Patent ID: 8629874

Claim:
A mobile display device, comprising: an input information acquisition part acquiring input information, a display part having a first display region and a second display region, and a control part which performs processing for input of a character in accordance with the input information acquired by the input information acquisition part, displays the input character in the first display region of the display part, and displays a plurality of conversion candidates of the input character in the second display region of the display part, wherein the control part determines at least one conversion candidate to be displayed in the second display region among the plurality of conversion candidates in accordance with a display size of the conversion candidates displayed in the second display region, wherein the control part changes display priorities of the plurality of conversion candidates in the second display region in accordance with a display size of the conversion candidates displayed in the second display region and the control part sets degrees of priority of display of the conversion candidates depending upon the number of displayable characters in the second display region based on the display size of the conversion candidates and a number of characters of each of the plurality of conversion candidates, wherein setting the degrees of priority comprises an operation to rearrange the conversion candidates in a list comprising the conversion candidates where the rearranging is done at least according to their respective lengths.