CN1121644C - Typographic nine-key English input method - Google Patents

Abstract

The steps of the present invention are: define the English letters on the numeric keys of the device keyboard after the edition; define the punctuation marks on the soft keyboard displayed by the display component; perform the following processing according to the key position pressed by the user: for the numeric keys, put the corresponding letters or punctuation marks into the display text area; if it is a edition key, switch to the corresponding letter edition or punctuation mark edition, and then perform the same processing according to the key position pressed by the user until the input confirmation key is pressed. The present invention adopts movable edition input, which can easily and accurately input English and punctuation marks. The present invention is suitable for devices that use numeric keys to input English.

Description

Letterpress nine-key English input method

The invention relates to an English input method, in particular to a method for inputting English by using nine number keys.

Microelectronic products such as mobile phone, electronic notebook are all equipped with the keyboard mainly for inputting numbers, in order to input English, on each number key of keyboard also mark 3-4 English letters except corresponding 1 numeral. The current nine-key English input method uses the sequential method to input English, that is: press a certain key once to input the first letter marked on the key; press a certain key twice continuously to input the second letter marked on the key; Press the key three times to input the third letter marked by the key.... Since this type of input method has certain requirements on the speed of continuous key pressing, it is very inconvenient to use, dazzling, and often makes mistakes.

In view of the above, the main purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for inputting English by using nine number keys in letterpress mode, which can simplify the English input method and input English conveniently and accurately. Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a method of entering punctuation marks in letterpress mode using nine numeric keys.

To achieve the above object, the present invention adopts the following technical solutions:

A letterpress nine-key English input method used on a device with a logical operation part, a data storage part, a display part and a keyboard, the steps of which are as follows:

a define keyboard

The 26 English letters are divided into three versions according to their arrangement order, and the first version includes the English letter keys a-h and punctuation switch keys, the second version includes the English letter keys i-q, and the third version includes the English letter keys r-z. On the number keys 1-9 of the device keyboard; define a space bar, a shift key, a version key, and a confirmation key on the device keyboard; define the punctuation marks on the number keys of the soft keyboard displayed by the display part;

b When the device prompts for input, follow the steps below to input English and punctuation marks:

b1 sets the current device keyboard as the first version of the English alphabet keyboard;

b2 reads the key position of the device keyboard pressed by the operator, and performs the following processing according to the situation of the key position:

If it is a defined number key, it means that the input is the lowercase letter of the key on the current keyboard, then the lowercase letter is taken out from the storage unit, put into the display text area, and then go to step b2;

If the shift key+the number key that has been defined, it means that the input is the uppercase letter of the key on the current keyboard, then the uppercase letter is taken out from the storage part, put into the display text area, and go to step b2;

If it is a space bar, put the space into the display text area and go to step b2;

If it is a version-changing key, it means that the operator wants to input letters of other versions, then set the current keyboard as the corresponding version of the English alphabet keyboard, and go to step b2;

If it is a switch key for punctuation marks, it means that the operator wants to input punctuation marks, then the first version of punctuation marks will be displayed in the form of a soft keyboard on the display unit, and go to step b3;

If it is the confirmation key of the device, the content of the text area is taken out for corresponding processing, and the input process ends;

b3 reads the key position of the device keyboard pressed by the operator, and performs the following processing according to the key position situation:

If corresponding to the punctuation mark key on the soft keyboard, then the punctuation mark is taken out from the storage unit, put into the display text area, and turn to step b2;

If it is a version-changing key, it means that the operator wants to input punctuation marks of other versions, then the punctuation marks of the corresponding version will be displayed on the display unit in the form of a soft keyboard, and then go to step b3;

If it is the confirmation key of the device, then the content in the text area is taken out for corresponding processing, and the input process ends.

