Patent ID: 8760553

Claim:
A mobile terminal, comprising: a user input unit; a camera; a memory, a wireless communication unit; and a controller operatively connected to the user input unit, the camera and the wireless communication unit, the controller configured to: store at least one contact in a phonebook in the memory, receive inputs via the user input unit to set image transmission conditions including an image transmission identity condition and an image transmission system condition, photograph an image with the camera when the mobile terminal is in a camera photograph mode, determine whether at least one character in the photographed image has the same identity as another character associated with any of the at least one contact in the phonebook that is registered as being included in a counterpart image, if the at least one character in the photographed image has the same identity as the another character, set the image transmission identity condition based on the at least one character in the photographed image instead of the received inputs, if none of the at least one character in the photographed image has the same identity as the another character, set the image transmission identity condition and the image transmission system condition based on the received inputs, wherein the image transmission system condition corresponds to a type of transmission method for transmitting the photographed image, and transmit the photographed image via the wireless communication unit to a counterpart terminal according to the image transmission conditions.