PURPOSE: To protect internally stored information by an easy method by assuming that the electronic equipment is stolen or lost so as to manage individual secret information for money payment/reception and lodgment management, etc.

CONSTITUTION: This electronic equipment is equipped with a recognition data memory 18 which stores basic data for deciding what characters are, a character recognizing means 19 which recognizes inputted characters, a user attribution memory 20 which stores the trace of characters that a user has inputted 10 times in the past, character by character, and stores the difference between their means and the standard characters stored in the recognition data memory 18, a learning means 21 which stores the characters that the user inputs in the user attribution memory 20, and a composing means 22 which corrects the basic data stored in the recognition data memory 18 with the difference stored in the user attribution memory 20, makes a recognition area a little smaller than a standard area, and sends it to the character recognizing means 19, and a control means 23.