Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a plurality of keys in which the character types of input candidate characters are switched using a toggle input method and a key control unit that changes an initial value of the character type of an input candidate character in the toggle input method to the character type of the character that is input and confirmed already when an arbitrary key among the plurality of keys is pressed.

Methods and systems are disclosed for assessing an identifier. The method comprises receiving a string of characters making up the identifier and determining a keyboard type for a keyboard. The method further comprises calculating, by a calculator module, a typeability score for the identifier based on the string of characters and the keyboard type, wherein the typeability score signifies a difficulty of typing the identifier on the keyboard type. In certain embodiments, the method further comprises determining a finger positioning corresponding to a position of a typer's fingers on the keyboard, and the typeability score is further based on the finger positioning. In some embodiments, the finger positioning is based on the typer's typing habits.

A mobile device has a user interface comprising a plurality of keys arranged in a plurality of groups. A processor is operatively coupled to the user input device to receive user input from the user input device and to identify which group of keys has received the user input. A display is operatively coupled to the processor for displaying characters corresponding to the keys of the group in response to the user input. The keys may have capacitive touch sensors with haptic feedback.

A computer input method and device is disclosed. The method and device detect the bending motion of a user's fingers and provide the computer system of an electronic device with an immediate input associated with this bending motion. The electronic device can be a computer, tablet, mobile phone, optical head mounted computer display or the like. The present method and device are used to serve various gaming, entertainment, simulation and medical applications.

In some examples, a computing device includes at least one processor; and at least one module, operable by the at least one processor to: output, for display at an output device, a graphical keyboard; receive an indication of a gesture detected at a location of a presence-sensitive input device, wherein the location of the presence-sensitive input device corresponds to a location of the output device that outputs the graphical keyboard; determine, based on at least one spatial feature of the gesture that is processed by the computing device using a neural network, at least one character string, wherein the at least one spatial feature indicates at least one physical property of the gesture; and output, for display at the output device, based at least in part on the processing of the at least one spatial feature of the gesture using the neural network, the at least one character string.

A method and apparatus for input prediction. The method includes: obtaining an input current text; obtaining a first state parameter of a first text from a cache; inputting the current text and the first state parameter into the recurrent neural network, determining a state parameter of the current text through the recurrent neural network according to the first state parameter; and determining a predicted text of the current text from the word library according to the state parameter of the current text. The first text is a previous text of the current text; the first state parameter is determined through a preset recurrent neural network according to the first text and a state parameter of a previous text of the first text; the recurrent neural network is trained with a preset word library; the word library is used to store words. Through the method and apparatus, time for determining a predicted text is reduced.

An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a display, a storage unit configured to store a combination rule of letters constituting a word; and a processor configured to provide a letter input UI of a specific language, to predict a first letter inputted on the letter input UI and a second letter to be selected based on the letter combination rule of the specific language stored in the storage unit, and to control the display such that an active area of a key corresponding to the second letter is expansively provided.

Described herein are methods and systems allowing a company to market and advertise its brands, products and/or services in a mobile platform by use of an application converting a user input into a corresponding branded icon, logo or image and displaying the same. The user input is in the form of a text entry from the device keyboard, e.g., a brand name or a generic search word, or a voice or sound input or audio demand from the device speaker. By providing various menu functions associated with the displayed icons, logos or images, the application combines mobile texting with online search or browsing to provide for a much simpler and more convenient mobile experience.

Provided is a numerical value input apparatus that includes: an operation input unit that expresses numerical values of a plurality of digits by providing a plurality of numerical value setting operation units for each digit; with each of the plurality of numerical value setting operation units being biased to a side that is an initial state; and also includes a signal generation unit that, in a case in which an input confirmation key provided separately from the numerical value setting operation units is operated, confirms a numerical value that reflects the state of the numerical value setting operation units for each digit when the input confirmation key is operated, and converts the numerical value into an electric signal.

A system for processing a handwritten message received by a messaging app can modify playback over time of the handwritten message based on a set of rules to determine how to modify the playback. In one embodiment, graphics data (e.g. vector graphics data) that represents the handwritten message is processed using the rules to determine how to modify the playback such that the resulting playback includes at least one modification over a portion of time of the playback.