Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Kazuaki Nakae

Makoto Kato

Mitsuji Hama

Tadahiro Emoto

Nao Hirota

Toru Matsuo

Namika Haraguchi

A folding mobile communications terminal according to the present invention is a folding mobile communications terminal that has a photographing function and is openable/closable. This folding mobile communications terminal detects whether the folds are closed, and disables the photographing function if the folds are closed.

Collapsible cellular communication terminal having a camera having photographing control function and photographing control method in the terminal

A communication terminal stores items which compose a hierarchical menu. The communication terminal displays items of one hierarchy on a display, and then displays lower level items, which correspond to an item which has been selected from among the displayed items by a user operation, without a display instruction operation by the user.

Communication terminal and display method

A portable telephone of the present invention comprises manual keys, a power-on time memory portion for storing the power-on time being input by the manipulation of the key, a power-on time detection portion for detecting whether the time stored in the power-on time memory portion comes, a validation/invalidation memory portion for storing the validation/invalidation of the automatic power-on function set input by the key manipulation, a main control portion for turning on the power upon detecting the power-on time coming only when the validation of the automatic power-on function set is stored in the validation/invalidation memory portion . Accordingly, even if the user sets alarm for a plurality of times, the automatic power-on function can be cancelled by the simple manipulation, and the setting of the automatic power-on function can be returned to the original state by the simple manipulation.

Growing community of inventors

Higashiosaka, Japan

Kazuaki Nakae