Portable electronic apparatus
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorsSoichiro Nakao, Takayuki Hayashida
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Abstract
In a portable electronic apparatus, control parts are concentrated in a small space, and they can be operated easily by one hand. A mode dial is provided on the back of a casing of the apparatus, at a position where the thumb of the right hand holding a grip part at the right of the casing is naturally positioned. A cross key is arranged at the left side of the mode dial. The cross key is used as a control key for selecting a variety of setting items and entering commands to change the settings. A menu/execution key for fixing the items and settings selected/changed with the cross key is arranged at the lower left of the cross key. It is therefore possible to perform a sequence of operations by moving the thumb efficiently.
Claims8
A portable electronic apparatus comprising:
- a casing;
- a dial control for selecting a mode among a plurality of modes of the portable electronic apparatus;
- and
- a cross key control for performing at least one of selecting an item in the mode selected by the dial control and entering a command;
- wherein the dial control is arranged on the casing at such a position as to be operated by a thumb of a hand holding a part of the casing, and the cross key control is arranged on the casing juxtaposed to the dial control, at such a position as to be operated by shifting the thumb to a side.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.