Patent ID: 7893987

Claim:
A cellular phone comprising: a photographed object setting section operable to set a normal mode in which a picture is selected as a photographed object, or an OCR function mode in which a letter or a code is selected as a photographed object; a display unit operable to display a captured image; a focus-state determination section operable to determine the current state of focus of a letter or a code captured in said OCR function mode and to provide a dedicated, user-perceptible indication of the current state of focus; and a recognition section operable to recognize the captured letter or code, 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 the displayed result of recognition transitions said cellular phone directly into an Internet communications preparatory state where a communications destination field is pre-populated with said just-recognized URL during said direct transition for connection to said URL via the Internet.