CN102339137B

CN102339137B - Input method and electronic equipment using same

Info

Publication number: CN102339137B
Application number: CN201010239006.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李众庆
Original assignee: Lenovo Beijing Ltd
Current assignee: Lenovo Beijing Ltd
Priority date: 2010-07-26
Filing date: 2010-07-26
Publication date: 2015-06-24
Anticipated expiration: 2030-07-26
Also published as: CN102339137A

Abstract

The invention discloses an input method and electronic equipment using the same. The input method is applied in the electronic equipment with a display screen and comprises the following steps of: judging whether effective character input can be performed by the electronic equipment or not under an environment which is displayed by the display screen at present, and generating first determination information, wherein the effective character input means the input of a character displayed on the display screen; when the first determination information represents that the effective character input cannot be performed by the electronic equipment under the environment which is displayed by the display screen at present, detecting an input to acquire an input character; storing the input character in a temporary character input buffer zone; acquiring position information; and according to the position information, inputting the character stored in the temporary character input buffer zone at a position corresponding to the position information.

Description

Input method and apply the electronic equipment of this input method

Technical field

The present invention relates to input method and apply the electronic equipment of this input method, specifically, after relating to first input characters intended target input method and apply the electronic equipment of this input method.

Background technology

In the use procedure of computing machine, an important link is the information interaction of people and computing machine, and the result of calculation of computing machine is shown to people by display and sees, this process is output, and wherein the idea of people will allow computing machine know, this process is named input usually.

The character input hardware equipment that current computing machine is conventional, has physical keyboard, touch-screen, shooting first-class usually.Also have other sensor to be applied in the input of character recently, such as velocity location sensor, it is applied on mobile phone, can record the movement locus of mobile phone, identifies the character needing to identify from movement locus.Some prior aries are also had from voice, directly to identify speech conversion become character input, pickoff signals from people's brain wave thus obtain character input and also achieve progress.

Conventional Position input hardware device has mouse, Trackpad, TrackPoint, joystick, touch-screen, shooting first-class, and keyboard also can carry out some simple Position inputs operations, such as Tab key TAB, and cursor can be guided to walk a fixing stroke; Arrow key, can to walk lattice etc. according to the direction of arrow, but not as other Position input equipment directly and convenient.Camera is used to identify that the operation of user is also progressively applied at present, in some prior aries, can be obtained by camera points on screen or the position of aerial mobile, or detects the action of user face, and the movement locus of such as eyeball judges the position of cursor.

In computer system common at present, Position input and character input hand-in-glove, usually be all first input position, after determining position, just can input character, in the middle of common computer utility, there are some application class, such as generic web page etc., user cannot direct input text character wherein, namely, user is when browsing webpage, if want to record some idea or the comment etc. of oneself, directly cannot input at the body part of this webpage, but a recordable document must be opened in addition, or provide the special region of making the comments at webpage, or another one can in the webpage of input characters, just can input, thus cause very large inconvenience, such as cannot look at text just aside make the comments at once or annotate and comment on.

This is because since invention on computer, always be first intended target, then carry out input operation, namely in an operating system, be provided with a focus to the input guiding user to carry out text character, do not having in focal situation, user just cannot carry out the input of text character.This mode is present in the operating system of mobile phone equally.

But when the mankind of reality use pen to write, locating and starting to write is that synchronization completes, as long as start to write, just determines position, only otherwise input, so this position is all uncertain.

Therefore, need a kind of new input method, can overcome in existing computer system, first intended target then must carry out keyboard operation to input brought inconvenience.

Summary of the invention

Therefore, the present invention is made for above-mentioned problems of the prior art and demand.

The object of this invention is to provide a kind of new input method and apply the electronic equipment of this input method, it is relative to the defect of the input scheme of prior art, also can store the content inputted by first input content temporarily, and then specify the input position of this content on screen.

The object of this invention is to provide a kind of new input method and apply the electronic equipment of this input method, it arranges an interim character input block, thus store the character inputted by character input device by user, and then on target location, input the character of these inputs by user.

According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of input method, it is characterized in that, described input method is applied to be had in the electronic equipment of display screen, described method comprises: judge whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, produce one first judgement information, wherein refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display in effective character input; When described first judgement information represents that described electronic equipment can not carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of described display screen, detect an input to obtain an input character; Inputted character is stored in interim character input block; Obtain a positional information; With according to described positional information, the described character that input described interim character input block in position corresponding to described positional information stores.

In input method of the present invention, the described step judging whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen comprises: judge whether the present procedure of described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input, produces one second and judges information; When described second judgement information represents that the present procedure of described electronic equipment can not carry out the input of effective character, determine that described electronic equipment can not carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen.

In input method of the present invention, the described step judging whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen comprises: whether the content judging the current display of described display screen has cursor flashes, produces one the 3rd and judge information; When the content that described 3rd judgement information represents the current display of described display screen there is no cursor flashes, determine that described electronic equipment can not carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen.

In input method of the present invention, the step that described detection one inputs to obtain an input character comprises: judge whether described input is the input of effective character, to produce one the 4th judgement information; When described 4th judgement information represents that described input is the input of effective character, then obtain the character inputted.

According to a further aspect in the invention, provide a kind of input method, it is characterized in that, described input method is applied to be had in the electronic equipment of display screen, and described method comprises: obtain an input character; Judge whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, produce and one judge information, wherein effective character input refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display; When described judgement information represents that described electronic equipment can not carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of described display screen, inputted character is stored in interim character input block; Obtain a positional information; With according to described positional information, the described character that input described interim character input block in position corresponding to described positional information stores.

