Image display system, terminal device, image display method and program
View Patent ↗To provide an image display system, a terminal device, an image display method and a program in which an image displayed on the screen of the other terminal during telephone conversation is controlled with a simple circuit configuration, and a line transmission capacity is reduced. A self terminal device 100 sends data for switching images displayed on a terminal device 200 at the other end via a network 500 by using an electronic mail, a multi-call function or a discriminating tone. The terminal device 200 controls and switches the images concerning the terminal device 100 within the terminal device 200 based on such various kinds of received information.
1. An image display system comprising:
an image transmission terminal;
a camera to capture an expression of a user during a telephone conversation;
wherein an image identifier is specified by using said captured expression, and
an image receiving terminal with a display unit and a memory storing images,
wherein said image transmission terminal detects an input for specifying an image identifier during the telephone conversation with said image receiving terminal and sends said specified image identifier by using electronic mail,
wherein said image receiving terminal confirms an address of a sender of said electronic mail upon receiving said electronic mail,
wherein said image receiving terminal extracts an image corresponding to said received image identifier from said memory and displays said extracted image to said display unit upon confirming that the sender of said electronic mail is said image transmission terminal, and
wherein said image transmission terminal sends said specified image identifier by using a multi-call function.
2. The image display system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a key button to be used to input said image identifier by the user during the telephone conversation.
3. A method comprising:
detecting, by an image transmission terminal, an input for specifying an image identifier during a telephone conversion with an image receiving terminal, wherein the detecting the input to specify said image identifier comprises: capturing, by a camera, an expression of a user during the telephone conversation and specifying said image identifier by using said captured expression;
sending, by said image transmission terminal, said specified image identifier to said image receiving terminal, by using electronic mail;
receiving, by said image receiving terminal, said specified image identifier;
upon receiving said electronic mail, confirming, by said image receiving terminal, an address of a sender of said electronic mail; and,
upon confirming that the sender of said electronic mail is said image transmission terminal, extracting, by said image receiving terminal, an image corresponding to said received image identifier from a memory of said image receiving terminal and displaying, by said image receiving terminal, said extracted image,
wherein sending said specified image identifier is performed using a multi-call function.
4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein detecting the input to
specify said image identifier comprises detecting a pressing of a key button by the user to
input said image identifier.
5. An image receiving terminal of an image display system, comprising:
a display unit to display an image;
a memory to store an image; and,
a processing unit to receive an image identifier specified by and sent from an image transmission terminal of the image display system using electronic mail, to confirm an address of a sender of said electronic mail upon receiving said electronic mail, and to extract said image corresponding to said image identifier from said memory and to cause the display unit to display said image upon confirming that the sender of said electronic mail is said image transmission terminal,
wherein said image identifier is specified by using a captured expression of a user at the image transmission terminal, and
wherein said image identifier is received using a multi-call function.
6. The image receiving terminal of claim 5 , wherein said image identifier is input by the user using a key button of the image transmission terminal during a telephone conversation.