Patent Application
20190339859
The present invention relates to a character input device, and more particularly, to a character input device for dividing a character input unit into one or more character group regions and individual character regions and sequentially arranging characters of each language to input characters in an intuitive and efficient manner.
Currently, a QWERTY keyboard is used as a character input device all over the world. Since a character input method using the QWERTY keyboard has no regularity in character arrangement, it is difficult to find a position of characters intuitively, and it takes a long time to learn the arrangement of the characters. In addition, in many cases, due to the characteristics of a method of arranging characters in a limited space, characters adjacent to the upper, lower, left, and right sides are pressed and thus typing errors frequently occur, which reduces speed of inputting characters.
In other character input methods, a plurality of characters are arranged in one character button in order to widen an area occupied by one character. In this case, it is inconvenient to repeatedly hit, press and hold down, push, and press and push the character button, or press a shift key or a function key to input one character. The input efficiency is low because the number of input times is increased, the movement of the finger is increased, and the input time is increased as compared to a method in which all the characters constituting the corresponding language are arranged on the character input unit and the characters are directly pressed.
Therefore, a user interface in a new input method is required to reduce the typing errors and increase the speed of inputting characters.
In order to solve the problem, a device for inputting characters rapidly and accurately with a small number of input times without typing errors for each language is provided.
In order to solve the technical problem, a character input device according to the present invention includes a character input unit 10 for inputting a character or a symbol, a display unit 20 for displaying on a display the character or symbol input via the character input unit, a storage unit 40 for storing data input via the character input unit and information or data related to character input, and a control unit 30 controlling the character input unit, the display unit, and the storage unit, and the character input unit is divided into a character group region 200 in a matrix of m×n (m and n are natural numbers) to form a language input unit 11, a miscellaneous input unit 12, and an auxiliary input unit 13, the character group region is divided into one or more individual character regions 210 in which the character or the symbol is arranged to input characters for each language displayed in the language input unit by a pressing a key once as it is without performing repeatedly pressing, pressing and holding down, pushing, and pressing and pushing.
According to the present invention, it is possible to minimize interference with adjacent characters through efficient spatial arrangement and operation by dividing and arranging the character input device into a character group region and an individual character region.
By arranging the characters for each language in the character input device sequentially, it is possible for a user to intuitively and easily recognize the positions of the characters and rapidly and accurately input the characters with a small number of input times without typing errors.
The above and other aspects, and advantages of certain embodiments of the disclosure will be more apparent from the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
The above and other features and advantages of the disclosure will become more apparent by describing in detail exemplary embodiments thereof with reference to the attached drawings. In addition, the same reference numerals are assigned to the same or corresponding parts in each drawing, and redundant explanations are omitted.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the contents disclosed in the accompanying drawings.
In the present invention, the term “characters” collectively refers to everything required for inputting characters such as consonants and vowels constituting each language, numbers, symbols, special characters, emoticons, function keys, setting keys, and editing keys that may be displayed on a display by pressing a keyboard, user-created data, or the like. The present invention is implemented in software in a terminal such as a smart phone, a pad type terminal or a tablet PC, and the meaning of “in software” refers to a preset function in which characters are programmed to be displayed corresponding to individual keys of a keyboard to be displayed on a corresponding key by an instruction of a controller according to the operation of shift key, or a list or function may be edited by registering, deleting, and the like. The key of the present invention may be a button for displaying characters with a partitioned area on touch display or individual liquid crystal display (LCD), light emitting diode (LED), organic LED (OLED), or optical fiber.
A character input device 1 for inputting characters according to the present invention includes a character input unit 10 including a language input unit 11, a miscellaneous input unit 12 or an auxiliary input unit 13 for inputting characters; a display unit 20 for displaying characters, symbols, and the like which are input via the character input unit 10 on a display; a storage unit 40 for storing information or data, programs, and the like related to character input, and a controller 30 for controlling the character input unit, the display unit, and the storage unit.
The character input unit 10 is configured by one or more character group regions 200, and the character group region 200 is composed of one or more individual character regions 210, and a character input center 220 is disposed at the center of the individual character regions.
According to arranged positions in the character group region, the individual character regions may be divided into a left upper individual character region 211, a right upper individual character region 212, a left lower individual character region 213, and a right lower individual character region 214, or divided into a left upper individual character region, a right upper individual character region, a left lower individual character region, a right lower individual character region, and a central individual character region 215, or divided into a left upper individual character region, a right upper individual character region, a left lower individual character region, a right lower individual character region, an upper central individual character region 216, and a lower central individual character region 217. Further, the individual character regions may be divided into an upper individual character region 221, a lower individual character region 222, a left individual character region 223, and a right individual character region 224, or divided into an upper individual character region, a lower individual character region, a left individual character region, a right individual character region, and a central individual character region.
Referring to
When the character input unit is composed of one or more character group regions 200, the number thereof and the arrangement method are most effectively and variously modified for receiving characters from a user depending on a type of the character input device and a size of the display.
The character group region may divide one or more individual character regions into various combinations of rectangles, triangles, polygons, circles, and the like.
