Patents by Inventor Yasuo Kida
Yasuo Kida has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20170024126Abstract: Text input is corrected on a touch-sensitive display by presenting a list of candidate words in the interface which can be selected by touch input. The candidate list can include candidate words having two or more character types (e.g., Roman, kana, kanji). In one aspect, the candidate list can be scrolled using a finger gesture. When a user's finger traverses a candidate word and the touch is released, the candidate word is inserted into a document being edited. In another aspect, characters can be erased by touching a key (e.g., a backspace or delete key) and making a sliding, swiping, or other finger gesture. A number of characters proportional to a distance (e.g., a linear distance) of the finger gesture across the display are erased. If there are characters in a text input area, those characters are erased first, followed by characters in the document being edited.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Inventors: Deborah Eileen GOLDSMITH, Takumi TAKANO, Toshiyuki MASUI, Leland Douglas COLLINS, JR., Yasuo KIDA, Kenneth KOCIENDA
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Publication number: 20160370996Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for inputting text. A virtual keyboard is presented in a first region of a touch sensitive display of a device. An input representing a phonetic string is received on the virtual keyboard. The entered phonetic string is presented in a second region of the touch sensitive display. One or more candidates are identified based on the phonetic string. At least a subset of the candidates is presented. An input selecting one of the candidates is received. The entered phonetic string is replaced with the selected candidate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2016Publication date: December 22, 2016Inventors: Yasuo KIDA, Kenneth KOCIENDA, Elizabeth Caroline Furches CRANFILL
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Patent number: 9471560Abstract: Various techniques for autocorrecting virtual keyboard input for various languages (e.g., Japanese, Chinese) are disclosed. In one aspect, a system or process receives a sequence of keyboard events representing keystrokes on a virtual keyboard. A hierarchical data structure is traversed according to the sequence of keyboard events to determine candidate words for the sequence of keyboard events. A word lattice is constructed using a language model, including deriving weights or paths in the word lattice based on candidate word statistics and data from a keyboard error model. The word lattice is searched to determine one or more candidate sentences comprising candidate words based on the path weights. Paths through the word lattice can be pruned (e.g., discarded) to reduce the size and search time of the word lattice.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yasuo Kida, Leland Douglas Collins, Jr.
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Patent number: 9465536Abstract: Text input is corrected on a touch-sensitive display by presenting a list of candidate words in the interface which can be selected by touch input. The candidate list can include candidate words having two or more character types (e.g., Roman, kana, kanji). In one aspect, the candidate list can be scrolled using a finger gesture. When a user's finger traverses a candidate word and the touch is released, the candidate word is inserted into a document being edited. In another aspect, characters can be erased by touching a key (e.g., a backspace or delete key) and making a sliding, swiping, or other finger gesture. A number of characters proportional to a distance (e.g., a linear distance) of the finger gesture across the display are erased. If there are characters in a text input area, those characters are erased first, followed by characters in the document being edited.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2014Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Deborah Eileen Goldsmith, Takumi Takano, Toshiyuki Masui, Leland Douglas Collins, Jr., Yasuo Kida, Kenneth L. Kocienda
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Patent number: 8949743Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and apparatus, including computer program products, for inputting text. A user interface element is presented on a touch-sensitive display of a device. The user interface element is associated with a plurality of characters, at least a subset of which is associated with respective gestures. A user input performing a gesture with respect to the user interface element is received. The character from the subset that is associated with the gesture performed with respect to the user interface element is inputted.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2008Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yasuo Kida, Deborah Eileen Goldsmith, Elizabeth Caroline Furches, Leland Douglas Collins, Jr., Ken Kocienda, Bas Ording, Toshiyuki Masui, Yosuke Kurita, Shin Nishibori, Takumi Takano, Hongwei Guo, Maria Celia Vigil
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Publication number: 20140173494Abstract: Text input is corrected on a touch-sensitive display by presenting a list of candidate words in the interface which can be selected by touch input. The candidate list can include candidate words having two or more character types (e.g., Roman, kana, kanji). In one aspect, the candidate list can be scrolled using a finger gesture. When a user's finger traverses a candidate word and the touch is released, the candidate word is inserted into a document being edited. In another aspect, characters can be erased by touching a key (e.g., a backspace or delete key) and making a sliding, swiping, or other finger gesture. A number of characters proportional to a distance (e.g., a linear distance) of the finger gesture across the display are erased. If there are characters in a text input area, those characters are erased first, followed by characters in the document being edited.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2014Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Deborah Eileen Goldsmith, Takumi Takano, Toshiyuki Masui, Leland Douglas Collins, Jr., Yasuo Kida, Kenneth L. Kocienda
