. Accordingly, if the user presses the 'A' key, 'A' is continuously input, and the user inputs the 'A' to input 'each' as in the keyboard shown in FIG. 16 (I) You do not need to press once and then press 'A' again. That is, the 'middle key' in FIG. 25 is assigned to the right middle key 1502, thereby providing a method for quickly inputting the Korean alphabet without worrying about the consonant collision. In the case of smart TV, since it is the main purpose of inputting characters for searching rather than text messages, it can be pointed out that it can be typed without worrying about collision of consonants over 'space' input. Further, even in the case of the smartphone, since the field of view is fixed to the screen of the smartphone, even if the 'blank' key is not positioned on the right center key 1502, the movement of the finger toward the 'blank' The effect of the remote control of the TV is smaller than that of the remote controller of the TV. Therefore, the 'middle' key may be disposed at the position of the right center key 1502, as shown in FIG.

This embodiment relates to the repetition key input. Generally, the repeating phrases used by young people in smartphone are 'ㅋ', 'ㅎ', etc. The keyboard of the computer has already provided the function of repeatedly inputting the character designated by the key when the key is kept pressed. The already widely used 'ㅎㅎㅎ ㅎㅎㅎ' is interpreted differently according to the sender and the recipient, and a vowel is added to it as a syllable. have. However, it is true that it is less than the repetition of syllable units including vowels to convey the exact meaning. Therefore, in this embodiment, it is desired to provide a method of easily inputting the repeated words. FIG. 22 shows a process of repeatedly inputting in syllable units in a character input device. It is not a single syllable, but a way to repeat a whole sentence, even multiple syllables. As shown in FIG. 22 (II), when 'Woof!' Is input and the 'Repeating' key is pressed, if the user drags the character to the right and selects the '3 syllable' repetition key, 'Woof!' In FIG. 22, although it is configured to repeatedly input up to four syllables, a long sentence (from the current cursor position to a position immediately after a period (.) Indicating the end of the previous sentence) may be selected and repeated. Such a syllable-unit or sentence-level repetition function provides a way to easily send a repeating phrase of various meanings to a receiver of a message on a smartphone or a smart TV. In FIG. 22, the configuration of the repetition key is shown through the virtual keyboard of the smartphone, but the provision of the repetition key function of the syllable unit is also applicable to the remote control, and FIG. 23 shows this configuration. FIG. 23 shows a case where the center circular key 2301 is designated as a repetition key. When this repetition key is pressed, the right 9 key plate is changed to a function key for selecting the number of syllables and sentence, Or repeated input of sentence unit is performed. In the present embodiment, if it is understood that the repetition function of a syllable unit is understood and its constitution principle is understood, various implementations can be realized without hindering the input function of the remote control shown in FIG.

When using the qwerty keyboard with the virtual keyboard of the smartphone, the size of the key is small so that when the key is pressed, the balloon key pops up and is displayed at the top of the key. However, the process of confirming the character of the balloon key is necessary in the case of reversal, so that the problem of the viewpoint deviates from the key occurs. Further, when the finger is moved to the side key at the moment when the finger is separated from the touch screen, the meaning of the balloon key is faded. In this respect, in this embodiment, as shown on the right side of FIG. 23, a contour line is displayed larger than the key around the pressed key so that the user can see that the key is pressed from the contour line even if the key is not visible, The vertical line is displayed so as to intersect at the touch center point of the finger. The outline allows the pressed keys to be identified, and these horizontal and vertical lines give a measure of how far the touched point is from the center of the key, allowing the movement of the finger to remain within the pressed key region at spacing. Previously, when a key was pressed, the image of the key was enlarged to confirm the key. However, there was no way to check how far the touch point of the finger was from the center of the key, and the keyboard behind the enlarged key image was hidden. Therefore, the outline of this embodiment does not cover the keyboard image behind the contour line, and the horizontally and vertically lane lines inform the touch center point to add the accuracy of the input. Therefore, Convenience.

As described above, the remote controller shown in FIG. 14 provides a simple but input method for implementing various functions of smart TV. Nevertheless, the most important feature of this remote control configuration is that the TV remote control is the key point of view, and it can provide a fixed view of the screen.

The following seventeenth embodiment provides a method for easily inputting an ID and a password required for login when a user visits a web site in the era of the Internet age and inputs a non-Korean alphabet into a nine-key keyboard.

