Patent ID: 7233345

Claim:
A communication apparatus comprising: image sensing means for sensing a camera image; voice recognition means for recognizing a phrase from input voice; keyword detection means for detecting coincidence between a registered keyword and the phrase output from said voice recognition means; auxiliary image selection means for selecting a specific auxiliary image associated with the registered keyword in response to a coincidence detection output from said keyword detection means; input image switching means for, in response to the coincidence detection output, selectively outputting one of the camera image output from said image sensing means and an image containing the auxiliary image output from said auxiliary image selection means; and transmission means for transmitting the input voice and the image output from said input image switching means, wherein said keyword detection means outputs a switching signal to said input image switching means in response to the coincidence detection output, and said input image switching means switches the image to be output from the camera image to the image containing the auxiliary image in response to the switching signal output from said keyword detection means.