Portable device

• US 20050020317A1
• Filed: 06/03/2004
• Published: 01/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Koyama, Shinichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,313,418 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/00 Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72439 for image or video messaging

Abstract

This invention provides a portable device which determines whether a digital video image to be displayed on a display device long in the vertical (or horizontal) direction has a landscape (or portrait) format, and when the digital video image has a landscape (or portrait) format, rotates the digital video image and notification information in a memory by 90°.

Claims

1. A portable device having a display device long in a vertical direction, comprising:

determination unit adapted to determine whether a digital video image to be displayed on the display device has a landscape format; and

display control unit adapted to rotate the digital video image and information about the portable device by 90°

when the digital video image to be displayed on the display device has a landscape format.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the information about the portable device contains at least one of information representing a battery level, information representing a radio field intensity, and information representing a current date and time.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the information about the portable device contains one of information representing presence/absence of an incoming call and information representing presence/absence of reception of e-mail.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the information about the portable device contains information representing whether a mode in which a user is notified of an incoming call and reception of e-mail not by sound but by vibration is ON.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein said display control unit also serves as unit adapted to rotate information about the digital video image by 90°

when the digital video image has a landscape format.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein said display control unit also serves as unit for rotating the digital video image and the information about the portable device by 180°

in accordance with an instruction from a user.

7. The device according to claim 1, wherein the portable device is a cellular phone.