Patent ID: 6906818
Filing Date: 2005-06-14
Classification: H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A data communication system in which a digital camera and a portable communication apparatus are capable of communicating data with each other, a housing of said digital camera is separate from a housing of said portable communication apparatus and said portable communication apparatus is capable of communicating with another communication apparatus via a network, wherein said portable communication apparatus includes: a first receiving unit for receiving data transmitted via the network; a text display unit for displaying text represented by text data contained in the data received by said first receiving unit; a first determination unit for determining whether the data received by said first receiving unit contains image data representing an image; and an image transmitting unit, which is responsive to a determination that the received data contains the image data, for transmitting the image data contained in the received data to said digital camera; and said digital camera includes: a second receiving unit for receiving the image data transmitted from said image transmitting unit of said portable. communication apparatus; and an image display unit for displaying the image represented by the image data received by said second receiving unit.