October 24, 2007 3:58 AM PDT
What do Google patents say about the company's possible plans for a Google phone?
This image shows a diagram from a patent filed June 30, 2005 and published October 12, 2006, called "Non-Standard Locality-Based Text Entry." The inventor is listed as Shumeet Baluja, a senior staff research scientist at Google, and the assignee is listed as Google.
The invention would allow an English speaker, for example, to use the keypad of any mobile phone to enter Chinese characters, according to Google patent scrutinizer Stephen Arnold.
Photo by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office/Shumeet Baluja
