Patent ID: 7295240

Claim:
An electronic apparatus comprising: photographing means for photographing an object; display means for displaying an image obtained by said photographing means and an external image received from the outside; movement means for rotatably connecting, via a hinge, said display means to a housing body to which said photographing means is provided fixedly, so that said display means can rotate in a plurality of directions; sound output means including a loudspeaker provided on a surface of said housing body on which said photographing means is also arranged, for outputting, to the direction of the object, an external sound received from the outside; and control means for, when said external image and said external sound are being received, switching said image and said external image to be displayed on said display means in accordance with a positional relationship between said photographing means fixedly held by said housing body and said display means rotated by said movement means, and continuing outputting said external sound from said sound output means regardless of switching between said image and said external image.