Patent ID: 7486969

Claim:
A transmitting portable terminal comprising: storage means for storing a plurality of character images; input means for entering a user's voice; determining means for analyzing a tone of the user's voice entered by the input means, the determining means configured to determine an expression or a movement of a character image to be transmitted for receipt by a receiving portable terminal, based on a result of the analysis of the tone and a recipient user's voice received from the receiving portable terminal; generating means for acquiring the character image out of the plurality of character images stored in the storage means, the generating means configured to generate the character image with the expression or the movement determined by the determining means; transmitting means for transmitting the character image generated by the generating means, and the user's voice entered by the input means, to the receiving portable terminal; and wherein the determining means is further configured to analyze the tone to determine the expression or the movement according to a plurality of modes, wherein the plurality of modes comprise a simple mode based on a presence and an absence of voice, a volume mode based on a level of sound volume of the user's voice, a frequency mode based on a level of frequency of the user's voice, and a composite mode based on a combination of the level of sound volume of the user's voice and the level of frequency of the user's voice.