CN102541270B - Character inputting method and device as well as keyboard - Google Patents
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The invention provides a character inputting method and device as well as a keyboard, belonging to the field of an inputting method. The character inputting method comprises an inputting step of inputting information in response to a touch on a key in the keyboard, a detecting step of detecting if the key is included in a set region of the keyboard, and a first outputting step of outputting display results corresponding to two inputting methods respectively when detecting that all the touched keys are included in the set region in the detecting step, and selecting the content required to be input in the display results. According to the invention, two inputting methods are input at the same time under an inputting method by a multiplexing key defined in the set region to obtain display results of the two inputting methods so as to increase the inputting speed of users; and the space of the keyboard is saved; moreover, the character inputting method can be favorable for miniaturization of the device and reduction of the manufacturing cost when being applied to the physical keyboard.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to hand-held terminal device input method field, particularly relate to a kind of characters input method and device, keyboard.
Background technology
Along with popularizing of the intelligent mobile phone systems such as Android system, apple system, the design of increasing input method is also tending towards hommization, and such as in the input domain of number attribute, entering method keyboard can become numeric keypad automatically; In the input domain of mail attribute, entering method keyboard can increase the shortcut of similar " .com ", " .cn ".The content that how allowing input method can input user more convenient, quickly needs just become the key of competing between each input method, presents one after another as mixed the input method functions such as defeated, automatic error-correcting, person's handwriting study at Chinese and English.
Current input methods inputs numeral under phonetic state following several method: 1. by numeral and symbol merging at an interface, be referred to as at " numeric character interface ", called by function button; 2. using numeral separately as an interface, called by function button; 3. on primary input keyboard, increase by row's digital keys (the method is used on pad).In this several method, first two needs when inputting numeral first to call by the switch key etc. of operation keyboard the input through keyboard numeral including numeral, and in the interface of spelling input method, directly cannot input numeral, causes inconvenience during input; Although the convenient input of the third method, keyboard whole height can be made to increase, and when not needing to input numeral, digital keys can seem unnecessary, takies limited display screen space.
Summary of the invention
The present invention is directed to the situation inputting numeral in the interface of spelling input method, propose a kind of input method and device of character, substantially increase the efficiency inputting another kind of input method in a kind of input method.
The invention provides a kind of characters input method, comprising: input step, input information in response to the touch-control to the button in keyboard; Whether detecting step, detect described button and be contained in the given area of described keyboard; First exports step, when detecting that in described detecting step the button of institute's touch-control is all contained in described given area, export the display result of first input method corresponding with the button in given area and the second input method, in display result, select the content needing input.
The present invention also provides a kind of keyboard being suitable for described characters input method, and described keyboard comprises a given area, is provided with the multiplexing key that simultaneously can trigger the first input method and the second input method in this given area.
The present invention separately provides a kind of character entry apparatus, comprising: input block, for inputting information in response to the touch-control to the button in keyboard; Whether detecting unit, be contained in the given area of described keyboard for detecting described button; First output unit, for detecting that the button of institute's touch-control is all contained in described given area at described detecting unit, export first input method corresponding with the button in given area, the display result of the second input method, in display result, select the content needing input.
Characters input method of the present invention, character entry apparatus and keyboard can improve the input speed of user, and can save the space of keyboard.
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Accompanying drawing described herein is used to provide a further understanding of the present invention, forms a part of the present invention, and schematic description and description of the present invention, for explaining the present invention, does not form limitation of the invention.In the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 illustrates the schematic diagram of the characters input method of one embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 2 illustrates the layout interface schematic diagram of the reset key of one embodiment of the invention on keyboard;
Fig. 3 illustrates the layout interface schematic diagram of the reset key of one embodiment of the invention on keyboard;
Fig. 4 illustrates the schematic diagram of the display result of the output character input method of one embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 5 illustrates the schematic diagram of the character entry apparatus of one embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 6 illustrates the schematic diagram of the output unit of the character entry apparatus of one embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 7 illustrates the schematic diagram of the character entry apparatus of further embodiment of this invention.