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Patent number: 8661340Abstract: Text input is corrected on a touch-sensitive display by presenting a list of candidate words in the interface which can be selected by touch input. The candidate list can include candidate words having two or more character types (e.g., Roman, kana, kanji). In one aspect, the candidate list can be scrolled using a finger gesture. When a user's finger traverses a candidate word and the touch is released, the candidate word is inserted into a document being edited. In another aspect, characters can be erased by touching a key (e.g., a backspace or delete key) and making a sliding, swiping, or other finger gesture. A number of characters proportional to a distance (e.g., a linear distance) of the finger gesture across the display are erased. If there are characters in a text input area, those characters are erased first, followed by characters in the document being edited.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2008Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Deborah Eileen Goldsmith, Takumi Takano, Toshiyuki Masui, Leland Douglas Collins, Yasuo Kida, Ken Kocienda
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Publication number: 20120310626Abstract: Various techniques for autocorrecting virtual keyboard input for various languages (e.g., Japanese, Chinese) are disclosed. In one aspect, a system or process receives a sequence of keyboard events representing keystrokes on a virtual keyboard. A hierarchical data structure is traversed according to the sequence of keyboard events to determine candidate words for the sequence of keyboard events. A word lattice is constructed using a language model, including deriving weights or paths in the word lattice based on candidate word statistics and data from a keyboard error model. The word lattice is searched to determine one or more candidate sentences comprising candidate words based on the path weights. Paths through the word lattice can be pruned (e.g., discarded) to reduce the size and search time of the word lattice.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventors: Yasuo Kida, Leland Douglas Collins, JR.
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Patent number: 8289283Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for inputting text. A virtual keyboard is presented in a first region of a touch sensitive display of a device. An input representing a phonetic string is received on the virtual keyboard. The entered phonetic string is presented in a second region of the touch sensitive display. One or more candidates are identified based on the phonetic string. At least a subset of the candidates is presented. An input selecting one of the candidates is received. The entered phonetic string is replaced with the selected candidate.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2008Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yasuo Kida, Ken Kocienda, Elizabeth Caroline Furches
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Patent number: 7630880Abstract: Methods for converting a source character string to a target character string are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method includes receiving a first character string having the source character string, dividing the first character string into a plurality of sub-strings, converting the plurality of the sub-strings to second character strings through a dictionary, creating third character strings corresponding to the plurality of the sub-strings, analyzing the second and third character strings, constructing fourth character strings from the second and third character strings based on the analysis, creating a candidate list based on the fourth character strings, selecting the target character string from the candidate list and outputting the target character string. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2006Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yasuo Kida, Keisuke Hara
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Publication number: 20090265669Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and apparatus, including computer program products, for inputting text. A user interface element is presented on a touch-sensitive display of a device. The user interface element is associated with a plurality of characters, at least a subset of which is associated with respective gestures. A user input performing a gesture with respect to the user interface element is received. The character from the subset that is associated with the gesture performed with respect to the user interface element is inputted.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2008Publication date: October 22, 2009Inventors: Yasuo Kida, Deborah Eileen Goldsmith, Elizabeth Caroline Furches, Leland Douglas Collins, JR., Ken Kocienda, Bas Ording, Toshiyuki Masui, Yosuke Kurita, Shin Nishibori, Takumi Takano, Hongwei Guo, Maria Celia Vigil
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Publication number: 20090225041Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for inputting text. A virtual keyboard is presented in a first region of a touch sensitive display of a device. An input representing a phonetic string is received on the virtual keyboard. The entered phonetic string is presented in a second region of the touch sensitive display. One or more candidates are identified based on the phonetic string. At least a subset of the candidates is presented. An input selecting one of the candidates is received. The entered phonetic string is replaced with the selected candidate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2008Publication date: September 10, 2009Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Yasuo Kida, Ken Kocienda, Elizabeth Caroline Furches
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Publication number: 20090225034Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for inputting text. A virtual keyboard is presented in a first region on a touch sensitive display of a device, where the keyboard includes a key for each of a plurality of Japanese kana symbols. An input selecting one or more of the kana keys is received. The kana symbols corresponding to the selected keys are presented in a second region on the touch sensitive display.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2008Publication date: September 10, 2009Inventors: Yasuo Kida, Takumi Takano, Shin Nishibori
