Portable terminal apparatus and an information processing method therefor

A portable terminal apparatus equipped with an information processing means for processing information such as image information, comprising:

• information input means for inputting map information of destination, either information about a content of a contract, or personal information into said information processing means;
• information storage means for storing the information input from said information input means;
• information reading means for reading said map information from said information storage means;
• display means for displaying a map, and one or more destinations to be visited, based on the map information;
• designation means for designating a visiting order of the destination;
• display sequence determining means for determining a display sequence of the destination based on a designated visiting order,
• wherein said information display means displays a destination to be visited next as distinguished from other destinations based on the designated visiting order, and
• wherein said information display means displays only destinations not visited and removes destinations already visited from the display means.

A portable terminal apparatus equipped with an information processing means for processing information such as image information, comprising:

• information input means for inputting map information of destination, either information about a content of a contract, or personal information into said information processing means;
• information storage means for reading said map information from said information storage means;
• display means for displaying a map and one or more destinations to be visited based on the map information;
• designation means for designating a visiting order of the destination;
• display sequence determining means for determining a display sequence of the destination based on a designated visiting order,
• wherein said input means provides an instruction regarding one or more destinations to be visited by touching the display means, and said designation means sets the order of destinations to be visited according to the instruction, and
• wherein said information display means displays only destinations not visited and removes destinations already visited from the display means.

In a portable terminal apparatus having information processing means for processing such information as image information, an information processing method, comprising:

• an information input step for inputting map information of destination into said information input step;
• an information storing step for storing the input information;
• an information displaying step for displaying a map and a destination on a display based on the input information;
• a designation step for designating a visiting order of the destination selected from the information input means;
• and
• a display sequence determining step for determining a display sequence on the basis of a designated visiting order,
• wherein said information displaying step displays a destination to be visited next as distinguished from other destinations based on the designated visiting order and displays only destinations not visited and removes destinations already visited.

A portable terminal comprising:

• a display unit;
• a processing unit;
• and
• a memory containing map image data used for displaying a map on the memory display unit, and destination information, the destination information at least containing a personal information of a destination and a position information which shows a position of the destination on the map,
• wherein the processing unit designates a visiting order of designations and stores a visiting order information corresponding to the destination into the memory, such that when one of the destinations is visited, the processing unit retrieves from the memory a destination to be visited next based on the visiting order information, and displays the destination to be visited next onto the display unit as distinguished from the other destinations, displays only destinations not visited and removes destinations already visited.

A portable terminal unit, comprising:

• a display unit;
• a processing unit;
• a first memory for storing map image data used for displaying a map on the display unit;
• and
• a second memory for storing a customer file, the customer file containing information for identifying each customer, position information indicating a position of the customer on the map to be displayed on the display unit, and contract condition information indicating if each customer made a contract or not,
• wherein the processing unit rewrites the contract condition information when a contract is made by the customer,
• wherein when one of the customer makes a contract, the processing unit retrieves another customer that has not made a contract yet from the second memory,
• wherein the processing unit displays the customer retrieved from the second memory on the display unit, and
• wherein the processing unit eliminates the customer which made the contract from the display unit.