According to another aspect of the invention, provide the input method of intended target after a kind of first input content, it is characterized in that, described input method is applied to be had in the electronic equipment of display screen, and described method comprises: obtain an input character; Inputted character is stored in an interim character input block; Obtain a positional information; With according to described positional information, the described character that input described interim character input block in position corresponding to described positional information stores.

According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of electronic equipment, described electronic equipment has a display screen, it is characterized in that, described electronic equipment comprises: the first judge module, for judging whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, producing and first judging information, wherein effective character input refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display; Input character acquisition module, for obtaining an input character; Position information acquisition module, for obtaining a positional information; Memory module, for storing data; Control module, be connected with described first judge module, described input character acquisition module, described position information acquisition module and described memory module respectively, for represent when described first judgement information can not to carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of described display screen time, the input character that described input character acquisition module obtains is stored in described memory module; With according to described positional information, input the described character stored in described memory module in the position corresponding to described positional information.

In electronic equipment of the present invention, described first judge module is specially: the second judge module, judge whether the present procedure of described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input, when described second judge module judges that the present procedure of described electronic equipment can not carry out the input of effective character, described first judge module can not carry out effective character input under judging the environment of the current display of described display screen.

In electronic equipment of the present invention, described first judge module is specially: the 3rd judge module, whether the content judging the current display of described display screen has cursor flashes, when the content that described 3rd judge module judges the current display of described display screen not having cursor flashes, described first judge module can not carry out effective character input under judging the environment of the current display of described display screen.

At electronic equipment of the present invention, described input data obtaining module comprises further: the 4th judge module, judges whether described input is the input of effective character; When described 4th judge module judges that described input is the input of effective character, then obtain the character inputted.

According to a further aspect in the invention, provide a kind of electronic equipment, described electronic equipment has a display screen, it is characterized in that, described electronic equipment comprises: judge module, for judging whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, producing and one judging information, wherein effective character input refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display; Input character acquisition module, for obtaining an input character; Position information acquisition module, for obtaining a positional information; Memory module, for storing data; Control module, be connected with described judge module, described input character acquisition module, described position information acquisition module and described memory module respectively, for represent when described judgement information can not to carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of described display screen time, the input character that described input character acquisition module obtains is stored in described memory module, and the character stored in memory module described in described display screen display; According to described positional information, input in described memory module the described character stored in the position corresponding to described positional information.

According to another aspect of the invention, provide a kind of electronic equipment, described electronic equipment has a display screen, it is characterized in that, described electronic equipment comprises: input character acquisition module, for obtaining an input character; Position information acquisition module, for obtaining a positional information; Memory module, for storing data; Control module, is connected with described input character acquisition module, described position information acquisition module and described memory module respectively, is stored in described memory module for the input character obtained by described input character acquisition module; With according to described positional information, input in described memory module the described character stored in the position corresponding to described positional information.

Pass through the solution of the present invention, when can not carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of display screen, the character that user inputs is stored in interim character input block, thus at the character that the Position input of specifying stores, enhances the easy-to-use of user.

In the prior art, sometimes, because redirect window out causes focus to be run away, therefore just input through keyboard cannot be carried out.Also sometimes, because finger maloperation Trackpad, cause focus to be run and lose, and cause being input on the position of mistake, remodify again, this just have impact on input efficiency.

According to the solution of the present invention, by arranging interim character input block, no matter focal position is where, no matter whether has focus, the input of character input device first can be stored in interim character input block, thus raising input efficiency.Further, in the program can not carrying out effective character input, also can record the input of user, thus the misinput of any button can not be fallen.

In addition, by the word after display again shown by the input of target location, while can be implemented in input, the operation of these words mobile, namely inputs, on one side assigned address.

In addition, common trojan horse etc. can obtain the input of keyboard and mouse, are also hidden danger to computer security.Trojan horse program first detects the action of mouse usually, if there are the needs of input, usually first can have the movement of cursor position, then wait for the input of keyboard, therefore trojan horse program can detect follow-up input text very effortlessly.

And by the solution of the present invention, because trojan horse program cannot obtain input position in advance, therefore want Obtaining Accurate input text to need to increase a lot of difficulties.

In addition, by arranging interim character input block, conveniently can also carry out the operation of character in this buffer zone, such as, no longer can need to reselect content to be copied, and easily the character stored in this buffer zone being copied to arbitrary target.

Accompanying drawing explanation

Fig. 1 is the schematic block diagram of the architectural framework of conventional personal computer;

Fig. 2 shows the schematic diagram of the working mechanism of keyboard buffer and main frame, for explaining how OS or application program obtain the information of keyboard;

Fig. 3 shows the process flow diagram of the exemplary embodiment of input method of the present invention;

Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 shows schematic diagram when input method of the present invention is applied to the application program can carrying out effective character input;

Fig. 6 is the schematic block diagram of the electronic equipment adopting input method of the present invention.

Embodiment

Below, the specific embodiment of the input method of embodiments of the invention will be described by reference to the accompanying drawings in detail.

Before the input method explaining embodiments of the invention, first briefly introduce as follows to input method of the prior art.

Fig. 1 is the schematic block diagram of the architectural framework of conventional personal computer.As shown in the figure, although the architectural framework of each personal computer has a lot of difference, key input section change is little, be all keyboard by interface PS2, serial ports, AT mouth, USB port is connected with main frame.CPU reads the keyboard receive information of coming through the signal conversion of north bridge south bridge.Further, operating system OS is stored in storer, and such as, in hard disk, personal computer by operating system loading in internal memory, thus runs this operating system after starting.