In addition, in each version of punctuation marks, it can be defined on the number keys starting from 1 on the soft keyboard in the form of two punctuation marks per key position. gear symbol; if the determined key position is a defined number key, it means that the input is the lower gear symbol of the key position on the current soft keyboard, then the lower gear symbol is taken out from the storage part and put into the display text area ; If the determined key position is the shift key+defined number key, it means that the input is the upper gear symbol of the key position on the current soft keyboard, then the upper gear symbol is taken out from the storage part and put into the display text area.

The shift key, space bar, confirmation key, and version change key defined on the keyboard of the device are "*", "0", "#", "∧" and "∨" respectively;

The punctuation marks in the soft keyboard are displayed in an m×n array, where m and n are both greater than 1.

The punctuation marks in the soft keyboard are displayed in a 1×n array, where n is greater than 1.

The punctuation marks in the soft keyboard are displayed in a 3×3 array.

The advantage of the present invention is that because the present invention defines the English alphabet on the keyboard of the device, the user can easily and accurately input English, which is simpler, faster and more accurate than the current sequential input method. Because the present invention adopts the soft keyboard display mode of letterpress graphics, punctuation marks are arranged on several layouts, so the user can easily input punctuation marks at a glance.

The following will be described in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and embodiments.

Fig. 1 is each edition English letter keyboard schematic diagram of definition of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the display diagram of the three-dimensional soft keyboard of the present invention;

Fig. 3 is a display diagram of the flat soft keyboard of the present invention.

The present invention is a letterpress nine-key English input method used on a device with logical operation components (such as a microprocessor), a data storage component, a display component and a keyboard. This type of device includes electronic products such as mobile phones, electronic notepads, and small electronic instruments. Numerical keys 0-9, * key, # key and device-specific keys are all arranged on their keyboards. The steps of the inventive method are:

a define keyboard

The 26 English letters are divided into three editions according to their order of arrangement (as shown in Figure 1), the first edition includes the English letter keys a-h and the switch key "※", the second edition includes the English letter keys i-q, and the third edition includes The form of English letter keys r-z is defined on the number keys 1-9 of the device keyboard; "*", "0", "#", "∧" and "∨" on the device keyboard are respectively defined as shift keys [Shift ], space bar [Space], input confirmation key [Enter], version change key.

The punctuation marks are divided into two versions and defined on the numeric keys (as shown in Figure 2) of the soft keyboard displayed by the display part. In each version of the punctuation marks, the format of the upper and lower symbols of each key position is defined on the numeric keys of the soft keyboard. 1-9 on. Define function keys on each version of the soft keyboard, including the shift key [Shift] defined on the * key, the space bar [Space] defined on the 0 key, and the input confirmation key [Enter] defined on the # key .

[Shift]+[Number keys] means to input the uppercase of the English letters defined by the number keys (in the English input mode) or the upper mark (in the punctuation mark input mode), [∨] means to go to the next version, [ ∧] means to go back to the previous version, and the switch key [※] is used to switch to the punctuation input mode, and [Shift]+[Space] means to return to the nine-key Chinese input method of the inventor's other application. The order of version change is a two-way cycle, namely: the first version of English letters → the second version of English letters → the third version of English letters → the first version of English letters (forward cycle), or the first version of English letters → the third version English letters→second version of English letters→first version of English letters (reverse cycle); and first version of punctuation marks→second version of punctuation marks→first version of punctuation marks (forward or reverse cycle).

b When the above-mentioned mobile phone and other devices prompt input (such as requiring the input of business card or short message content), input English or punctuation marks according to the following steps:

The b1 microprocessor sets the current device keyboard as the first version of the English alphabet keyboard;

The b2 microprocessor reads the key position of the device keyboard pressed by the operator, and performs the following processing according to the condition of the key position:

If it is a defined number key, it means that the input is the lowercase English letter of the key on the current keyboard, then the lowercase letter is taken out from the storage part, put into the display text area, and then go to step b2;

If the shift key+the number key that has been defined, it means that the input is the uppercase English letter of the key on the current keyboard, then the uppercase letter is taken out from the storage part, put into the display text area, and then go to step b2;

