Mobile information terminal, and a display control method for such mobile information terminal
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKoichi Ito
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Abstract
A folding type mobile phone comprises a first housing having a main display on a top surface of the first housing, and a second housing having a keyboard on a top surface of the second housing. The mobile phone also has a second display that is always exposed to be seen by a user even when the first and the second housings are closed. When the first and the second housings are closed, a display direction of the information displayed on the second display is changed to a direction reverse to the direction where the information is displayed in the second display when the first and the second housings are opened.
Claims8
A mobile information terminal apparatus comprising:
- a first housing and a second housing hinged as to open and close to each other;
- a first display means provided on a top surface of said first housing as to be covered with said second housing when said first housing and second housing are closed;
- a second display means provided on said second housing to be exposed even when said first housing and second housing are closed;
- and
- an information display control means for changing a display direction of information displayed on said second display means when said first housing and second housing are closed.
A display control method for a mobile information terminal apparatus having a first housing and a second housing hinged as to be opened and closed to each other;
- a first information display means provided on a top surface of said first housing as to be covered with said second housing when said first housing and second housing are closed;
- a second information display means provided on said second housing as to be exposed even when said first housing and second housing are closed, comprising the step of:
- changing a display direction of the information displayed on the second information display means when said first housing and second housing are closed to each other.
A display control program to be applied to a mobile device comprising:
- a first and a second housings linked to freely be opened/closed to each other;
- a first information display means provided on a top face of the first housing and covered by said second housing when the first and second housings are closed;
- and
- a second information display means provided on a linked portion of the first and the second housings and not covered by said second housing even when the housings are closed;
- wherein
- said display control program comprising the step of:
- changing a display direction of the information displayed on the second information display means when said first and second housings are closed.
A program storage media for storing a display control program to be applied to a mobile information terminal apparatus comprising:
- a first and second housings linked to freely be opened/closed to each other;
- a first information display means provided on a top surface of the first housing and covered by said second housing when the first and the second housings are closed;
- and
- a second information display means provided on a linked portion of the first and the second housings, and not covered by said second housing even when the first and the second housings are closed;
- wherein
- said display control program comprising the step of:
- changing a display direction of the information displayed on the second information display means when said first and the second housings are closed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.