Patent ID: 9648109
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M

Claim:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a communicator portion that communicates with a portable terminal apparatus having an address book; a contact data obtaining portion that obtains contacts from the address book of the portable terminal apparatus upon a user being logged in to the image processing apparatus through the communicator portion from the portable terminal apparatus, the contacts including contact names and addresses; a registration portion that registers the contacts to a shared address book as shared data along with user identification information indicating the logged-in user, the contacts being obtained by the contact data obtaining portion, the contacts including the contact names and the addresses; a display; and a display controller that makes the display show the contacts for the logged-in user making a choice, the contacts being registered in the shared address book, wherein the display controller judges whether or not the shared address book contains contacts with different contact names but with identical addresses, and when the shared address book contains the contacts with the different contact names but with the identical addresses, the display controller makes the display show the contact name of only any contact, among the contacts, having the user identification information indicating the logged-in user.