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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2005
Fumihiro Muramatsu, Shizuoka, JP;
Kohichi Kunitomo, Kanagawa, JP;
Fumihiro Muramatsu, Shizuoka, JP;
Kohichi Kunitomo, Kanagawa, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a portable terminal enabled to eliminate complexity caused when the placement of a display portion is changed by a user to view a picture. A portable terminalis configured to be able to cause a control portionto select a picture display mode in which a picture display is started in a display portion, when a configuration is changed by turning a lower casingand an upper casingaround a first support shaftto an intersecting configuration, in which the lower casingand the upper casingintersect with each other, from one of a spread configuration, in which an operating portionand the display portionare arranged substantially in the same direction by performing a relative turn of the lower casingand the upper casingaround a second support shaft, and a standby configuration in which the operating portionand the rear surfaceof the upper casingare faced to each other by performing a relative turn of the lower casingand the upper casingfrom the spread configuration around the first support shaftin a direction of an arrow.