Input device capable of converting character style of input character, image forming apparatus having the input device, and electronic apparatus having the input device

• US 9,167,110 B2
• Filed: 09/18/2014
• Issued: 10/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Original Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions, Inc. (Kyocera Corporation)
• Inventors: Miyamoto, Keita, Saratani, Ken
• Primary Examiner(s): Mushambo, Martin
• Application Number:
  US14/489,771
• Publication Number:
  US 20150085306A1
• Time in Patent Office: 397 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.11, 345/173, 382/181
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/018 Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00392 Other manual input means, e.g. digitisers or writing tablets
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00395 Arrangements for reducing operator input input arrangements for job or mode instructions or parameters H04N1/00962; intelligent menu interfaces H04N1/00437
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0075 by a user operated remote control device, e.g. receiving instructions from a user via a computer terminal or mobile telephone handset
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

An input device includes: a receiving section configured to receive a plurality of characters input by a user'"'"'s operation, a confirming section allowing the display control section to confirm the plurality of characters received by the receiving section; a display section configured to display the plurality of characters allowed to be confirmed by the confirming section; a touch sensor configured to detect a touch point on the display section; and a display control section configured to identify, based on the touch point detected by the touch sensor through a user'"'"'s double tap, at least one conversion target character among the plurality of confirmed characters, convert a character style of the conversion target character, allow the display section to display the conversion target character converted in character style, confirm the input of the conversion target character converted in character style.

Claims

1. An input device comprising:

a receiving section configured to receive a plurality of characters input by an operation of a user;

a confirming section allowing the plurality of characters received by the receiving section to be confirmed;

a display section configured to display the plurality of characters allowed to be confirmed by the confirming section;

a touch sensor configured to detect a touch point on the display section; and

a display control section configured to confirm the plurality of characters according to a confirmation signal received from the confirming section and allow the display section to display the plurality of confirmed characters,

wherein the display control section is further configured to identify, based on the touch point detected by the touch sensor through a double tap of the user, at least one conversion target character from among the plurality of confirmed characters, determine whether or not any conversion target character convertible in character style is present in the conversion target characters, convert a character style of the conversion target character convertible in character style in a case where the conversion target character convertible in character style is present, allow the display section to display the conversion target character in the converted character style, confirm the conversion target character in the converted character style.

2. The input device according to claim 1, wherein the display control section is configured to convert the character style of the conversion target character convertible in character style from an upper case to a lower case and vice versa.

3. The input device according to claim 1, wherein the display control section is configured to identify the confirmed character displayed at a single point indicated by the touch point as the conversion target character.

4. The input device according to claim 1, wherein the display control section is configured to identify, based on two different touch points concurrently detected by the touch sensor, the confirmed character displayed on a midpoint of a line segment connecting the two different touch points as the conversion target character.

5. The input device according to claim 1, wherein the display control section is configured to identify, based on two different touch points concurrently detected by the touch sensor, a plurality of the confirmed characters displayed on a line segment connecting the two different touch points as the conversion target characters.

6. The input device according to claim 1, wherein the display control section is configured to identify, based on two different touch points concurrently detected by the touch sensor, a plurality of the confirmed characters displayed in a rectangular region having the two different touch points located at opposite diagonal corners as the conversion target characters.

7. The input device according to claim 1, wherein the display control section is previously set by the user to assign priorities to character styles to be converted into and is configured to, when the conversion target character convertible in character style having been determined to be convertible in character style has a plurality of convertible character styles, convert the character style of the conversion target character into a higher-priority character style according to the priorities.

8. The input device according to claim 7, wherein character style of the conversion target character convertible in character style is convertible for both of a conversion between an upper case and a lower case, and a conversion between a double-byte character and a one-byte character, and

for the priority assignment, which one of the conversions, the conversion between an upper case and a lower case or the conversion between a double-byte character and a one-byte character, is to be given priority in character style is set.

9. The input device according to claim 1, wherein the display control section is configured to convert the character style of the conversion target character convertible in character style from a non-sutegana character to a sutegana character and vice versa, or from a double-byte character to a one-byte character and vice versa.

10. An image forming apparatus comprising an input device,

wherein the input device comprising:

a receiving section configured to receive a plurality of characters input by an operation of a user;

a confirming section allowing the plurality of characters received by the receiving section to be confirmed;

a display section configured to display the plurality of characters allowed to be confirmed by the confirming section;

a touch sensor configured to detect a touch point on the display section; and

a display control section configured to confirm the plurality of characters according to a confirmation signal received from the confirming section and allow the display section to display the plurality of confirmed characters,

wherein the display control section is further configured to identify, based on the touch point detected by the touch sensor through a double tap of the user, at least one conversion target character from among the plurality of confirmed characters, determines whether or not any conversion target character convertible in character style is present in the conversion target characters, convert a character style of the conversion target character convertible in character style in a case where the conversion target character convertible in character style is present, allow the display section to display the conversion target character in the converted character style, confirm the conversion target character in the converted character style.

11. An electronic apparatus comprising an input device,

wherein the input device comprising:

a receiving section configured to receive a plurality of characters input by an operation of a user;

a confirming section allowing the plurality of characters received by the receiving section to be confirmed;

a display section configured to display the plurality of characters allowed to be confirmed by the confirming section;

a touch sensor configured to detect a touch point on the display section; and

a display control section configured to confirm the plurality of characters according to a confirmation signal received from the confirming section and allow the display section to display the plurality of confirmed characters,

wherein the display control section is further configured to identify, based on the touch point detected by the touch sensor through a double tap of the user, at least one conversion target character from among the plurality of confirmed characters, determines whether or not any conversion target character convertible in character style is present in the conversion target characters, convert a character style of the conversion target character convertible in character style in a case where the conversion target character convertible in character style is present, allow the display section to display the conversion target character in the converted character style, confirm the conversion target character in the converted character style.