A method for inputting a Chinese phrase, and the said phrase includes 2- and 3-Chinese characters, if the phonetic code for inputting the said phrase is full Pinyin for the 1st character and abbreviation Pinyin for the 2nd and 3rd characters and the number of phrases for such a code is more than the presetting value, then the converted phonetic code combinations from the phrase dictionary database of the input method based on the said phonetic code will display on the input interface, that is full Pinyin is kept for the 1st character, all combinations of full Pinyin based on the abbreviation Pinyin are displayed for the 2nd character and abbreviation Pinyin is kept for the 3rd character.

A non-transitory computer readable medium includes a character input system including a first band-shaped key area displayed including the characters of character groups including representative characters lined up one by one. When a touch point is detected in this area, a second band-shaped key area is displayed including the characters of the group including the representative characters lined up at that detection position. When movement of a touch point from the first band-shaped key area to the second band-shaped key area is detected, a band-shaped candidate area is displayed including candidate character strings matching the characters in a line at that movement position. These areas are arranged in the width direction and with their orientations aligned. When the touch point disappears after moving from the second band-shaped key area to the band-shaped candidate area, the candidate character string displayed at that disappearance position is confirmed as the input character string.

An approach, performed by a device, for recommending at least one word to be input through a keyboard is provided. The approach displays the keyboard to be used to input at least one character or text on the device. The approach selects at least one language model. The approach recommends the at least one word related to at least one character or text inputted on the keyboard, based on the at least one inputted character or text and the at least one selected language model, in which the at least one selected language model comprises at least one of a language model based on demographic properties of a user of the device, a language model based on text input histories of the user of the device, and a language model based on a context in which the keyboard is executed.

A method of providing an interactive keyboard and a system thereof are provided. The method of providing an interactive keyboard includes a step of causing a user to enter an input to a keyboard system; a step of determining whether the input entering the keyboard system corresponds to a preset action input; and a step of displaying, by the keyboard system, a visual content corresponding to the action input on a key interface, which includes a plurality of keys capable of being selected by the user, in a case where the input is determined as the action input.

A hologram-based character recognition method in which representative characters are respectively matched to fingers and a group of characters including character objects is matched to representative characters, includes: displaying, when a first movement of a predetermined finger is detected, in a space a hologram image in which a predetermined representative character among the representative characters matched to the predetermined finger is arranged at a center and the character objects included in the group matched to the predetermined representative character are arranged around the predetermined representative character. The method further includes: recognizing the predetermined representative character as an input when a second movement of the predetermined finger is detected; and recognizing one of the one or more character objects as an input when the second movement of the predetermined finger is detected after the predetermined finger is dragged or moved to said one of the one or more character objects.

A Latin character conversion apparatus includes a code associator that associates each of a plurality of character keys assigned with Latin characters among a plurality of keys included in a keyboard with any of a plurality of character codes established by a character encoding scheme of the Unicode Standard, a character associator that associates the character code with a relevant code being another character code, a code converter that, in response to an instruction by a user that instructs any of the plurality of character keys, determines the character code associated with the instructed character key as a conversion candidate, and a character converter that, in response to an instruction by the user that instructs the character key serving also as a conversion key of the plurality of character keys with the conversion candidate determined, converts the conversion candidate into the relevant code associated with the conversion candidate.

The present invention is directed to a system and method for typing phonetic characters using two keystrokes. An aspect of the invention relates to the rendering of characters is based on the timing between a first and second keystroke if a second modifying keystroke is used, or based on a first keystroke. The method may be used on computer devices, cellular devices, other devices (including, but not limited to tablets), and other abbreviated and non-abbreviated keyboards, whether actual or virtual.

A method can include identifying at least one radical of a plurality of East Asian characters based at least in part on stroke information received via a touch-sensitive display; ranking individual East Asian characters of the plurality of East Asian characters according to their individual frequencies in a corpus; and rendering at least a portion of the ranked individual East Asian characters to the touch-sensitive display.

Various aspects of a system and method for textual input may include a server communicatively coupled to a client device. A base character may be determined in response to a user input. One or more conjunct characters that correspond to the base character may be displayed. The one or more conjunct characters may be displayed based on determining whether a frequency of occurrence of the one or more conjunct characters in a dictionary is above a predefined threshold.

A touch-panel input device as disclosed in the specification comprises a touch panel and an input controller capable of switching between a right-hand two-point touch input sensing mode suitable for the placement of right fingers and a left-hand two-point touch input sensing mode suitable for the placement of left fingers, wherein the input controller senses two-point touches on the touch panel in either of these input sensing modes.