Fig. 2 schematically shows the working mechanism of keyboard buffer and main frame, how to obtain the information of keyboard for interpreter operation system or application program.

As shown in Figure 2, keyboard controller is mainly for detection of the actuation of keys of keyboard, when there being button to press, scanned by XY, draw the position of button, obtain scan code, then convert the ASCII character of standard, internal code to, be transferred to FIFO (first-in first-out) buffer zone, send to main frame to process.After main frame receives the signal that keyboard sends, operating system instructs CPU to read these ASCII character, then according to input method setting at that time, finds display character library, Charactes Display corresponding for ASCII character on display.

In the process that operating system or application program input fifo buffer, it is process selectively that operating system or application program transmit the ASCII character of coming up to FIFO, when operating system or application program think that now can not carry out effective character inputs, just these ASCII character are abandoned and processed.Here, effective character input refers to and in the input of the character of described display screen display, can mainly refer to the input of those text characters, particularly, numeral is from 0-9, and letter is from a-z, punctuation mark etc. on keyboard, these characters can show on the display screen of personal computer.Here, effective character input does not comprise those control characters, such as ctrl, alt, shift, Microsoft's button, Page down (downward page turning), Page up (upwards page turning), up and down button, Home (top button), End (end button), Delete (delete button) etc., F1 to F12 button, right mouse button etc., these control characters can not show on a display screen.For keypad, if Numlock state, then it also belongs to the input of effective character.For example, application program 1 is word document, in time activating, because word document allows effective character to input, the ASCII character that fifo buffer sends therefore will be absorbed, and according to input method setting at that time, find display character library, Charactes Display on display.And when application program 2, time image viewer activates, because now image viewer does not allow to carry out effective character input (user is when seeing photo), therefore effective character input has all been discarded, and the input only retained corresponding to those control characters, as Page down (downward page turning), Page up (upwards page turning) etc.Like this, although user has carried out the input of text character by keyboard, also can not have been shown anything on screen.

Operating system also has similar situation, when opening explorer, if click address field, the input of effective character will be accepted, and in time clicking document hurdle below, will the whole discard processing of ASCII character of the effective character input now inputted.Although it will be understood by those skilled in the art that above-mentioned is that keyboard is described about character input device, also similar for its process of other character input device, therefore just repeat no more.

But due to the needs of user, such as temporary emergency input, some time display can not carry out effective character input time, these inputs remain useful to user.Therefore, in an embodiment of the present invention, can when judging that described electronic equipment can not carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, those the effective character inputs undertaken by character input device operating system or application program abandoned are collected and store, thus make display can show the character of these inputs.

The input method of embodiments of the invention is applied to be had in the electronic equipment of display screen, described method comprises: judge whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, produce one first judgement information, wherein refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display in effective character input; When described first judgement information represents that described electronic equipment can not carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of described display screen, detect an input to obtain an input character; Inputted character is stored in interim character input block; Obtain a positional information; With according to described positional information, the described character that input described interim character input block in position corresponding to described positional information stores.

When applying the input method of embodiments of the invention, by judging whether the present procedure of electronic equipment can carry out effective character input, can judge whether electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of display screen.

In each class method of electronic equipment, existence can carry out the program of effective character input, such as notepad, board, Microsoft Excel etc., but also there is the program can not carrying out effective character input, such as without the webpage of replying region, and the picture in Photo Browser, also has conventional read-only document, such as PDF document etc.Generally can carry out the program of effective input of character, can carry out the region of effective character input, all can have a cursor flashes, the effect of these cursors is reminding users, the enterprising line character input in the position of cursor flashes.Therefore, for the program of computing machine, whether there is cursor flashes whether can carry out a Rule of judgment of effective character input as this program.

Such as, when user opens a browser, mouse action cursor is clicked once in browser network address region, and cursor will in that area flicker.And when user opens a newly-built word document, cursor just glimmers in the upper left corner of blank document.

In addition, such as click windows system " beginning " button, open an explorer, if operational light punctuate hits address field, the cursor in address field will glimmer, and clicks hurdle below, would not glimmer, twice click directory name part, the position of that directory name part just there will be a blinking cursor at a slow speed, and being meant to user needs rename to revise the title etc. of catalogue or document.

Therefore, by detecting whether have cursor flashes, can learn whether this program can carry out effective character input, in other words, whether exist in the environment of the current display of display screen can carry out effective character input window, document and position.

Certainly, those skilled in the art can understand, except whether had by above-mentioned detection cursor flashes judge present procedure be whether can carry out effective character input program except, also there is other determination methods, such as judge whether this program can carry out effective character input according to the attribute of described program.Such as, if the attribute of this program shows that this program is word program, so it can carry out effective character input, and if the attribute of this program shows that this program is image viewer program, so it can not carry out effective character input.

In addition, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that, when user apply this there is the electronic equipment of display screen time, user may open multiple programs of electronic equipment, and now have one to be current activation in the plurality of program, such as, when user opens three word document and a webpage, the program that now may activate is one of three word document, or this web page program, or also likely these three word document and a web page program are not all activated, but current activation is the desktop of electronic equipment.Now, whether the content that above-mentioned deterministic process can judge the program of the activation in the current display of display screen there is cursor flashes to judge whether the program of this activation can carry out effective character input, that is, this program whether exist can carry out effective character input window, document and position.According to the attribute of the program of current activation, above-mentioned deterministic process also can judge whether the program of current activation can carry out effective character input, such as, if the program now activated is one of three word document, then can carry out effective character input, if and the program now activated is the desktop of webpage or electronic equipment, then can not carry out effective character input.