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Patent number: 7548863Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that converts input data, such as speech or phonetic characters, to text by finding documents that are similar to the input data and using the similar documents to create a customized dictionary including a weighted list of words found in the similar documents. The words that are weighted higher may have a higher probability of being used in the input data, so words in the converted text are chosen based on the weighted list. A vector space model may be used to search for the similar documents.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2002Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yasuo Kida, Michi Iwasaki, Keisuke Hara, Takumi Takano
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Publication number: 20090077464Abstract: Text input is corrected on a touch-sensitive display by presenting a list of candidate words in the interface which can be selected by touch input. The candidate list can include candidate words having two or more character types (e.g., Roman, kana, kanji). In one aspect, the candidate list can be scrolled using a finger gesture. When a user's finger traverses a candidate word and the touch is released, the candidate word is inserted into a document being edited. In another aspect, characters can be erased by touching a key (e.g., a backspace or delete key) and making a sliding, swiping, or other finger gesture. A number of characters proportional to a distance (e.g., a linear distance) of the finger gesture across the display are erased. If there are characters in a text input area, those characters are erased first, followed by characters in the document being edited.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Deborah Eileen Goldsmith, Takumi Takano, Toshiyuki Masui, Leland Douglas Collins, JR., Yasuo Kida, Ken Kocienda
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Publication number: 20070061131Abstract: Methods for converting a source character string to a target character string are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method includes receiving a first character string having the source character string, dividing the first character string into a plurality of sub-strings, converting the plurality of the sub-strings to second character strings through a dictionary, creating third character strings corresponding to the plurality of the sub-strings, analyzing the second and third character strings, constructing fourth character strings from the second and third character strings based on the analysis, creating a candidate list based on the fourth character strings, selecting the target character string from the candidate list and outputting the target character string. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2006Publication date: March 15, 2007Inventors: Yasuo Kida, Keisuke Hara
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Patent number: 7136803Abstract: Methods for converting a source character string to a target character string are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method includes receiving a first character string having the source character string, dividing the first character string into a plurality of sub-strings, converting the plurality of the sub-strings to second character strings through a dictionary, creating third character strings corresponding to the plurality of the sub-strings, analyzing the second and third character strings, constructing fourth character strings from the second and third character strings based on the analysis, creating a candidate list based on the fourth character strings, selecting the target character string from the candidate list and outputting the target character string. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2001Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.Inventors: Yasuo Kida, Keisuke Hara
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Publication number: 20040030543Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that converts input data, such as speech or phonetic characters, to text by finding documents that are similar to the input data and using the similar documents to create a customized dictionary including a weighted list of words found in the similar documents. The words that are weighted higher may have a higher probability of being used in the input data, so words in the converted text are chosen based on the weighted list. A vector space model may be used to search for the similar documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2002Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Yasuo Kida, Michi Iwasaki, Keisuke Hara, Takumi Takano
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Publication number: 20030061031Abstract: Methods for converting a source character string to a target character string are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method includes receiving a first character string having the source character string, dividing the first character string into a plurality of sub-strings, converting the plurality of the sub-strings to second character strings through a dictionary, creating third character strings corresponding to the plurality of the sub-strings, analyzing the second and third character strings, constructing fourth character strings from the second and third character strings based on the analysis, creating a candidate list based on the fourth character strings, selecting the target character string from the candidate list and outputting the target character string. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2001Publication date: March 27, 2003Inventors: Yasuo Kida, Keisuke Hara
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Patent number: RE46139Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for inputting text. A virtual keyboard is presented in a first region of a touch sensitive display of a device. An input representing a phonetic string is received on the virtual keyboard. The entered phonetic string is presented in a second region of the touch sensitive display. One or more candidates are identified based on the phonetic string. At least a subset of the candidates is presented. An input selecting one of the candidates is received. The entered phonetic string is replaced with the selected candidate.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Yasuo Kida, Kenneth Kocienda, Elizabeth Caroline Furches Cranfill