WO2002065267A1 - Appareil de saisie de texte global - Google Patents

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WO2002065267A1
WO2002065267A1 PCT/AU2002/000135 AU0200135W WO02065267A1 WO 2002065267 A1 WO2002065267 A1 WO 2002065267A1 AU 0200135 W AU0200135 W AU 0200135W WO 02065267 A1 WO02065267 A1 WO 02065267A1
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Taylor, Russell, Jeffrey
Litster, Gregory, John
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/02—Constructional features of telephone sets
    • H04M1/23—Construction or mounting of dials or of equivalent devices; Means for facilitating the use thereof
    • H04M1/236—Construction or mounting of dials or of equivalent devices; Means for facilitating the use thereof including keys on side or rear faces
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F3/00—Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
    • G06F3/01—Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer
    • G06F3/018—Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F3/00—Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
    • G06F3/01—Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer
    • G06F3/02—Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials
    • G06F3/023—Arrangements for converting discrete items of information into a coded form, e.g. arrangements for interpreting keyboard generated codes as alphanumeric codes, operand codes or instruction codes
    • G06F3/0233—Character input methods
    • G06F3/0235—Character input methods using chord techniques
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/02—Constructional features of telephone sets
    • H04M1/23—Construction or mounting of dials or of equivalent devices; Means for facilitating the use thereof
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M2250/00—Details of telephonic subscriber devices
    • H04M2250/70—Details of telephonic subscriber devices methods for entering alphabetical characters, e.g. multi-tap or dictionary disambiguation

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  • This invention relates to a non-predictive text input apparatus and method suitable for keypads having a limited number of keys and a plurality of Letters assigned to each of a set of keys, wherein a desired Letter may be selected from one of a plurality of Letters on any of the Letter keys, using one Letter-key stroke in conjunction with a Smart Key to define the Letter
  • This invention has particular but not exclusive application to devices for typing text in miniature hand-held computer apparatus such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs); cellular phones; portable email message communication devices; TV remote control devices; two-way pagers; hand held, pocket, and shoulder carry computers; simple translators, and communication aids for or by persons having limited physical capabilities.
  • PDAs Personal Digital Assistants
  • cellular phones such as cellular phones; portable email message communication devices; TV remote control devices; two-way pagers; hand held, pocket, and shoulder carry computers; simple translators, and communication aids for or by persons having limited physical capabilities.
  • two-way pagers such as cellular phones
  • hand held, pocket, and shoulder carry computers such as cellular phones
  • simple translators, and communication aids for or by persons having limited physical capabilities.
  • it may also be used for entering data, such as mathematical symbols, numbers and text for operating or controlling domestic or commercial machines or devices.
  • SMS Short Messages
  • SMS Short Messaging
  • the standard size qwerty keyboard has good ergonomics, but as its size is reduced typing becomes more difficult.
  • the miniaturization of keyboards means that the keyboards have to be poked carefully with fingertips, or with a pointed object. Reducing the number of keys means that, for language input and other basic text functions which have to be provided each key has to become a multi-purpose key. With known solutions it is impossible to type with ease and speed similar to that when using a standard size qwerty keyboard.
  • Alternate apparatus used to input characters into miniature devices include voice recognition, digitizing pads and other devices for recognizing handwriting, and virtual keyboards displayed on screen for use with pointing devices.
  • Speaker independent voice recognition is not yet perfected and suffers from problems of ambient noise, especially in a mobile device application, and user voice security. It is language, and dialect specific. It does not, and never will provide a total global solution. Some other form of input will always be required for editing text imperfectly entered by voice.
  • Keypad applications with multiple key tapping, or cursor selection on screen are slow and tiresome for composing text. The program must pause between key taps to determine if the last Letter displayed is the desired one, or whether the operator will continue to tap the key. They do not provide the best solution for many languages.
  • the present invention is capable of offering the possibility of using almost all of the world's languages in the one device with very small memory requirements. For each language used it is only necessary to store that language's alphabet/syllabary. Many foreign words, not normally in a language-specific database can be simply entered as on a standard full-size keyboard.
  • Groups of languages using the same alphabet letters may be used in the same device without having to install any frequency of use weighting, dictionary of words or prefixes, proper nouns - personal or town/country names, street addresses, email addresses, URLs, medical terms and other technical words, non-words, slang words, and abbreviations.
  • the present invention makes it possible to use the one device for almost all languages, including Asian languages, as they are spoken, simply by installing and accessing the Letters of their alphabets.
  • Asian languages can be used in syllabic form to communicate phrases and sentences which are understood in context just as in speech.
  • One predictive text input device has for example eight possible words for the key sequence 22737 which in order of frequency of usage are: cases, cards, bases, acres, cares, bards, hares. If the word bares was required it would take an additional six strokes to retrieve it - a total of eleven strokes.
  • One method, which uses prefixes of two or more letters to predict words has the disadvantage that the first, and most important letter to be typed is not a prefix. This means that if the desired first letter is not the most commonly used of those on the key pressed extra strokes must be pressed.
