Patent ID: 7514624

Claim:
A portable terminal apparatus having a tone generator and a display monitor for presenting information, comprising: a communication section that is operated to transmit and receive various information; a memory section that stores karaoke information including music information representing a music piece and lyric information representing words corresponding to the music piece, wherein the karaoke information is received from another portable terminal apparatus; a sound control section that is operated according to the music information for controlling the tone generator to generate tones of the music piece; a display control section that is operated according to the lyric information for controlling the display monitor to display the words in parallel to progression of the music piece, and an input control operated to select one music piece from the memory section which stores a plurality of music pieces, so that the sound control section controls the tone generator to generate tones of the selected music piece, and the display control section controls the display monitor to display the lyric words in parallel to the progression of the selected music piece.