Fujitsu Corporation

Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Kazuhiro Yoshihara

Toshikazu Houmura

Takako Yamaguchi

Kazuma Nagaoka

Keiichi Iwamura

Katsuaki Akama

Shunsuke Tanaka

Tohru Ida

Masahiro Nakajima

Junya Yamaguchi

Osamu Ota

A communication terminal having one or more one-touch-dial buttons simplifies operations needed for registration of destination data such as phone numbers or mail addresses. A communication terminal (e.g., a cellular phone) having one or more one-touch-dial buttons includes a destination-data registration unit (e.g., a phone-directory database) that allows destination data such as phone numbers or mail addresses to be registered therein, a one-touch-dial registration unit that allows destination data to be registered therein so as to be associated with the one or more one-touch-dial buttons, and a control unit that, in response to an operation of the one or more one-touch-dial buttons, determines whether destination data has been registered in the one-touch-dial registration unit or the destination-data registration unit, and that outputs a result of the determination and a query message regarding registration of the destination data.

Communication terminal, and dial registration method and dial registration program therefor

The present invention relates to registration of read out information corresponding to written information and is intended to improve operationality of the registration or deletion of the written information and the read out information. The present invention relates to a read out information registration apparatus (e.g., cellular phone) that registers the read out information corresponding to the written information, and the registration (or deletion) of the read out information is performed in conjunction with the registration (or deletion) of the written information such as telephone directory information of a name of an opposite party, etc., a word used in e-mail, etc., and address descriptions to centralize the operation and process. A user is constrained from performing processes such as edition and deletion of the registration contents of the read out information, and the written information and the read out information are managed in a centralized manner.

Apparatus, method, and program for read out information registration, and portable terminal device

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

Kazuhiro Yoshihara