Patent ID: 7369907
Filing Date: 2008-05-06
Classification: G06F,H04N,H04R

Abstract:
1. A portable information processing device, comprising: a body part; an image pickup unit which is rotatably supported on the body part; a display part supported so that it can open/close and rotate on the body part; at least one pair of stereo microphones provided on the display part; a detection unit configured to detect a rotating state of the image pickup unit with respect to the body part; a control unit configured to allocate a first channel signal and a second channel signal of an audio signal outputted from the at least one pair of stereo microphones to a right channel signal and a left channel signal and for switching the allocation of the channel signals on the basis of the result of the detection by the detection unit; a recording unit configured to record the audio signal allocated by the control unit; and a pair of stereo speakers provided on the body part, wherein the control unit is configured to allocate a right channel signal and a left channel signal of a reproduced audio signal output to the stereo speakers on the basis of the result of the detection by the detection unit, wherein the control unit causes a picked-up image signal from the image pickup unit to be vertically and horizontally inverted on the basis of the result of the detection by the detection unit, and causes the vertically and horizontally inverted picked-up image signal to be recorded to the recording unit, when the display part is at the closing position and inverted with respect to the body part, and a camera unit is rotated in the same direction of the display screen of the inverted display part, and wherein the control unit is configured to allocate the right channel of audio signal to a left side speaker and the left channel of audio signal to a right side speaker on the basis that the display part is inverted with respect to the body part whether the camera unit is rotated or not, and whether the display part is at the opening position or not.