PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH ROTATABLE IMAGE-CAPTURING MODULE

• US 20090256955A1
• Filed: 03/17/2009
• Published: 10/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Inventors: KUO, Hung-Sheng, CHANG, Yi-Chieh
• Application Number:
  US12/405,815
• Publication Number:
  US 20090256955A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/376
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1686 the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1632 Pen holder integrated in the computer
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/021 using combined folding and rotation motions combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0264 for a camera module assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/20 including a rotatable camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/50 Constructional details

Abstract

A portable electric device with a rotatable image-capturing function includes a casing, a main circuit board and a touch pen. The main circuit board is disposed in the casing. The touch pen has a pen body and an image-capturing module disposed at one end of the pen body. The pen body is detachably coupled to casing. The image-capturing module and the main circuit board are electrically connected through the other end of the pen body.

Claims

1. A portable electronic device, comprising:

a casing;

a main circuit board disposed in the casing; and

a touch pen having a pen body and an image-capturing module disposed at one end of the pen body, wherein the pen body is detachably coupled to casing, and the image-capturing module and the main circuit board are electrically connected through the other end of the pen body.

2. The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the casing has an accommodating space, and a part of the touch pen is disposed in the accommodating space.

3. The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the main circuit board has a connector to connect with the pen body of the touch pen.

4. The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the pen body of the touch pen comprises a conductive material for electrically connecting the image-capturing module to the main circuit board.

5. The portable electronic device according to claim 4, wherein the conductive material is disposed on an inner surface or an outer surface of the pen body.

6. The portable electronic device according to claim 4, wherein the image-capturing module comprises a secondary circuit board electrically connected with the conductive material.

7. The portable electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the secondary circuit board is electrically connected with the pen body by welding or through a connector or a flexible circuit board.

8. The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the pen body of the touch pen is composed of a conductive material for electrically connecting the image-capturing module to the main circuit board.

9. The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the touch pen comprises a rotational axis, and the touch pen is capable of rotating with respective to the casing along the rotational axis.

10. The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the image-capturing module is exposed from the casing.