Abstract:
PURPOSE: A mobile visual phone(MVP) for transceiving voices and videos is provided to transceive the videos and perform voice communication, by adding digital camera functions to a common cellular phone. CONSTITUTION: A camera unit(2) digitally captures an image of a subject to be pictured under control of a predetermined camera, and converts the image with a predetermined format. The camera unit compresses the image to store the image in a camera memory. A cellular phone unit(4) controls each unit of a mobile visual phone(MVP), and selectively performs a voice call and a video transceiving process according to a transmission mode. A displaying device(8) displays videos and characters under control of the cellular phone unit. An interface unit(6) performs an interfacing process to display the videos and the characters. The MVP includes the camera unit, the cellular phone unit, the displaying device, and the interface unit. A mobile communication network transceives voice data and video data with the MVP. A server connected to the mobile communication network performs a delivery service to a communication terminal for the video data.