Patent ID: 7432954
Filing Date: 2008-10-07
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A communications terminal having an image shooting function, comprising: a shooting-mode instruction receiving unit operable to receive, from a user, an instruction to switch the communications terminal into an image shooting mode; a mail composition unit operable, when the communications terminal is switched into the image shooting mode, to extract from a recording medium, storing one or more mail addresses, an e-mail address that is associated with information indicating image data transmission and to generate an e-mail message directed to the e-mail address; a shooting instruction receiving unit operable to receive the image shooting instruction from the user; a generating unit operable to generate the image data by shooting the image based on the received image shooting instruction; and an attaching unit operable to, on generation of the image data by the generating unit, automatically attach the image data to the e-mail message generated by the mail composition unit.