Portable compact imaging and displaying apparatus

A pocket-size imaging and display apparatus including a case, comprising:

• a camera section rotatably coupled to the case, the camera section including an imaging plane;
• image data generating means for generating image data corresponding to an image taken by said camera section;
• a display section coupled to the case for displaying the image data generated by said image data generating means, the display section including a display screen plane, the imaging plane of said camera section and the display screen plane of the display section are positionally changed relative to each other in response to a rotation of said camera section;
• means for compressing the image data generated by said image data generating means;
• means for modulating the image data compressed by said compressing means;
• and
• a telephone line jack coupled to the case and selectively connected to a telephone line in order to output the image data modulated by said modulating means to the telephone line.