20150338945 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION UPDATING PROGRAM - In this information processing device such as a smartphone or a tablet computer provided with a touchscreen, when a number, character, or the like is written by means of a predetermined input means such as a stylus pen at a region at which a number, character, or the like contained in a file is displayed or a region at which a number, character, or the like is displayed by an application program on the touchscreen, the written number, character, or the like is identified, and a process for updating information to the identified number, character, or the like is executed. As a result, it is possible to update information at a displayed region by means of an intuitive operation of overwriting displayed information. If the configuration is such that information is not updated by means of another input means aside from a stylus pen, it also becomes possible to automatically switch from a display mode to an editing mode by altering the input means. Moreover, the subject of updating may be the actual information of the number, character, or the like being displayed, or may be a setting value for the displayed information. | 11-26-2015 |