A push button-equipped touch panel includes a touch panel, a cover panel and a push button part. The cover panel is disposed on an operation surface side of the touch panel and has a through hole. The push button part is disposed in the through hole of the cover panel.

Principally, character input operation can be carried out surely in a simplified manner and in a short time. A character input assist device includes one or more side edge parts provided at a panel surface of a touch panel to have a step serving as a finger hold, and a character icon display controller that is configured to display, along the side edge parts at the panel surface, a plurality of first character icons and second character icons associated with a selected first character icon, and an icon identifiers provided at the side edge parts to allow the position of each of the first character icons or the second character icons to be individually identified.

A non-transitory computer readable medium includes a character input system including a first band-shaped key area displayed including the characters of character groups including representative characters lined up one by one. When a touch point is detected in this area, a second band-shaped key area is displayed including the characters of the group including the representative characters lined up at that detection position. When movement of a touch point from the first band-shaped key area to the second band-shaped key area is detected, a band-shaped candidate area is displayed including candidate character strings matching the characters in a line at that movement position. These areas are arranged in the width direction and with their orientations aligned. When the touch point disappears after moving from the second band-shaped key area to the band-shaped candidate area, the candidate character string displayed at that disappearance position is confirmed as the input character string.

A controlling device has a configurable key. An overlay, such as a sticker, is provided to the configurable key and includes an indicia representative of media content and machine readable data indicative of an identity of the media content represented by the indicia. A memory of the controlling device stores a correspondence between the configurable key and data indicative of a source of the media content. Upon activation of configured, configurable key, the controlling device uses select command codes from a library of command codes and the correspondence between the configurable key and the data indicative of the source of the media content to transmit one or more commands for causing one or more appliances to access the source of the media content.

A controlling device has a configurable key. An overlay, such as a sticker, is provided to the configurable key and includes an indicia representative of media content and machine readable data indicative of an identity of the media content represented by the indicia. A memory of the controlling device stores a correspondence between the configurable key and data indicative of a source of the media content. Upon activation of configured, configurable key, the controlling device uses select command codes from a library of command codes and the correspondence between the configurable key and the data indicative of the source of the media content to transmit one or more commands for causing one or more appliances to access the source of the media content.

A function key scan code is received from an external keyboard communicatively connected to the computing device. The function key scan code corresponds to a function key of the external keyboard having been pressed. Whether function keys of an internal keyboard of the computing device are configured in an action key mode is determined. In response to determining that the function keys of the internal keyboard of the computing device are configured in the action key mode, the function key scan code received from the external keyboard is converted to an action key scan code.

An electronic device according to one aspect includes a touch screen including a first key region to which a plurality of first keys are allocated and a second key region to which a plurality of second keys are allocated; and at least one controller configured to execute character input processing based on operations onto the first key detected in the first key region and the second key detected in the second key region of the touch screen, wherein the first key region is a region extending along a first rim of the touch screen, the plurality of the first keys is arranged along the first rim, the second key region is a region extending along a second rim of the touch screen which is different from the first rim, and the plurality of the second keys is arranged along the second rim.

An electronic device according to one aspect includes a touch screen including a first key region to which a plurality of first keys are allocated and a second key region to which a plurality of second keys are allocated; and at least one controller configured to execute character input processing based on operations onto the first key detected in the first key region and the second key detected in the second key region of the touch screen, wherein the first key region is a region extending along a first rim of the touch screen, the plurality of the first keys is arranged along the first rim, the second key region is a region extending along a second rim of the touch screen which is different from the first rim, and the plurality of the second keys is arranged along the second rim.

Principally, character input operation can be carried out surely in a simplified manner and in a short time. A character input assist device includes one or more side edge parts provided at a panel surface of a touch panel to have a step serving as a finger hold, and a character icon display controller that is configured to display, along the side edge parts at the panel surface, a plurality of first character icons and second character icons associated with a selected first character icon, and an icon identifiers provided at the side edge parts to allow the position of each of the first character icons or the second character icons to be individually identified.

Principally, character input operation can be carried out surely in a simplified manner and in a short time. A character input assist device includes one or more side edge parts provided at a panel surface of a touch panel to have a step serving as a finger hold, and a character icon display controller that is configured to display, along the side edge parts at the panel surface, a plurality of first character icons and second character icons associated with a selected first character icon, and an icon identifiers provided at the side edge parts to allow the position of each of the first character icons or the second character icons to be individually identified.