Patent ID: 7893928
Filing Date: 2011-02-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer system, comprising: a display: a touch pad provided as a panel separated from the display and having a plurality of key areas to generate a key signal according to a touch input, the key signal corresponding to one of the key areas; a storing unit to store a relation table relating each of a plurality of character values to a corresponding one of the plurality of key areas; and a controller to read, from the storing unit, the character value corresponding to a key area corresponding to the key signal generated in the touch pad and to display the character value on the display, and if successive key signals are generated with respect to the plurality of key areas, to sequentially convert the successive key signals into the corresponding successive character values and to display each of the successive character values on the display by replacing a previously displayed character value with the character value to be displayed.