Character input reception apparatus and method for receiving character inputs
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN Β· China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- DENSO CORP
- Publication Date
- 2009-09-02
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable Β· inactive patent
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Abstract
Description
technical field
[0001] The present invention relates to a character input receiving device and a method for receiving character input. Background technique
[0002] There is known a character input technique in which, when character input keys are displayed on an image display device and a user points to the displayed character input key, a character currently assigned to the pointed character input key is displayed as an input character.
[0003] For example, in a car navigation device, a plurality of input keys are displayed and assigned to a plurality of characters, respectively. Among Japanese characters, approximately fifty input keys are each assigned a Hiragana character. Also, in English, approximately twenty input keys are each assigned an alphabetic character.
[0004] In such a method, there are many input keys to be displayed, so it is difficult to accommodate them within the size of one display window. If a plurality of character input keys are displayed on o...