  • the letters shown in the first column are said to be the most likely to be used as the first letter of a word in English language. The next most likely are shown in the second column; next in the third column, and next in the fourth column. The number of keystrokes to successfully enter the first letter of the desired word is shown above the columns.
  • Another predictive input system uses an "auxiliary" key, which is pressed in conjunction with a letter key to choose one fixed letter from each of the groups of letters on each of the keys on the telephone keypad These chosen letters are typed by holding down the auxiliary key while pressing the key with the intended fixed letter
  • auxiliary key For English language it is claimed the best letters to fix on the keys are c e h 1 n s t and y. Letters which are not "c e h 1 n s t y" letters are typed by pressing the keys with the intended letter, without holding down the "auxiliary” key until the desired letter is retrieved, or the predicted word formed.
  • microprocessor a memory for storing Letters of languages, and a database of language specific options
  • the entry means is a nine key keypad such as a computer numeric keypad or a telephone keypad wherein each or some the nine Letter Keys represents a set of Letters and collectively represent a complete "alphabet" for a given language.
  • the display may be positioned at the bottom of the device with the keypad at the top, for example on a cell phone, allowing the fingers of the hand holding the device easier access to the Smart Keys. It is envisaged that in this case the thumb would be used to press the keyboard keys.
  • the selection means is provided by pressing a numbered or coloured
  • Smart Key the number or colour of which indicates the position of a desired letter in the sequence of the set associated with the one of the Letter Keys while pressing that Letter Key.
  • Letters are coloured to match the colour of their respective Smart key.
  • Letters on the Letter keys may be illuminated on pressing a Smart key associated with those Letters.
  • the microprocessor is programmed to select the desired letter into text whether the Smart Key is pressed immediately before, simultaneously with, or immediately after pressing the Letter Key. For example, at a typing speed of sixty words per minute, or one word per second which in English text approximately equals an average of one-fifth of a second for each letter a delay, therefore, of one-fifth of a second or less can be provided to allow the processor to determine which Smart key is pressed, and therefore which is the intended Letter.
  • Fig. 1 (a) is a drawing of a conventional cell phone with four Smart keys shown on the side, and illustrating possible one-handed operation of the keypad.
  • a number of Smart Keys are positioned on the device, preferably along the edge as shown, and preferably operable by any or all of the 4 fingers of the hand holding the device as in Fig. 1 (a) or (b).
  • the Smart Keys operate switches which may take any appropriate form.
  • Fig. 2 is a drawing showing a conventional cell phone with English language layout, four
  • Smart keys shown located on the side, and illustrating a possible two-handed operation.
  • the keypad numbering shown is for a telephone keypad layout, however it is to be understood that for computer and other numeric keypads the numbers may be assigned in any desired layout,
  • Fig. 4 shows, by way of example, a possible Japanese Keypad allocation of Letter Keys (see also Fig. 2).
  • al2 key key-pad is suggested to accommodate either one, or both of the two full Kana syllabaries - the Hiragana, and the Katakana.
  • the Katakana is shown in this example.
  • this invention is also suitable for the Korean Hangul which is based on ten consonants and six vowels, and their Modifiers.
  • Fig. 5 shows, by way of example, a possible Chinese Bopomofo Keypad allocation of Letter Keys. Groupings on the keys are in accordance with the Taiwan Government order.
  • Fig. 6 is part of an embedded pinyin look-up table which may be used to check that typed pinyin words, with their diacritic tone marks, are valid pinyin words, and that a valid tone mark has been applied.
  • a global non-predictive text input system suitable for keypads having a limited number of keys and a plurality of Letters representing the phonetic symbols of a language or languages assigned to, and marked on, each of a set of keys in a linguistically logical arrangement (ref. Fig. 1/6), and wherein a plurality of Smart keys is provided on the body of the device, each of the Smart keys being assigned a number related to the sequential position of the Letters on their respective Letter keys which when pressed in conjunction with the Letter key assigned the desired Letter remove the ambiguity, select the desired letter, and present it on a screen for text assembly.
  • the operator may use one finger to press the Smart Key identified by a number, or other means, corresponding to the sequential position of the letter on any Letter Key having the desired Letter for selection while simultaneously pressing the Letter Key.
  • the Smart Key # 1 (Fig. 1 ) is pressed while the Letter Key [abc] would be pressed indicating to the software that the letter "a", being the first Letter on that key, is to be entered into the text display.
  • the Smart Key #2 is pressed while the Letter Key [jkl] would be pressed indicating to the software that the letter "k”, being the second Letter on that key, is to be entered into the text display.
  • the operator would type:
  • the system may be programmed so that the Letter in the first position on the Letter Key may be entered without using a Smart Key, simply by pressing the Letter key. Smart Keys are then used with the other Letters on each Letter key.
  • This configuration would require the use of three Smart Keys for languages such as English, where the maximum number of Letters on a key is four, and for Japanese Kana or Chinese Bopomofo where the maximum number of Letters on a Letter key could be five, four Smart Keys could be used.
  • the Smart Keys may take any form.
