SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING USER INPUT ON PERSONAL COMPUTING DEVICES

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved user input mechanism for personal computing devices.

SOLUTION: A user input mechanism allowing a user to enter words through gestures on a virtual keyboard presented on a display device is provided. The user input mechanism combines two prevalent existing forms of user input; cursive style handwriting and keyboard input. A familiar keyboard layout is presented on the display. A user then brings an implement such as a stylus, or a user's finger, into contact with the display. Exemplarily, the implement comes in contact with the screen at the position of a first character in a word. Then, the user can spell the word by moving the implement along the surface of the display from character to character.

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