Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Hiroyasu Hamamura

Yoshitaka Suzuki

Toshio Nomura

Tadashi Uchiumi

Norio Ito

Tamaki Nakamura

Masaaki Sasa

Yoshio Umeda

Seiji Hamaguchi

An objective of the present invention is to provide a portable information terminal device capable of reducing excessive time and labor required in an authentication process. A sub-camera is started on the basis of operation to select 'secret mode' by a user (FIG.()) and brought into a photographable state after completion of an initialization process, which is followed by automatically performing an authentication process (FIG.()). Therefore, it is possible to prevent troublesome photographing operation by waiting for a time course from the start of the sub-camera to reaching a photographable state, allowing reduction of excessive time and labor required in an authentication process. Moreover, a time lag generated in a period from user confirmation of a photographable state after starting the sub-camera to performing photographing operation can be reduced, where the authentication process can be carried out in a shorter period of time after starting the sub-camera, so that an amount of time required in the authentication process can be shortened.

Portable information terminal device

A plurality of operation portions are arranged at a surface on a sub-display side of a cellular phone with a camera so that various kinds of setting, selection and control can be performed without opening the cellular phone in its folded state, and the cellular phone can achieve improved operability and convenience. Cellular phone includes a first display portion at a surface of a first body opposed to a second body in the folded state, and includes a second display portion, an image taking portion and a plurality of operation portions arranged at a rear surface of the first body remote from the first display portion.

Cellular phone

Folding cellular phone with a camera and television mode

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Higashihiroshima, Japan

Hiroyasu Hamamura