Portable phone with camera
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorJae Soon Kang
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Abstract
A portable telephone with a camera is disclosed, in which a functionality of a camera being rotated to an object in any desired rotational angle without a main body turned around. The portable telephone comprises a main body having a control panel installed on a front face of the main body and a rotation-support part formed in an upper end of the main body, a folder having a display panel and a speaker installed on a front face of the folder and having a connecting part formed in a low end of the folder, the connecting part being rotatably coupled to outer sides of the rotation-support part, and a camera module being rotatably coupled to inner sides of the rotation-support parts.
Claims13
A mobile terminal with a camera, the mobile terminal comprising:
- a body having a display panel;
- a camera module coupled to the body, wherein the camera module relatively rotates with respect to the body;
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- a camera position fixing unit formed between the camera module and the body for fixing the camera module in a plurality of angular positions according to the rotation of the camera module, wherein the camera position fixing unit comprises:
- an elastic subpart rotatably connected with the camera module, and
- a bushing fixed to the body,
- wherein the elastic subpart rotatably operates with the bushing for fixing the camera module in the plurality of angular positions,
- wherein the elastic subpart comprises at least one protrusion for operating with at least one groove of the bushing for fixing the camera module in one of the plurality of angular positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.