Patent ID: 7283813

Claim:
A mobile terminal having a communication function, the mobile terminal comprising: a detection section configured to detect an incoming or outgoing phone call; an information acquisition section to acquire related information concerning an incoming or outgoing phone call in response to detection of the incoming or outgoing phone call by the detection section; a device section configured to acquire environment information in response to detection of the incoming or outgoing phone call by the detection section, the environmental information being at least one of a still image of surroundings of the mobile terminal acquired with a camera, moving pictures of the surroundings of the mobile terminal acquired with a camera, sounds and soundscape of the surroundings of the mobile terminal acquired with a microphone, a channel which is being viewed in the mobile terminal acquired with an internal television tuner, and open/close information concerning at least one of a state of folding, rotating, and sliding of the mobile terminal acquired by the information acquisition section; a history generation section configured to generate history information in which the related information acquired by the information acquisition section and the environment information acquired by the device section are kept in association with at least a telephone number of the incoming or outgoing phone call as a piece of the history information; a history storing section configured to store the history information generated by the history generation section; and a history notification section configured to notify a user of the mobile terminal of the related information and the environment information contained in the piece of the history information, in response to an incoming or outgoing phone call from or to the telephone number contained in the piece of the history information stored in the history storing section.