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The invention is to provide a method for inputting different characters by multi-directionally pressing one single key of a portable electronic device more than one time, the key having a plurality of protuberances on an underside and a circuit board having a plurality of pads being equal in number to the protuberances and disposed correspondingly thereto, the method comprises determining the conduction periods of time by a control circuit, while one key being multi-directionally pressed a plurality of times to cause the protuberances to contact the corresponding pads at different conduction periods of time; reading a corresponding character sequentially from a built-in character database based on a longer one of the conduction periods of time; and displaying the read character. By utilizing this method, it is possible of effecting a fast input on the keypad.

A word pattern recognition system based on a virtual keyboard layout combines handwriting recognition with a virtual, graphical, or on-screen keyboard to provide a text input method with relative ease of use. The system allows the user to input text quickly with little or no visual attention from the user. The system supports a very large vocabulary of gesture templates in a lexicon, including practically all words needed for a particular user. In addition, the system utilizes various techniques and methods to achieve reliable recognition of a very large gesture vocabulary. Further, the system provides feedback and display methods to help the user effectively use and learn shorthand gestures for words. Word patterns are recognized independent of gesture scale and location. The present system uses language rules to recognize and connect suffixes with a preceding word, allowing users to break complex words into easily remembered segments.

A terminal displays icons (111) representative of actions / conditions of expression data, such as animation, sound, or text, on an icon palette (110). Further, on the terminal's display screen, there is provided a control input area (120) where icons (121) and text (122) are displayed in a mixture, allowing the user to input an icon (121) by selecting it from the icons (111) on the icon palette (110) and to input text (122) from a keyboard or the like. The terminal controls the actions / conditions of a character representing the user displayed in the animation display area (100a) based on input results in accordance with the icon (121) and displays the text (122) positioned immediately after the icon (121) in synchronism with the animated character representing the user. In this manner, an expression data control system is realized which is capable of quickly and correctly controlling various expressions, including subtle differences between them.

A system augments stylus keyboarding with shorthand gesturing. The system defines a shorthand symbol for each word according to its movement pattern on an optimized stylus keyboard. The system recognizes word patterns by identifying an input as a stroke, and then matching the stroke to a stored list of word patterns. The system then generates and displays the matched word to the user.

A system for designing and monitoring clinical trials includes a main database of information concerning prior clinical trials and resources available to conduct future clinical trials. In part information in the main database is obtained through data links to other databases in the enterprise, e.g., human resources and finance databases. Some of the information in the main database concerns prior clinical trials and is, in part, in the form of protocols of (a) scheduled visits of a test subject to a treatment site, (b) measurement of prescribed physical attributes of the subject during the visits and (c) administration of at least one prescribed medical product to the subject during the visit to determine over time the subject's response thereto. The protocols of prior clinical trial are stored in the main database in the form of a software template.

The present invention is related to a computer-implemented method of identifying and annotating an image from an electronic medical record displayed on a touch screen, which includes displaying the image on the touch screen; identifying medical issues shown in the image; annotating the image with at least one symbol correlated to predetermined information using a navigational device; and prioritizing the medical issues using the navigational device. The prioritizing step may include color-coding at least one of the symbol and the image using the navigational device. Further, the navigational device may include a pressure detecting mechanism which determines at least one of a priority of the image and a speed of images displayed on the touch screen, based on an amount of pressure exerted by a user on the touch screen. The navigational device includes security features to ensure authorized use, including biometric authentication of identification.

The present invention is a method and apparatus for protection of products and packaging against counterfeiting using dedicated authentication protocol coupled with portable devices. It is based on the product identification information, i.e., PIN, generated by the product manufacturer, stored in the product database and added to product or packaging in an open and / or a hidden form. The open part is directly available to the consumer before buying, opening or consuming the product or package or damaging its integrity while the hidden part is only revealed after these operations. The hidden information can also be disappearing after a predefined interval of time or number of trials or usages. Both parts are communicated to the authentication server in a predefined order to verify the product or package authenticity. The presence, absence, or multiple requests for the same product PIN, confirm or reject product authenticity or detect attempt at attacking the system or at using counterfeited products.

A system and method for providing hazardous incident decision support and training includes a user interface component that receives situation definition data, a hazard assessment component and a decision aid. Decision support advice and decision prompts are presented by the system in response to the situation definition interface and hazard assessment. The hazard assessment and expert advice of the system are updated with elapsed time. In another embodiment of the present invention, graphical user interfaces are provided to display a set of menu entries wherein individual menu entries represent a hazardous incident characteristic. The user may select one or more of the menu entries to create a situation definition. Such definitions may be used, for example, to identify a hazardous agent based upon user-inputted signs and symptoms data.

