Image signal transmitting/receiving apparatus and method

• US 20080045188A1
• Filed: 10/15/2007
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Shin, Kyoung
• Granted Patent: US 8,098,274 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

The present invention relates to an image signal transmitting/receiving apparatus and method for selectively performing transmission and display of a main image signal. The present invention transmits and display an sub-image signal instead of the received main image signal in case that the cut-off mode with respect to the main image signal has been set.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a communication unit configured to communicate with another mobile communication terminal;

an image input unit configured to receive a main-image data;

a storing unit configured to store a sub-image data;

a mode checking unit configured to check a cut-off mode; and

a controller configured to provide control for transmitting the main-image data or the sub-image data via the communication unit based on the cut-off mode checked by the mode checking unit.

17. The mobile communication terminal of claim 16, wherein the controller controls the communication unit to transmit the sub-image data when the cut-off mode is set.

18. The mobile communication terminal of claim 17, wherein the sub-image data stored in the storing unit is one of a predetermined image data stored by a user or a main-image signal previously transmitted.

19. The mobile communication terminal of claim 18, further comprising:

a mode setting unit configured to set the cut-off mode.

20. The mobile communication terminal of claim 19, wherein the controller controls to transmit the main-image data or the sub-image data during a telephone call.

21. The mobile communication terminal of claim 20, further comprising:

a encoding unit configured to encode the main-image data,

wherein the main-image data transmitted to the other-party is encoded data by the encoding unit.

22. The mobile communication terminal of claim 21, further comprising;

a display; and

a decoding unit configured to decode an image data,

wherein a received-image signal transmitted from the another mobile communication terminal is decoded by the decoding unit and is displayed on the display.

23. The mobile communication terminal of claim 22, wherein the sub-image data is displayed on the display instead of the received-image signal when the cut-off mode is set.

24. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a display configured to display images;

a communication unit configured to communicate with another mobile communication terminal and to receive at least a main-image data from the another mobile communication terminal;

a storing unit configured to store a sub-image data;

a mode checking unit configured to check a cut-off mode; and

a controller configured to control the display to display the main-image data or the sub-image data based on the cut-off mode checked by the mode checking unit.

25. The mobile communication terminal of claim 24, wherein the controller controls the display to display the sub-image data when the cut-off mode is set.

26. The mobile communication terminal of claim 25, wherein the sub-image data stored in the storing unit is one of a predetermined image data stored by a user or a main-image signal previously transmitted.

27. The mobile communication terminal of claim 26, further comprising:

a mode setting unit configured to set the cut-off mode.

28. The mobile communication terminal of claim 27, wherein the controller controls to display the main-image data or the sub-image data during a telephone call.

29. The mobile communication terminal of claim 28, further comprising:

a decoding unit,

wherein the main-image data or the sub-image data displayed on the display is decoded data by the decoding unit.

30. A method of mobile communications, comprising:

receiving a main-image data;

storing a sub-image data;

checking whether a cut-off mode has been set; and

transmitting the main-image data or the sub-image data based on whether the cut-off mode has been set.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein the main-image data is transmitted if the cut-off mode is not set, and the sub-image data is transmitted if the cut-off mode is set.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein the transmitting includes transmitting the main-image data or the sub-image data during a telephone call.

33. A method of mobile communications, comprising:

receiving at least a main-image data from another mobile communication terminal;

storing a sub-image data;

checking whether a cut-off mode has been set; and

displaying the main-image data or the sub-image data based on whether the cut-off mode has been set.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein the main-image data is displayed if the cut-off mode is not set, and the sub-image data is displayed if the cut-off mode is set.

35. The method of claim 34, wherein the displaying includes displaying the main-image data or the sub-image data during a telephone call.

36. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a memory to store images;

a display to display images;

an image selector to select among a first image and a second image for a transmission or reception of a call; and

a controller cooperating with the memory, the display, and the image selector such that the first image or the second image is used during the transmission or reception of the call, according to a mode selection by a user.

37. The terminal of claim 36, wherein the first image is an image related to the user himself or an image related to another party that calls the user.

38. The terminal of claim 37, wherein the second image is stored in the memory as a replacement image to be used instead of the first image.

39. The terminal of claim 38, wherein the second image is used rather than the first image during the transmission of the call, if the mode selection indicates that the user does not wish to transmit the first image.

40. The terminal of claim 38, wherein the second image is used rather than the first image during the reception of the call, if the mode selection indicates that the user does not wish to display the first image.