Image information processing device, image information processing method, image information processing program, and recorded medium on which image information processing program is recorded

Abstract

In an animated email communications device (1) in accordance with the present invention, animation data transmitted over a network from an origin is received by a receiving section (11) and stored in an incoming animation storage section (12), and animation data produced in advance is stored in an added animation storage section (13). As the user starts editing by an operation of an input section (15), an animation display appears on a display section (14) based on the animation data stored in the incoming animation storage section (12). In this operation, if the operator gives an insertion or superimpose instruction through the input section (15), the editing section (16) inserts or superimposes the animation stored in the added animation storage section (13) with no delay. At the end of the editing, the edited animation data is stored in a reply animation storage section (17) and transmitted to a destination from a transmitting section (18) when the operator gives an instruction through the input section (15). Thus, an image, such as animation, can be edited by, for example, insertion and superimposition, as easily and quickly as editing an email reply.

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