JPH0520017A - Portable terminal equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable a user to speedily judge an input method by displaying a specific mark at the head of an input guidance message on a data input enable screen. CONSTITUTION:An input item name displayed in an input item display area 11 is confirmed first. The displayed input item name is the 1st key item of registered code information of input data. Then it is judged that key input is indicated when the mark 16 is displayed at the head of the guidance message or that touch panel input is indicated when a mark 17 is displayed at the head of the guidance message. Therefore, the input data is selected and inputted from a key input part when the mark 16 is displayed at the head of the guidance message or by touching a touch panel input part when the mark 17 is displayed at the head of the guidance message.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a touch panel type portable terminal device having a function of allowing a user to quickly determine an input method by displaying a specific mark at the beginning of an input guidance message on a data inputable screen. Is.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a business processing program using a portable terminal device having a touch panel input function, which can be input by touching a display screen as a display means in addition to a key input function, has been increasing in number.

A touch panel input type portable terminal device will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, 11 is an input item name display area, 12 is an input guidance message display area, and 13 is an input guidance message display area.
Is a work area for data input, 14 is a touch panel input section, and 15 is a key input section.

Data input processing on a conventional data input enabled screen using the portable terminal device of the touch panel input system configured as described above will be described with reference to FIGS. 7, 8 and 9.
Will be explained. FIG. 9 is a flowchart of the data input process. First, the input item name displayed in the input item name display area 11 is confirmed (step 1). The input item name displayed here is the first key item of the registration record information of the input data. Next, the guidance message displayed in the input guidance message display area 12 is confirmed (step 3), and it is determined whether the data input method is "key input" shown in FIG. 7 or "touch panel input" shown in FIG. (Step 6). Next, if the data input method described in the guidance message is "key input", data is input from the key input unit 15 (step 4), and if the data input method described in the guidance message is "touch panel input", the touch panel. Input section 1
The input data is selected by touching 4 and the data is input (step 5).

[0006]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional method, since "key input" or "touch panel input" is specified as the input method in the input guidance message, the user can confirm the input method. However, there is a problem in that it takes time to read redundant guidance messages and the time required to input data becomes long.

The present invention solves the above-mentioned conventional problems, and a touch panel having a function of allowing a user to quickly determine an input method by displaying a specific mark at the beginning of an input guidance message on a data input enable screen. An object is to provide an input type portable terminal device.

[0008]

In order to achieve this object, in the portable terminal device of the touch panel input system of the present invention, a specific mark is displayed at the beginning of the input guidance message on the data inputable screen, so that the user can Can quickly determine the input method.

[0009]

[Operation] As described above, in the data input screen,
By displaying the specific mark at the beginning of the input guidance message, the user can quickly determine the input method.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

The data input processing on the data input enabled screen of the portable terminal device of the touch panel input type configured as shown in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. FIG. 6 is a flowchart of the data input process in this embodiment, FIG. 2 shows the key input instruction mark 16, and FIG. 3 shows the touch panel input instruction mark 17. First, the input item name displayed in the input item name display area 11 is confirmed (step 1). The input item name displayed here is the first key item of the registration record information of the input data. Next, if the mark 16 is displayed at the beginning of the guidance message as shown in FIG. 4, it is determined that the key input is instructed, and if the mark 17 is displayed at the beginning of the guidance message as shown in FIG. It is determined that the touch panel input is instructed (step 3). The user inputs data to the data input work area 13 according to the guidance message.
That is, if the mark 16 is displayed at the beginning of the guidance message, data is input from the key input unit 15 (step 4), and if the mark 17 is displayed at the beginning of the guidance message, the touch panel input unit 14 is touched for input. Select data and enter data (step 5).

In this way, by displaying the specific mark shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 at the beginning of the guidance message, the user can quickly determine whether "key input" or "touch panel input".

[0013]

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY As described above, the present invention is an excellent touch panel input method in which the user can quickly determine the input method by displaying the specific mark at the beginning of the input guidance message on the data input possible screen. The mobile terminal device can be realized.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a touch panel input type portable terminal device.

FIG. 2 is a mark indicating a key input instruction on a data input enable screen according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a touch panel input instruction mark on a data inputable screen according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an input guidance message showing a key input instruction on a data input enable screen in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an input guidance message showing a touch panel input instruction in the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a data input process on the data input enable screen according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an input guidance message showing a key input instruction on a conventional data input screen.

FIG. 8 is an input guidance message showing a touch panel input instruction on a conventional data input enable screen.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of data input processing on a conventional data input enable screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Input data item name confirmation processing 2 Marking processing at the beginning of the input guidance message 3 Input guidance message confirmation processing 4 Data input processing from the key input section 5 Data input processing from the touch panel section 6 Input guidance message input Method judgment processing 11 Input item name display area 12 Input guidance message display area 13 Work area for data input 14 Touch panel input section 15 Key input section

Claims (1)

Claim: What is claimed is: 1. A portable terminal device having a plurality of input processing methods, the portable terminal device comprising display means for displaying a specific mark indicating the data input processing method.