INFORMATION TERMINAL UNIT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information terminal unit, capable of miniaturization and performing high picture-quality photographing in any direction from the same direction as a display panel up to its opposite direction, and capable of enhancing the operability of the unit as well. SOLUTION: The information terminal unit 1 has a body case 2, and the display panel 3 provided on an arbitrary surface of this body case 2. Moreover, the unit is equipped with a support shaft 4 freely expandable and shrinkable outwards from inside this body case 2, a case 5 for a photographing means provided at the tip part of this support shaft 4, and a photographing means 6 to be arranged in this case 5. At this time, the case 5 is freely rotatable around the axial direction of the support shaft 4, and the photographing means 6 has an opening in a surface perpendicular to the support shaft 4 of the case 5. This constitution enables high picture-quality photographing in any direction from the same direction as the display panel 3 up to its opposite direction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI