Patent ID: 8174628
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: G02F,G06F,G09G,H04M

Abstract:
1. A mobile terminal unit with a pullout display that is to be pulled out from a body of the mobile terminal unit, the mobile terminal unit comprising: an amount-of-pullout detector configured to detect a pullout amount of the pullout display in relation to the body of the mobile terminal unit, pullout amount being detectable at a plurality of pullout display positions between and including fully retracted and fully extended; a display controller configured to cause the pullout display to show changeable information in a proportion based on the pullout amount detected by the amount-of-pullout detector, and to adjust the proportion of the shown information upon a detected change in the pullout amount; and a touched-section detector configured to detect a section of the pullout display touched by a user, the touched-section detector being provided on a front surface of the pullout display and rigidly mounted on the body of the mobile terminal unit.