Method for designing optimal single pointer predictive keyboards and apparatus therefore
February 18, 2020. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesData input system Keyboard with keys concentrated in clusters Dynamic predictive keyboard Method for designing an ergonomic one-finger keyboard and apparatus therefor Compact stylus keyboard Mobile client computer programmed to display lists and hexagonal keyboard Mobile client computer with hexagonal keyboard Enhancement of soft keyboard operations using trigram prediction Method and system for intelligent text entry on a numeric keypad Reduced keyboard disambiguating system Patent #: 6011554 InventorAssigneeApplicationNo. 09/506610 filed on 02/18/2000US Classes:341/22, Including keyboard or keypad341/23, Variable key legends341/34, Pressure sensitive actuation345/173, Touch panel382/230Trigrams or digramsExaminersPrimary: Edwards, Timothy Jr.Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassesG06F 3/023 (20060101)G06F 3/033 (20060101) AbstractKeys are arranged on a keyboard as learned during a training stage. During training, a training corpus of input symbol sequence is provided. Each unique symbol in the corpus has an associated key on the keyboard. A cost function that measures a cost of inputting the symbols of the training corpus is globally minimized. Then, the keys are arranged on the keyboard according to the globally minimized cost function. To reduced the distance a pointer must move, the keys can also be arranged in a hexagonal pattern.Other References
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