The individual character regions of the character group region may be divided into a left upper individual character region 211, a right upper individual character region 212, a left lower individual character region 213, and a right lower individual character region 214 as shown in
One character may correspond to one individual character region, two or more characters may correspond to one individual character region, and one character may correspond to two or more individual character regions.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the character group regions 200 may be arranged in a matrix of m×n (m and n are natural numbers). Referring to
When six characters correspond to one character group region, as shown in
The character input unit divides the character group region into the individual character regions and a corresponding character is displayed in each individual character region in operation S301. An individual character region in the character group region is pressed in operation S303. At this time, when any one of a plurality of individual character regions is pressed in operation S305, the character corresponding to the individual character region is input in operation S307. When the user simultaneously presses the plurality of individual character regions in the character group region, it is determined where an individual character region closest to the character input center is located, among the two or more pressed individual character regions in operation S309, and a character corresponding to an individual character region having the closest distance between the pressed point and the character input center in each individual character region is input in operation S311. Alternatively, when the user simultaneously presses the plurality of individual character regions in the character group region, a character corresponding to an individual character region having a larger pressed area among the pressed individual character regions is input in operation S315.
Languages of the world may be roughly divided into characters using “Alphabet” and non-alphabet characters. The alphabet is collectively called a “letter” character as a character system divided into consonants and vowels. For example, there are Roman alphabet or Latin alphabet, Korean alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet, Greek alphabet, Georgian alphabet, Armenian alphabet, and the like.
Languages written in the Roman alphabet or Latin alphabet include Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Indonesian, Vietnamese, French, Italian, Turkish, Polish, Malaysian, Dutch, and the like, in addition to English.
Countries using the Roman alphabet use 26 alphabet letters as base characters, and may use additional variant characters for each country. The “variant characters” referred to in the present invention means all characters in which phonetic symbols or intonation marks are added to the alphabet letters or the alphabet letters are modified, in addition to the 26 alphabet letters. For example, in addition to 26 alphabet letters, German uses “Ä, Ö, Ü, ”, Italian additionally uses “À, É, È, Ì, Ò, Ó, Ù”, and French uses “Â, À, É, È, Ê, Ë, Ï, Î, Ô, Ù, Ü, Û,
, ÿ” and Spanish uses “Ñ, Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú, Ü,
”. Table 1 is a table of the languages using Roman characters using variant characters as well as the 26 alphabet letters.
, Ë
,
,
, É, È, Ò, Ó, Ü
,
, {hacek over (G)}, İ, Ö,
, Ü
, Ī,
, Ļ,
, {hacek over (S)}, Ū, {hacek over (Z)}
, {hacek over (G)}, İ, Ö,
, Ü, Û
, Ć,
, Ł, Ń, Ó, Ś, Ź, Ż
, {hacek over (C)},
, Ė,
, {hacek over (S)},
, Ū, {hacek over (Z)}
, Æ, Ö
, œ
, {hacek over (N)}, Ó, ch, Ô, Ŕ, {hacek over (S)}, {hacek over (T)}, Ú,
The present invention provides a method of inputting characters by one-time pressing and a method of easily inputting characters using an integrated functional key as it is without performing repeatedly pressing, pressing and holding down, pushing, and pressing and pushing by disposing variant characters required for inputting the language of each country in the character input unit.
The present invention may be efficiently applied even when inputting non-romanized language characters such as Cyrillic letters such as Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Kazakh, Bulgarian, and Kyrgyz, or Greek letters when inputting characters of languages not using alphabet letter such as Japanese, Arabic, Iranian, and Hindi, and when inputting Hanyu Pinyin of Chinese or Hangul. The present invention may be applied to efficiently input characters of all languages of the world.
“A” in a left upper individual character region, “B” in a right upper individual character region, “G” in a left lower individual character region, and “H” in a right lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (1, 2), “C” in a left upper individual character region, “D” in a right upper individual character region, “I” in a left lower individual character region, and “J” in a right lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (1, 3), “E” in a left upper individual character region, “F” in a right upper individual character region, “K” in a left lower individual character region, and “L” in a right lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (2, 1), “M” in a left upper individual character region, “N” in a right upper individual character region, “S” in a left lower individual character region, and “T” in a right lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (2, 2), “O” in a left upper individual character region, “P” in a right upper individual character region, “U” in a left lower individual character region, and “V” in a right lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (2, 3), “Q” in a left upper individual character region, “R” in a right upper individual character region, “W” in a left lower individual character region, and “X” in a right lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (3, 1), a “language shift key” in a left upper individual character region, a “setting key” in a right upper individual character region, an “integrated parenthesis key” in a left lower individual character region, and an “upper/lower case shift key” in a right lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (3, 2), “Y” in a left upper individual character region, “Z” in a right upper individual character region, a symbol corresponding to a left lower individual character region and a right lower individual character region is arranged with “spacing (space bar)”.
In a character group region at a position of (3, 3), “period (.)” in a left upper individual character region, “correct (back space key)” in a right upper individual character region, “comma (,)” in a left lower individual character region, and “input (enter key)” in a right lower individual character region are disposed.
For example, when the user presses the left upper individual character region 211 of the character group region at a position of (1, 1), “a” corresponding to the left upper individual character region is input to the display unit 20. when the user desires to input “apple”, the user inputs “a” by pressing the left upper individual character region at a position of (1, 1), inputs “p” two times by pressing the right upper individual character region at a position of (2, 2) twice, inputs “1” by pressing the right lower individual character region at a position of (1, 3), and inputs “e” by pressing the left upper individual character region at a position of (1, 3).
