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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2017
Applicant:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kikuo Ueno, Shiojiri, JP;
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/023 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00387 (2013.01); G06F 3/0233 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a plurality of keys in which the character types of input candidate characters are switched using a toggle input method and a key control unit that changes an initial value of the character type of an input candidate character in the toggle input method to the character type of the character that is input and confirmed already when an arbitrary key among the plurality of keys is pressed.