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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2006
Junichiro Shibata, Tokyo, JP;
Shuuji Yamaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Junichiro Shibata, Tokyo, JP;
Shuuji Yamaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
This portable terminal comprises a main unit having a microphone, a key operation unit, and a radio sending/receiving function of image and sound, a rotation axial unit having a video camera and an operation dial, an image display unit with a touch panel capable of displaying an image taken by the video camera, a received image and a screen for input operation, and a flip unit having the image display unit, a CCD camera, a speaker and an operation button. The rotation axial unit further includes an opening/shutting axis for connecting the main unit and the flip unit in a mutually rotatable way and a rotation axis for connecting the flip unit in a way of rotating the flip unit across the above rotation in the horizontal direction, and when the flip unit is opened and rotated across, it is used as a video camera with a monitor.