In addition, as illustrated in
For example, when the user inputs “apple”, the user presses the central individual character region 215 of the (1, 1) character group region in which “a” is located, presses twice the central individual character region of the (2, 2) character group region in which “p” is located, presses twice the central individual character region of the (1, 3) character group region in which “1” and “e” are located, to sequentially press the central individual character regions of the character group regions to which respective alphabet letters constituting a word which are to be input belong. A database of words that may be combined with respective alphabet letters is stored in the storage unit, and words combined with alphabet letters belonging to the character group regions are displayed on the display unit or the auxiliary input unit and the user selects and inputs a word of “apple” among the alphabet letters. At this time, if there is a word “apple” among the recommended words displayed on the display unit or the auxiliary input unit even if the central individual character regions are not all pressed by the number of alphabet letters constituting “apple”, the user may select the word and quickly input the word. This method may be applied to other languages as well.
As another input method, a method of directly pressing each alphabet letter and a method of pressing the central individual character region may be integrally used. When the user first presses the alphabet letters that constitute a word directly in each individual character region and later presses the central individual character region, the user may first correctly specify the word to be input, so that the word may be quickly combined and displayed, even if the user presses only the central individual character region later.
In a character group region at a position of (1, 2), “E” in a left upper individual character region, “F” in a right upper individual character region, “G” in a left lower individual character region, and “H” in a right lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (1, 3), “I” in a left upper individual character region, “J” in a right upper individual character region, “K” in a left lower individual character region, and “L” in a right lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (2, 1), “M” in a left upper individual character region, “N” in a right upper individual character region, “O” in a left lower individual character region, and “P” in a right lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (2, 2), “Q” in a left upper individual character region, “R” in a right upper individual character region, “S” in a left lower individual character region, and “T” in a right lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (2, 3), “U” in a left upper individual character region, “V” in a right upper individual character region, “W” in a left lower individual character region, and “X” in a right lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (3, 1), a “language shift key” in a left upper individual character region, a “setting key” in a right upper individual character region, an “integrated parenthesis key” in a left lower individual character region, and an “upper/lower case shift key” in a right lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (3, 2), “Y” in a left upper individual character region, “Z” in a right upper individual character region, a symbol corresponding to a left lower individual character region and a right lower individual character region is arranged with “spacing (space bar)”.
In a character group region at a position of (3, 3), “period (.)” in a left upper individual character region, “correct (back space key)” in a right upper individual character region, “comma (,)” in a left lower individual character region, and “input (enter key)” in a right lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (1, 3), “I” in an upper individual character region, “J” in left individual character region, “K” in a right individual character region, and “L” in a lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (2, 1), “M” in an upper individual character region, “N” in left individual character region, “O” in a right individual character region, and “P” in a lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (2, 2), “Q” in an upper individual character region, “R” in left individual character region, “S” in a right individual character region, and “T” in a lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (2, 3), “U” in an upper individual character region, “V” in left individual character region, “W” in a right individual character region, and “X” in a lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (3, 1), a “setting key” in an upper individual character region, an “integrated parenthesis key” in left individual character region, a “language shift key” in a right individual character region, and an “upper/lower case shift key” in a lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (3, 2), “Y” in a left individual character region, “Z” in a right individual character region, “spacing (space bar)” in a lower individual character region are disposed.
In a character group region at a position of (3, 3), “correct (back space key)” in an upper individual character region, “period (.)” in left individual character region, “comma (,)” in a right individual character region, and “input (enter key)” in a lower individual character region are disposed.
in an embodiment of the present invention, when an arbitrary point in a (3, 1) character group region or a (3, 3) character group region is pressed and then slid in any direction of upper, lower, left and right sides, the character group region may be converted into another character group region.
Referring to an example of
In the present invention, when the characters are arranged in the language input unit, characters constituting a language may be sequentially arranged to constitute a character input unit, and then characters may be input or characters may be input by constituting a character input unit in an arbitrary arrangement. For example, when English is input, consonants and vowels of the alphabet may be arranged sequentially in the language input unit, or arranged in a QWERTY type keyboard, or arranged by modifying the order of the alphabet.
In the present invention, the character input unit includes a language shift key 230, and when the user presses the language shift key, the language displayed on the character input unit may be converted. In
In the present invention, the user may change the configuration and arrangement of language characters, numbers, symbols, special characters, emoticons, function keys, edit keys, etc. corresponding to individual character regions as desired by the user. In addition, the data created by the user may be registered in the individual character regions.
Referring to
According to the present invention, a miscellaneous input unit 12 may be additionally arranged in a predetermined direction including the upper side, the lower side, the left side, and the right side of the language input unit. In the miscellaneous input unit, data required for character input and new data may be arranged, in addition to a numeral, a symbol, a special character, an emoticon, a function key, a setting key, and an edition key. The miscellaneous input unit is referred to as a numeral input unit 12a, a symbol input unit 12b, a special character input unit 12c, an emoticon input unit 12d, a function input unit 12e, a setting input unit 12f, and an edition input unit 12g according to types of the input units.
