Virtual keyboard system with automatic correction
CA 2550669 C · Owner: Van Meurs, Pim · Inventors: Longe, Michael R.; Van Meurs, Pim
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An enhanced text, entry system (100) which uses word-level analysis to correct, inaccuracies automatically in user keystroke entries on reduced-size, or virtual keyboards (105). A method and system determine, alternate textual interpretations of each sequence of inputs, detected within a designated auto-correcting region (106). The, actual interaction locations for the keystrokes may occur outside, the boundaries of the specific keyboard key regions associated, with the actual characters of the word interpretations proposed, where the distance from each interaction location to each, corresponding intended character may increase with the expected, frequency of the intended word in the …
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- Filed December 22, 2004 and granted February 11, 2014. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 22, 2024.
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