Patent ID: 8326123

Claim:
A mobile terminal comprising: a movie playback unit for playing back a movie including audio and video, a display unit for displaying at least the played back movie and text, a text-to-speech unit having a text-to-speech function of converting to speech the text being displayed on the display unit and the state of the device, a communication unit for detecting at least one of an incoming call and received message, and a controller, wherein when the incoming call or received message is detected at the communication unit and the movie playback unit is playing back the movie to report the incoming call or received message and when a predetermined event occurs for starting up the text-to-speech function during the playback of a movie, the controller stops only the audio output of the played back movie and activates the text-to-speech function in a first case where the played back movie is not copyrighted and the video and audio data of the played back movie can be separated, and the controller stops both the video and audio data of the played back movie and activates the text-to-speech function in a second case where the played back movie is copyrighted and the video and audio data of the played back movie cannot be separated.