In the present invention, when an arbitrary point of the miscellaneous input unit is pressed and slid in a predetermined direction including up, down, left, and right, the miscellaneous input unit may be converted into another miscellaneous input unit.
Further, the user may change and register the numerals, symbols, special characters, emoticons, function keys, setting keys, edition keys, or the like in the miscellaneous input unit, and configure and use the miscellaneous input unit, or register and use data produced by the user or new data in the miscellaneous input unit.
When the characters are arranged in the character input device, it is most preferable to sequentially arrange unique characters of each language. As compared with a QWERTY type character input unit, according to the present invention, consonant characters and vowel characters are arranged sequentially so that a user may intuitively and easily find a location of a character to be input, and since more characters are arranged in a limited space and an area occupied by one character is wider than that of the QWERTY type character input unit, there is less interference with adjacent characters, and as a result, a miswriting probability may be reduced and an input time may be shortened.
Therefore, it is much easier for the user to recognize the character because the area occupied by one character of the present invention is 2.2 times wider visually than the area occupied by one character of the existing English QWERTY character input unit having the same condition.
As illustrated in
In the meantime, in the English character input unit according to an embodiment of the present invention, an area occupied by one character group region is 23.3 mm in width×13.5 mm in length and the size of the one individual character region, i.e., the size of an area in which one character is input is 11.67 mm in width×6.75 mm in length. In this case, an interval between the character group regions is 0.5 mm in both width and length and one individual character region has an interval of 0.5 mm from the individual character region adjacent to either one of the left or right side in width and 0.5 mm from the individual character region adjacent only to either one of the upper side or the lower side in length, and as a result, 0.25 mm corresponding to ½ of the interval in width and length is assigned to an input area of each individual character region. Therefore, one individual character region input area according to the present invention is (11.67 mm+0.25 mm) in width×(6.75 mm+0.25 mm) in length=11.92 mm×7 mm=83.44 mm2.
As described above, the English character input unit according to an embodiment of the present invention may arrange more characters in the same space and secure a larger area occupied by one character than that of the QWERTY type character input unit, and thus, a space may be more efficiently used.
In addition, when the characters are arranged in the QWERTY character input unit, since the buttons arranged with characters are arranged in a state of being interlaced with each other, the one character area appears to be visually dispersed. In contrast, in the English character input unit according to an embodiment of the present invention, the character group regions are arranged in a matrix form and the individual character regions are regularly arranged as left upper, right upper, left lower, right lower or center individual character regions and the user may visually and regularly grasp the character areas, and recognize characters intuitively and easily, so that the miswriting probability is reduced.
Further, when comparing a method for arranging English alphabet letters in the character input unit, (q,w,e,r,t,y,u,i,o,p) is arranged in a first row, (a,s,d,f,g,h,j,k,l) is arranged in a second row, and (z,x,c,v,b,n,m) is arranged in a third row of the QWERTY type character input unit and the English alphabet letters are thus out of order, the user may not easily learn the position of the characters and needs to depend on a memory for the position of the characters or individually find and input the characters, and as a result, input efficiency deteriorates.
On the contrary, in an embodiment of the present invention, since the English alphabet letters are sequentially arranged by considering the order of the English alphabet letters, the user may easily find and input the characters, and as a result, efficiency of character input may be improved.
” is additionally arranged, all German characters may be input by pressing the characters displayed in the character input unit in order once without pressing the function key or repeatedly pressing or pressing and holding down, pushing, pressing and pushing, etc. As in the character input method in the related art, in order to input a variant character, a character is pressed for a long time so that the variant character is displayed and then, an operation of moving while maintaining touches up to a point with the variant character to be input need not be performed and the character may be directly input. Therefore, German may be input efficiently.
Further, and
” are additionally arranged, which are required for inputting Spanish while sequentially arranging 26 alphabet letters.
” which are the variant characters of Spanish in the central individual character region through a Spanish version 2 character input unit.
Further, 12B illustrates an example illustrating a French character input unit.
Further,
In a French version 2 character input unit of , and ÿ” which are the variant characters required for inputting French are all displayed and arranged in the respective individual character regions. The user may directly input the variant characters through a single key operation in the language input unit without a need to search the variant characters one by one.
In a French version 3 character input unit of
Further,
), the language input unit may be converted into hiragana or katakana.
The Russian version character input unit of
and
” are arranged by considering the sequence of the characters. An Arabic version 2 character input unit of
and
” in the Arabic version 1 character input unit, Arabic may be directly input without a separate operation in the language input unit.
The Iranian version character input unit of
and
” and five double consonants “
and
” and six single vowels “
and
” and eight double vowels “
and
” of Korean is separately arranged in the Korean input unit to input all Korean characters by pressing the characters in the character input unit once as they are, without repeatedly pressing or pressing and holding down, pushing, pressing and then, pushing the characters, etc. or without pressing a shift key or a function key such as a shift key.
The Korean version input unit according to an embodiment of the present invention arranges Korean consonants and vowels in the language input unit in consideration of sequential arrangement, resemblance, and frequency of use and it is possible for the user to rapidly and efficiently input the Korean consonants and vowels by easily knowing the locations of the Korean consonants and vowels.
The Korean version character input units of
Further,
As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, all languages around the world may be arranged by reflecting the features of each language and characters may be effectively input.
