Patent ID: 8909204

Claim:
A portable electronic device comprising: a communication request receiving unit which receives a communication request from another communication device; a display unit which displays a moving image based on image data; an input unit which is provided to overlap with the display unit and detects an input of a user; a determination unit which determines whether the moving image is being displayed on the display unit at the same time that the communication request receiving unit receives the communication request; an input determination unit which determines whether a predetermined input is detected by the input unit when the determination unit determines that the moving image is being displayed; and a display control unit which displays information for starting a communication with the other communication device on the display unit when the predetermined input is detected by the input unit, wherein when the communication request receiving unit receives the communication request, the display control unit displays information overlapped on the moving image being displayed on the display unit without displaying an area in which an input is detected for starting the communication with the other communication device, and when the predetermined input is detected by the input unit, the display control unit displays the information which includes the area in which an input is detected for starting the communication with the other communication device.