In general, the ID and password should be entered in English. For easy memorization, the Korean alphabet is associated with the Korean alphabet, and the input is entered into the English alphabet. However, the key is recognized not in the English alphabet but in the case of the QWERTY keyboard It is to input the Korean alphabet of the key. In other words, when typing 'rkskek', instead of typing rkskek on the English keyboard, it is assumed that the position of the key of 'a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'a' Press the key to input.

In the case of general computer keyboard, one-to-one correspondence is made between English alphabet and Korean alphabet. In case of using computer, Korean keyboard and English keyboard are inputted by same keyboard, so it is easy to input English ID and password in Korean alphabet In the case of a keyboard for a smartphone other than a qwerty keyboard as in the present invention, such a response is difficult. Therefore, FIG. 27 shows a keyboard in which the English ID and the password can be easily input even if only the Korean characters are memorized while solving such difficulties. 27 is a Korean keyboard for a smartphone touch screen in which each keyboard key is touched, a consonant input is performed when the keys are touched, and a vowel is also input when the consonant key is touched while moving up and down. 27 (I), (II) and (III) show a process of inputting 'ma', and Fig. 28 is the same as the process of inputting 'ma' in Korean. However, in reality, 'And' k 'corresponding to' a 'and' a ', respectively. Currently, the qwerty keyboard supports the English alphabet and the Korean alphabet as follows, so that the Korean alphabet input is converted into the English alphabet.

- -> q, - -> w, - -> e, a -> r,

ㅛ -> y, ㅕ -> u, ㅑ -> i, ㅐ -> o, ㅔ -> p,

- -> a, - -> s, - -> d, - -> f, ㅎ -> g,

ㅗ -> h, ㅓ -> h, ㅓ -> j, a -> k, ㅣ -> l,

- -> z, ㅌ -> x, - -> c, - -> v, ㅠ -> b,

ㅜ -> n, ㅡ -> m

The capitalization of the English alphabet is lost in this conversion because it is not necessary to capitalize the capitalization when inputting it in Korean.

In the lower left corner of the keyboard in FIG. 28, there is an indication 'ranks' - 'rkskek', which indicates that the English alphabet of the QWERTY keyboard corresponding to the Hangul characters is input Even if the keyboard on the main screen is a Korean keyboard, the actual input is used to indicate that it is input in the English alphabet. The Hangul- &gt; English conversion input method shown in Fig. 28 provides a method that can be applied even when the English key and the Hangul key can not be displayed on a one-to-one basis as shown in Fig. 27 (III). It is possible to input English ID and Password easily with same Korean keyboard without activating English keyboard. Therefore, the configuration of the present embodiment is applicable to any Hangul keyboard, and even if it is not a QWERTY keyboard type in which an English alphabet is displayed as shown in FIG. 28, an English ID and a Password can be easily input. Another advantage of Fig. 28 is that although the number of keys is large in the QWERTY keyboard, the area of each key is small, so that input errors are large. However, in the case of the keyboard of Fig. 28, the key size is large and the input error is small. Especially, in inputting the ID and the password which should not be error, it is another advantage of the present embodiment that the English key input is performed in the same Hangul key board without activating the small QWERTY key.

Following smart TVs, interest in smart watches is on the rise. Smartwatch is a leader in wearable computers, and early prototype products were released early in the late 1990s, but not much attention. Recently, however, as smartphone growth has slowed down, it has begun to attract attention as a next-generation smart device market. However, it is still about the reception function of the message, the display of the caller, and so on. Nonetheless, SmartWatch is attracting interest with Google Glass because it is more convenient to attach to the body than a smart phone, and can further enhance the user's convenience. However, unlike smartphones, the constraints of these wearable devices are that their input space is extremely limited. In this regard, as shown in FIG. 29, in the case of the smart watch, the input method must be performed through the virtual keyboard. Since the space for displaying the virtual keyboard is 2 inches or less, the 4-line keyboard or the 4-column keyboard Making it difficult to do. If the screen size of the SmartWatch increases, it will become uncomfortable to wear it as a wristwatch. In this respect, a 9 * keypad in the form of a 3 * 3 is the best fit for a smartwatch and its convenience is better than a 3 * 4 or 4 * 3 form for one hand operation. The character input method according to the 3 * 3 form can be easily entered by the inventors of the present invention as shown in FIG. 29 (I) and FIG. 29 (II) as described in the previous embodiment. The problem is the input of numbers. The numbers have been input from 1 to 0 in total 10 keys. Therefore, assuming a phone call, the existing * key and # key functions should be provided, so a total of 12 keys are required, which is provided by conventional mobile phones and smart phones.

