Patent 7876360 was granted and assigned to Panasonic on January, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An image data processor converts an image signal into an image data. The multi-codec unit converts the image data into a transfer data. A communication unit receives a transfer request from an outside terminal device and transmits the transfer data to the outside terminal device. A time-sharing control unit controls to drive the image data processor and the multi-codec unit in a time-sharing manner in accordance with the transfer request. A transfer data selecting unit for selecting the transfer data corresponding to the transfer request from a group of the transfer data generated by the image data processing unit and the multi-codec unit which are controlled to drive in the time-sharing manner by the time-sharing management unit, and transmitting the selected transfer data to the communication unit.