Patent ID: 7986920

Claim:
An image communication apparatus including a transmitting device for transmitting an image signal, and a receiving device for receiving an image signal which has been transmitted by the transmitting device, the transmitting device comprising: an image pick-up unit for picking up an image of an object to generate an image signal; an information receiving unit for receiving communication state information indicating a communication state which has been transmitted from the receiving device; a transmitting side signal processing unit for generating an image signal in which a data amount is reduced on color space from an image signal which has been generated from the image pick-up unit; a signal transmitting unit for transmitting, to the receiving device, an image signal which has been generated by the transmitting side signal processing unit; and a transmitting side control unit for controlling the transmitting side signal processing unit on the basis of the received communication state information; the receiving device comprising: a signal receiving unit for receiving an image signal which has been transmitted by the transmitting device; a receiving side signal processing unit for generating, from the received image signal, an image signal of which the data amount has been restored on the color space; a communication state detecting unit for detecting communication state; a receiving side control unit for controlling the receiving side signal processing unit on the basis of the communication state information indicating communication state which has been detected by the communication state detecting unit; and an information transmitting unit for transmitting the communication state information to the transmitting device.