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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1999
Character input apparatus with character string extraction portion, and corresponding storage medium
Applicant:
Inventor:
Katsuya Nakagawa, Nara, JP;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
Abstract
An operation such as changing the coordinates of a specified position is performed on a two-dimensional display screen of a display unit by using an input pen a touch-panel, etc., as an operation input unit to shift the list of candidate character strings which is displayed on the display screen at the initial screen. The contents of the list of the candidate character strings which are displayed on the display screen are continuously changed until a desired candidate character string appears on the screen