TW501355B - System and method for increasing input and inquiry efficiency - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and system are applied in the device or system using CCITT standard keyboard, such as mobile phone, PDA and palm device for increasing Chinese inquiry efficiency. In the better embodiment of the present invention, after user inputs at least a key value by pressing keys, the pressed key value is then converted to acquire the corresponding character value with the input mode. Use the obtained character value to generate the combination value of all input modes. Subsequently, the better embodiment of the present invention conducts comparison and inquiry operation in accordance with all combination values and generates text combination table with respect to the input mode respectively. Then follow the input mode currently in use to display the text combination table obtained from inquiry. Thus, users can select one of the displayed text combination table afterward, and the contents included in the selected text combination can be retrieved and displayed for further selection of user.

Description

丄 JJJ V. Description of the invention (1) The field of invention 11 is about an invitation to improve data input. 4f specifically refers to the system that is using the MCITT standard, such as a mobile phone, a device or a system. In the system, through a more affinity wttt palm-type device and other devices, the system and method of query efficiency and the efficiency of the input method β Zhisheng input in Chinese t invention also relates to a method that can provide users according to their habits = and transparent The present invention relates more to a system and method that can provide a user to switch the input mode switched by the turn-in data and display the query data in real time. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION: With the rapid progress of electronic technology and communication networks The height of Hyundai Du will change thousands of miles a day. In addition to the frequent exchanges of information, all kinds of information are sent to the shell with different appearances. Therefore, the telephone communication method has also evolved from a fixed transmission line-based method to a wireless communication-based communication method. Therefore, line = has become one of the indispensable equipment in modern people's lives. In the use of conventional mobile phones, the size of the user interface such as a keyboard or a monitor is often small because the computer must be small because it must be portable. For example, in the mobile phone depicted in the first figure, in addition to the liquid crystal display (LCD) 110, it contains a CCITTCConsultative Committee in International

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Telegraphy and Telephony) standard keyboard area 102, control keys 104A and 104B, directional keyboard area 106, left key 108A, right key 108B, and function keys 112, among which are standard keyboard areas 102 includes " Γ, " 2ABC ", "3DEF, f, " 4GHI "," 6ΜΝ0 ", " 7PQRS ", "8TUV ", " 9ffXYZ", " * ", " 〇 '', "# "Wait 1 or 2 symbol keys. Therefore, when the user wants to enter a specific number, he only needs to press the relevant key, and then press the key successively on the above-mentioned symbol key, so that the corresponding number of letters can be entered. For example, when the user presses the symbol key consecutively, "9WXYZ" three times, the English alphabet " χ ,, can be input. Therefore, a conventional mobile phone can also be input through the above alphabet for mobile phones. The operation of querying data is not available. However, when entering Chinese to query data on a mobile phone that contains only a few keys, it encounters a considerable difficulty. In the conventional technology, if you want to input two Chinese ^ for data query, use The user must perform a large number of key press operations to complete the input of a Chinese character. For example, when the user wants to input the pinyin of the word "quote" in pinyin mode, due to its pinyin i "SfANG" ; Therefore, you need to press the symbol key "7pQRS" four times to select because the number 7 does not appear in the pinyin mode), press the symbol key ", two times to select " H ", and press the symbol key " 2ABC " —Second to select ^ ίΠ " Continuously press the symbol key " 6MN〇 " twice to select " N ", press the symbol key before you can & select " G ", so you must By pressing the button once for 10 times, it is very inconvenient to use because it is used in the second character: quotient. On the other hand, when making inquiries on the phone book of Tianzi mobile phone, the user must take turns to complete the tedious input process of Chinese or English words