If it is a space bar, put the space into the display text area and go to step b2;

If it is a version-changing key, it means that the operator wants to input letters of other versions, then set the current keyboard as the corresponding version of the English alphabet keyboard, and go to step b2;

If it is the switching key [※], it means that the operator wants to input punctuation marks, then the first version of punctuation marks will be displayed in the form of a soft keyboard on the display part, and then go to step b3;

b3 reads the key position of the device keyboard pressed by the operator, and performs the following processing according to the key position situation:

If it corresponds to the punctuation mark key on the soft keyboard, then the lower file punctuation mark on the key position is taken out from the storage unit, put into the display text area, turn to step b2, return to the previously set English letter keyboard and continue to input English ;

If it corresponds to the shift key+punctuation mark key on the soft keyboard, then the upper gear punctuation mark on the key position is taken out from the storage unit, put into the display text area, go to step b2, and return to the previously set English letter The keyboard continues to input English;

If it is a version-changing key, it means that the operator wants to input punctuation marks of other versions, and then the punctuation marks of the corresponding version are displayed on the display unit in the form of a soft keyboard, and then step b3 is performed.

In steps b2 and b3, if the operator presses the confirmation key of the device, the content in the text area is taken out for corresponding processing (such as being stored in the storage unit or sent out). The input process ends.

The above-mentioned "reading the keys of the device keyboard pressed by the operator", "putting English letters or symbols into the text area", "taking out the content of the displayed text area, and processing accordingly" etc. are all known in the art technology, so I won’t go into details.

The following is an example of entering "Easy Type!", please refer to attached picture 1:

1. First, the microprocessor sets the keyboard of the device to the first version of the English alphabet keyboard. The operator first presses [Shift]+E to get the uppercase E, then directly presses A to get the lowercase a, and then presses [∧] to return to the previous version, that is 3rd edition; (3 keys)

2. Then the microprocessor sets the keyboard of the device as the third version of the English alphabet keyboard. The operator directly presses S, Y to get lowercase s and lowercase y, then press [Space] to empty a space, and press [Shift]+T to get uppercase T, then directly press Y to get lowercase y, and then press [∧] to return to the second version; (6 keys)

3. The microprocessor resets the keyboard of the device to the second version of the English alphabet keyboard, and the operator directly presses P to get lowercase p, and then presses [∧] to return to the first version; (2 keys)

4. The microprocessor resets the keyboard of the device to the first version of the English alphabet keyboard. The operator directly presses E to get a lowercase e, and then presses the switch key [※]; (1 key)

5. The microprocessor makes the display part display the first version of punctuation marks in the form of a soft keyboard, and the operator directly presses the number key [5] with reference to the soft keyboard;

6. The microprocessor then sets the keyboard of the device to the first version of the English alphabet keyboard, and the operator presses the input confirmation key [Enter], and the input is completed.

In the above process, every time a letter or punctuation mark is input, the microprocessor will send it into the display text area of the display part, and then put the content of the text area into the storage part or send it out after the input is completed.

Above English letter input shares 12 keys, and present nine-key sequence type English input method needs to use 18 keys, and the advantage of the present invention is evident from this.

In addition to the three-dimensional display shown in FIG. 2, the soft keyboard of the present invention can also be displayed in a flat form as shown in FIG. 3, so that users can input on different interface platforms without hindering work. When displayed in a three-dimensional form, the symbols in the soft keyboard are displayed in an m×n array, where m and n are both greater than 1, and the best solution is to display in a 3×3 array. When displayed in a plane form, the symbols in the soft keyboard are displayed in a 1×n array, where n is greater than 1, and can also be displayed in a 1×9 array.

In addition, the punctuation marks can also be divided into more layouts, and the symbols in each layout are defined on the number keys of the soft keyboard in a format that has only one character per key position, that is, there is no distinction between upper and lower gears.

