Computer readable storage medium having input program stored therein, system, and input method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9489374-B2
Application number	US-78583410-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 24, 2010
Priority date	Mar 17, 2010
Publication date	Nov 8, 2016
Grant date	Nov 8, 2016

Abstract

Upon receiving an input of an input character a 1 by a user, a game apparatus stores the received input character a 1 as an unfixed character, and displays the stored unfixed character a 1 . The game apparatus obtains option character strings a 2 corresponding to the input character a 1 from an option character string database, and receives an operation which the user performs for selecting an option character string a 2 from the obtained option character strings a 2 . Upon receiving the operation for selecting an option character string a 2 , the game apparatus determines the selected option character string a 2 to be a fixed character string, and stores the determined fixed character string, and then outputs the stored fixed character string. Here, only when receiving the operation for selecting an option character string, the game apparatus determines a fixed character string.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a program stored therein, the program, when executed, causing a computer of an information processing apparatus including storage for storing an option character string database that registers one or more combinations of at least one character and at least one option character string corresponding to the at least one character, to perform operations for outputting only fixed character strings, the operations comprising:
receiving an input of one or more characters;
displaying, as one or more unfixed characters, the received one or more characters;
obtaining, from the option character string database, at least one option character string that corresponds to the one or more unfixed characters and displaying the obtained at least one option character string, wherein the displayed at least one option character string includes only option character strings registered in the option character string database;
receiving an input for selecting one of the displayed option character strings, whereby the selected option character string becomes a fixed character string; and
outputting the fixed character string,
wherein only an option character string selected from the displayed option character strings can be fixed, and only a fixed character string can be output,
whereby output of character strings not registered in the option character string database can be prevented.

2. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein the program causes the computer to perform further operations comprising:
receiving a transmit instruction to transmit text to another information processing apparatus; and
when the transmit instruction is received, transmitting, to the other information processing apparatus, transmission data that contains text that only includes the fixed character string.

3. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 2 , wherein
the received one or more characters is stored in the storage as one or more unfixed characters, and
the program causes the computer to perform further operations comprising:
when the transmit instruction is received, deleting the one or more unfixed characters from the storage prior to transmitting the transmission data.

4. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein the program causes the computer to perform further operations comprising:
displaying a marker in a predetermined display area of a display of the information processing apparatus, and, at a time of displaying the one or more unfixed characters, displaying the one or more unfixed characters at a position relative to a display position of the marker in the predetermined display area,
receiving input of a position change instruction to change the display position of the marker, and
when the position change instruction is received, deleting the one or more unfixed characters from the predetermined display area.

5. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein
the program causes the computer to perform further operations comprising:
further obtaining, from the at least one obtained option character string, at least one second option character string that satisfies a predetermined condition to be eligible to become a fixed character string, and
receiving an input for selecting an option character string not from the at least one obtained option character string but from the at least one second option character string.

6. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 5 , wherein
the program causes the computer to perform further operations comprising:
identifying at least one of a character string preceding the one or more unfixed characters and a character string following the one or more unfixed characters, and
further obtaining from the at least one obtained option character string, at least one second option character string satisfying the predetermined condition that specifies a condition for a character string to be connectable to the at least one identified character string.

7. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein
the program causes the computer to perform further operations comprising:
identifying at least one of a character string preceding the one or more unfixed characters and a character string following the one or more unfixed characters as a first identified character string, and
determining whether or not the selected option character string is connectable to the first identified character string, and, when the selected option character string is connectable thereto, determining the selected option character string to be a fixed character string.

8. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 7 , wherein the program causes the computer to perform further operations comprising:
identifying both the character string preceding the one or more unfixed characters and the character string following the one or more unfixed characters,
further obtaining, from the at least one obtained option character string, at least one second option character string satisfying a condition for a character string to be connectable to the identified character string that precedes the one or more unfixed characters,
receiving an input for selecting an option character string not from the at least one obtained option character string but from the at least one second option character string, and
determining whether or not the selected option character string is connectable to the identified character string that follows the one or more unfixed characters, and, when the selected option character string is connectable thereto, determining the selected option character string to be a fixed character string.

9. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 1 , wherein
the program causes the computer to perform further operations comprising:
receiving an instruction to delete the fixed character string;
identifying a character string preceding the fixed character string to be deleted and a character string following the fixed character string to be deleted;
determining whether or not the character string preceding the fixed character string to be deleted and the character string following the fixed character string to be deleted are connectable to each other; and
when it is determined that the character strings preceding and following the fixed character string to be deleted are connectable to each other, changing the fixed character string to be deleted into an unfixed character.

10. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 9 , wherein the program causes the computer to perform further operations comprising:
obtaining from the option character string database, at least one option character string corresponding to the unfixed character that has been changed.

11. The computer readable storage medium according to claim 9 , wherein the program causes the computer to perform further operations comprising:
when the character string preceding the fixed character string and the character string following the fixed character string are determined to be not connectable to each other, determining, as a connectable character string, a character string located at a rearmost position among character strings that precede the fixed character string and that are connectable to the character string following the fixed character string, and
changing all character strings present between the connectable character string and the character string following the fixed character string, into unfixed characters.

12. The computer readable storage medium according t

Assignees

• Nakano Keigo
• Nintendo Co Ltd

Inventors

• Nakano Keigo

Classifications

• G06F40/253

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