Patent Document ID: 8447584
Application ID: 13567641

Base Claim:
1. A character input apparatus comprising: a display section having a screen; an operation section configured to allow a user to input characters for display on the screen and, based on characters which are currently being input or characters which were previously input, to output one or more candidate characters to be displayed on the screen; a first candidate processing section configured to perform a first candidate display process of causing the one or more candidate characters to be displayed on the screen in accordance with a predetermined notation rule in a predetermined language; a second candidate processing section configured to perform a second candidate display process of causing the candidates to be displayed on the screen not in accordance with the predetermined notion 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 candidate displaying process performed by the first candidate processing section when the scene determination section determines the characters are being input in the first character input scene, and to apply the second candidate displaying process performed by the second candidate processing section when the scene determination section determines the characters are being input in the second character input scene.

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Claim 18:
18. The character input apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second character input scene is a login username character input field.