Patent ID: 8552996

Claim:
A mobile terminal apparatus comprising: a display section; a touch panel section detecting a touch on a display area of the display section; a pattern detection section detecting a pattern input into a specific area of the touch panel section; a storage section storing a relationship between the pattern input into the touch panel section and an application to be started correspondingly to the pattern in an application table; and a control section determining an application corresponding to the pattern detected by the pattern detection section on the basis of the application table stored in the storage section and starting the determined application, wherein the control section, when the application corresponding to the pattern detected by the pattern detection section is started, removes the specific area from display, and reinserts the specific area to be displayed in response to an actuation of a key displayed on the display section even if the application is running, said control section terminating all previously invoked applications in response to a predetermined pattern detected by the pattern detection section.