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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Aaron Joseph Wheeler, San Francisco, CA (US);
Luke Bayes, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marc Layne Hemeon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Matias Cudich, San Francisco, CA (US);
Allan Stephan Mills, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tyler Wesley Breisch, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for facilitating character input using a graphical input display having a carousel of characters are provided. In an aspect, a system includes an interface component configured to generate a carousel graphical input display, the carousel graphical input display comprising a plurality of characters arranged in a fixed line, wherein a cursor is configured to move over the characters about the line and the cursor shifts from a first end of the line to a second end of the line in response to reaching either the first end of the line or the second end of the line. The system further includes an input component configured to receive a command to move the cursor over the characters to focus on respective ones of the characters.