Portable telephone apparatus

• US 20040242263A1
• Filed: 05/26/2004
• Published: 12/02/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation), Tottori Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation), Tottori Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishimoto, Yukio, Kanzaki, Eiji
• Application Number:
  US10/495,745
• Publication Number:
  US 20040242263A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/550.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera

Abstract

A portable telephone comprising a CCD camera (8) for photographing an object, a sub-LCD (9), a memory (not shown) for storing information required for photographing, and a control means (not shown) for controlling the sub-LCD (9) to display the information required for photographing when the CCD camera (8) photographs the object, wherein the CCD camera (8) and the sub-LCD (9) are arranged on the same side of the case (1) so that display of the sub-LCD (9) can be confirmed visually from the photographing range of the CCD camera (8) even under a state where the case (1) and a case (2) are folded by 90°.

Claims

1. A portable telephone apparatus comprising a camera for shooting a subject, a display, a memory for storing information necessary for shooting, and a controller for making the information necessary for shooting displayed on the display when the camera shoots the subject,

wherein the information necessary for shooting displayed on the display can be visually recognized from within a shooting range of the camera.

2. A portable telephone apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the display has a first display portion for displaying an image of the subject and a second display portion, provided on a back face of the first display portion, for displaying the information necessary for shooting.

3. A portable telephone apparatus as claimed in claim 2,

wherein what is displayed on the second display portion is displayed also on the first display portion.

4. A portable telephone apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a shutter button and detector for detecting a first pressed position and a second pressed position of the shutter button,

wherein, when the detector detects the first pressed position, the controller makes the display display the information necessary for shooting, and, when the detector detects the second pressed position, the camera shoots the subject.

5. A portable telephone apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the information necessary for shooting is a message to the subject.

6. A portable telephone apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the information necessary for shooting is a remaining time of a self-timer.

7. A portable telephone apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the information necessary for shooting is a focus condition of the camera.

8. A portable telephone apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the portable telephone apparatus is a portable telephone apparatus of a foldable design which is provided with a camera and which has two casings that can be folded together, and an image capture portion of the camera and the display are provided on a same face of a same one of the casings.