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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2001
Jin Guo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Charles Yimin Wu, Singapore, SG;
Ying Chang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Victoria Lyustin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jin Guo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Charles Yimin Wu, Singapore, SG;
Ying Chang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Victoria Lyustin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a user interface () for an ideographic character input device () comprising three rows () of adjacent input keys. A first row () includes keys that represent linear character strokes, a third row () includes keys that represent non-linear character strokes, and the second row () includes keys that represent a linear character stroke, a non-linear character stroke and a dot. The user interface () may also function as a numeric keypad in which the first row () includes keys 1 through 3, the second row () includes keys 4 through 6 and the third row () includes keys 7 through 9. The three rows () include single stroke keys corresponding to individual character strokes used to form a particular ideographic character. The user interface also includes at least one combination stroke key corresponding to a particular activation sequence of the single stroke keys used to form the ideographic character. A processor () of the device () is capable of forming the ideographic character, or a portion thereof, in two ways: upon selection of the particular activation sequence of the single stroke keys and upon selection of the combination stroke key. A display () is coupled to the processor () to display the ideographic character, or a portion thereof.