Patent Document ID: 9251428
Application ID: 13671021

Base Claim:
1. A method for facilitating text entry for an electronic device, the method comprising: activating a field for text entry on a display of the electronic device; displaying a current frame on the display associated with a viewfinder of the electronic device concurrently while also displaying the activated field for text entry; determining an area of interest in the current frame; recognizing text in the area of interest associated with the current frame, wherein recognizing text in the area of interest is performed without capturing the current frame in the viewfinder and without persisting in storage the current frame; and displaying text corresponding to the recognized text in the activated field.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the area of interest is based on an analysis of an area of the current frame centered on a marker associated with the viewfinder detecting an area on a marker.