Patent ID: 7809550

Claim:
A method to output from an electronic device a Chinese or other Oriental character text, Pinyin spelling and translation into English or another language, brought by a user using said electronic device and entering one or more of a selection of symbols, a stroke number, and a stroke range number, comprising: providing said electronic device with a graphical user interface showing a plurality of modes, a place to input a mode selection, a plurality of symbols, a place to input a symbol selection, a place to input character stroke count, and a place to input stroke range count; selecting a mode from said plurality of modes on said graphical user interface; entering said selected mode in said place to input a mode selection; selecting, from said plurality of symbols, one or more symbol that is found in an unknown character brought by said user using said electronic device; entering said selected one or more symbol in said place to input a symbol selection; counting strokes of said unknown character; entering a stroke count of said unknown character in said place to input character stroke count; selecting and entering a stroke range count in said place to input a stroke range count; processing, by said electronic device, said unknown character based on said stroke count and said stroke range count to provide as output a plurality of candidate character texts; selecting a character text from said plurality of candidate character texts for said unknown character brought by the user using said electronic device; receiving for the selected character text an output of an enlarged character text, Pinyin word, stroke number, tone, and translation.