Communication device

A picturephone device comprising:

• a camera to capture a picture;
• an information processing section to detect a face image or images from the picture captured by the camera, and to generate a partial picture including the detected face image or images;
• a transmitting section to encode the partial picture to generate encoded data, transmit the encoded data to a counterpart;
• and
• a first receiving section to receive data transmitted from the counterpart, and decode the received data to generate a picturephone picture,
• wherein when a plurality of face images are detected from the picture captured by the camera, the information processing section performs clip processing in accordance with a method selected at any time by a user from among a first predetermined method and a second predetermined method, in which:
• the first predetermined method includes setting a single clip region which includes all the detected face images, in which the clip region is smaller than an entire region of the picture captured by the camera such that the clip region does not include an entire image of the pictured captured by the camera, and generating a single partial picture from the single clip region which includes all the detected face images arranged as in the picture captured by the camera such that the detected face images are not rearranged;
• and
• the second predetermined method includes setting a plurality of clip regions each including one detected face image, in which each of the clip regions is smaller than the entire region of the picture captured by the camera, and generating a plurality of portrait pictures from the clip regions, and merging the generated plurality of portrait pictures to generate the partial picture, and
• wherein during operation the information processing section performs a selected one of (1) or (2) such that when the user instruction indicates the first method the information processing section performs the clip processing in accordance with the first method and when the user instruction indicates the second method the information processing section performs the clip processing in accordance with the second method.