Imaging device

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The invention was made in view of these problems, and it has an object of providing an imaging device capable of reliable transmission and reception of image data irrespective of the type of telephone line that is utilized.
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an imaging device comprising: a discriminating means for discriminating type of a radio telephone line connected to the device; a first converting means for converting photographic or recorded image data of a scene to communication data; and a second converting means for converting, at the time of image data transmission, the communication data in correspondence to the discriminated type of radio telephone line and converting, at the time of image data reception, received data to communication data capable of being recognized by the device in correspondence to the type of radio telephone line.
The second converting means includes a memory means with a plurality of stored error correction programs corresponding to respective different radio telephone lines, the error correction programs contributing to the correction of the digital values of communication data obtained in the first converting means.
The second converting means further includes a means for selecting a specified error correction program corresponding to the discriminated type of radio telephone line from the memory means.
The discriminating means discriminates a telephone line connected to the device to be a radio telephone line or a wired telephone line, and outputs, when the connected telephone line is discriminated.
to be a radio telephone line, the type of the connected radio telephone line.
The imaging device further comprises: a serial interface functioning as part of the communication interface when a connected telephone line is discriminated to be a radio telephone line and functioning as a wired telephone line interface when the connected telephone is discriminated to be a wired telephone line; and a switching means for switching the serial interface according to the output of the discriminating means