Electronic mail sending and receiving apparatus, and electronic mail sending and receiving program
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorHajime Terayoko
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Abstract
According to the electronic mail sending and receiving apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to intelligently implement personal representation that is suited to individual users of electronic mail by converting a character string representing a person that is included in the body of an electronic mail into a predetermined image for sending, and converting a character string representing a person that is included in the body of an electronic mail that was received into a predetermined image.
Claims22
An electronic mail sending and receiving apparatus, comprising:
- an electronic mail sending and receiving device which performs sending and receiving of electronic mail;
- a character string and image storage device which associates and stores an image and a character string representing a person;
- a mail body analysis device which analyzes a body of the electronic mail to extract a character string that is stored in the character string and image storage device;
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- a character string and image conversion device which converts the extracted character string into an image that is associated with the character string.
An electronic mail sending and receiving program for causing a computer to implement:
- an electronic mail sending and receiving function which performs sending and receiving of electronic mail;
- a character string and image storage function which associates and stores an image and a character string representing a person;
- a mail body analysis function which analyzes a body of the electronic mail to extract the stored character string;
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- a character string and image conversion function which converts the extracted character string into an image that is associated with the character string.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.