Patent ID: 8792943

Claim:
A portable electronic device, comprising: a display unit; a trigger signal detecting unit that detects a first trigger signal based on displacement of the mobile electronic device in a first direction, and a second trigger signal based on displacement of the mobile electronic device in a second direction that is different to the first direction; a character information converter that, in a case in which the trigger signal detecting unit detects the first trigger signal, when a predetermined word is included in the sentence displayed on the display unit, converts the sentence to a simplified sentence by replacing a predetermined word with a pictogram associated with the predetermined word, and in a case in which the trigger signal detecting unit detects the second trigger signal, when the simplified sentence is displayed on the display unit, converts the simplified sentence into the sentence, by replacing the predetermined word with the pictogram; a display control unit that displays the simplified sentence that has been converted by the character information converter, or the sentence that has been converted by the character information converter on the display unit; and a character information editing unit that edits the simplified sentence a display control unit that displays any one of the first or third character information that has been converted by the character information converter, within a same area as the predetermined word was displayed; and a character information editing unit that edits the simplified character information.