PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL AND SCREEN DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD

摘要

A portable information terminal includes: a first housing including display section; a second housing connected to the first housing, an open angle that is an angle formed by the second housing and a plane of display section being changeable; angle detection section whose output value changes according to a operation in which the first housing and the second housing are opened or closed; and control section that causes display section to execute a first display process if the output value of angle detection section is equal to or greater than a threshold and to execute a second display process if the output value is less than the threshold. One of the first display process and the second display process includes a process that causes information displayed on display section to become illegible compared to information displayed on display section that executes the other display process.