Patent ID: 8244239

Claim:
A communication apparatus comprising: a display unit; a storage unit capable of storing therein display condition information in which a display instruction for causing the display unit to perform display processing or a non-display instruction for not allowing the display unit to perform the display processing is set; a display control unit for causing the display unit to perform the display processing when the display instruction is set in the display condition information stored in the storage unit and for not allowing the display unit to perform the display processing when the non-display instruction is set in the display condition information; and a communication control unit for controlling a connection establishment communication with a communication party by a communication system based on electric field coupling or magnetic field coupling and data communication with the communication party by the communication system, wherein when receiving signals transmitted from the communication party at the time of the connection establishment communication, the communication control unit judges whether the non-display instruction is set in the display condition information stored in the storage unit, and when judging that the non-display instruction is set, the communication control unit does not make the data communication with the communication party.