Patent ID: 7800493

Claim:
A communication apparatus for communicating with a transmission receiver having a plurality of output devices, said apparatus comprising: a bio-information sensor for measuring bio-information obtained from a user's body; an environment information sensor for measuring environment information of an environment in which the user exists; acquisition means configured to acquire at least one of the bio-information and the environment information in accordance with at least one item set by the user; means for enabling the user to select an output device from among the plurality of output devices of the transmission receiver; storage means for storing acquired information acquired by the acquisition means with respect to the selected output device associated therewith; means for determining whether any previously acquired bio-information and environment information for use with the selected output device stored in the storage means exists which is the same as that of presently acquired information, and for causing transmission data to be produced based on the previously acquired information when similar previously acquired information is determined to exist and for causing the transmission data to be produced based on the presently acquired information when the similar previously acquired information is determined not to exist; and communication means for transmitting the transmission data to the transmission receiver, in which during operation signals representative of at least some of the transmission data are supplied to the output device selected by the user.