When judging that the environment of the current display of display screen is when can not carry out effective character input, the input method of embodiments of the invention arranges an interim character input block, thus user is stored in this interim character input block by the character that character input device inputs.Such as, in the working mechanism of the keyboard buffer shown in above-mentioned Fig. 2 and main frame, user is when pressing the button of lower keyboard, scanned by XY, draw the position of button, obtain scan code, then convert the ASCII character of standard, internal code to, be transferred to FIFO (first-in first-out) buffer zone, send to main frame to process.After main frame receives the signal that keyboard sends, the input undertaken by keyboard for user is judged, judges whether this input is the input of effective character.Here, the definition of effective character input is identical with above-mentioned, namely refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display for the input of effective character, the input of main those text characters of finger, particularly, numeral is from 0-9, letter is from a-z, punctuation mark etc. on keyboard, and do not comprise those control characters, such as ctrl, alt, shift, Microsoft's button, Page down (downward page turning), Pageup (upwards page turning), button up and down, Home (top button), End (end button), Delete (delete button) etc., F1 to F12 button, right mouse button etc.If judge it is the input of effective character, operating system instructs CPU to read these ASCII character or internal code, then described ASCII character or internal code is stored in this interim character input block.And for not being those inputs of effective input through keyboard, the input of such as control character, then perform corresponding operation according to the steering order indicated by this control character, as Page down instruction performs upwards page turning, Page up performs upwards page turning etc.

Certainly, although embodiments of the invention to store ASCII character or internal code is described in interim character input block here, but those skilled in the art are also appreciated that in the interim character input block of embodiments of the invention here also can store the out of Memory such as scanning input code.Such as, in the working mechanism of the keyboard buffer shown in above-mentioned Fig. 2 and main frame, keyboard controller scans the button pressed by XY, draw the position of button, obtains scan code, then this interim character input block also can store this scan code, then, in the process of display, the ASCII character of standard, internal code is converted thereof into, and according to input method setting at that time, find display character library, corresponding Charactes Display on display.Here, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that when other input information such as memory scanning codes, also need other supplementary for display.Such as, when user wants input " room " word, it successively presses " F ", " A ", " N " and " G " button, and this is, also need to store the sequencing that user presses these buttons, input method adopted at that time and the user position etc. residing for " room " word selected in input method.

Afterwards, after user finishes the input of content, can specify the input position of institute's input content on screen by Position input equipment, the deposit position of namely inputted character, then electronic equipment obtains a positional information.Such as, when user opens the webpage that can not carry out effective character input, user finds the position that can input comment in the middle of this webpage, and the beginning of this input Commentary Position is positioned a cursor over by Position input equipment, then electronic equipment obtains the positional information of the input position that user specifies, thus at the character that this Position input stores in interim character input block, at this moment, the character of this input is visible to user.Here, the input validation button that embodiments of the invention can adopt to preset is to carry out depositing of content, and such as, this input validation button can be any button on keyboard, as space bar etc.That is, after user specifies the input position on a display screen of institute's input content, can produce the instruction of a confirmation input by clicking space bar, electronic equipment, after the instruction receiving this confirmation input, inputs described content in position.In addition, those skilled in the art are also appreciated that, also can according to the stand-by period detected after input character, that is, electronic equipment judges whether the character inputted in interim character input block receives the confirmation the instruction of input within one period preset.When not having cursor of mouse operation to move to target location display, then confirm the instruction not receiving the confirmation input, so after the time preset, this electronic equipment generates the instruction of a confirmation input automatically, thus at the character that current cursor flicker place input stores, here this stand-by period of presetting is equivalent to the operation of " confirmation " button, to generate the instruction confirming input.

Here, be ASCII character or internal code due to what store in this interim character input block, under regard to personal computer according to ASCII character or internal code display character principle carry out brief description.Open according to the document of such as http://www.360doc.com/content/07/1121/23/1880_837775.shtml, Chinese and English displaying principle is described below.

National standard Chinese character collection GB2312-80 have collected totally 7445 Chinese characters and graphical symbol altogether, and wherein Chinese character 6763, is divided into two-stage, first-level Chinese characters 3755, the Chinese characters of level 2 3008.Chinese character image symbol is divided in 94 " districts " according to its position, and each district comprises 94 Chinese characters, and each Chinese character is also called one " position ".The sequence number in district and the sequence number of position are all from 01 to 94.File HZK16 in UCDOS software and file ASC16 is respectively the GB Chinese character dot matrix file of 16 × 16 and the ASCII character lattice file of 8 × 16, stores in a binary format.In file HZK16, have all Chinese characters in national standard region-position code table by Hanzi section-position code from small to large successively, each Chinese character takies 32 bytes, and each district is 94 Chinese characters.In file ASC16, have the ASCII character dot matrix of 8 × 16 by ASCII character from small to large successively, each ASCII character takies 16 bytes.

In the text of personal computer, Chinese character stores with the form of internal code, each Chinese character takies two bytes: first character Jie Wei district code, in order to distinguish with ASCII character, scope is (what be less than 80H is ASCII character character) from hexadecimal 0A1H, the firstth district of district's code in corresponding region-position code; Second byte is bit code, and scope is also from 0A1H, first bit code in certain district corresponding.Like this, Chinese internal code being deducted 0A0AH must the region-position code of this Chinese character.