Another feature of the present invention is a function to set the shift key or function key in advance. As illustrated in
When any one of the integrated function keys is pressed, a data display 251 is displayed so that the user may select and input desired data. The data display is scrolled vertically or horizontally for the user to find data, or a predetermined point of the data display may be pressed and slid in a predetermined direction including up, down, left, and right to convert the data display into another data display. The numerals, the symbols, the special characters, the emoticons, the function keys, the setting keys, the edition keys, and the like may be registered in the integrated function key in advance.
The user may register data desired by the user, such as the characters, symbols, figures, pictures, photos, moving pictures, emoticons, voice files, audio files, contacts, notes, common phrases, or data produced by the user, in the integrated function key. For example, in
When selecting data from the data display, each of an integrated parenthesis key, a space bar, an enter key, and a backspace key may be used. When the user presses a point other than the data display, the data display may be closed.
Further, in the present invention, when the input character is a Roman letter based language and there is a variant character in addition to 26 basic letters, if the user presses any one of the integrated function keys, a variant character display 260 is displayed to input the variant character as illustrated in
In the character input unit in the related art, when the alphabet letter is pressed and held down at the time of inputting the variant character, a variant character set appears and, in this case, when a finger pressing the alphabet letter is released, the variant character set disappears. Therefore, in order to input the variant character, while the user presses the alphabet letter and does not release the finger, the user moves the finger over the desired variant character among a plurality of variant characters displayed in the variant character set, and the variant character corresponding to the point at which the finger is removed is input. When the user does not reach the character desired by the user and releases the finger, the user inputs a character completely different from the intention of the user. Therefore, it is inconvenient for a user to correct the character and input the corrected character again.
In addition, in the case of the character input unit in the related art, if one variant character is input, the variant character set is closed. Therefore, if a user desires to input a plurality of variant characters at a time, it is inconvenient for a user to repeat the process of moving the finger up to a desired variant character while holding a pressing operation after pressing and holding down the alphabet letter again.
In the present invention, if the user presses the integrated function key once to display the variant character display, then the variant character display remains open, even if the user releases his or her hand. When the user does not move while holding the alphabet letter with the finger, it is possible to increase the convenience of the user, because the input may be performed by pressing the variant character as desired immediately in the opened variant character display. Further, since the variant character display is opened as it is, even after the variant character is input, additional variant characters may be consecutively input as desired. When the user desires to finish inputting the variant character, pressing the point other than the variant character display closes the variant character display and terminates a variant character input process.
The variant character display is scrolled vertically or horizontally for a user to find the variant character or an arbitrary point of the variant character display is pressed and then, slid in a predetermined direction including up, down, left, and right to convert the variant character display into another variant character display.
In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, when Korean characters are input via the Korean character input unit, if the integrated function key is pressed, as seen by ” of Hunminjeonggeum is listed is displayed to variously input the archaic word of Hangul including four characters “
” of Hunminjeonggeum.
Further, in the present invention, if the integrated function key is pressed and held down for 0.2 seconds or more, the integrated function key may be used as another function key and a pressing and holding time may be changed by the user.
Further, in the present invention, an upper/lower case shift key 270 may be further arranged at the time of inputting a language having upper and lower case letters in terms of a system of the language in the character input unit. In the case of the characters displayed on the character input unit, the characters input via the character input unit are input as lower case letters basically, and only characters to be converted into the upper case letters may be converted by pressing the upper/lower case shift key.
When the upper/lower case shift key is pressed once while a cursor is present in the rear of a character or word which is input as the lower case letter, the character or word is converted into the upper case letter. In this case, an object to be converted corresponds to a character or a word after a blank is input and the character or word before the blank is input remains unchanged, as the lower case letter as it is without giving an influence. Further, when the upper/lower case shift key is pressed once while the cursor is present in the rear of the character or word input as or converted into the upper case letter, the character or word is converted into the lower case letter, which similarly influences only the character or word after the blank is input.
In addition, when a conversion range with respect to contents input as the lower case letter is selected such as the character, the word, a paragraph, a page, etc., the contents may be all converted into the upper case letter regardless of the blank by pressing the upper/lower case shift key. In addition, when a conversion range with respect to contents input or converted as the upper case letter is selected such as the character, the word, the paragraph, the page, etc., the contents may be all converted into the lower case letter regardless of the blank by pressing the upper/lower case shift key.
Further, when the upper/lower case shift key is repeatedly pressed (e.g., a double click, etc.), the upper case letters for the entire characters or words input in front of the cursor are converted into the lower case letters and the lower case letters are converted into the upper case letters in a row where the cursor is present.
In addition, when the characters displayed on the character input unit are to be all converted into the upper case letters, if the upper/lower case shift key is pressed and held down for 0.2 seconds or more, all of the characters displayed on the character input unit may be converted into the upper case letters. When the upper/lower case shift key is pressed once again for 0.2 seconds or more, all of the characters are displayed on the character input unit as the lower case letters.
Referring to
Referring to
In order to input the upper case letter by the method in the related art, the character needs to be input after converting all character input units into the upper case letters by pressing a “shift” key or a “Caps Lock” key. In addition, in order to input the lower case letters again, the character needs to be input after converting all character input units into the lower case letters by pressing the “shift” key or “Caps Lock” key. Therefore, when the upper case letter is input and the lower case letter is input again, a user may feel inconvenient in that the “shift” key or “Caps Lock” key needs to be pressed once in order to convert the character input unit into the upper case letter, and pressed once in order to convert the character input unit into the lower case letter, i.e., twice in total.
