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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2002
Masao Hamada, Fukuoka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
When picture information of a user's party, enlarged and pivoted at an angle of some 90 degrees, is displayed on an image display of a cell-phone type moving picture communication apparatus of a user, which has been pivoted at an angle of nearly 90 degrees in an either clockwise or counter clockwise direction of the user's cell-phone type moving picture communication apparatus when the user faces the image display of the user's communication apparatus. Then, a pivoting unit pivots user's self-picture information in response to pivotal movement of the user's cell-phone type moving picture communication apparatus. The image display has an aspect ratio defined by different vertical and horizontal lengths. An image pick-up unit of the pivoted user's cell-phone type moving picture communication apparatus produces the user's self-picture information. An encoding unit encodes the pivoted user's self-picture information. A transmitting unit transmits the encoded user's self-picture information to a cell-phone type moving picture communication apparatus of the user's party. Since the party's cell-phone type moving picture communication apparatus receives the pivoted user's self-picture information from the user's cell-phone type moving picture communication apparatus, the user's self-picture information properly oriented with respect to the vertical axis of the earth is displayed on the party's cell-phone type moving picture communication apparatus.