Mobile phone, multimedia chatting system and method thereof

• US 20050208962A1
• Filed: 03/21/2005
• Published: 09/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Joo Min
• Application Number:
  US11/086,843
• Publication Number:
  US 20050208962A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/550.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72439 for image or video messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/148 Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN

Abstract

A mobile phone multimedia chatting system and a method thereof is provided for transmitting text inputted from a user with selected image and selected audio. According to the mobile phone, the multimedia chatting system and the method thereof, not only videophone but also the multimedia chatting is provided to a user without modifying a related art of H.324 protocol. Also, the multimedia chanting service is provided to a mobile phone without a built-in camera or a built-in microphone.

Claims

1. A mobile phone, comprising:

an image data selector for selecting a type of an image to be transmitted;

an audio data selector for selecting a type of audio to be transmitted;

a user input text receiver for receiving a text from a user;

a communication processing unit for transmitting the selected image by the image data selector, the selected audio by the audio data selector and the inputted text by the user input receiver;

a menu button for changing image data and/or audio data; and

a receiver for processing data received from an external device by the communication processing unit.

2. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the communication processing unit is driven by H.324 protocol.

3. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the selected image by the image data selector is one of a real-time image inputted by a built-in camera of the mobile phone, a still image stored in the mobile phone and a moving image stored in the mobile phone.

4. The mobile phone according to claim 1, the selected audio by the audio data selector is one of a real-time audio inputted by a microphone, a music file stored in the mobile phone and a voice file stored in the mobile phone.

5. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein menus selected by the menu button include a silent function.

6. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein the menu button individually selects image and audio.

7. The mobile phone according to claim 1, wherein image, audio and text are processed and displayed in the receiver.

8. The mobile phone of claim 1, wherein the image and the audio are changed during communication by using the menu button.

9. A multimedia chatting system, comprising:

an image data selector for selecting an image to be transmitted;

an audio data selector for selecting audio to be transmitted;

a user input text receiver for receiving a text; and

a communication processing unit for transmitting the selected image by the image data selector, the selected audio by the audio data selector and the text inputted form the user input text receiver.

10. The multimedia chatting system according to claim 9, wherein the image includes a pre-stored still image and a pre-stored moving image.

11. The multimedia chatting system according to claim 9, wherein the image includes a real-time image inputted from a camera.

12. The multimedia chatting system according to claim 9, wherein the audio includes a music and/or a voice.

13. The multimedia chatting system according to claim 9, wherein the audio includes a real-time audio inputted by a microphone.

14. The multimedia chatting system according to claim 9, wherein the audio data selector selects no audio to be transmitted.

15. The multimedia chatting system according to claim 9, wherein the communication processing unit is driven based on H.324 protocol.

16. A multimedia chatting system, comprising:

a selector for selecting an image and/or audio;

a user input text receiver for receiving text from a user; and

a communication processing unit for transmitting the selected image and/or audio by the selector,

wherein the image includes a real-time image inputted by a camera and a pre-stored image, and the audio includes a real-time audio inputted by a microphone and a pre-stored audio.

17. A method for driving a multimedia chatting system, comprising:

selecting image and/or audio for multimedia chatting; and

transmitting the selected image and/or audio to an opponent.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the image includes a real-time image inputted by a camera, a pre-stored still image file and a pre-stored moving image file.

19. The method according to claim 17, wherein the audio includes a real-time audio inputted by a microphone, a pre-stored music file and a pre-stored voice file.

20. The method according to claim 17, wherein a conference message is transmitted to the opponent for informing a format of transmitted data based on H.245 protocol before transmitting the selected image and audio.

21. The method according to claim 17, wherein the selected image, the selected audio and text inputted by a user are transmitted based on H.324 protocol.