When the upper/lower case shift key of the present invention is used, the characters may be consecutively input without braking the flow of character input while converting only a desired character into the upper case letter in the process of inputting the character. Further, the characters or words may be immediately converted into the upper case letters or the lower case letters at once regardless of the number of characters.
A method using the function key such as the “Shift” key or “Caps Lock” key in the related art is compared with a method using the upper/lower case shift key of the present invention to convert the upper and lower case letters.
In the method using the function key (hereinafter, referred to as a “function key”) such as the “Caps Lock” key or “Shift” key, the function key needs to be pressed every time the upper case letter and the lower case letter are converted. For example, when a paragraph “The New Science of Exercise” is input, after switching to an upper case letter input state by pressing the function key once and then, “T” is input and after switching to a lower case letter input state by pressing the function key once again and “he” is input. After switching to the upper case letter input state by pressing the function key once again, “N” is input and after switching to the lower case letter input state by pressing the function key once and then, “ew” is input. In this way, the function key needs to be pressed again each before and after “S” and “E” are pressed. Therefore, in order to input the above example paragraph, the function key needs to be pressed eight times in total.
The method using the upper/lower case shift key according to the present invention is described as follows. In the present invention, preferably, since the lower case letter is basically input, first, “t” is input and then, the upper/lower case shift key is pressed once to convert the lower case letter into “T”. Next, the language input unit is not changed to the upper case letter input state, but the lower case input state is maintained as it is, so “he” and “n” are input without a separate operation. Next, when the upper/lower case shift key is pressed once, “n” is converted into “N”. In this case, the upper/lower case shift key operates on the character or word after the blank is input and the character or word before the blank is input remains unchanged as the lower case letter as it is without giving the influence. Next, when “ew” and “s” are pressed and the upper/lower case shift key is pressed once, “s” is converted into “S”. Next, when “cience of” and “e” are pressed and the upper/lower case shift key is pressed once, “e” is converted into “E”. Next, “xercise” may be even input. Accordingly, when the upper/lower case shift key is used, the present invention completes the above example sentence with four presses in total.
The above method is an efficient character input method because the number of times of pressing the key may be reduced to half to convert the upper and lower case letters by using the upper/lower case shift key of the present invention as compared with a case of pressing the function key such as the Caps Lock key, etc. in the related art in order to convert the upper and lower case letters.
According to the present invention, when arranging the numerals in the miscellaneous input unit, the numerals may be arranged as “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0” according to the method in the related art and arranged in the order of “0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9” by locating “0” in front of “1”. By placing “0” and “1” adjacent to each other in this manner, an input speed may be increased by shortening a fingering distance of the finger when a telephone number starting with “010” or “001” is pressed. Further, as illustrated in
Further, according to an embodiment of the present invention, when the numerals are arranged in the miscellaneous input unit, if each numeral is pressed for 0.2 seconds or more, a numeral data display 280 in which multiple data is registered may be displayed and the user may select and input desired data among the multiple data. The numeral data display is scrolled vertically or horizontally to show more data.
The data registered in the numeral data display may be previously registered in advance, even if the user does not register the data one by one.
Further, when the user generates each data, the data may be immediately displayed on the numeral data display in link with the numeral data display. For example, when the user takes a picture and stores the picture to generate a photo file, the photo file is arranged in link with the numeral data display of number 3 of
Further, the user may newly register the data in the numeral data display and change or delete the data. When the numeral data display 280 is displayed by pressing each number for 0.2 seconds or more, a location at which the data is to be newly registered is selected. When the location at which the data is to be newly generated is pressed for 0.2 seconds or more or repeatedly pressed, a mode for registering new data is active. Thereafter, the data to be registered may be loaded from the storage unit 40 and registered or directly input and registered. Further, the user may delete desired data.
In addition,
Further, the user may know which data is arranged in a series of numbers through a display guide unit 283 on each numeral data display. In the display guide unit, each number and first data in the numeral data display are displayed in pairs. The pair of each number and the first data of the numeral data display is converted at a predetermined time interval in the order in which the numbers are arranged. In this case, the predetermined time interval may be preferably one second.
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1)->(4,
)->(5,
1), etc. and converted at an interval of 1 second. The user sees the display guide unit to know what is arranged in each number. When the display guide unit is pressed, the display guide unit is immediately converted into the numeral data display corresponding to the number. For example, if the user wants to input the photo at the time of currently inputting the symbol on the numeral data display of the current number 0, when (3, photo 1) is displayed in the display guide unit, (3, photo 1) is pressed to immediately convert the display guide unit into the numeral data display of number 3 and the photos are listed, and as a result, the user may immediately input the photo.
As illustrated in
The present invention provides a method for efficiently inputting various parenthesis symbols. The parenthesis symbols include numerous parenthesis symbols including “[ ], < >, { }, ,
,
,
,
”, or the like, in addition to a parenthesis symbol “( )” and is composed of an open parenthesis symbol and a closed parenthesis symbol.
