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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2002
Hiroyuki Miyake, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Miyake, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Hitherto, in the cellular phone equipped with an imaging device in which the cellular phone and the imaging device are integrally accommodated, for the purpose of taking a picture while visually recognizing a photographing screen on a monitor, a camera of the imaging device faces in opposite direction of the monitor. Therefore, to take a picture of a user while watching on the screen a person to whom the user is speaking, it is necessary to change the direction of the imaging device every time. In a cellular phone equipped with an imaging deviceaccording to the invention, on the front sideprovided with a monitorof a housingof the cellular phone, a lensof the imaging device is disposed facing outwardly. Further, a viewfinderis provided facing in the same direction as that of the lens