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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2019
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Keiyou Shu, Osaka, JP;
Keijiroh Nagano, Osaka, JP;
Keiji Mori, Osaka, JP;
Hidekazu Tanaka, Kyoto, JP;
Yoshiyuki Furuya, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A symbol input method performed by a symbol input device having a display unit, a selector, and a determiner includes: displaying, by the display unit, a correspondence table indicating correspondences between input target symbols and selection target symbols and indicating that each of the input target symbols corresponds to one or more selection target symbols; ending the displaying by the display unit; prompting, by the selector, after the ending, a user to select one of the selection target symbols included in the displayed correspondence table; and determining, by the determiner, one input target symbol as a symbol to be input. The input target symbol is indicated in the displayed correspondence table and corresponds to the selection target symbol selected by the user in the prompting.