Patent ID: 6801663
Filing Date: 2004-10-05
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A communication data producing apparatus for producing communication data including a photographed picture, the communication data producing apparatus comprising:a sentence inputting unit used by a user to input a sentence; an imaging unit for taking a picture of the user a plurality of times in a predetermined period of time; a processing unit for producing communication data including the sentence input via the sentence inputting unit and the plurality of pictures taken by the imaging unit; and a sentence analyzer for analyzing the sentence input via the sentence inputting unit, wherein the sentence analyzer extracts a mark comprising one of an exclamation mark, a guestion mark, a face mark, and an escape sequence from the sentence input via the sentence inputting unit and determines a meaning of the sentence based upon the extracted mark in addition to a result of analysis of one of a word and an expression in the sentence.