Electronic apparatus
First Claim
1. An electronic apparatus comprising:
- photographing means for photographing an object;
display means for displaying an image obtained by said photographing means and an external image obtained from the outside;
movement means for moving at least one of said photographing means and said display means; and
display control means for, when said photographing means is obtaining an image and said external image is being received, switching images to be displayed on said display means, in accordance with the positional relationship between said photographing means and said display means.
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Abstract
Disclosed is an electronic apparatus wherein, when a video camera is employed as a TV telephone or a portable telephone is employed as a TV telephone and when the direction the display face of an LCD panel is directed (the display direction) is the opposite of that of a lens (the photographing direction), the image of an object photographed through the lens is displayed as the main picture on the LCD panel, and wherein, when the direction the display face of the LCD panel is directed (the display direction) is the same as that of the lens (the photographing direction), an image transmitted by a communication partner is displayed as the main picture on the LCD panel.
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33 Claims
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1. An electronic apparatus comprising:
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photographing means for photographing an object;
display means for displaying an image obtained by said photographing means and an external image obtained from the outside;
movement means for moving at least one of said photographing means and said display means; and
display control means for, when said photographing means is obtaining an image and said external image is being received, switching images to be displayed on said display means, in accordance with the positional relationship between said photographing means and said display means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An image pickup apparatus comprising:
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photographing means for photographing an object;
reception means for receiving an external image signal;
display means for displaying an image obtained by said photographing means and an image received by said reception means, and for changing the direction of the display, while pivoting, at the least, is included in part of an operation that is performed; and
display control means for, when said photographing means is obtaining an image and when said reception means is receiving said image, switching images to be displayed on said display means in accordance with the display direction of said display means. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A portable communication apparatus comprising:
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photographing means for photographing an object and for changing a photographing direction, while pivoting, at the least, is included in part of an operation that is performed;
transmission/reception means for exchanging a image signal and an audio signal with the outside;
display means for displaying an image obtained by said photographing means and an image received by said transmission/reception means; and
display control means for, when said photographing means is obtaining a photograph and said reception means is exchanging said image signal and said audio signal with the outside, switching images to be displayed on said display means in accordance with the photographing direction of said photographing means. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. An image display control method comprising:
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a photographing step of photographing an object by using an image pickup apparatus;
a reception step of receiving an external image signal;
a display step of displaying, on a display device, an image obtained at said photographing step and an external image that is received from the outside; and
a control step of, when photographing is being performed at said photographing step and said external image is being received at said reception step, switching images to be displayed at said display step in accordance with the positional relationship between the photographing direction of said image pickup apparatus and the display direction of said display device. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. An image display control program comprising:
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a photographing step of photographing an object using an image pickup apparatus;
a reception step of receiving an external image signal;
a display step of displaying, on a display device, an image obtained at said photographing step and an external image received from the outside; and
a control step of, when photographing is being performed at said photographing step and said external image is being received at said reception step, switching images to be displayed at said display step, in accordance with the positional relationship between the photographing direction of said image pickup apparatus and the display direction of said display device. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33)
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Specification