Text Input Method for Electronic Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices require separate user input to copy text from screens, especially for temporary outputs like notification screens, which can be inconvenient and time-consuming.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a processor, memory, and display that automatically extracts text strings from deactivated screens, stores them in memory, and inputs them into other screens without additional user input, allowing for seamless text transfer and manipulation across different screen areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If automatic text extraction from deactivated screens is implemented, then text input efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary text extraction and storage when screens are deactivated, preparing text data in advance before it is needed for input. This allows the text to be automatically available when the user activates a new screen, eliminating the need for manual copying and improving text input efficiency without requiring complex real-time processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a memory buffer as an intermediary component between the display system and text input processing. Extracted text from deactivated screens is stored in this intermediate storage area, which then supplies text to new screens when activated. This intermediary mechanism simplifies the overall system architecture by decoupling the text extraction, storage, and retrieval operations.
2Loss of information
If text is automatically copied from temporary screens like notifications, then information loss is reduced, but ease of operation deteriorates due to automated background processes
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service text extraction and storage operations automatically when screens are deactivated, without requiring user initiation or awareness. This self-automating mechanism ensures that text from temporary screens like notifications is preserved in the background, reducing information loss while maintaining simple user interaction - users simply need to activate a new screen to access the automatically captured text.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an input interface, a memory, a display, and a processor. The processor is configured to extract a text string from a first view object included in the first screen if a first screen output to the display is deactivated, store the extracted text string in the memory, output the text string stored in the memory to a first area of the second screen if a first user input for inputting a text in a second screen output to the display is generated, select at least one text character of the text string in response to a second user input generated in the first area, and output the selected at least one text character to a second area of the second screen different from the first area.