Such as the internal code of Chinese character " room " is hexadecimal " B7BF ", and wherein " B7 " represents district's code, and " BF " represents bit code.So the region-position code in " room " is 0B7BFH-0A0A0H=171FH.District's code and bit code are converted to respectively the decimal system and obtain the region-position code of Chinese character " room " for " 2331 ", namely the dot matrix in " room " is positioned at the position of the 31st word in the 23rd district, the position be equivalent in the file HZK16 display dot matrix that to be later 32 bytes of the 32nd × [(23-1) × 94+ (31-1)]=67136B be " room ".

The display of ASCII character is identical with the displaying principle of Chinese character, the problem of internal code is there is not in ASC16 file, its display dot matrix is directly arranged in order from small to large by ASCII character, but each ASCII character only accounts for 1 byte in the text and is less than 80h, each ASCII character is 8X16 dot matrix, namely, in ASCII16 file, the dot matrix of each ASCII character also only accounts for 16 bytes.

Therefore, in the interim character input block of embodiments of the invention, Chinese character is stored therein with the form of internal code, and other character is then stored therein with the form of ASCII character.When stored character will be shown on screen, the position of described character in ASCII character lattice file corresponding to input method at that time or GB Chinese character dot matrix file is found according to the ASCII character stored or internal code, thus the character shown on screen corresponding to it, such as " 1 ", " T ", " room " etc.

In the input method of another embodiment of the present invention, this input method is applied to be had in the electronic equipment of display screen, described method comprises: judge whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, produce one first judgement information, wherein refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display in effective character input; When described first judgement information represents that described electronic equipment can not carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of described display screen, detect an input to obtain an input character; Inputted character is stored in interim character input block, and shows the character stored on a display screen; Obtain a positional information; With according to described positional information, the described character that input described interim character input block in position corresponding to described positional information stores.

Here, as mentioned above, when the ASCII character inputted by effective character or internal code are stored in interim character input block, CPU reads these ASCII character or internal code, the position of described character in ASCII character lattice file corresponding to input method at that time or GB Chinese character dot matrix file is found according to the ASCII character stored or internal code, thus by the predetermined display area over the display of the Charactes Display corresponding to it.

When being presented at by viewing area corresponding with described interim character input block on screen the character stored in interim character input block, those skilled in the art are also appreciated that this viewing area corresponding to interim character input block can be arranged on the fixed area on screen here, such as, the right lower quadrant, upper right quarter etc. of screen, it also can be can by user with the floating frame shown on screen of mouse drag.

Here, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that, for above-mentioned input validation button, except the button on keyboard, also one " confirmation " key can be set on the viewing area corresponding to the interim character input block of embodiments of the invention, thus the instruction that confirms input is produced when user clicks this " confirmation " key, and electronic equipment completes according to this instruction the character that input on a display screen stores.

In addition, for the interim character input block of the application, extra function of keeping secret can also be provided.The function of keeping secret of this interim character input block comprises two aspects, on the one hand, can arrange the character stored in interim character input block is the state hiding display, namely in this condition, when user do not wish others see on screen about nonce word symbol input block viewing area in show character time, user can send the instruction of hiding display by " hiding " button in such as interim character input block, then electronic equipment hides according to this instruction shown, the ASCII character of all input characters be stored in interim character input block or internal code are encoded to other ASCII character, the such as ASCII character of " * ", thus the character that display is different from the input character of user in described window, would not divulge a secret like this, make the input being suitable for password.On the other hand, on the screen of electronic equipment interim character input block viewing area in the character that shows when disappearing, such as, when jumping to lower one page when user browses webpage, because now this character is still stored in interim character input block, user still can check the content inputted last time.Now, when user wants to check the content inputted last time, electronic equipment can point out user to input password, thus can not divulge a secret.

In addition, provide for the character stored in the interim character input block of the application the function copied.Namely user can send duplicate instructions by " copying " button in such as interim character input block, then electronic equipment copies to target location the character be stored in interim character input block, because user sends duplicate instructions heap of times by " copying " button, electronic equipment also can according to duplicate instructions unlimited proceed to copying of target location, so just eliminate the trouble all adopting mouse to select each time.

In addition, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that, in a computer by a lot of operations that character input device carries out, be actually that direct application programs carries out operating, instead of in order to input characters, such as CTRL+C is used to copy word content, instead of in order to input Ctrl character and C character.Therefore, can judge whether the input undertaken by character input device is the input of effective character, instead of the information of the character of shortcut generation.Such as, in the working mechanism of the keyboard buffer shown in above-mentioned Fig. 2 and main frame, the ASCII character of above-mentioned CTRL+C is specified to be invalid ASCII character.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the situation ejecting the window of interim character input block and input method pop-up window is also different, and for input method, first input character must be letter, just can show by pop-up window.And the window of the method that the input method of embodiments of the invention can adopt to be first input the be input of effective character just triggers interim character input block, as mentioned above, it can be, numeral from 0-9, letter from a-z, the punctuation mark etc. on keyboard.But those control characters just can not trigger, such as ctrl, alt, shift, Microsoft's button, Page down (downward page turning), Page up (upwards page turning), up and down button, Home (top button), End (end button), Delete (delete button) etc., F1 to F12 button, right mouse button etc., do not trigger the window ejecting interim character input block.For keypad, if Numlock state, it also can be set and trigger interim character input block.

