Input display device, input display method, recording medium storing input display program, and electronic device

• US 20080133936A1
• Filed: 09/27/2007
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera MITA Corporation (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kyocera MITA Corporation (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Seko, Toshihiro, Itoh, Chihiro, Naganuma, Yuzuru, Minakata, Yoshinori, Masuoka, Yukiko, Katsura, Kenichi
• Application Number:
  US11/904,384
• Publication Number:
  US 20080133936A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/193
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

An input display device, including: a display area that displays a plurality of input keys; and a display controller that controls display of the plurality of input keys displayed in the display area. The display controller includes: a combination data creating portion that creates combination data of a first input key and a second input key which has been selected next to the first input key; a storage portion that stores the combination data in a memory; a candidate key extracting portion that extracts the second input key from the memory on the basis of the combination data stored in the memory when the first input key displayed on the display area is selected; and a display portion that allows the display area to display the second input key extracted by the candidate key extracting portion as a candidate which is to be selected next.

Claims

1. An input display device, comprising:

a display area that displays a plurality of input keys; and

a display controller that controls display of the plurality of input keys displayed in the display area, the display controller including;

a combination data creating portion that creates combination data of a first input key and a second input key which has been selected next to the first input key, the first and second input keys selected among the plurality of input keys;

a storage portion that stores the combination data created by the combination data creating portion in a memory;

a candidate key extracting portion that extracts the second input key which has been selected next to the first input key from the memory on the basis of the combination data stored in the memory when the first input key displayed on the display area is selected; and

a display portion that allows the display area to display the second input key extracted by the candidate key extracting portion as a candidate which is to be selected next.

2. The input display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a counter that counts the number of selections of each of a plurality of combination data created by the combination data creating portion; and

a sorting portion that stores the plurality of combination data counted by the counter into groups having the same first input key in accordance with their respective number of selections, wherein

the display controller farther includes the counter and the sorting portion, and

the candidate key extracting portion extracts from the memory the second input key included in combination data which is within a range of predetermined ranks among the combination data sorted by the sorting portion.

3. The input display device according to claim 2, wherein the display portion allows the display area to display at least one second input key extracted by the candidate key extracting portion in accordance with the rank of combination data sorted by the sorting portion.

4. The input display device according to claim 3, wherein:

the sorting portion sorts the plurality of combination data so that combination data having a large selection number comes to a higher rank, and

the display portion allows the display area to display the second input key included in the combination data sorted at the higher rank among the plurality of combination data sorted by the sorting portion as a higher-rank candidate.

5. An electronic device, comprising:

the input display device according to claim 1; and

a processing execution device that executes a predetermined processing in accordance with a selection of the plurality of input keys of the input display device.

6. An input display method comprising the steps of:

(a) creating combination data of a first input key and a second input key which has been selected next to the first input key, the first and second input keys selected among a plurality of input keys;

(b) storing the combination data created in step (a) in a memory;

(c) extracting the second input key which has been selected next to the first input key from the memory on the basis of the combination data stored in the memory when the first input key displayed on the display area is selected; and

(d) allowing the display area to display the second input key extracted in step (c) as a candidate which is to be selected next.

7. The input display method according to claim 6, further comprising:

(e) counting the number of selections of each of a plurality of combination data created in step (a); and

(f) sorting the plurality of combination data counted in step (e) into groups having the same first input key in accordance with their respective number of selections, wherein

step (c) includes a step of extracting from the memory the second input key included in combination data which is within a range of predetermined ranks among the combination data sorted in step (f).

8. The input display method according to claim 7, wherein step (d) includes a step of allowing the display area to display at least one second input key extracted in step (c) in accordance with the rank of combination data sorted in step (f).

9. The input display method according to claim 8, wherein:

step (f) includes a step of sorting the plurality of combination data so that combination data having a larger selection number comes to a higher rank, and

step (d) includes a step of displaying the second input key included in combination data sorted at the higher rank among the plurality of combination data sorted in step (f) as a higher-rank candidate.

10. A recording medium storing an input display program which allows a computer to serve as an input display device, the program allows the computer to serve as:

a combination data creating portion that creates combination data of a first input key and a second input key which has been selected next to the first input key, the first and second input keys selected among a plurality of input keys;

a storage portion that stores the combination data created by the combination data creating portion in a memory;

a candidate key extracting portion that extracts the second input key which has been selected next to the first input key from the memory on the basis of the combination data stored in the memory when the first input key displayed on the display area is selected;

wherein

a display portion that allows the display area to display the second input key extracted by the candidate key extracting portion as a candidate which is to be selected next.

11. The recording medium storing the input display program according to claim 10, the program allows the computer to further serve as:

a counter that counts the number of selections of each of a plurality of combination data created by the combination data creating portion; and

a sorting portion that sorts the plurality of combination data counted by the counter into groups having the same first input key in accordance with their respective number of selections, wherein

the candidate key extracting portion extracts from the memory the second input key included in combination data which is within a range of predetermined ranks among the combination data sorted by the sorting portion.

12. The recording medium storing the input display program according to claim 11, wherein the display portion allows the display area to display at least one second input key extracted by the candidate key extracting portion in accordance with the rank of combination data sorted by the sorting portion.

13. The recording medium storing the input display program according to claim 12, wherein:

the sorting portion sorts the plurality of combination data so that combination data having a large selection number comes to a higher rank, and

the display portion allows the display area to display the second input key included in the combination data sorted at the higher rank among the plurality of combination data sorted by the sorting portion as a higher-rank candidate.