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Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, embodiment of the present invention characters input method and device, keyboard are described in detail.
One embodiment of the invention provide a kind of characters input method, as shown in Figure 1, comprising:
S101, input step;
User uses the button on the medium point beating keyboards such as finger, writing pencil, and keyboard receives this click and inputs information in response to the touch-control to the button in keyboard, and wherein, this keyboard can be dummy keyboard, also can be physical keyboard.
S102, detecting step;
When receiving input information, whether the button detecting institute's touch-control is contained in the given area of described keyboard, for example, described keyboard is and comprises 26 alphabetical full keyboards, can be used for input Chinese, also can be used for input English, also can be used for inputting other characters, button in the given area of this keyboard is the multiplexing key that simultaneously can trigger input methods, the input method that its quantity and region supplement as required on full keyboard is determined, on full keyboard, the digital inputting method of input 0-9 is supplemented as needed, then by digital 0-9 layout on the part button of 26 alphabetical full keyboards, each numeral is arranged on a button, for convenience of input, can be arranged on full keyboard one row or layout keyboard concentrate multiple buttons on, button in given area can carry out numeral input and full keyboard input simultaneously.In addition, the input method of supplementing also can is-symbol input method, as conventional punctuation mark, or conventional special symbol etc.
S103, first exports step;
The button of touch-control is all contained in described given area when detecting, export the display result of first input method corresponding with the button in given area and the second input method.
For example, when when detecting, the button of touch-control is all the multiplexing key in given area, namely can carry out numeral input and full keyboard input simultaneously, the Chinese word library of call number character library and full keyboard input or English character library, then according to choosing to the touch-control of button two the candidate word collection mated with input content from two character libraries, and by matching degree display on a display screen.
S104, second exports step;
When detecting that in described detecting step the button of institute's touch-control is not all contained in described given area, export described second the display result only exporting the first corresponding input method in step.
For example, when detecting, the button of touch-control is not when being all multiplexing key in given area, namely when the button of touch-control also comprises the button in unvested region, then only call Chinese word library or English character library or other character libraries of full keyboard input, then according to choosing to the touch-control of button the candidate word collection mated with input content from the character library called, and by matching degree display on a display screen.
Wherein, in the detecting step of described S102, detect that the button of institute's touch-control is all contained in described given area, and when directly can obtain the Output rusults of the first input method by the button of institute's touch-control, the Output rusults of described first input method is placed in the first place of described display result, otherwise, detecting, the button of touch-control is all contained in described given area, but when directly can not obtain the Output rusults of the first input method by the button of institute's touch-control, the Output rusults of described second input method is placed in the first place of described display result.
For example, first input method is Chinese character coding input method, second input method is digital inputting method, when detecting, the button of touch-control is all contained in described given area, and when directly can obtain the Output rusults corresponding with Chinese character coding input method by the button of institute's touch-control, the Output rusults corresponding with Chinese character coding input method is placed in first place show, the Output rusults that digital inputting method is corresponding shows successively; When detecting, the button of touch-control is all contained in and directly can not obtains the Output rusults corresponding with Chinese character coding input method in described given area but by the button of institute's touch-control, the Output rusults corresponding with digital inputting method is placed in first place show, the Output rusults corresponding with Chinese character coding input method secondly.
Fig. 2-Fig. 3 is the layout interface schematic diagram of multiplexing key on keyboard, more smooth in order to make to input numeral under spelling input method, keyboard is provided with multiple multiplexing key, this multiplexing key is the button that simultaneously can trigger input methods, can be arranged in given area, be arranged on a certain row of full keyboard or layout on multiple buttons of keyboard, as shown in the region 100 of Fig. 2, multiplexing key is arranged on the top one row of full keyboard, on the numeral 0 ~ 9 shown with ash each button that respectively silk-screen is arranged in the top one; Also can be arranged on multiple buttons of full keyboard, centralized layout is in certain region, as shown in Figure 3, convenient in order to input numeral, by multiplexing key centralized layout in the region 300 of alphabetic keypad to arrange formation one region, on the button of numeral 0 ~ 9 difference silk-screen shown with ash in this region, in addition, multiplexing key also can be arranged on other regions facilitating user to input.