Providing zooming within a system diagram. Initially, a diagram of a system may be displayed. The diagram may include a plurality of icons representing physical components of the system. These plurality of icons may be initially displayed at a first level of magnification. User input to zoom on a first physical component in the diagram may be received. Accordingly, the first physical component may be displayed at a second level of magnification and other ones of the physical components may be displayed at a third level of magnification. The second level of magnification may be greater than the first level of magnification and the third level of magnification may be less than the first level of magnification. Alternatively, or additionally, different representations for various components of the system may be displayed in the diagram during or after the zoom.

A system and method for providing hazardous incident decision support and training includes a user interface component that receives situation definition data, a hazard assessment component and a decision aid. Decision support advice and decision prompts are presented by the system in response to the situation definition interface and hazard assessment. The hazard assessment and expert advice of the system are updated with elapsed time. In another embodiment of the present invention, graphical user interfaces are provided to display a set of menu entries wherein individual menu entries represent a hazardous incident characteristic. The user may select one or more of the menu entries to create a situation definition. Such definitions may be used, for example, to identify a hazardous agent based upon user-inputted signs and symptoms data.

Provided is a character input method and apparatus. The character input method includes assigning character groups, each of which includes at least two characters, to at least two key regions generated by dividing a region of the touch screen and displaying the character groups in the corresponding key regions, based on one-to-one correspondence, if a press event occurs in one of the key regions, enlarging and displaying characters included in the key region where the press event occurs, determining whether one of a release event and a drag event occurs in one of the key regions where the characters are displayed enlarged, if it is determined that the drag event occurs, indicating the key region where the drag event occurs according to distance and direction of the drag event, and if the release event occurs in the indicated key region, outputting characters included in the indicated key region on the touch screen. Thus, a user can easily find a desired character and accurately input the character, thereby performing key input more conveniently and quickly.

An apparatus (100) for handwriting recognition has a touch-sensitive display screen (240) providing a hand writing input area (270) capable of detecting hand-made user input. The apparatus also has a processing device (300) coupled to the touch-sensitive display screen and providing a user interface to a user. The handwriting input area (270) includes a writing start area (280) capable of switching between a first two-dimensional scope (282) and a second two-dimensional scope (282′), larger than the first two-dimensional scope. The processing device (300) is configured to handle said handmade user input as either a logical mouse event, associated with a control operation for said user interface, or a logical pen event, associated with handwriting. User input within the writing start area when having its first two-dimensional scope is handled as a logical mouse event and causes the writing start area to switch to its second two-dimensional scope, Furthermore, user input that starts within the writing start area when having its second two-dimensional scope is handled as a logical pen event and causes interpretation of the user input (252) as a symbol (254) from a plurality of predefined symbols.

A finger-mapped gesture system is a user interface method and apparatus for rapid data input on a touch-sensitive surface. The user gestures by holding the hand stationary relative to the surface and moving the fingers primarily by extension and flexion on the surface. Each finger gestures on a gesturing area instead of selecting among keys. Individual gestures are constructed from finger actions that each independently parameterize the gesture. In combination, the particular fingers gesturing and the parameters that the fingers gesture indicate the input that the user intends. On devices that do not directly identify fingers, fingers are identified via a finger map that, after calibration to a person's hand, associates each finger with a gesturing area. Gestures are otherwise independent of where they are performed, freeing users from having to look at their fingers to target visual elements. The system is optimized for rapid character data entry.

An apparatus for handwriting recognition has a touch-sensitive display screen providing a handwriting input area capable of detecting a handwritten user input. The apparatus also has a processing device configured to interpret the handwritten user input as a symbol from a plurality of predefined symbols. The handwriting input area includes a writing start area, and the processing device is configured to provide a visual indication of the writing start area on the display screen. The processing device is configured to interpret the user input as a symbol only if the user input starts within the writing start area.

A mobile terminal and image processing method therein are disclosed, by which a screen effect can be given to a specific object in a currently displayed image. The present invention includes displaying a first image on a screen, receiving an input of a selection action for a specific object included in the displayed first image, performing a screen effect processing on the specific object selected by the selection action, and displaying the first image including the specific object having the screen effect processing performed thereon.

A delay-locked loop (DLL) with feedback compensation is provided to increase the speed and accuracy of the DLL. After the variable delay line of the DLL is adjusted to minimize phase error, multiple clock cycles may be required before the adjusted signal is fed back to the phase detector. During this time, a signal replicating the adjusted signal is temporarily fed to the phase detector until the adjusted signal reaches the phase detector.

The invention relates to a method for inputting and filtering characters by handwritten strokes on a touch screen, which comprises the following steps of: analyzing the input as stroke input by detecting a contact moved by a user on the touch screen; rapidly filtering a candidate word list generated by other previous input methods; and helping the user to rapidly find candidate words.