η V. Description of the invention (3) To make use of: The trouble is more obvious. For example, the internal phone book is used to sort faces. The phone book of mobile phones is mostly coded by characters (for example, it is customary to carry out data 杳, so users of different languages cannot be based on their users). 3. For example. When accustomed to using Chinese pinyin, due to the two-phase row ::: The phone book sorted in the phone book that performs the query operation correctly 杳 = This often cannot meet the above-mentioned conventional technology in the mobile phone. Problems, and the purpose and summary of the invention: The main purpose of the invention is to disclose a system and method for entering v steps in a mobile phone to improve query efficiency. A second object of the present invention is to disclose a method for applying CC ITT standard keys. System and method for improving query efficiency. Another object of the present invention of the simplified disk is to disclose a system and method for users to perform data query on mobile phones according to customary input modes. Another object of the present invention is to A system and method for real-time display of query data in a mobile phone / two data input modes are disclosed. The purpose of one step is to disclose a system and method for displaying query information in real time according to user input in a mobile phone. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the user presses a button in the mobile phone ' After entering at least one Chinese Zhuyin or Pinyin key value, the input key value will then be converted according to the input mode

Page 7 501355 V. Description of the invention ⑷-Swap to obtain the character value corresponding to the input mode, and then use the resulting sub-value to generate the combined value of all input modes. Next, all the combined values will be used as key values for comparison and query operations, and the text combination list will be generated according to the input mode, and then the text combination list obtained from the query will be displayed according to the currently used input mode. user. Then the user can then choose one from the displayed text combination list, and the content contained in the selected text combination is then called up and displayed to the user for further selection. The user switches the input mode ¥, and the preferred embodiment of the present invention can also display the inquired text combination list and the user in real time according to the switched input mode. A system structure of a preferred embodiment of the present invention mainly includes an input device , Display device processing device, memory device, identification module, and font module. The input device is used by the user to input control commands or key values. The display device displays information to the system of the present invention by means of optical signals. All operations, such as reading by: use; learn the two system Γ or Ϊ key value, light the data to be displayed to the user: ^ is not in the display device, read or store data to the memory device,: word combination The comparison and query operations, such as; = key words! To the user, etc. The memory device is a storage for storing transient data generated during the execution of the processing device. Place two storage Stores the key values composed of Zhuyin or Pinyin letters corresponding to the characters entered by the user according to the 1 ... input by the user in the standard keypad.

Page 8 V. Description of the invention (5), i ^ ί All query results are retrieved by the font module to read text information and so on. As for the font module, it stores the character library sorted by input patterns such as Zhuyin or Pinyin. ^ Detailed description of the invention: First, please refer to the second figure, which depicts the structure of a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The structure block diagram of the second figure mainly includes an input device 202, a display device = 204, a processing device 206, a memory device 208, a recognition module 21, and a ϋ: library module 212 #. The input device 202 is used for the user to input a 7 or a key value, and the display device 204 is provided to the user with an optical signal. The processing device 206 is where the system of the present invention is implemented, such as interpreting control instructions or key values input by the user, displaying data to be displayed to the user in the display device 204 with an optical signal, and sending it to the memory device 208 Read or store data, the code corresponding to the identification module 210 to perform the word combination ratio and query operation on the key values entered by the user (more details will be described later), and use the query results Group 21 2 calls up relevant word information to users and other operations. The penetrating Mg is a storage place for storing transient data generated during the execution of the processing device 206, such as storing related optical signals of characters to be displayed to the user. The identification module 21 0 stores the conversion based on the user's turn in the standard keypad 1 0 2 (including the symbol key pressed and the number of keystrokes), which is used for the characters entered by the user and the user's input. Codes for comparison and query of the key value composed of the Zhuyin or Pinyin g mother, and to read the Chinese characters by the font module based on all the combination of Zhuyin 4. word

