Multimodel Text Input by a Keyboard/Camera Text Input Module Replacing a Conventional Keyboard Text Input Module on a Mobile Device

摘要

The present invention relates to a method and a module for a multimodal text input in a mobile device (1) via a keyboard or in a camera mode by holding the camera of the mobile device (1) over a written text, such that an image is taken of the written text and the written text is recognized, wherein the input text is output to an application requesting the input text, the method comprising the following steps:a) activating a keyboard mode;b) providing an A-Z-keyboard in a first field (4) for text input;c) activating the camera mode;d) capturing the image of the written text and displaying the captured image with the written text in a second field (5) of a display (2) of the mobile device (1);e) converting the captured image to character text by optical character recognition (OCR) and displaying the recognized character text on the display (2);outputting a selected character as the input text to the application upona selection of the character on the A-Z-keyboard, oroutputting a selected part of the recognized character text as the input text to the application upon a selection of the part of the recognized character text;wherein the respective selection takes place by a single keypress or control command, or by a single gesture.