Intype Visible

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Referenced from George A. Miller, 1956 Psychology Today article "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two"

1 Description
2 Mixed Script Messaging
3 User Interface Chunking
4 Intype Emulator Components

[edit] Description

Intype Visible is an input method based upon concepts of "chunking" and subitizing. It organizes concepts (alphabets, similar actions or hierarchy of events) into 9 or fewer groups and when selecting the group presents the group's members on one of the 9 or fewer keys.

Intype Visible is the input method used for Intype Notes and can either be downloaded to a mobile phone as a J2ME application or built into the phone's firmware by the manufacturer. Intype Mobile LLC have patents pending in the United States, serial numbers US60/860,024 and 11/383,605, and international patent protection under the PCT International application with serial number PCT/US06/19768.

The system utilizes the current mobile phone keypad to send SMS messages, e-mail or provide input for any mobile application. Less frequently used mathematic and scientific symbols can be input as well as diacritical marks and any other symbols used in modern communications.

[edit] Mixed Script Messaging

Multi-lingual messages may be created using any combination of letters of 65 non-Latin scripts, (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew, Korean Hangul, Simplified Chinese, Japanese Hiragana, or Russian Cyrillic).

The Intype system supports all language scripts meeting SBCS, DBCS or Unicode character standards. English has become a lingua franca in mobile communications, but there are cases when a script is unlike any others (e.g. Hangul, which is used only for the Korean language). Then there are writing systems for some languages that may make use of more than one script; for example, Japanese makes use of the Han (Kanji), Hiragana, Katakana scripts, and commonly mixes in the Latin script. Intype Visible facilitates usage of all of these scripts while enabling switching of script formats.

The following scripts listed on Unicode.org are supported by the Intype technology: Arabic, Georgian, Latin, Runic, Armenian, Glagolitic, Limbu, Shavian, Balinese, Gothic, Linear B, Sinhala, Bengali, Greek, Malayalam, Sumero-Akkadian, Bopomofo, Gujarati, Mongolian Syloti, Nagri, Buginese, GurmukhiHan, Myanmar, Syriac, Buhid, Hangul, New Tai Lue, Tagalog, Canadian Syllabics, Hanunóo, N'Ko, Tagbanwa, Cherokee, Hebrew, Ogham, Tai Le, Coptic, Hiragana, Etruscan, Tamil, Cypriot, Kannada, Old Persian, Telugu, Cyrillic, Katakana, Osmanya, Thaana, Deseret, Kharoshthi, Oriya, Thai, Devanagari, Khmer, Phags-pa, Tibetan, Ethiopic, Lao, Phoenician, Tifinagh (Berber), Ugaritic, Yi.

In addition to the above scripts, Unicode also encodes a number of other collections of symbols. These collections consist of the following: Numbers, General Diacritics, General Punctuation, General Symbols, Mathematical Symbols, Many Musical Symbols, Technical Symbols, Dingbats, Miscellaneous Symbols, Presentation Forms, Braille Patterns, Kangxi Radicals, Arrows, Blocks, Box Drawing Forms, Geometric Shapes.

[edit] User Interface Chunking

The Intype Visible interface technology can be leveraged for user interface elements, using the same theme for character input for device interaction semantics. The Intype system is extensible beyond text input to include the manipulation of graphical elements of a user interface, combining the embedded design hierarchy with both input and function selection.

The Intype Visible technology is adapted to all mobile phones with the Emulator software J2ME application, which mobile users download and install. The Intype Visible technology can also be implemented via the mobile phone's firmware by the manufacturer.

The Intype Visible system is platform agnostic, working seamlessly with Microsoft Mobile, Symbian S60, Linux and Java platforms.

[edit] Intype Emulator Components

The downloadable emulator includes the following components:

Language Access: Support access to Single Byte Character Set (SBCS), Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) or Unicode fonts and facilitate switching between symbol sets and writing scripts.

Keypad Viewer: Display key maps, which enables interactive typing and eliminates the need to remove fingers to see symbols printed on keypad.

Text Viewer: Display typed text.

Form Viewer: Display forms for applications, including SMS, email, contact, event and todo lists.

Database: Maintain and access program data, including those stored in Personal Information Management for Contact, Event and Todo lists.

Intype Engine: Intercept and process device events, drive other components and access device’s Application Programming Interfaces, which include Wireless Messaging, Security and Trust Services, Mobile 3D Graphics, Fun Light, Mobile Media, FileConnection and predictive text input.