In addition, in computer utility, usually all some hot keys can be had, these hot key major parts control button with some and start, therefore can control in the input information of button at these by method recited above, these inputs controlling button are set to not be the inputs of effective character, but also have some not to be the hot key that operating key starts, normally in some special application programs, such as some game.For these game, according to the feature of these game, optionally can not activate interim character input block by user and process.

In addition, inventor notices, above-mentioned direct application programs is carried out to the keyboard operation operated, or the keyboard operation of general hot key, the time interval of usual two keys is very very brief, the CTRL+C such as copied, or the CTRL+V etc. pasted, or press simultaneously and just can trigger.Therefore, Rule of judgment can be triggered to judge whether the input of character is the input of effective character according to this, namely, whether the time interval arranged between continuous two operations is less than a time threshold preset, thus whether the input judging character input device is the input of effective character, if the time interval between continuous two operations is less than this time threshold preset, then judge that this operation is not the input of effective character.Further, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that except above-described method, the input method of embodiments of the invention can also adopt other method to arrange the invalid character input of character input device.

Below, be described for the application example of the input method of embodiments of the invention with reference to Fig. 3, Fig. 3 shows the process flow diagram of the exemplary embodiment of the input method of embodiments of the invention.

As shown in Figure 3, in step S101, first detect the cursor on screen, and in step s 102, judge whether this cursor glimmers.According to above, if this cursor flashes, then judge that present procedure is the program can carrying out effective character input, then proceed to step S103, input operation process is carried out, that is, the position will the content inputted being wanted to be input to current cursor by user in cursor position.In addition, if be no in the judged result of step S102, namely cursor does not glimmer, then judge that present procedure is the program cannot carrying out effective character input, so this input method proceeds to step S104, activates interim character input block and on current screen, shows this viewing area corresponding to interim character input block.And in step S105, in this interim character input block, store the character of user's input.Subsequently, in step S106, judge whether cursor is moved to specified input area, that is, the user region that will input the character stored in input through keyboard display buffer of specifying.If cursor moves and specifies the input area on display screen, then in step S107, the character stored in interim character input block is inputted in the viewing area that this is specified, if cursor does not move or does not specify viewing area, then in step S108, the character stored in interim character input block is kept in, to wait for that user specifies input position or carries out other operation.

In the middle of prior art, when opening some input method, user is also allowed to carry out provisional input in the pop-up window of this input method.According to above about the description of the input method of embodiments of the invention, can see that the situation that some input method in the middle of itself and prior art ejects input window has following different:

1) procedure for displaying is different, if the program of effective character input can be carried out, no longer show interim character input block, and if the program of effective character input can not be carried out, activate interim character input block, and the provisional input of input method does not conflict.

2) content in interim character input block can be moved to the target location that user wants to input by the operation by Position input equipment, thus at target location input content, and the windows content of input method cannot be stored.

3) input undertaken by character input device of all users can be kept in, copying and checking after being convenient to.

4) in addition, in the input method of embodiments of the invention, the trigger condition of this interim character input block is also different from the input window of the ejection of input method, as long as the activation condition of the pop-up window of input method has legal Keyboard language input, just activate input method window, no matter whether that document can carry out effective character input.And the scheme of input method for embodiments of the invention, because it is applied to the program can not carrying out effective character input in computing machine, therefore only when effective character input can not be carried out, just eject interim display window.

In the input method of embodiments of the invention, do not need the environment always judging the current display environment of the display screen of electronic equipment in real time whether can carry out effective character input, but after receiving the input operation that user carries out, then can judge whether the environment of the current display environment of the display screen of now electronic equipment can carry out effective character input.

The input method of embodiments of the invention is applied to be had in the electronic equipment of display screen, and described method comprises: obtain an input character; Judge whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, produce and one judge information, wherein effective character input refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display; When described judgement information represents that described electronic equipment can not carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of described display screen, inputted character is stored in interim character input block; Obtain a positional information; With according to described positional information, the described character that input described interim character input block in position corresponding to described positional information stores.

Provide the input method of another embodiment of the present invention, it is characterized in that, described input method is applied to be had in the electronic equipment of display screen, and described method comprises: obtain an input character; Judge whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, produce and one judge information, wherein effective character input refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display; When described judgement information represents that described electronic equipment can not carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of described display screen, inputted character is stored in interim character input block, and shows the character stored on a display screen; Obtain a positional information; With according to described positional information, the described character that input described interim character input block in position corresponding to described positional information stores.

Certainly, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that except be applied to can not carry out effective character input in computing machine program except, the input method of the application also can be applicable to the program that those can carry out effective character input, such as, Word, Excel application etc.Further, in these programs, by the method for the input character of embodiments of the invention, be also first input content, and then specify the input position of this content on screen.

After the first input content of embodiments of the invention, the input method of intended target is applied to and has in the electronic equipment of display screen, and described method comprises: obtain an input character; Inputted character is stored in an interim character input block; Obtain a positional information; With according to described positional information, the described character that input described interim character input block in position corresponding to described positional information stores.

Provide the input method of intended target after first input content according to another embodiment of the present invention, it is applied to has in the electronic equipment of display screen, and described method comprises: obtain an input character; Inputted character is stored in an interim character input block, and shows the character stored on a display screen; Obtain a positional information; With according to described positional information, the described character that input described interim character input block in position corresponding to described positional information stores.

The method that Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 shows the input character of the application is applied to the schematic diagram of the application program can carrying out effective character input.

