| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 341028000 | For pictorial or ideographic characters (e.g., design, chinese or japanese characters) | 10 |
| 20080316068 | TEN MARK CODING SYSTEM AND ITS COMBINATING METHOD WITH A DATABASE AND ITS RETRIEVING METHOD - A Ten Mark coding system and its combination with a database and its retrieving method includes input-element electronic devices of numerals, English alphabets and mandarin phonetic symbols, and a database. The morphological components of Chinese characters are categorized into ten groups represented by numerals 0˜9, which are respectively provided with a group code and a numeral code, forming the very particular Ten Mark coding system stored in the database. The Ten Mark coding system can be used as an input method for retrieving Chinese characters, or combined with phonetic symbols to provide another input method. The input methods mentioned above can also be linked with other databases for retrieving data therein. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090033523 | Language Input System and Method Based on Graphic Symbols - A language input system and method of a language input apparatus according to which characters are inputted based on their graphic symbols implemented on a keypad of a language input apparatus is disclosed. The language input system facilitates entry of an input string into the mobile phone using discrete keys on a keypad, and the language input system converts a combination of one or more graphic symbols inputted by the keypad onto a letter of alphabet of a language or a writing system by a surjective concatenation mapping from a set of graphic symbols onto a set of graphic symbols of English, German or Spanish language. The set of graphic symbols of the language input system and method includes a subset of graphic symbols of any geometric shape of a line, a half circle, or a combination of lines and circles, and each geometric symbol is printed on each key of the keypad. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090212980 | Character input reception apparatus and method for receiving character inputs - A Japanese Hiragana input character string of “a-i” is displayed while a single Japanese Hiragana character of “ti” is displayed as a display character for representing a “ta” row key assigned with a “ta” row character group of “ta”, “ti”, “tu”, “te”, and “to”. When a user then appoints the “ta” row key, “ti” is added to the tail end of the input character string to newly form the input character string of “a-i-ti” containing three characters. When each of “ka” and “ki” does not effectively follow “a-i-ti” in tree structure index data, a display character for a “ka” row key assigned with “ka”, “ki”, “ku”, “ke”, “ko” is switched into “ku” while skipping “ka” and “ki”. Further, when “tu” does not effectively follow “a-i-ti” in the index data, a display character for the “ta” row key is switched from “ti” into “te” while skipping “tu”. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100102998 | Apparatus And Method For Input Of Ideographic Korean Syllables From Reduced Keyboard - A method is for input of text symbols into an electronic device having a reduced keyboard. The reduced keyboard has keys representing a plurality of characters. The method includes receiving character inputs from the reduced keyboard and identifying symbol variants based on the received character inputs. A list of symbol variants is displayed. An input symbol from the list of symbol variants is selected, wherein the input symbol is a Korean Hangul syllable. At least one Chinese Hanzi syllable is designated, to correspond to at least one Korean Hangul syllable. The Korean Hangul syllable is replaced with a Chinese Hanzi syllable. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110068956 | INPUT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE BASED ON CHINESE PHONETIC NOTATION - An input system and a method for an electronic device based on Chinese phonetic notation are provided. The input system includes a plurality of keys, a detecting unit, a filtering unit and a candidate character output unit. The keys are respectively arranged on two sides of a screen of the electronic device, and each of the keys respectively corresponding to two phonetic notation sets. Every time the detecting unit detects an operation on any of the keys, one of the phonetic notation sets corresponding to the operated key is chosen according to a direction of the operation. The filtering unit permutes the contents of all chosen phonetic notation sets so as to obtain at least one meaningful pronunciation. And according to a Chinese character database and the meaningful pronunciations, the candidate character output unit outputs at least one candidate character on the screen. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110102206 | Keyboard arrangement for a phonetic symbol inputting method for chinese characters - A keyboard arrangement for an electronic device has multiple keys for inputting Chinese characters, multiple of the keys represent multiple combination vowels and all of the keys are arranged in a matrix form. The matrix of the keys are arranged in four key rows including a monosyllabic vowel row and three disyllabic vowel rows. The monosyllabic vowel row includes multiple keys arranged in a row and corresponding respectively to monosyllabic vowel phonetic symbols. Each disyllabic vowel row includes multiple keys arranged in a row and corresponding respectively to disyllabic vowel phonetic symbols those have a same transition vowel phonetic symbol and consonant phonetic symbols. The keys of the disyllabic vowel rows corresponding to a same monosyllabic vowel phonetic symbol are arranged in a column. Accordingly, an inputting method for Chinese characters applied with the keyboard arrangement is easy to learn and use. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20120013490 | ILLUMINATION OF INPUT DEVICE - Input devices having backlighting for associated input mechanisms. The backlighting may be supplied by a light source coupled to a light guide. Both the light guide and light source may be located completely beneath the input mechanism and above a mechanical support for the mechanism. Each input mechanism generally has its own dedicated light guide and light source. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120092196 | METHOD FOR INPUTTING TEXT USING NUMERIC KEYPAD - A method for inputting text using the keys of 0-9 of a numeric keypad. The code length of digital encoding may be from 4 to 5 bits. For Chinese-characters, the total number of strokes expressed by two figures may correspond to the first two bits, the first three stroke codes may correspond to the third to the fifth bits, respectively, and inputting the termination code when the total code length is less than 5 bits. For letters, figures, and symbols, two bits express the serial number, the third bit is an identification code, and the fourth bit is the termination code, Chinese-characters and other characters may be inputted with the same input method without switching the input state. The probability of repeated codes is low. The methods can be used by various kinds of input devices with numeric keys. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120242516 | WUBI INPUT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A Wubi input system, includes a cache word library, to store word information and index information of frequently-used words associated with one-keystroke codes and two-keystroke codes; cache word library, to store word information and index information of frequently-used words associated with one-keystroke codes and two-keystroke codes; and a word retrieving module, to retrieve at least one word from the cache word library according to the index information in the cache word library when a one-keystroke code or two-keystroke code is inputted; and to retrieve at least one word from the core word library according to the index information in the cache word library when a three-keystroke code or four-keystroke code is inputted. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20160041626 | CONFIGURABLE CHARACTER VARIANT UNIFICATION - A system, and computer program product for configurable character variant unification are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A determination is made that a unification profile is applicable to a circumstance in which a character variant has been selected. The character variant is a variation of a character in a set of variations of the character such that each variation of the character in the set is represented by a unique Unicode code point. A unification repository is identified according to the profile. A determination is made whether the character variant satisfies a unification rule. Responsive to the character variant not satisfying the unification rule, a different variation of the character is selected from the unification repository, the different variation forming a replacement character variant. The replacement character variant is used in place of the character variant. | 02-11-2016 |
