Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Masanori Honda

Xiaobing Li

Kiyoshi Suzuki

Yoshiteru Matsushita

Takayuki Hayashi

Minoru Takemoto

Hiroki Ishii

A flexible LCD () is a flexible display. The flexible LCD () is pulled out from an upper cabinet to change a display area of the flexible LCD (). An amount-of-sliding detecting section () measures the pullout amount (amount of sliding) of the flexible LCD () when the flexible LCD () is pulled out from a mobile terminal unit () or is retracted into the mobile terminal unit (). A display controller () causes the flexible LCD () to display in a manner responsive to the amount of sliding that is measured by the amount-of-sliding detecting section (). The foregoing makes it possible to utilize effectively the display having a display area that is revealed when the display is pulled out.

Mobile terminal unit, display method, display program, and recording medium

There is provided a portable communication terminal capable of switching between icon display and non-display. Processes executed by a control unit of a portable phone which is an aspect of the portable communication terminal comprises the steps of detecting, during the execution of an icon-bar displaying process, a press of an operation key, terminating outputting icon data if the operation key is associated with the icon-bar non-display function and if there is already no icon bar being displayed, detecting a press of the operation key, and executing the icon-bar displaying process if the operation key is associated with the icon-bar display function and if there is no icon bar being displayed.

Portable communication terminal

A cellular phone having a plurality of cameras and being able to switch display of a picture without interrupting display for the camera is provided. Processes executed by a control unit of the cellular phone include the steps of measuring a holddown time when holddown of a button is detected; sending the video signal sent from the camera corresponding to a numeric button to a main monitor when a first function button is held down for a holddown time shorter than a predetermined time and the numeric button is held down; and sending the video signal sent from the camera set as a next source to the main monitor when the numeric button is not held down. The processes further includes the step of sending the video signal sent from a main camera to main monitor when the holddown time is longer than the predetermined time.

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Higashihiroshima, Japan

Masanori Honda