Mobile imaging

• US 20020061767A1
• Filed: 11/09/2001
• Published: 05/23/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Arnold, Stephen J., Sladen, Peter
• Application Number:
  US09/986,576
• Publication Number:
  US 20020061767A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/556.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0202 Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. of speakers or microphones H04M1/03
• 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 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/55 Optical parts specially adapted for electronic image sensors; Mounting thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/58 Means for changing the camera field of view without moving the camera body, e.g. nutating or panning of optics or image sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display

Abstract

This invention provided a mobile phone having a camera module (262) which is provided with a mirror (2020) that is pivotally or slidably mounted in relation to the camera so that flipping or sliding of the mirror relative to the camera (202) provides a range of images to the camera. Movement of the camera to take a plurality of images is thus unnecessary.

Claims

1. A portable radio communication device including a camera and having reflection means associated therewith, the reflection means being mounted with respect to the camera such that movement of the reflection means with respect to the camera provides the camera with a plurality of images.

2. A portable radio communication device according to claim 1, wherein the reflection means comprises a mirror rotatably mounted between first and second positions with respect to the camera, the arrangement being such that in the first position the camera is operable in video conferencing mode, and in the second position the camera is operable in a scenic photographic mode.

3. A portable radio communication device according to claim 2, wherein the reflection means is connected to a user actuable controller adapted for movement between said first and second positions.

4. A portable radio communication device according to claim 1, wherein the reflection means and the camera are mounted for displacement between a stowed condition in which the reflection means and the camera are located within the housing of the portable radio communication device, and a deployed condition in which the reflection means and the camera are projected beyond the housing of the portable radio communication device.

5. A portable radio communication device according to claim 4, wherein the reflection means and the camera are moved between the stowed and deployed conditions by a button.

6. A portable radio communication device according to claim 1, wherein the reflection means comprises a mirror slidably mounted with respect to the camera, the mirror including a plurality of mirror elements, each of said mirror elements being individually selectable for cooperation with said camera by sliding said mirror.

7. A portable radio communication device according to claim 1, wherein the reflection means comprises a mirror slidably mounted with respect to the camera, the arrangement being such that sliding movement of the reflection means controls zoom selection for the camera.

8. A reflection means and camera module for use in a portable radio communication device as defined in any preceding claim.