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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2007
Yuko Nakajima, Kawasaki, JP;
Yoshiaki Kikuchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Tohru Ida, Kawasaki, JP;
Manabu Nanba, Kawasaki, JP;
Kenetsu Furuki, Kawasaki, JP;
Hironobu Taniguchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuko Nakajima, Kawasaki, JP;
Yoshiaki Kikuchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Tohru Ida, Kawasaki, JP;
Manabu Nanba, Kawasaki, JP;
Kenetsu Furuki, Kawasaki, JP;
Hironobu Taniguchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an electronic apparatus having a displaying function in a housing unit thereof that is rotatable or can be opened/closed, and facilitates effective use of the displaying capacity in the lateral direction that the horizontally oriented screen elongated in the horizontal direction has. An electronic apparatus (a portable terminal apparatus) having a displaying function in a housing unit thereof that can be opened/closed or is rotatable, including a displaying unitthat displays a vertically oriented screen or a horizontally oriented screen, and a controlling unit (a CPU) that, when text information or information including a text is displayed in the displaying unit, sets a displaying column (a text displaying column) in the full lateral width that the horizontally oriented screen has and can be displayed, in the horizontally oriented screenset on the displaying unit, and causes the information to be displayed in the displaying column.