Patent ID: 7948554

Claim:
A mobile phone equipped with a camera, comprising: a first rotation axis unit that supports a lid and a main body pivotally; an image taking device whose optical axis has the same orientation as the rotation axis of the first rotation axis unit, and which is provided fixedly inside the first rotation axis unit; a display panel, provided on the lid, for displaying an image taken by the image taking device; a second rotation axis unit that supports the lid pivotally with respect to the main body about an axis perpendicular to the axis of the first rotation axis unit; an angle measuring device that measures a rotation angle of the first rotation axis unit; and a display control circuit that is operable to rotate the image taken by the image taking device according to the rotation angle measured by the angle measuring device and displays the image taken by the image taking device in the display panel in such a manner that an up-and-down direction of an object in the image displayed in the display panel coincides with an actual up-and-down direction of the object at a time when a direction perpendicular to a surface of the display panel is the same as a direction of the optical axis, wherein a reference attitude is set as an attitude at which the direction perpendicular to the surface of the display panel and the direction of the optical axis become the same direction, by rotation of the lid substantially ninety degrees about the rotation axis of the first rotation axis unit and substantially ninety degrees about the rotation axis of the second rotation axis unit relative to the main body, and wherein the display control circuit causes the image taken by the image taking device to be displayed as-is on the display panel when in the reference attitude, and rotates the image taken by the image taking device and displays the rotated image on the display panel when not in the reference attitude.