Patent ID: 7184086

Claim:
A camera comprising: (a) a columnar camera main body portion having a photographing lens; (b) a flexible display for displaying an image of an object to be photographed through the photographing lens, in which one end of the flexible display is attached to the camera main body portion, and which is adapted to be taken-up into the camera main body portion; (c) a first detector for detecting that the display taken-up into the camera main body portion is fed-out; (d) a second detector for detecting that the display is perfectly taken-up into the camera main body portion; and (e) a controller for taking-in a signal of the first detector and the second detector, and for driving the display, wherein when the display is not perfectly taken-up in a fixed period of time after a signal from the second detector is taken in and the taking-up is started, the controller stops the taking-up and puts the camera in a power saving mode.