Patent Document ID: 7656315
Application ID: 11585694

Base Claim:
1. A computer Chinese character input method comprising: Selecting 10 elements corresponding to the 10 simplified Chinese character simplified strokes which are and Selecting 46 elements corresponding to the 46 stroke combination sets whose representative visual representations are: ; Assigning said 46 elements, and 8 elements, excluding and from said 10 elements, to the keyboard in the following way: TABLE 4 in the table above, elements in the same line are assigned to the same keys, while those in different lines are assigned to different keys; and Determining desired input characters based on the keystrokes typed by a user on this keyboard.

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Claim 2:
2. The invention of claim 1 , further comprising the step of assigning said 46 elements and the 8 elements to the standard English QWERTY keyboard in the following way: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Caps Lock in the table above, the first 26 items in the first column from the left “stand for” are the English letter of the QWERTY keyboard, and “Caps Lock” is the capital lock key on the QWERTY keyboard. Elements in the same lines are assigned to the key that the English letter or the “Caps Lock” in that line is on.