Voice and image communicating apparatus

Claim 2

An apparatus according to claim 1, further having means for selecting the storing operation of the image data into the memory means, and wherein when the storing operation is selected by the selecting means, the memory means stores the image data which is being received.

Claim 3

An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the memory means stores a plurality of image data from a plurality of communicating apparatuses in correspondence to a plurality of ID data.

Claim 4

An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein when the storing operation is selected by the selecting means, if storage areas in the memory means are filled with data, the ID data and the image data in a predetermined storage area are erased and the ID data of the calling party communicating apparatus during communication and the image data from the calling party communicating apparatus are newly stored into said predetermined storage area.

Claim 5

An apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the predetermined area from which the ID data and the image data are erased is an area in which the image data from the communicating apparatus having a small reception frequency has been stored.

Claim 6

An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein if the image data corresponding to the ID data indicative of the calling party communicating apparatus has already been stored in the memory means, the stored image data is updated to the newly received image data.

Claim 7

An apparatus according to claim 1, further having disconnecting means for disconnecting the communication before reception of the image data from the calling party communicating apparatus.

Claim 8

A communicating apparatus comprising: registering means for registering a received image together with a calling party number upon reception of the image; display means for displaying the image registered by the registering means and corresponding to the calling party number when the same calling party number as the calling party number registered by the registering means was received; disconnecting means for disconnecting a communication without starting a speech in the case where the image displayed by the display means relates to a calling party to whom the speech is not desired.

Claim 9

A communicating apparatus comprising: receiving means for receiving a plurality of sheets of images sent from a calling party communicating apparatus; memory means for storing the plurality of sheets of images received by the receiving means in correspondence to ID data indicative of the calling party communicating apparatus; and display means for displaying the plurality of sheets of images stored in the memory means upon call reception from the calling party communicating apparatus.

Claim 10

An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the display means simultaneously displays a plurality of sheets of images.

Claim 11

An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the display means sequentially displays a plurality of sheets of images and displays and outputs as a moving image.

Claim 12

A communicating apparatus comprising: audio data input/output means; image data input/output means; communicating means for transmitting and receiving the audio data and the image data; memory means for receiving an image from the image data input means and for storing in correspondence to ID data indicative of a calling party communicating apparatus; and display means for displaying the image stored in the memory means upon call reception from the calling party communicating apparatus.

Claim 13

A television telephone connected to an ISDN having a calling party number display service, comprising: a first memory for storing a calling party number from the ISDN upon call reception; a second memory having telephone number areas and image areas corresponding to the telephone number areas; image fetching means for outputting a command to store image information which is displayed by an image display apparatus of the television telephone into the second memory; means for respectively storing the calling party number stored in the first memory and the image information displayed by the image display apparatus into the telephone number area and the image area in the second memory in accordance with a command output from the image fetching means during connection of a line; means for comparing the calling party number stored in the first memory and the calling party numbers stored in the telephone number areas in the second memory upon call reception from the ISDN; and control means for controlling in a manner such that when those calling party numbers coincide, the image information stored in the image area in the second memory corresponding to the telephone number area in which the coincident calling party number has been stored is displayed by the image display apparatus.

Claim 14

A telephone according to claim 13, wherein the first memory stores the calling party number from the ISDN in the case of a calling from the calling party side during connection of the line and stores the calling party number which was called in the case of a calling from this side.

Claim 15

A telephone according to claim 13, wherein the first memory comprising a calling party number area in call reception and a calling party number area in line connection.

Claim 16

A telephone according to claim 13, wherein the image fetching means generates an output signal by touching the image display apparatus.

Claim 17

A telephone according to claim 13, wherein the control means controls in a manner such that a frequency when reading out and displaying the image information stored in the corresponding image area is counted every telephone number area in the second memory and the telephone number area having the smallest frequency is used to store and update the calling party number and the image information corresponding to a command output from the image fetching means.

Claim 18

A videophone which can display an image in response to identity data relating to the originator of an incoming call, the image being derived from image data which has been pre-stored in association with the identity data, the videophone comprising pre-storing means for pre-storing such image data, characterised in that the pre-storing means is operable to store as said image data at least one of (a) image data received from the other party during a videophone call, and (b) image data provided by an image sensing means of the videophone which image sensing means is used during a videophone call to generate image data to be provided to the other party.