SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING A TEXT PREDICTION ALGORITHM TO A VIRTUAL KEYBOARD

摘要

An electronic device for text prediction in a virtual keyboard. The deviceincludes amemory including an input determination module for execution by themicroprocessor, the input determination module being configured to: receivesignals representing input at the virtual keyboard, the virtual keyboard beingdivided into a plurality of subregions, the plurality of subregions includingat leastone subregion being associated with two or more characters and/or symbols ofthe virtual keyboard; Identify a subregion on the virtual keyboardcorresponding tothe input; determine any character or symbol associated with the identifiedsubregion; and if there is at least one determined character or symbol,provide theat least one determined character or symbol to a text prediction algorithm.