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Portable terminal

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Inventors: Nakano, Hideo;
Assignee: Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc. (Tokyo, JP)
Primary Examiner: Bella; Matthew C.
Assistant Examiner: Tran; Tam
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Jacobson Holman PLLC

The present invention was made to solve the problem that users cannot check e-mail containing an attached image at a glance on conventional portable terminals. According to the present invention, there is provided a portable terminal that can display the e-mail text overlapped upon the attached image in an easy-to-see manner, and hence improve its usability as a mail receiving terminal. An image processing/output means converts the attached image data into image data of a size corresponding to that of the display area, and processes the attached image data to correct either of the brightness and contrast thereof. Further, a character setting/output means sets display color of the mail text according to the chromaticity of the image data so that the mail text will be overlapped upon and displayed with the set display color against the background of the processed image.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a portable terminal that can display an e-mail text by overlapping the same upon an attached image, and hence improve its usability as an e-mail receiving terminal.
According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a portable terminal including: a receiver for receiving image data and character data transmitted in association with each other; an input unit for inputting instructions; a control unit for generating display data from the image data and the character data; and a display unit for displaying the display data.
The portable terminal features that the control unit generates the display data in such a manner that the associated character data are overlapped upon and displayed against the image data as the background.
This makes it possible to display the received image and character data on one screen in an easy-to-see manner, and hence improve its usability.
According to another aspect of the present invention, the above-mentioned portable terminal is such that the character data represent an e-mail text and the image data represent an image attached to the e-mail.
This makes it possible to display the character data of the e-mail with the image data attached thereto together with the image data on one screen in an easy-to-see manner, and hence improve its usability.
According to still another aspect of the present invention, the above-mentioned portable terminal is such that the control unit converts the received image data into image data of a size corresponding to the display area of the display unit to generate the display data.
Therefore, even if the display area is smaller than the size of the received image data, the received image and character data can be displayed on one screen in an easy-to-see manner, thus improving its usability.
According to yet another aspect of the present invention, the above-mentioned portable terminal is such that the control unit processes the received image data to correct either or both of the brightness and contrast thereof to generate the display

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