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Image communication system, image communication apparatus, and storage medium having image communication program stored therein

  • US 20100007926A1
  • Filed: 07/18/2008
  • Published: 01/14/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image communication system which comprises a plurality of image communication apparatuses each having image storage means for storing predetermined images, and which allows the plurality of image communication apparatuses to transmit and receive the predetermined images thereamong, the image communication system further comprisingwherein an image communication apparatus, among the plurality of image communication apparatuses, acting to transmit an image further includes transmitter information transmission control means for transmitting its own identification information, as transmitter information indicating a transmitter, to an unspecified image communication apparatus other than the image communication apparatus acting to transmit an image, the unspecified image communication apparatus being among the plurality of image communication apparatuses,wherein an image communication apparatus, among the plurality of image communication apparatuses, acting to receive an image further includes:

  • transmitter information reception means for receiving the transmitter information;

    selection means for performing display so as to indicate the transmitter on display means in accordance with the transmitter information having been received, and allowing a user to select whether or not an image is to be received from the image communication apparatus having transmitted the transmitter information; and

    destination information transmission control means for transmitting its own identification information, as destination information indicating a destination, to the image communication apparatus which is selected by the selection means as the transmitter from which an image is to be received,wherein the image communication apparatus acting to transmit an image further includes;

    destination information reception control means for receiving the destination information;

    destination determination means for determining the image communication apparatus acting as the destination to receive an image, in accordance with the destination information having been received; and

    image transmission means for transmitting at least one of the predetermined images stored in the image storage means, to the destination determined by the destination determination means, andwherein the image communication apparatus acting to receive an image further includes;

    image reception means for receiving an image transmitted by the image transmission means; and

    image storage control means for storing, in the image storage means, the image received by the image reception means.

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