Page 9 501355 V. Description of the invention (6) Library module 2 1 2 Stores the character library sorted by input modules such as Zhuyin or Pinyin. In addition, for each key in the standard keyboard area 102 that corresponds to the input mode, you can refer to the list in the sixth figure, where column 602, 604, and 606 represent keyboard keys and English, respectively. , Chinese pinyin, Chinese Zhuyin and other input modes corresponding to the character value. It should be noted that the corresponding method described in the sixth figure is for illustrative purposes only. "A skilled artisan can change it according to actual applications." However, all equivalent changes based on the spirit of the preferred embodiment of the present invention should still include It is within the scope of patent application of the present invention. _ It should be noted that the input device 202 can be constructed using a keyboard, and the display device 204 can be a liquid crystal display (LCD), and the processing device 20 can be a microprocessor included in a mobile phone (Microprouter). The memory device 208 may be a memory for storing transient information in a mobile phone, and the ^ identification module 21 〇 and the font module 2 丨 2 may be stored in a flash memory (Fl ^ sh) and other memories. In the art, those skilled in the art can change the implementation elements of the preferred embodiment according to the actual application, but all equivalent changes should be included in the scope of the patent application of the present invention. For the method, please refer to the third figure, which depicts the second decision of the operation of the preferred embodiment of the present invention. First, when the user enters at least one Chinese Zhuyin or Pinyin key value by pressing the button 302 in a mobile phone (Step conversion, ^ input key value will then get the corresponding character value according to the word-乂 in the list shown in the sixth figure (step then uses the 57 value to generate the combined value of all input modes, Character combinations such as Pinyin group, > Vocal Newman_ »β 4, 'Ό, and Cantonese combination (step 306).

Page 10, 501355 V. Description of the invention (7) Next, the system of the present invention will perform comparison and query operations based on all the character combinations, and generate a text combination column for the input mode (step 308), and then According to the currently used input mode, a list of text combinations obtained from the query is displayed to the user (step 31). Then using ^, one can be selected in the displayed text combination list A (step 312), and the content contained in the selected text combination is then called up and displayed to the user through the display device 104 (step 314). . It should be noted that what is entered in step 302 may be a series of key values ' followed by subsequent comparison steps to remove all non-existent spelling combinations. For example, when the user presses the symbols ^ " 7PQRS "," 4GHI "," 2ABC "," 6MNO ", MGHI " in sequence in the pinyin mode, many five pinyin combinations can be generated. , Such as, PIANG ", " QIANG ', ... " SHANG ", etc., but after comparing and removing non-existent Pinyin cylinders, only the two groups "quot; QIANG" and "SHANG" are left. Pinyin combination. In practice, when a user presses the above two ^ in order to enter a key value in the Chinese pinyin mode, the system of the present invention can display the picture 4 in the step diagram when the user is in step 2 If you select: SHANG " on the panel 106, you will see a straight face as shown in Figure 4b in step m, which includes all Chinese phonetic alphabets as " SHANG ", note tone " 1 ", &Quot; 2 ", " 3 ", " 4 ". For example " 了 被 加 兔 " ςΗΑΜΓ ", θ stands for Chinese pinyin as SHANG and the tone is all Chinese characters with a single tone, including "" "Shangju, Shang" and so on. In fact, ‘because there are 4 people in the middle and female treasures, Xu = homophonic: combination of words, each sub-indicating Y or / master in this text combination list can contain all combinations of homonyms’, so the user can

= 1 2 After selecting a pinyin or Zhuyin, ^ y step homonyms are displayed by the system of the present invention for selection. Therefore, steps 3, 2 and 314 can be repeated. ^, Until the user selects the Chinese character to be entered or cancels the entry as ^ The user can select -1 'through the directional keyboard area 106 in the figure. The system will then display 'when the user presses the button to enter the required value of 1 for the query', as shown in the fourth figure C. Just press the symbol keys in order, rather than the general description of the background of the invention (Such as the selection of the word "quote"), you must select the desired pinyin letter by continuously pressing the key in each symbol key. Therefore, in the Φ input method of the present invention, in addition to convenient operation and intuitive interface, it is more f and more powerful than conventional techniques, and because the number of keystrokes required is also less than conventional techniques, it is also more efficient. Input method. Furthermore, because the present invention performs an inquiry and comparison operation on all input modes in step 304, even if the user switches the input mode while watching the text combination list, the system of the present invention can also be based on After switching the input mode, the user will be shown the list of generated text combinations in real time. Therefore, the user can select and input Chinese characters in the mobile phone at any time according to the input mode to which he is accustomed. Therefore, in addition to the conventional technology, the input mode cannot be switched during the input _ process, or it must be re-entered. Disadvantage, so it is more affinity in use. On the other hand, the above-mentioned description of the preferred embodiment is based on the user inputting a whole Chinese Zhuyin or Pinyin, for example, the above description of the case where the "quote" is to be entered in the Pinyin mode, but in practical applications Can be used according to

