Patent ID: 7499538
Filing Date: 2009-03-03
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A telephone comprising: a storage unit for storing names to be called and corresponding telephone numbers; an operating unit, including a plurality of numeric keys that are each assigned different characters, for receiving key operations made by a user; a judgment means for, when a numeric key on the operation unit is pressed, judging whether the press continues for at least a predetermined time; a searching means for, when the judgment means has judged affirmatively, searching the storage unit for names, in accordance with a character assigned to the pressed numeric key; a display means for performing display based on a search result; and an accepting means for, when the judgment means has judged negatively, accepting a number assigned to the pressed numeric key as an input of a telephone number, wherein the display means: (1) displays a predetermined number of names from the names found by the searching means, one of the displayed names in a selection state, the name in the selection state being displayed differently to other names; (2) places another name that is currently being displayed into the selection state, when the operating unit receives a selection changing operation; and (3) displays, when the operation unit receives an operation different from the selection changing operation, other names than the displayed names, and places one of the other names on display into the selected state, the one of the other names being displayed differently to other names.