Text Recycling Window for Mobile Text Editing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing text editing methods on mobile terminals require cumbersome operations for character deletion, insertion, and modification, as users need to re-enter characters one by one after errors are found, leading to complex and time-consuming processes.

Innovation Solution

A text editing method that detects touch operations on a text recycling window, allowing users to select and paste characters from stored text blocks to the current cursor position, reducing the need for sequential re-entry of text.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users delete characters from the end of text until the cursor moves to the error location, then the error can be corrected, but the operation becomes complex and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveerror correction capabilityVSAvoidcharacter editing operation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by automatically detecting errors and moving the cursor to the error location before the user needs to correct it. The delete operation is optimized to stop automatically at the error position, eliminating the need for manual cursor navigation and reducing the number of steps required for correction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides self-service by automatically identifying error positions and enabling intelligent delete operations that stop at the correct location. The system serves itself by detecting its own errors and preparing the text for correction without requiring extensive manual intervention from the user.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If users re-enter characters one by one after deleting text, then the text can be corrected, but the process becomes lengthy and inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetext correction accuracyVSAvoidtext editing speed
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies copying by allowing users to select and copy correct character sequences from elsewhere in the text or from a clipboard, then paste them directly at the error location. This replaces the need to re-enter characters one by one, significantly improving editing speed while maintaining correction accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system prepares the correction by positioning the cursor at the error location and readying the paste operation in advance, so that when the user confirms the correction, the characters are inserted immediately without requiring sequential entry.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If users manually navigate and edit each character sequentially, then precise control is achieved, but the number of operation steps increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecharacter position accuracyVSAvoidediting operation steps
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-service by automatically detecting error positions and moving the cursor to the precise location where correction is needed. This eliminates the need for manual character-by-character navigation while maintaining accurate positioning, thereby reducing the number of operation steps without sacrificing precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces the mechanical system of manual cursor navigation and sequential character editing with an automated intelligent system that detects errors and positions the cursor automatically. This substitution reduces operational complexity while maintaining precise control over character positions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS11307761B2Text editing method and mobile terminal
Publication Date: 2022.04.19 VIVO MOBILE COMM CO LTD
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AI summary

The preset disclosure provides a text editing method and a mobile terminal. The method includes: detecting a touch operation of a user on at least one text block displayed in an operating region of a preset text recycling window; and if a preset first touch operation is detected, pasting at least one character selected by the first touch operation to the current position of the cursor in a text editing region; wherein at least one text block to be recycled is stored in the text recycling window.