Electronic text input involving a virtual keyboard and word completion functionality on a touch-sensitive display screen
US8185841B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 23, 2005 |
| Grant date | May 22, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 30, 2030 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F40/274
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A text input method for an electronic apparatus having a user interface with a touch-sensitive display screen, where a virtual keyboard is presentable on the display screen to facilitate text input for a user by pointing at different virtual keys of the virtual keyboard and where completion functionality is provided for predicting full word candidates for partial word inputs made by the user on the virtual keyboard, the method including receiving a partial word input from the user and deriving a set of full word candidates using the word completion functionality, each of the full word candidates in the set having a prefix and a suffix, where the prefix corresponds to the partial word input. The suffixes for at least a sub set of the full word candidates are presented in a predetermined area on the display screen, where each of the presented suffixes is made selectable for the user.
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