INPUT DEVICE

摘要

The disclosed input device displays a character input-use screen (5a) comprising a plurality of character input buttons to which a plurality of characters are assigned wherein each character is specified as an input character according to the number of selection operations applied, and an input string display region (B) upon which input characters specified by selection operations for the character input buttons are sequentially displayed, on a display device (5). From strings of words including input strings displayed on the input string display region (B), candidate strings that conceivably will be entered following the input string are identified. If the input character that is specified to follow the input string displayed on the input string display region (B) is not included among the candidate characters, the input character is displayed in a toned-down manner following the input string of the input string display region (B).