In the present invention, the character input unit includes an integrated parenthesis key 290 and when the integrated parenthesis key is touched or pressed for 0.2 seconds or more, a parenthesis symbol display 291 in which various parentheses are listed is displayed as illustrated in
If the user inputs the parenthesis symbol on the parenthesis symbol display, the parenthesis symbol display may be immediately closed or the parenthesis symbol display may remain open even after the parenthesis symbol is input, so that additional parenthesis symbols may be consecutively input as desired. Thereafter, when a point other than the parenthesis symbol display is pressed, the parenthesis symbol display may be closed.
When an arbitrary point is pressed and slid in a predetermined direction including up, down, left, and right as illustrated in
Two methods that input the parenthesis symbol “( )” by using the integrated parenthesis key according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described.
In the first case, when the integrated parenthesis key is pressed once, “(” which is the open parenthesis symbol is input and when the integrated parenthesis key is pressed once again, “)” which is the closed parenthesis symbol is input to complete the parenthesis symbol. When the parenthesis symbol is to be consecutively input, when the integrated parenthesis key is repeatedly pressed after inputting “(” which is the open parenthesis symbol by pressing the integrated parenthesis key once, the open parenthesis symbol “(” is consecutively input and in order to input the closed parenthesis symbol “)”, and each time the integrated parenthesis key is pressed once, the closed parenthesis symbol “)” is input to complete the parenthesis symbol.
A second case is a method in which the parenthesis symbol display is immediately displayed by touching the integrated parenthesis key and the parenthesis symbol “( )” is input in the parenthesis symbol display. When a parenthesis symbol pair “( )” is pressed once in the parenthesis symbol display, “(” which is the open parenthesis symbol is input and when the integrated parenthesis key is pressed once again, “)” which is the closed parenthesis symbol is input to complete the parenthesis symbol. When the parenthesis symbol is to be consecutively input, in the parenthesis symbol display, when the parenthesis symbol pair “( )” is repeatedly pressed after inputting “(” which is the open parenthesis symbol by pressing the parenthesis symbol pair “( )” once, the open parenthesis symbol “(” is consecutively input and in order to input the closed parenthesis symbol “)”, and each time the integrated parenthesis key is pressed once, the closed parenthesis symbol “)” is input to complete the parenthesis symbol.
When the user touches the integrated parenthesis key or presses the key for 0.2 seconds or more, a parenthesis symbol display is displayed, and when the user presses a specific parenthesis symbol pair to be input, an opened parenthesis symbol of the specific parenthesis symbol is input. After the user inputs the content to be input in the parenthesis symbol, the user presses the integrated parenthesis key to complete the closed parenthesis symbol. ”.
Further, according to an embodiment of the present invention, in the case where the user additionally inputs a parenthesis symbol inside the parenthesis symbol, when a parenthesis symbol pair to be first input is pressed once on a parenthesis symbol display in which the plurality of parenthesis symbols are listed, an opened parenthesis symbol of the first parenthesis symbol pair is input, and when a parenthesis symbol pair to be second input is pressed once, an opened parenthesis symbol of the second parenthesis symbol pair is input, and in the same manner, the user may press any parenthesis symbol pair once to input an opened parenthesis symbol thereof. If the same parenthesis symbol is consecutively input, the parenthesis symbol pair is repeatedly pressed. When the user inputs the closed parenthesis symbols corresponding to the input opened parenthesis symbols, if the integrated parenthesis key is pressed once, the closed parenthesis symbol is inputted in reverse order from the pair of the parenthesis symbol pair inputted later to complete the parenthesis symbol. An example thereof is illustrated in
In this way, when a large number of parenthesis symbols are input, it is possible to reduce the inconvenience of finding the opened parenthesis symbol and the closed parenthesis symbol one by one for each parenthesis symbol.
In the present invention, the character input unit 10 further includes an auxiliary input unit 13, and when a character is input in the language input unit 11 or the miscellaneous input unit 12, data such as an emoticon, an icon, and a symbol related to the character are retrieved and extracted from the storage unit to be listed in the auxiliary input unit, and the user may select and input the character. When the user presses any point and pushes the point in any direction including up, down, left, and right, more data may be listed in the auxiliary input unit.
Referring to
When a number is input in the character input unit, an operation symbol such as “+, −, ×, ÷, ±, =” may be displayed on the auxiliary input unit.
When Chinese is input, a method of inputting Hanyu Pinyin (Chinese characters) in Roman symbols and selecting a Chinese character displayed by the input is used.
In a Chinese version 3×4 keyboard using Pinyin in the related art in
The present invention provides a method for simultaneously inputting Chinese and English in one input unit without converting the language input unit by considering that the Roman characters used for inputting Hanyu Pinyin of Chinese are the same as English letters.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the Chinese version 1 (Chinese+English) character input unit illustrated in
When the user presses the central individual character region of each character group region, the Roman characters arranged in the corresponding character group region are recognized as Hanyu Pinyin and the Chinese is input. When the user inputs Chinese, the user presses sequentially the central individual character regions of the character group regions including the Pinyins to be input. Accordingly, the Pinyins are combined in the order of the Pinyin letters belonging to each character group region, the combined Pinyins and at least one Chinese character corresponding thereto are arranged in the auxiliary input unit, and the user selects and inputs a desired Chinese character among the Chinese characters. At this time, when one or more of the Pinyins are combined by pressing the central individual character regions sequentially, the user may select the correct Pinyin among the Pinyins. Further, a word which is frequently used or recently used is automatically recommended among the words that may be combined into the Pinyins belonging to each character group region to be listed on an upper layer.
