Mobile telephone
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaharu Kitano, Sadao Nakamura
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Abstract
A mobile telephone equipped with camera(s) may employ, as camera flash(es), RGB tri-color LED(s) arranged on face(s) of the mobile telephone on side(s) thereof which is or are in direction(s) in which photograph(s) may be taken by camera(s). Where this is the case, the structure employed may be such that viewing angle(s) of RGB tri-color LED(s) is or are greater than field angle(s) of camera(s), and lens(es) may be arranged to the front of light emitting portion(s) of RGB tri-color LED(s) so as to cause illuminance of RGB tri-color LED(s) to be uniform within field angle(s) of camera(s). RGB tri-color LED(s) may also serve as incoming call indicator lamp(s).
Claims13
In the context of a mobile telephone equipped with one or more cameras, a mobile telephone characterized in that it is further equipped with one or more light emitting diodes;
- at least one of said light emitting diode or diodes being used as a camera flash.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.