In one embodiment of this invention, the subalphbet key in the letter key region of full keyboard arranges multiplexing key respectively, for example, as shown in Fig. 2-Fig. 3, this multiplexing key numeral 0 ~ 9 that ash is aobvious represents, the button region being provided with digital 0-9 is given area, when under spelling input method, touch controlled key inputs, whether the button that the checkout equipment relevant to input method detects institute's touch-control is contained in the given area of described keyboard, the coordinate information of the button of user's touch-control can be sent to processor by the system of process input method, processor judges whether the button coordinate of this touch-control is all contained in the given area preset.
If detect, the button coordinate of institute's touch-control is all contained in described given area, transfer the first character library corresponding to the first input method corresponding to multiplexing key and corresponding second character library of the second input method, receive the information of this input and mate according to the information of input in the first character library transferred and in the second character library respectively, in two character libraries, extracting the candidate word collection of coupling respectively and output candidate characters shows.For example, first input method is Chinese character coding input method, second input method is digital inputting method, when the button of touch-control is all the multiplexing key including numeral, equipment is transferred and the Chinese Candidate Set inputting information match from Chinese word library corresponding to Chinese character coding input method, transfer and the digital Candidate Set inputting information match from the digital character library that digital inputting method is corresponding, and by this Chinese Candidate Set and digital Candidate Set Display of Chinese characters Output rusults and digital output results simultaneously in candidate regions, the Chinese character output obtained when described Chinese character output result and alphabetical under Pinyin Input pattern in click keys comes to the same thing, the numeral obtained when described digital output results and digital in click keys under common digital inputting interface is identical, and wherein array order also identical with the order of click keys under digital inputting interface, click and select the corresponding Output rusults of display namely can input required numeral or Chinese output result fast.Further, before display two candidate word collection, sorting further, normally inputting Chinese character to not affect user to the output content of two the candidate word collection needing display, default digital combination is presented at the second candidate bit.
For example, as shown in Figure 4, when user needs input numeral " 23 " under Pinyin Input pattern, without the need to carrying out the switching of input method, and only need press letter " w ", " e " key successively, the Chinese display result that then display is corresponding with the letter of input in the display result exported, as " playing ", " extremely evil " etc., also show " w ", " e " key institute distinguish correspondence numeral " 23 ", as shown in region in Fig. 4 200, " should play " with the candidate word that " w ", " e " key mate most and be presented at first place, this numeral " 23 " is presented at the second candidate bit.Certainly, the present invention is not limited thereto, digital displaying result not only can be presented at the second candidate bit, also can be presented at other suitable candidate bit according to the setting of user.
Further, when the button of touch-control is all contained in given area, after extracting the candidate word collection of coupling, the candidate word detecting the first input method concentrates whether there be the candidate characters directly related with the input content of touch controlled key, if when there is no directly related candidate characters, then the display result that digital Candidate Set exports is shown in first place.For example, first input method is Chinese character coding input method, second input method is digital inputting method, when the button of touch-control is all the reset key comprising numeral, also namely the button of touch-control is all contained in given area, and the content of this input concentrates the direct candidate without coupling at candidate word, namely in the dictionary of spelling input method, corresponding Chinese character or Chinese phrase is not directly mated with inputted pinyin combinations, and when needing that repeatedly candidate just can complete input Chinese character corresponding to this pinyin combinations by Continuous Selection, then combination of numbers candidate is put into first, make the convenient input combination of numbers of user to content regions.Such as, when input alphabet combination " wqtq " under the spelling input method interface in the keyboard layout shown in Fig. 2 or Fig. 3 of the present invention, now only show " I goes " Chinese candidate that " wq " matches in Chinese character candidate, do not comprise the matching candidate word collection of " tq ", can only by successively selecting " I goes ", and then " tq " is mated, just can complete input.In this case just the digital candidate " 2151 " of digital inputting method corresponding for touch controlled key coupling is put into first.
