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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2006
Jay Carlson, Foster City, CA (US);
Jay Carlson, Foster City, CA (US);
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The characters on an on-screen keyboard are dynamically rearranged to facilitate text entry based on context. Specifically, a home position is established among a plurality of characters displayed on the screen. A user's selection of one of the characters is received by the system, and then the characters are rearranged with respect to the home position in response to the user's selection. The rearranging may be based on the next statistically most likely characters to be selected based on what characters the user has already entered. Statistical analysis of a word list may be applied to the text already entered by the user and then the characters displayed on the keyboard are reordered to place the most likely desired character under or near the cursor. The other characters may be arranged in order of probability of selection from the home or starting position for the cursor.