Patent ID: 7337397

Claim:
A data display system comprising: a portable terminal having a communication function; and a data transmission device capable of communicating with said portable terminal, wherein: said data display system is intended for displaying data transmitted by the data transmission device on said portable terminal; said data transmission device includes an area separation unit for separating a character area where character data exists and a non-character area where non-character data exists from document data containing character data and non-character data for transmission to said portable terminal, a display method designating unit for designating an individual display method for each kind of separated area, according to a designation by a user, for the display of data at said portable terminal, a designating information adding unit for adding designating information concerning the designated display method to the document data, and a transmitting unit for transmitting the document data including the designating information to said portable terminal; and said portable terminal includes a receiving unit for receiving the document data from said data transmission device, a designating information detecting unit for detecting the designating information from the document data, and a display unit for displaying the document data as an output image based on the designating information.