| US 7,556,204 B2 | ||
| Electronic apparatus and method for symbol input | ||
| Niels Jacobsen, Dragor (Denmark) | ||
| Assigned to Nokia corproation, Espoo (Finland) | ||
| Filed on Apr. 19, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/406,490. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0247436 A1, Oct. 25, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06K 7/10 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 235—472.01 [235/375; 235/439; 235/476] | 17 Claims |

| 1. An electronic apparatus having a user interface for symbol input, the apparatus comprising:
a display;
an input device having an elongated touch-sensitive sensor area and capable of detecting user actuations of a plurality of
sensor positions along a main axis of said elongated touch-sensitive sensor area; and
a processing device coupled to said display and said input device,
wherein the processing device, in response to a user actuation of a current sensor position among said plurality of sensor
positions of said input device, is configured to:
determine, from said current sensor position, a current symbol position in a symbol sequence, and
control said display to indicate a current symbol held by said current symbol position in said symbol sequence; and wherein
the processing device is configured to control said display for presentment of said symbol sequence in a predetermined and
fixed order, and to control said display to indicate said current symbol held by said current symbol position by marking it
as available for selection; and
wherein the processing device is configured to detect a first user actuation of a first sensor position of said input device,
determine from the first sensor position a first symbol position holding a first symbol, and control the display to mark the
first symbol as available for selection, and wherein the processing device is further configured to detect a second user actuation
of said input device, determine from said first symbol position and said second user actuation a second symbol position holding
a second symbol, and control the display to mark the second symbol as available for selection instead of the first symbol.
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