Patent ID: 7283671

Claim:
A communications terminal, having image acquisition means for acquiring image data, data transmitter-receiver means for transmitting and receiving data to and from an other terminal when communicating with the communications terminal, display means for displaying an image or data transmitted or received by the image acquisition means or the data transmitter-receiver means, comprising: a shared image storing unit which stores shared image data being shared between the communications terminal and the other terminal; image transmission control means for transmitting shared image data shared with the other terminal; image acquisition control means for acquiring shared candidate image data as a candidate for an image shared with the other terminal; a shared candidate image storing unit which stores the shared candidate image data; and display control means for switching the display between a display of said shared image data stored in the shared image storing unit and a display of said shared candidate image data stored in the shared candidate image storing unit when acquiring said shared candidate image data while said shared image data is displayed on said display means.