Patent ID: 8279338

Claim:
An information communication terminal, comprising: a first housing having a display unit; a second housing having an operating unit; a hinge unit including an opening and closing shaft and a rotating shaft rotating around the opening and closing shaft with facing the radial direction of the opening and closing shaft; an imaging unit arranged at one end in the direction of the opening and closing shaft of the hinge unit, with at least the direction of the opening and closing shaft being a photography direction; and at least one photography operating unit for making the imaging unit operate, wherein the first housing is supported by the rotating shaft and combined with the second housing by the opening and closing shaft for being able to open and close, further, the first housing is rotatably supported by the rotating shaft, and the direction of the display unit for the operating unit of the second housing and the imaging unit is capable of changing, wherein the first housing is capable of being arranged in: (a) a first state in which the display unit faces in a direction opposite to the photographing direction of the imaging unit; (b) a second state in which the display unit faces in the photographing direction of the imaging unit; (c) a third state in which the direction of the rotating shaft of the first housing and a direction perpendicular to the direction of the opening and closing shaft of the second housing are neighbored, and the display unit and the operating unit face the same side; and (d) a fourth state in which a direction perpendicular to the direction of the rotating shaft of the first housing and the direction of the opening and closing shaft of the second housing are neighbored through the hinge unit, and the display unit and the operating unit face the same side, wherein, in the third state, the side in the direction of the rotating shaft of the first housing is arranged on or above the surface of the second housing on which the operating unit is arranged; and the rotating shaft is arranged at the end of the opening and closing shaft so that the entire operating unit can be operated when the side in the direction of the rotating shaft of the first housing is arranged on or above the surface of the second housing.