A mobile phone 10 in accordance with the present invention includes a
host
CPU 11, a display engine 12 and a liquid crystal display device 13.
Also, the display engine 12 is equipped with a host interface 14,
a command interrupt logic circuit 15, a data processing section 16 and
a liquid crystal drive apparatus 17. Upon reception of video images or the
like, the host CPU 11 is connected to the data processing section 16,
and upon completion of reception of video images, the host CPU 11 is connected
to the liquid crystal drive apparatus 17 such that higher level functions
can be added while maintaining the conventional host interface.
