Patent ID: 8619317

Claim:
A display input device comprising: a storage part storing data including data for an image; a display part displaying in alignment a plurality of character string regions indicating data in either of the storage part or a storage device directly or indirectly connected to the display input device; an input part accepting an operation performed on a character string region; and a display control part controlling the display performed at the display part, the display control part checking a time stamp indicating a date and time in and at which the data stored in either of the storage part or the storage device has been created or updated in order to judge, with respect to the character string regions corresponding to the data stored in either of the storage part or the storage device out of the character string regions displayed at the display part, only for the character string region which meets a predefined temporal criterion, whether or not adjacent character string regions include the same character string so as to make, when the adjacent character string regions include the same character string, the display part highlight characters other than the same character string.