Patent ID: 7373186
Filing Date: 2008-05-13
Classification: G06F,H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A portable information device provided with an image capturing function comprising: a first housing including at least a display unit; a second housing including at least a control unit and an image capturing unit, the first housing and the second housing being connected so as to be capable of taking a closed state in which the first housing and the second housing are placed one on another, and an opened state in which the surfaces of the both housings facing each other are exposed from the closed state toward the outside, and the first housing being maintained at a slanted position at a predetermined angle with respect to the second housing when being opened, a portable information device provided with an image capturing function, wherein first housing and the second housing is foldably connected via a connecting unit, the portable information device further comprising an image capturing direction control unit for varying the image capturing direction of the image capturing unit by interlocking the image capturing direction with a folding angle formed between the first housing and the second housing, wherein the image capturing direction of the image capturing unit directs substantially perpendicularly to a display surface of the display unit when both the housings are opened.