摘要 |
There can be presented a letter input apparatus and method which make it possible to speedily and easily select a necessary letter from many kinds of letters while using a control dial input apparatus. By providing a control dial input apparatus 11 for generating command signals for forward direction and backward direction revolutions and a press-down, a microcomputer 12 for controlling a letter to be displayed based on the command signals, an OSD controller 13 for generating image information out of letter information and a display unit for displaying the generated image information, selection is conducted by moving a one dimensional cursor with a step for selecting one group of letters arranged and displayed in two dimensional fashion and a step for selecting a letter from the selected group of letters.
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