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

Claim 9:
10. An input control method comprising:
detecting, by a detection unit, a first character input by a key operation;
determining, by a determination unit, whether or not the detected first character is the same as a second character input immediately before the first character;
accepting, by an input processing unit, an input of the first character when the determination unit determined that the first character is not the same as the second character, and
unaccepting the input of the first character when the determination unit determined that 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 input of the first character is accepted by the input processing unit, without determining whether or not the first character is the same as the second character.