MOBILE DISPLAY DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD IN MOBILE DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20110175917A1
• Filed: 10/30/2008
• Published: 07/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Takei, Michiko, Honda, Natsuhito, Tsuruta, Hiroshi, Urano, Tomoyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,629,874 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/468
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/018 Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs

Abstract

It is possible to provide a mobile display device which can improve usability even when the character size is increased for improving visibility. A method for controlling the mobile display device is also disclosed. A control unit (18) can set a conversion candidate of an input character displayed on a second display region (conversion candidate character display region (162)) of a display unit (16) to a first display mode (normal mode) for displaying the conversion candidate in a first character size and to a second display mode (enlarged mode) for displaying the conversion candidate in a second character size greater than the first character size while differentiating a display priority of a plurality of conversion candidates to be displayed in the second display region in the first display mode and a display priority of a plurality of conversion candidates to be displayed in the second display region in the second display mode.

Claims

1. A mobile display device, comprising;

an input information acquisition part acquiring input information,

a display part having a first display region and a second display region, and

a control part which performs processing for input of a character in accordance with the input information acquired by the input information acquisition part, displays the input character at the input processing in the first display region of the display part, and displays a plurality of conversion candidates of the input character in the second display region of the display part, wherein

the control part changes the processing for display of the plurality of conversion candidates in the second display region in accordance with a display size of the conversion candidates displayed in the second display region.

2. A mobile display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the control part changes display priorities of the plurality of conversion candidates in the second display region in accordance with a display size of the conversion candidates displayed in the second display region.

3. A mobile display device as set forth in claim 2, wherein

the control part sets degrees of priority of display of the conversion candidates depending upon the number of displayable characters in the second display region based on the display size of the conversion candidates and each number of characters of the plurality of conversion candidates.

4. A mobile display device as set forth in claim 3, wherein

the control part sets a conversion candidate to be displayed second based on a difference between the number of displayable characters in the second display region and the number of characters of the conversion candidate displayed first.

5. A mobile display device as set forth in claim 2, wherein

the control part makes the conversion candidate to be displayed first in the second display region the same conversion candidate irrespective of the display size of the character of the conversion candidates.

6. A mobile display device as set forth in claim 2, wherein

the control part has a plurality of conversion candidate lists of the pluralities of conversion candidates in accordance with display sizes of the conversion candidates.

7. A mobile display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the control part changes a display area of the second display region in accordance with the display size of the conversion candidates.

8. A mobile display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the control part displays a conversion candidate selected from the plurality of conversion candidates displayed in the second display region in the display part in an enlarged size when the display size of the conversion candidate displayed in the second display region is smaller than the display size of the input character displayed in the first display region.

9. A mobile display device as set forth in claim 8, wherein

the control part displays the conversion candidate selected from the plurality of conversion candidates in the display part while enlarging its size to the display size of the input character displayed in the first display region.

10. A mobile display device as set forth in claim 8, wherein

the control part scrolls the conversion candidates when displaying the conversion candidate selected from the plurality of conversion candidates in an enlarged size.

11. A mobile display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the control part suppresses display of a conversion candidate when the display region required for displaying the conversion candidate in the display part in accordance with the display size of the conversion candidate would exceed a predetermined display region.

12. A mobile display device as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the device has with a display mode setting part enabling setting of either of a first display mode in which the plurality of conversion candidates are displayed in a first display size or a second display mode in which the plurality of conversion candidates are displayed in a second display size larger than the first display size, and

the control part changes a display form of the conversion candidate selected from the plurality of conversion candidates being displayed in the second display region in accordance with the selection information acquired at the input information acquisition part by selection of the conversion candidate to be selected from the plurality of conversion candidates by a different method in accordance with the display mode selected at the display mode setting part.

13. A mobile display device as set forth in claim 12, wherein

when the first display mode is set, the control part selects one conversion candidate from the plurality of conversion candidates displayed in the display part in accordance with the predetermined selection information, while when the second display mode is set, the control part displays in the display part a plurality of conversion candidates which are different from the plurality of conversion candidates displayed in the display part in accordance with the predetermined selection information and selects one conversion candidate from the displayed plurality of conversion candidates.

14. A mobile display device as set forth in claim 12, wherein

the control part changes a switching speed of the conversion candidate to be selected from the plurality of conversion candidates displayed in the display part in accordance with the selection information in accordance with the display mode set at the display mode setting part.

15. A control method in a mobile display device comprising the steps of

acquiring input information,

performing processing for input of character in accordance with the acquired input information,

displaying the input character of the input processing in a first display region of a display part,

displaying a plurality of conversion candidates of the input character of the input processing in a second display region of the display part, and

changing processing for display of the plurality of conversion candidates in the second display region in accordance with a display size of the conversion candidates displayed in the second display region.