Utilize input method of the present invention, utilize a kind of input method to carry out can using another kind of input method without the need to switching keyboard in the process inputted user simultaneously, input numeral or punctuation mark in the process of Chinese character is inputted as adopted Chinese pinyin input method, digital candidate can be shown at display result candidate regions, facilitate the operation of user, further, only account for an option in candidate due to digital candidate, the process of input Chinese character is not almost affected.
Another embodiment of the present invention provides a kind of keyboard being suitable for above-mentioned characters input method, as shown in Figures 1 to 3, this keyboard can be virtual full keyboard, also can be physical keyboard, the part button of this keyboard is provided with a given area, button in this given area is the multiplexing key simultaneously triggering the first input method and the second input method, not only while carrying out the first input method input, the second input method can be carried out without the need to switching by the keyboard of this set-up mode, save the space of keyboard, and in the miniaturization for device can be beneficial to during physical keyboard and reduction manufacturing cost.
One embodiment of the invention provides a kind of character entry apparatus, as shown in Figure 5, comprising: input block 501, inputs information in response to the touch-control to the button in keyboard; Whether detecting unit 502, detect described button and be contained in the given area of described keyboard; Output unit 503, for exporting the display result of the first input method corresponding to touch controlled key, the second input method, and selects the content needing input in display result.Further, a kind of character entry apparatus that one embodiment of the invention provides, as shown in Figure 6, this input block 503 comprises the first output unit 5031 and the second output unit 5032, first output unit 5031, for when described detecting unit 502 detects that the button of institute's touch-control is all contained in described given area, export the display result of first input method corresponding with the button in given area and the second input method.Second output unit 5032, for detecting that the button of institute's touch-control is not all contained in described given area at detecting unit 502, exports the display result of the first input method, in display result, select the content needing input.
Based on an above-mentioned embodiment, as shown in Figure 7, a kind of character entry apparatus that further embodiment of this invention provides, also comprises multiplexing key assignments unit 504, can trigger the first input method and the second input method for the button set in described given area simultaneously.
Further, a kind of character entry apparatus that further embodiment of this invention provides, also comprise: display sort result unit 505, for detecting that the button of institute's touch-control is all contained in described given area at described detecting unit 502, and when directly can obtain the Output rusults of the first input method (as: Chinese character coding input method) by the button of institute's touch-control, described Chinese output result is placed in the first place of described display result, otherwise, detect that the button of institute's touch-control is all contained in described given area at described detecting unit 502, but when directly can not obtain the Output rusults of the first input method by the button of institute's touch-control, the Output rusults of the second input method (as: digital inputting method) is placed in the first place of described display result.
Utilize the keyboard described in the embodiment of the present invention, characters input method and device, user can directly input when needs input numeral, do not need to do the operation such as the prerequisite that switches input method, same smooth with input Chinese character when making to input numeral in the process inputting Chinese character; Meanwhile, digital output results of the present invention only occupies a position in show candidate district, very little to other operating influences in input process.And digital candidate shows always, and only just show when keyed in character is all compound keys; Further, due to keyboard of the present invention to be provided with in letter key region can input numeral again can the multiplexing key of input alphabet, and without the need to arranging separately numerical key region, save the area of keyboard.
