Patent ID: 7602520

Claim:
A picture transmission/reception system comprising: an information supply apparatus that supplies, sequentially in time, combined information including picture information and counterpart-picture location information representative of a location of counterpart-picture information that is the information about a picture related to the same subject-of-display but different in processability attribute from the picture information; and a picture receiver apparatus that has a receiving part that receives the combined information supplied by the information supply apparatus, a picture-display processor that displays, sequentially in time, picture information included in the combined information received at the receiving part, and a counterpart-picture-data acquirer that analyzes counterpart-picture location information corresponding to a picture selected by a user out of pictures displayed by the picture-display processor and accesses a location of the counterpart-picture in a data storage apparatus that stores the counterpart-picture represented by the counterpart-picture location information, to thereby acquire one of counterpart-picture data related to the one piece of picture information; wherein the counterpart-picture-data acquirer of the picture receiver apparatus is configured to detect a processability attribute as to the acquired one of counterpart-picture data, and evaluate whether or not the detected processability attribute is suited for a predetermined use by the user and related to a highest or comparatively higher quality acquirable so that, when a result of evaluation is negative, a retrieval processing is made to retrieve for another one of counterpart-picture data having a processability attribute for a comparatively higher quality while, when the result of evaluation is affirmative, the picture data evaluated is outputted.