Portable electronic device and method for controlling portable electronic device

摘要

Disclosed are a portable electronic device and a method for controlling the portable electronic device wherein it is possible to use an application enabling an easy input of characters. The portable electronic device is provided with a starting unit, a display unit, a detection unit, and a control unit. The starting unit starts the application enabling the input of characters. The display unit displays a screen based on the application. The detection unit detects a contact to the display unit. The control unit causes the starting unit to start the application when identifying, while a standard screen is displayed on the display unit, the track of the contact to the display unit according to the contact to the display unit detected by the detection unit and determining from the detected track of the contact that characters are being inputted.

主权项

1. A portable electronic device, comprising:
an activation unit that activates an application enabling at least an input of characters; a display unit that displays a screen based on the application; a detection unit that detects contact to the display unit and a control unit that identifies a track of contact to the display unit according to the contact to the display unit detected by the detection unit in a state where an initial screen is displayed on the display unit, and when a character input state is identified by the track of contact as identified, causes the activation unit to activate the application and display an application screen as the screen based on the application, wherein in a case in which the control unit determines that initial characters are being input based on the track of contact on the initial screen, the control unit causes the activation unit to activate the application enabling at least the input of characters, and causing the initial characters corresponding to the track of the contact as identified on the initial screen to be input and displayed in a character input region of the application screen.