Finger recognition system and method for use in typing
AssigneeType A+ LLC
InventorBarbara SCHMIDT
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Abstract
A system and method for typing training are disclosed in which a fingerprint recognition system is included. The system recognizes a typist's fingers or fingerprints while the typist types the keys on a keypad such that the system determines which finger has pressed a particular key and can notify the typist when an incorrect finger is used to press a particular key. The system is well suited for tutorial typing where the typist is reinforced to use the correct finger to type each particular key. The system may be implemented using a specially designed keyboard or it may be implemented as an application.
Claims4
A typing training system, comprising:
- a computer device having a touchscreen that displays a virtual keyboard having a plurality of keys;
- a finger recognition sensor for each of the keys of the virtual keyboard wherein each finger recognition sensor senses a press of a key of the virtual keyboard by a particular finger of a user;
- a computer system, coupled to the computer device, having a processor connected to each finger recognition sensor and configured to determine that the key being pressed is pressed by a wrong finger of the user based on a stored correct finger identifier of the particular user for the key being pressed not matching an identifier captured by the the finger recognition sensor for the key being pressed;
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- the computer device configured to generate a typing training user interface that displays, on the touchscreen, a message when a key of the virtual keyboard is pressed by a wrong finger of the user.
A computerized method for typing training, comprising:
- receiving a key press from a virtual keyboard on a computing device;
- sensing, by a finger recognition sensor the key press by a particular finger of a user;
- determining, by a processor of a computer system connected to each finger recognition sensor, if the key was pressed by a wrong finger of the user;
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- notifying, on a display of the computing device, the user when the wrong finger of the user pressed the key.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.