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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2000
Sadanori Shitara, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuaki Yokoyama, Tokyo, JP;
General Research of Electronics, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A character input method enables mistake of character input to be diminished, and it is unnecessary to use a rotary type switch in the character input method, therefore it is economical. In a frequency scanning type receiver, when it causes character input to be performed according to a key board section, respective numeric-keys 1 to 0 of 10-key correspond to a plurality of character groups consisting of capital letter, small letter of an alphabet, and numerals arranged in accordance with prescribed order to be determined. CPU/memory section selects the corresponding character group according to a numeric-key which is pressed firstly, next, the CPU/memory section selects corresponding alphabet character, numeral from among character group according to numeric-key which is pressed secondly.