Multiple graphical keyboards for continuous gesture input

摘要

In one example, a method includes outputting, by a computing device and for display, a graphical user interface comprising a first graphical keyboard comprising a first plurality of keys. The method further includes determining, based at least in part on an input context, to output a second graphical keyboard comprising a second plurality of keys, and outputting, for contemporaneous display with the first graphical keyboard, the second graphical keyboard. A character associated with at least one key from the second plurality of keys may be different than each character associated with each key from the first plurality of keys. The method further includes selecting, based at least in part on a first portion of a continuous gesture, a first key from first graphical keyboard, and selecting, based at least in part on a second portion of the continuous gesture, a second key from the second graphical keyboard.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
outputting, by a computing device and for display, a graphical user interface comprising a first graphical keyboard comprising a first plurality of keys, each key from the first plurality of keys associated with a respective character from a first plurality of characters; responsive to receiving an indication of a first portion of a continuous gesture that is detected at a presence-sensitive input device and traverses a first location associated with a first key, selecting, by the computing device, the first key from the first plurality of keys of the first graphical keyboard; responsive to receiving an indication of a second portion of the continuous gesture that traverses a second location of a second key of the first graphical keyboard associated with an alternate character function of the first graphical keyboard prior to a third portion of the continuous gesture, outputting, by the computing device and for contemporaneous display with the first graphical keyboard, a second graphical keyboard comprising a second plurality of keys, each key from the second plurality of keys associated with a respective character from a second plurality of characters, wherein each character from the second plurality of characters is different than each character from the first plurality of characters; responsive to receiving an indication of the third portion of the continuous gesture that is detected at the presence-sensitive input device and traverses a third location associated with a third key, selecting by the computing device, the third key included in the second plurality of keys of the second graphical keyboard; responsive to receiving an indication of a fourth portion of the continuous gesture that is detected at the presence-sensitive input device and traverses a fourth location associated with a fourth key, selecting by the computing device, the fourth key included in the first plurality of keys of the first graphical keyboard; determining, by the computing device and based on the continuous gesture that traverses the first graphical keyboard and the second graphical keyboard to select the first key, second key, third key, and fourth key, a candidate character string, wherein the candidate character string comprises at least a first character associated with the first key, a second character associated with the third key, and a third character associated with the fourth key; and outputting, by the computing device and for display, a representation of the candidate character string.