Patent ID: 7889267

Claim:
A portable terminal device comprising: a photography-target setting section operable to set a normal photography mode for photographing an image, and an OCR function mode for photographing a character or a bar code; a display unit operable to display a photographed image; a focused-state determination section operable to determine a focused state of a character or a bar code photographed in said OCR function mode; a recognition section operable to recognize the photographed character or bar code; and a recognized result memory section operable to store the result of recognition made by said recognition means, wherein, upon recognition by said recognition section, the result of recognition is displayed by said display unit, and when the displayed result of recognition is a URL, user confirmation of said displayed result of recognition transitions said portable terminal device directly into an Internet communications preparatory state having a communications destination field that is pre-populated during said transition with said just-recognized URL for connection to said URL via the Internet.