Still picture picturephone communication system.

摘要

A still picture picturephone communication system for transmitting and receiving a still picture over a telephone circuit including a handshaking process wherein prior to still picture transmission, identification code data indicating a function of picturephone set is transmitted and received, and decision is made as to whether the still picture is being transmitted or not, wherein a designation code of a desired response waiting time within an identification code data used at the time of handshaking is formed, and the response is delayed by a period of time corresponding to the response waiting time, a still picture data is directly transmitted and received without handshaking, a character data including character information and the like is transmitted and received, manipurating a picturephone set on one party can be made a picturephone set on the other party to transmit a picture data therefrom, furthermore, the picture sent from the called party can be transferred to a third party.