Patent ID: 8570404

Claim:
A communication device comprising: a camera capturing a picture; an information processing section detecting a face image or images from the picture captured by the camera, to generate a partial picture including the detected face image or images; a transmitting section encoding the partial picture to generate encoded data, and transmitting the encoded data to a counterpart; and a first receiving section receiving data transmitted from the counterpart, and decoding the received data to generate a picturephone picture, wherein when a plurality of face images are detected from the picture captured by the camera, the information processing section performing clip processing in accordance with either one of at any time: a first method which includes setting a single clip region which includes all the detected face images, in which the clip region is smaller than the entire region of the picture captured by the camera, and generating a plurality of portrait pictures from the clip regions, and merging the generated plurality of portrait pictures to generate the partial picture, wherein the information processing section selects the first method or the second method according to a user instruction such that when the user instruction indicates the first method the information processing section performs the clip processing in accordance with the first method and when the user instruction indicates the second method the information processing section performs the clip processing in accordance with the second method.