Electronic device with user interface capability and method therefor
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorsSivakumar Muthuswamy, Joseph G. Gillette, Scott G. Potter
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Abstract
An electronic device (11) includes a keypad (22) for data entry, a character recognition system (34), and a processor (28). The keypad (22) is comprised of one or more keys (24) and one or more interstitial spaces (26) located in close proximity to one or more associated keys of the one or more keys (24). The one or more interstitial spaces (26) and the one or more keys (24) are comprised of a plurality of touch sensitive material (46). The user input to the plurality of touch sensitive material (46) produces one or more activated segments (50) used by the character recognition system (34) to create a correlating character (60).
Claims26
An electronic device comprising:
- a user interface for information entry, wherein the user interface comprises a touch sensitive material;
- a character recognition system;
- and
- a processor coupled between the user interface and the character recognition system, wherein the processor is programmed to initiate an input signal to the character recognition system in response to a user input to at least one portion of the touch sensitive material.
A method within an electronic device for user input comprising:
- detecting a user writing one or more strokes on a keypad, wherein the keypad comprises one or more interstitial spaces, and further wherein the one or more interstitial spaces comprises a first portion of touch sensitive material;
- recording one or more traces of the one or more strokes over the first portion of touch sensitive material as one or more discrete activated segments creating a first discontinuous segment touch data;
- and
- identifying a correlating character from the first discontinuous segment touch data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.