Patent ID: 7460108

Claim:
A portable information terminal device for receiving and displaying a plurality of information items, comprising: a receiving portion for receiving the plurality of information items, a first display portion for displaying at least one received information item using its display screen, a second display portion for displaying at least one received information item using a display screen different from the display screen of the first display portion, a video control portion for setting a layout in which the information items are displayed in the first display portion and the second display portion, based on a predetermined condition by which the information items received by the receiving portion are allocated to the first display portion or the second display portion, and a display state determining portion for determining whether the first display portion and the second display portion are in a first state in which the display screen of the first display portion and the display screen of the second display portion are visible at the same time from the same direction, or are in a second state in which only the display screen of the first display portion is visible from that direction, wherein a predetermined operation can change between the first state and the second state, and the video control portion performs setting in such a manner that: when the display state determining portion determines that the first display portion and the second display portion are in the first state, a layout is set in which the information items received by the receiving portion are allocated to and displayed in the first display portion and the second display portion, based on the predetermined condition, and when the display state determining portion determines that the first display portion and the second display portion are in the second state, a layout is set in which all of the information items received by the receiving portion are displayed in the first display portion.