Patent ID: 7177960

Claim:
A mobile terminal including a plurality of modes, comprising: a camera which outputs image data; a display which displays image data; a controller which encodes the image data outputted by the camera and decodes encoded image data; a memory which stores the image data encoded by the controller; a first bus interface which connects the camera, the memory and the controller; and a second bus interface which connects the camera and the display, wherein the plurality of modes include a monitor mode in which the display displays image data outputted by the camera without storing the image data by the memory, a record mode in which the controller encodes image data outputted by the camera and the memory stores the encoded image data, and a play mode in which the controller decodes encoded image data stored by the memory and the display displays the decoded image data, wherein, in the monitor mode, image data are transmitted and received via the second bus interface and not via first bus interface; wherein the camera comprises a sensor for capturing an optical image; an analog-to-digital converter for converting analog data of the optical image into digital image data; a signal processor for converting the digital image data into YUV format; a first output interface for supplying the YUV format data to the first bus interface; and a RGB converter for converting the image data from YUV format into RGB data; and a second output interface for supplying the RGB data to the second bus interface.