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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 18, 1998
Takeshi Tomimori, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A telephone capable of facilitating identification of a party by intuition and improving operability by providing a portrait representative of an image of the party. The telephone includes a portrait montage portion for combining portrait elements into a composite portrait associated with a called party; a recording portion for recording in a memory table the composite portrait in conjunction with its name and telephone number; a selectively read portion for selectively reading from the memory table the composite portrait, name and telephone number; a display unit for displaying, when forming the composite portrait by the portrait image montage portion, the portrait elements and a composite portrait generated by combining them, and for displaying the composite portrait, its name and telephone number, which are read by the selectively read portion; and an automatic dialing portion for dialing the telephone number which is read by the selectively read portion and displayed on the display unit.