| US 7,557,851 B2 | ||
| Portable terminal equipment | ||
| Masahiro Ohashi, Kasuya-Gun (Japan); and Maiko Taruki, Kitakyushu (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jan. 13, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/33,831. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-011361 (JP), filed on Jan. 20, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0157195 A1, Jul. 21, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04N 5/222 (2006.01); H04M 1/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 348—333.06 [348/373; 348/375; 348/376; 455/550.1] | 5 Claims |
| 1. Portable terminal equipment comprising:
an upper chassis including a first obverse side and a first reverse side;
a lower chassis including a second obverse side and a second reverse side;
a connector arranged between said upper chassis and said lower chassis, said connector being operable to collapsibly interconnect
said upper chassis and said lower chassis so as to allow the first obverse side to cover the second obverse side when said
upper chassis and said lower chassis are in a folded up position;
a first display provided on the first obverse side;
a camera holder arranged so as to be extensible outward and retractable inward with respect to an end face of one of said
upper chassis and said lower chassis; and
a camera disposed on said camera holder in a relationship coextensive with the first obverse side,
wherein said camera is arranged so as to be exposed to one of the first obverse side and the second obverse side when said
camera holder is in a retracted position,
wherein said camera is arranged such that a surface of said camera is covered by one of said upper chassis and said lower
chassis when said camera holder is in the retracted position and said upper chassis and said lower chassis are in the folded
up position, and
wherein images taken by said camera are displayed on said first display while said upper chassis and said lower chassis remain
in an opened up position.
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