Mobile terminal, icon material management system, and icon material management method

An icon material management method of a mobile terminal having an image capturing unit and a character input unit, the method comprising:

• continuously driving said image capturing unit and acquiring data of a plurality of images;
• generating an animation file of decorative data based on the acquired data of the plurality of images;
• associating the generated animation file with character information;
• receiving, by the character input unit, input of a character from an external operation;
• determining whether or not character information associated with the animation file is included in a text constituted by the input character;
• substituting displaying the character information with the animation file associated therewith, if it is determined that the character information is included;
• and
• transmitting the decorative data associated with the character information to an icon material management system for allowing another mobile terminal to download the decorative data with the character information.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a program stored thereon which controls a computer of a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal having an image capturing unit and a character input unit, and the program being executable to control the computer to perform functions comprising:

• continuously driving said image capturing unit and acquiring data of a plurality of images;
• generating an animation file of decorative data based on the acquired data of the plurality of images;
• associating the generated animation file with character information;
• receiving, by the character input unit, input of a character from an external operation;
• determining whether or not character information associated with the animation file is included in a text constituted by the input character;
• substituting displaying the character information with the animation file associated therewith, if it is determined that the character information is included in the text;
• and
• transmitting the decorative data associated with the character information to an icon material management system for allowing another mobile terminal to download the decorative data with the character information.