Patent ID: 7893955

Claim:
A mobile terminal, comprising: a codec configured to perform a converting operation between analog voice data and digital voice data; a camera module connected to a camera installed within the mobile terminal, the camera module configured to perform a converting operation between analog image data and digital image data; a direction sensor configured to detect direction data associated with an image located in a photographing direction of the camera, wherein the direction data is formatted in only two consecutive bytes, wherein a first byte of the only two consecutive bytes is configured to provide compass heading information of the image, wherein a first bit, a second bit, a third bit and a fourth bit of the first byte, when active, are configured to indicate north, east, west and south, respectively, and wherein at most two of the first bit, the second bit, the third bit or the fourth bit of the first byte are set active so as to denote the compass heading information of the image, and wherein a second byte of the only two consecutive bytes is configured to provide compass bearing information, the compass bearing information comprising at least an angle between directions represented by the at most two of the first bit, the second bit, the third bit or the fourth bit of the first byte; a voice/image communication apparatus configured to multiplex or demultiplex the direction data, the voice data and the image data; a display module configured to simultaneously display the image based on the image data and the direction data from the voice/image communication apparatus, wherein the direction data is displayed on the image to indicate the compass heading information and the compass bearing information associated with the image; a speaker configured to output the voice data demultiplexed by the voice/image communication apparatus; and a control unit configured to control the codec, the camera module, the voice/image communication apparatus, and the display module, wherein the control unit checks whether a direction displaying mode has been selected and controls the display module to display the image data and the direction data simultaneously as a single image when the direction displaying mode is selected.