Mobile communications
First Claim
1. A mobile telephone handset including a body portion and a housing rotatable with respect to the body portion, wherein the housing includes a camera for image capture, and the handset includes an image inversion function enabling, in the case of rotation of the housing with respect to the body portion, inversion of an image produced by the camera.
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Abstract
A mobile videophone capable of transmitting and receiving information in mobile telecommunications systems, particularly cellular radio networks, is disclosed. The videophone includes a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being rotatable with respect to the first portion, the second portion including a camera for image capture, the camera including a lens, the second portion being rotatable with respect to the first portion from a first position in which the camera lens is protected by said first portion, to a second position in which the first portion does not protect the camera lens
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25 Claims
- 1. A mobile telephone handset including a body portion and a housing rotatable with respect to the body portion, wherein the housing includes a camera for image capture, and the handset includes an image inversion function enabling, in the case of rotation of the housing with respect to the body portion, inversion of an image produced by the camera.
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18. A method of controlling image capture on a mobile telephone handset, wherein the handset includes a body portion and a rotatable housing, wherein the housing includes a camera for image capture, the method comprising:
rotating the housing with respect to the body portion, and at least in dependence on the rotation, performing an image inversion process in which an image produced by the camera is inverted. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A mobile telephone handset comprising a body portion and a rotatable housing, the body portion including a microphone and the housing including a camera for image capture,
wherein the housing has a substantially cylindrical shape with a cylindrical side, wherein the housing is mounted to the body portion such that the cylindrical side surrounds an axis about which the housing is rotatable, and wherein the camera comprises a lens built into the cylindrical side of the housing, wherein the body portion has a lower end and an upper end, the housing being mounted at the upper end of the body portion and the microphone being mounted at the lower end of the body portion, and wherein the handset includes an image inversion flnction enabling, in the case of rotation of the housing with respect to the body portion, inversion of an image produced by the camera.
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