Patent ID: 8024006

Claim:
A mobile terminal with cellular and broadcast reception, audio muting and closed captioning, comprising: a broadcast receiving function section for receiving a television broadcast; a wireless telephone function section for making a call by radio; and a controller that controls the function sections and performs display control on a display, wherein the broadcast receiving function section has an audio mute function and is configured to receive a digital broadcast and to perform closed caption display, the wireless telephone function section has a silent mode function, and when the silent mode is performed in the wireless telephone function section, the controller causes the broadcast receiving function section to perform the audio mute and causes the broadcast receiving function section to perform the closed caption display when causing the broadcast receiving function section to perform the audio mute, wherein the controller performs one of icon display and differentiating the display mode of a closed caption display portion between closed caption display resulting from the audio mute and normal closed caption display, for enabling a user to distinguish between the closed caption display resulting from the audio mute and the normal closed caption display.