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US 7,002,616 B2Granted
Cellular telephone
AssigneesSanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Telecommunications Co., Ltd.
InventorsYuichi Taneya, Masae Morioka, Hiroomi Kashu
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Abstract
The present invention provides a portable telephone which comprises a microphone 22 for speech transmission, cameras 3, 30 arranged on a casing, and a control circuit 10. The control circuit 10 varies the sensitivity of the microphone 22 in accordance with a photographing direction of one camera being operated.
Claims3
A portable telephone comprising a portable casing having arranged thereon a microphone for speech transmission, the portable telephone being characterized in that the telephone comprises:
- a plurality of image pick-up devices which are arranged on the casing,
- memory means for recording a picture taken by the image pick-up device and a voice produced by the microphone,
- recording processing means for recording in the memory means the picture taken by the one image pick-up device and the voice produced by the microphone in accordance with the user's photographing manipulation,
- judging means for judging which of the image pick-up devices is turned on, and
- sensitivity control means for varying microphone sensitivity with reference to said judging result.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.