Patent ID: 9727216
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04M

Claim:
1. A portable device comprising: a display configured to display a plurality of keys, each of a plurality of characters being allocated to any one of the plurality of keys and arranged in a predetermined order; a touch panel configured to detect whether each of the plurality of keys is touched; an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration value; and a processor that detects a specified operation in which the user depresses the touch panel, based on the acceleration value detected by the acceleration sensor, wherein when the specified operation is detected one or more times by the processor while the touch panel detects that one of the plurality of keys is continued to be touched, the processor controls the display such that the display displays a character allocated to the one of the plurality of keys, the character being arranged on the one of the plurality of keys in an order corresponding to the number of times in which the user depresses the touch panel while the key is continued to be touched.