Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Adam John Cudworth

Piotr Jerzy Holc

Anna Maria Alfut

Thomas Christopher Dixon

Naomi Bianca Morton

Alexander Gautam Primavesi

Joseph Charles Woodward

A computing device is described which has a memory storing text input by a user. The computing device has a processor which is configured to send the text to a prediction engine having been trained to predict images from text. The processor is configured to receive from the prediction engine, in response to the sent text, a plurality of predictions, each prediction comprising an image predicted as being relevant to the text. The processor is configured to insert a plurality of the images into the text on the basis of criteria comprising one or more of: ranks of the predictions, categories of the images, rules associated with one or more of the images, user input, a trigger word. The processor is configured to insert the plurality of images into the text sequentially, in an order corresponding to ranks of the predictions.

Inputting images to electronic devices

The description relates to predicting terms based on text inputted by a user. One example includes a computing device comprising a processor configured to send, over a communications network, the text to a remote prediction engine. The processor is configured to send the text to a local prediction engine stored at the computing device, and to monitor for a local predicted term from the local prediction engine and a remote predicted term from the remote prediction engine, in response to the sent text. The computing device includes a user interface configured to present a final predicted term to the user such that the user is able to select the final term. The processor is configured to form the final predicted term using either the remote predicted term or the local predicted term on the basis of a time interval running from the time at which the user input the text.

Remote and local predictions

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