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US 2004/0071285 A1Published application
Portable terminal
OwnerTakayuki Satoh, Tomokazu Ashiwainventors
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In these years, in a foldable portable telephone, such a technology for displaying information such as a remaining amount of a battery, the number of received mails and so on, on LCD (sub liquid crystal) which is located on the back surface has been developed, but, for example, in order to take a look at a content of a received mail, there is a necessity to carry out an operation such as taking the trouble to open the housing, and a study regarding usability has not bee carried out sufficiently. In order to solve the above-described problem, provided is a portable terminal in which a first housing and a second housing, each of which has a front surface and a back surface which is disposed so as to be opposed to the front surface, are foldable through a hinge part, and are foldable in such a manner that the front surface of the first housing and the front surface of the second housing face to each other, and it further has a display part which is located on the back surface of the first or the second housing, and a control part which controls to switch a screen display of the display part in case that a predetermined signal was received.
A portable terminal in which a first housing and a second housing, each of which has a front surface and a back surface which is disposed so as to be opposed to the front surface, are foldable through a hinge part, and are foldable in such a manner that the front surface of the first housing and the front surface of the second housing face to each other, comprising:
A portable terminal in which a first housing and a second housing, each of which has a front surface and a back surface which is disposed so as to be opposed to the front surface, are foldable through a hinge part, and are foldable in such a manner that the front surface of the first housing and the front surface of the second housing face to each other, comprising:
A portable terminal in which a first housing and a second housing, each of which has a front surface and a back surface which is disposed so as to be opposed to the front surface, are foldable through a hinge part, and are foldable in such a manner that the front surface of the first housing and the front surface of the second housing face to each other, comprising:
A portable terminal comprising:
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