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5. Description of the invention (9) Each time the character value entered by the user displays a list of text combinations. For example, when the user wants to enter the word "quote" and has entered "SHAN", the system of the present invention will display the daytime surface as shown in Figure 5A, and in Figure 5a The displayed word, with the "quote" symbol after the pinyin, indicates that the pinyin value of the "meaningful" is included after the pinyin, for example, " SHAN " can be added with " G "to become, · " SHANG " etc. When the user selects " SHAN ··· " in the fifth picture (can be selected using the directional keyboard area 106), the system of the present invention will display a screen as shown in the fifth picture B Therefore, when the user then presses "SHANG1" in the fifth figure b, the system of the present invention will display the daylight surface as shown in the fifth figure c. Obviously, this embodiment can not only make the user More convenient " Entering Chinese in a meal > mobile phone can further reduce the number of keystrokes required for input 0 On the other hand, the device or system that can be constructed by the preferred embodiment of the present invention is not limited to mobile phones That's it. In fact, Personal digit Assistant al assistant (PDA) device, any handheld device, or a system or device using a standard keyboard developed by CCITT, etc.

The system and device disclosed in the present invention can be constructed to improve the efficiency of inputting Chinese language for query. Furthermore, although the preferred embodiment of the present invention is described in Chinese input, any input mode such as Korean or Japanese that uses the keyboard and uses Pinyin to perform query by inputting key-value combinations is also acceptable. It is constructed through the system and method of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, but all equivalent modifications based on the spirit of the preferred embodiments of the present invention should still be included in the scope of patent application of the present invention. To sum up, the present invention is used to improve the CC ITT standard.

501355 V. Description of the invention (ίο) System and method for keyboard data input and query efficiency 'Using a more friendly and input method to reduce the use of Chinese pinyin or Zhuyin to input key values for mobile phones, personal Digital assistant, or any handheld device or system with CCITT standard keyboard, can easily input and query the required data; even when the user switches the input mode, the query and results can be displayed in real time for users to make changes Further selection. Therefore, in the conventional technology, the shortcomings such as selecting a desired character by performing a continuous key operation on a single key and failing to display the query result immediately after the user switches the input mode can be overcome one by one. The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to determine the scope of the patent application for the present invention; all other equivalent changes or modifications made without departing from the spirit of the meaning disclosed by the present invention should be included in the following Within the scope of patents.

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The preferred embodiment of the present invention will be supplemented by the following explanatory text: The graphics will be described in more detail: r The first diagram depicts a schematic diagram of a mobile phone input interface; the second diagram depicts a block diagram of the structure of the preferred embodiment of the present invention. ; .. The second picture depicts the operation flowchart of the preferred embodiment of the present invention. The fourth diagram A depicts that when a user enters a key value in the Chinese pinyin mode of the preferred embodiment of the present invention, it is displayed on the mobile phone LCD. Schematic diagram of the day and time of the character combination list; Figure 4B depicts the screen image displayed on the LCD of the mobile phone when the user selects j from the character combination list in Figure 4a; Figure 4C depicts when After the user selects one from the text combination list in the fourth picture b, the day-to-day view is displayed on the mobile phone LCD. The fifth picture A depicts when the user inputs in the Chinese pinyin mode of the preferred embodiment of the present invention. At the time of partial key figures, the day and time diagrams of the < display combination list displayed on the LCD of the mobile phone;

