Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Takayuki Mohri

Kei Okuda

Akihiko Uchiyama

A portable terminal device includes: an operation partincluding operation keysthat are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix form; an image enlarging partthat, in a state where a plurality of enlargement target areasare preliminarily set as partial areas of an image, generates an enlarged image by, on the basis of an operation of any of the operation keys, enlarging an image within an enlargement target areapreliminarily related to the operation key; a display image generating partthat generates a display image including the image in a normal or an enlargement browsing mode generates a display image including the enlarged image; and a display partthat displays the display image. The respective enlargement target areasrespectively correspond in an arrangement order to the operation keys, and form overlap areas with their adjacent enlargement target areas.

Portable terminal device

It is an object to provide a digital TV broadcast system and a cellular phone in which content of a data broadcast can be checked with a small display area, and work for checking desired content in detail is easy. Extracted character strings extracted from content data are provided in a picto display areain a horizontally long display state as a marquee display. In the case where a display screen is switched to a vertically long display state during the display of the extracted character strings, a cursoris placed on a character string corresponding to an extracted character string displayed in the horizontally long display state upon the switching, among character strings displayed in a data broadcast display area. Based on this, a user can well check the content of the data broadcast by checking the extracted character strings provided as the marquee display, and also because the character string corresponding to the extracted character string displayed in the horizontally long display state is automatically selected by the switching to the vertically long display state, the work for checking desired content in detail is easy.

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Osaka, Japan

Takayuki Mohri