IP Library Granted Patent US 7,949,485
Granted Patent B2
US 7,949,485 · App. 11/814,842 · Granted May 24, 2011

Portable terminal device

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Patent No.
US 7,949,485
App. No.
11/814,842
Granted
May 24, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A portable terminal device 101 of the invention having at least two or more cases joinable in a plurality of different joining shapes includes a magnetism detection section 8 being provided in at least one of the two or more cases for detecting a magnetism quantity; a storage section 9 for storing the effect amount produced by magnetism from a magnetism generation source of the portable terminal device 101 in the detected magnetism quantities for each of the plurality of different joining shapes of the portable terminal device 101 ; a case shape detection section 4 for detecting a joining shape of the portable terminal device 101 ; a data processing section 3 for correcting the detected magnetism quantity based on the stored effect amount in the detected joining shape; and a position measurement section 2 for measuring an azimuth based on the corrected magnetism quantity.

Claims (7)

1. A portable terminal device in which having at least two cases joinable in a plurality of different joining shapes, the portable terminal device, comprising:

a magnetism detection section which is provided in at least one of the plurality of cases and detects a magnetism quantity;

a storage section which stores an effect amount affected by magnetism from a magnetism generation source of the portable terminal device on the detected magnetism quantity for each of the plurality of different joining shapes of the portable terminal device;

a case shape detection section which detects each of the joining shapes of the portable terminal device;

a data processing section which corrects the detected magnetism quantity based on the stored effect amount for each of the detected joining shapes; and

a measurement section which measures an azimuth based on the corrected magnetism quantity.

2. The portable terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein the effect amount is calculated based on the magnetism quantity detected by the magnetism detection section and the data processing section stores the calculated effect amount in the storage section together with each of the detected joining shapes of the portable terminal device when the portable terminal device rotates in a horizontal direction.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 11, 2008
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021818/0725 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 21, 2007
From: KATAYAMA, HIROSHI
To: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 020283/0148 →