Patent ID: 7705903

Claim:
A mobile communication terminal having a photography function, comprising: a housing unit that is composed of a top housing and a bottom housing that are connected via a connection unit such that the housing unit is able to open and close; a first display that is positioned on an outer surface of one of the top housing and the bottom housing and is visible when the housing unit is in a closed state; a camera unit for taking an image of a subject through a camera lens that is positioned on one of the outer surface and an inner surface of one of the top housing and the bottom housing; a display instruction monitoring unit operable to monitor input of an instruction to display the image of the subject taken by the camera unit on the first display; a judgment unit operable to judge whether the housing unit is in an open state or a closed state; and a display control unit operable to, when the judgment unit judges that the housing unit is in the closed state and when the display instruction monitoring unit detects input of at least the instruction, have non-image-taking information, which is an image unrelated to the image of the subject taken by the camera unit, displayed on the first display in a predetermined display direction, and when the judgment unit judges that the housing unit is in the open state and the display instruction monitoring unit detects input of at least the instruction, have the taken image displayed on the first display in an opposite direction to the predetermined display direction.