Further, when the roman characters of the left upper, right upper, left lower, and right lower individual character regions, or upper, lower, left, and right individual character regions are pressed, respectively, the pressed Roman characters are recognized as English letters, and English is input on the display unit.
As described above, when the Chinese version 1 (Chinese+English) character input unit according to an embodiment of the present invention is used, it is possible to simultaneously input two languages (Chinese and English) in one language input unit without converting the language input unit at all.
An example of inputting an example sentence of “ My English name is Tom.
tom11@qq.com” in the Chinese version 1 (Chinese+English) character input unit of
”, Pinyins corresponding to “Wo de yingwen mingzi shi tangmu.” need to be input. To this end, when Pinyin “Wo” and Chinese characters “
. . . ” corresponding thereto are displayed by pressing each character group region including “Wo”, that is, a central individual character region of (uvwx)->(mnop), “
” is selected and input among the Chinese characters. Hereinafter, other words are input in the same method.
When “My English name is Tom.” is input as illustrated in
Even when the user presses “ tom11@qq.com”, the user sequentially presses the central individual character region of each character group region without being separately converted to a Chinese character input unit to input “
” in the Hanyu Pinyin, and when the user presses “tom11@qq.com.”, the user presses the left upper, right upper, left lower, and right lower individual character regions or upper, lower, left, and right individual character regions in each character group region to directly input English.
In an example illustrated in
In the present invention, when Chinese is input as the Hanyu Pinyin, all languages written in Roman characters as well as English may be input in parallel with Chinese via single language input unit. For example, all romanized languages, such as Chinese+Italian, Chinese+German, Chinese+French, Chinese+Spanish, Chinese+Indonesian, and the like, are available.
In the present invention, as illustrated in
The Chinese version 2 and Chinese version 3 character input units will be described with reference to
In the Chinese version 2 character input unit of
In the Chinese version-3 character input unit illustrated in
In addition, in the present invention, in the case of inputting Chinese, a traditional-simplified Chinese shift key 300 may be used to convert traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese. When the traditional-simplified Chinese shift key is pressed once with a cursor after a character input as a traditional character, the character is converted into a simplified character, and when the traditional-simplified Chinese shift key is pressed once with a cursor after a character input as a simplified character, the character may be converted into a traditional character. Alternatively, when the traditional-simplified Chinese shift key is pressed, in the entire input content, traditional characters may be converted into simplified characters, and the simplified characters may be converted into traditional characters.
”, “
” may be input. At this time, when the traditional-simplified Chinese shift key is pressed, the simplified characters may be converted into traditional characters of “
”, “
” as illustrated in
In addition, when the traditional-simplified Chinese shift key is set to the traditional Chinese in the Chinese version character input unit, the traditional Chinese is input on the display unit, and when the traditional-simplified Chinese shift key is set to the simplified Chinese, the simplified Chinese is input on the display unit.
In the present invention, the language input units of various countries are arranged in various ways according to the needs of the user, and the efficiency of inputting characters may be improved. A detailed example of a Chinese version input keyboard will be described as an example. First,
In
Various languages may be arranged in each language input unit of
In addition, as illustrated in
Referring to
For example, as shown in ” is input by directly drawing or writing with a pen or a hand in the writing unit and the translation key is pressed. Thereafter, when the language input unit No. 2 is pressed, the language input unit is converted into a Korean input unit, and a miscellaneous input unit, a writing unit, and a display unit belonging thereto as shown in
”. At this time, the language input unit number is converted into 1, 3, and 4. Here, when the language input unit No. 3 is pressed, the language input unit is converted into a Russian input unit and a miscellaneous input unit, a writing unit, and a display unit belonging thereto, and the content translated into Russian is displayed.
In
In addition, it can be noticed that, by utilizing various embodiments of the present invention, language input units of various countries, various miscellaneous input units, and writing units may be combined and arranged in character input units required for inputting characters of many countries of the world in various ways according to languages of the respective countries, and these embodiments may be variously modified to meet the needs of users.
The embodiments of the present invention may be implemented by various types of character input devices including a touch type or a hologram type.
In addition, when the embodiments of the present invention are implemented by various character input devices, the embodiments may be recorded and used in a computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs including instructions to perform the character input method of the present invention by the devices.
The present invention may be used as a multi-national character input device for intuitively and efficiently inputting languages of the world by dividing individual character regions forming a character group region in squares or triangles to sequentially arrange characters of each country.
Further, the present invention may be used as a user-customized keyboard in which a user changes desired characters or symbols for each key and register or delete the desired characters or symbols.
While specific embodiments have been described in the detailed description of the disclosure, various changes can be made without departing from the scope of the disclosure. Therefore, the scope of the disclosure should not be limited to the embodiments described above, and should be defined by the appended claims and equivalents to the scope of the claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-2016-0121856 | Sep 2016 | KR | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/KR2017/010423 | 9/21/2017 | WO | 00 |
