| abstract |
An apparatus is provided for character entry on an electronic device comprising a keyboard with one row of keys, and an electronic display device in communication with the keyboard, wherein one or more keys on the keyboard has a correspondence with a plurality of characters, and wherein the correspondence enables QWERTY-based typing In another aspect, an apparatus is provided for character entry on an electronic device comprising a keyboard with a plurality of keys, and an electronic display device in communication with the keyboard, wherein one or more keys on the keyboard has a correspondence with a plurality of characters, and wherein, for each of the one or more keys, the plurality of characters comprising a home row character associated with a particular finger when touch typing and a non-home row character associated with the particular finger when touch typing Also methods for disambiguating human input for text entry are provided. |