Patent ID: 8922492

Claim:
A character inputting device comprising: a display unit; and circuitry configured to receive an input for selecting a current character; perform direction indicating actions in a first direction and in a second direction to change the current character selected into a character candidate; and generate a character display area through the display unit, the character display area including an input display region and a character browsing region, the character browsing region including a first direction sub-region corresponding to a first direction indicating action and a second direction sub-region corresponding to a second direction indicating action, and the first direction sub-region for displaying character candidates in response to the first direction indicating action and the second direction sub-region for displaying character candidates in response to the second direction indicating action, wherein the character browsing region is highlighted in the first direction sub-region according to the first direction indicating action, the character browsing region is highlighted in the second direction sub-region according to the second direction indicating action, in the character browsing region, the character candidates surround the current character selected and vary according to the current character selected, a size of a display area displaying the current character selected is substantially the same as that of the first direction sub-region and the second direction sub-region, and when two successive direction indicating actions indicate different directions, the second of the two successive direction indicating actions both confirms the current character indicated by the first of the two successive direction indicating actions to complete the input of the current character and selects a next character after the current character.