Patent ID: 8194138

Claim:
A portable electronic device, comprising: a display having least one outer frame and an exposed display panel, the display having a viewing direction; and a camera module located at a horizontal lateral side edge of the display, comprising: at least one transparent window, being configured on the outer frame of the display; an optical element, being configured in the outer frame of the display at the horizontal lateral side edge thereof and corresponding to the transparent window; a single lens assembly comprising an optical zoom lens set, configured at one side of the optical element, the optical zoom lens set comprising a plurality of lenses disposed along the horizontal lateral side edge of the display, the lenses moving along a focusing direction to modify the focal length, wherein the focusing direction is substantially perpendicular to the viewing direction so that the optical zoom lens set operates without interfering with the display panel; a rotation motor located along the horizontal lateral edge of the display at an opposite side to the single lens assembly with the optical element connected in between thereof; and an image sensing element, configured in the outer frame of the display at the horizontal lateral side edge thereof and at one side of the optical zoom lens set; wherein the light passes through the transparent window, by the optical element guided to the optical zoom lens set, passing through the lenses, and finally focuses on the image sensing element; wherein the display comprises a first surface and a second surface facing different directions, and the transparent window comprises a first window and a second window configured on the first surface and the second surface respectively; and wherein the optical element is a vertical angle prism with a light entrance surface, and the vertical angle prism is rotatable by the rotation motor so that the light entrance surface is parallel to the first window or the second window.