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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hitoshi Hagimori, Ikoma, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 1/522 ; G03B 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 1/522 ; G03B 1/700 ;
Abstract
A portable telephone is provided with a body and a camera unit . In the camera unit , photography is switched to macro photography by pressing a macro button on the body . In this way, the convenience of the portable telephone is improved because an object in the very near distance can be photographed. The camera unit is constructed so as to be freely rotatable in a direction Rc on a shaft of a connector C. Accordingly, a user can freely modify the photography direction of the camera unit , thereby increasing the freedom of photography and providing greater improvement in the convenience of the portable terminal.