The invention discloses a character input method and a character input system, and the character input method comprises: displaying a replacing character list correlated to characters to be modified when detecting a character selecting instruction, receiving a replacing character selecting instruction, and using the selected replacing characters to replace the characters to be modified. The invention also provides the character input system including: a detection module which is used for confirming the characters to be modified when detecting the character instruction operation; a search module which is used to search and output the replacing character list correlated to the characters to be modified; and a replacing module which is used for receiving the replacing character selecting instruction and using the selected replacing characters to replace the characters to be modified. The invention generates the corresponding replacing character list based on the characters to be modified, and replaces the characters to be modified by replacing characters, so the fast, high-efficient and convenient character input and modification can be realized. Users need no re-deleting and inputting, and the convenience for users and the user experience can be improved.

An installation and maintenance method for maintaining a control module for remote starter and alarm system for vehicles includes the steps of plugging in a signal converter onto the control module, establishing an electronic connection between the control module and a first information processing device, obtaining a control information for the control module, and applying the control information on the control module. The signal converter includes a serial to wireless converter and the first information processing device includes a personal digital assistant (PDA). The method can further includes the steps of establishing a connection between the first information processing device and a second information processing device through a communication network and downloading an information from the second information processing device. A remote installation and maintenance system includes an information processing device, a communication network, and a server. The system installs and maintains the control module of the system.

The invention discloses a virtual input system utilizing a remote controller. In the system, symbols or user options corresponding to virtual keys of a virtual keyboard are input by using number keys of the remote controller, or a mouse cursor is moved to a virtual position corresponding to coordinate numbers or web contents or manipulator options corresponding to number options by using the remote controller. By using the system disclosed in the invention, press times of input keys can be reduced so as to input rapidly by using the remote controller.

Providing zooming within a system diagram. Initially, a diagram of a system may be displayed. The diagram may include a plurality of icons representing physical components of the system. These plurality of icons may be initially displayed at a first level of magnification. User input to zoom on a first physical component in the diagram may be received. Accordingly, the first physical component may be displayed at a second level of magnification and other ones of the physical components may be displayed at a third level of magnification. The second level of magnification may be greater than the first level of magnification and the third level of magnification may be less than the first level of magnification. Alternatively, or additionally, different representations for various components of the system may be displayed in the diagram during or after the zoom.

The invention discloses a URL (uniform resource locator) completion prompting method, comprising the steps of: receiving input information inputted by a user in an address bar; sending the input information as a keyword to a server end to conduct URL search; and conducting URL completion prompting on the input information according to the search result returned from the server end. The invention also discloses a URL completion prompting device. By the invention, the URL completion prompting can be exempted from restrictions of the local database and can be conducted normally even if the local database does not save any data; moreover, the URL prompted to the user can comprise the URL which is not browsed by the user, wherein the URL that the user really wants to browse is possibly contained, thus providing more convenience for the user when helping the user to quickly input the URL.

The electronic device may input erroneous data or its data input efficiency may be lowered. The electronic device includes: input means for inputting input information to the electronic device; insertion / extraction detection means for detecting an insertion / extraction state of a member detachable from the electronic device, into / from the electronic device; control means for generating display data according to the insertion / extraction state and judging the input information according to the data; and display means for performing display based on the display data.

The invention relates to a wafer detection system comprising the following steps: loading a wafer and positioning the wafer with a map file corresponding to the wafer, wherein, the map file is of a first file format; examining the appearance of the wafer; recording and correcting the data of the map file if the appearance of the wafer is not good; and storing the corrected map file. Thereby, direct correction and marking of the map file can be carried out, and detection time can be effectively saved.

The invention discloses an information input method and an information input device. A specific implementation way of the method comprises the following steps: receiving a voice message input by a user, wherein the voice message is associated with the content which is input into an input area of an application; taking the emoticon pictures associated with the voice message as candidate results, wherein the emoticon pictures include multiple emoticon pictures of which the times being input by the user into the input area of the application among the history input of the voice message associated with the voice message semantics is greater than the times threshold; and inputting the emoticon picture selected by the user from the candidate results into the input area of the application. The semantics of voice input of the user can be accurately understood during the voice input of the user, matching emoticon pictures are intelligently recommended according to the talk content and emotion, the user is helped to quickly input the emoticon picture, and the complicated operation for finding the emoticon picture by the user is shortened, so that convenience is provided for the user.

The invention discloses a method for supporting picture input and equipment thereof, belonging to the input method field. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a corresponding relation between input information of a user and preview pictures; receiving the information input by the user in an input method; displaying the preview pictures corresponding to the input information in the input method according to the corresponding relation; receiving the preview pictures selected from the displayed preview pictures by the user; and inputting upper screen pictures corresponding to the selected preview pictures into a target window. The equipment comprises an acquisition module, a receiving module, a preview module, a selection module and an input module. In the invention, by acquiring the corresponding relation between the input information of the user and the preview pictures, the corresponding preview pictures and the upper screen pictures are found and displayed according tothe corresponding relation and the information input by the user in the input method, thus realizing convenient and fast picture input in the input method and good user experience.