摘要 |
A continuous input system allows a system operator to continuously input a plu- rality of polysemous icon symbols to access stored (l3, l4) morphemes, words, phrases, or sentences corresponding to an icon se- quence. The system, with automatic mode selection for the input system, containing a plurality of character and symbol keys (4), allows for automatically selecting (4, 5) of the icon (12, 17, 22) mode, a character or word prediction mode (14, 15, 23); and even a subsequent suffix mode, to allow a user to enter morphemes, words, phrases, or sen- tences sequentially. Further, by utilizing the character and word prediction (l4, 15, 23) modes, including the suffix (27, 32) mode; words; phrases or sentences corresponding to non-accessible icon sequences can beau- tomatically activated without having to man- ually switch out of the icon mode or select the character and word prediction mode. Such automatic icon, word prediction, char- acter and suffix mode selecting, thereby al- lows continuous text (16) or speech (18) gen- eration with a minimal number of input key (4) activations necessary for a system opera- tor.
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