As shown in Figure 2, screen opens three application programs, mailing system 1, word document 2 and excel table 3, wherein word document 2 is active windows.According to prior art, if now input character, all can be presented in word document 2.

When applying the input method of embodiments of the invention, when user wants to activate interim hand symbol input block, it can activate this interim character input block, and make this viewing area corresponding to interim character input block be displayed on current screen, now, user to be stored in this interim character input block 5 by all the elements that keyboard operation inputs and to be shown to user.Then, user can input stored character via mouse on target location.As shown in Figure 2, although the window activated is word document 2, if but user wishes input characters is excel table 3, then user is after input characters, the target location in excel table 3 is clicked, the word that the corresponding Position input namely in excel table 3 inputs with mouse, and now, active window also transfers to excel table 3 by word document 2, as shown in Figure 3.The input of user can be the same with prior art subsequently, carries out the input of order in excel table 3.

Therefore, when adopting the input method of embodiments of the invention, user does not need first to open the application program that can record input content and then inputs, thus brings convenience for user tackles various emergency condition.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that, the input method of the interim character input block of employing of embodiments of the invention, not only be applicable to the input display of physical keyboard, be also applicable to the input display of touch screen dummy keyboard, more similarly can be applicable to the electronic equipments such as mobile phone.Certainly, the electronic equipment mentioned by the embodiment of the present invention can be Desktop PC, workstation, server etc.

The embodiment provides a kind of electronic equipment, described electronic equipment has a display screen, it is characterized in that, described electronic equipment comprises: the first judge module, for judging whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, produce and first judge information, wherein effective character input refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display; Input character acquisition module, for obtaining an input character; Position information acquisition module, for obtaining a positional information; Memory module, for storing data; Control module, be connected with described first judge module, described input character acquisition module, described position information acquisition module and described memory module respectively, for represent when described first judgement information can not to carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of described display screen time, the input character that described input character acquisition module obtains is stored in described memory module; According to described positional information, input the described character stored in described memory module in the position corresponding to described positional information.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a kind of electronic equipment, described electronic equipment has a display screen, it is characterized in that, described electronic equipment comprises: the first judge module, for judging whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, produce and first judge information, wherein effective character input refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display; Input character acquisition module, for obtaining an input character; Position information acquisition module, for obtaining a positional information; Memory module, for storing data; Control module, be connected with described first judge module, described input character acquisition module, described position information acquisition module and described memory module respectively, for represent when described first judgement information can not to carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of described display screen time, the input character that described input character acquisition module obtains is stored in described memory module, and at the character that described display screen display stores; According to described positional information, input the described character stored in described memory module in the position corresponding to described positional information.

In electronic equipment according to an embodiment of the invention, described first judge module is specially: the second judge module, judge whether the present procedure of described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input, when described second judge module judges that the present procedure of described electronic equipment can not carry out the input of effective character, described first judge module can not carry out effective character input under judging the environment of the current display of described display screen.

In electronic equipment according to an embodiment of the invention, described first judge module is specially: the 3rd judge module, whether the content judging the current display of described display screen has cursor flashes, when the content that described 3rd judge module judges the current display of described display screen not having cursor flashes, described first judge module can not carry out effective character input under judging the environment of the current display of described display screen.

In electronic equipment according to an embodiment of the invention, described input data obtaining module comprises further: the 4th judge module, judges whether described input is the input of effective character; When described 4th judge module judges that described input is the input of effective character, then obtain the character inputted.

The embodiment provides a kind of electronic equipment, described electronic equipment has a display screen, it is characterized in that, described electronic equipment comprises: judge module, for judging whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, produce and one judge information, wherein effective character input refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display; Input character acquisition module, for obtaining an input character; Position information acquisition module, for obtaining a positional information; Memory module, for storing data; Control module, be connected with described judge module, described input character acquisition module, described position information acquisition module and described memory module respectively, for represent when described judgement information can not to carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of described display screen time, the input character that described input character acquisition module obtains is stored in described memory module, and at the character that described display screen display stores; According to described positional information, input in described memory module the described character stored in the position corresponding to described positional information.

The embodiment provides a kind of electronic equipment, described electronic equipment has a display screen, it is characterized in that, described electronic equipment comprises: input character acquisition module, for obtaining an input character; Position information acquisition module, for obtaining a positional information; Memory module, for storing data; Control module, is connected with described input character acquisition module, described position information acquisition module and described memory module respectively, is stored in described memory module for the character obtained by described input character acquiring unit; According to described positional information, input in described memory module the described character stored in the position corresponding to described positional information.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a kind of electronic equipment, and described electronic equipment has a display screen, it is characterized in that, described electronic equipment comprises: input character acquisition module, for obtaining an input character; Position information acquisition module, for obtaining a positional information; Memory module, for storing data; Control module, be connected with described input character acquisition module, described position information acquisition module and described memory module respectively, input character for being obtained by described input character acquiring unit is stored in described memory module, and shows the character stored on a display screen; According to described positional information, input in described memory module the described character stored in the position corresponding to described positional information.

Fig. 6 is the schematic block diagram of the portable terminal adopting input method of the present invention.As shown in Figure 6, described electronic equipment 100 comprises: the first judge module 101, for judging whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, produce and first judge information, wherein effective character input refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display; Input character acquisition module 102, for obtaining an input character; Position information acquisition module 103, for obtaining a positional information; Memory module 104, for storing data; Control module 105,104 are connected respectively with described first judge module 101, described input character acquisition module 102, described position information acquisition module 103 and described memory module, for represent when the first judgement information of described first judge module 101 can not to carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of described display screen time, described input character acquiring unit 102 is obtained input character be stored in described memory module 104; According to described positional information, at the described character that the position input corresponding to described positional information stores in described memory module 104.

