Patent ID: 7605846
Filing Date: 2009-10-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image communication system in which an image processing apparatus and a first portable phone can communicate data with each other and the first portable phone can communicate with a second portable phone via a telephone line and the first portable phone sends an image data reduction instruction to the image processing apparatus, wherein the image processing apparatus includes: an instruction receiving device for receiving the image data reduction instruction sent from the first portable phone; a data quantity reducing device for reducing a data quantity of image data according to the image data reduction instruction received by the instruction receiving device; and a first image data transmitting device for transmitting, to the first portable phone, the image data of which the data quantity is reduced by the data quantity reducing device and the first portable phone includes: an image data receiving device for receiving the image data sent from the first image data transmitting device of the image processing apparatus; and a second image data transmitting device for transmitting via the telephone line the image data received by the image data receiving device, wherein at least one of the first portable phone and the image processing apparatus includes a detecting element for detecting a data communication speed on the telephone line that connects the first portable phone with the second portable phone, and the data quantity reducing device of the image processing apparatus increases a quantity of data reduction when a slower communication speed is detected by the detecting element.