The present invention relates to a portable information processing device
having a body part (2) and a display part (3) supported so that it can
open/close and rotate on the body part (2). The portable information
processing device has a stereo microphone (53) provided in the display
part (3), a detecting unit (83) for detecting the opening/closing state
and the rotating state of the display part (3) with respect to the body
part (2), a control unit for allocating a first channel signal and a
second channel signal of an audio signal outputted from the stereo
microphone (53) to a right channel signal and a left channel signal on
the basis of the result of the detection by the detecting unit, and a
recording unit for recording the audio signal allocated by the control
unit. The inputted audio signal is appropriately allocated to a right
channel signal and a left channel signal and thus recorded in accordance
with the opening/closing state and the rotating state of the display part
(3) with respect to the body part (2) and the rotating state of an image
pickup unit with respect to the display part (2).