Here, as mentioned above, when the character that control module 105 stores in the interim character input block of the display screen display of portable terminal 100, when the ASCII character inputted due to effective character or internal code are stored in interim character input block, control module 105 reads these ASCII character or internal code, the position of described character in ASCII character lattice file corresponding to input method at that time or GB Chinese character dot matrix file is found according to the ASCII character stored or internal code, thus by the predetermined display area over the display of the Charactes Display corresponding to it.

The present invention has been described in detail with reference to specific embodiment.But clearly, when not deviating from spirit of the present invention, those skilled in the art can perform change to embodiment and replace.In other words, the form that the present invention illustrates is open, instead of explains with being limited.Judge main idea of the present invention, appended claim should be considered.

Claims

1. an input method, is characterized in that, described input method is applied to be had in the electronic equipment of display screen, and described method comprises:

Judge whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, produce and one first judge information, wherein effective character input refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display;

When described first judgement information represents that described electronic equipment can not carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of described display screen, detect an input to obtain an input character;

Inputted character is stored in interim character input block;

Obtain a positional information; With

According to described positional information, the described character that the described interim character input block of position input corresponding to described positional information stores;

Wherein, described positional information is user's information by the position of described input character on described display screen specified by a Position input equipment after the input finishing character, to indicate the input position of described input character on described display screen.

2. input method as claimed in claim 1, the described step judging whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen comprises:

Judge whether the present procedure of described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input, produce one second and judge information;

When described second judgement information represents that the present procedure of described electronic equipment can not carry out the input of effective character, determine that described electronic equipment can not carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen.

3. input method as claimed in claim 1, the described step judging whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen comprises:

Whether the content judging the current display of described display screen has cursor flashes, produces one the 3rd and judge information;

When the content that described 3rd judgement information represents the current display of described display screen there is no cursor flashes, determine that described electronic equipment can not carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen.

4. input method as claimed in claim 1, the step that described detection one inputs the input information obtaining a character comprises:

Judge whether described input is the input of effective character, to produce one the 4th judgement information;

When described 4th judgement information represents that described input is the input of effective character, then obtain the character inputted.

5. an input method, is characterized in that, described input method is applied to be had in the electronic equipment of display screen, and described method comprises:

Obtain an input character;

Judge whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, produce and one judge information, wherein effective character input refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display;

When described judgement information represents that described electronic equipment can not carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of described display screen, inputted character is stored in interim character input block;

Obtain a positional information; With

6. the input method of intended target after first input content, it is characterized in that, described input method is applied to be had in the electronic equipment of display screen, and described method comprises:

Obtain an input character;

Inputted character is stored in an interim character input block;

Obtain a positional information; With

7. an electronic equipment, described electronic equipment has a display screen, it is characterized in that, described electronic equipment comprises:

First judge module, for judging whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, produce and first judge information, wherein effective character input refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display;

Input character acquisition module, for obtaining an input character;

Position information acquisition module, for obtaining a positional information;

Memory module, for storing data;

Control module, be connected with described first judge module, described input character acquisition module, described position information acquisition module and described memory module respectively, for represent when described first judgement information can not to carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of described display screen time, the input character that described input character acquisition module obtains is stored in described memory module; With according to described positional information, input the described character stored in described memory module in the position corresponding to described positional information;

8. electronic equipment as claimed in claim 7, described first judge module is specially:

Second judge module, judges whether the present procedure of described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input,

When described second judge module judges that the present procedure of described electronic equipment can not carry out the input of effective character, described first judge module can not carry out effective character input under judging the environment of the current display of described display screen.

9. electronic equipment as claimed in claim 7, described first judge module is specially:

3rd judge module, whether the content judging the current display of described display screen has cursor flashes,

When the content that described 3rd judge module judges the current display of described display screen not having cursor flashes, described first judge module can not carry out effective character input under judging the environment of the current display of described display screen.

10. electronic equipment as claimed in claim 7, described input data obtaining module comprises further:

4th judge module, judges whether described input is the input of effective character;

When described 4th judge module judges that described input is the input of effective character, then obtain the character inputted.

11. 1 kinds of electronic equipments, described electronic equipment has a display screen, it is characterized in that, described electronic equipment comprises:

Judge module, for judging whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen, producing and one judging information, wherein effective character input refer to can in the input of the character of described display screen display;

Input character acquisition module, for obtaining an input character;

Memory module, for storing data;

Control module, be connected with described judge module, described input character acquisition module, described position information acquisition module and described memory module respectively, for when obtaining an input character by described input character acquisition module, judge whether described electronic equipment can carry out effective character input under the environment of the current display of described display screen by described judge module; When described judgement information represent can not to carry out the input of effective character under the environment of the current display of described display screen time, the input character that described input character acquisition module obtains is stored in described memory module; According to described positional information, input in described memory module the described character stored in the position corresponding to described positional information;

12. 1 kinds of electronic equipments, described electronic equipment has a display screen, it is characterized in that, described electronic equipment comprises:

Input character acquisition module, for obtaining an input character;

Memory module, for storing data;

Control module, is connected with described input character acquisition module, described position information acquisition module and described memory module respectively, is stored in described memory module for the input character obtained by described input character acquisition module; With according to described positional information, input in described memory module the described character stored in the position corresponding to described positional information;