Patent ID: 7353046

Claim:
A wireless communication device comprising: a control section configured for retrieving character information associated with decoding-intensive information from a data repository structure and displaying the character information and the associated decoding-intensive information only in accordance with key operation, said control section further comprising: a means for making the delay time up to a beginning of image decoding longer in proportion to a click interval in a fast and continuous search, and a means for making the delay time up to the beginning of image decoding shorter than the search interval in a slow search; a means for updating said character information alone with regards to long depression and means for outputting a release signal to activate a timer that determines beginning of image decoding; and a means for determining whether an image is registered in a registered data of a search result referring to phone-book-image registered information and a means for reading information corresponding to a decision result from a phone-book-image information memory section; a character display section wherein the character information only is displayed during said continuous search operation based on the key operation, and a decoding-intensive display section that is associated with the decoding-intensive information corresponding to a currently-displayed character, wherein the decoding-intensive information is decoded and displayed only after a predetermined time interval from the a key input elapses without another key input.