Character input device, character input method, and character input program

A character input method according to which a computational processing device performs operations comprising:

• determining a type of a key input;
• executing an operation on an input character based on the determined type of the key input, and performing finalization the input character based on the determined type of the key input;
• and
• learning a conversion candidate associated with the input character,
• wherein the learning of the conversion candidate comprises setting as a reading of the finalized input character, an input character existing prior to input of the delete key, and learning to set the reading of the finalized input character as a learned conversion candidate in response to detecting that finalization of the input character has been performed, and that the type of the key input before performing the finalization of the input character was a delete key.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a character input program causing a computational processing device to perform operations comprising:

• determining a type of a key that is input;
• executing an operation on an input character based on the determined type of the key input, and performing finalization of the input character based on the determined type of the key input;
• and
• executing learning of a conversion candidate associated with the input character, wherein, in executing the learning of the conversion candidate, in response to detecting that the finalization of the input character has been performed, and that the type of the key input before performing the finalization of the input character was a delete key, the computational processing device is caused to execute processing for setting an input character existing prior to input of the delete key as a reading of the finalized input character and executes the learning to set the reading of the finalized input character as a learned conversion candidate.

A character input device, comprising:

• an input key determination unit configured to determine a type of a key that is input;
• an input character processing unit configured to execute an operation, when the type of the key is a character key, to add a character corresponding to the character key to an unfinalized input character, and when the type of the key is a delete key, to delete a part of the unfinalized input character;
• and
• a conversion candidate processing unit configured to execute learning of a conversion candidate associated with a reading;
• wherein
• the input character processing unit is further configured to execute finalization processing in which the unfinalized input character is finalized to a finalized input character, the reading of which is the unfinalized input character;
• and
• the conversion candidate processing unit is further configured to execute the learning in which the unfinalized input character before inputting the delete key is set to the reading of the finalized input character, when the input of the delete key is detected before the finalization processing is executed.

A character input method according to which a computational processing device performs operations comprising:

• determining a type of a key that is input;
• in response to the type of the key being a character key, adding a character corresponding to the character key to an unfinalized input character, and in response to the type of the key being a delete key, deleting a part of the unfinalized input character;
• learning a conversion candidate associated with a reading;
• and
• executing finalization processing in which the unfinalized input character is finalized to a finalized input character, the reading of which is the unfinalized input character, wherein
• learning the conversion candidate associated with the reading further comprises setting the unfinalized input character before inputting the delete key to the reading of the finalized input character, in response to the input of the delete key being detected before the finalization processing is executed.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a character input program causing a computational processing device to perform operations comprising:

• determining a type of a key that is input;
• in response to the type of the key being a character key, adding a character corresponding to the character key to an unfinalized input character, and in response to the type of the key being a delete key, deleting a part of the unfinalized input character;
• learning a conversion candidate associated with a reading;
• and
• executing finalization processing in which the unfinalized input character is finalized to a finalized input character, the reading of which is the unfinalized input character, wherein
• learning the conversion candidate associated with the reading further comprises setting the unfinalized input character before inputting the delete key to the reading of the finalized input character, in response to the input of the delete key being detected before the finalization processing is executed.