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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2013
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Timothy S. Paek, Sammamish, WA (US);
Johnson Apacible, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Dmytro Rudchenko, Bellevue, WA (US);
Bongshin Lee, Issaquah, WA (US);
Juan Dai, Redmond, WA (US);
Yutaka Suzue, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are various technologies pertaining to shapewriting. A touch-sensitive input panel comprises a plurality of keys, where each key in the plurality of keys is representative of a respective plurality of characters. A user can generate a trace over the touch-sensitive input panel, wherein the trace passes over keys desirably selected by the user. A sequence of characters, such as a word, is decoded based upon the trace, and is output to a display or a speaker.