Patent ID: 7193635

Claim:
A portable terminal for simultaneously, displaying display data contained in a plurality of contents acquired from a plurality of information sources, the portable terminal comprising: a receiving unit operable to receive pull-type data of the display data and operable to receive broadcasting data of the display data; a setting unit operable to set luminance or color for the respective display data, the luminance or the color being a display parameter related to display of the display data; and a data output control unit operable to process the display data based on the luminance or color set by the setting unit and display the processed display data, wherein the setting unit increases the luminance or color of the display data included in the pull-type data based on increase of a proportion of the pull-type data being received to the total amount of the pull-type data to be received, and reduces the luminance or color of the display data included in the broadcasting data in response to the increase of the luminance or color of the pull-type data, and the data output control unit simultaneously displays the pull-type data and the broadcasting data overlaid on one display based on the luminance or color changed by the setting unit.