ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,724, issued on July 21, was assigned to Getac Technology Corp. (New Taipe, Taiwan).
"Mobile device and input method" was invented by Jiunn-Jye Lee (Taipei, Taiwan), Tzu-Chieh Wei (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yen-Lung Peng (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device includes a general camera module, a touch display module, a barcode scanning module, a character recognition engine, and a control module. The general camera module is configured to generate an image. The touch display module is configured to display a text input field and an overlapping window with a virtual keyboard of a system default input method and a previ...