Patent ID: 7699542

Claim:
A portable information terminal with a camera, comprising: a body provided with an aperture for photography; a transparent plate configured and mounted in the body so as to cover the aperture for photography; a photographing optical system unit comprising a photographing optical system placed opposite to the transparent plate in the body and including plural lenses mounted to a lens frame, and a solid-state image sensor located at an image plane of the photographing optical system; and a blade driving unit comprising a base plate located between the transparent plate and the photographing optical system unit in the body and having an aperture for regulating an optical path of photographing light, at least one blade member being reciprocatably mounted on the base plate and being movable on and out of the aperture for regulating the optical path, and an actuator mounted adjacent to the lens frame on a photographing-optical-system-side surface of the base plate to drive the blade member.