In addition, the embodiment of the present invention is only to arrange letter and digital multiplexing key, also can be used for the multiplexing key two kinds of input functions be grouped together that other are set, and under a kind of input method, obtain two kinds of display results simultaneously, as numeral and English, symbol and Chinese, symbol and English etc., and without the need to switching input method back and forth, thus improve the input speed of user, and save the space of keyboard, and in the miniaturization for device can be beneficial to during physical keyboard and reduction manufacturing cost.
One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or part of flow process realized in above-described embodiment method, that the hardware that can carry out instruction relevant by computer program has come, described program can be stored in computer read/write memory medium, this program, when performing, can comprise the flow process of the embodiment as above-mentioned each side method.Wherein, described storage medium can be disk, CD, ROM (read-only memory) or random access memory etc.
The above; be only the specific embodiment of the present invention, but protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, is anyly familiar with those skilled in the art in the technical scope that the present invention discloses; change can be expected easily or replace, all should be encompassed within protection scope of the present invention.Therefore, protection scope of the present invention should be as the criterion with the protection domain of claim.
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1. a characters input method, comprising:
Input step, inputs information in response to the touch-control to the button in keyboard;
Whether detecting step, detect described button and be contained in the given area of described keyboard; And
First exports step, when detecting that in described detecting step the button of institute's touch-control is all contained in described given area, export the display result of first input method corresponding with the button in given area and the second input method, in display result, select the content needing input
Wherein, the display result of described first input method and the display result of described second input method are simultaneously displayed in same a line,
The feature of described characters input method is further comprising the steps of:
Second exports step, when detecting that in described detecting step the button of institute's touch-control is not all contained in described given area, only exports the display result corresponding to the first input method, in display result, select the content needing input,
Wherein, in described detecting step, detect that the button of institute's touch-control is all contained in described given area, and when directly can obtain the Output rusults of the first input method by the button of institute's touch-control, the Output rusults of described first input method is placed in the first place of described display result, otherwise, in described detecting step, detect that the button of institute's touch-control is all contained in described given area, but when directly can not obtain the Output rusults of the first input method by the button of institute's touch-control, the Output rusults of described second input method is placed in the first place of described display result.
2. characters input method according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described in the button be contained in given area be the multiplexing key that simultaneously can trigger the first input method and the second input method.
3. characters input method according to claim 2, is characterized in that, second input method corresponding with the button in described given area is digital inputting method or symbol input method.
4. characters input method according to claim 2, is characterized in that, described multiplexing key be arranged in keyboard one row button on or layout concentrate multiple buttons on.
5. a character entry apparatus, comprising:
Input block, for inputting information in response to the touch-control to the button in keyboard;
Whether detecting unit, be contained in the given area of described keyboard for detecting described button; And
First output unit, for detecting that the button of institute's touch-control is all contained in described given area at described detecting unit, export the display result of first input method corresponding with the button in given area and the second input method, in display result, select the content needing input
Wherein, the display result of described first input method and the display result of described second input method are simultaneously displayed in same a line,
The feature of described character entry apparatus is also to comprise:
Second output unit, described second output unit is used for when detecting unit detects that the button of institute's touch-control is not all contained in described given area, only export the display result corresponding to the first input method, in display result, select the content needing input; And
Display sort result unit, detect that the button of institute's touch-control is all contained in described given area at described detecting unit, and when directly can obtain the Output rusults of the first input method by the button of institute's touch-control, the Output rusults of described first input method is placed in the first place of described display result, otherwise, detect that the button of institute's touch-control is all contained in described given area at described detecting unit, but when directly can not obtain the Output rusults of the first input method by the button of institute's touch-control, the Output rusults of described second input method is placed in the first place of described display result.
6. character entry apparatus according to claim 5, is characterized in that, also comprises multiplexing key assignments unit, can trigger the first input method and the second input method for the button set in described given area simultaneously.
7. character entry apparatus according to claim 6, is characterized in that, described multiplexing key be arranged in keyboard one row button on or layout concentrate multiple buttons on.
8. a keyboard, is characterized in that, includes the character entry apparatus provided any one of claim 5-7.
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