Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Zach Oligschlaeger

Timothy S Paek

Asela J Gunawardana

Dmitry Rudchenko

Techniques for providing an arc layout for a soft input panel are described. In some examples, an electronic device can transition from providing a substantially straight and/or horizontal layout for the soft input panel to an arc layout for the soft input panel. The electronic device can display a graphical element at a location on the soft input panel. The electronic device can receive input corresponding to, for example, a swipe of the graphical element in a curved manner across the soft input panel. Based on the input, the electronic device can transition from displaying the soft input panel using the substantially straight layout to displaying the soft input panel using the arc layout.

Arc keyboard layout

Techniques are provided for customizing a design of a soft input panel. An electronic device can provide a keyboard customization interface to enable a user to specify a color, font, background image, and the like for the soft input panel. The user may provide input through the keyboard customization interface to customize the design (e.g., theme) of the soft input panel. The user may provide an image to be used as a background for the soft input panel. The electronic device can analyze the image to determine a most prominent color of the image. A portion of the soft input panel can be set to a color that is based on the most prominent color of the image.

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