US 7,515,705 B2
Folding type portable terminal
Kana Segawa, Ome (Japan); Yoichi Nagashima, Hachioji (Japan); and Tsutomu Arai, Hino (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 28, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/92,160.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-021837 (JP), filed on Jan. 28, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0183512 A1, Aug. 17, 2006
Int. Cl. H04M 1/00 (2006.01); H04M 9/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 379—428.01  [379/433.13; 455/556.1; 455/575.3] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable telephone terminal which pivotally connects a first housing via a connection mechanism to a second housing having a display, comprising:
a control unit which detects states of the portable terminal, wherein the states include a first state in which the first and second housings overlap each other with the display facing inside, a second state in which the first and second housings overlap each other with the display facing outside, and a third state in which the display is exposed in an intermediate state between the first state and the second state;
a first display control unit configured to automatically actively display video signals which are one of: (i) received by a television receiver embedded in the terminal, and (ii) read out from a memory unit of the terminal, in a full-screen display area of the display when the control unit detects the second state; and
a second display control unit configured to automatically actively display video signals which are one of: (i) received by the television receiver embedded in the terminal, and (ii) read out from the memory unit of the terminal, in a limited first partial-screen display area of the display when the control unit detects the third state.