Patent ID: 11947732
Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An input control device comprising:
a detection unit configured to detect a first character input by a key operation;
a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the detected first character is the same as a second character input immediately before the first character; and
an input processing unit configured to accept an input of the first character if the determination unit determined that the first character is not the same as the second character, the input processing unit configured not to accept the input of the first character if the determination unit determined the first character is the same as the second character,
wherein, when the first character is a character at the beginning of a string input by the key operation, the determination unit does not determine whether or not the first character is the same as the second character and the input processing unit accepts the input of the first character.