Patent ID: 7084897

Claim:
A mobile camera having a communication function, comprising: a photo sensing device that creates image data; a microphone that inputs sound data; a speaker that outputs sound data; a display that displays the image data; a memory; a recording device that records the image data; a communicating device that transmits the sound data inputted by the microphone and the image data inputted by the photo sensing device to another mobile camera having a communication function; and a controller that controls change between a picturephone mode that communicates with the other mobile camera and a camera recording mode that records the image data in the memory; whereby the controller controls the camera to record the image data as a still picture in the memory by the recording device when in the camera recording mode, and controls the camera to transmit the image data at a lower resolution than the recorded image data as a moving picture to the other mobile camera by the communicating device in the picturephone mode.