Information processing apparatus and cellular phone terminal
View Patent ↗Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including a display unit displaying information on a display screen, an operation unit including a text input key, and a control unit. The control unit displays text in response to input from the operation unit in a state of displaying an initial screen on the display screen, shows an application using text to a user for selection, starts up the application in accordance with the user's selection, and executes the application, using the text inputted from the operation unit.
1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a display unit for displaying information on a display screen; and
a control unit,
wherein the control unit is configured to change a first screen displayed on the display unit, which does not provide a text input function, to a second screen displaying text in a text input area based upon a user's operation, and
wherein the control unit is configured to display a first softkey on the display screen that initiates a specific application using the displayed text and a second softkey on the display screen that searches for relevant Web sites using the displayed text based upon a user operation confirming the displayed text.
2. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a display unit for displaying information on a display screen; and
a control unit,
wherein the control unit is configured to change a first screen displayed on the display unit, which does not provide a text input function, to a second screen displaying text in a text input area based upon a user's operation,
wherein the second screen displays a conversion candidate based upon a user's textual input operation,
wherein the control unit is configured to display a first softkey on the display screen that initiates a specific application using the displayed text and a second softkey on the display screen that searches for relevant Web sites using the displayed text after the user's textual input operation, and
wherein the control unit is configured to delete the displayed conversion candidate based upon a user operation confirming the displayed text.
3. The information processing apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the information processing apparatus is a cellular phone terminal.
4. The information processing apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the first screen is a screen that is displayed when the information processing apparatus is turned on.
5. The information processing apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the first softkey is user-operable to display a menu of action candidates associated with the displayed text.