The fifth diagram B depicts the day and time diagram displayed on the LCD of the mobile phone after the user selects one from the text combination list in the fifth diagram a; the fifth diagram C depicts the text when the user is in the fifth diagram B After selecting one of the combination lists, a schematic diagram of the day and the day displayed on the liquid crystal display of the mobile phone; and the sixth figure depicts a corresponding list of keyboards used in the preferred embodiment of the present invention; a comparison table of component symbols:

501355 Brief description of the diagram 102: CCITT standard keyboard area; 104A, 104B: control keys; 106: directional keyboard area; 1 0 8 A: left key; 1 0 8 B: right key; 110 , 112 · Function keys, 202: input device; 204: display device; 206: processing device; 2 0: memory device; 2 0: identification module; 21 2: font module; and 602, 604, 606: input List of modes and keyboard correspondences. 〇

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Claims (1)

501355 VI. Application Patent Scope 1. A method for improving the efficiency of input and query in a CCITT (Consultative Committee in International Telegraphy and Telephony) standard keyboard device. The method includes at least the following steps: Enter a key value, where the The key value includes at least one yuan value; use the key value to perform comparison and query on the database included in the CC I TT standard keyboard device; and according to the architecture, the input mode currently used by the CC I TT standard keyboard device is based on Display the results of the comparison and query. 2 · The method of claim 1 of the patent scope, wherein the above-mentioned key value includes at least one sub-value, and each character value is input by one of the keys included in the Ccit T keyboard. 3. The method according to item 1 of the patent application range, wherein the above comparison and query results include at least one text combination list, and each of the text combination lists is based on one of the rotation modes included in the CC I TT standard keyboard device. By the people. 4. The method according to item 3 of the scope of patent application, further comprising: a step of selecting a character combination from the displayed character combination list; and displaying a list of character combinations included in the selected character combination. Page 17 501355 6. Scope of Patent Application 5. The method of applying for item 1 of the patent scope, where the above input mode includes at least one of English, Chinese Zhuyin, and Chinese Pinyin input. 6. The method according to item 1 of the scope of patent application, further comprising: .. switching the input mode currently used by the CCITT standard keyboard device to another input mode; and displaying the list of text combinations according to the switched input mode . 7. The method according to item 1 of the scope of patent application, further comprising: inputting a character value; combining the sub-element value into the key value to generate a new key value; a person according to the new key value to construct the cc The ITT standard keyboard device includes: the database performs comparison and query to generate a new text combination and display the new text combination list. 8. If you want to apply for a patent, you can use the above-mentioned CC ITT standard keyboard device as a mobile phone, add, or approve it. It is any mobile phone, personal digital assistant, or 7 CC ITT is one of the handheld devices of the quasi-keyboard. 9 · A method to improve the database input and at least include the following steps: 1. Check the "rate rate" method, this method to 2 into a key value 'where the key value includes at least Μ㈣ to perform comparison and comparison with the database Query; and $ ' According to the structure of the database, the results of the comparison and query are displayed. The input mode currently used by Lizhi is displayed-where the above-mentioned key values are at least determined by the device that structured the database. Contains one character value, each of which: Entered by one of the included keys. value 11 · If the result of item 9 of the scope of patent application contains at least one text combination list according to the structure of the database, the method of generating 0, where the above comparison and lookup table 'each of the text combination list contains the input mode One of them produces 12 · If the method of the scope of patent application No. 11 further includes: selecting + of a character combination in the displayed character combination list; and displaying the character combination included in the selected character combination List. 13. The method of item 9 in the scope of patent application, wherein the above-mentioned rotation mode includes at least one of English, Chinese Zhuyin, and Chinese Pinyin input. 14. The method according to item 9 of the scope of patent application, further comprising: switching the round-robin mode currently used by the device constructing the database to another input mode; and displaying the text combination list according to the switched input mode. Page 19, 501355 6. Application for patent scope 1 5. The method for applying for patent scope item 9 further includes: entering a character value; combining the character value into the key value to generate a new key value; basis The new key value is used to perform comparison and query on the database included in the device constructing the database to generate a new text combination list; and display the new text combination list. 1 6. The method according to item 9 of the scope of patent application, wherein the device constructing the database is a mobile phone, a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant, or any palm-type device having a CC ITT standard keyboard. 