Method and apparatus for entering verbal numerals in electronic devices
OwnerJaime Redin, Maria Redininventors
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Abstract
A method used to process verbal numerals corresponding to major spoken languages entered in an electronic device that accepts input from a keyboard, a digitizer device configured to receive handwritten input, or a voice recognition device configured to interpret a set of voice words or commands; convert the verbal numeral into a decimal numeral; display the result of the conversion after each symbol of the verbal numeral is entered; and feed the converted number to the device or application once the last symbol of the verbal numeral has been entered.
Claims13
A method for accepting verbal numerals into a device or application, comprised of:
- (a) input means for receiving a sequence of digits and numerical structures corresponding to a verbal numeral;
- (b) decoding the signals received by the input means into a symbol that represents a digit or a numerical structure, and passing the symbol to a driver program;
- (c) adding the symbol to the previous symbols received for this number-input operation as part of a verbal numeral, and storing it in a verbal numeral buffer;
- (d) converting each intermediate sequence of verbal numeral symbols into the sequence of digits that corresponds to the decimal representation of the verbal numeral, and storing the result in a decimal number buffer;
- (e) displaying, if required, the contents of the decimal number buffer in a window or display controlled by the application, the device or the driver program;
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- (f) feeding the contents of the decimal number buffer to the device or application once all the verbal numeral symbols have been entered.
The method of entering into an electronic device a decimal number that is to be initially expressed in a non-numeric manner, comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing respective symbolic representations for the 1, 10, 100, 1000, and higher digital positions of decimal numbers;
- (b) providing representations for the values from zero to nine, inclusive, that may be accorded to a particular digital position;
- (c) entering a non-numeric representation for the digit of each digital position of the decimal number, so as to then produce in response thereto a corresponding symbolic representation;
- (d) combining the symbolic representations of digital positions with corresponding representations for the value to be accorded to each associated digital position;
- (e) visually displaying a result of the combining process;
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- (f) then maintaining the visual display while continuing the combining process until the visually displayed result corresponds to the decimal number.
A method of entering into an electronic device a decimal number that is to be initially expressed in a non-numeric manner, comprising the steps of:
- (a) assigning different symbols to correspond with respectively different digit positions of any decimal number;
- (b) assigning different powers of ten to correspond with the respectively different digit positions in any decimal number;
- (c) assigning representations of value from zero to nine, inclusive, for the value that any individual digit of a decimal number in any digit position may have;
- (d) entering non-numeric information to produce both different symbols for the digital positions of the number, and the respective digit values of the number associated with those positions;
- (e) combining the non-numeric information thus entered with the powers of ten corresponding to respective digit positions to produce a result;
- (f) visually displaying the result of the combining process as it progresses;
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- (g) then while continuing the combining process maintaining the visual display until the visually displayed result correctly corresponds to the digital number being inputted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.