Mobile terminal device with camera

• US 20040228075A1
• Filed: 02/23/2004
• Published: 11/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Takahashi, Shin, Moriguchi, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US10/785,291
• Publication Number:
  US 20040228075A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/680
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1622 with enclosures rotating around an axis perpendicular to the plane they define or with ball-joint coupling, e.g. PDA with display enclosure orientation changeable between portrait and landscape by rotation with respect to a coplanar body enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1677 for detecting open or closed state or particular intermediate positions assumed by movable parts of the enclosure, e.g. detection of display lid position with respect to main body in a laptop, detection of opening of the cover of battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1679 for locking or maintaining the movable parts of the enclosure in a fixed position, e.g. latching mechanism at the edge of the display in a laptop or for the screen protective cover of a PDA G06F1/1681 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1681 Details related solely to hinges hinge details related to the transmission of signals or power are classified in G06F1/1683
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1683 for the transmission of signal or power between the different housings, e.g. details of wired or wireless communication, passage of cabling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1686 the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0229 The hinge comprising input and/or output user interface means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0233 Including a rotatable display body part
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0264 for a camera module assembly

Abstract

A mobile phone device with a camera comprises a connecting section which connects a first casing and a second casing and a camera module which is disposed in the connecting section such that the optical axis should be along the axial line C. By doing this, it is possible to realize easy operability for taking pictures by the mobile terminal device having a camera module and obtain a sufficient length for the optical axis in the camera module.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal device with a camera comprising:

two casings which are overlapped on each other;

connecting section for connecting said two casings so that said two casings rotate around an axial line in parallel with a direction in which said two casings are overlapped; and

a camera module disposed inside of said connecting section with an optical axis of said camera module in parallel with said axial line.

2. A mobile terminal device with a camera according to claim 1 further comprising a display section which displays an image which is taken by said camera module, wherein said display section is disposed so as to be orthogonal substantially to said axial line of either one of said two casings.

3. A mobile terminal device with a camera according to claim 2 further comprising a sensor which measures a relative angle made by one of said two casings on which said camera module is disposed and the other of said two casings on which said display section is disposed, wherein an image which is taken by said camera module is displayed on said display section in a rotated manner according to the measurement result by said sensor.

4. A mobile terminal device with a camera according to claim 2 wherein said cameral module is fixed to said casing in which said display section is disposed.

5. A mobile terminal device with a camera according to claim 3, wherein an image which is taken by said camera module is rotated by 90 degrees with no change to the aspect ratio of said image and then is displayed on said display section when the measurement result is that said relative angle is 90 degrees.

6. A mobile terminal device with a camera according to claim 1, wherein said mobile terminal device with a camera is a portable telephone.

7. A mobile terminal device with a camera, comprising:

two casings which can be overlapped on each other;

a connecting section for connecting said two casings so that said two casings rotate around an axial line in parallel with a direction in which said two casings are overlapped, wherein said connecting section has a fixed base member which is fixed on one of said two casings and a movable base member which is fixed on the other of said two casings and is fit in the peripheral surface of said fixed base member rotatably around said axial line;

a hollow space provided in said fixed base member, and

a camera module disposed inside of said hollow space, with an optical axis in parallel with said axial line.

8. A mobile terminal device with a camera according to claim 7, further comprising:

a fixed cylinder as part of said camera module, which acts as a casing for said camera module;

a cam cylinder as part of said camera module, which is fit in the peripheral surface of said fixed cylinder movably along said axial line;

a linear groove provided on the peripheral wall of said fixed cylinder in parallel with said axial line;

a cam groove provided on the peripheral wall of said cam cylinder in parallel with said axial line; and

a pin provided with a lens on the tip thereof, which penetrates said linear groove to connect with said cam groove movably along said axial line.

9. A mobile terminal device with a camera according to claim 7, wherein said mobile terminal device with a camera is a portable telephone.