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Title:
CHARACTER INPUT DEVICE AND CHARACTER INPUT METHOD
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2011/129398
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
A mobile phone terminal (character input device) (1) comprises a touch panel (2) capable of detecting tactile contact upon a plurality of locations, and a main control unit (10) for displaying a plurality of buttons upon a display surface of the touch panel (2) and determining that a first tactile operation, wherein a position of tactile contact for the touch panel (2) is continuously displaced, has occurred. The main control unit (10), upon detecting an occurrence of a second tactile operation, which is an additional tactile contact to an area different from the area where the first tactile operation is occurring, in a state wherein an occurrence of the first tactile operation at an area in which the plurality of buttons are displayed has been assessed, then receives as input the character corresponding to the button that had been displayed in accordance with the position of the tactile contact of the first tactile operation when the second tactile operation occurred.

Inventors:
SUDO TOMOHIRO (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2011/059273
Publication Date:
October 20, 2011
Filing Date:
April 14, 2011
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Assignee:
KYOCERA CORP (JP)
SUDO TOMOHIRO (JP)
International Classes:
G06F3/041; G06F3/023; G06F3/048; G06F3/0488; H03M11/04
Foreign References:
JP2008257551A2008-10-23
JP2000267808A2000-09-29
JP2005196759A2005-07-21
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
SAKAI, HIROAKI (JP)
Hiroaki Sakai (JP)
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