Character input technique without a keyboard

摘要

A technology to input a character without a keyboard is provided. A character input screen 400 for performing character input is displayed on a display device. On this character input screen 400 is provided an input character selection field 510, with the characters displayed in the input character selection field 510 being cyclically switched. When the user instructs character input, the character currently displayed in the input character selection field 510 is acquired as the character for input.