Patent ID: 8255204

Claim:
A character input apparatus, comprising: a display section having a screen capable of displaying characters; an operation section configured to allow a user to input the characters; a first character input processing section configured to perform a first character input process of causing the characters to be displayed on the screen in accordance with a predetermined notation rule when displaying a text in a predetermined language; a second character input processing section configured to perform a second character input process of causing the characters to be displayed on the screen not in accordance with the predetermined notation rule; a scene determination section configured to determine a first character input scene and a second character input scene, the first character input scene being a character input area of the display section in which the characters are displayed in accordance with the predetermined notation rule and the second character input scene being a character input area of the display section in which the characters are displayed not in accordance with the predetermined notation rule; and an input process switch control section configured to apply the first character input process performed by the first character input processing section when the scene determination section determines the characters are being input in the first character input scene, and to apply the second character input process performed by the second character input processing section when the scene determination section determines the characters are being input in the second character input scene.