Patent ID: 8160622

Claim:
A receiving and sending method of a mobile TV phone having a TV phone function, a Short Message Service (SMS) function, together with a function for setting and resetting a manner mode, the method comprising: prohibiting a sound input via a microphone and a sound output via a speaker of the mobile TV phone and starting the SMS function together with the TV phone function, upon executing a communication by the TV phone function in the manner mode; sending, via an SMS server by the SMS function, character data inputted from a key input unit of the mobile TV phone; displaying, on a display unit of the mobile TV phone, a message from a sender's mobile TV phone terminal received by the SMS function and an image from the sender's mobile TV phone terminal received by the TV phone function; and prohibiting the display operation of the SMS message from a third party until ending the communication by the TV phone function, upon receiving the SMS message from the third party in the communication by the TV phone function.