To sum up, the essence of the present invention is to define the English alphabet on the keyboard of the device, and adopt the soft keyboard display method of letterpress graphics to display symbols on several layouts, so that the user can easily input English, and can refer to the soft keyboard Enter punctuation easily from the device's keypad. Therefore, no matter how many plates the English letters or characters are divided into, how many letters or characters each plate contains, what display format is used, which function keys are set, etc., all do not fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention. All identical or equivalent solutions based on the essence of the present invention shall be considered within the scope of patent protection of the present invention.

Claims (6)

1. a typographic nine-key English input method that uses on the device with logic unit, data storage part, display unit and keyboard the steps include:

The a definition keyboard

26 English alphabets are put in order by it is divided into three editions, comprises that with first published English alphabet keys a-h and punctuation mark switch key, second edition comprise that English alphabet keys i-q, the third edition comprise that the formal definition of English alphabet keys r-z is on the numerical key 1-9 of keyboard of device;

On keyboard of device, define space bar, shift, plate change key, acknowledgement key;

Punctuation mark is divided on edition numerical key that is defined in the soft keyboard that is shown by display unit;

B imports English and punctuation mark according to the following steps when device prompting input:

It is the first published English letter keyboard that b1 sets current keyboard of device;

The key position of b2 read operation person institute pressure device keyboard, carry out following processing according to the situation of this key position:

If the numerical key that has been defined, what expression was imported is the lowercase of this key position on the current keyboard, then this lowercase is taken out from memory unit, puts into the videotex district, changes step b2;

If the numerical key of shift+be defined, the expression input be the capitalization of this key position on the current keyboard, then this capitalization is taken out from memory unit, put into the videotex district, change step b2;

If the videotex district then put into the space by space bar, change step b2;

If the plate change key, expression operator desire is imported the letter of other edition, and then setting current keyboard is the English letter keyboard of corresponding version, changes step b2;

If the punctuation mark switch key, the expression operator desires inputting punctuation mark, then shows the first published punctuation mark with the soft keyboard form on display unit, changes step b3;

If the acknowledgement key of device then takes out the content of text area and handles accordingly the input process end;

The key position of the keyboard of device that b3 read operation person is pressed, carry out following processing according to this key position situation:

If the punctuation mark key that corresponding is on the soft keyboard then takes out this punctuation mark from memory unit, put into the videotex district, change step b2;

If the plate change key, expression operator desire is imported the punctuation mark of other edition, then shows the punctuation mark of corresponding version on display unit with the soft keyboard form, changes step b3;

If the acknowledgement key of device then takes out the content of text area and handles accordingly the input process end.

2. typographic nine-key English input method as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that:

In every edition punctuation mark, by the formal definition of two punctuation marks in every key position on the soft keyboard since 1 numerical key, when showing with the soft keyboard form, each key position demonstration perform symbol and lower gear symbol; If determined key position is the numerical key that has been defined, what expression was imported is the lower gear symbol of this key position on the current soft keyboard, then this lower gear symbol is taken out from memory unit, puts into the videotex district; If determined key position is the numerical key of shift+be defined, the expression input be the symbol that performs of this key position on the current soft keyboard, the symbol that then this performed takes out from memory unit, puts into the videotex district.

3. typographic nine-key English input method as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that:

The shift that defines on the described keyboard of device, space bar, acknowledgement key, plate change key are respectively " * ", " 0 ", " # ", " ∧ " and " ∨ ";

4. typographic nine-key English input method as claimed in claim 1 or 2 is characterized in that: the punctuation mark in the described soft keyboard is partly pressed m * n array and is shown that wherein m, n are all greater than 1.

5. typographic nine-key English input method as claimed in claim 1 or 2 is characterized in that: the punctuation mark in the described soft keyboard partly shows that by 1 * n array wherein n is greater than 1.

6. typographic nine-key English input method as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that: the punctuation mark in the described soft keyboard partly shows by 3 * 3 arrays.

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