Portable terminal device and wireless communication terminal device
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorsToru Kido, Satoshi Sugawara
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Abstract
A portable terminal device of the invention has a first casing that has a first display part and a second casing that has a key operation part. The first casing and the second casing are constructed in such a form as to be rotatable around a hinge portion, which has a second display part. In a state where the terminal device is open, the first display part is visually recognizable by the user, and in a state where the terminal device is closed, the second display part is visually recognizable by the user.
Claims9
A portable terminal device comprising:
- a first casing that has a first display part;
- a second casing that has a key operation part, the first casing and the second casing being constructed in such a form as to be rotatable around a hinge portion;
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- detection means for detecting an “open” or “close” state,
- the hinge portion comprises a second display means rotatable around a rotation axis of the hinge portion jointly with an easing portion that is accommodated in the hinge portion and that accommodates therein the second display means and, according to the result of the detection made by the detection means, the direction of a letter displayed on the second display means is controlled.
A wireless communication terminal device the wireless communication terminal device being contained in a wireless communication terminal comprising:
- an antenna part;
- a wireless part for performing modulation and demodulation of data of the antenna part,
- notification means for performing notification by means of a sound;
- a first display means for displaying transmission/reception data;
- and keys for inputting letters to the first display means, whereby the device is collapsible by two casings that respectively have therein the keys and the first display part being connected to each other by a hinge portion, the hinge portion comprising:
- second display means, the second display means being accommodated in the hinge portion and being rotatable around a rotation axis of the hinge portion jointly with an easing portion that is accommodated in the hinge portion and that accommodates therein the second display means constituting a part of the hinge portion, the wireless communication terminal device further comprising:
- “opens′/“close” detection means for detecting whether the terminal is folded up, and display-content inversion means for vertically and horizontally inverting the contents displayed on the second display means according to the output from the “open′/“close” detection means, whereby, between the state that the terminal is folded up and the state that it is opened, the contents displayed on the second display means are vertically and horizontally reversed to each other.
A wireless communication terminal device, the wireless communication terminal device being contained in a wireless communication terminal comprising:
- an antenna part;
- a wireless part for performing modulation and demodulation of data of the antenna part;
- notification means for performing notification by means of a sound;
- a first display means for displaying transmission/reception data;
- keys for inputting letters to the first display means, whereby the device is collapsible by two casings that respectively have therein the keys and the first display part being connected to each other by a hinge portion, the hinge portion comprising:
- a second display means, the second display means being accommodated in the hinge portion and being rotatable around a rotation axis of the hinge portion jointly with an easing portion that is accommodated in the hinge portion and that accommodates therein the second display means constituting a part of the hinge portion, the second display means having a display surface being visually recognizable even in a state in which the terminal is folded up, without the terminal being opened, by rotating the second display means jointly with the casing portion;
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- “opens”/“close” detection means for detecting whether the terminal is folded up, and display-content inversion means for vertically and horizontally inverting the contents displayed on the second display means according to the output from the “open”/“close” detection means, whereby, between the state that the terminal is folded up and the state that it is opened, the contents displayed on the second display means are vertically and horizontally reversed to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.