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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2005
Sheng-lung Yang, Taipei, TW;
Yusuke Jinnai, Kawasaki, JP;
Tetsurou Shimada, Kawasaki, JP;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A text input mechanism is provided especially for non-keyboard input devices for inputting text for languages that include large numbers of characters and that are not based on the Roman alphabets. Reading symbols of a language are presented to the user for selection. Reading symbols can be phonetic symbols for composing a pronunciation for a character in the language. Reading symbols can also be sub-characters that make up characters in the language. Upon a user specifying one or more reading symbols for a character, all characters in the language that match the specified reading symbols are dynamically identified and displayed to the user. The user can select the desired character from the displayed characters. The selected character is then entered into a computing system.