JAPANESE AND ALPHABET DISPLAY INPUT DEVICE OF CELLULAR PHONE, FIXED TELEPHONE AND COMPUTER KEYBOARD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten a display input time by displaying Japanese, such as hiragana, katakana, voiced sound symbol, semivoiced sound symbol and punctuation mark with a two-time key operation for one character as a rule.;SOLUTION: This input device can display kana and alphabet by performing two-time key pressing-down operation as a rule. When, just after the depression of kana row keys or alphabet keys 1 to 14, the numerical keys 1 to 5 shared by the input keys and showing a vowel column of basic numerical values 1 to 5 are pressed down, display and input of these are performed. A system for displaying kana and alphabet as a unit of combining them and numerical values makes it possible to perform kana and alphabet display. When input keys are arrayed horizontally in three rows and vertically in five columns, the input keys are more easily operated.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI