Patent ID: 7409059

Claim:
A portable terminal unit comprising: a first housing and a second housing, said first housing and said second housing overlapping each other; a coupling section which couples said first housing and second housing to each other at their end portions so that said first and second housings are relatively rotatable around a shaft which passes through said first and second housings; an operation section provided on a second housing surface, which faces said first housing; a display section provided on a surface of a first side of said first housing, said surface being opposite to a second side of said first housing, said second side facing said second housing; and a control section which controls said display section, wherein said portable terminal unit is in a closed state when said first housing and said second housing are overlapped and said portable terminal unit is in an opened state when said operation section is exposed to outside by clockwise or counterclockwise rotation of said first housing from the closed state, and said control section controls to display a first screen on said display section when said first housing is rotated in relation to said second housing clockwise from the closed state, and controls to display a second screen on said display section when said first housing is rotated in relation to said second housing counterclockwise from the closed state.