Patent ID: 8508620

Claim:
A portable terminal comprising a console part having a character input function, an image capture part operable to capture an image of an object in an image capture mode and output image data, a clock part operable to measure a present year-month-day and a present time, a controller, a storage part, a display part, and a communication part operable to perform communication and to stand by for receiving data in a standby mode, wherein the controller is operable to acquire image data of the object captured in the image capture mode by the image capture part, to acquire, from the clock part, data of a year-month-day and a time when the object is captured by the image capture part, and to store the data of the year-month-day and the time respectively as image capture year-month-day data and image capture time data in the storage part in association with the image data in addition to the image data, and wherein the controller is also operable to perform a retrieval in the standby mode to determine whether image capture date data of the image data stored in the storage part match date data outputted from the clock part, and to read, from the storage part, the image data corresponding to the matched image capture date data and the image capture date and the image capture time corresponding to the image data and control the display part to display the image data with superimposing the image capture year-month-day and the image capture time thereon if it is determined that there are matched data, and wherein, when a user operates a specific button, the controller is also operable to perform a retrieval to determine whether the image capture date data or the image capture month-day data of the image data stored in the storage part match date data or month-day data at the time of the operation of the specific button, and to read, from the storage part, the image data corresponding to the matched image capture date data or the matched image capture month-day data and the image capture date or the image capture month-day and the image capture time corresponding to the image data and control the display part to display the image data with superimposing the image capture date and the image capture time thereon if it is determined that there are matched data.