17.— A system for improving input and query efficiency in a CCITT (Consultative Committee in International Telegraphy and Telephony) standard keyboard device, the system includes at least: a database; a processing device; and a storage device coupled to the processing A device for storing code executed by the processor, the processing device executing the code in response to a key value and constructing an input mode included in the CC TT standard keyboard device to perform comparison in the database And inquiries; and corresponding to the CC ITT standard keyboard device currently used in the architecture 6. The system for inputting a patent range to display the system of the comparison and query results of the 17th profit range, where the above key value to lit S is a sub-value, and each value of the character is determined by the framework (^ ITT Entered by one of the keys included in the standard disk device. 2 @As in the system of the 17th in the scope of patent application, the above comparison and search results contain at least one list of character combinations, each of which is a combination of the characters; Based on one of the input modes included in the CCITT standard keyboard device. 1.Declaring the system of item 1g of the patent scope 'where the above-mentioned reason executes the code to the clothing person · 2 displayed in the text combination list entered one of the selected text group display is not selected in the text combination included A list of text combinations. 21 If the system of item 1 of the patent scope is requested, one of the above-mentioned central Chinese, Chinese Zhuyin, Chinese Pinyin input. 22. If the system of item 17 of the scope of patent application, wherein the aforementioned processing device executes the program, change the input mode currently used by the CCITT standard keyboard device to another round-in mode; and Page 501 501355 6. The scope of the patent application is displayed according to the switched input mode to display the list of text combinations. 23. For the system of patent application scope item 17, the above-mentioned processing executes the code to display and enter a character value; The value is combined with the key value to generate a new key value; according to the new key value, a comparison and query is performed on the database included in the CCITT standard keyboard device structure to generate a new text and enter the% table ;and. u J displays the new text combination list. 2 4 · If the system under item 17 of the patent scope, where the above-mentioned cc I τ τ standard keyboard device is a mobile phone, mobile phone, personal digital assistant, or any palm-type device with CCITT standard keyboard By. 25 · —A recording medium storing code for data input and query methods used in the framework of a CCITT standard keyboard device. The framework (: (: 11 ^ standard keyboard device reads the recording medium to execute the input and query method includes at least The following steps: Enter a key value, where the key value includes at least one character value; use the key value to perform comparison and query on a database included in the CC ITT standard keyboard device; and construct the CC ITT standard keyboard according to the structure The input mode currently used by the device to display the results of the comparison and query. Page 22 501355 VI. Patent Application Range 26. If the recording medium of the 25th scope of the patent application, the above key value includes at least one character value, and each character value is one of the keys included in the CC ITT keyboard. Input. 2 7 · If the recording medium of item 25 of the patent application scope, wherein the above comparison and query results include at least a list of text combinations, each of which is based on the input mode included in the CC ITT standard keyboard device. One of them. 28. If the recording medium of the scope of application for patent No. 27, further includes: a step of selecting a character combination from the displayed character combination list; and displaying a list of character combinations included in the selected character combination ° 29 · if applying The recording medium of item 25 of the patent, wherein the input mode mentioned above includes at least one of English, Chinese Zhuyin, and Chinese Pinyin input. 3 0 · If the recording medium in the scope of patent application No. 25, it further includes: switching the input mode currently used by the CC ITT standard keyboard device to another input mode; and displaying the text according to the switched input mode Combination list. 31. If the recording medium in the scope of application for item 25 includes: Page 23 501355 VI. Enter a character value in the patent application range; combine the character value into the key value to generate a new key value; construct the CC ITT standard keyboard device based on the new key value The database performs comparison and query to generate a new text combination list; and displays the new text combination list. 32. If the recording medium of the scope of application for patent No. 25, wherein the above-mentioned CC ITT standard keyboard device is a mobile phone, a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant, or any palm-type device that is based on the CC ITT standard keyboard 0 Φ Page 24