Character input method of mobile terminal
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorSeung-Woo Nam
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Abstract
A mobile terminal includes a display screen to display a screen image of a particular character and a virtual keypad, and to detect touch inputs; and a controller to detect a first touch input of touching the particular character and a second touch input of touching a particular key of the virtual keypad, and to control display of display characters on respective key buttons of the virtual keypad, the display characters having at least one attribute of the particular character, if the first and second inputs are a multi-touch. Because a font of particular character is applied to the display character of the virtual keypad or to a newly input character, characters or numbers can be easily input using the display screen of the mobile terminal.
Claims10
A character input method of a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
- detecting a first touch input of touching a previously input character in an editing window displayed on a display screen of the mobile terminal;
- detecting attribute information of the previously input character corresponding to the first touch input;
- detecting a second touch input of touching a character key of a virtual keypad displayed on the display screen of the mobile terminal;
- applying the attribute information to a newly input character of the character key corresponding to the second touch input, if the first and second touch inputs are a multi-touch;
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- displaying the newly input character with the attribute information at a point where a character input cursor is positioned in the editing window, wherein the attribute information includes at least one of a font, a size, and a color.
A mobile terminal, comprising:
- a displayed screen configured to display an editing window and a virtual keypad, and to detect touch inputs;
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- a controller configured to detect a first touch input of touching a previously input character in the editing window and a second touch input of touching a character key of a virtual keypad, to detect attributed information of the previously input character corresponding to the first touch input, to apply the attribute information to a newly input character of the character key corresponding to the second touch input, if the first and second touch inputs are a multi-touch;
- and to control displaying the newly input character with the attribute information at a point where a character input cursor is positioned in the editing window, wherein the attribute information includes at least one of a font, a size, and a color.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.