Character Input Device And Computer Readable Recording Medium

• US 20150058785A1
• Filed: 08/21/2014
• Published: 02/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: OOKAWARA, Hirokazu
• Application Number:
  US14/465,461
• Publication Number:
  US 20150058785A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/773
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/018 Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• 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

A character input device, including: a touch panel which integrally includes a display unit and an input unit; a first control unit which displays a character input screen having a character display region on the display unit, associates a keyboard including a plurality of characters with the touch panel and displays a character in the keyboard corresponding to a position where a touch input is performed via the input unit in the character display region as an input target character; an evaluation unit which obtains an evaluation value for the input target character on basis of an input manner; a determination unit which determines whether the input target character is a correction target character on basis of the evaluation value; and a second control unit which displays the correction target character on the display unit so as to be distinguishable.

Claims

1. A character input device, comprising:

a touch panel which integrally includes a display unit for displaying a screen and an input unit for receiving a touch input at a position in the screen displayed on the display unit;

a first control unit which displays a character input screen having a character display region on the display unit, associates a keyboard including a plurality of characters with the touch panel and displays a character in the keyboard corresponding to the position where the touch input is performed via the input unit in the character display region as an input target character;

an evaluation unit which obtains an evaluation value for the input target character on basis of an input manner in which the touch input is performed via the input unit;

a determination unit which determines whether the input target character is a correction target character on basis of the evaluation value for the input target character obtained by the evaluation unit; and

a second control unit which displays the correction target character determined by the determination unit on the display unit so as to be distinguishable.

2. The character input device according to claim 1, further comprising a distance calculation unit which calculates, as the input manner, a distance from a central position of a touch detection range of the input target character corresponding to the position of the touch input performed via the input unit to the position of the touch input, wherein

the evaluation unit obtains the evaluation value for the input target character on basis of the distance calculated by the distance calculation unit.

3. The character input device according to claim 1, further comprising a position detecting unit which detects an input starting position and an input end position as the input manner for the input target character, the input starting position being a position where the touch input via the input unit starts and the input end position being a position where the touch input ends after a slide operation from the input starting position, wherein

the evaluation unit obtains the evaluation value for the input target character on basis of a detection result by the position detecting unit.

4. The character input device according to claim 3, further comprising a length detecting unit which detects, as the input manner, a length of the slide operation from the input starting position to the input end position detected by the position detecting unit, wherein

the evaluation unit obtains the evaluation value for the input target character on basis of the length detected by the length detecting unit.

5. The character input device according to claim 3, further comprising an angle detecting unit which detects, as the input manner, an angle between a straight line and a horizontal line, the straight line connecting the input starting position and the input end position detected by the position detecting unit, wherein

the evaluation unit obtains the evaluation value for the input target character on basis of the angle detected by the angle detecting unit.

6. The character input device according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit determines at least an input target character having a smallest evaluation value as the correction target character.

7. The character input device according to claim 1, further comprising a receiving unit which receives a correction input of an input target character by a touch input via the input unit with respect to the input target character that is determined to be the correction target character, wherein

the second control unit replaces the input target character that is displayed on the display unit and determined to be the correction target character with the input target character for which the receiving unit receives the correction input.

8. The character input device according to claim 7, wherein

the second control unit displays a replacement character candidate corresponding to the input target character determined to be the correction target character by the determination unit near the correction target character displayed in the character display region, and

when the touch input is performed at a position corresponding to display of the replacement character candidate, the receiving unit receives the replacement character candidate as the input target character to replace the correction target character.

9. The character input device according to claim 7, further comprising an enlargement unit which enlarges a touch detection range of the input target character for which the correction input is received by the receiving unit.

10. The character input device according to claim 9, wherein the enlargement unit enlarges the touch detection range of the input target character for which the correction input is received when the correction input is performed for the input target character a predetermined number of times.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores a program for making a computer execute a procedure, the computer being a character input device with a touch panel which integrally includes a display unit for displaying a screen and an input unit for receiving a touch input at a position in the screen displayed on the display unit, the procedure comprising:

controlling so as to display a character input screen having a character display region on the display unit, associate a keyboard including a plurality of characters with the touch panel and display a character in the keyboard corresponding to the position where the touch input is performed via the input unit in the character display region as an input target character;

obtaining an evaluation value for the input target character on basis of an input manner in which the touch input is performed via the input unit;

determining whether the input target character is a correction target character on basis of the obtained evaluation value for the input target character; and

displaying the determined correction target character on the display unit so as to be distinguishable.