Fujitsu Corporation

Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Junya Yamaguchi

Nao Horiguchi

Keiichi Iwamura

Shunsuke Tanaka

Kazuhiro Yoshihara

Hideaki Joe

Taro Kikuchi

Jun Tojo

Osamu Ota

Daiki Fukushima

A mobile electronic device includes a touch panel, a display unit, and a CPU that displays a key on the display unit and, when a key group of a soft keyboard that has a plurality of keys arranged within a predetermined area is displayed on the display unit, the CPU displays, in a switchable manner, first arrangement in which each key of the key group is arranged within the predetermined area and second arrangement in which at least one of the keys of the key group is deleted or arranged in a size smaller than that of a key that is in the first arrangement and that corresponds to the one of the keys and in which a handwriting input area is arranged at a space area that is generated within the predetermined area as the one of the keys is deleted or arranged in a smaller size.

Key display device and recording medium

A mobile terminal device, method, and program that displays, on a display unit, an image indicating an operation unit corresponding to a physical operation unit and used to navigate in place of the physical operation unit, detects a touch operation performed on the display unit, and changes the image indicating the operation unit according to a trajectory of the touch operation.

Mobile terminal device and display control method

A character input device not completely occupying a screen, good in visibility, and enabling input of characters while reducing to a minimum the movement of the fingers and line of sight, which, in the case of input of for example the hiragana 50-character phonetic syllabary of the Japanese language, displays an initial block of the major group lead characters a (), ka (), sa (), ta (), na () on a first row of a character input region on a display screen and the block of the remaining major group lead characters ha (), ma (), ya (), ra (), wa () on the second row, allows movement of a focus position or character position by 'left' and 'right' keys (a ()&#x2192;ka ()&#x2192;sa ()&#x2192; . . . ), switches the character focused to the block of ha (), ma (), ya (), ra (), wa () after the focus position reaches na (), allows switching between displayed characters by for example using the &#x201c;down&#x201d; key to move to the next character (for example, a ()&#x2192;i ()&#x2192;u ()&#x2192; . . . ) and using the &#x201c;up&#x201d; key to move to the furthest character in the group (for example, a ()&#x2192;o ()&#x2192; . . . ), and allowing input of the character by using a &#x201c;decision&#x201d; key when the character to be input is focused on.

Character input device

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Yokohama, Japan

Junya Yamaguchi