Patent ID: 8519977
Filing Date: 2013-08-27
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An electronic apparatus comprising: a touch panel; a display; a keyboard display module configured to display on the display a software keyboard comprising a plurality of keys; a key detection module configured to detect a touch and a release of a key of the software keyboard, based on touch detection on the touch panel; and a transmission module configured to transmit, as a detection result of a first operation, data indicative of key-down of a first key in accordance with touch detection of the first key, to transmit data indicative of key-down of a second key in accordance with touch detection of the second key in a state in which the first key is touched, and then to transmit data indicative of key-up of the first key and the second key in accordance with release detection of the first key and the second key, and configured to transmit, as a detection result of a second operation, data indicative of key-down of the first key in accordance with touch detection of the first key, to transmit data indicative of key-down of the second key in accordance with touch detection of the second key after detection of a specific operation on the first key, and then to transmit data indicative of key-up of the second key in accordance with release detection of the second key and thereafter transmit data indicative of key-up of the first key.