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Authored by: Winter on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 03:59 AM EDT |
"none of it was applied to converting continuous gestures on a touchscreen
keyboard into discrete words until the Swype guys did it."
Yet, every part of this assertion has been done before. Only the exact
combination of these for this exact application is new.
Gesture recognition, word recognition from optical scans, speech, timing
patterns of keystrokes, and even fMR, has all been done before. Looking up words
from partial keystrokes is used in every mobile phone, as is autocorrection for
incorrect keystrokes.
The one and only new element in this application seems to be the use of finger
movement over a keyboard (instead of a canvas).
And a patent of that would not be a software patent.
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