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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2001
Richard Bryan Sagar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A method for detecting and correcting incorrect hand position of a computer user performing the steps of: a) receiving a word having a plurality of characters from an input device; b) comparing the received word with a plurality of entries contained in a dictionary word list; c) generating a shifted word by shifting at least one of the plurality of characters to a new character if the received word is not found in the dictionary word list; d) comparing the shifted word with the plurality of entries contained in the dictionary word list; e) correcting for the incorrect hand position of the computer user if the shifted word is contained in the dictionary word list; and f) performing again steps C through E if the shifted word is not found in the dictionary word list of step C.