Apple has developed an adaptive keyboard for iOS-devices

Apple has received a new patent, which describes a number of ways to improve the precision and accuracy of text entry on mobile devices iPhone and iPad with iOS's built-in virtual keyboard.

 

The illustration in the application, which was announced on Friday Patent and Trademark USA, described "intelligent" keyboard, which looks like the standard keypad in iOS. Its peculiarity lies in the adaptive form of buttons. The key size of the panel changes as you type, adjusting to a set of individual characteristics of each user.

According to the description of technology, the keyboard can change the shape of the buttons, depending on the type of input data, for example to increase the size of some of the letters or symbols, to change the distance between the rows of keys, etc.

The more a person works with a "smart" keyboard Apple, the better it is adapted for convenient and faster typing. So if a user rarely uses the letter "Z", its size will decrease, and the most frequently typed characters on the contrary - to increase in size.

The figures in Apple patent illustrations show some examples of adjusting the keyboard.

 

On the date of the practical implementation of the technology in the document are not reported.