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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2002
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A portable telephone has a connecting portion as well as a first housing portion and a second housing portion which are connected by the connecting portion in such a manner as to be capable of being folded. An external video camera unit is inserted in a camera-unit attaching portion . Various video camera units having different specifications, such as a color video camera unit, a monochromatic video camera unit, a wide-angle video camera unit, and a tele video camera unit, can be attached to or detached from the camera-unit attaching portion . The portable information communication terminal is capable of identifying the specifications of the attached video camera unit and of switching over its internal operation in accordance with the specifications.