Patent ID: 7106357

Claim:
A portable information terminal device having a camera feature and comprising: a case provided with a first optical system and an image pickup element which receives light from an object point focused by said first optical system and outputs a corresponding image signal; and a lid member of the device provided at a predetermined position with a second optical system different from said first optical system, wherein said lid member is linked to said case so as to make itself displaceable relative to said case between predetermined positions including a position for causing an optical axis of said first optical system and that of said second optical system to substantially agree with each other; and optical parameters of a synthetic optical system obtained by combining said first optical system and said second optical system at a position for causing the optical axis of said first optical system and that of said second optical system to substantially agree with each other as reached by displacing said case and said lid member relative to each other is different from those of said first optical system.