  • they may be in the form of a thumb-wheel switch having three or four positions to provide the functions described above.
  • the thumb-wheel switch could have a "home" position representing, the first Letter on a key to be pressed; it could be pressed forward to represent the second Letter; pressed back representing the third Letter, and pressed in to represent the fourth Letter.
  • Smart keys may also be in the form of one or more rocker switches. Alternatively, for example in one configuration two or more Smart keys may be pressed together to give another Letter selection choice.
  • the Smart key function may take the form of a small "mouse” type button or "joystick”.
  • key's associated Letters on the Letter keys may be illuminated to aid the operator in selection.
  • the first Letter on each key may be entered directly into text by simply pressing its Letter key.
  • the Smart Key #2 (Fig. 2) is pressed along with the key representing the Letter.
  • the Kana letter " A the operator presses the Smart Key # 2 and the Letter Key
  • Hiragana As there is a one-to-one relationship between Hiragana and Katakana it may be desirable to incorporate a feature to convert all or part of one to the other.
  • a function key may be provided to toggle the function of the Letter Keys to their numeric values for entry of numerals.
  • Another function key may be provided to toggle between upper and lower case alphabet Letters.
  • a further function key may be provided to allow display of punctuation and/or symbols. These could be displayed in a layout similar to the keys “ 1" to "9" of the numeric keypad and programmed so that pressing the numeric key in the same relative position as the desired punctuation or symbol would enter it into text.
  • Completed text may be stored for later display, sent as an SMS, or ported to a suitable component for e-mailing, or printing, or downloading to a more powerful computer for further display and processing.
  • a printing, or e-mail device may be incorporated in the apparatus.
  • the device may have no screen, for example when used for entering and or editing text remotely on a TV screen or other domestic or commercial device, in which case remote signalling with a medium such as electromagnetic waves, ultrasound, or infrared may be used to control the device and carry text and editing information.
  • This apparatus need be no larger than the size of a computer keyboard numeric keypad, or nine key portion of a telephone keypad.
  • a further application of this invention could also be its use as a simple portable and convenient translation device for communication between persons of different nationalities.
  • the present invention allows touch typing to be quickly learned.
  • Non- words, URLs, and groups of letters and words can be confidently typed at speed after a little practise.
  • predictive textual information using frequency of usage, and a large database of words may be included for some languages.
  • the Chinese language consists of about 400 word spellings, however because of the four possible tones, the total combination of pronunciations and intonations is between 1,500 and 1,600.
  • the written syllabic language is generally understood in context using only the basic 400 or so words. It is a convenient means of communication, and is used for this purpose on Internet "chat" sites. Although normally only used in text for teaching purposes, it may be desirable to add an option to allow adding the four tone marks for the Mandarin pinyin vowels, or Bopomofo phonetic Letters.
  • Selecting the diacritic tone mark or number has been achieved in some devices by pressing the key Letter representing the vowel, up to four times to retrieve the vowel or Letter bearing the tone mark for Mandarin. For example, to retrieve the correct vowel Letter or symbol showing the second tone mark the related key is pressed twice. It is necessary for the operator to know which vowel the tone mark is to be applied to.
  • a mode for pinyin and Bopomofo may be provided wherein operation is such that when a word is completed, which may be on entry of a ⁇ SPACE> or any punctuation for example, and the word requires a diacritical tone mark for an included vowel, the numeric keys 1 to 9 automatically revert to their numeric value and a number, 1 to 4, representing the diacritical tone mark required for the vowel in the word is pressed; the correct vowel in the entered word is replaced with one which has been stored in memory, bearing the selected diacritical tone number mark, and the number keys immediately revert to their default Letter values ready for entry of the first Letter of the next word.
  • a tone number may be appended to the end of the word.
  • a small database of the 1 ,500 or so words may be used as a reference look-up table (ref Fig. 6). If the word is not a valid pinyin word a visual or audible signal may be given. As with pinyin, as each Bopomofo word is completed the numeric keys automatically revert to their numerical value; a number representing the diacritical tone mark required for the word is pressed; the entered last Letter is replaced where necessary with one which has been stored in memory bearing the selected diacritical tone number mark, and the number keys immediately revert to their basic phonetic Letter values. Where no tone mark is necessary for the first tone using the Bopomofo symbols pressing the number key " 1" will retain the word as typed, and typing may continue for the next word. A key may be provided to allow this function to be toggled on/off.

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L'invention concerne un appareil de saisie adapté pour claviers possédant un nombre limité de touches et plusieurs lettres assignées à chaque ensemble de touches. Une lettre désirée peut être sélectionnée à partir d'une des lettres sur une touche quelconque en utilisant une touche lettre conjointement à une touche intelligente pour définir la lettre. Les touches intelligentes sont identifiées par un nombre, ou d'autres éléments d'identification tels que la couleur, les associant à la position séquentielle des lettres affichées sur les touches lettres, et sont pressées conjointement à la touche lettre à laquelle est assignée la lettre désirée. La frappe par simple toucher sur un clavier limité est possible après une courte période de pratique.
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