Patent ID: 7092511

Claim:
A telephone comprising: a storage unit for storing names to be called and corresponding telephone numbers; an operating unit, including a plurality of numeric keys that are each assigned different characters, for receiving key operations made by a user; a judgment means for, when a numeric key on the operation unit is pressed, judging whether the press continues for at least a predetermined time, a searching means for searching the storage unit, when the judgment means has judged affirmatively, for names that include a character assigned to the pressed numeric key; a display means for displaying a search result; and an accepting means for, when the judgment means has judged negatively, accepting a number assigned to the pressed numeric key as an input of a telephone number, wherein the display means: displays a predetermined number of names from the names found by the searching means, one of the displayed names being in a selection state, the name in the selection state being displayed differently to other names; and when a selection changing operation is received by the operating unit, places another name that is currently being displayed into the selection state.