Patent ID: 7240293

Claim:
A method for inputting a character string into a processing unit, comprising: storing character strings in a memory unit; ascertaining selectable characters for a next character of the character string to be input by the processing unit by a comparison of previously input characters to the stored character strings; indicating the selectable characters with prominence in a display; and indicating one of the selectable characters as a character to be input and inputting the one of the selectable characters as a next character of the character string to be input by a confirmation input, wherein: the selectable characters are shown in a two-dimensional field, using a direction input, a change is made from an inputtable character only and directly to one of the selectable characters lying in an input direction in the two-dimensional field with respect to the inputtable character, and the one of the selectable characters to which the change is made is indicated as the inputtable character.