In the following embodiments, a method of easily inputting numbers by using a 9-key keyboard is provided.

As shown in Fig. 29 (III), the structure of the present invention is such that a numeric keypad is applied to nine keys. More details are shown in Fig. In order to have the telephone function, the numeric keypad requires 10 numbers from 0 to 9 and keys corresponding to '*', '#', 'call' and 'end'. In order to allocate these 14 keys to 9 keys, two or more numbers or symbols should be assigned to each key, and it is preferable to arrange them as shown in FIG. 30 (II) for intuitiveness and harmony of the arrangement. The numbers and symbols shown in white are entered when you press each key or touch when you touch a device that supports touch mode. The numbers and symbols ('Call' and 'End' key) 30 (II) by pressing the shift key at the bottom center of the screen. Accordingly, if the 'shift' key at the lower center is pressed, the respective functions are converted as shown in FIG. 30 (III). FIG. 30 (III) shows a 'shift' key Touch to display that the function of each key has been converted. As shown in FIG. 30 (III), when the 'shift' key at the bottom center of FIG. 30 (II) is pressed, the '*' and '#' keys are converted into the 'call' So that it is possible to implement the call function of the telephone with nine keys. That is, the nine-key numeric keypad shown in FIG. 30 makes it possible to implement the telephone function in the smartwatch where the space is extremely limited as shown in FIG. 29 (III). Likewise, when the input method of FIG. 30 is applied to a remote controller for a smart TV as shown in FIG. 31, the remote controller of the smart TV is allowed to input a channel number with nine keys so that a channel number can be input while watching the TV. When the keyboard layout shown in FIG. 30 is applied to the predictive word input method described in the seventh embodiment, numeric input is easily implemented.

In the seventh embodiment, the English input through the predictive word input method is described. In order to implement the predictive input method described in the seventh embodiment, since the '5' key of the general numeric keypad is not used, the input of the numeral '5' is inconvenient, and furthermore, the numeral '0' So that it is inconvenient to change from the predictive input mode to the numeric input mode in order to input a number. However, when the keyboard layout shown in FIG. 30 is applied, it is not necessary to change from the predictive input mode to the numeric input mode for numerical input. For example, to enter '150', press 'abc', 'mno', 'tuv', and 'mno' keys in order, and the number '150' appears in the list of predicted words. That is, since 'abc' corresponds to the number '1' and 'mno' corresponds to the number '5', '15' is displayed in the predicted word list. Finally, the number '0' The key 'mno' that follows the 'tuv' key does not correspond to the number '5' but corresponds to the number '0', so that the number '150' is displayed in the predicted word list. Hereinafter, a case of selecting 'KBS' broadcasting on channel 9 in connection with channel selection of the remote controller will be described. If the user desires to select 'KBS' as a predictive input method using the keyboard shown in FIG. 30 (I), 'jkl' and 'abc' corresponding to 'K', 'B' , 'pqrs' keys in order to display 'KBS' in the predicted word list window such as '812' in FIG. 8, or select 'tuv' and 'jkl' keys corresponding to channel number '9' , The channel number '9 (KBS)' is displayed in the prediction word list window to select it. If the title is '007' when searching for a movie on a smart TV, there is no way to search it without changing to the numeric mode. However, in the keyboard configuration of FIG. 30, You can easily search without it. You can press 'tuv', 'mno', 'tuv', 'mno', 'tuv' and 'def'

In the nine-key numeric keypad described in Example 19, ten numerals 0 through 9 using the 'shift' key are implemented. For example, in the case where 'shift' is pressed, numerals that can be input are '6, 7, 8, 9, 0 '. For example, if the number input is' 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 'without pressing' shift 'key and the number entered when the' shif 'key is pressed is the odd numbered even number' 2, 4, 6, 8, 0 '. Likewise, the arrangement of the keys does not have to be limited to the form shown in FIG. 30, and in particular, when the red key in the center takes the function of the &quot; shift &quot; In FIG. 30, the center red key is shown as a method for achieving consistency in connection with the word prediction input method described in the seventh embodiment.

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A method of providing a keyboard comprising nine keys capable of a call function with a number, a symbol, and a shift key
A method of applying numbers to a word prediction input method without changing the number input mode by applying the keyboard layout of claim 1 to a word prediction input method

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